Love Subsequent Door: Episodes 9-10
by missvictrix
The place oh the place did our little rom-com go? We misplaced it someplace in between intense familial relationships and well being crises, and we’re in full blown melodrama now. I made a decision to retitle our present to Angst Subsequent Door. If solely they advised us this was what we have been going to get, I might have come ready.
EPISODES 9-10
Whereas Seok-ryu will get checked out on the hospital, we get a collection of flashbacks exhibiting her life with Hyun-joon again within the States. Their cute engagement, the scary moments of her analysis, her remedy, and the way a lot they caught collectively. So far as I’m involved this complete plot line must die, however simply taking it on the advantage of what we’re proven, their relationship appears strong and I suppose I’m glad she had Hyun-joon since she… didn’t discuss to her circle of relatives whereas she was going by way of all this? Huh?
The drama performs it quick and free this week, exhibiting us flashbacks, reducing off scenes, and having fun with agonizing us with the query of whether or not Seok-ryu is sick once more or not. One fascinating takeaway from the flashbacks is that Hyun-joon didn’t cheat on Seok-ryu in spite of everything. Pool Social gathering Lady was merely taking out his contact lens (ROFL) and it simply seemed like they have been making out. Okay. The true factor that broke their relationship was that Seok-ryu went by way of an (understandably) deep melancholy after her remedy, and in a approach, it was the straw that broke the camel’s again. That is painfully life like, and it has completely no enterprise poking its head into my rom-com the place two cute neighbors have been presupposed to be peeking out their bed room home windows and falling in love, completely.
Again within the current, it’s clear that Hyun-joon is right here to remain. He re-proposes, and the drama (and Seok-ryu) make us suppose that she accepts. On the heels of this potential reengagement, Seok-ryu and Seung-hyo are on their jungle fitness center when Seok-ryu tells him in regards to the proposal. Poor boy asks if she was contemplating it, and when she affirms, he asks, “Although I confessed?” *Ouch* Seok-ryu tells him he’s just a bit boy to her, and this little interlude goes about in addition to you suppose. Seung-hyo is tremendous harm by her merciless phrases, and the drama teases us with the light knock of somebody on the door… wait is that you just, Noble Idiocy? Even the trace that Seok-ryu is backing off as a result of she is a) sick once more or b) afraid of being sick once more is simply an excessive amount of for me.
However it’s not an excessive amount of for Seok-ryu. The subsequent day, she turns Seung-hyo down once more, telling him level clean to throw out the milk container he’s been defending together with his very life blood. He doesn’t even want to attend until it expires — the reply isn’t any. That is simply painful, and it throws Seung-hyo right into a fever that’s mentioned to be seasonal however everyone knows it’s the Fever of Heartbreak. Regardless of her harsh phrases, Seok-ryu turns as much as nurse him, and it’s right here that Seung-hyo oh-so-conveniently sees the medical paperwork that’s protruding of her purse simply asking to be seen.
Regardless of the deus ex machina right here, the elongated reveal scene that this kicks off is a really emotional and painful one. It each closes out Episode 9 and opens Episode 10. Principally, Seung-hyo sees that Seok-ryu was sick and confronts her instantly. He’s so distraught and harm that he’s crying whereas they’re arguing… and who walks in however each their mothers.
This then extends this already-painful scene into one thing much more so, when Seok-ryu’s mother hears the information and grabs her daughter and so they each weep. However wait, there’s extra! When Mother learns that this all occurred three years in the past and that Seok-ryu is wholesome now, she about loses it.
The scene then feeds off this so as to add on yet one more layer, which is Mother dragging Seok-ryu house, and telling Dad and Dong-jin who’re sitting on the sofa. Now, regardless of hating this plot line, this complete sequence was packed. Park Ji-young was notably wonderful right here, saying extra by way of her lack of phrases than with all of the shouting and smacking that her character has been doing till this level. The identical goes for all of the actors, actually. Effectively-done. However that doesn’t actually make me really feel any higher about it. If I wished a cathartic melodrama watch, I might have picked one up. I got here right here to look at two mates catch emotions for one another, to not have my coronary heart ripped out by grieving dad and mom, grieving mates, grieving soulmates, and grieving protagonists. This is just too a lot grief for a rom-com, guys.
