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@WEnchanteur requested this thread. He and @FGB4877 are watching this. Are you on this, too, @GB? I’ll have a look-see after I catch up on that “Love Next Door.”
“Dear Hyeri” is on Viki.
Enjoy the show!
The thread is open.
@WEnchanteur requested this thread. He and @FGB4877 are watching this. Are you on this, too, @GB? I’ll have a look-see after I catch up on that “Love Next Door.”
“Dear Hyeri” is on Viki.
Enjoy the show!
Thanks @pkml3! I did not have the intention of watching this, but as @Cleo, @FGB and @WE are interested in this show, I’ll take a peek too!
I watched the first 2 episodes. I am more intrigued than confused. I feel more invested in the Parking Lot Girl/N Media Announcer Guy story. But are they real? Or is this just a fantasy projection of Eun Ho?
@GB: As I said, first episode is slow and not easy to see the point of scenes. I still scratch my chin about some. We get exposition in the wind, and we don’t know yet what to do with that. So it’s easy to forget something. Important information was in last part of episode, when I was loosing concentration, and I missed some points.
@SF: Yes they are real, unless an impossible plot-twist.
Their scenes were full of tension, in the way I was so curious to know how it will happen. I didn’t lost any line or reaction! Highly enjoyable.
The drama offers a high number of clues to understand what happens and have an idea of the different psychological process into action. And some mystery and things we try go guess. Often, we have to do the math ourself and connect the dots.
I give an example: in episode 1, when we don’t know yet what to do with that information, we have a scene in a car with Ji On and Eun Ho, after the beach scene. He’s driving and ask her “Why didn’t you sleep during the travel?”. This little thing explain a lot later.
Maybe it’s just a small clue the writer gives but expect we miss. So it will be revealed later, but attentive audience has a chance to guess before, thanks to this. Then, it’s well made.
Ep1: Beach scene. I don’t see any clear goal for this scene, but some metaphors, symbols and later plot-purpose. So it could be just the writer did a low purpose scene, simply. I noticed those points:
– The scene has to take place, so Eun Ho comes back home at night, later.
– The weather is overcast. Weather often stick to the mood of a character.
– Ji On makes fun of Eun Ho, adding small comedy. But it makes also him looking like a lesser version of Hyeon O.
– The documentary is about garbage on the beach, and we could get the idea Eun Ho is actually one of the garbage.
– An important point is she falls in the water. Symbol of baptism and incoming change for someone.
– Ji On says her she’s like an “alguea”. And we get the idea she let herself going back and forth by the sea, instead of taking decisions. Ocean is often used as metaphor of the mind: surface is consciousness and undersea is the unconscious. So, her mind isn’t a ship she navigates to a destination, but a floating alguea half conscious, going where the sea send her. What should change, then the baptism.
I’m not sure if the writer put that on purpose with that meaning. But it’s universal symbols, so it’s ideas coming like evidences, even we don’t know what it could mean. Also, different people could do different interpretation of the metaphors.
Kalimera everyone and let’s have a nice month!
I was too sleepy yesterday, yet somehow I ended Episode 3 and it was so good.
I don’t know how many of us are on board, so I am not going to spoil anything at the moment!
@Clea, I’m all-in!
I couldn’t watch ep3 yet. I won’t do it this evening, I’m too tired.
I think I’ll make a living watching file. But we would need a thread each two episodes. Else, I’ll post on MDL and provide a link.
Episode 3 live watching, with timecode:
https://mydramalist.com/763149-to-my-harry#comment-18983386
I didn’t explained some visuals, because now, it’s kinda obvious: when we see the red ballons at end of episode 3, we guess there is the inner conflict EunHo/Hyeri.
+ the last shot with half of the face speaks by itself.
About red ballon metaphor in dramas, I don’t know. Maybe Packmule3 already talked about that.
I didn’t make the full scenes-cut because it takes too long. But of course many nice transitions or unexpected cuts.
Kalimera @We!
I will look what you have written later on! I am currently on Episode 4 but I haven’t managed to finish it yet!
Live watching episode 4, with timecode.
https://mydramalist.com/763149-to-my-harry#comment-18984680
I could notice some details I could have missed without taking notes.
To precise my conclusion: I think Hyeon O doesn’t know about the disorder, but he knows a bit her story about her sister, and how much it hurts her.
@WE, thank you for the detailed notes.
I also got confused by the multiple grandmas and other people mentioned in the first scene if Episode 3.
I agree that the new guy (returning reporter?) is annoying tactless jerk.
I am wondering if the breakup between Eun Ho and Hyeon Oh happened at the time of Hye Ri’s disappearance.
I am still more invested in the bonding between Hye Ri and Ju Yeon. I am not convinced that HO still loves EH. The writer is trying to convince us, but the actor does not have the look of longing. Maybe HO is hiding his true feelings?
Hello @SnowFlower,
Regarding your question. The break up happened, 10 years later from the time Hye Ri actually disappeared, i.e. 2019. Eun Ho and Hyeon Oh broke up and at the same time, Hye Ri’s search stopped because 10 years passed. Check again the scene at Episode 3, Eun Ho is reading Hye Ri’s journals and she also has an official letter of sorts on her lap.
During that time, Eun Ho was in turmoil and had a nervous breakdown. She missed her sister, after episode 4, we get to understand that she also have lots of guilt and she broke up with HO. So, I think because Eun Ho missed Hyeri that much and felt responsible for her disappearance, to go in N Media’s parking and check for herself how it would be Hye Ri’s life if she worked in a parking lot.
Because of her trauma, Eun Ho developed the Hye Ri identity and the started her personality disorder. Hye Ri has a child like mentality with Eun Ho’s sassiness.
I think after watching the first four episodes, the whole thing is deeper that it meets the eye. I want to see the explanation of Hyeon Oh’s behaviour because the “I am embarrased of you” line it was too much.
@WE I think I need to rewatch Episodes 3 and 4.
I want to understand better, if what we are watching so far, actually happened or it is a mirage of something else.
There are many signs and symbols regarding the subconscious and the dreamy like.
At this point, we know a lot of dates and age difference.
But I always forget that. Tcham! We’d need a calendar/timeline.
From what I understand, the dissociation started after the breakup 4 years ago.
It was when, 2020? Soon after Hyeri was considered dead in 2019.
I’ll take the two factors were involved.
I think it’s not a fast dissociation disorder, but progressive.
– First, Eun Ho reads a lot her sister memories.
– And she puts the step in, more en more.
– When she want to give a job to Hyeri, it means she already want to live a part of her life as Hyeri. At this point, she’s still conscious it’s a roleplay. Only, it pushes that really too far, she’s seriously loosing feet with reality already.
– Then, what was doomed to happen happens: dissociation is complete and she can’t remember what Hyeri does.
@Cleo, “I am embarassed of you”. Then, it’s the famous scene so visually striking with perfect acting. What made I’ve trouble to remember the exact flow of the dialog. When watching it was difficult to make sens of it.
