Just two introverts falling in love! What's better than this?

I was already emotional when he started playing Moonlight Sonata but when it transitioned into Happy Birthday I absolutely lost my mind... like the writers knew what they we're doing with that...

The only weak point for me are the side characters, who I find... well... uninteresting. Save for maybe Hyun Ho who at least has some visible conflict going on internally.

This drama is definitely spazz worthy. I love the moments when leads interact.

I'm 100% onboard this drama now. I wish we will get more of their friendship before it develops into romance because it's really too precious!

I’m totally not these people, but I want to be. And by “these people” I mean Song-ah and Joon -young. Omg. This slow burn is soooo satisfying.

Rom.com is not one of my fave genre but once in a while something this irresistible comes around and change my tune.
Do I like Brahms? Oh heck yes!

The OTP are truly blessed. I can’t get over the moments they have together. And we have to agree, Kim Min Jae is indeed swoon worthy. The voice (MAN THE VOICE!) and the subtle glances, the awkward greetings Song Ah and Joon Young share, saving each other and comforting each other. Playing Song Ash’s favorite piece when she was down and smoothly shifting to Happy Birthday was everything I would’ve dreamt. If some guy does that to me, I would be married already.

But for real, Park Joon Young is not the typical male lead (in fact he seems more like the sweet second male lead with wrong timing), but his gentlemanly gestures makes my heart race. Just like Song Ah, I’m also falling in love with him. This is probably Kim Min Jae’s best character so far. I do agree, he acting was always so good. But now he’s swoon worthy.

Plus the fact that the actors play their own instruments is a happy coincidence.

The look at Song-ah's face while she's listening Joon-young speaking in front of the students.... It made her really sad because she knew the truth.... Ah, two softie kindred spirits, I just want them to be happy.

I love when Song-ah and Joon-young randomly meet in the middle of the street or at her work and they like awkwardly bow and smile at each other, it's so cute, and I can't get over Joon-young's smile, it's the sweetest thing ever

I loved the moment when Song-ah said she never asked Joon-young to protect her from the truth, and she doesn't want him to do it again, she'd rather be hurt than be left in the dark. Once again, she showed that she is strong.

I also loved the moment when he was walking down the street toward her and his whole face lit up, and she had to look away because she was so happy to see him. How could this not end in romance? It just goes to show how sheltered they are that they don't recognize their growing friendship as something deeper and more beautiful than their failed "loves".

"I missed you" is a mistranslation. He said, "보고 싶었던 거네요" meaning "I wanted to see you," which is in line with what he said that seeing her makes him smile.

Joon-young says all these heart-fluttery lines so casually, how does he expect Song-ah to not fall for him? When he said, "아니," OMG, did he just use banmal with her!? He switches back to jondaemal, but I died. No, I can't be friends with you! (just friends with you) I'm in love with you!! He remembers everything about her from her name Chae Song-ah to the pieces she likes Moonlight Sonata to her birthday. kyaa~ that hug. Now that she's mourned her unrequited love, there won't be a next time when Joon-young hides the truth from her.

Did Song-ah suggest he play Träumerei? NOOO, WHY!? I'm grateful he at least has Song-ah to confide in, while he repeated his rehearsed answers onstage. "What did I do in my past life to deserve this?" Joon-young is so unhappy, I just want to save him. I want him to quit the piano and find new friends. When Hyun-ho told Joon-young to leave, I raged, "Bitch, he was here first! You leave!!" I just can't understand how this is the first time Hyun-ho is seeing this. How was he so oblivious? Their practice session, you could cut the tension with a knife. The only explanation for how the trio could stay friends for so long is they lived in different countries and barely saw each other. This relationship is over. Jung-kyung went to look for someone other than her boyfriend on her birthday and waited for his birthday present. She clearly likes Joon-young, so why did she not accept him when he played the piano for her in middle school? BEFORE Hyun-ho. Or does she just not want to lose Joon-young? I hope his "You're really hateful lately" means he's over Jung-kyung once and for all even though he would never make a move because of Hyun-ho anyway.

Thanks a ton for the weecap, @missvictrix!

I didn't read the confession when Joon-young said that she made him smile like a romantic confession on his part, but it was a well-written romantic confession scene.

He seems to be a person who is in touch with his feelings, he know exactly what he is feeling even if he can't change anything.
That's why when he ask for them to be friends, it was for his own sake too. He know Song-ah is different and makes him feel something different. And he wants to feel that and even if he doesn't know what this feelings mean exactly.

