The humor, especially with the friends, just didn’t land. At least for me.
Bang Eun Ju taking the magazine x assignment AND stealing Sam Dal’s work for it was sickening. Hope this drama doesn’t go much darker.
So much wasted seaweed at the end of episode 4 😂😂
The FL getting black out drunk trope is bad enough normally and I wish it would be banned forever, but twice in the same episode?
I like the eldest sister and the chaebol ex. I feel like that will develop into a better story.
I like the way they’re telling the story, with the epilogues telling the back story in dribs and drabs

Thanks for the recaps quirkycase.
Sadly, I found these episodes a chore to get through.
I wanted to like this for JCW but I'm just not feeling it. 
There are too many plot points that irk me, the overacting and cringe factor is high. 
Why would a strong, successful businesswoman who has spent years building such a great career not stand her ground and defend herself? She runs back to her hometown, tail between her legs and then proceeds to spend her time consuming vast amounts of alcohol, getting ridiculously drunk and acting like a spoiled, whiny brat. 
It's hard to believe that the whole of Jeju is so fixated on her when she hasn't lived there for years.
Her behaviour in some of the flashbacks with the male lead comes across as cold and selfish. It's really hard to like or feel sympathy for her. 
The show gives me very strong Bora, Deborah vibes because of the amount of alcohol the character drinks and scenes where the FL is drunk/shown at her worst, which is a high percentage of plot line so far. I don't have it in me to watch Bora Deborah 2.0.
 C'est la vie Wookie, you're too good for her. 

Yong-pil is setting the bar too high. Ji Chang-wook's eyes are fatal to my heart.
Loved the scenes of the five childhood friends and how Sam-dal's drunken habits tortures them.😂😂😂
Also, I screamed in joy when the eldest sister's ex-husband appeared. I love this actor.

Sam-dal is frustrating. She'd rather be the bad guy and hated than look (in her eyes) pathetic. Also, what on earth went on with that breakup? Did someone text her that wasn't her? Is that why her mom and Yong-pil's dad hate each other?

The flashbacks are cute but I want to see Sam-dal more into Yong-pil. Right now I feel like he was always more into her than she was into him, which I know isn't true but the drama needs to show more of that imo.

I'm really excited because I didn't know the sisters would be getting their own romances. I'm already super into Jin-dal's romance, even though it was just a few scenes! It sounds like she was terminated from the airline (probably for exposing the chaebol family's corruption) and the union was fighting it, but now they decided not to?

I seriously refuse to believe that the Korean public is THAT into this story about Sam-dal, but I'm willing to suspend my disbelief for the sake of the plot.

I wish they'd stop with the drinking. I feel like I'm watching Bo-ra Deborah again where I'm growing concerned for them as a mental health professional, lol.

I liked Sam-Dal in the first episode. I don't like her anymore. She limits everything to her success or failure. She ignored her friend during her success and now she judges them thinking they are mocking her before they could say anything. She's so mean with Yong-pil who only tried to respect her space and accepted every lies she told him.

I don't understand why they made a mystery of the 4th friend...

Bang Eun Ju is in for a rude and nasty awakening. It is one thing to believe in yourself, it is something else entirely to not recognize the areas you need work in. I can't wait until she fails, awful woman.

As for Samdal and her merry troop of men, they are really cute and their chemistry is great. It is very obvious Sang Do has a crush on her, but alas... as for Yong Pil,sigh, when JCW turns on his puppy dog eyes it is a wrap. I really appreciate how realistic their embarrassment is, both as former friends and former exes. I don't like the drunkness but it makes more sense here than in other dramas. I can't wait to get to the romance.

I just hope the alcohol consumption will decrease with all the high-strung yelling. In my head, the best way to make this show great is for Sam Dal to heal with her family, friends, and neighbors and then take a fantastic series of pictures in Jeju, and diver ladies with their way of life. I would be more interested in those than portraits of famous people.
My favorite character is Sang Do. His smile is just priceless.