@SF: Hyeri disappear in 2012, or soon after.
But considered dead in 2019.
Hyeon O + Eun Ho relationship was 7 years duration? Not sure, but it’s said somewhere.
Should between 2012 and 2020, approximatively.
Word on the internet is that Hye Yeon is Hye Ri. At first I thought it was too far fetched, but now I kind of want it to be true. Hye Ri disappeared as a teen, and no body was ever found. Maybe she is alive and suffering from amnesia!
@SF, If find this theory interesting because:
– I expected a rivalry between Hyeri and Hye Yeon, about their man Ju Yun. But we could see in the scene there was a feeling of sisterhood between them.
– Many audience would like Ju Yun have a happy ending with Hyeri. Only, it would be with the real one, aka Hye Yeon.
Kalimera @WE and @SnowFlower,
Although this theory is positive, realistically speaking it is also fairytale like.
When someone is missing for all those years, most likely ends up dead, and they cannot find the remains.
So, I would like a realistic approach. Since this is a healing drama.
Except what we see is not the truth, but a fragment of the truth. In that case, I want the explanation to be logical and not “Deus ex Machina”.
@Cleo, I send a probe here:
https://mydramalist.com/763149-to-my-harry#comment-18991512
And I hardly see this theory happens now. At least, we tried. lol!
@Packmule3, I call you officialy on the bridge!!!
I seriously think it’s a “pm3 drama”. Such a lot to dig here.
I’d be curious to read your vision of this.
Directing offers things I never saw before in dramaland.
Hi all,
Great thread. I will be following.
I agree with @We re the quality of ďirection and the imaginative story telling.
The DID seems to be being used metaphorically to.serve a narrative purpose rather than being a rigorous depiction
I say this because of the clockwork quality of the personality shifts.
I was initially off-put by what I read as an actress, over-egging of the portrayal of Hyeri. Too much gawping going on. What’s with the fringe? Etc And I don’t buy her alternate persona’s relationship.with the 2 ML as a result.
A number of suspensions of disbelief required
But some powerful stuff in this show. I was very struck by the forest scene in Ep.4. Beautifully filmed and directed.
The show is also a wonderful vehicle for someone of SHS’s quality. Her gawping aside(!).
I hope that the theory about her sister is right! I also agree with those of you who are uncertain about the first ML’s feelings.
I like the 2 ML and his backstory makes some sense of the attraction to Hyeri in her childlike state. But not fully convinced still.
Looking forward to reading more of your thoughts.
@Cleo, certainly the well-on-clock with a quick nap change of personnality isn’t accurate. But I’m not demanding of realism about that. Just it makes the story addicting.
The reasons why she get the DID seems more accurate. And also the way she slowly get into it. The disorder grows slowly, after she reads the Hyeri diary. When she’s asking for the parking job, she has already lost feet with reality. Then, we get the idea it triggers the complete dissociation of two lifes. It comes logically at this point (by the way, we see it in the scene, when she hesitates about her name and age).
The logic is she couldn’t work the two jobs because of sleep deprivation, but it becomes possible with the complete dissociation. When a personnality is awake, the other sleep. So she doesn’t get trouble because of mental fatigue. But she still gets it from physical fatigue. She tell it in a dialogue line that she’s always tired.
Ooopps, It was for you @Kate, not cleo.
I confused because of the green in the icon, sorry!
Hi @We – agreed no problem with the depiction of DID – I think the show is making good use of it. Drama modified DID.
It’s helpful to get your reading of the way the dissociation develops and the way that more accurately represents DID. I must admit I hadn’t completely followed the story. I am experiencing it as a series of impressions – overlapping impressions of the story.
Anneyong everyone!
After episode 5, I think some things are started to become more clear.
About Eun Ho:
Eun Ho lost her parents. Although, her Halmeoni raised her up, still she was putting a front that they don’t have to be dependant on her at all.
Eun Ho was berating Hye Ri to be more indepedent and to make friends. From that scene, we get to see how reserved Eun Ho really was from the past.
In a way, her hard shell was her defence armor. She didn’t want to be abandoned.
Her parents abandoned them by dying, then her sister HyeRi disappeared and lastly her Halmeoni died, living her all alone. Everyone she ever loved, left her all alone. She only had herself.
It is not a wonder that Eun Ho was clingy towards Hyeon O.
At the same time, I don’t find Hyeon O toxic. HO guards his feelings so very good and because of his situation with the Halmeonis and the younger siblings, he is the primary caretaker of his extended family.
For me, it won’t be a surprise, if his parents died the same day as Eun Ho’s parents.
Hyeon O is the primary caregiver of his family. He needs to act ASAP in tough situations. He does care for everyone, by being present, even though he works very hard.
Hyeon O is the yang in Eun Ho’s yin. Their characters are the other side of a coin.
Hyeon O is taking care of his extended family. He takes all the burden all by himself and tries to safeguard his pain and responsibilities. Hence his decision not to marry anyone.
Eun Ho was taking care of her sister Hyeri. Although her Halmeoni raised them, at the same time, as a first born child, she took responsilibities that made her to be too responsible for her own good. She believed that that her grandmother’s LOVE had a value that waited to be paid. Hence her try to be independent and didn’t show her genuine feelings with them.
Her cool demeanor is somewhat distorted from the image we have got when she was dating Hyeon O. Although, with her family she was kinda distant, yet with HO she was clingy and tried to have validation in almost everything.
Eun Ho is thirsty for affection and love, and Hyeon O took that role so easily that he was the one who always kept her steady.
In a way, they are both a ship and a harbour for each other. Something we all have seen in Episode 5. Their relationship is symbiotic.
At the same time, both of them didn’t show parts of themselves that were in pain. I doubt if any of them know about their family issues and what made them be apart.
I am interesting to see Hyeon O’s POV, because so far, he seems to be cold, distant and kinda perfect, but his mask is falling down and noone really sees behind his facade. Which is a shame actually. Even Hyeon O didn’t see behind his words in the last scene in Episode 5.
Hyeon O didn’t want to leave Eun Ho again, at all.
What is the most significant for me is, that everyone needs therapy: The ML, the FL, the SML and SFL.
Also, the SML cannot be with the FL. His issues are that deep as Eun Ho’s.
@Cleo: thanks for your recap.
You could comment about points I didn’t mention enough in my Ep5 live watching:
https://mydramalist.com/763149-to-my-harry#comment-19039908
Could be some points that was obvious from before, or just I didn’t take enough notes, like in the last scenes.
Two best scenes were for me: BreakUp scene and last scene.
I’m amazed about how the writer surprise me with wonderful lines.
Was “You embarass me” before, or the ones in the break up, or “Be sick”.
It’s really the blasting lines you dream to find when writing screenplay.
The story comes to a difficult pass for ML+FL.
Couple scenes took place like their couple never broke-up.
I’ve got the feeling it was natural for them to be together…
… Until the cold moment when he leaves without saying a word. AAAAAH. ^^
And so… Leading to the devastating ending of Ep5.