I hope Joon-young knows the effects his actions and words have on Song Ah. For now, he seems to just offer friendship and I feel for her if she starts to catch feelings.

As he said, love moderately. If you love too much, then the pain comes.

I loooooove this so much. Waiting for the episodes to come out every week is going to be torture.

I'm so glad Joonyoung and Songah found each other. Talk about right place, right time despite their individual ongoing struggles. They are exactly what the other person needs to heal and grow. What a blessing. When Joonyoung told Songah that he wants to see her because she makes him happy I swooned so hard. Who wouldn't want to hear stuff like that? From a young, handsome, successful musician no less? Where do I sign up?

So here's my issue with Jungkyung, right. I know she's miserable. But I don't think she deserves my sympathy for most of it. Sure, maybe she feels pressure about her future. But she's already resolved to do what she wants. We know from episode 4 that she isn't facing this terrible dichotomy between choosing the foundation job and being a performer. She flat out rejected the former. It's not like Hyunho's situation where his whole family is depending on him (perhaps benevolently, of course) to pay them back for the investment that they made in his cello career. I'm not saying that her having that financial freedom invalidates her problems, of course. It just makes it harder for me to sympathise with her because she doesn't even seem grateful or understanding about the fact that people like her grandmother are trying to help her set up some stability for the future that up till now she hasn't really had to earn the way her friends have.

Secondly, I don't think she's stuck in her relationship with Hyunho. I think some beanies were discussing this on the fanwalls or the previous post (I forget), and questioning why she continues to stay when she clearly does not want to be there. Personally, I think she chooses to stay because it's just convenient for her. She knows Hyunho loves her and supports her and that's her safety net. She's probably thinking that if Joonyoung rejects her, she can just go back to Hyunho and act like everything is fine because she knows he wants to continue being with her. This emotional manipulation is just not on.

As Joonyoung said, I really can't stand you.

We only got some brief scenes with Hyun-ho, but once again, the drama shows us so much in a moment. It's clear he treasures Joon-young as a friend, for when he tells Joon-young to leave for him there's no malice. Instead, there's this air of sadness, as though he feels he doesn't stand a chance if Jung-kyung has feelings for Joon-young.

It's telling of Hyun-ho's perception of himself with regards to Joon-young that instead of trying to win Jung-kyung back, he's pleading with Joon-young to help him by leaving. We haven't seen too much of his musical standing/ his position in the music industry yet, so I can't tell if his insecurities stem from that. But that impulse to compare yourself professionally against even your dearest friends is certainly a sad reality of the pursuit of music.

I'm still feeling all soft and mellow after Episode 3. I watched it twice to get all the music references and *cough* Happy Birthday can we be friends? *cough*. Joon-young is such a Romantic in the old-school music sense. He sits in the palace gardens and watches daffodils to relax. Schumann would be proud.

Nerd moment: Does anyone else start spazzing when they see an Urtext edition anywhere? It's a shame Jung-kyung ruined that practice session. I was really hoping to hear Hyunho play the cello in Mendelssohn's Piano Trio No. 1: https://youtu.be/KioVcstEF9E

Thank you for the weecap @missvictrix! :D

To me, JK is a greedy person who in a relationship with HH because she knows he loves her and at the same time stringing JY with her action. I think she knows that JY likes her (or maybe she feels the same) and use his feelings to keep him by her side too. I wonder how she end up dating HH since she didnt look that interested at him. It seems like HH and JY cherish each other as friend so I hope they sit down and talk rather than drift apart over a misunderstanding.

no comment on JY and SA because that happy birthday song and a hug combo is too sweet it kills me~

My favourite monologue was the one about "silence", at the beginning of ep3, when JY tells SA that is the first thing he remembers when someone talks about competitions. I thought this monologue had a lot of subtext, and got me thinking about a bunch of things:

Besides (literally describing) the clamour of silence that slowly took over the competition week for JY, it was surely also a subtle reference to the role of silence in our otherwise hyper-crazy lives and how we need to embrace that as part of living. And most importantly, it was about the impactful power of silence in music: when do you insert it, for how long, what comes before, and what comes after? indeed, does anything come after at all?

There were a few other gems like this in these two episodes. If it continues in this vein, I might stay for a little while longer.

That said, the plot contrivances are still a bit much (both have birthdays on the same day?!), and the meeting coincidences are more than necessary, and the dialogues can be a bit more cheesy than I'd like. I hope this gets fixed somehow.

