I think I had tears in my eyes for the entirety of both these episodes 😭

I also didn't realise just how tense I was while all the secrets were being unravelled till the end of episode 13, when Dongjin reached out to hug Woojoo and the immediate 'whoosh' of my body relaxing in immediate response was what made me go wow, I must've really been on edge. I don't really know if I've got anything meaningful to contribute this week because really this show just makes you feel so much, so deeply and it takes a lot of time to process that afterwards, and I'm still in the midst of doing that. Not often I feel so contemplative and struck speechless by a drama, so I'm in awe and in gratitude of the entire team - cast, crew, director, writers - for gifting us with such a beautiful story.

Is it too early to say this a drama has landed safely? I don't think it is too early, this past week I reckon was the last milestone for the writing to cross, and it was nothing short of excellent. Hoping for a happily ever after, and given how they’ve marketed this as a healing drama, I hope we (and the characters) do get one! Unless they massively and monumentally screw things up somehow in the last two episodes - which I very, very highly doubt - this will definitely be in my top 10 for the year ❤️

I prayed for one thing to play out exactly as this or that and it did play out - Dong-jin's reaction to Woo-joo's identity. I hoped that he wouldn't reel back in shock and feeling betrayed. I liked that he kept the aftermath of everything in focus and not the fact that she came to him with a clear ulterior motive. l loved Dong-jin all over again for his rationality. And while I envisaged it, it didn't stop the look Woo-joo and I had on our faces when he responded to her confessions. If angels are human, Dong-jin will be one this week.

I'd be jealous of Woo-joo too if I'm Hye-sung. That loyalty at the risk of anything is hard to come by and boy! I'll take a step back if my person shares such a loyalty with my sibling. There are things I cannot fight. This is one of them. So I understood Hye-sung's point of view in all this. And I'm glad Jun did the needful.

They're moving out. I can see Jun's space crumble before him already. It feels like a judge's sentence than just moving out.

@dramaddictally I had tears in reading your recap - such is the effect of this drama on me and thanks for your well thought out recap.

Dong-jin is indeed an angel @jerrykuvira. There are two deeply moving scenes in these latest episode. First, Woo-Jo’s confession and then Joon’s telling her sister that WJ has the hardest. I love that hug which is so needed between DJ and WJ. And we all want to have a friend like Joon.

I too feel we are heading to a safe landing. Four more days to go.

One scene that touched me a lot besides the ending scene is the one where Dong-jin hugged Woo-joo after she told him the truth. He is the perfect boyfriend and human material.

Both of them love and care for each more than they care about what happens to them. Although Woo-joo started all of that for the house, she now chose to give it up if it means Dong-jin's happiness. While Dong-jin doesn't hesitate to hand over the will to Woo-joo so she can retrieve her inheritance.

Can I say that I hate Woo-joo's family, especially her sister these episodes? Hye-sung has lived her life the way she wants. I understand her shock but couldn't she have tried to understand Woo-joo a little more? The slap scene and telling the truth to the mother and brother were infuriating to me. I wanted her to give Woo-joo the chance to choose what she wants for probably the first time. The girl has done a lot for you already, can't you do the same?

As the man, Dong-jin calls his uncle says, Dong-jin isn't his mother's son but an individual himself. So, why can't Woo-joo's family judge him separately from his mother? He has suffered a lot already from his mother's schemes and it is unfair to punish him for her wrongdoings.

Argh! The heartache. So good. Is that strange to say? Well, it's a romantic melo, I signed up for nothing less.

I found these episodes really well done as mentioned in the recap, but somethings not as much:

I felt a little letdown by Jun's character. I get that he's disapproves of WJ's actions (rightly so) and is getting closer to HS, but that reveal wasn't the action of a best friend and inconsistent to the loyalty of his character. Moreover, his care and concern went to HS in the aftermath, not to WJ who was falling apart. (I didn't have any issues with SW telling DJ tho. His loyalty lies with his friend. But telling MY? Yeah, not cool. Luckily, I don't think they're end-game.)

I understood HS' shock and anger. (Tho the slapping was too much, esp. when she thought WJ was "only" guilty of having an affair. HS has made plenty of romantic mistakes herself.) I'd be upset as well, not only is DJ Heeja's son, WJ has betrayed them too.

But ugh, I didn't like that HS' reaction was colored by her jealousy of WJ-Jun's friendship. Yes, I'd wish to be more important to the man I liked than my sibling is, and yes, jealousy is deeply irrational, but to act on it the way she does? At least in the case of WJ, we saw her slowly slip-sliding into wrongly loving DJ, but HJ has been interested in Jun for what, a hot minute? And how long have WJ-Jun been best friends? And then to cut Jun out of all of their lives so abruptly? When she knows they're his found family? It felt very much like her earlier breakup. One "mistake," snip, snip and run.