And again, a surprising moment. I couldn’t expect her to do that!
That’s good about drama!
Adding now Ep6 live watching:
https://mydramalist.com/763149-to-my-harry#comment-19048380
As a fun fact: Drama is called Hyeri, but we didn’t see the main character during the last two episodes. 😄
Kalimera @WE!
I haven’t finished Episode 6! I don’t know if I want to write more on MDL, because I get that “toxic” label come and go for Hyeon O.
I have more to say about him, since I saw until his flashback ended in 33:20 mark, but not for the rest of the show.
Maybe Laterz!
About Hyeon O.
So, we finally have learned about his past. His mother abandoned him when he was little, because his father was a gambler. Gambling den’s ajhumma was asking the money from the children to be brought to her den.
HO was the oldest and the Moon’s kiddos were living next to him, by the same conditions. Their mother abandoned them, and their father was doing a shitty life.
At some time, his father died and he was going to be in an orphanage, until the ahjumma came to tell him, that she will erase his father debt, IF HO was taking care of all the Ahjummas in the Gambling Den in the future.
Later on, the Moon’s kiddos added to the bargain. They were all raised by the Ahjumma who turned into Halmeonis.
Some on MDL are talking about how easy HO’s life is, afterall he was not on the streets, someone raised him and this is not actually a burden and he is toxic and so on.
If you could seem me, I am rolling my eyes. First of all, Hyeon O’s mother abandoned him. His motherly figure left him, because she couldn’t live with their father any longer. Which okay I can get it, but I don’t get the fact that she didn’t take her child with her.
It is something, I have seen before in Korean Dramas and it doesn’t sit well with me. It is cultural difference of course. No, that in the west women doesn’t leave behind their families, but it is not that common.
Anyway, HO grew up with the sentiment, that if a marriage is difficult a woman can leave anytime, leaving behind her spouse and underage child. I don’t know HOW many are missing this part, and they cannot understand his thesis, that he won’t get married at all, because he doesn’t want to make another person live miserably.
He loves Halmeonis of course he does. BUT it is his responsibility to take care of them. It is not a burden he would give to his significant other. That’s why he didn’t open up about it to Eun Ho.
Eun Ho from the flashbacks we have got until mid Episode 6, depends solely to Hyeon O. HO needs HOW to take care everyone, because all his life, he is taking care of someone. That was his late father, then the Moon siblings, the Halmeoni and Eun Ho.
Since, Eun Ho wants to have a family and two children, how can she enter to his world, without having any demands as their own family grow?
Instead of making someone important to abandon him again. HO broke up with her instead. Because he knows that EH wants things that are natural and he cannot give her the family she has in her mind.
To all those, who think that taking care of elderly people is easy, especially when you are married and have kiddos, it is not.
Should Hyeon O talk about with Eun Ho? Yes, he should.
Did he do that? No, he didn’t.
At the same time, Eun Ho is hiding facts about her family herself.
Can those two people be together when they are not honest about their background?
They can, but at the same time, they will have to work so hard to resolve all these that will strain their relationship.
Should they work on these first? Yes, they should. Because they really love each other.
Still, I continue to believe that all those characters in the show are scarred for life and need therapy ASAP. You cannot connect with someone else if you don’t heal yourself first.
And that’s all I wanted to say…
Hi @WE, @Cleo, @Kate, @Snow Flower
I said I’d take a peek, and I did much more than that. I’ve watched all 6 episodes. I like that this is a human-interest story rather than a romance… and I liked that Show was totally upfront about it and managed our expectations. It showed on screen from about the beginning that ‘This is not a love story’ or words to that effect, and I became more interested.
I’m just putting this down without reading too much yet, so that I can get my thoughts out first.
We started off as observers and then were given mostly Eun Ho’s/Hye Ri’s backstory. I’m glad that Show has devoted Ep 6 to Hyun O’s backstory too. I’m hoping that we also get Kang Ju Yeon’s backstory before too long.
I agree with @Cleo about some of the elements that might be causing her reactions, responses and neediness.
Ju Yeon is interesting because he’s in this thirties but everything he did with Hye Ri was a first time for him. I want to know why he was so ‘inactive’ in relationships. My heart aches for him because Hye Ri does not fully exist on her own.
Baek Hye Yeon is also given an arc of her own. She gives us the point of view of the female worker in a job where blowing the whistle on her male boss/colleague is considered worse than the sexual harassment that she suffers at their hands. She also shows us the importance of maintaining the expected image when in fronting news/media and the injustice of how women (more than men) are judged by the public when that image slips. But I like that we get both sides of the argument. We see how the loss of image by one person can impact the organisation.
@Cleo: it’s seems weird HyeonO never tried to speak about that with her. So I expect a scene when he tries in some way without revealing it, just turning around, but understand that she won’t take it.
MDL: just ignore comments about shipping, or characters sued in a moral courtyeard. 😅
Issue is: it’s more about audience self-projection than getting the story.
@WE, I like the point you made about the clues that Show drops and only an attentive audience (and possibly one with a very good memory!) would catch on to the significance of certain words/articles/actions.
The metaphors you noticed are interesting. I don’t know that the falling into water was really ‘baptism’ as in signalling a change, but the weather was really too sympathetic. It rained so much and in multiple episodes.
I like the camerawork as how Eun Ho in the mirror is a different person/has a different expression than the one standing in front of it. Or like when the forest took up most of the screen and the people were small at the bottom because the forest dominates and seems to eat up people like the real Hyeri who vanished.
Yes the scene transitions were interesting or unexpected. And the reactions of characters too!
I think it funny that the rich girl Baek Hye Yeon cannot use her influence to stop the harassment but that the ‘poor’ girl, Hye Ri is able to get Harassing Manager to go on his knees.
@GB, Ju Yeon case: a scene in episode 1 (call from mother) and few flashbacks.
Of course some culpability his brother death would be his fault, what is wrong but mother put that. And he chose the job of his brother. Not a split disorder, but enough close to Hyeri case, with Eun Ho choosing her sister job as Hyeri.
Ju Yeon is like that because before to meet hyeri, he’s mostly dead. His brother is really dead, but his mother confuses him with the brother. It’s like he’s dead in his mother eyes. And he should be his brother. But how could he be a dead one?
So, he’s just dead. 😢
As it’s not really death, but rather a long sleep: Hyeri gives him a “sleeping beauty” kiss at end of episode 1 (just reverse the sexes). So he can wake up now!
@Cleo
Yes the ‘bad’ things that Eun Ho faced seemed come at about the same time. It was a cascade of losses that affected Eun Ho. As you say her sister was officially pronounced as dead because she’d been missing for so long, Hyun O executed a very shocking, callous and careless kind of break-up with Eun Ho (as if the 8 years they were together meant nothing to him) and her Grandma died. Eun Ho had to deal with loss after loss by herself, together with guilt that she’d pushed her sister to go on that trip, and probably some suvivor’s guilt as well.