I'm in love with this drama. I love when a production feels real, relatable and Joon Young's story is giving me that.
Everytime he talks about his life as a musician with SA I feel really bad. He always talk about it with a smile on his face even when he's telling the most heartbreaking story. But what hurts me more, is that he seems so used to it that he talks about it like if it didn't care.

I know that his 'friend' was drunk when he told JY to leave Korea, but I really wanted to punch him in the face for that. That guy should start talking with his girlfriend, he needs to stop pretending that he doesn't notice that she's so freaking done with him.

JY already has the whole pressure from the critics, public, and all those people that WON'T UNDERSTAND THAT HE'S ON A BREAK, and keep asking him to performe somewhere. So I really really want that couple -I can't call them his friends. Well, I'm not sure about HH, but I'm definitely not calling JK his friend-, to leave him alone.

I love JY's relationship with SA. They're so cute together. I love how they support each other. When SA says something like "but how do you feel about it?" "but did you like it?" "you can be honest with me", dundun, I feel so happy because it shows that she cares, and that there's someone for JY but at the same time I feel so bad for him, because he always seems surprise like if he never has listed to those words before and never considered his feeling.

Next time, let's talk about SA, her friends and how JY supports her (the "It's okay, only think about yourself" scene T.T); but this week I was weak for JY's side of the story.

Joon-young always tried to please people around him : his family, the Foundation, his friends, the public. But he never did things for him. I think that, even it was the wrong moment, Jung-kyun was right, he doesn't give his opinion. It's why Song-ah is different, he says everything to her and I hope in the future we will play piano for him.

Song-ah in the middle of her friends relationship and without being able to express her feelings was sad to watch. I'm curious about CEO Yoon, why did he want to hide the truth to her? Does he know she has feelings for him and doesn't want to loose the attention? Or he has feelings for her too.

Their interactions are the best parts of the drama! I loved each of them!

I am totally in love with this drama. Totally. To the point where I am upset that Viki is taking more time to translate than illegal websites. That never happened before.

The awkwardness of drama is really something. I didnt noticed until someone pointed out and after watching episode 3 and 4, I cant stop noticing. It is like you are first dating someone and dont know what to do with your hands. Introverts unite!

I am a bit confused Jung-Kyung feelings. I hope she is not doing it because she is bored with life and her choices.

Apart from liking very much the OTP and don´t like to much the supports characters yet, I really like the secondary characters: the foundation workers (I like the office gossip), the guy from the credit card company (I dislike him of course but it´s a good character), the director of the Kyung-hoo Cultural Foundation...

I really appreciate that both JY and SA are willing and able to be vulnerable with each other. SA's honesty about her situation and her feelings in the rehearsal room at the end of episode 3 was standout to me. There were echoes of Ko Moon-young's 'trauma should be faced head on': she did not mince words. She owned it all. She let JY really see all of her, and he honors that trust with the music. And in episode 4, JY lets her see him. When she says, 'I'll listen to you" and gives him the space to be his whole self and be completely honest.

The word that keeps coming to mind for me is 'simplicity.' They are both complex people, and their lives are, too. But when they are holding space for each other, they are both able to simply BE. This is really a beautiful gift.

Also, I'm so glad that JY finally told off JK. I'm glad this show didn't wait until episode 10 or 12 to start to put that girl in her place - because it also reduces the chance that her machinations will become a one-note song for the bulk of the show (see: echos of the exes in Dinner Mate). HH pulled a very d*ck move, I don't care if he was drunk. He's clearly not as oblivious as he seems, and he's coming across as a little pathetic to me. I want him to develop some self-respect ASAP - and also apologize to JY if he truly values him as a friend.

I am really loving this show. I wish I could binge it, but there's no way I can stop now and wait until it's completely aired to do so!

When Jung Kyung stop for the second time at the practice session, I'm plain itching to give her a good slap !

I love it when Soong Ah and Joon Young are together, they are so sweet and definitely falling in love.

I am officially obsessed with this drama. Kim Min Jae has brought his A game fully to this drama and I believe every line he delivers. Joon Young seems to everything with sincerity and kindness. If the child actor does the same. You can tell he is rather lonely and needs Song Ah because she is a also a little lonely. Be still my heart.