Well, I guess the best I can say is that she's emotionally honest, and also flawed like us all. But I'm sorry the writers decided that HS, who we'd started to understand, who'd begun to mature, regressed in the interest of drama angst. I hope we don't end with this romantic pairing, but rather a recovery of their friendship, unless the drama pulls off something unexpected and earned for HS.

Wasn't the brother's reaction a nice surprise? And actually, the mother's too, while strong, was relatively subdued. No typical histrionics. Or was it that the drama didn't show it? In general, I don't understand why some moments aren't shown in full. For example, it was good to finally see a little glimpse of our OTP's time camping. But I think it would have been smarter to show it earlier. More moments of their happiness would have lightened the incessant angst, made the relationship more precious to them (and us viewers). And by making the tent scene a wistful flashback, they instead just added to angst.

I've found LSK's acting lacking nuance at times, but I think in these episodes that single note worked. How could she be anything but guilty/remorseful/heartbroken/miserable. She did wrong, she knows it and is willing to pay penance. It's consistent with the drama's view of the fallacy of revenge. And DJ's response was exactly what I'd expected based on his character and...

One thing that broke my heart these episodes was the family's reaction to Dong-jin. I mean, they have interacted with him several times independent of who he is related to and see he is a good guy.
However, their strong emotions just shows they haven't moved on from the hurt their father left years ago. They have just been existing not living their lives. In fact I think Woo-joo is in a much better place for confronting her emotions about the whole affair and is moving on from it.

Also, I actually thought Hye-sung would be the most understanding of Woo-joo since she is always looking for love but we got the complete opposite, which means she never really understood love and its complications as she said she did. Then again, she let's things fizzle out in her relationships without dealing with them. So I guess not.

The Shims do perpetuate loneliness and when the "steady rock" needed them, they just left her alone. I know it is the usual for them, but this is killing Woo-joo the more. The loneliness.

And Dong-jin is a sweetheart. His EQ most be through the roof.
I do hope before the Shims are around him again, they learn to see him for himself. Man spent the whole series leaving the apologetic box he was trapped in and to be stuck in there again because of a family that doesn't want to move forward? He deserves better.
My disappointment with the Shims actually comes from the love I have for them. They need to start dealing with their problems head on.

Thank you for the recap, @dramaddictally !

This week was a significant improvement on last week's eps, and I was happy with the comeback. I still don't see a clean resolution, though, because the discovery of the will / and return of good title, etc., is not going to address the elephant in the room, i.e., the Evil Mother. The only way out I can see a satisfactory closure would be if something super far out happens, like (a) it turns out she and DJ are not blood related; or (b) she dies. All of this seems unlikely.

Other than that, I appreciated the range of emotions shown by the Shim family - how Unnie goes from misinformation to clarity; how dongsaeng goes from ignorance to sympathy; how mom transitions from shock to quiet anger, and even Jun (because he's practically family) - how he remains steadfast bff to WJ. Jun has really blossomed into a 3d character in these last few eps.

Regardless of how it ends, now, though, open, or HEA, or not, I'm rating this a Darn Good Show.

Woo Joo and Dong Jin, what a relationship for the ages. I actually understand her family's reaction. Dong Jin's mother helped to destroyed their family. This is not disregarding her trashy father. The promising future Woo Joo had as an archer destroyed, albeit from her own action, but as a direct result of the affair. The mother getting cancer afterward and the kids needing help to care for her. That is trauma. Poor Ji Gu, not growing up with a father. I get it. Hye Sung had the best reaction outside of the slapping of course. Her heart broke for her sister who she understood took on the burden of caring for all of them. She wants her sister to love, that is also why she wants them to move. Goodness what a show. I am curious how the writers are going to wrap this up, but I hope they end up together happy and healed. They both deserve it.

I expected nothing less from Dong Jin 💙
And that hug was everything.

These two! I love how strong their bond is. Wishing the other to be happy and fighting her own family for his peace and happiness shows how much she knows of his life and suffering. I am so glad she told her mom what she wanted.

Hyesung- I hated that slap. Of all the people she should know her sister would never have an affair with a married man, knowingly. I felt she lashed out on WJ and Joon this episode due to her own insecurities. I really don’t think Joon and her should be a couple even though the show is hinting it. She needs to be alone and spend some time on herself.

I liked how he spoke supporting WJ. He knew how much pain she was in. There is an understanding between these two that I like. And I appreciate the show for giving us a real friendship between these two. I wish we had more scenes of them.

I have a feeling Dong Jin will go meet WJ’s mom and apologise and return the house to her. I don’t see any reason mom will push him away after this. She already knows how much WJ cares for him and how he is also a victim.

