OK, I kept crying until the end of the show...

I loved all the cast, the crew, all of the scenes and even the 10 kiss scenes, OMG! I hope this show won't disappointed me.

I am sold! The drama has managed to balance the fun, the seriousness and the sadness into two episodes. I am glad that the cast are more established and the disease part is revealed early in the drama, instead of waiting for later...

@unit Yaay! That was a hilarious recap befitting this fun drama. Your fan level is contagious and I love all the references to different shows!

As far as for me, I had a jolly good time with the premiere episodes. Among all the chaebol shows, this one had the most LOL moments because of the mockery on patriarchy. If people are worrird or disgusted by this kind of humour, they should talk to women in asian countries that are largely conservative and patriarchial socities. All the characters in the FL's family are exaggerated to ridicule power and money like the panic attacks experienced by Soo Cheol for wasting one million won🤣🤣🤣

I have watched only 1 show of Kim Ji Won and was never her fan, but she simply outshined everyone here by playing a detached character with a cool aura around her. Hae In was rude to her husband when asking to evict less profitable shops from the mall, but she is a business women first and foremost, so I do not see her actions to be as psychopathic as the FL from "It's Okay To Be Not Okay". I guess, she excepted Hyun Woo to be her safe spot, but both have failed in their respective roles as spouse, but I am leaning more towards misunderstanding on Hyun Woo's side because he seems to be a character who acts on assumptio. Case in point was the start of their love story where he thought she was a poor intern.

I also feel they are playing with male ego because Hae In's grandpa got outsmarted by his girlfriend during the game and Hyun Woo mentioned he expected to marry a working woman, but he can settle for the useless and poor intern.

Surprise me in a good way, show!

@unit Below had me going LOL. Great recap!

*Wipes happy tears from my seat in the audience — and then swoons and almost dies from the sweetness of their honeymoon montage.*

the only solution is for him to get a divorce. (I’d have recommended the Queen of Divorce team to him, but those guys are terrible at their job.)

The Queens may rule Seoul, but in Yongdu-ri, Hyun-woo’s family and their 35 cows are kings.

Sigh. Like her husband, my good sis also has the “save me” plea written on her forehead — but with a pencil.

But unofficially, I’m here for my weekly dose of oppa, Hae-in’s outfits, and the meta of cameos, reunions, and dramaverse crossovers.

@Unit dear, we love you and support you and cheer you, always and forever!! No apologies required. ❤️🫰Thanks for some perfectly selected screencaps. I’m sure if you had your way the whole recap would be you (and us) squeeing over the pictures. 😊

*ahem* As per reliable sources there were 14 kisses in the honeymoon montage. We hope to “see” them all. 🫣

Haha … thanks for the CLOY reminders. There were some fun easter eggs. Just waiting for the scented candle held aloft now. 🥰

I want to know who is the psychiatrist’s wife you hung up the phone on his saranghae. 😂

I don’t know how I feel about this “dying” business and his “reaction” to it so I won’t comment on it for now. But I really appreciate your comment about not taking sides as yet and how this is a storytelling choice. This is such an amazing perspective to see the drama. That is precisely why we all love DB recaps.

Did I say this before … I love you @Unit and I wish we have a genuine super awesome drama (and Oppa) to bond over this time round! 😘

I chanted "Divorce, divorce, divorce!" through the whole first episode. I'm on Hyun-woo's side. He is suffocating in that chaebol family. His friends and family encouraging him to stay married is no different than encouraging a domestic violence victim to stay with their abuser. Except for his mom, they don't care about his happiness or well-being at all. Therefore, I have no moral quandaries about Hyun-woo celebrating Hae-in's death, especially because he isn't after her money. This is his only way out and not end up dead at the hands of her mafia family.

Queen of Tears is an all-out black comedy. I don't see any rom or com. Nearly every character is unlikable. I don't feel sorry for Hae-in even if she loves Hyun-woo deep down or over her terminal illness, but I did feel bad about her vile mother playing favorites with her spoilt younger brother and suing her own daughter.

I love Moon Tae-yu. Yang-ki is my favorite character. I'm so glad that Hyun-woo has someone (besides psychiatrist Oh Jung-se) to confide in. I loled when Yang-ki tried to shake Hyun-woo's hand to congratulate him. I burst out laughing every time our Crash Landing assistant and insurance agent duo Ko Kyu-pil and Im Chul-soo tailed Hyun-woo. Eun-sung is a villain? I thought that Park Sung-hoon was just going to play the second lead. It was hilarious when Eun-sung saw through Hyun-woo's lack of interest toward Hae-in and Hyun-woo said to himself, "How did he know?"

This drama makes a great argument against ever getting married. Thanks a ton for recapping our oppa's new drama, @Unit!

I haven't watched episode yet. So thank you for the recaps before watching. Although I feel a bit cheated that I'm reading before watching it.

