I liked this premiere, I am not a fan of that pink filter but I am able to get past it for now. I really like Woo-joo, she looks tough but has a lot of heart and I just like how the drama handles that. The drama did a great job conveying how lonely our leads are and I like the idea of them finding comfort in each other and Woo-joo realising she cares for him more than she cares for her revenge. At least this rough outline is what I am here for, if it goes makjang or whatever interest of love seemed to be in recaps I am out.

Also the performances are solid so far so that's nice to see.

I loved the setup and can't wait to see more. Stepmother is cruel and brazen. I think she is living in the house but fooled the three siblings to kick them out.

The pink filter didn't really work for me, the whole viewing experience was tough on my eyes. Also am not sure what emotions / mood the pink filter was supposed to evoke in the viewers. For me, it didn't serve to create a melancholic feel or any other feel, it just felt unnecessary for me.

I like Lee Sung-kyung's depiction of Woo-joo so far, but am still not so sure about Kim Yong-kwang's depiction of Dong-jin. Going around your day looking like a dead zombie with no energy is a very in-your-face way of showing his lacklustre and deadbeat attitude (due to his company's situation and perhaps other factors too), but I would have preferred more nuances to portray that (was it perhaps the writing / plot then?).

I think this will fill The Interest of Love sized hole in my schedule. Overall, I wasn't enamored but it did pique my interest. The pacing was slow, yet a lot happened in terms of plot and character development. I like both the lead actors, and was also glad our FL added some emotional layers to the flat portrayal of her character. I hope they'll do it for the ML as well. She's so gorgeous tho despite the attempts to make her more plain. Sometimes I wish drama-land would just hire less attractive but skilled actors for these roles.

One thing I don't like is the demonizing the female partners in affairs. But there's no father left to blame, and the woman did make them homeless so the FL's hate feels justified. I didn't get one thing: ML finds his new employee/FL stalking him to his home and going through his mail! And he lets it go because she may be interested in him (tho not romantically she says)?

I am not loving the palette. It's not just the pink, but the many other filters ranging from almost monochrome to bright color that are displayed like a slideshow. But I'm not hating it either. It became less noticeable as the show went along, or I adapted. The main reason I question the choice is that it's a distraction, even in all our discussions.

I thought about giving a break after the massacre of interest of love, but here I am again. The plotline was enough to pique my interest
In addition, I was curious about the dynamic between our leads. I found the first two episodes pretty slow paced & the pink filter started giving me a headache ( eventually it subsided though). However, I'm still invested to see where the plot heads ( I think it's not gonna head into the makjang territory as the Fl's revenge plot seems quite unplanned & vague)

The pinkness really hurt my eyes and FL voice is too montonous. It is also not as heart wrenching as I expected it to be, maybe yet. On other side, Kim Young Keang does pretty good and I think that’s enough for me to look at several more episodes.

I really love Lee sung kyung here, so much fire and nuance in her potrayal. . Her circumstance is definitely the center of the show so far. So glad she finally showcase her acting through this character. I have become more looking forward to dr romantic 3. She definitely carried it. So far I'm intrigued.

Just reading this recap filled me with hot anger so I definitely won't be watching this.
I don't understand why characters who have to antagonists always have to be the absolute worst too. Like it's not bad enough that you left your family but then you took all their money too? Then you leave the house to the new wife? Did he not have even the slightest care or love or affection for his kids?
(Sure, it's not the most unbelievably thing to happen but sigh, it's anger inducing to say the least)

Also I think I'm particular sensitive to the "blame/crucify/criticize the kids for the actions of their parents" thing. I know, just by the recap, that the viewer is supposed to feel a certain way about the guy using the money that was supposedly gotten by shady means. Mostly likely people are suppose to feel for the female lead and support her revenge plot against him until she gets to know him better and yadda yadda.
I really can't with that because the father (and the mistress) are the trash people and yet the kids are the ones who have to deal with the fallout.

I need to take some deep breaths haha

I really enjoyed it. It is just as ridiculously angsty as I thought with a little touch of heart in it.

Difficult to kick a beaten puppy, right Woo Joo?

