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‘’Should I buy my mother a vibrator?’’
Is the most iconic line I’ve heard in a kdrama 😂

Actually buying said item for her mother, blew my mind 🤯

I think this the first time I’m seeing Jeon Hye-jin!? Wow she’s got screen presence and not to mention she’s gorgeous!

Okay so unpopular opinion but here me out, Jae-won is clearly older than Jin-hee and he’s her boss/superior at work.

So what if, what if, instead of a romance between them, we get a romance between Jae-won and Eun-mi?? Jin-hee having Jae-won as her stepdad would be all sorts of hysterical! And bonus I get a Noona romance! Give me the messy drama show!

The humour works for me, but the cop aspect will most likely lead to the dreaded serial killer plot *sigh*

@Dramaddictally, I like your observation on how the mother and daughter have different perspectives on how they view their relationship. They are codependent for sure and I’m curious if or when each find a romantic partner, how that will effect their relationship

I don’t quite know how I feel about this yet. I might be the opposite of you, @dramaddictally, in that I would welcome a solid plot to drive us along. Slice-of-life really isn’t my thing, and while I did love some aspects of the mother-daughter relationship, other parts didn’t work as well for me.

Part of this is the fact that I haven’t quite warmed up to Eun-mi yet. I understand why she is the way she is, but every time I picture having a mother like her, it just stresses me out. I think my favorite part of their dynamic so far was when Jin-hee started compulsively cleaning and organizing, and even though Eun-mi complained about it the whole time, she knew enough and supported her daughter enough to join in.

Probably unsurprisingly, my fav bit so far is the relationship between Jin-hee and Jae-won, and I’m definitely interested enough in it and in the other aspects of the show to come back next week, so we’ll just have to see how things develop.

Thanks, @dramaddictally! My take was a little different - I was glad the second episode turned outward a bit because I found the mother-daughter focus claustrophobic. The raunchiness and the frank mentions of various sexual practices and proclivities caught me off guard, but establishing that sex is real and happens and is a continuing preoccupation even for (gasp!) 40+ women is a welcome development. The sexist scapegoating is enervating and so is Eun-mi so far; she’s a pretty unsympathetic person right now and I fear her shamelessness will not wear well. I hope this is yet another case of character-establishing behavior being exaggerated in the first episodes and she’ll become more nuanced, because otherwise this is going to be a FF-fest at best and Sooyoung and Park Sung-hoon deserve more - they have my full attention already.

Jae-won seems like a man who is not just angry but hurt, and I want to know how, and what Jin-hee had to do with it.

I had a similarly excited and anticipatory feeling after the first episode that then shifted into some mild irritation and disappointment by the end of the second. I agree that the show has some sharp writing, an intriguing central mother/daughter relationship, and a promising love/hate romantic set-up with the daughter and her sunbae. I didn't laugh out loud a lot, but I was often amused, and appreciated the "we all do it--or we should" use of masturbatory humor.

I started to get a little irritated, though, when the show shifted its focus to the story of the underwear thief. The plot needed a minor petty crime, but did that crime have to focus on a one-note pervert (which is how he was depicted) who likes to wear women's underwear? Frankly, when said pervert ranted about how society's biggest problem is that it can't get over a man doing something feminine (like wearing woman's underwear), I kindof agreed with him. But of course, that line was not meant to be serious and the whole escapade was just about plot and the development of the mom's character. Whereas the masturbation stuff at least felt somewhat relatable and funny, the sneering, thong-wearing thief gag just felt cheap and regressive to me.

But there were enough good moments in these first two episodes to keep me watching. I'm also interested in seeing where the bully story might be going.

I wish I was cool enough to find the sexual stuff funny, but it just made me uncomfortable. Other than that, I loved it. I loved how the perv outed himself by being disgusted that it was the mother's panties.
The mother daughter dynamic is cute, hope they do it well, and it doesnt get old.
I am hoping there is no long running criminal menace, I am looking forward to enjoying this one

I was wondering why this had a mature rating on Viki— got my answer pretty quickly lmao

Honestly, a lot of the humor didn't land for me (the running wedgie joke just gave me second hand embarrassment) but I don't mind the raunchiness. The Absolutely Fabulous comparison isn't turning out to be too far afield there

I'll wait and see how some of the plot develops before I form an opinion but I love the actors here and I'm digging their characters enough I want to keep watching. I like how, despite their conflicts and differences in personality, they're still very clearly related. For one, Jin-hee's definitely got a similar impulsive/ reckless streak as Eun-mi

Great cast. I mean a REALLY great cast. But, man, I wish they had been more selective picking scriptwriters. Yikes. Sooyoung is earning something of a reputation for doing dramas with great cast and mediocre scripts.

At least Jeon Hye-jin is giving it her all. Have I ever seen her in a comedy role? I suppose I have, a small part (her first role, I believe) as a schoolgirl in the 1999 film 'Lies', the most disturbingly transgressive mainstream movie I've ever seen. *Don't* look it up.

I really wanted to like this show, as I am a huge fan of the main leads.

Instead I dozed off mid-episode, because the show is plain boring.

It consists of two women constantly bickering with each other (and not in a funny way). There is not much to look at (they even managed to frumpify Park Sung-hoon). The main character Eun-mi is utterly unlikeable. She is not "immature", she is annoying other people to feel better about her own stupidity.

I am disappointed.

I don't agree with the recap. Both the mother and the daughter have issue. First, a lot of arguments were more bickering than real issues.

The mother is clearly not perfect but I don't think she was acting passive-aggressive (sometimes manipulative) with her daughter. She did it with the pervert to protect her daughter from him. I can understand she didn't want to live in the same building with a man who came in their house to steal panties.

