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Immediately I’m sharing my episode 1-2 notes on A Virtuous Enterprise, as a result of I’m loving it immediately, and I used to be questioning in case you’d like to affix me? 🤗
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Episode notes:
E1-2. You guys. I do know that all of us had constructive expectations that this present can be a enjoyable watch, however simply primarily based on these first two episodes, I believe Present’s exceeding my expectations, even.
For one factor, it’s really very humorous, and I’ve discovered myself laughing out loud on various events.
Since k-humor and I don’t usually get alongside, this, for me, is big.
Truthfully, I’d been just a little afraid, that with Present may lean into humor that was extra crass, given our subject material, however as an alternative, I’m discovering the humor nearly.. elegant, in the best way it offers with all of the bed room discuss and such.
If Present retains this up, I can be a cheerful camper.
One other factor that I actually like, is how Present nonetheless manages to have emotional heft, regardless of its branding being on the extra hilarious facet of issues.
There are positively notes of pathos, notably within the private scenario of our characters, notably Kim So Yeon’s character, Jeong Suk.
It’s unhealthy sufficient that her husband is hot-tempered man who can’t maintain a job and might’t maintain out of fights, leaving her to search out methods to scrape collectively sufficient cash for hire and meals for his or her household.
It’s even worse that when he’s down and out, he’d take the hire cash that she’d hidden approach, and “invested” it by entrusting it to a buddy who seems to be such as you shouldn’t belief him so far as you can throw him.
To make issues even worse, by the top of episode 1, we see Deadbeat Husband actually sleeping with Jeong Suk’s good buddy – which poor Jeong Suk witnesses together with her personal eyes, coz she’s at Supposed Good friend’s home, in search of Deadbeat Husband.
On prime of all this, we see that it’s really exhausting for Jeong Suk to search out work, as a result of the final desire is for single younger girls, and never married ahjummas.
To be clear, Present doesn’t pile that each one on directly, so it doesn’t really feel as overwhelming as it’d proper now, the best way I’ve stacked all of it up.
But it surely does add as much as a really unhappy image, and I positively felt my sympathy for Jeong Suk develop, layer by layer, as Present revealed her troubles, layer by layer.
By the top of episode 1, I used to be prepared for her to go away him and kick him to the curb, however in fact, it’s not such a easy factor.
Fortunately, Deadbeat Husband disappears on his personal, so he’s not round a lot in any respect, in episode 2, and we due to this fact don’t need to put up along with his annoying presence.
Nonetheless, it’s true that issues aren’t so easy or straightforward for the ladies in our story.
All our principal gamers have their very own difficulties.
Amongst our group of girls, Geum Hui seems to be like she has the most effective life, since she’s genteel, well-educated, and lives in an enormous home together with her pharmacist husband.
However, as we see, she has lots to place up with, in her husband’s temperament, his nagging conduct, and his pompous inflated sense of self-importance.
It’s not exhausting to conclude that in her personal approach, Geum Hui feels caught.
She has no supply of earnings, and her husband principally doesn’t permit any sources of pleasure that don’t come from a Stepford Wives kind of guide. It’s stifling and crippling and you may see that Geum Hui is suffocating in her marriage.
As for Yeong Bok, I actually like her, coz of her cheerful nature.
For her, life is troublesome as a result of her husband doesn’t have a gradual job, they usually have 4 youngsters to feed, together with a babe in arms.
That’s an enormous burden on her, and but, she has a constructive aura that I actually like.
Additionally, it actually is sort of cute how her husband, performed by Im Chul Soo, thinks she’s the sexiest lady alive, and might’t maintain his palms off her. 🤭
But additionally, factors to him for being supportive of her new enterprise, the place many of the different husbands in our story world are horrified and scandalized.
I additionally actually like Ju Ri, the hairdresser.
I like her constructive and cheerful nature too, and I additionally love how open-minded and useful she is, in regards to the new enterprise that Jeong Suk and Yeong Bok are enterprise.
When everybody else is appearing all grossed out and disgusted at the truth that Jeong Suk and Yeong Bok are promoting lingerie and grownup toys, Ju Ri’s all enthusiasm and curiosity. It’s very cute.
Contemplating that she’s a single mother who bears the burden of taking good care of her son all by herself with out assist, and contemplating that there’s a substantial amount of stigma round being a single mother, it’s actually superb that she manages to be so upbeat.
I actually like this concept of Jeong Suk and Yeong Bok becoming a member of palms, after which ultimately welcoming Geum Hui and Ju Ri into the group.