It’s interesting that even Kang Ju Yeon probably has survivor’s guilt too, since his mother was so unhappy that his brother had died and still calls Ju Yeon by his brother’s name.
While Eun Ho’s guilt led her to DID, Ju Yeon’s has (I’m guessing) kept him from connecting with anyone romantically.
This is one of those shows where I one to get to the bottom of every character, to understand them better. I look forward to the healing that will ultimately come.
@WE, you are spot on about Ju Yeon. He’s been ‘dead’ like his brother. He’s been trying to make up to his mum and himself for his brother’s death, as if he were really at fault, by replacing his brother. He had been set to do very well in the army but quit to take on the same type of job that his brother had passed the job interview for.
I like that you noted the wake-up kiss of Princess Charming, Hyeri which got Ju Yeon to suddenly be able to feel more. His first emotional reaction was anger. Maybe he was upset at being awoken/resurrected. He suddenly found that he had to navigate life intentionally instead of drifting along. That image of floating algae is apt for Ju Yeon as well!
@GB, I missed some points during live watching, because of course, the difficulty is I don’t have vision of what comes after, but @Cleo answered about familial situation of brother and sister, coming from Moon family, neighborough.
As you say, it’s a drama allowing us to go deep in characters, metaphors, discret attitudes or visuals. Many points I would easly miss without taking notes.
I wrote more comments about symbolism or various stuff. It was lost on MDL depths, but I did a copy-paste of it in a file. Given I was of course wrong about older ones, but quite normal at an early stage of the drama. Probably I can’t copy-paste it, it’s too heavy. Should do a file to put on google-drive and just post the link.
I sometimes give up on slow dramas when I find them boring. But this one is catchy. Too many good things in the writing and unexpected lines. Hard to swallow lines, but it’s what we like in drama, be badly surprised. However, they are not just hooks in the wind and make sens with the story.
Don’t you think it’s the kind of drama Pm3 would like to write about?
I don’t see her a lot these times, and I suppose she’s busy in life.
@WE, I believe it would be a fun drama to unravel and perhaps if she were free, @pkml3 would write about it. She may be watching but not have time to write. 🙂
Dear Friends, had a hard time connecting to Hyeri after the akward encounter in the parking lot back in episode 2. I am still working through their conversation at his appartment.
Kinda fun how he puts his slippers on, then mimics her and walks in socks. My guess is that he is not used to visit so he doesn’t have a second pair. If he were to put on slippers leaving her in socks could be interpreted as him feeling superior to her. He tries to communicate as an equal.
She leads the dynamic by asking about his brother, then signaling him to sit and ask questions.
Not having seen nor read about subsequent episodes, my guess is that he probably not only lives through a deep seated grief, maybe even suffers from the same disorder than her. His mother by calling him by his brother’s name might actually be labeling the vessel, while the actual personality in charge at that moment is that of the deceased brother.
This actress kind of acts with her eyes a lot. Back in “Will see you in my 19th life” she impressed me doning an acting mask that began to dissapear when she started to warm up to characters and became more intimate. She is doing the same with the hair coutain as Hyeri and the steel look as the anchor.
Second time the director frames a couple in this Drama. That small rectangle, with Hyery and Hyun-ho taking such a small space, her invading his personal space and grabbing both his hand and the cup, is both her actorally leading the interaction and the director showing us the small budding relationship between them.
@FGB, About Hyeri and Ju-Hyeon first encounter.
This seems everything is on a subconscious level, so the weird choices they do.
First writer took care to put the kiss in the underground place, with machinery. I interpret that as “subconscious” place, where the mind works under the conscious. It’s what do Eun Ho therapist with Hyeri, not dealing with the conscious Eun Ho but her subconscious disorder Hyeri.
About the strangeness of Ju-Hyeon inviting Hyeri in his place. Of course there is the excuse of “other places are closed at this time”, but the writer just wanted that. I see that mostly as a move from him to invit her in his private place, mostly a psychological intimity.
Everything’s ordered, clean, frozen, quite dead, at his home, so his mind.
It sounds like: “welcome, this is my grave. Please I need you to put some life here, to bring me back to life”.
At first, we think it’s weird this famous anchor accept to meet her, and see her again, because it’s the kind of woman that should make you run away. Not the standard of a man with the life we imagine he has. But he doesn’t has this life. He just has this style on surface level, for other people, but deep he’s as weird as Hyeri.
@FGB, I just wanted to say ‘Hi’ to you here and that I’m glad you’re liking this show. I like it too. I like the pre-figuring/foreshadowing, the camera work/editing and the sub-text in scenes.
Generally the victimised young person with found family, and growth of characters despite difficult circumstances is the trope that pulls me in. Some aspects of “Dear Hyeri” remind me of “Just Between Lovers”.
For instance, bad or non-existent parenting, the abandoned children (emotionally or physically abandoned), the blame/guilt for the loss of the fave sibling falling on the surviving sibling, the harsh female loan shark that has a heart of gold and becomes mentor/family to the abandoned youngster.
The attachment to the found family might become even stronger than to the family related by blood. The latter ties in especially with the strong Asian sense of communal caring/sharing, returning the good done towards one, and keeping promises. However, at the end, in the true ‘healing’ kdrama way, all the characters become the better for all that they’ve suffered and sacrificed. That’s what I’m in this drama for.
I wish I had more time to rewatch and write. See you again later!
@WE, I really like your take on Kang Ju Yeon and the relationship he has with the child-like Hyeri. She disturbs him with the kiss that has to wake up all this subconscious and puts him on alert (hence, his anger, maybe?), but at the same time, she’s like a child and not dangerous. He’s intrigued, drawn towards someone so different and who has touched his subconscious. Given the chance to make or maintain contact with the intriguing creature, he takes the opportunity to bring her home to examine her more closely.
I like that although Hyeri thinks she’s in love and that he likes her, he is clear (is it in Ep 2 or 3?) that it is not ‘liking’ that he feels but that everything with her is new and he wants to experience more with her. He tells her plainly, but I’m not sure she has actually taken it in. In the usual exuberance of a child, she might just charge ahead as if he’s in love with her.
In later episodes she’s less childlike, however I was thinking that if Hyeri is really the alter of her sister, then she should retain the teenager persona. Still this drama is not a study on DID, and her way of becoming ‘ill’ is not usual, I believe. It’s as if she could choose to an extent and chose to become her sister. This is unlike the ‘usual’ way DID starts, I gather.
I agree with @Kate that the DID is here to serve the story. It’s useful for the plot that she has periods of memory blackouts and lives 2 different lives.
While my heart aches for Kang Ju Yeon, I hope (and expect) that his awakening will allow him to accept the admiration of Hye Yeon, while letting go of Hyeri.
Hi all,@We,@GB,@Cleo,@FGB,@Snowflower,
What a super discussion!
