If there is one thing that has been consistent in the show, it’s the shows ability to make us not feeling anything for anyone. Nada. Zilch.
Thanks for the recap missvictrix! Yeah I had to replay and confirm that it was a death sentence!!!

This weeks episode was probably the better ones. It felt lot less choppy and I didn’t mind it.

Finally LJW was allowed to act. June’s turn was nice to watch (not suprisinf). hopefully the reminder of the drama has some good revenge and smart fighting.

What happened to Chairman’s heart problem???

They kind of telegraphed that In Ha was like this, but I still don't understand why Tae Ho attached himself to him. That still hasn't been explained. I get why In Ha wants Tae Ho, he needed someone to be his attack dog and it probably felt natural for him to have someone need him. Sigh, whatever.

Thanks for the weecap @missvictrix sorry it is proving such a chore.

Was it just me sweating as soon as Taeoh was put in prison that he would be in the same prison as his step dad or a member of the step dad’s gang. I was confused how he could be in a medical ward without a prison guard in the room and a prison doctor who had anything dodgy on their records is a no go so I was confused when the doctor was supposed to have had a drug habit.

So sad about his missed opportunity with his mum and wondered if it was the fact the visit would be recorded that lead to his refusal as he was worried that she would be at risk in some way.

I am glad I was proved right that Inha would always use Taeoh for what he wanted then dump him and could not see how Taeoh would ever benefit long term from helping Inha out. I was also concerned that the info that moved from the board to Taeoh’s apartment window is now readily available to anyone who goes to clear out his apartment now he is sacked and no longer has access to his place. Was that the apartment that the North Korean/Italian guy was going to when he was spotted by Inha so he went to the next floor up to spy on Inha going into the apartment?

I am glad they have got rid of Injoo as he was a really annoying character with no redeeming features.

Now I know that Lee Junyoung plays too many of these characters with APD (anti-social personality disorder) but I am kinda glad I was blissfully unaware of them when I first watched him in that drama with Hyeri.

I am genuinely starting to wonder if this show was written, at least partly, by ChatGPT. It has all the moving parts of a drama (except the FL’s never-moving face) but is missing the touch of genuine humanity. Whoever cast Lee Jae-wook and then directed him to be tight-lipped and repressed for most of the show should be prosecuted. He finally gets to show something more than calculating intensity, but it’s too late to save this - it’s hard to watch it even as unintentional comedy. I’m only staying for him and for Lee Jun-young glowering from under his eyebrows.

As I sit at my computer lit cigarette in right hand with left hand massaging my head as I tap my left foot as I agonize over this misery of a drama. I still maintain its not the worse because I wasn't invested in the characters enough but its certainly not good. I mean what a waste of Disney dollars. The one character that most of us are invested in only got 2 scenes ( if that ). Side note ( I honestly wonder if they are cutting Choi Hee Jee scenes because of her popularity which is way more than Hong Suzu. I had such high hopes for this drama and it has disappointed me so much. I get the director LOVES Hong Sozu and was gushing over her and people might think she is the next Song Hye Kyo ( WHICH SHE IS NOT). I can never forgive them for casting her. Sorry. Moving On because that topic is SPENT.

I think my problem with this drama is it had a good setup but its just SLOPPY.. SLOPPY with a capital S. I thought Han Tae Ho was a genius and there were WARNING SIGNS that Kang Inha was off... the punch on the beach, the need of reassurance of absolute loyalty, the way he didnt inform Tae Ho he was bringing in his own people, the way he went behind Tae Ho's back and brought that guy back to the conference room after Tae Ho dismissed him. I would think someone as smart as Tae Ho would have figured it out.
Good Lord and now the move is to put Hyewon on the Throne.. REALLY, REALLY!!! because that gold fish can swim with the sharks.. COME ON! She is like a marionette repeating everything Tae Ho says ( which I think the chairman has figured out). I mean Pinky and the BRain had better plans than this.... hopefully it picks up.. I am now officially watching this drama on fast fwd so it doesnt take long. we have 4 episodes. Hopefully they can do some clean up. I havent been this disappointed since the ending of this dramas premise Reborn Rich and its crappy ending which btw deviated from the original webtoon ( wth was writer thinking!).