I had high expectations for this one and I tried to liked the first 2 episodes, but I'm not sure anymore. Sam-dal is so selfish and annoying . Now and even in the past. Also her drinking 20 cans of beer every time is not funny at all. The humor was really hard to watch. Some acts were so random. Mom's running is ridiculous. Two leads reactions to each other are weird. I'm mostly watching for the other two sisters story. Please! I really want to like it more!

I really do not know what to make of this drama because some parts are sweet and good (like the 4 friends making Eun U's birthday less lonely in Seoul, the confession in epilogue 4, daughters whinning about having to work), but at other times I am increasingly frustrated with both the leads. Both the actors are doing heavy lifting, but unfortunately the writing is not helping their characters. Yes, they are flawed individuals and their past as friends/exes make their interactions awkward, but they appear juvenile.

I dislike Yong Pil attending Sam Dal ex-bf's call and then going to pester her with questions about his supposed treatment and then forcing her into admitting she lied out of embarassment. Clearly this guy does not know boundaries.

Sam Dal, on the other hand worries too much about keeping up her image than thinking of solutions to handle her situation. Sure, she can try to relax in Jeju, but neither the islanders, her friends nor her alcoholic addiction is helping her and she is only turning into an even bigger fool. Only her dad and sisters seem to be supporting her, but her mom is the absolute worst out of all in Jeju. Not only did she bother to have a conversation with her vexed daughter, but she also publicly shamed her by revealing about her personal issues.

I also detest Gyeong Tae because his characterisation as a tactless person is not funny and I do not even know how he survived so far without getting beaten by others for his silly remarks.

I do not even need this to be like "Hometown Cha Cha Cha", but I do not find any healing in this drama or emotional sensitivity between the characters.

The seaweed scene was poorly directed and I can already predict that Sam Dal's mom is feeling guilty for not saving Yong Pil's mom during one of their underwater harvesting acivity.

I am giving one more episode before I drop it for good. Sorry Shin Hye Sun!

I downloaded both the episodes this weekend to watch on a 3 hour flight, and I wish I hadn't.. lol. It was too chaotic, loud and repetitive for me and made me wish that I had downloaded some other drama.

I was so sold on this drama before it aired and really wanted to like it. I still haven't given up, but I can't take one more episode of Sam Dal trying to hide from everyone and just acting like a teen throwing tantrum. I understand what has happened to her is life changing, but I find her way of handling it very childish. I am really just so done with all the drinking too.

The drama shines during the quiet moments, that 10 second time when Sam Dal gives up pretending and actually speaks honestly. I wish we had more of that and less of the slapstick drunk comedy.

Both the leads are doing their best, but I don't know what to make of their characters yet. Since it is marketed as a healing drama, I am hoping the character growth is going to be large for all of them, but I can't wait for the drama to get to that part. I was reminded of Bo Ra, Deborah too, like other beanies have pointed out, but I liked Bo Ra because I binge watched it after it finished airing and I skipped many scenes until I got to the part where the heroine wasn't being very pathetic. We understand that is the story here, but we don't want 6 episodes of every villager finding out Sam Dal is back, one by one.

Agreed with everything my fellow beanies said.

Highlights of ep 3 and 4:
1. Jin-dal's middle finger when she saw her ex on the billboard
2. Jin-dal pushing all the AXS (?) beer cans to the back of the fridge, which I assumed are her ex's company's products?
3. How handsome Wookie looks these episodes.

Other than that, Sam-dal is over-the-top, so are the other friends and the village residents.

I really liked Shin Hye Sun in Stranger and was heartbroken about what happened to her character there, but I'm liking her character less and less here. And what's with the way she speaks? It's like she has something in her mouth, which I remember not noticing in her other shows.

Samdal’s friends assumed the worst when they should have asked her the question to her if the allegations were true. In one way it was like when some friendships fade away over time; but the close ones pick up where they left off like only a day had passed by. But here, as kids Samdal was the tom-boy in the guys group. That’s how they continue to treat her.