The discussion above has made sense fo me of the odd choice of prominent presenter with neat lifestyle invite child-like ‘naive’ Hyeri up to his apartment! Thank you @We and @GB. If we allow the dream-like, impressionistic look of so much of the narrative to inform our interpretation …we are in another world and at another level of encounter which dissolves social norms. I am starting to think the writer is influenced by Freud and/ similar thinkers.
Hyeri is the free child who follows her instincts and looks for happiness without social constraint.
1ML is stuck in parent mode etc etc
I agree with @Cleo that Ep 6 makes a good case for Hyeon O. This is a sympathetic portrayal …the big iceberg under some of the apparently cold/ tone deaf behaviour.
I like @GB’s hopes for possible outcome.
Not much more to add because the show feels too rich to encapsulate.
I think it wants to be a little bigger than our ability to grasp neatly.
Dear Bro @WEnchanteur: reading you, it became apparent that the Video Beam with the military photographs that is running all day at his home represents in fact his ruminating memory of his dead brother, a sign of his forever eulogy.
Kind of loved when Hyeri lovingly called him out on that, by asking him to tell his mother that it is good that he is alive.
Being alive is a good thing.
Dear @GB, it is always a pleasure to read you! Kalinichta dear@Cleo! Hello dear @Kate!
I still have to catch up with all of you. I am tempted to write as I watch. Please be free to ignore my comments as I will be behind all of you for a while.
@FGB, aya, I forget that, the video beam showing military.
I take it as a window to what should be his life.
His dream was to be military.
So, if I think about his appartement as a grave, where he is dead:
He just look outside, on the life that he should had.
@Kate, it would be more related to CG Jung, psychology of depth. But anyway, I don’t think the writer needs theoritical knowledge, just let speaks her creativity, and see what makes sens about symbolism and psychology.
You are right about the feeling of the drama:
It’s what I like, we feel like bathing in a deeper, not material world.
I post here compilation of thoughts I had and posted on MDL (now drowned there).
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1L9U-dmW7jpQcKUYAszpzhcp3igdx0BVW/view?usp=sharing
It’s reverse time order.
So the first one (and last) is about the yellow cabs.
Something I could maybe understand before, but I made sens of it just yesterday.
Kalispera everyone!
I just wanted to tell you that I have a busy week ahead and I don’t know if I will be able to watch the latest episodes.
So, If I go MIA this week don’t worry… 🌺
Hi @Cleo, thanks for letting us know so that we won’t worry about you.
I’ll probably have time to watch the episode tonight only on Tuesday. Catch you later!
@We, thank you for the clarification. In that case I am thinking of Id, Ego and Superego. Hyeri is Id and the future whole FL will be enabled by her process and newly enlightened Ego (we hope) to integrate that part of her with the Superego who has absorbed social expectations and perfectionism/ unrealistic idealism and is split apart from what makes her happy.
The Korean scene does seem to rather aware of Pop Psychology and MBTI personality types – based on Jungian ideas. So she could be drawing on Jung or Freud or possibly nothing in particular. That said, in view of use if DID – my guess us that the writer is working creatively with some psychoanalytic theory to.drive forward thus very creative narrative.
Greetings @FGB and looking forward to your thoughts.
Sorry to everyone for predictive text errors. It is a struggle to write what I want to without repeat unwanted corrections. Not a big texter but getting used to it.
Although I’ve watched Episode 7, I’m commenting on Episode 3.
It’s clear to Moon Su Jeong (childhood friend of HO and sister of the Ji On) that he’s still in love with Eun Ho. He denies it but at Su Jeong’s call telling him that Eun Ho is locked in a freezer truck; he runs out to her in such a rush that he’s wearing mismatched shoes. EH notices this but does not comment on it although she asks him why he came for her and tells him not to do so again.
In Episode 3, Su Jeong struggles with HO who wants to see if her wrist is hurt, and EH sees them. Su Jeong notices this and runs away. In Episode 7, there is talk of HO getting married. Will EH think he’s with Su Jeong?
Episode 3 – From the real Hyeri’s diaries, we hear her voice. Her disposition was positive and joyful. She recounts that Grandma said she was special. Although she has no friends she says she is happy because she has her sister. She rejoiced at finding 1 cent, as if great things were happening to her. She spoke with awe of her sister, with whom she could do anything when she was around.
“I had a nap and Unni appeared in my dream.” And so as Hyeri, all that Eun Ho did was a dream to her. Her job as Announcer and romance with HO was merely a dream to Hyeri. By Ep 7 the title is “A Dream – That’s what I decided to call you and all our time together”.
Eun Ho understandably wanted to be Hyeri at least one more time, to find out how she found happiness, since as Eun Ho, she rarely smiled.
Ep7 live watching:
https://mydramalist.com/763149-to-my-harry#comment-19108574
Eun-Ho got a hard time, and no-one to help her.
For now, Ju-Hyeon isn’t interested by her and in short:
Would prefer she stays sick, so he can meet Hyeri again.
Then, it’s a believable reaction, as he just got the truth few minutes before.
But won’t be good if he really want to engage on the long term.
Also, maybe takes into consideration Eun-Ho deep suffering in this heartbreaking scene.
@WE, thanks for the link to your comment. It’s good to have your live watching notes to refer to.
When EH went to work as Hyeri, it was really Eun Ho pretending to be Hyeri. The way she had pushed her bangs aside and spoke and behaved was different from Hyeri. She also did not know how to answer questions as Hyeri. She called JY Kang Ju Hyeon-shi (full name)… and admitted that Eun Ho was her elder sister. So this was Eun Ho.
At least she was able to have a fun time as Hyeri at the games. I actually enjoyed Hye Yeon’s dodge ball interlude: she’s such a nice kid. I’d like her to succeed in getting Ju Yeon to like her. She sees that JY likes Hyeri but is happy to get Hyeri to replace her in the mixed team Dodge Ball game.
That was a cute game with every ball aimed at Ju Yeon. In the end although she wanted the game to end quickly, she was good in avoiding the ball too and was in the winning team.
= = =
Eun Ho finds that she has to lie a lot to Ju Yeon, for eg, she never tells him that she’s not really officially employed by the carpark management company. She asked to be allowed to hang out there without pay and is not a real employee. It’s likely that her carpark colleague, Min Yeong does not even know this.
= = =
Ju Yeon shakes Eun Ho’s hand and squeezes it so hard that EH feels the pain. But he’s lost in thought for so long, even after she pulls her hand away that he remains stuck in time while the lights go out around him. He is literally and figuratively in the dark.
EPISODE 7
After reading @WE’s notes, I went back to watch Ep 7.
Cafe conversation – The loud ambient noise interspersed between the moments of conversation of JY and EH is very noticeable. It’s like perhaps reality is hitting home for them, the here and now is demanding to be acknowledged. JY is discovering that Hyeri was not a separate person and EH finds out how being Hyeri has affected JY. There are more truths to face but JY wants to hold on to the lie that Hyeri exists and could come back. He wants to deny that they ever had this conversation.