I sometimes wonder if Kdrama writers actually hate their fans.. like seriously.. they get us invested in a drama then destroy.. like I wonder if this is purposely done.. like they are all I will just take the Netflix and Disney and Prime checks and write whatever ending I want.. like some Kdrama writers will destroy you.. they are mean man.. meaner than the writers of Game of Thrones.. build you up for 8 seasons then destroy all your hopes and dreams in the last two episodes.. HAHAHAHA.. btw I was just joking about the cigarette.. I dont smoke but mentally that is where this drama has taken me..

It feels like the chaebol company is a back street shop everyone wants to be in charge of. Hye-won wanting to be the heir felt like this.
I am not surprised by the betrayal but it is annoying and lackluster. I don't feel anything. Maybe if the drama gave us more of the history, it would hit hard. But like Tae-oh said everyone was just pretending to be a team

Random thought. Though unknowingly I watched episode 8 first and didn't miss out on anything. I even didn't know about it till the end.

I didn't feel bad for Tae-Ho or Hye-Won, they wanted to use the rich guy to get what they want easier and they were used instead. At least, Tae-Ho was a part honest with In-Ha but not always.

Hye-Won is the biggest mystery of this drama, why Tae-Ho loves her? Because of her, he acted completely stupidly. What can she do alone? Because for now nothing, she was caught cheating and she let Tae-Ho took the fall. She need Tae-Ho to get the compagny, the guy who is in prison... She got her situation because she married a psychopath and didn't realize it before.

It looks like the father is quite nice now.

"I guess escaping from their living hells and loving each other isn't a priority right now."
Tae-oh and Hye-won sacrificed too much for their plan and in fact, if they abandoned it, they would have to admit that they wasted 10 years of their lives and sank to moral rock bottom. Because that's what they really did with their lives. So far, we do not know whether they have any hidden goals or whether they simply wanted to get out of poverty and be rich so that no one could take this wealth away from them. It's a Disney drama, so it may turn out even in the last episode that they had some very personal reasons, and it wasn't just about power. In "Vigilante", one character's motives were only revealed in the final episode. In general, Disney's dramas taught me that you should enjoy the journey and evaluate the drama only at its end, that these dramas are like books. Sometimes in books it becomes clear what the plot was only at the very end. That's how I see it.
I suspected from the beginning that In-ha was not sincere and had his own plan. It was hard to believe in the so-called friendship, because in the first episode he treated all people like garbage, everyone who was not rich and who was dependent on his family. The fact that he might be a psychopath or have such tendencies seemed quite possible to me from the moment we learned the circumstances of his mother's death. He found it and remembered the blood from that time, probably that's why he doesn't like the smell of blood, which we learned from episode 8. It reminded me of the story of "Dexter", who found his mother in a pool of blood as a child. It doesn't always end this way in fictional stories, with such children "killing their feelings", but in this case it seemed most likely to me. At that moment, he lost the ability to be a normal person, he hated the Kang family and blamed them for his mother's death. And this revenge announced by the drama is his revenge. In his case, this is certain. Do the other two main characters also have some personal vendettas? That's what I wrote, we can only find out about it in the last episode. It wouldn't surprise me at all.

I binged the 8 episodes of the drama in two days, not because it’s a good one (no need to say it’s not) but just wondering if there was something good in it besides the fee scenes with Lee Ji Hoon.

So many questions, and not a single answer. Why the blind loyalty towards Inha? Or the blind love to HyeWon? Why would Taeoh be so stupid as to allow anyone to catch him kissing his “best friend’s” fiancée? I’m really fascinated by all the stupidity happening in the drama.

Most of the time I feel all characters are playing a brilliant a cunning plan (please, all Blackadder’s fans use Baldeic’s voice) but they don’t know it’s not that brilliant or cunning. Drama is trying to play “The string” and failing so hard…

Missvictrix, thanks so much for not only enduring but also writing these accurate recaps.