Dong-joo - Il-do's relationship has always been the most interesting part of this show, way more than the romance. I will miss Il-do character.

Thank you for the recap, @mistyisles! I love that this role went to Park Hyung-sik - he can look like the victim, specially when he is getting hit or he's thinking of Eun-nam or his friends, or villain, with a sinister smile at the end of the episode. I liked the way he castigated mother and son that he was the one who put her as the madam of the household and he can also take her away.

I just came on DB to see what's going on in Dramaland and I saw that this show is already nearly at its end and I was like, "Already???"

It feels like a really, really short while ago I was reading the recap for the first two episodes.

I'm not watching this show but I might. I just need to catch up on the recaps to see if it's worth adding to my watchlist

I’ve thought all along that he was the most interesting character in the whole show, and the thought of three episodes without him made me much sadder than I expected
This is my major lingering thought from last week. Everything else takes 3rd place.

So every time Eunnam comes on the screen I remember she is in the show. She is such a non-factor that I forget her existence and their "romance." Also I love that the Chairman's dementia has been relegated to the back seat for plot. This drama really isn't very clever. The best part was Dong Ju and Il Do, alas that has ended. Now we have to deal with the Chairman's daughter and maybe Yeom Jang Seon.

I’m honestly confused by my reaction to Il-do’s death. He was a despicable human being who committed some of the most horrifying acts—I can’t stop thinking about that child in the car, screaming for help. And yet, I cried so much whenever Il-do and Dong-joo were on screen together. Their relationship was the most compelling part of the show, and their chemistry is insane. At this point, the only ending I’d truly be happy with is Dong-joo walking away from all these people—including Eun-nam—loaded with money and finally living his best life.

Can't believe we are down to the penultimate episodes. I had some hope that the couch had cushioned the fall and HID wasn't really dead, but nope. Also, from a story telling standpoint I guess this is more fitting as HID never really had anything on Yeom so it would have been hard to see how he could have helped SDJ take him down anyway. Seemed like he was just going to help SDJ get control of Daesan and pull it from Yeom's grasps.

Those father-son interactions were so great. Both actors really pulled off the pretend nonchalant attitude while also being deeply angered, saddened, remorseful, and regretful too. There isn't forgiveness but there is just a sliver of hopefulness that in the future with enough time and acts of repentance that maybe they could find a way forward. The writer did a great job of creating HID as a character that you hated, but yet by the end you sort of understood how he was trapped by his emotions/greed to do unthinkable things that he had to keep doing because he made a choice early and there was no turning back. Even though that early choice was a product of weakness at the hands of intense abuse and manipulation by Yeom.

It’s quiet around here. Some additional thoughts.

SDJ is truly an antihero protagonist that you can root for. He is morally gray and did things that are clearly wrong like stealing from the energy fund to help create the political slush fund for Chairman Cha and Daeson. He was truly a company's man willing to go to the dark side. However, when it comes to his own initiatives, he does draw a line at actually killing people unlike HID. He didn't kill the Administrator but instead saved his life. Since YEN's marriage he kept himself aloof and away from her aside from the first breakdown after his first attempted murder when he saw her and kissed her thinking he might have never seen her again and then lovingly touching her face when he was almost dying from the cinnamon allergy.

Poor SDJ had like 2 years of a loving family with his adopted mom and sister Agnes (he was 6 in the car accident according to the accident report and his adopted mom died when he was in 1st grade) before he became essentially orphaned and raised by his sister and Madame Pi (since he thought his dad had abandoned him although turns out it wasn't his dad at all). Then he thinks he has found the love of his life to have her leave him. He is way more understanding about her circumstances than most people would be, but he understood how deep her hatred was for her stepfather. (Would have been nice if in the scene when they first see each other outside the wedding venue if she explained her marriage choice to him rather than only saying she had no plans to ever marry him. She could have gone on to explain she was always going to use marriage as a way to advance her position in Daesan to prevent her stepfather from controlling Daesan and that SDJ was just not going to be enough.) Not saying that makes her betrayal any better but at least he and the audience would know her reasons.

At first I was taken aback by DJ’s apparent forgiveness of ID’s character. And then when he died I sort of got it. Poor DJ. Has he ever known peace in life? I hope it all ends on a positive note for him in the end. The Harabuji Chairman’s switch to the dark side was expected but it was still jarring to see on screen.

Sorry, was sick and kind of missed the fun)))

Ah, Ildo, the human epitome of "you're gonna miss me when I'm gone", what would we do without you here? Now it's only DJ and Kopiko PPL left in the show to do the heavy emotional lifting... Ngl, I laughed HARD when Yeom answered "annoying as hell" to DJ's question about how it feels to see him still alive - should've been drama's tagline, really. At this point DJ isn't even a zombie - he's a radioactive cockroach who'd survive Apocalypse without blinking, and we love him for that))) I personally also love that his messy non-fauxcest whatever with EN seems to fizzle out all on its own - was very on brand for her to go "but MY feelings!" while supposedly trying to comfort DJ over Ildo's death. Never change, girl, someone's got to inherit your momma's psychotic narcissism, and I'd rather it not be a baby Taeyun, bless his pure heart. Problem is, while I like and respect DJ's dark traits, it makes me shudder to think of mixing his and Chas genes together. How about nope, for humanity's sake?

Chairman - disappointed, but not surprised. Apple doesn't fall far from the tree, and we've met his kids, esp DH, who didn't even bother to wait until her husband was cremated before starting to fight for his shares. Again, that was also on brand for her - mother and daughter are very alike. Now, who did Seonu ultimately take after? Guy can't be all he seems. And what kind of love charm DJ pulled on him - aside of plot armor/device, very meta pointed out by Administrator?

Yeom, say hi, you're on TV! I assume that alone won't be enough to take him down - sure, what's a little multiple major crimes confession live, drama villains survived far more! - but what else can be done to the guy? And what exactly was in those ALLEGEDLY burned files Looking forward to see what kind of twisted insanity the drama reserved for the final leap - maybe that safe will end up blown up for real, building and entire fam (sans TY and maybe SU) included?^^