Sigh! It was good until ep 5, but ep 6 threw a wrench into the excitement. Clearly, Seung Cheon learnt nothing from his previous swap because he just walked right into fate's temptation (trap). Where is that smart ass cookie from the initial episodes? Tsk. Tsk.

On the other hand, Tae Young is quickly developing into a decent human, which makes me think that the second switch would have been interesting, had he found out the magic behind the golden spoon and used it to get back to the loving family. This would have placed SC in the same situation as now, except with the changed dynamics, the challenge would have been thrilling.

I like Ju Hee, but she is solely used as a romantic prop and does not seem to play any role in the overall plot development. Yeo Jin is corrupt and evil, but at least she plays her cards well.

Golden spoon is surely an innovative way to do time skips to highlight character growth/plot progress, but the second swap made the story completely repetitive and boring. The extra 17 to 18 minutes per episode is also not helping the overall drama.

Drama, please surprise me in the upcoming episodes! Please!

Tae-yong's father reminds me of a vampire who sucks the life out of those around him. How fitting that he always drinks that blood-red drink and prefers his steak rare.

The last two episodes have been emotionally exhausting. So many hopeless situations and no end in sight. I desperately need a breather.
Especially as the bad luck that haunts Seung-cheon and his family has been portrayed as too dramatic and exaggerated for me. I'm sure the cutthroat wouldn't have had a chance in a court of law to collect the money for the damaged car.

And is it really necessary to make Tae-yong a murder suspect? I don't believe in it, but his life is complicated enough as it is.

Those episodes were completely depressing... Even the love story didn't make me feel better. The fact that half of their relationship is based on a lie doesn't help...

I had my reservations about this drama, but I kept watching, because of the really good performance of the cast.

But I had to press the pause button in episode 5, when the mother offered her organs for the repair costs for the car damaged by her husband - who was thrown onto the car and almost died in the process, surely he did not throw himself down there! I can understand that this turn of events might be necessary to show why Seung-chon will regret returning to his family, but this is just too silly and over the top makjang, and with regrets, I am out.

The recap for epiode 6 confirms that it is not getting any better.

Struggling with the bleakness of this show. Finding it a too-intense and stressful experience at the moment 😬, I might return at a later date when I'm able. I may stick to the recaps for a while...

Entering 15 minutes into episode 5, I had to pause. My heart is growing for Tae Yong. I saw an edit on social media that Sung Cheon return to his family. He also get to kiss Ju Hee. My heart breaks for Tae Yong...

I'm aware both Tae Yong & Sung Cheon are struggling. It's just, it looks like only Sung Cheon is fully aware of this. Why can't Tae Yong get more screen time. His bonding with loving family. Did he do the part time job?

So I rushed here to read the recap 🤣

I think I'll resume when episode 7 & 8 is out.

I hate poverty, I think Parasite is the best film out there and I would criticise capitalism even when I am 100 and dying. Still, this show made the impossible possible and made me say out loud:

Poverty. Isn't. That. Bad.

Before I knew it, I started advocating for poverty and I am extremely angry that I was pushed to this point.

So. Let's make it clear. Seungcheon has a rich legal knowledge and suddenly his family is threatened by a thug who demands money for the car on which his employee fell. The car should not have been parked there and the it doesn't even cost as much as the thug is demanding. Seungcheon shrugs and starts looking for the money. Okay. Whatever. Suspension of disbelief. One time is fine.

The next scene we find out that the whole family has been working for FREE for a YEAR on their debtor. Can anyone explain that to me? How is that possible? WHY WOULD ANYONE AGREE ON SUCH ARRANGEMENT. Were they forced onto living there? Could not they find job somewhere else? If Yejin didn't make things harder, would they have worked there till they died (cause you know 0+0=0)?
And this all happens in one episode. I feel like the show is written by someone who has never interacted with a middle class or a poor person. There is this weird naivety in the show's portrayal of poverty. Like Our Beloved Summer talks about the FL's insecurities and her desire to be generous, Little Women discusses the inherit wish for comfort. None of the characters would do well staying in their situation but selling the kidney is not on the table for any of them. In fact, the show recognises that in a developed country an able bodied, hard working person would survive. Maybe not live, but survive. In Golden spoon, Seungcheon has to either switch lives or die homeless.

Just catch up the whole drama series and my wishful is that this drama ended at 12 episode.
Not sure why Seungcheon still want to swap when previous lesson should hit him hard enough. But, it is hard to let go the dream of getting over the poverish and always thinking about money all the time. I thought he is smart enough to build something and make his own money.