It seems the kimchi slap has grown into the seaweed battle royal. You could tell the actors really enjoyed that long sequence. These two episodes focused on the quirkiness of the village, the secret fears of the family and embarrassing lies people tell each other. But the story seems to have stalled - - - like Samdal being stuck in her house and how other people, especially strangers, feel about her. The back stories are coming out slowly like a dripping faucet. Nothing will happen until Samdal takes the bull by the horns and regains her reputation (and self-confidence and self-esteem).

Thanks for the recap.

I did understand Sam Dal as a character in ep 4, but the way the story is told isn't that great.
A lot of FF was needed to get through the episodes.
I don't like how the friends have to 'narrate' what happened in the past. This kind of takes away any need for the actors to act and for us audiences to guess what is the dynamic between them.
The epilogues are a nice way to show the past and wish they had just used that to go to the past instead of having one of the friend explain things to us audience.
Even their friendship at times feels shoehorned rather than being natural.

Having said that, I like it when the leads interact. They both have enough pull to make the chemistry work. There is a lot we can sense even when nothing is said. I wish the show focuses more on this and more interactions with her friends.

I don't find healer ahjumma's marathon (or whatever it is called) funny. The random falling/collapsing after drinking isnt funny either.

I am curious about the elder sister and the ex. That has a lot of potential!!

And oh my, the beer!! Come on, 40 cans of beer in a night is NOT funny.

Let me start off by saying ‘Ditto!’ to the comments above. SAMDAL-RI is on thin ice with me. I hope the ship can straighten out for smoother sailing.

O/T somewhat. Along with the casting of JCW, I thought Shin Hye-sun would be perfect in this drama. That was based on her performance in the true ‘healing drama’ THIRTY BUT SEVENTEEN (2018) (Viki US, highly recommend).
In 30B17, SHS’s character wakes up from a coma at 30 having gone into the coma at 17. 13 lost years. As a high school student she was a budding musician (violin) with college and probably a professional career ahead of her. Part of the story was, can her dream still come true? (I don’t recall any drinking but being a kdrama there must have been some.)
In SAMDAL-RI, SHS’s character is (mid 30s?) is at the peak of her career as a professional photographer when it all comes crashing down. Will she be able to return to the heights from which she fell? Well all I can say is she better sober/straighten up and get a plan together.

Another thought: what is the assistant photographer's game plan? At some point she's gonna run out of Sam-dal's designs and have to rely on her own skills, which it doesn't sound like are up to snuff. Or is she convinced that she's amazing and gonna rock it (then why did you steal Sam-dal's designs, girl?)

Loving the vibes of this drama so far, it's hilarious, Ji Changwook is such a sweetheart in this, and Shin Hyesun is such a good actress—the way she broke down was so realistic; hoping I continue to like it

I have to apologize in advance, because there is something about this show that is so irritating to me that I'm just going to have to keep watching it and write nasty comments about it throughout its whole run, unless it gets so bad that I can't take it anymore.
I believe I find this show irritating because
its the unlikeable characters as leads.
Or could it be the unlikeable supporting characters?
Or could it be even though all the main characters are in their 30s, they act like teenagers?
Or could it be that the sisters are being portrayed as dangerous alcoholics, drinking more than 6-8 (are those 500 ml cans?) of beer each a night, and we are supposed to find that funny?
Or could it be the ridiculous plot set up, that instead of showing a rural small town in heavily agricultural area place, it has the small town in tourist destination, making its fixed population where everyone gossips about everyone else completely unlikely?
Or could it be that the neighborhood is being portrayed as so tiny that they have single community dog, that they leave chained up in the town square?
Or that the show has all of Korea talking for days and days of a photographer -- a photographer!--who bullied her assistant?
Or that it has the photographer willing to have her career destroyed by not explaining the context for the incriminating recording that has hundreds writing "Just Die" on the internet because she would find it too embarrassing?
Or that its such a big story that a journalist has been assigned to pursue it?
Or that the former husband of one of the sisters would not recognize the small town which he visited with his ex-wife, to probably stay with her family?