So, so good. This drama continues to captivate and delight. The return of the slumped back after the break-up hug… heartbreaking.
But there is one thing that is increasingly bugging me, and that’s that both DJ and WJ look in desperate need of a good feed. Have they been starving them on set? They are both looking so skinny-brittle that I just want to feed them both a good lasagna or chocolate cake!

I just cried again reading the weecap after crying a bucket watching this week’s truth reveal.
By the way, love everyone’s take so far!

Ep14 got me hoping for a HEA. My heart would break otherwise for this two characters I have learned ro like/love. His Mom is awful I am not disputing that but he is not his Mom. He is his own person who is deserving of his own happiness. Same with WooJoo.

As much as I wanted--and truly believed would happen for much of the show--Donjin to already have figured the truth out on his own, his reaction was completely in-line with his character. I also agree with Dramaddictally that there was some solace for him and us in the fact that this time around he wasn't abandoned and betrayed; he knows that Woo-joo loves him, and if he even waivered for a second, that ending scene would have sealed it for him. In fact, seeing the two of them trying to pull off a "Gift of the Magi" (each sacrificing something because they want to give a gift to the other) was an absolutely perfect way to end this arc of revelation and pain.

My other favorite moment was a very small, but satisfying one--Jigu slowly backing away after hearing Hae-sung tell Jun she wanted him to see her as a woman. That was, perhaps, the only slightly humorous moment in the entire two episodes and it was so needed.

I do understand where the family is coming from in their anger at Woo-joo and demand that she never see Dong-jin again. For people who have never adequately dealt with their own trauma over their father's poor choices, and for whom silently acknowledging each other's pain is the ultimate sign of love, it makes sense that they not only are so furious at Woo-joo but also that they are resisting any reality that means they will have to continue to acknowledge out loud and grapple with the root of that anger.

Nevertheless, I struggled to fully empathize with the family feeling entitled to tell Woo-joo who she can and cannot love. I mean, I know that if my husband cheated on me with one of my friends, left me and my son, and then years later my adult son fell in love with that friend's adult child (who also happens to be a wonderful, innocent person in all this), I would be upset and uncomfortable. My first impulse would be to shut down and then hope for it not to be reality, because seeing them together--and having to deal again with that friend who hurt me--would be extremely hard. At the same time, I believe I would know and accept that I would have no right to tell my son he couldn't be with the person he loves, or that he was wrong for wanting that. Plus, I don't think I could bear seeing him going through that heartache, especially if this was the first time (as it is with Woo-joo) that he's emerged from his own shell of pain to let himself love someone.

So, yeah, I admit that although the mom and the siblings are written with great sensitivity and depth, I did not like the underlying message of their actions, namely that being part of a family means suffering because a) your parents made mistakes and/or b) alleviating that suffering might make someone else in your family deal with feelings they don't like.

I was, however, so glad to see Dong-jin and Woo-joo have that moment where they held and comforted each other. It was so cathartic after all that tension and fear surrounding the reveal to see Woo-joo...

That scene where Woo-joo is telling her mother she doesn't want to get revenge over the house is the reason for this show's existence. That's the premise behind everything, that revenge is not good and it hurts the revenger as much if not more than the revengee. Even the love story is secondary to that message.

I don't expect a happy ending without a significant time jump. And we've got two episodes left.

Great episode!

Like many of you, I am very disappointed in the reaction of WJ’s family to DJ’s heritage. I only wish someone had acknowledged something to the effect, “DJ is such a good man. How can it be Heeja’s son?” Just something that acknowledged the good they saw/see in him.

DJ allowed WJ’s brother to stay in his home when the boy had nowhere to go. WJ’s sister and mother had decided he was a good guy and had practically adopted him into the family. Now with one bit of biological info, DJ goes from good man to “that woman’s son.” I am so disappointed in them. I’m going to need all three of them to apologize profusely before this show ends.

DJ so gets WJ. I loved when he told her “that’s not who you are.” He “sees” her and knows her, maybe even more than she knows herself. And with all that sees and knows, he loves her. I think WJ trusts his love because she’s come to trust him as a man of integrity, so unlike her father. I believe DJ has given her back the safety and security that comes with family that her father took when he left them. She now has a safe harbor with DJ.

DJ also has a safe harbor with WJ. WJ has personally experienced the ball of terror that is his mom and yet she loves him. She fell in love with him knowing who his mother was. For someone like DJ who has tried to hide his mother most of his life, WJ’s love gives him a safety and comfort that he has not experienced before.

I don’t see anything but a HEA for DJ and WJ, but I don’t about the families. I see DJ and WJ leaving town together in a camper and maybe one day running the campground that DJ’s uncle owns. I no longer want WJ’s sister to end up with Jun; she’s too immature to be in a relationship. Her changed attitude towards DJ really changed my opinion of her.

I can’t wait for the final two episodes. Tuesday at 11pm can’t come soon enough.