I actually liked the first two episodes. Certain elements reminded me of My Mister (such as unfortunate woman attempting to hurt a decent dude, who got cheated on, but finding out that the guy is actually decent). I also liked that Woo Joo is terrible at stalking and the only reason why she can keep going with the plan is because the target himself can't care less. That gives a nice touch to their dynamic and does not put ML in strictly the victim category.
In addition, Woo Joo has a great fighting spirit and I love that underneath that she is a kind person who can't stand by when someone is getting hit.

As for the pink filter...It better become less apparent as the show goes on. I didn't mind it too much, it does mirror the lethargic state of the characters. Still, I miss other colors.

I've only seen the first episode so far, but this is exactly what I was looking for right now. I am actually relieved that the revenge plot is so weak, as frankly, I'm tired of revenge dramas. Woo-joo's "plan"--barely a plan at all, just a series of hastily conceived actions that humiliate herself more than the intended target--is exactly what an emotionally damaged, angry young woman would invent. It's obvious to all that it won't work, but she still feels compelled to continue. At heart, she's just crying out "Look at me! I exist and my feelings matter!" even though she's also desperately trying to appear and be stoic, tough, and untouchable.

It may be my TV monitor, but the pink filter was barely noticeable on my screen. I could see that the flashback scenes were crisper and clearer but honestly, I'm not sure I would have chalked that up to a production team's choice if I didn't already know about it. The cinematography and directorial choices that distracted me more were the arty ones--like the rain falling upwards, or the slo-mo shots to indicate the desperate loneliness of the characters--but I'm not put off by them. I'm simply not sure yet if they add anything to the drama or not.

The only part I didn't quite catch is how Woo-joo so easily scored an assistant job at a struggling company when her last job was at a pharmacy. I thought for a moment that the woman who hired her was the wife of her sister's jerk boyfriend, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

Additionally, I kept hoping during the bank confrontation scene that Woo-joo would point out to the woman that even if her sister *had* known her boyfriend was in a committed relationship that boyfriend is the one who deserves the brunt of her rage, not the sister. It's typical in a lot of media to place outsize blame on the woman when a man cheats, but it was still frustrating that no one said anything to suggest they hold this particular man responsible for the choice he made to lie and deceive the women with whom he's in a relationship. It was similar with the stepmom/mistress. Yes, she seems like an awful person, and it's not like Woo-joo doesn't hate her father, too, but this whole notion that Hae-ee "took" (i.e. seduced) this man away from his family--as if he had no agency of his own--was a constant, grating theme.

As for Dong-jin, based on the first episode alone, I'm not as clear on the reasons for his misery as I am about Woo-joo's. I liked the flinch he made when his mother tried to ruffle his hair; it spoke volumes about his contempt for her, and also, the self-loathing that must at least in part drive his desire to resist being comforted. I can see that he's a decent enough person that he'd likely be horrified to know how his mother came by that money, but it's hard to say for sure if he would have rejected it under those circumstances, either.

As for the performances, I did marvel at how far LSK has come. She was very green...

I need to go to the dark side and watch this pink drama asap.
I heard there is a brooding shower scene!! Why no screenshot dramaddictally???

Are we quite sure it's the disgruntled employee attacking the ML at the end of Episode 2? I even went back to rewatch the last scene after reading the recap; I still think it's a different face, build and voice. Looks like something else is going on to me =\

I quite liked it. It wasn't crazy with revenge or makjang, which I liked. I kinda liked all the characters.

So, we don't know if Dong-jin is a biological son of the father or if he was from her earlier marriage? I coudn't tell.

I am more angry with the father than the mistress. I get it that he was smitten and left his wife. But abandoning his children was awful. The fact that he didn't even leave the house for the kids was cruel. Unless, the mistress faked the document and took it illegally, because no one ever asked for proof of will and worse, they didn't contact/consult a lawyer.

The pink filter bothers me in the outdoor shots. esp KYK's crisp white shirts are pink.

Sung Joon's hair - It looked great in the pics, not so great in the drama. Needs conditioning.

Just who thought that excessive pink filter was a good idea?

I have just finished both episodes and liked it a lot, and the palette is not bothering me at all.
I wonder how long it will take until our leads find out who the other is.
And I'm also interested on knowing the reasons Hajee kept the house when the drama made us believe he had sold it and was using that money to help her son.

