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The dates:
Episode 6 – 20 December 2025
Episode 7 – 27 December 2025
Episode 8 – 3 January 2026
Episode 9 – 10 January 2026
Episode 10 – 17 January 2026
Episode 11 – 24 January 2026
Episode 12 – 31 January 2026
Episode 13 – 7 February 2026
Episode 14 – 14 February 2026
Episode 15 – 21 February 2026
Episode 16 – 28 February 2026
Episode 17 – 7 March 2026
Episode 18 – 14 March 2026
Break – 21 March 2026
Episode 19 – 28 March 2026
Episode 20 – 4 April 2026
The time:
6.00am PST
9.00am EST/Canada
10.00am Caracas
2.00pm in London
3.00pm in Paris
4.00pm in Athens
10.00pm in Singapore
Enjoy the show.
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Thanks my dear @pkml3 for this thread when you’re busy!
I’m guessing that you’re extremely tied up now, especially just before Christmas. If you have a moment, please open a thread for WAWW in Dec. We’ve also about to end Dynamite Kiss, on Christmas Day, so I’m not sure we need a thread for it anymore.
Happy and Holy Christmas hols!!
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Hi All, will miss tonight’s rewatch as I am away on a trip. Enjoy yourselves tonight, I join next week.
@FF Have a good trip and see you next week!
Our christmas house guests Have arrived after braving the snowstorms in manitoba!
So I will not attend today.
Best wishes to everyone for this holiday season🎄🎄🌲🌲
Have fun @MM! Have a great Christmas with friends!
@feifei, MM, Have a good holiday!
The snow that has been making the continent (and poor MonMor) miserable so far disappears when it hits the Massachusetts hills.
So I am still operational, @GB. Doing a hasty prewatch.
Hi @IB, I’m watching Sniper Butterfly now. I hope I remember to stop on time to come back here!!!
Hi GB and IF.
Hi @WE, you’re nice and early!
Okay @WE, @IB we start NOW!!!
Yeah. I was editing, editing, endlessly. I finished 6/12 eps.
I fall sometimes on scene that discourage me, with everything needing edition. The writing is good in the way the directing is great and every information, emotion is in place. But the wording has to be redone. T T
Hello @GB, @WE, @IB. I will be here for a bit. I have to leave early to clean house before heading out for a Christmas concert I will be singing in with the local amateur orchestra chorale.
Best of holidays @MM and @FF.
Hi SD.
We start a little before the scam of the girl will be revealed by Jin-Woo.
Hi @SD, how nice to be singing in a concert!
Yes, join us first as long as you can. Have a great concert!!
Singing or playing music facing a public is good: after that, it’s more easy to talk in public without being shy.
Jin Woo proves himself in court. Even Park DH is impressed, but In Ah finds herself crushed with a witness who just sabotaged her argument.
He lies to her, not saying his client is innocent, and pretending to defend someone guilty. Well, she has to discover herself that the girl lies.
Hi @SD!
In-Ah really gets ‘schooled’ during this episode. I remember someone saying that the bus incident was to teach In-Ah how to be a good attorney?
In this episode we see that JW uses his good memory to get the guy to testify against Ha Na. However after this, there’s hardly anymore reference to JW’s fantastic memory. It is referred to by Nam GM but we don’t see it in action much… I was/am disappointed about that.
@WE, In Ah’s predicament reminds me of I Hear Your Voice where the lawyers got caught by lying defendants. In this case it’s a lying witness.
Moo-Suk has my vote for the worst villain morally. GYu Man and the Sweater Dad are admirably evil, but Moo-suk is despicable.
@IB, what bus incident are you referring to?
I-Na has to shake hands with the bad chief prosecutor she has to work for. Hugh! Her destiny as prosecutor starts badly.
@IB, Moo Suk aids and abets evil. I just lump him with the worst of villains which includes the Nam father and son.