This is one show which I hope ends in a bittersweet fashion, where all the human characters get stuck in their tiny town doing the only work available to them, harvesting seaweed for year after year (it would be good to show a time skip, have them in their 70s-80s, still weakly throwing sea weed at each other, unable to throw the sea weed far enough to even reach the other person, so it just falls in the middle between them. ) Meanwhile I would like the community dog to be adopted by a tourist and taken to Seoul, where she becomes the star of a series of pet food commercials!

I'm not gonna talk about Sam Dal because everyone in Seoul and Jeju already did that. So all the other characters:

1. I don't like Yong Pil. He acts like he doesn't know Sam Dal, at all. That woman is all about pride and image! The best he could've done for her, since he is still obsessed with her after eight years, was to LEAVE HER ALONE.
But nah, he decided to put salt on her wound.

And I just can't stop thinking of all the things that could've gone wrong with him taking her call. What if that guy tells miss snake that Sam Dal was cheating on him? What if she uses that against Sam Dal too? Just WHY would you answer your EX'S PHONE when her "boyfriend" calls? WTF is that? And then show the questions he asked San Dal... I just want this guy to shut up.

2. The mom's reaction was so weird I had a discussion about it with my mom LOL.

Everyone had to tell her like five times that Sam Dal didn't do it. She just wouldn't believe them. The worst part is that she didn't even ask her. Sam Dal had to tell her out of frustration! Then she didn't even ask how was Sam Dal feeling, she decided to embarrassed her by going out jogging! Of course the whole island is talking garbage about your daughter! You're literally announcing that you're disappointed in her! Also, you're the first one that didn't believe in her!

And no, Sam Dal doesn't need to go around giving explanations to the whole neighborhood and telling them her business. Does anyone in this show actually know Sam Dal?

3. Gyeong Tae... do you call yourself a friend? You shouldn't say something like that even as a freaking joke. I had the context and I still didn't think it was sweet. I had the same reaction Sam Dal had.

4. I like the sisters. I want more of them.

5. I don't want a love triangle. I already have a hard time with the whole "haven't dated anyone for eight years because of his obsession with his ex" ML, I don't want another one. Give that guy his own romance, please.

I so wanted to like this drama, but it's just so frustrating. There is still too much yelling, too much drinking and not enough heart. And what I like is still the quiet stuff--the acting between the OTP when he asked her how she was doing and there was probably a full minute of silence but a whole lot of emotions between them, that was great.

The drinking still continues to be a big problem. The way the sisters drink (maybe not the youngest as she remains a mystery other than she is a single mom) is so problematic. SamDal apparently is a years long blackout drunk--it's widely known among her friends when she goes into the blackout zone, a blank stare followed by "Who are you?" Also, the older sister is also binge drinker. Even the preview for next week has her asking for a ton of liquor so she can drunk for days. The problem in the show is that I don't think the drama is portraying the drinking as a serious issue as much as it is supposed be funny. Are we supposed to be charmed that a 9-year old calls out her aunt for her nasty drinking problem? I find that sad that the child has to witness that and live with people who deal with life that way. (A side note: can we get more on the youngest sister and her daughter? Otherwise, a 9-year old as the Greek chorus about drinking is just a cloying plot device.) Even the scarf confession was done when she was passed out drunk--Yong Pil just dances around while she is passed out on the street. Are we supposed to find that romantic?? At least in My Liberation Notes, we knew that Mr. Gu had a serious alcohol problem and it was not romanticized as a good thing or his way to express his true emotions. I am not a prude about drinking, but the way they portray drinking in this show is not cute or funny.

