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Never heard of it. And now that you describe it... What made you start watching it?? +2

Haha, poor thing! After months and months of rain, we finally have had one (ONE!!) week of sunshine and we are all loving it. Not too hot and humid yet....but that will come. Heat and humidity give me migraines the older I get, so I much prefer this weather, though it's not quite beach weather yet. Guess there are tradeoffs. Not liking all the bugs that are starting to come out, though. I really could do without bugs in life. Have you all heard about the double brood of cicadas waiting to hatch this year?? "In the wake of North America’s recent solar eclipse, another historic natural event is on the horizon. From late April through June 2024, the largest brood of 13-year cicadas, known as Brood XIX, will co-emerge with a midwestern brood of 17-year cicadas, Brood XIII. This event will affect 17 states, from Maryland west to Iowa and south into Arkansas, Alabama and northern Georgia, the Carolinas, Virginia and Maryland. A co-emergence like this of two specific broods with different life cycles happens only once every 221 years. The last time these two groups emerged together was in 1803, when Thomas Jefferson was president." https://www.yahoo.com/news/billions-cicadas-emerge-underground-rare-083311100.html 336

Sorry to hear.

Happy Saturday, everyone. Hopefully there's sunshine where you are! 334

So true - she had nothing to lose, so why not confront Kwang Il when he stole DH's wallet, and offer to even kill DJY for DH?! Have you been re-watching the drama lately? I tried to watch Episode 16 the other day, but it is sad to think about LSK no longer being with us.

@MayanEcho So glad you and your family are OK! It was all over the news here for a couple days, with photos of submerged cars on the roads leading to the airport. Glad your hubby and his car are good :). @partyon Oh my word, Frankly Speaking looks hilarious. Maybe May will be a better month for dramas than the first few months of 2024 have been. And...Eurovision! I miss this guy. Omo, omo, I just realized he's wearing knee pads. I think I missed that last year, what with the rest of his outfit. 348

Good questions! Would love to hear what others think, too, when they check into the thread. But I think you're right - it goes deeper than kindness. People were kind to JA "four times" throughout her life and that didn't really lead to transformative change. But DH was willing to fight for her, defend her openly, help her with her grandma, humiliate himself, etc. And JA was willing to use her street smarts to fight for him in ways no one else had. As their relationship developed, something raw and deep made them each take care of the other, kind of with abandon. I liked what the author said here: It reminded me of Fan Girl Verdict's conclusions when she finished her group re-watch of MM a couple years ago.

Yes, I think there has been a flurry of reviews of My Mister since Lee Sun-kyun passed away. It's nice to see these accurate and honest reviews in different languages for sure, hopefully drawing in more viewers around the globe. ~ This is another recent tribute to Lee Sun-kyun, written the day after he was laid to rest. Our Ahjussi: Remembering Lee Sun-kyun From the introduction: "Lee Sun-kyun was the actor you turned to when you needed hapless complexity; when you had a role that demanded melancholy and exquisite pain, but could also float a sense of hope that was as sincere as it was bruised. His buttery voice made his performances even more memorable and elevated even the most random dialogue into something more substantial. While he was terrific as a love interest and a leading man, we believe he was at his best when he played the ordinary man who suffered and endured the most extraordinary things. The day after he is laid to rest, we take a look at some of our favorite performances from our Ahjussi, Lee Sun-kyun.... "My Mister / My Ahjussi (2018) This workplace slice-of-life drama quietly explores the everyday melancholy of being human, drawing out career defining-performances from Lee Sun-kyun as Park Dong-hoon, a middle-aged engineer who can’t seem to catch a break despite being a nice, upright guy, and from Lee Ji-eun (IU) as a cold and cynical temporary office worker in Dong-hoon’s firm. Through all 16 episodes, Lee Sun-kyun skillfully inhabits the pathos and pain of Park Dong-hoon as he quietly bears the burden of middle age with dignity and strength. Despite tackling such heavy themes as poverty and depression, My Mister is an uplifting and satisfying healing drama. Its message is simple, clear, and beautiful: that kindness has the transformative power to heal even the most wounded among us, that relationships are precious and amazing, that love in any form--even in ways that are hard to label or define—can help us get through the struggles of life. In a fiercely competitive year, My Mister beat out Mr. Sunshine and SKY Castle for Baeksang Best Drama and Best Screenplay in 2019 and earned acting nominations for Lee Sun-kyun, Lee Ji-eun, Oh Na-ra, and Kwon Na-ra." Source: https://www.gwenchanoona.com/post/our-ahjussi-remembering-lee-sun-kyun

A nice tribute to LSK, written the day after he was laid to rest: https://www.gwenchanoona.com/post/our-ahjussi-remembering-lee-sun-kyun

I have so much to catch up on in the show and in this thread, but Kwakkie is a great actor in different dramas, and it's too bad he hasn't broken into consistent leading-man territory yet.

We were too busy, though I did see it was there! How was it? My daughter probably wouldn't have let me go with her, though. The last two times the cinema played BTS's concert, she absolutely refused to let me buy myself a ticket, even if I promised her I'd sit in the very back row and not disturb her and her friends at all. 374

Is this actually you commenting? I think you've been watching him since Modern Farmer, but this commenter's sentiments are all you as well. Every time I want to go back and watch Queen of Tears I find something else to do. I don't know why. It's just too slow for me, and the evil people are too evil. I think I'm like 5 episodes behind now. 374

Great insight. If JA discovered DH's worth by episode 6, he also discovered her worth by episode 5 when he saw her take care of her grandmother. Haha, so boring. And she started out thinking he was so pitiful, but her respect for him grew when she heard him react to people who had crossed "red lines" with him - i.e. the condo owner in episode 4, his brothers when they were making fun of her in the street, Kwang Il in episode 9, etc. And perhaps when he finally stood up for himself and confronted YH about the affair.

Never been, though we have friends there! Let us know how it is if you go. Haven't been on the forum in a few days due to being swamped at work. I guess Team Add won a few days ago and Team Subtract is on the move? 450

Oh my, that all sounds nasty and like such a long journey. And you also had a flare-up? Man. To think that typhoid used to be even more common. Those poor communities who had it go through them. My husband's great-grandfather was the only surviving child when Spanish flu raged through his family farm. He lost several siblings. So sad . I can't even imagine what his parents went through. 990