@IF, I’m sure Moo-Suk has a slimy hand when you shake it. You feel like you touched a slug. 🙂
@GB RE the use of In Ah’s character as a witness to the corruption of the system — she has to be innocent to start? Then the character can fulfill its function.
At the very beginning of the show when she rashly accuses JW of pickpocketing.
@WE @IB, I imagine I Ah’s disgust at having to shake that Moo Suk hand made her shudder. She had joined the Prosecution to fight against people like him but here she has to shake his hand.
In A’s face when she has to shake Moo Suk’s hand gives it all away. She has no ‘poker’ face. Similarly in the elevator with Nam Gyu Man, although he seems to have taken her shocked face for admiration.
@IB, Ah… that bus incident … I think I might have made a comment on that.
But now she’s drunk and insulting the girlfriend of a stranger. So shaking the hand of a snake has driven her to drink and silly behaviour.
I now understand In-Ah drinking as part of her emotional upheaval, but did she really have to make fun of the couple in the bar?
There is something I find remarquable in this kdrama, it’s the scene order. It’s rare that we jump into a “new scene, elsewhere, not connected”. There is almost always a thread leading to one to the other, keeping to follow the story in an order.
@SD LOL… yeah, NGM is so full of himself he thinks any woman looks at him in admiration.
@WE re scenes, huh, interesting.
The girl is drunk at night. SO…
… will follow a piggy-back trope. 😀
(+ drama song, of course)
@IB, drunkenness is really a weakness in these dramas. They get characters acting most foolishly honest or without filter, so we get to hear the unpalatable truth LOL.
xmas tree!
random factoid — some churches do special “blue Xmas” (Elvis Presley ref., since the holidays make us miss the departed so much…
@WE, yes, following easily from one scene to another is a good thing too but I’ve gotten used to how shows jump around without ‘order’. I recall how upset you were over “The King: Eternal Monarch” because of this issue.
@GB, oh I see, she is unfiltered about the couple just as how she feels about JW and the law comes out honestly…
Sad scene where Dad Seo does not remember having a son. Tears…..
@IF, it’s true for most of the dramas we rewatch. If you want to get something “new scene out of nowhere”, you can see Strong Girl Nam-Soo, even I don’t rec it because it’s rather a bad drama.
I notice that because I focus a lot on scene order. AND, of course, it happened I produced bad ones, because on my checklist, I had “I must show that in this episode”, but not finding a way to chain it in an elegant way. Now I need to check it again and see if I can fix that. But in the episodes I’m editing, scene order is almost perfect.
Lovely meta comment by gyu-nam — not like its a sit-com…re the reflection of memory conditions between ML and Dad.
Villainous poetry.
We see JW approaching Nam Sister through art, but Park DH is keeping an eye on him.
Nam Guy-Man making death threat, so Jin-Woo life is in danger. Dong-Ho already knows it and is worried. Lee Se-Un (damn, I don’t remember his character name) is just scared again about Nam Gyu-Man.
We have a bit of painting culture now, about “blue” from Chagall, always nice in kdramas, there is often cultural inserts.
@IF, oh yeah. I’m sure the writer wanted to mention the irony of the situation. As well use the Villain to speak the line. 🙂
@WE, I understood you to say that this was intentional, we can safely look for interesting reasoning here at scene connection….but you meant it was normally professionally…
Lee Si Eon (currently watching him in The Player ..he is prettier here).
This is where we begin to be afraid that ‘old school ties’ will corrupt and overmaster the good…
really nervewracking if seen for the first time.
In-Ha as to battle with Moo-Suk now.
Sad thing is she will loose, but she has to loose.
She watch the video in the car AND…
See how it’s smart?
We jump into the trial watching the video.
Awesome transition.
@iB, I find the inclusion of the Lead Prosecutor, Moo Suk, nervewracking for that reason: it’s easy to consider how he can and will try to change the outcome of a prosecution to meet his own needs. He reminds me of the prosecutor in ‘W’, bad to the bone.