The Yellow Door – The camera angle changes so that we see behind Eun Ho, the yellow door in the garden wall is open, leading out. Eun Ho looks as if she’s bowing her head goodbye and is ready to exit. JY has to decide if he will remain stuck where he is or take a step out as well.
Show offers us scenes here and there and I find some parts of the conversations referring to events that I don’t recall seeing.
For eg. Eun Ho/Hyeri asks Ju Yeon why he went to her place, but how did she know that he had been outside her home? When did he tell her? I presume it’s the time he saw her and Hyun O have a few laughs as they headed up the stairs. Perhaps this is a reflection of the gaps in memory that Eun Ho suffers?
The timing of scenes is unclear. Show deliberately jumps back and forth in time so that we are not sure if we are seeing a flashback or not. Again, could it be to reflect what Eun Ho is going through like her confusion about what happened when she was ‘sleeping’ and Hyeri took over.
I just watched Episode 8.
It is painful. I appreciate that we understand why Hyun O and separately why Eun Ho makes the choice.
The last scene is again one of those scenes that makes me wonder… when did it happen?
@WE, I like your thoughts on the 2 yellow cabs/cabins or kiosks for the parking attendant in that carpark. I did wonder as well, why there were 2 when 1 would have been sufficient and actually it would make more sense to have both attendants in 1 big kiosk rather than 2 separate kiosks. I would expect that at times the main worker, Min Yeong, would need to take leave so she could have an assistant from time to time, sharing her kiosk, but you explained why the Show has put the 2 girls into 2 kiosks.
The colour yellow seems significant. I associate it with being bright and happy. On rewatch at the part Eun Ho reads the diaries written by Hyeri as a child, we find that Hyeri is very positive and optimistic. She looks on the bright side, is appreciative of what she has and loves her sister like crazy. She had written that she didn’t have friends but is happy because she has her sister. She thought her sister was very smart and that with her sister around, she could do anything.
In the yellow kiosk, Hyeri could sit all day just folding paper stars and be happy over her Ju Yeon crush.
You mentioned how we see the yellow door behind Hyeri at the cafe where HR and JY have their talk (Ep 7). The door was ajar, offering one or both of them the choice to enter a happier place. During this conversation, the sounds of the real world filled up their silences, rushing in on them each time they paused.
@WE About the stairs. When it comes to Eun Ho/Hyeri and Hyun O, there are lots of stairs that they climb up or down, but we mostly see them going upwards.
EH’s villa/home is strange. There’s a lot of climbing up and down to do. Even to just get home to rest is an uphill battle for EH.
It seems that she takes external stairs from 1 room on the 2nd floor to go to the 3rd floor bathroom. I believe that each time she goes to the 3rd floor, she passes by the photo of herself and HR when they were kids and she touches the photo, like a greeting. However in Ep 7, she paused by the photo and did not touch it. That was when she decided to live a HR to find out how she made her happiness.
Most of the time we see her waking up in her red check pajamas on the 2nd floor. There her spectacles are in a box on the bedside table. But there were several times when she was with HO that she was in another room. She had her spectacles on a shelf and there was no bedside table.
I’m wondering if she used to stay only on the 3rd floor (with HO) but now being alone, prefers to use the 2nd floor room. She goes to sleep as HR and wakes up as EH in that room … so it’s a separate room where she has transitions to her other personality? Like a second compartment of her mind, like the 2 parking kiosks.
In Episode 8 we see that the stairs where HO had rejected and broken off with EH feature again. Forced to consider marriage to fulfill the wish of a dying grandma, HO returns to that place where he could have agreed to marry Eun Ho: where the consequences for that relationship could have been so different. He remembers what happened then in order to make a new decision now.
EPISODE 8
Another note on the duality of Eun Ho.
I believe that in the present, with EH’s awareness of Hyeri, that both of them are writing in the same diary. HR writes on the left pages and EH writes on the right. They coexisted quite well and could have reunited in EH, but a similarity in the circumstances that first brought about the split, happens again now.
Too much loss and abandonment, too much guilt and self-loathing over a short space of time. The last straw was the prospect of HO’s marriage.
We have 4 more episodes to deal with the fallout and hope for enough healing for our very interesting characters.
Kalimera dear Friends! Will watch a little bit of Episode 3 as here it is 1 AM and should go to sleep soon!
Episode 3
The ex-boyfriend also has his healthy dose of grief. We open to him setting the funerary rituals. It was a mirthless job for him, done out of duty. Everyone in the room takes the reunion as a chore, one done out of love but even if they respected the deceased lady they don’t seem to enjoy the reunion that much. The lack of music became apparent.
He gets called by the younger family member, he has to rescue Eun-Ho. The way she asks her to never come to rescue again I see as her recognizing she is a burden to him, on the other hand she seems to want him to come to her. A complicated lady she surely is, and Ms. Shin Hye Sun surely portraits her magistrally in all her contained complexity.
Episode 3
The ex-boyfriend definitely is a worrywarts. Also a good family member and a person that views love as the desire to better the people he cares.
When he said to Eun-Ho that she embarrased him that must have hurt. The framing from Director-nim only adds to the perplexity of the situation.
Cute jealous coworker of Kang Ju-Jeon gets rattled that he complimented her. Nothing like someone behaving differently to rattle acquaintances.
Hi there @FGB! Great to know your thoughts on Episode 3.
My take on the preparation of the ancestral rites is that the little group really did mourn the loss of their friend but in an understated way, hidden partially by their grousing. The ladies did have a point… ie it is expected that the younger generation would prepare the rites when they had grown up, but it was still the grannies who were the only ones ‘available’ to do the job.
I like the complexities in Hyun O and Eun Ho. It’s clear to us that they really love each other but at the same time they are wracked by guilt, a sense of responsibility, and great other-centredness. From an outsider’s point of view, it’s easy to say that perhaps if HO had told EH about his family situation, she’d have been fine with it, and he could also learn to accept that she did not mind marrying into such an ‘odd’ family. He never gave her the chance to accept or reject that situation.
At the same time, I understand why he didn’t want to bring it up. It’s possible if he had told EH, then she would have felt compelled to accept the ahjummas, and would have felt bad if she had rejected them. HO probably did not want to place her in that difficult position.
Similarly, EH really wanted to call HO for help. She really wanted to know that he cared about her still, but at the same time, she found out that she’d been someone who put him at a disadvantage and this must have hurt her pride and self-esteem a great deal. She wanted to be able to ‘make it’ without his help, but on more than one occasion, he has helped her when he could. Su Jeong called him out on this.
I still wonder if his saying that she embarrassed him was really just that others asked him why he dated her. I wonder why he felt that he had to tell her something like this which was so hurtful. Perhaps it was to offset that she might think he came to rescue her because he still liked her. It shocked and hurt her a great deal and unknown to him was another knife in her woundedness.
