This is honestly my one of favourite drama airing rn :)

It started off positive, with the two *communicating* and clearing up why he stood her up. Then it became so tragic. I felt so bad for Mo-eun this week! She looks so disappointed he didn't come in for coffee, she was desperately trying to get him to go *anywhere* with her, and then she gets politely rejected via notebook.
Later on, there's the brutal scene with the gig she was so excited for... Her face was *so* red from the repeated slaps, it looked so dehumanizing.

Shin Hyun-bin is genuinely such a good actress and she solidified that idea for me with these two episodes. Her 'trying to be upbeat while being on the verge of tears" voice when she's on the phone with her mom, her face crumpling as she holds onto Jin-woo... Very moving and amazing acting.

I can understand why Mo-eun opens up to Jin-woo. The man has the most understanding, gentle face ever, with very non-judgemental vibes. He should have been a therapist tbh.

I was cheering when he showed up to her performance and gave her that encouragement. And yes, it's not a kdrama if there's no romantic umbrella scene but these two have so much quiet chemistry, it was really sweet. I look forward to Jin-woo slowly bringing down his walls and Mo-eun gaining confidence through each other's support.

Yes, there's two storm clouds on the horizon. The inevitable love triangle with Johan, who really annoyed me this episode, and the angsty reveal about what exactly went down with Jin-woo and his ex in college. We saw the drunk gallery guy show up and cruelly blame Jin-woo for happened to his ex in the fire. I'm surprised the recap didn't mention this.

Thank you for your lovely recap Dramaddictlly.
This is one of those shows where I wish the episodes were longer, I  love everything about it so much. 
The leads are amazing.
That last scene where she is frozen on stage, sees him as the only person in the room and he communicates. WOW, I applaud the actors, director etc for brilliantly executing the scene. It was so powerful, total utter silence but his communication to her seemed so loud. It made me cry, it was just so beautiful.
The sound track suits the show so well. 
Roll on next week, It's hard to wait for the next episodes.  

Did we learn how Jin Woo he became mute? He did talk with his friends at the orphanage at the beginning of Ep 3.

I knew it was a rejection letter the moment they began having the conversation. But, I was more tense because while I knew what Jin-woo would end up saying, I just didn't know when he'd drop the bomb. So I was on the edge of my seat for all of that letter writing.

How to break up with someone without dating and breaking up with someone, Jin-woo taught that in this week's episode.

I thought he didn't respond quickly because he was seeing the messages but not reacting to them. So I think it was especially poignant that he was actually dealing with a sad situation at the time. But the whole exchange raised on question in me. What if Jin-woo hadn't showed up? One major part of me was praying he wouldn't show up because his phone was dead thanks to the mood that enveloped him after the other guy in the bar said some very not nice but things that gave me insight into Jin-woo's character. So he was just too wrapped up in the mood that he forgot to charge his phone and so he didn't get the message until the next day. Still, I liked the direction TMYLM took instead.

I was very sure that Mo-dam was Jaden. Poor Ji-yu. She wasn't informed. She should have looked before leaping.

Yo-han. I admire his work ethic. Interpreting the song without having practiced it doesn't give you a pass to just breeze through my song.
"Tell his manager to clear his schedule and have him practice. If he doesn't, I'll pull him off the song". I liked this sentence a lot. Holding the artist responsible for a job well done or not done well.
Haonha, he interrupted a dinner date Jin-woo was planning to have with Jin-woo and that's where I paused my watch to come comment here on DB. Why did he do that🌝? I hope his action sparks some fire in Jin-woo cause I was pained for Jin-woo. One of his fears was actually playing out in front of him. Anyways, I look forward to what changes in Jin-woo.

And the backstory about Seok-kyung, seems like some crazy ominous thing is brewing in there when third guy said Jin-woo hid behind his disability. I'll keep my thoughts wrapped until I learn more about this situation.

Ahhhh I want to watch this! I finally found a place besides Disney+ that I can watch it! Saving for the holiday season <3
I've come to despise Disney and I refuse to give them my money, even for a kdrama. :)

Episode 3 confirms that each lead has one best friend that can tell them straight what is wrong with them. Jin-woo’s orphanage friend who runs the bar knows him so well that he can make him smile, a rarity in his social life. Mo-Eun’s roommate is carefree but practical so she can help foster ME’s dream while keeping her grounded in the big picture of life. We learn that JW lost his hearing due to a high fever, and that he is haunted by the fact he, because of his disability, could not hear Seo-Kyung’s screaming his name during a fire. We know that JW has put up emotional barriers around himself because he feels he is an outcast. Likewise, ME feels that herself is the barrier for being an outcast in her acting career. Her film casting was realistically brutal. The lead actress’ consoling was good but did not make ME feel better.

There is such balance and subtlety in the characters outward emotions and contact between each other. ME feels she offended JW but his letter indicates his shy insecurity around normal people, especially women who take interest (in his mind maybe pity) in him.

Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. It hit home for JW going to the funeral of the orphan girl who only dreamed of one day going to a normal school, so he painted a mural of her outside the school gate. Powerful. ME is still trying to grasp her own jumbled and conflicted feelings of trying to reach her dream as an actress. She learns that it is OK to make a mistake, even a Freudian slip, to someone who will really, really listen to her when she is down. Episode 4 was about listening to others, but also listening to your own heart. A lesson often overlooked in our smartphone dependent lives.

The series continues to have long pauses to reflect like an indie film but also the depth of many layers of a Renaissance master’s painting.

Yeah. I am probably dropping the show. On a different show recap one of the beanies commented that they are tired of grown adults acting like children. That is exactly how I felt watching the third episode. Jin Woo is an adult, who has a full time job and is capable of living alone. For him to reject a woman in her late 20's assuming that she does not know what she is getting into felt a bit ... insulting? infantilizing? Maybe it is just me having watched Twinkling Watermelon and seeing Cheong Ah deal with her disability in a more matured way.

Thanks for the weecap, @dramaddictally! :)

I really like the show.

It’s true that some scenes didn’t feel that organic to me (you know, tropes staring us in our faces, e.g., back hug / crying, meeting again working opposite one another in a big city like Seoul), but somehow the whole show feels organic, and as @welh640 suggested, like a very beautiful and intricate painting. Maybe because I can relate to parts of ME? Maybe to parts of JW? I love that apart from everything that I felt manufactured or inorganic, the relationship that is blooming between the OTP feels organic, and that is one major win in my book. Add to that superb acting from both, I’m a happy clam.

I love the FL’s acting. Like Beans said here, she nails this role. She is vulnerable and strong, shy and a bit innocent, but at the same time straight-forward and brave. She looks like a real person irl that has a bit of everything. Her character has a good heart, and that’s why it’s easy to buy the idea that she likes to be around, or like JW a little more than friends. There is some comforting and understanding aura about JW that makes her feel better about her life and struggles.

JW’s acting is just superb. I can’t imagine how much time an actor needs to practice in order to nail those sign language gestures. He has been doing a lot of homework, and his devotion and effort he put into the project shows in how believable JW looks to me. He is insecure. His shoulders normally drop. He guards himself from others to be considerate but also to not get to attached to them and get hurt. When he wants attention, he thumps his fist on to a table top to gain attention. He tries not to be rude, but being hearing-impaired he sometimes needs to do things that make him look rude to others.

I love all these small gestures and details the show shows. As one Beanie commented in the earlier thread, as this is a quiet show and has much fewer dialogues, the acting, the directing, the cinematography, the editing played the major role in making us understand how the characters feel. I just think it’s a marvelous thing to have such drama that is so unique.

Continue to look forward to seeing next eps :))