I also realized that I don't like Samdal yet. I know she worked hard to get to where she was, and I am sympathetic to her unjust downfall. But other people in her life have worked very hard, including her mom who still dives. She seems selfish to me. She may not have bullied her assistant, but from what we have seen she was not a good mentor. She never once has been shown to be thinking about other people's well being. Yong Pil is always looking after her--leaving medicine, asking her how she is--but other than saving him from drowning, which I give her credit for, she hasn't been sensitive to others. She comes home and begrudges hanging up the laundry because of her pride. She has a massive seaweed fight, which was funny to watch for a hot second, but in fact was incredibly disrespectful to the haenyo, including her mother who must be at least into her 60s, who risk their lives everyday to earn a living.

This show has so much promise and so many good actors. The excessiveness--the drinking, the yelling, the childishness of grown ups-- seems insulting to the viewer's intelligence and a waste of such potential. Please calm down and do better.

I thought I'd be in the minority with my opinions but reading over all the Beanie comments, apparently I'm not at all!

I'm struggling to properly articulate how I feel about this drama, because even using the FF button quite liberally this week, there are elements that really make my eye twitch:

- The use of alcoholism as a comedy prop
- Bang Eun-ju's existence
- The fact that we haven't really moved too much in terms of the story despite it being ep 4 now
- The fact that Yong-pil is so hung up on Sam-dal and she's quite mean to him still; she's not my favourite character but I understand Sam-dal to an extent and Yong-pil, I do get not being over an ex, but it's to an extent sometimes where the scales feel too unbalanced and he's still really hung up on her/willing to do whatever for her despite her behaviour. Idk set some boundaries man, where's that self respect!
- Just general disappointment because I really like both JCW and SHS but I'm not gelling with this show as much as I wanted to

Buuuuut, there's small things here and there that I do like, like the dynamics of the friendship between the boys, some of the comedy and also the rapport between the OTP at times when they're bickering. I think actually what I am liking is the natural-ness that the cast is bringing to the story, which makes the friendships, banter and just general dialogue seem really real. So I don't like the show overall per se, I'm not exactly rooting for the OTP (or anyone for that matter) but I don't feel inclined to drop just yet - I think I'll take the middle ground of continuing to FF through episodes each week and call it a day!

I did not like the sisters. The youngest is 29 so how come all of them behaving like 13 !Drinking heavily with a child! I also did not get into 'friendship' of the group the drama tries to sell heavily with so many meaningless flashbacks!

I am late to the party since my holiday coincided with this show’s release date but I had to come in to this week’s recap to share how much I am loving Welcome to Samdalri. I particularly like the epilogues we get each week, which remind me of the dramas like Fight for my way. As we get to know more of the friendship between the five childhood friends and about each of the three sisters it reminds me of the best bits of of Reply 1988 for the childhood friends and Our Blues for the community mixed elements of having your back one moment and gossiping about you the next.

I don’t like the excessive drinking it really feels like adult PPL is alcohol and cigarettes in the ensemble slice of life dramas these days. It feels tokenistic to add shots of people drinking to excess and being physically unwell or becoming aggressive as they emphasise it as weaknesses in those individuals who can’t hold their drink. The scene where all the boys rush in to protect Samdalri from hurting herself when she fell down unconscious was sweet as two of the boys just have platonic feelings for her so it shows they are genuinely sweet people and it’s not something that only main leads do for their damsel in distress.

I do love Yongpil’s relationship with Samdal’s mum. It’s great seeing Sazal Mahmud in more dramas and this type of role that could easily have been played by a Korean actor could be the beginning of more open casting choices for the foreign actors especially those of colour. In these kind of roles where he is a normal character he is doing much better than many of the white actors who tend to present as amateurs every scene they are in, usually due to the typecasting of the part their role plays in the storyline.

I am hopeful that I will get to enjoy this drama to the end as the main characters are doing such a great job in holding my interest with normal every day events.

I like it a lot, though I still have reservations. I felt a bit discombobulated watching this because I was expecting to meet the village and be thrown into more ensemble storytelling, but so far, it's mostly the two leads and about Sam-dal uselessly holding onto the last shreds of her pride.

