Most of this week's episodes fall under lowlights, so here's a fair warning. There are some cute bits, and Jo Jung-seok is at the center of most of them, but there is also a lot of shrillness and screaming.
On the very small upside, a lot of that screaming happens between characters I don't like, so it's not quite as blood-boiling as it could be. And it's nice to see some characters show their spine (like Chan-woo)… though I tire of waiting for the day when our heroine finds hers. Could she be more of a doormat?
Highlights:
Chan-woo proposes to Yoo-shin, making a public declaration using bus adverts and flowers and awwing spectators. She's embarrassed, but accepts.
Jun-ho gets so frustrated with his feelings for Soon-shin that he finally has an outburst to ask why she never comes by the office to visit him. Lol. He's so not smooth with the excuses. She asks why he's paying such attention to her, and he exclaims, "How can you be so oblivious to someone's feelings? I… you… I… don't know what to do about you, that's what!" SIGH. Well, baby steps. Still, he makes her promise to consult with him before deciding, and she agrees and makes his day.
Later he's absurdly pleased to be meeting Soon-shin for a sort of business date, and trips into the cafe counter. It's back, ha. I think I've got it—he trips when he's feeling full of himself. He tries to order her the same dish she ordered on her date with Young-hoon, then gets pissy when she wants something else.
Then he orders coffees and purposely gives her the one with the big heart in foam, and then gets pissy when Soon-shin ignores the design and stirs it all together.
To make a point, he takes her to the auditions for a tiny theater group, then shoves her onstage. She drags him up with her in nerves and practically rips off his jacket. She's terrible at the audition, though she manages to sing a few lines decently well, and then gets recognized as Mi-ryung's daughter.
That kills their mood, but he advises her to get her act together if she doesn't want to be treated like Mi-ryung's coattail-rider for the rest of her life. It's good advice, and a little refreshing that somebody's telling Soon-shin to suck it up and do something about her acting path, instead of just waffling around like Mi-ryung's puppet.
Hye-shin is hurt by one of Granny's many many many terrible comments, and asks Bread Man to play hooky on their English tutoring sessions. She wants to try her hand at boxing, and he takes her to the gym where he used to fight to teach her.
He tells her the truth of going to prison for fighting, and she's startled but handles it gracefully, saying it's all in the past. Then they agree to trade boxing and English lessons.
Lowlights:
Now that Soon-shin decides to go with the acting thing, Mi-ryung buys her fancy clothing and agrees to help her set the rumors straight about her adoptive family. That makes Soon-shin happy and she agrees to an interview, so she can use it to explain how great her family is.
But of course, Mi-ryung pulls strings to have the reporter delete all mention about how much Soon-shin loves her family, and is pissy about how Soon-shin doesn't treat her with the same adoration as she does her mother. Because, in her eyes, she totally earned that love, right? She vows to make Soon-shin look at her with the same adoring eyes—no, even more adoring. Said the crazy lady.
Woo-joo, whom I usually find amusing for her childish crankiness, snaps at Bread Man to quit hanging around her mother. I get that, but she pisses me off a little by adding that he's reaching "above your level," which I think is terribly classist of her.
Grandma and Yoo-shin both tell Soon-shin she's no longer part of the family for choosing to go to Mi-ryung, even though Mom says she told her to go. So when Soon-shin goes home, Grandma's all, How dare you live here?
Chicken Ajumma reacts to the news that her son is in love by attacking Yoo-shin, literally. She tells her family huffily that she could've beaten her up and Yoo-shin would have deserved more abuse, which (shocker!) does not win her beloved son's approval. Chan-woo remains firm about his intentions, while his sister opposes Yoo-shin because she's smart and pretty and knows it. I know, such terrible crimes.
Yoo-shin even goes over to apologize to Ajumma and promise to do better, only to have Ajumma scream and rage and push her out of the house. Chan-woo jumps to Yoo-shin's defense, and when his mother threatens to disown him if he marries her, he calls her bluff and agrees to move out.
So our two shouty mothers go at it when Ajumma accuses Mom of not raising her daughter right, and I'm pretty sure that's a pot-kettle situation if ever there was one. Finally Mom loses her temper and screams at Chicken Ajumma that she will never send her precious daughter to be mistreated by such a mother-in-law, yelling, How dare you grab my daughter's throat in front of me? (Ajumma has the audacity to see nothing wrong with that.)
Ajumma accuses Mom of having some kind of inferiority complex with her, to which I say HA, since to have an inferiority complex you'd have to think the other person was better than you at something. So the ajummas are no longer friends, and I'm thinking they're better off.
Mi-ryung gets the ball rolling to cast Soon-shin in a new drama (without Jun-ho's knowledge) and then to sign her to a different agency. Soon-shin balks, saying that she wants to work with Jun-ho; her argument is that Mi-ryung is using her starpower to push Soon-shin, but Jun-ho encourages her to do things on her own merit.
So Mi-ryung agrees, though she gets huffy when Soon-shin keeps talking about her mother, wanting to be called Mom instead of Teacher. Finally she snaps at her that Soon-shin has no blood relation to that family—she's not Dad's daughter—and therefore she has no reason to ever go to that house again. Because to Mi-ryung, a twenty-year-old relationship can be erased just like that.
SIGH.
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