I was surprised by Jin-woo's backtory. I never doubted him because he showed that he really cares about Tae-Soo.

At the opposite, Sung-Jae never really showed some sincerity since he faked his death. His first reaction always is running away. I wonder why the father and the son don't seem to talk when they both work with the bad guys. This family is quite crazy, the mum doesn't feel any shame about what they have done...

Moon-Young needs to put all of them in prison!

I hope Sin-Hwa is a good friend but I still found their hanging out in the first episode suspicious.

Episode 5: The Baker Lady is a real sinister villain who thinks it is fun to torture her victims. Na becoming a low-life bagman for mob business was used like a trainer with a choke collar for a wild dog. We learn Do was promised Husband would find his lost daughter, but since the bad guys threaten children we still do not have a clear cut view of Do’s true motives. I also agree Husband was too clever to get kidnapped - - it seems too convenient to turn Na into an unwilling criminal. When Do referenced knowing “Director Joo” was she referencing the Prosecutor as I suspected as not being pure as snow? But Prosecutor states that Baker Lady is an infamous person named Director Joo. But then again, she is mad that Na is on one of her cases. The defense of the arson suspect who was hired to clean out the village for the resort project seems trivial in the mob’s plan since with the death of the last landowner and FIL soon to be mayor is a done deal. As expected, Na finds a link between FIL foundation and the Geumshin arsonist fires. MIL leaks info to FIL about dead son . . . or does she? FIL is upset son is alive before the election, but goes to Mob Boss Choi, his old friend (as predicted). Choi funded his political ambitions but promised not to hurt his family with the Geumshin schemes. Choi laughs at the FIL’s naivety. The arson trial goes forward with perjured testimony so now Na is no better than her sleazy husband. After this moment, it is hard to root for her. There is no honor in being a mob lawyer fixing cases. Prosecutor confronts her and Na cannot defend her actions. Baker Lady comes out of the shadows to congratulate Na. That night’s reunion fell flat. When they got into the car I immediately thought the ToD was on the horizon (Baker Lady taking out two birds with one stone.)

Detective finds out Cha is alive, and Do knows that Cha has come home to his parents house. In a flashback, Ma learns that Cha and Director Joo were in it together to bring him down and that he wants revenge on both of them. But Baker Lady sends a dagger to Na with a chilling video of Husband and MIL killing Hwang! Na now has to realize she is living in a family of monsters. Then, Baker Lady rubs it in her face with a follow-up phone call. How can things get worse?

Thanks for the recap quirky case..
I haven't been able to continue past ep 5. This whole psycho villains is getting too stale. I needed a bit more of a mystery and less of other things.
So its not just the husband but the entire family.. yikes.
Not sure if I will continue, but hope Moon-Young and Jin-woo make it alive and well.

I have so many questions. Did Sang-jae marry Moon young because Yoon joo told him to. It seems like the kind of game that she would play for the kink of it. And was the goal in marry Moon young is to get her out of the prosecutors office because Moon young is that good of an prosector and she would have been a long time problem.

I have so many questions.

At first, FIL was angry because his son was alive before the elections, but when Sung-jae came back home, everything was fine and dandy. At that point I couldn't understand how they imagined they'd be back to normal, since Sung-jae was still officially dead and there was a body to prove it. Good thing that Moon-young got the incriminating video and so it put things in motion again... (please spot the sarcasm there).
After the season of characters with split personalities, and the season of characters who are air hostesses, and all the other fashions in dramaland, it seems that now we are in the season of sleazy husbands and of the wives who take upon themselves the job of the Truck of Doom. For the time being, Sung-jae is in the lead as regards sleaziness.

Sung-jae's father insulted trash when he called his son "trash". Seriously. Sung-jae is worse than trash.

We saw firsthand Moon-young's devastation as, piece by piece, she's fully finding out the depth of the Sung-jae's deceit, lies and betrayal .... not to mention the lengths he's obviously gone to to reach this point.

Then there's the involvement of the in-laws! They certainly join their son in also being worse than trash.

This show is all about execution. While the premise and most development aren't revolutionary (or all that unique) it's the WAY things are done that makes me so engaged in it. The colors, the clothing, the ost.. and of course the acting.

A few notes:

I would like to know where does director Joo find the time to be the head of a criminal empire AND to be a bonified supervillan AND taking care of an elderly man AND being a cooking teacher for children AND putting some time away for hobbies like baking, psychological torture, and adultery. Her unbeliveable productivity is the real mystery. Her relationship with the chairmen is sweet, which gives them both extra dimention and goes along with the general father-daughter theme of the whole show.

I'm glad that the reason that representing that arsonist was bad wasn't because he's scum (even the worst of humanity deserves legal defense, which is part of Moon Young's job), but because they falsified evidence and committed perjury in order to secure the acquittal. The real crime here is by Moon Young- not the arsonist. She's doing things that in ep 1-2 she was disgusted by, selling her very soul to the devil in return for her husband.

Sung Jae turned out to be a real prize, didn't he?

Another message I see in this show (one I hope will get more emphasized) is the ideal of initial prejudice versus the true personality of a person. Jin-woo, the ex-con "trash", turned out to be an honest person with heartfelt motivations, while Sung Jae, the respectable lawyer from a respectable family turned out to have been the real trash all along. (those two are foils to one another, more on that later)

There's also the idea of considering people "disposable" - which is what really ties director Joo and Sung Jae. In the case of the former, it's all just business, but Sung Jae's real worldview feels a lot more disgusting : "Quality" people like Sung Jae are meant to use their "lesser", like Tae Soo (who was used both in life and in death) and Jin Woo (who had been strung along for who knows how long just to kill the moment he outlived his use; the translation literally refers to him as a 'disposable nobody' and the show takes time and effrot to humnize him in the eyes of the viewer, and Moon Young). This mindset seems to be running in the family, with the mother assisting the murder - the murder video felt visceral because of how dismissive and dehumanizing the action felt towards Tae Soo - and the Father is only upset about the murder because it'll hurt his own reputation, never ONCE horrofied for the victim. It highly implies that he uses his charity foundation as a boost for his own career, so, yeah.

Moon Young is not like that, and although she isn't perfect (which I appreciate), she has empathy and moral compass that her husband lacks. I think only at the end of episode 6 did she fully understand how morally bankrupt he is.

Moon Young's finding Jin Woo's daughter...

This is not a particularly great show, and it is very uncannily similar to (and confusing with) Nothing Uncovered, but for some mysterious reason I am still watching both. NU might have a slight edge right now, but I think the balance flips with each week.