Honestly, I was ready to tear Hae-in apart. Not until she came for her younger brother's head and warned him to steer clear of her husband. I wondered why she didn't cover for him when they were gathering. And I reasoned that perhaps she didn't want to reveal a weakness of hers to the entire family. Better let them know individually than as a collection all at once. That scene in episode 1 was what calmed me down about Hae-in. But episode 2 did the job of pulling the rug off my feet. At this point, I'm all for watching them more as a united front, with each POV lending perspective at each end.

I love Hyun-woo's mom already. The rest of the family - they're a warm version of Queens.

I squeed when I recognized Im Chul-soo and Go Gyu-pil as scandal prevention team. That is a combination. And it is already funny enough without considering the meta surrounding the cameos.

I don't like Hyun-woo's turn of actions in episode 2. I'll have to sit through it when I get down to watch it though. But I'm sure he's going to turn back and be right on track.

About the unusually long hour of episode 2... I sat through almost two hours each of episodes 10-12 in Hospital Playlist 2. This one is chicken change compared to that.

I'm officially joining the Kim Soo-hyun fanclub. I watched You From Another Star at a time when I wasn't all that concerned about who's acting on TV. To finally witness the acting prowess of his that's always talked about, I'm already a member of the fanclub.

That last minute slide as the ML stood in front of her was legit hot!! 🥵 Thump thump … my heart flutters even when he’s not drunk er, … make that especially when he is not drunk. Although I must admit that scene was really admirably well done. 👍 👏

I had no particular hopes for this show. In fact, after reading the initial wave of beanie reactions, I set them to negative, adding a black comedy lens before I started watching. And I’m glad because with that reset, I quite enjoyed parts of QoT.

I probably ought not to have laughed at Hyun-woo’s divorce dilemma turning into a death dilemma… Yeah, probably, but these grey characters and even darker humor are working for me.

And as mentioned, switching up the POVs is working well to balance our alignment with the leads. I remember how cold Hae-in seemed at the elevator at the end of Episode 1 from Hyun-woo’s perspective. While Episode 2 showed how angry he seemed from her perspective at a vulnerable moment for her. Otherwise, it would be too easy to side with the poor, crying boy over the rich, ice princess. We needed to dirty him up a bit.

Sadly, there was also quite a bit that didn’t work for me: their flat romantic backstory, the heavily filtered and sanitized settings, the exhausting family members, some under-acting and some over-acting, and, that very unrealistic CGI boar! Tho that hunt really reminded of sageuks. Their whole family setup feels like palace politics. Shudder.

Anyhow, let’s see how it goes. I’m definitely tuning in for the next episode.

Great recap, @unit, and like you, I am smiling from ear to ear with KSH's return. So much to enjoy in these episodes - but the crossovers from other dramas stood out for me. How much I enjoyed the CLOY duo's reappearance (although Im Chul-soo will forever be Agent Ahn to me...) and Moon Sang Tae's reappearance as a psychiatrist was brilliant (the BTS for that one has to be comedy gold!)

The Hong family are suitably bonkers and I loved the fact that we have every family-member trope going from the unhinged aunt to the grandfather's younger girlfriend. Kwak Dong-yeon once again shines in a stellar cast - he's just all in in every role he undertakes, and so believable! Going to need that family tree, though, to keep abreast of who's who... The montage of all the male married-in members complaining after the memorial service was equally hilarious and painful - and I loved the repeated references to the family trying to keep living as royalty. Such an effective way to capture and summarise their essence - and the more I thought about it, the more I saw it 😄

I need to understand Hae-in a bit more in eps 3 and 4 as I'm struggling to understand her arctic treatment of Hyun-woo, but I fully expect to be enlightened. I'm in, and eagerly anticipating weekends for the next couple of months.

As always, I went into this drama completely unprepared, having only watched a trailer shortly beforehand. So I had no expectations and was absolutely pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed the first two episodes. I love the black humour and hope that it continues throughout all the episodes.

It usually takes me a long time to recognise all the members of an extended family and to find out how they relate to each other, as I'm mostly not particularly interested in that. Here I already have a very good overview because I find the characters so interesting.

I'm already looking forward to the next episodes.

now that I can finally type without spoiling.....

I did NOT sign up for a terminal illness! Dead heroine at the end is even worse than 'male lead forced off-planet for years at a time' or 'can see each other only once a year' and I'm going to be so, so bad-tempered at episode 16? 20? if that's how this shakes out BUT this is Park Ji-eun and not a melo so I have hope.

That said, I loved these first two episodes minus one thing and I'm almost nervous because what are the odds the rest of the drama can live up to it?? But with this cast and this writer, they're good odds (contd.)

Hyun-woo, Hae-in and Soo-Cheol have a lot of flaws but the actors are so good that I can't help to love them anway.

Hyun-Woo doesn't need Solution team, he went to Seoul University and he's competent.