For other characters, I don't have much attachment with TY, JuHee and HJ. Still wondering about TY's uncle position in this drama. Perhaps will put on hold this drama until its finish airing.

Solstices, thanks for the recap.
So many changes back and forth . Yeo-Jin , the evil mean girl. Who is the halmonie in search of a spoon ? Where does the spoon peddler halmonie get these spoons from ?

Ok, throw out any notions of this making sense - this is a total fairytale now - but I still like it! Taeyong *has* to end up being in Seungcheon's family. He needs to take his share of the company, get himself "adopted" and hand over the money. Done. I kind of suspect we might go there, but we're going to need a lot other things to fill the next 10 episodes...

The real seung chon is really unlucky. He is miserable whether he is seung chon or TY. I felt bad for him in this week's episodes. And the plot was ridiculous this week. A three person family has been working for over an year and still they haven't paid a dime of their debt??
And unpopular opinion.. As much as the actor seems to be doing a fine job, I simply cannot warm up to TY. He has been shown suffering, but my emotional involvement in his arc is really low. I think I was put off when SC's dad had to kneel in front him because he lied. YJ is an interesting character. I am not sure how the murder plot contributes to the story, I felt it was a bit unnecessary. There is enough drama already without this. The precaps are even more bad. TY being lovey dovey with JH in the upcoming episodes felt so wrong. The drama make same question the moral and grey aspects. Abandoning your parents is wrong, but if it is to save them, will it be a morally valid act? As of now I am curious how SC is gonna save his family no that he is rich.

Seungcheon sure is unlucky, when he first switched he got blamed for pushing the fake SC off the bridge now he's gonna get caught up in a murder.

I'm guessing the uncle is the one who killed juhee's dad

Really disliked the whole SC's family working for YJ plot so much couldn't the writer find a better way to make them go more broke..

Also it seems like no matter how many times SC abandones his family I will always understand why he does it 😂 and I NEED to see more of anti hero SC he's so interesting. That gun scene from ep 2 is still my favourite!

Hmmm, these episodes were a bit of a drag. Seung Cheon's family still had bad things happening to them.

I didn't realize that the current year was 2012 until these episodes! No wonder the phones looked dated. I thought Seung Cheon's old phone made sense because of he was poor, but now I get the *all* the phones were fitting to the time period.

So then, the next time jump will be 10 years from now?? That's the last(?) chance for the switching/choice change.

Intentional or not, I really hope Tae Yong didn't kill Joo Hee's father. It's clear he and Joo Hee aren't the OTP, but I hope the writer isn't so cruel to make him completely irredeemable to her.

I felt a little bad for Yeo Jin during her awful father's tirade about her and the poor, but it wasn't enough for me to root for her to take over Tae Yong's money/power.

Ju Hee is nice, fine. Hope she will become a strong player though and wise up to all the shady people and manipulations. Actually, this applies to Tae Yong too!

So far, the moves we've kinda seen have been from Seung Cheon and Yeo Jin. I'm anxious to see more moves from the other characters. To see who can outsmart who. To see if or how Seung Cheon will improve his plan this second time around.

It's more honorable and dignified to sell organs rather than just accepting gifts and reselling them? I'm specifically thinking about when Seung Cheon had gifted his family the bags and clothes not whatever Yeo Jin's father might've done.
Also I couldn't really understand the dad's mental block of drawing the explicit cartoons. He is in a desperate situation and that's something he's skilled in which won't lead to injury and who would even know. I think his pretty grown kids would understand.

Also why did the mom get offended at thr idea of the daughter working at a karaoke bar? Is karaoke not karaoke?

I felt so bad for Seung Cheon. He really does have terrible luck. He tried to just work hard and swallow his pride and it must feel like no matter what he does, he's just stuck not making any progress. I think that could break a person's spirit especially since he constantly has to witness his family particularly his parents being mistreated. I always have mixed feelings about the golden spoon use because in a black & white world, choosing to abandon loving parents for wealth seems "wrong" but the world is gray and really what Seung Cheon (and his family) need is to be financially secure and no matter what they do, they can't achieve it. The emotional and mental toll that takes can't be understated. I do wish there was some kind of way he could help his family while he's Tae Yong but they never want to accept it.

I felt bad Tae Yong too. The fact he had to deal with the fallout from Seung Cheon's actions and then he got hit with the emotional remnants of his alternate life.

So do they have the exchanged lives for 10 years now?