The piling on slowly of events/interactions that ate away at EH’s ego continues throughout the episodes. The way she is treated or ignored affected her a great deal emotionally and mentally. Unbeknownst to herself and others, she already had a crack in her ability to hold herself together. I felt that one of the worst cases of losing a chunk of her ego was when Ji On completely ignored her as if she did not exist. That was a foreshadowing of what could/would really happen.
It is fortunate that Ji On’s actions did not last but even for a little while, they were horrible and took a toll on EH although she did not outwardly show it.
Jae Young tells EH that he saw someone who looked like her… it might have been her sister but he remembered that the sister was supposed to be dead. She denies that her sister is dead. “Hey. Who are you to kill someone with just a few words? Don’t cross the line.”
What has been happening is that Eun Ho has been killed bit by bit by the words spoken to her and around her.
Towards the end of the Episode we see how she takes on the persona of her sister. She hides her face behind her bangs, and gives her sister’s name and age as her own.
She tries to meet Kang Ju Yeon as Eun Ho, but she’s caught in the middle when both Ju Yeon and Hyun O are in the same place at the same time and one calls her Hye Ri while the other calls her Eun Ho. In the background we see the bopping red balloons held by children/fans waiting to be let in. Perhaps a sign of danger for Eun Ho/Hyeri. It’s a callback to how Hyeri had hidden her face behind a red balloon. In the present, Eun Ho was replacing that red balloon with her own face.
I’m bit too busy to comment more now, but at least post that…
Episode 8 live watching:
https://mydramalist.com/763149-to-my-harry#comment-19119392
Still Episode 3
How you ended with eyes like that? Devoid of life. His happiest memory turned into the worst one. A part of his soul could not survive the yuxtaposition. And his mother just made it worse, there are things with no logic that we must learn to accept.
Her pure grief needed to land on some explanation and he became a scapegoat.
This Drama has so many interesting characters and dynamics, thankfully the director is doing a superb job, to say nothing about the actors.
Regrettably it is so complex that will become a cult classic. Don’t really know how popular it is right now.
Greetings!
I am watching this drama during breaks at work. I am in the middle if Episode 7.
The theme of lost souls trying to find meaning, happiness, and healing is very relatable. It made me think of another drama which explores similar themes: My Liberation Notes. MLN has more realist approach and Dear Hyeri has a certain whimsical quality despite the serious topics it addresses. I like both dramas.
EPISODE 9
No spoilers.
I feel all kinds of things for each character that comes up on screen.
The annoying ones are truly annoying, but they have their uses.
It took so long for someone to acknowledge how much pain EH must have been in that she became sick.
Episode 10 will be so interesting! And we only have 2 more episodes after that! Will there be enough time for a good resolution?
Here the episode 9 live watch:
https://mydramalist.com/763149-to-my-harry#comment-19187278
@GB, I suppose you speak about clown Jae and Jin Hwa? 😄
Yeah, they always have some info and triggers few things.
Clown Jae was funny in this episode.
@WE, yes the ridiculous, pseudo-narcissistic Jae Young who goes around oblivious to how people look down on him for so much self-promotion. At least you found him funny!
Jin Hwan is a throwaway character. Even if she did not exist it would make little difference to the plot.
I am upset that the show is not subbed today. In Dramanice it’s coded pink which means it has been subbed, but the subs didn’t get loaded. I did a quick FFDing and noticed that towards the end, it will be pretty slow. Some may find that part boring. As for the main portion, so much depends on the dialogue, hence we need the subs!
@GB, Clown Jae has nerves, so he always speak out shamelessly many thruths, or by clumsiness reveals important information.
Now, the drama is more easy to catch, except many symbolic elements.
Here Ep 10 live watching:
https://mydramalist.com/763149-to-my-harry#comment-19197520
This episode was better than previous ones.
But give me the feeling it could be the final episode.
While the Title of “Three People – My Love” might have referred to the 3 men who cared about EH/HR, it could also have been applied to EH, HR and HO, all loved by EH. The question was whether HO could love ‘them’ back.
After Ep 10, I badly want to see EH and HO communicating properly. There were so many long silences in this episode, when there is so much that could have been said. The last few sentences of EH sounded so hopeful. She said that if HO returned, she would tell him … and I feel that I want to see that ‘telling’ scene.
There is much for both of them to inform the other party of like what happened to each of their families and who keeps drawing HO away.
The funniest scene was the one with the 3 men who loved EH sitting in a row and the 2 younger ones trying on the childish ‘my father is better than your father’ one-upmanship kind of argument that was totally bypassed by the eldest of them.
The best declaration of sincere love came from Ju Yeon who put EH first.
Continued…
Continued…
The strongest images were of traveling: either choosing to be in company or alone, either smoothly until the end or with obstacles that had to be bypassed. And then we had the arrival scenes, and a change of heart or mind or identity, or in understanding.
EH had run away to lose herself and find HR but ended up running away again, from her own multiple reflections (and identities) in the broken mirror. It seems that she had instead found herself as EH, but kept denying it at the police station, and might have kept denying it, until Ju Yeon told her what she most needed to hear. At last here was a person who would come to her not caring who she was or whether she loved him back, but still love her. What a far cry from the self-centred HO.
JY had been on the road and had called Hyeri but got HO instead. He had to waste time with HO and Ji On, wait the whole night and finally was rewarded with the chance to speak with EH, to receive a great embrace of gratitude. He gets to hear the proper words of closure from her, with the reasons why. Something that HO had never given to EH the times he had broken away from her.
Ji On had gone to Giyidong to check on EH who had run away from her past and present and had found what she could never let go.
HO had gone to fetch EH but not knowing whom she was, he had to accept whoever she might be, hence he had gone to her and was forced to accept her as she was. At the end, still not knowing whom she might be, he decided to return to her, and we see that it was no longer smooth sailing but with difficulty. He faced a traffic jam and he had to decide to get out of the taxi to run to her on his own two feet, and to climb the stairs to meet her more than halfway up.
We can expect more ups and downs on that other big image of the stairs of life (after all we have 2 more episodes!).
Now knowing how HO had treated EH in their past, I understand more why EH used to ask HO those needy questions repeatedly, like who he loved more… the 9pm news or her? Being with him kept her insecure.
I kind of liked that HO received metaphorical slaps in the face from Ji On telling him off, from EH embracing JY while he was trying to tell him to get lost, and when EH told HO that she wanted to talk to JY. It took at least 3 slaps to help him get his arrogant head on a bit straighter.
Dear Friends, I am happy to report I have been excersizing and writing more consistently. Sorry for taking so long!
Also Dear Hyeri is a challenging watch in the best of ways: complex, mature and sophisticated. Lose a detail, misunderstand or take lightly a visual cue and meaning is lost to you.
I get why Hyeri could be so healing to Joo-Yeon, as he is enshrined in a glorious tomb of his own making and sorely needs someone to make him question if that is all Life has to offer him.
Still Episode 3.
Dangerous question… how did he ended up getting those eyes? Hyeri is both tender and incisive. Maybe the kind of love he needs to move on.
Why would someone take the mantle of a dream for a dead person?