That entire arc is so very heartwarming, as I really feel like we will see the bonds between them rising stronger, as they share extra of their private tales with one another, and spend extra time collectively.
On the similar time, among the scenes in these two episodes have been hysterically humorous, making for a watch expertise that’s simply bursting with numerous feels.
The primary gathering that they manage at Geum Hui’s dwelling, the place everybody’s scandalized on the vibrator, and tossing it round the lounge prefer it’s some form of sizzling potato, was laugh-out-loud humorous, and I really needed to pause the episode, simply to have an excellent snigger. 😁
I additionally thought issues acquired distinctly cuter, as soon as Jeong Suk will get the thought from Ju Ri, that she should be testing out the lingerie and toys, so as to higher promote them.
The scene the place Geum Hui interprets the write-up in regards to the “magic stick” main customers to a “implausible world” was actually humorous, and I actually simply love the curiosity that our principal group has, by way of their “analysis” coz all of it appears so pure and harmless. 🤭
Their resolution to check the vibrators at dwelling as “self-study” was very humorous too, and the visible, of fireworks going off in Jeong Suk’s bed room, as she exams the “magic stick” was hilariously excellent.
I additionally love the enthusiastic sharing session that they’ve the subsequent day, the place Jeong Suk and Yeong Bok report again on how their analysis at dwelling has gone. 🤭
After which there’s the best way Jeong Suk is impressed by that tea ceremony recording, to information their gross sales periods in a equally elegant method, even speaking about Cleopatra and all.
I believed it was cute, and I liked that that they had a profitable session, and adopted that with a ladies’ evening out, simply the 4 of them.
I really feel unhealthy for Jeong Suk that she bumped into Supposed Good friend, however I’m actually glad that Ju Ri and Yeong Bok overhear their confrontation within the restroom, as a result of their sturdy empathy pushes their friendship to an entire new degree, I really feel.
It’s nice that they resolve to take some petty revenge on Supposed Good friend, after which run outta there like a bunch of mischievous youngsters. It’s nice. 🤩
Truthfully, I’d puzzled how Geum Hui would handle to affix the group, since her stuffy husband is so in opposition to it, and I’m very, very tickled by how Present solves that, in episode.
I like that he principally will get cowed by the very lingerie that he’d been so in opposition to, and turns into a docile whipped pet the subsequent morning, hahahaha.
It’s hilarious to me that when Stuffy Hubs asks why the breakfast desk is so easy, Geum Hui “explains” that different girls put out a variety for his or her husbands the morning after, so as to allow their husbands to do higher subsequent time.
And since he’s “naturally gifted” in that space, there’s no want for her to take action. HAHAHAHA THAT’S FREAKING BRILLIANT. 😂😂😂
I couldn’t assist however crack up at Stuffy Hubs’ enthusiastic endorsement of the naked desk, saying that if she fed him an excessive amount of, she wouldn’t be capable to get a wink of sleep.
After which how about that second when he gobbles up the bundle of bracken that Geum Hui feeds him, and assures her that his “cucumber will keep rock stable”???
Wheeze. That’s one thing that solely Kim Gained Hae might pull off, that’s for certain. 😂😂
Effectively performed, Geum Hui. Effectively performed certainly. 😁😁
After all, there’s additionally Do Hyeon, the brand new detective on the town, who’s performed by Yeon Woo Jin.
It looks as if Present may be pushing a loveline between him and Jeong Suk, for the reason that two have a number of run-ins in simply these two episodes, and he does appear to have some curiosity about her, regardless of preserving a studiously distant form of angle on the whole.
That mentioned, I’m not tremendous certain that that’s the path that this may take, since Do Hyeon is clearly on the town for a secret investigation.
Plus, there’s the factor the place he tells the true property agent (Jung Younger Joo, being her loudly glamorous finest 😁) that he doesn’t understand how lengthy he can be staying.
And the way about that massive data map that he’s acquired going, the place he’s mapped out all our principal residents.
There’s clearly some form of thriller that’s brewing right here, and I’m just a little involved at how this may have an effect on our principal story.
Moreover, as we shut out episode, there are indicators that issues aren’t fairly going to be as easy crusing for our girls as we’d hope, with that impolite graffiti splashed throughout Jeong Suk’s wall.
No matter it’s, although, I’m glad that she’s not alone on this; she’s acquired her sisterhood behind her, and I like that. 🥰
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