One thing I loved about My Ajusshi - and I have no qualms at this point in making the comparison between these two shows - is that at its core it was a celebration of kindness.

Portrayed so often as a weakness, it was instead Dong-hoon's kindness that was his greatest strength. My Ajusshi celebrated kindness, community and love and that's what made that show transcendentally beautiful. And while Call I Love is possibly not quite there in terms of being a masterpiece (I'm calling it - the pink filter was a bit of a misstep), it has that same core message about the ascendance of kindness that makes watching it so comforting.

I also love how this show celebrates inaction as much as action. That we all have a desire to do something to make ourselves feel in control and yet it can be far more powerful to not do anything at all but to simply sit still and let the waves crash around you. But also that it's okay to act when and if those waves are threatening to drown you.

Like @pickle I felt last week's episodes were not as good and I was a bit worried. But I thought this week's episodes were exquisitely, stunningly, breathtakingly beautiful. And yes I mean that in a visual sense as much as anything else. In fact (pink filter aside) this may be the most physically beautiful drama I've ever seen. Each shot is a masterpiece in microcosm.

Fingers crossed for the finale...

I haven't cried for a Drama since the two heroes were killed in DOTS and it was my first Drama EVER and I had been warned (incorrectly thank goodness) that Kdramas often killed their heroes and heroines. I went to bed in tears and woke in the night in tears and swore I would never shed a tear again for a Drama but yes - this one got me completely - it was absolutely utterly heartbreaking. The acting is outstanding.

However, as an African, I don't understand why Dongjin should be blamed for his mother's behaviour without the family first enquiring into the precise circumstances. Children don't choose their parents, any more than parents choose the children they have. Nice people don't necessarily have nice parents, and vice versa. OF COURSE you would much rather the people your children marry have nice parents too. No parent parts with a child in marriage (or whatever) without a good, hard look at the family into which they are marrying.

One of the great strengths and beauty of the Korean Culture is the whole issue of the way families look after each other, something that, tragically, is becoming less and less important in Western culture. But in this drama the son didn't even know what his mother had done and is completely innocent - if Dongjin is punished for his mother's behaviour, and incidentally Woojoo deprived of her chance of happiness with a man who is absolutely perfect for her, who gains? The horrible Mother's behaviour has now ruined two more lives including her own son. And the sister needs to be a lot less self-centred, too. Ok, rant over! And please please let's have a happy ending! 20-21 nearly finished me off!

In comments on previous episodes there were several posters who couldn't understand why Woo-joo kept acting so distraught. It was because she she could foresee the events of these two episodes coming like a train in the night and she knew she was helpless to avoid it. To her this wasn't a romance story, it was a Greek tragedy. I'm still 50/50 on whether this'll get a everybody-happy ending. Maybe she'll meet him on Jeju island eight years from now.

In theory, I can understand Woo Joo's actions. In practice, however, I am mostly annoyed with her - however big her father's betrayal on her family was - woman, you're thirty years old, everyone around you has been living their life the way they want for a while now - why keep the truth hidden for so long? You'll be hurting the man you love and your family the more you drag it out, so what exactly is your reason for doing so? Because personally, I think that if it were me, I couldn't bear to keep the truth from Dong Jin since the moment I found out that he's not the bad guy.

I agreed with Woo Joo on her last line...they still can be happy if they don't have the house back, isn't it? I know most people will fight for their inheritence, but fairly it is just a material world.
For me, that house might hold good memories of the family (before 20 yrs ago) but it has already so much bitter memories (even though it might be only to one of the sibiling and not all of them). If it was me, I will be like Woo Joo. Just let go the house, but in proper legal way. No need to bind again those place with their life.

A great drama until now, and sincerely wish for a great closure (I saw the picture thumbnail on ep 14 that both DJ and WJ be able to sitting again together ❤️). Although I against two traumatic people to be together, but they both deserve their own happiness, whatever that term will be.

Oh, what an ending. That final scene... Can't wait for the recap.

(Hope I'm not violating any rules. Wasn't sure where to post.)

THANK YOU beanies for enhancing my viewing experience. Your comments and insights are thought-provoking. I find it difficult to understand the cultural canon of filial duty.

I continue to wonder about the hurt all three Shim children experienced from the sins of the father, yet, the drama hasn't really explored the interactions of Dong-Jin with any of the boyfriends except camper Dad. What happened to DJ's biological father?

Big events can and DO isolate family members from each other and/or others in real life. Families can destroy lovers when they cross "enemy lines" so it is important that our leads do recognize this obstacle. I think a HEA is possible for our leads, but not necessarily for everyone.

I'm not sure I'm onboard with the implied "romance" between HS & Jun, but he seems lost without the drama and connection in his life. Waiting to see what the writers have in store.