I wasn't sure if SA was in love with DY. It wasn't as clearly shown like JY for JK. Or maybe I wasn't able to pick up the hints. But after this week's eps and watching the previous eps it looks like both liked each other from before. So why didn't they get together? Is it because of their mutual friend? Did she confess to him before SA or did SA step back? Because DY could've said no to her and still remained friends even if he didn't get together with SA afterwards to avoid jeopardizing their friendship. Then after all these years maybe he would have a shot with her after coming back from Italy. But now MS still harbors feelings for him and SA can't do anything because it'll hurt her. Also when DY told her not to tell SA about their night together didn't she get a clue that maybe he likes her? What he did was wrong, pretending it never happened and breaking her heart, but isn't MS also being oblivious?

Cheonggyecheon is honestly one of my favourite places to walk around in Seoul and having experienced being there to then seeing the scenes of our leads actually there, talking so comfortably with each other, just makes it even more wonderful to watch. I am loving the natural transition of their relationship and it's so comforting to watch. I honestly can't wait to witness the two of them together, helping each other achieve their dreams and finding happiness in their music and each other. Fingers crossed for scenes of them two performing together.

I live for the Steinway PPL in this drama. I loved PAGE TURNER but they played on INWAY pianos and I couldn't get over it. 😂

this drama just gives me the warm fuzzy feeling. i'm completely obsessed at this point.

I love the leads and I love the main characters. They can just sit and talk and smile at each other and I'm pretty content. But the show as a whole, I don't know. All the coincidences and slump meetings, it feels devoid of background. For those of you who've seen Extraordinary You, I sometimes feel like I'm just being shown the stage. A commentary on Buffy by Joss Whedon also comes to mind when he talks about filming, how to and fro-shots between characters is the simplest way of shooting a scene. The show is fond of doing that, and I'm sorry to say it gets a bit boring and repetitive.

However, I thought episode four showed some progress in these areas so I'm sticking around for at least another week. Kim Min-jae is so hot in those suits and I just die when he opens his mouth and that voice comes out, low and mellow like the cello. 😍

They didn't show the scene of JY lending his jacket to SA when they sat by the river but still it's swoony how such a gentleman he is. *savemyheart

I'm so in love with this show right now. This show wasn't initially on my radar at all, but I'm glad I gave it a try. Song-ah has such a sweet and quiet personality that I love. The way she hangs back at times and hesitates is so relatable, at least for me, lol. I find myself looking forward to her and Joon-young's interactions throughout each episode. That hug was everything! I'm rooting for these two whether they stay friends or fall in love. Also, I'm thankful this show is introducing me to classical music. I've been listening to Schumann in the past week!

I started watching this on a whim...have been in a kdrama slump and this hit me like a ton of bricks right in the feels! Jung Kyung is really unlikeable so far, and I don't know whether it's the actress or the character but I want to skip every time she appears on the screen.

Our 2 leads though...ahhh I haven't watched anything recently that drew me in like these 2 have. The directing is good...it's a nice slow burn and I really hope this keeps up. That scene where they wer meeting to head to the venue together and SA was standing in front of the building - her whole face LIT UP when she saw him and vice-versa - i couldn't get that scene out of my head all week! Park Eunbin and Kim Min Jae are knocking their roles out the park.

You know, different that what many beanies have said, I don't dislike jung kyung. She is interesting and she has depth... or at least that is what I feel from the beginning. Portraying the role of a modern Clara Schumann, she must not have an easy inner life, and she doesn't have friends she can really trust.
So, we still have to wait and see how her character develops.
I wouldn't accuse her of being simply the evil mean second female lead. She is has her own schedule and struggles.
I hope the writer will know how to use her well

I am so glad I picked this up! Finally caught up with the 4 episodes.
I love this show!! And excited to see the weecaps here!
Its so nice to see such genuinely kind and nice leads. These two fill my heart with warmth..
Can't wait for the next episodes.

How much do I love the line "Do you want to be friends? No. We must be friends?" I'm still thinking about it weeks later. *swoons*

The child actors look so much like their adult counterparts!!
Moonlight Sonata to Happy Birthday was so sweet! Beautiful transition. And of course that hug. Wonderful.
His support during her difficult party was so thoughtful. Their easy smiles and laughter when alone together really contrast with their awkward discomfort when with their longtime friends and their emotional history.
I really appreciated Joon Young standing up for Song Ah against the rude employee. He was very angry, brought out his protective side! From this usually quiet man.
I loved when at the office, he repeated the word happiness, then looked at Song Ah and asked her to have dinner with him. For Joon Young, happiness = Song Ah! And his warm words by the river, all the squees and feels :)