There is love and a lingering sense of comfort in doing so.
Duty is a form of love, after all.
Memory is what makes us what we are but can break our hearts in unexpected ways.
-Does that make your brother happy? (great management of emotions by the actor)
-I am not sure.
-Your brother is happy. What about you?
He needed that. What has he been doing? We go from a shifting camera to a steady one.
The way Hyeri is broken is a match for his incompleteness.
For some reason the way they meet cute in the parking lot while she holds the security cones and the blck car obscure them is interesting: the whimsical occult in the mundane.
He cracks a joke on her warping to her place. Good sign, in spite of what the cute coworker thinks. He needs openness.
He likes that whatever he does with her, it is a first for him. He needs a breath of fresh air, a metaphysical walk in the park, to reevaluate his life.
Love the actress’ versatility. She can put a mask like no one, then open up and show you a radiating smile.
Am I a bad person for enjoying the consternation of babe coworker Baek Hye Yeon watching her beloved being snatched by a plain Jane?
EPISODE 11
SPOILERS
SPOILERS
I’m troubled by the over sunniness of EH’s ‘return’. It feels too sudden, too different, too unearned. A dramatic precursor to something less sunny. It used to rain a lot literally, and we may get more rain in Ep 12.
There are generally many factors that would affect a person and lead to them suffering DID. Even if the main factor was resolved, ‘recovery’ is slow, with therapy.
EH’s bounce back and then being 100% back in dating relationship with HO or bouncing back because she’s back in relationship feels wrong. It bothers me enough that I watch the episode with a frown.
Perhaps feeling the lack of realism in this episode, plus the over-the-top feel of characters, the hyped-up reactions/responses between HO and EH, and the swing of emotion that feels it’s gone too far in one direction are a symptom of the viewer’s ‘mental condition’! Are we perhaps shown the feverish state of EH’s mind?
What I liked best were EH’s meeting with Min Young and her break-up with Ju Yeon. Even Hye Yeon’s conversation with Ju Yeon felt right. These were grounded and real, calm and collected, whereas scenes with HO were ‘too much’ and therefore felt off. I am unconvinced, except that that might be a reflection of the state of EH’s mind.
As for the clown, Jae Young: he might be a metaphor for the troubling and irksome parts of our unconscious, or the fears that keep lurking under tables only to emerge at the worst times to interrupt our flow of thoughts and affect our decisions.
Hi, I post here Ep11 live watching:
https://mydramalist.com/763149-to-my-harry#comment-19266792
@GB, we can feel this kind of Euphoria people have when everything in life runs like in a dream. On cloud nine. Until some real problem calls back to reality.
@WE, I felt that at times I was seeing things through Eun Ho’s eyes. It didn’t look realistic. As if just because Hyun O decides to get back together, then everything is fine, and she’d never be sick again. Cloud nine sounds about right in terms of being out of touch of reality.
Their being together scenes also troubled me because she was controlling and demanding, wanting things her way. He was giving in to her over and over again. She was almost obsessed with him and he allowed it. Not a healthy way to continue.
@GB, I find their couple life believable. Already, we could get bits of that in flashbacks. It was weird. And today, it keeps being very particular. But when I think about it, it’s how are many couples, not exactly with the same attitudes, but also surprising ones. I can’t tell my life here, but I witnessed that more than once.
Last live watching – Ep12 :
https://mydramalist.com/763149-to-my-harry#comment-19276874
The drama ends in a flop!
Almost: signed for 12 episodes, writer had to do something for last one, even when there isn’t much to tell anymore. It was boring.
My enthousiasm was eroded during second part, as the drama was slower, with less and less big events, but two last episodes are the nail on the coffin.
Unbalanced writing. Can do the best and can do the worst.
As much as I wanted a happy ending for the characters, I felt that the happy ending was not earned. I think the premise would have worked better as a shorter drama or a movie.
I have been unto my own creative process, so I still have to end episode 3. From your comments it seems like this show fell unto his nose and will best enjoyed until episode 10.
Hi @FGB, @Snow Flower and @WE, you’re actually correct! I believe that up to Ep 10, it was a show that made sense. It even looked like it could have ended at Ep 10. It almost felt like the writers were suddenly tasked to add on 2 more episodes and weren’t prepared for it!
I desisted from writing about the end because I’ve lost interest. It gave the ‘nice’ resolutions. Everyone gathered around and the ending was happy. But the execution of how we got there was ‘weird’.
@GB “Weird” was today’s wordle in honour of Halloween!
Happy Halloween by the way! 😀
Given its themes, it was hard to imagine an even experience with this drama. Writing something like this is not an easy task.
Makes me remember the lead actress’ last Drama, “See You in My 19th Life”, which was beautiful and nuanced at the beginning, then ran in a stupid McGuffin mistery, then decided that the main female character had evolved too much, so she shoud numb herself into normalcy.
Absolutely great lead actress, excellet acting in general (up to episode 3 which is again the last one I actually saw – not completely), incredible director and visual storytelling.
Overambitious writing without the talent to match.
I was kind of expecting it. Maybe I was curbing my own expectations.
Makes me remember the lead actress’ last Drama, “See You in my 19th Life”. I could imagine what a blast the reincarnated character could have been, her wisdom, her worldliness. Almost an homage to the 90’s Highlander series.
We got a glimpse of what it could have been in the first episodes with the multifaceted girl growing up with her twice removed former life’s niece: a young woman that had a PhD, was into optimizing cars, a great driver and was headhunted by the very best companies.
The world was her oyster. But noooooo… we were chasing the culprits of the accident that ended the female lead’s former life and made the male lead deaf from one side, then deciding that everyone that knew the female lead’s secret would be targeted by doom, so she should forget all her previous lives to protect her family.
Excellent idea, miserable execution. It seems like the flop repeated itself again.
Sorry for the rant. A mediocre show can be fun as hell, but stiffled greatness makes my blood boil in frustration.
Sorry, seems like I repeated a phrase in the previous post 😛
@MM, I tried a wordle which should have given me ‘weird’ as the correct answer but it insisted that while the 4 other letters were correct and in the right place, the ‘i’ was not. An impossible situation!
weird😁
Did you need to give them a treat?
@MM I’d have tricked them back with a well-placed kick!
🙂
Spell it wyrd and there is no worry about the I.😁
@MM the funny thing was that it’s a 5-letter word and 4 letters are in the right place, and the ‘i’ was not considered a wrong letter but the right letter in the wrong place…. impossible! 🧐🤓😠😡
Dear @MM, Terry Pratchett in his Discworld series he has a trio of characters, the Wyrd Sisters. They are witches and have some powers, but their main superpower is…
Common Sense!!!
😀 Happy late Halloween!!!
The wyrd sisters are a canadian folk rock group.
There was even a common sense revolution Here in canada And I think in australia.
I have always thought my daughter has a lot of common sense so when she told me She was worried That I have no common sense, I was not offended.
Said daughter reminded me.We read “soul music” by Pratchett.