The whole issue with Jin-hee who made a report about the abuse is missing. Jin-hee seems to think she's always right and clearly she's not. Even when she apologized, she gave a lesson to her chief...

I'm among those who liked the second episode better than the first.

I wasn't particularly convinced by the beginning, especially during the fight between the two women and the child. Everything seemed a bit like the production didn't have much money to spend.
But I kept watching mainly because of the lead actors and at some point it clicked. I like the humour for the most part and I'm glad it's not just about the relationship between mother and daughter.

As a fan of the enemy to lovers trope, I'm looking forward to seeing how the relationship between Jin-hee and Jae-won develops.

The ladies are nailing it!! Love them both in this role.
Personally I enjoyed the humor. I laughed quite a bit. I can see why this isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. The scene in the police station when the pervert realizes he stole the moms panties thinking it was the daughters had me in splits. That whole sequence was nuts (no pun intended).

Both of them thinking they are the pushover was defining their relationship accurately. They both are strong opinionated women and both think they have been yielding all along. They do it out of love and somehow have fallen into this pattern. I wonder if the daughter ever dated or was in a relationship?

I am waiting for the other male lead to show up. I don’t think the show will go serious on the crime. There might be some but it’s not the serial killer types. Or I hope.

I don’t know what to make of the 3 old ladies. Given that they are from the neighborhood I assume they will play a part outside the doctors office?

Dramaddictally, thanks for the recap !
I can not believe I have only seen Sooyoung once before in Cyrano Agency and that was so long ago.
I’ll continue to watch . The topics are different but the writing is a bit uneven.
The panty thief is a thief first and a pervert second and technically a burglar.
The shopping 📦 campaign to drive him out was over done in K drama style😐
Mom was/is a bit wild .
The cops are a strange bunch. The other female cop seems to run the place.
The clinic where mom works kind of works, the way she responds to the customer was, again, a bit over done 🙄
The trio of halmeonis and the Dr should be funny
I like the leads, they deserve a good story, I hope for the best.

I had a good time watching this drama. I love Jeon Hye Jin in this, she is so irreverent. She has good chemistry with Soo Young too. I don't mind the raunchiness, but the humor is up and down. I hope it gets better so I can have a great watch instead of just a good one.

Thanks, @dramaddictally, for this more-than-cogent recap that includes a reference to the “distractingly pretty bob” on Sooyoung (I got my haircut yesterday and thought, “if only…”) but also to the hand-wavy plot-holey-ness of this drama, “(something to do with nepotism and the commissioner’s son).”

I was very ready to love this show, and can tell it will not happen. I may “like it OK,” in the end, but for now I will not be able to get over the fact that—while some of this was unavoidable—the entire, central schtick is that the humor rests on an assumed, fundamental discomfort with the fact that a woman nearing 50 can not only be sexual but enjoy sex, all the while having a daughter very much old enough to do the same. If this doesn’t make you uncomfortable, then there’s nothing all that funny.

Except when Park Sung-hook gets flung into a wall during a petty tussle and hits it with some brilliant physical comedic timing. That was funny.

I love these two ladies and I think they have a lot of chemistry and potential to give us a funny and heartwarming story. I like the humour in general, but I think the pervert "storyline" went a bit too long. or at least it was not as consequential as I thought it would be so it didn't justify the screentime in my mind.

I don't like grumpy male characters in general so I'm not into jaewon at all for now, but I'm curious to see what happened in the police academy bcs his judgement or jinhee comes from way before the abused girl case. the police as a whole is annoying. but that's usual for Korean dramas lol

tldr: liked these two episodes, but feel like it dragged a little bit and that made me worried about the future lol

I liked it a lot. The characters, story, and humor worked for me. It's the first kdrama in a while that I will look forward to. Most of the current rom coms seem to be written for 15 year old girls, so they haven't held my interest

The first two episodes were ok. I laughed at some parts, while at some points the jokes fell flat. But the jury is still out. Hope to see the story between mother and daughter progress for the better.

Thanks for the recap.

I instantly fell for the mom-daughter relationship and I don't think they both are toxic to each other and need to grow up because if you live under the same roof that's how you act (most asian mom/daughter bicker the same way and care for each other, well, except for the sex part).

Jeon Hye Jin was excellent in "Uncle" kdrama as a caring and independent mom who struggled with alcohol abuse, but here she is not only strong, but also open-minded and quirky. Soo Young is as usual good and I am not looking forward to her romance with Park Sung Hoon because I haven't warmed up to his character. I do not get any discreet emotions apart from the grumpy attitude he has around Jin Hee.

This shows feels a lot similar to "Link: Eat, Love and Kill" when it comes to crimes against women and children. There was a dark humour that was lighting up the serious tone in that drama, but I do not know if the same can be expected here because at times the humour doesn't work. On the whole, I'm continuing the ride with this one.

In my experience 9 out of 10 dramas that start out 'edgy' will devolve into standard issue K-dramas by the halfway point. Its a disappointment of you like 'edgy', its a relief if 'edgy' gets on your nerves.

I had a great time with these two episodes. The humor doesn't always land for me, but I find the chaotic energy of the mother-daughter duo really makes this drama funny. I like how the drama almost comes off like reading a comic strip of random things that happen to this mother-daughter duo. I don't think the mom's past was depicted in a heartbreaking manner. The mom was in a gang of bullies and she had sex that one time with a guy she found attractive and got pregnant. She wasn't betrayed by a bf. Though, I wonder if they will add some heartbreaking moments later on since it must have been thought to be a single, pregnant teen.

Reunion of The Glory cast with Park Sung Hoon and Ahn So yo (cop here and the clothing shop assistant/former-bullying-victim in The Glory)!

That wedgie -- I could relate and commiserate. I had a terrible wedgie today wearing a pair of boyshorts underwear. Guess it was too loose around the thigh opening.