Starting with JW interviewing (at first mysterious) credit regugee, this is one of my favorite parts of the show — the Detective sequence. Includes classic beating, technical intelligence etc.
I have to leave now. I will finish late tonight when I get back from the concerts and will read the rest of the comments then. See you next week.
See you next week @SD!
Bye @SD, happy music! Have a good holiday.
I was thinking how ironic it is that NGM, Seo Beom and Judge Kang are friends. One is totally upright, one is totally evil and Seo Beom bridges the gap by uneasily covering up NGM’s crimes.
JW is so thorough. He even contacts Ha Na’s father!!
Soo Bom, Gyu Man, his sister, and Judge Kang. Classmates and members of the same class. Horizontal male ties, like the army. But JW, his dad, DongHo, Boss Seok and In-Ah (partially) are outsiders.
@IB I like that Seo Beom was friendly with PDH’s right-hand man. They could chat about their bosses and compare notes.
Nam Il-Ho fakes outrage in front of his daughter…
SO lame!
Once again PArk DH puts obstacles in JW’s path. JW will keep hating him for a long time.
JW is so persistent, even after getting beaten up, he goes to see Ha Na at the hospital instead of getting himself treated.
So Jin-Woo will win.
But DAMN-IT, it was Sooooo difficult!!!
@GB, yes I liked Soo Beom and Mr.Pyun’s backstairs camaraderie over snacks. Reading the script helped with that weird gulp at spilling red beans out of the bun..
But given the strong class overlay it felt a tiny bit forced….
maybe it was meant to foreshadow that Soo Beom has a human limit to tolerating evil…as does Mr.Pyun, always remonstrating with DongHo.
Nam GM getting a bit too happy too soon. He can choose a Vice President successor who will kiss his a**e.
Everybody cry in the room now! 🙂
@WE, that’s what this series does over and over… makes things soooo difficult for the good guys. It’s supposed to lead to a good pay off but …. the ending!!!!
Anyway now we see JW in action and how he wins by being so meticulous. He can prove that it wasn’t his client but he cannot pin the crime on the Nams.
Just when Nam Gyu-Man want them to get Jin-Woo now… He comes with his sister!
Excellent shots from the director, so even without a big budget, this guy does awesome work.
Follow a damn good confrontation scene.
@WE… yes.. teary time. The dads and their daughters. Seeing her dad made it clearer for Ha Na to know what to do. And the Nam sister/daughter of the evil Nam father sits and observes it all.
@WE I loved that scene… NGM says he wants to see JW now! and in walks JW with Nam sister so Nam brother cant do a thing.
Yes the final weapon of JW is not the detective’s cold hard facts, it is guilt-tripping the perjurer by manipulating her feelings about her dad — or recalling her to her humanity…
and everyone cries!
it is lovely.
@GB, it’s so inspiring. By the way, in the books about screenwriting advices: torture characters, confront them with hard difficulty. But no-one does it that harsh than this drama: obstacles are endless, heroes make a step forward, but have to make two steps backward. This drama is so awesome about that.
@GB, yeah yeah, the sister was on point. Then, last shots, the “kdrama classic” of heads close, feeling to speak in the ear with a threat. All the good things! And cliffhanger on that.
At first I though JW knew he would meet NGM by going drinking, but just a cool bit of flashy (loveably so) coincidence.
I thought he was taking the fight to the enemy…but he does seize the moment to do so.
That is a classic Detective story move, unsettling the antagonist so that he starts to make mistakes…
Happy Holidays to all. I must be off.
Bye @WE, GB, fun times!
ooh, @GB! Just caught your dads and daughters comment. Nice.
Thanks @IB! Bye and have Happy Christmas and hols!
I go too. Happy holidays and Merry Christmas, as we meet after 24/12 next time.
Bye @WE! Merry Christmas!