We spend all of Episode 10 with our characters reacting to Seok-ryu’s well being scenario, and I’m torn. I do love that the drama took the time to indicate everybody’s disparate reactions (dad and mom, Dong-jin, Mo-eum, the ahjummas, and naturally, Seung-hyo) and the way stuffed with pathos all of it was, however I’m not the form of viewer who likes to have my feelings performed on this tough. I do know that’s arduous to imagine coming from a veteran Ok-drama watcher, however this drama simply lays it on a bit too thick.
One factor I actually appreciated, although, was when Seung-hyo confronted Seok-ryu on struggling alone and never telling her household or him — he dismissed all her excuses and mentioned she was simply bitter. That struck a nerve. Hmm, perhaps that’s what this complete drama is definitely about, or needs to be about. What if it’s not about falling in love with the proper boy subsequent door, however about how bitterness in your coronary heart will run you aground if left unchecked — as a result of it’s a theme that’s operating by way of Seok-ryu’s whole household. However, what it appears the drama actually is making an attempt to say with this plot arc is that you just want your family members all the time — however particularly if you’re going by way of hell. That is true. This can be a worthy message. However their are higher methods to inform it.
In two episodes of emotional outpouring, the angle that received me essentially the most was really Hyun-joon. Dude sees all of the love and assist that Seok-ryu has at house now, and decides it’s time to bow out. The 2 say goodbye over the cellphone and he leaves. Actually, I hated this for him. He was the one who stayed by her aspect by way of all that… I feel he deserves higher as a human and a personality, regardless of their rocky ending.
Fortunately, Seung-hyo agrees, and he rushes Seok-ryu to the airport to say a correct goodbye earlier than Hyun-joon leaves for good together with his fancy U.S. passport. Seung-hyo thanks him for caring for her, which I cherished. After which Seok-ryu says goodbye and so they… shake arms. In my head, she embraces him and so they’re in a position to put a correct goodbye on issues, however in actuality, she cries standing alone within the airport hidden underneath Seung-hyo’s swimsuit jacket. I additionally need to cry my eyes out for days, however I’m so mad at this drama at this level that I don’t need to let it have a single tear from my tear ducts.
Talking of tears, there’s a lot crying and bonding this week and it’s not simply restricted to our hero and heroine having out their emotions — it extends to Mo-eum, too. She and Dan-ho share a candy second the place she tells him about Seok-ryu (and he sees the way it’s affecting her), after which he shares the traumatic second when his spouse died in an accident and Yeon-du barely made it. They’re each crying and bonding and Mo-eum crops a pleasant lifeless fish kiss on him till she realizes what she’s accomplished, head butts him, and runs away. Actually, Present, if you mentioned “comedy,” that didn’t imply you needed to constantly undercut an fascinating storyline and a candy romance by taking part in it off for laughs. We deserve higher.
Apparently, there’s no cliffhanger occurring this week, and the drama ends with a correct second of grieving for Seok-ryu, who’s not solely saying goodbye to Hyun-joon, however that whole chapter of her life. (Oh and by the way in which: she’s fantastic. The latest biopsy comes again regular.) However one thing about the way in which our episodes shut this week make me suppose (learn: fear) that the drama is completed with this little bit of plot and gained’t have to do way more than reference it in passing in our closing three weeks. And at this level, I don’t know if I’ll be joyful or aggravated in the event that they do certainly flip a giant web page within the plot and simply leap into the romance aspect of issues now. After all of the angst subsequent door, is it lastly time for some romance? And for Pete’s sake, can somebody inform Seung-hyo’s dad and mom to really have a dialog?
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