Sam-dal's pride can be frustrating, but I totally get it. This isn't a simple scandal. It's a ruination of her decades-long dream and a stain on the reputations of her family. And it didn't help that she basically spent her first 18 years going "I'm going leave this place. I'm destined for bigger things!" And Shin Hye-sun has a way of acting that can make me feel a character's raw pain and vulnerability even as I want to yell at her.

I hope we can get to Sam-dal's healing soon. 4 episodes of licking your wounds and guzzling beer are enough. I know some of those drinking scenes are past flashbacks, but there was just too much drinking overall.

And I feel heartbroken for the mother even as I am frustrated by her too. It can't be easy seeing your kids fail when they should be thriving in their 30s and be subject to gossip in their neighborhood.

Oldest sis makes me LOL. Her giving the middle finger to her ex's ridiculous billboard and moving his family's beer to the back of the drinks fridge is the pettiness I enjoy. I love how they casted Yang Kyung-won as the ex.

Also the chaebol brand- AS- makes me want to add an extra S at the end.

I always do wonder why it seems, I may be wrong but perhaps commentaters from perhaps the Western side of the world like to write comments that state adult kdrama characters tend to behave in immature and childlike manners that seems misaligned to expectations on real life adults of certain age to act like.

Perhaps, if one becomes somewhat an adult but perhaps was less exposed to many social conditions that may enhance one’s maturity level but if not might retain some childlike tendency, Western commentaters seem to conclude this is too surreal for adults to behave like.

Perhaps if you been thru certain life experiences that may be considered as adulting, then maybe it can be a point for one to reach adult like level maturity.

Perhaps this is rooted in the major difference between some Asian societies and the experiences its people share while growing up in an Asian country vs perhaps an Asian person or Westerner living and experiencing life in a Western country.

Back to this drama, I do find it weird K-netizens would be so interested in to me at most 1/4 celebrity photographer and the amounts the kdrama characters drink it a wonder related cancers are not sky high there. But I am still waiting for the characters to spark and see some juicy past loving scenes between the leads.

Did anybody catch her saying "I should be able to find a better man than you" implying that she cannot.

After reading through Beanies' reactions here to Sam-Dal, it seems like I'm in the tiny minority who doesn't have a bad impression of Sam-Dal. I think the writer has given her a lot of room to grow as a character given that she's basically starting out at what is possibly the lowest point in her professional life. And I'm pretty sure that pretty much every adult had secretly wished at some point when things are really bad that we could just have a tantrum and let it all out and hide away for a while. While I didn't like the copious imbibing of alcohol that she did - Girl, you're gonna kill yo' liver! - I can understand why she did it to escape or let off steam (some people drink, some people take drugs, some people overdo it with exercise, some people eat their feelings). When she cried about people not listening to her side and/or believing her, I empathised with that.

The one I absolutely CANNOT stand in this is Rich Mean Girl Bang Eun-Ju. I have come across people like her in the course of my working life. They would resort to all sorts of dirty methods to take down anyone they see as their opposition instead of focusing on actually building their skills and career. I do abhor Machievellians like her because they have no ethics and they have a sociopathic mean streak. I hope the writer gives Meanie Bang her just deserts in the end by having it all blowback in her sulky chaebol scion face.

As for Yong-Pil, the show seems to be taking its sweet time getting the character launched. Sure we see him and his past with Sam-Dal. We get a sense of him - solid, gentle, kind, and a little eccentric. But we haven't yet seen what he's capable of as a ML in this rom-com. Given that it's Ji Chang-Wook, I find that extra weird given that he's such a good actor. It's the writing, I think. The PD and writer needs to speed things up. (I didn't like that Yong-Pil answered Sam-Dal's phone but I did like that he took her cheating lily-livered ex to task).

