Looks like we are entering the "makjang" stretch of our drama (which is fairly typical of weekenders going into their closing act)

Cheon-Su spent years in a marriage with a wife who ended up cheating on him after emotionally and financially abusing him, i hope he tell her to go away and doesnt ruin his new relationship.

Poor Kang-Soo, i felt so sorry for him, he deserved to know the truth but not in such an ugly manner Dokgo Tak, is a terrible person, i am worried his loveline is going to be rushed near the end, he should have gotten more screentime than the dancer brother whose storyline is so uninteresting.

Episode 35 ended with emotional whiplash: Just as Gwangsuk is about to announce her relationship with our ML to her family is exactly when Chunsoo’s soon to be ex-wife shows up at the door. NOOOOOOOOOOO! You have got to be kidding me. Talk about spoiling the mood.

Maknae talks to Mi-ae- who cries afterwards. Dokgo Tak sees this. Oh dear.

Seri spent the night at the Eagle home and, rather than returning to her parents she will now work for Mi-sun- and live in Mi-sun’s house. But first she had a nice talk with Maknae- who was almost like an Oppa trying to guide his little sister on the right path. Professor Brother has been given the go ahead to be with Seri- from his own family but not from Dokgo Tak.

Gwangsook should take the advice she gives the brothers. She wishes them well in all their endeavors, tells them not to feel guilty about it but can't do same for herself.
It really hurts to see her hiding like a teenager from her parents.

Mr. Go🥂😸. Man knows how to take a cue🤣.

I don't know who I worry for more. Seri omma or Kang-soo?

Can we have less of 3rd brother please. That time can be spent on developing Bom and Kang-soo.

The ex-wife just had re-appear the day before their divorce is finalized and Chun-soo proposes to Mi-sun. 🙄

Mr Go, you sly baldy! 😂

Is Bom still upset that Chairman Han didn't date her professor? She seems to have reservations about the new girlfriend. 🤔

FOMO?! That is the reason Beom-Soo is willing to reverse course, eliminate his principles and common sense, and endanger his livelihood and child custody because Seri was the first person to show interest in him (secondarily after Ha Ni)??? That he may never have an opportunity to find another love? Worst myopic reasoning ever. He has been at the university less than a semester. He is just settling in. He has not even started his academic social life with other professors. He will have plenty of opportunities to meet new people. Why bet everything on the first problematic child who likes him?

Again, there has to be a gas leak in the brewery for the Eagle family to change their minds so suddenly and dramatically to approve Beom Soo dating Seri.

Almost as aggravating is Gang-Soo’s melancholy about not being an Eagle Bro. We learn that Mrs. Oh was alive which makes Gang-soo’s adoption clear. Legally and morally he is an Oh. Period. Why wallow in a stigma that is not relevant to your family bonds with your brothers? And Mi-Ae has no basis for pushing herself into his life. She gave that up long, long ago.

Han’s neediness is getting grating as well. A couple of weeks of dating to impose another deadline on Gwang-Sook was too much. Let the lady breathe! He is also near-sighted in his race to the alter he did not pick up on Bom’s discomfort with his dating news. She was supportive in the past but now that it is real, she feels guilt of her mother. I also dislike Han buying his way into Eagle good graces with a 400 sandwich order per week on his employees (what if they don’t like toast? Or allergic to eggs?) FYI, an Issac Toast in Seoul is $5 US that equals a $2,000 weekly sale.

The jarring plot direction changes are unforgivable. I thought Mi-Soon said last week she had hired a new part-timer who would start in a week. Even if the position was open, she knew the powder keg family issues with Seri and Eagle. Why get involved? Why open her home? Why is she being TOO NICE? Next, So Yeon crawling back to Chun-Soo the day before the Court finalizes their agreed divorce was an unexpected nightmare. She wasted all the family savings, her temporary visa expired when their daughter went to college and now she wants to reconcile?

The only good thing in Episode 35 was Mr. Go leading Gwang-Sook’s mom to jealousy by faking time with his blind date. Bravo, Mr. Go, Bravo.