I really enjoyed the first 2 episodes- so much so I went back and watched both episodes - which never happens in my world! So now I’ve got my fingers crossed that it will continue, at least as good as it has started but preferably getting better with each new episode. And by the end I hope our heroine and our hero are married and have moved back into the family home. The best friend has seen how wonderful the older sister is and they are hooked up and happily ever aftering. The brother has passed his exams, the business partner can buy an even cuter baby to drive. And the evil mother and the mean-spirited aunties have all contracted Covid19 and died. And all without the slightest whiff of a murdery subplot!!! (PS has covid even made it into kdrama land yet?) And has Nam Ki-ae ever played a nice mum? Every time I see her in a new drama I cringe 😬 she is certainly very good at playing thoroughly unlikeable mothers……

i dont get the pink filter at all, im gonna stick to weecaps for now

I'm intrigued. This one could be really interesting. I usually tend to avoid melodramas and I'm also not a fan of revenge plots but I decided to give this show a chance for the ever-watchable LSK and KYK (who was utterly adorable in Hello, Me!). For now, I definitely appreciate that the more melo aspects of the narrative feel mostly grounded in reality. Obviously, things might change once the Evil Stepmother and/or the Mysterious Ex-Girlfriend arrive to make things hard for our two leads but even then, I'm willing to be patient as long as they are more than your typical cardboard cutout clichés.

Sidenote: If the best friend character is not mainly there to pine for WJ (and then, in the end, to settle for her sister), I will die from happiness. The short scene in which he used WJ as a fake girlfriend didn't seem to carry any romantic undertones but, who knows, how things might change once he's no longer the most important (not blood-related) man in WJ's life...

So this isn't the type of drama I typically go for, but the premise and artsy/moody teasers piqued my interest. I'm surprised at how much I'm enjoying it so far. It reminds me of the beginning of My Mister, but less... unrelentingly bleak. There were some nice lighter moments here with Dong-jin's partner, plus Woo-joo's siblings and longtime friend. Side note: please, show - can we just have a nice, supportive male-female friendship that doesn't get shoehorned into a love triangle? Just this once? Pretty please?

I liked the cinematography overall, but I'm mixed about the color palette. At times it works well and it's really pretty, but other times I found it distracting. It's interesting that the director was going for a warm sunset feel since to me it created this cool, distant vibe instead.

Anyway, whether I stick with this drama or not depends on just how much melodrama it's going to throw my way, but so far I'm liking these characters a lot, and am looking forward to watching their relationship develop.

Only for LSK will I add another drama to my too long media list. Be back tomorrow.

Slowburn character driven dramas are the ones I find myself enjoying the most. And I've been waiting for something like that to come out since the last episode of My Liberation Notes aired back in May, but nothing has really met my expectations until now. I love that, at least so far, characters seem human enough, which makes it easier to relate and sympathise with them

That house has been used in so many KDramas right? It looks very familiar but just can't remember which shows it was in.

It remind me of My Ajusshi, with the angry, broken female lead watching the male lead from a step behind, in his shadow so to speak.

I loved the opening monologue about watching somebody from behind and the way in which the intersection of the deep melancholy blue and the pink filter caused shadows the characters were always walking into. I particularly liked how the male lead is seen mostly through glass, in reflections and turning away like a glass half darkly.

Yes the pink filter got a bit much when it wasn't intersecting with the blues; almost like a washed out flashback, like what was happening wasn't entirely real.

But mostly I have to say I loved it.

I'm here extremely late having just started this today. I am aware of how much Beanies liked this drama, having seen it mentioned many times in the past few weeks. However... I have to say were it not for such high recommendation I would not have made it even to the end of ep 2. It was such a dreary watch I was itching to turn it off. Finally I made it to the point where the real spy was discovered, but no scene of him being confronted and dismissed, so it seems that while our leads can now begin again (even if it is a somewhat uneasy relationship) any potential drama will be relentlessly downplayed in favour of tedious downbeat scenes. I'll see what episode 3 brings, but what is it that made so many people like this? It has absolutely no life in it at all!