As for the small town gossip and everybody-knows-everybody thing? I think the show did a good job of portraying what it's like in that kind of environment. Heh. I grew up in a town about the size of Jeju Island and boy did most people know all the goings-on thanks to chatterboxes at the market, the hairdresser, the only posh club in town etc. So I didn't find it strange that Sam-Dal would have to face all that. As for the big deal that the Jeju folk made about kids going to Seoul to try to make their fortune? It also feels familiar. In fact, every kid from my hometown who could flee after high school graduation did exactly that whether it was move to the capital for work, go to uni, or go abroad.

Having said all that, I think there are some pacing problems at this early point in the series. We're 25% of the way through the series so hopefully it gets better.

This drama has spent the first 4 episodes repeating the same thing over and over “why was my assistant mean to me” and then everyone getting drunk…over and over again. It is a waste of excellent talents which is what most annoys me. I just watched the next town episodes , which, in my opinion, could have happened 2 episodes ago. 5-6 end with her basically giving up her career? I mean — argh. Sure, look for more meaning. Don’t work and think that’s all there is to life. Don’t lose yourself, or your roots. Keep the people who believe in you around you…these are all good things for a drama to show. But coping by drinking until you pass out? Barging into a meeting to confront the person you have on TAPE stealing your work and ask her “was I really mean to you” without revealing what actually happened….ugh. Babbling, it’s later here and I am just needing to spew.

The drinking in this one is way overdone even for Kdrama standards. I did giggle at older sister's "reorganization" of the beer cans in the store fridge.

Pet care in Kdramas frequently upsets me. In SK is it typical for dogs to be kept on short heavy-looking chains attached to doghouses and mostly ignored? And cats to be wandering strays? Sorry if I'm getting episodes wrong but the idea that mama cats will abandon kittens if people touch them is ridiculous and well understood even many years ago. Those same kittens are shown years later as adults still hanging around outdoors, in all weather. Do Koreans not care much about companion animals?

Ep3
I really liked the scene where Yong Pil just asked her ‘’ Are you okay ‘’ something none of her '' friends '' asked they just wanted to know if the rumours were true or not. The rush of emotions that Samdal felt, I think Yong Pil was the only person that really asked her how she was holding up and whether she was alright or not, such a beautiful scene.

The whole part where Samdal just broke down in tears in front of her childhood friends was so sad, she had been keeping a strong front for so long but with everything she couldn’t take it anymore and broke down saying people who don’t deserve an explanation are asking for one and the people who deserve an explanation aren’t asking for one. I felt really bad for Samdal even when she was fighting with the neighbourhood dog and with herself on whether she was a failure or not poor girl needs a hug.

The funny moments that made up for the heart-breaking ones were the ones, after saving Yong pil from drowning, I loved how cutely Samdal stuck around to return his finger guns back, I think for a brief moment Samdal really forgot all her worries and problems and show how good Samdal and Yong Pil are together. The whole fight about the neighbourhood dog, Mr Queen really came out in that Yah.

Ep 4
I really like the Samdal biting Yong Pil was funny ( can see what they named the dog after her ) and was really sweet to see how Yong Pil was slowly falling in love with Samdal. The whole drunk Samdal scene at the beginning of the episode was great, how can someone look so cute, and the whole ‘’ Who are you ‘’ the grabbing of the Kim Tae hee cut-out and carrying it around like it’s her best friend the whole sequence was hilarious. The Seaweed fight was funny but all I could think about at the back of my mind was how much seaweed was getting wasted after all the hard work the Haenyeo took in collecting them. I loved how petty Jin dal is when it comes to AS group, from flipping off her Ex husbands billboard to hiding their products in supermarkets, she is quickly becoming my favourite character in the show.

Man the villager gossip mill there is no winning with these people, no what information comes out Samdal will always end up as the bad guy. Really goes to show there is no point in pleasing everyone because they are forever going to find faults in you. As usual whenever Bang Eun ju appears on screen my blood pressure spikes, does her shamelessness hold no bounds.