It is not a radical thing to say that Korea has been a patriarchal society and the tensions emanating from how the relations between men and women are still highly influenced by the insistence on regulating girls and women’s lives. It goes without saying that some women have benefitted from this coercive control over other women’s lives and have collaborated in their continuing repression. The pace of economic change has strained these patriarchal attitudes and institutions but has not broken them. The way that some of the men in this show speak, behave and interact with women is from a familiar playbook. The chairman while not being a vile chebol has had the privilege of gender, wealth and high position to largely sail through life. He is polite but still orders most people around, is used to having the only say that matters and doesn’t take no for an answer. To try and micromanage other people’s lives even if he is well-intentioned is still exerting control and that is ugly in itself. The idiot brother who is as useless as they come correctly pointed to the fact that Han has approached the brothers under a false premise even though they should have all thought long and hard about why Han would take such an intense interest in their lives but the idiot wasn’t smart and perceptive enough to look beyond the manna from heaven and only now decides to throw a moronic tantrum. The more I see of this idiotic character, the more I think this was a public revenge project against a real life idiot/s from the writer’s or another’s life as he is entitlement personified without any redeeming features. This must explain why so many hours have been allocated to this singularly dim, charmless, hopeless, deluded and entitled basic man.

Third Bro does nothing in this drama except annoy me with his tone-deaf and childish antics.

Episode 36 had many Rights and Wrongs.

Gang-Soo was formally adopted by Oh parents. It took too long to ease his mind by his brothers when Silla Dad leaked it. At least Beom Soo and his parents knew Mi-Ae is the birth mother; and as I thought Oh Dad made the deal to not file charges against Silla in exchange for her leaving Gang-Soo’s life forever.

South Korea divorce law requires a mandatory waiting period prior to finalization. If one party changes their mind, the divorce petition is canceled. A party can file a new contested petition for trial (for which Chun-Soo has the grounds to proceed).

Heung-Soo is right that Han helped the Brothers because of affection toward Gwang-Sook. But he is clueless on how the real world works. In South Korea, for centuries to present, interlocking directorates, affiliations and mutual assistance is embedded in society’s norms. Han is merely following business bonds in his personal life.

Heung-Soo was within his right to share his feelings for Jang-Soo’s memory but he was insensitive to Gwang-Sook. In fact, the whole Eagle family has sensitivity issues, but that is why they are too nice too often.

The Brothers are all guilty of hiding key facts to deceive others. The worst offender may be Beom-Soo.

Chun-Soo was absolutely right to yell at So Yeon, who I will call “Snake” from now on, for showing up once again to scheme and disrupt the family. Snake was absolutely wrong for staying at the brewery when she was told to leave (trespassing when told to leave a residence can result in a three year jail term.) The premises is owned by Gwang-Sook and not Chun-Soo or the brothers. Snake is totally wrong about being able to profit from a Han-Ma marriage; she is a total stranger after the divorce and the Eagle Bros have no claim to the Han fortune.

Mi-Soon is on a path to get hurt by Snake’s re-appearance. Chun-Soo will put their relationship on hold, and Snake could conspire a counter-claim against Chun-Soo for having his own affair during their marriage. At least Mi-Soon has a good divorce lawyer.

Hairdresser and Vet have a good, natural budding relationship. Heung-Soo is totally out of place to interject anything into it.

The short spy photograph of Seri and Ha Ni is for the custody battle as a piece of evidence for an improper student-teacher relationship. Moral character can be a factor in a custody battle. The writer seems to naively think that since Seri dropped out there is no ramifications for Beom-Soo. I strongly differ.

Bom is trying hard to get Gang-Soo to open up to her, but she is continually shot down. You can see her sadness growing that her relationship has not started. As viewers, we totally agree with her.

In episode 36 Dokgo Tak found his wife’s wooden box with a baby picture, etc- and knows that the baby is not Seri. He then calls our Maknae to invite him to dinner. I would not have minded that so much if it were not that the call came right at the moment when he was going to ask Bom to have a drink with him. At least it was Maknae who asked Bom if they could also be drinking buddies as well as friends. Talk about baby steps: Their romance is proceeding at the most glacial pace possible. Far too much time and oxygen has been sucked up by our useless third brother who was way out of line when he told off Gwangsuk for dating our Chairman. I am afraid that, as a result, there will not be time for Bom and our Maknae’s story.

The unwelcome return of So-yeon has definitely stirred up trouble. It is true that the ninety-day waiting period exists to give people a chance to change their mind about an agreed divorce but none of us is dumb enough to think that her motives are what she claims. Still, it did give our Chairman a chance to point out that Chunsoo probably needs a lawyer.

I haven't watched yet episode 36, because the entrance of Utterly Selfish Unrepentant (Unfortunately Not Yet) Ex-Wife Drama Queen put me totally off. I'm waiting for this weekend episodes to watch then everything back to back in hope that her arc will be over by then... and we will NEVER see her again! (Should I praise the actress for doing a good job? 😄)

At least Hani got her birthday celebration. 🥳