Hae-In's choice is kinda weird. I understand she's in denial. But she has 3 months to live and her goal is to make the mall bigger, but it will be her family who will profit of it. So she will overwork for them? I wish she didn't drive... I mean she had "episode" of hallucination without any control of her part.

i didn't realize how much i've missed Kim Soo Hyun!! he had me in stitches -- the man simply does NOT AGE! they look good together, i am very much liking this drama!

Weirdly enough, the second episode drastically changed were I stand with the leads. Hae In doesn't seem to have changed with how (confused but) receptive she is of her husband's affection. It seems like the one who opted out of that relationship is Hyun Woo. So far, it seems like he stopped liking her after witnessing & experiencing her leadership style. Hae In doesn't make dumb business decisions like her brother, but I also don't think she is particularly good at her job. She is definitely not the most moral one. At a certain point, I was chanting "eat the rich" in my head.

On another note, I feel like I am somehow too sensitive for the recent kdramas. This is strange, because I mostly have a sensitivity of the brick. Still, I was a bit too on edge about throwing objectively terrible friend at the abusive husband in MMH, because the domestic violence against women just feels wrong regardless of who the women is, and now, I am on edge at the dude celebrating his wife's terminal illness, because at its core, she is still the person who he married for love and such an absence of sympathy is terrifying.

finally something beautiful! it recalls the series of the golden period 2018-2022

I love Oppa, but/and I didn't see him being cute when he was drunk, which in itself was hilarious, because he referred to exactly that claim about himself. "I was always cute, everybody said so, she said I was cute when I am drunk". And he dares not go home in that state, because "I am too cute when I am drunk, WAAAAHHH".
I have heard some say that his crying is always exaggerated, because they only the respect the "single tear brimming, overflowing and then running down a cheek" kind of crying, but I have always felt Kim Soo-hyun was someone who could cry realistically like an unhappy person.
In this case, though, he looks horrible while doing so, and it's on purpose, a satire on the fandom objectification of his moods. While one feels with him in his predicament (not only the family patriark, but also the Crazy Ex-Sister-in-Law of the century show a frightening perspective on leaving that family), his open-mouthed self-pitying wailing is while complaining about his own cuteness (Starting, even more hilariously, with Soo-hyun demonstrating his cute-drunk ability, making his (character's) friend saying "What was that? You make my heart flutter!").
In "It's Okay ... " he told his friend that his brother was always watching him and that he had to control his facial features, always, to not spread panic in his brother, in case he saw hints of anger, annoyance, or fear, in his face.
In this drama, he is in front of the mirror again, slowly forcing a not very creditable look of sorrow to appear on his face.
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What I like about it, everything has double meaning. I laughed a lot. Kim Soo-hyun how long not to see you 😘

So far I liked the first two episodes although the humor felt a bit off ( not a fan of making comedy out of terminal illness) . However, the trope reversal was fun to watch & I'm loving Kim Ji Eun's aura in this. I hope they end the gallows humour soon so that I can warm up to KSH's character a bit more.

I am on the fence about this one. Gorgeous actors, gorgeous production values (although the Netflix polished look makes me a bit wary these days). The main weakness for me is that even if the differing points of views, the relationship and marriage seemed to have started out on misunderstandings—the first epilogue (her point of view) may have hinted that she loved him but didn’t really reveal much depth and the second epilogue where Hyun Woo describes his love for her was based on the illusion that she was a hapless intern instead of an intern who didn’t care her performance because it wasn’t important. I didn’t even see a whirlwind (unless a helicopter counts) romance and rush of initial attraction as a basis. So I am not that invested in them as a couple (or people) yet. Seeing the show as a black comedy may be the best lens for this, but I don’t feel it on that level. Oddly, I don’t hate it either.

For this writer, she likes inevitable separation plots—North/South Korea, alien/earthling, etc.— terminal illness/death is the latest. Somehow meeting periodically crossing these divides seems to be her solution to the endings. Maybe she can resolve this in an Adonis/Persephone manner and have a River Styx crossing for a few months of the year. The show has an Adonis and Persephone is the Queen (of the Underworld), so the set up is there.

Enjoying this, despite the marathon episode lengths! I think we're in good hands with this write and cast. Standouts for me so far are Kim Ji Won, Park Sung Hoon and Kwak Dong Yeon.

Obsessed with how ugly the interior design and styling of the Queen family is?! Also, the choice to style Hae In's mother with that single strand of hair down the middle of her face - what is with that?

"My oppa is back in dramaland, he’s in his suit era, and his forehead appears a lot more times than it did in his last few roles."

No worries, I AM WITH YOU 😆🫶🏼✨

Can we agree that even though a bereaved parent will mourn their child forever in what may seem to others "unreasonable" ways, there is just no excuse for blaming another child (his older sister?)
That leniency called upon with the line: "Don't expect me to be reasonable", should not include hating our FL.