My Completely happy Ending: Episode 1 (First Impressions)
by solstices
My Completely happy Ending introduces us to a likable heroine surrounded by a stable assist system, then proceeds to wrench all of it away from her in a single fell swoop. I used to be excitedly anticipating this Go Again Spouses reunion, however the present’s premiere episode leaves a lot to be desired.
Editor’s be aware: That is an Episode 1 overview solely. For a spot to talk about the complete drama, go to the Drama Hangout.
EPISODE 1
Our story begins in medias res, with web optimization JAE-WON (Jang Nara) fleeing from a masked pursuer. Wearing formal put on and heels, she’s unable to outrun her assailant, who pins her in opposition to a bridge and begins to strangle her.
Rewinding three days earlier to an idyllic day in Jae-won’s woodworking workshop, we study that our heroine is the self-made CEO of her personal furnishings model. She splits her time between company calls and creating furnishings items, which implies she spends most of her time at work and barely has any left over for herself.
Nonetheless, our heroine is competent and confident, and he or she’s acquired an in depth community of people that have her again. Her loving husband HEO SOON-YOUNG (Sohn Ho-joon) is considerate and sort, taking excellent care of their daughter and cooking up a pot of seaweed soup for his father-in-law when Jae-won can’t journey down for his birthday.
Within the skilled sphere, Jae-won additionally has loads of assist. Her finest buddy KWON YOON-JIN (So Yi-hyun) is an artist, and he or she’s at the moment engaged on a chunk that Jae-won commissioned. Yoon-jin will not be incomes a lot in comparison with Jae-won’s flourishing profession, from their cute teasing, it’s clear they share an in depth bond.
Jae-won’s additionally on good phrases together with her subordinate, the staff chief YOON TEO (Lee Ki-taek), and her belief in his craft and his religion in her integrity permit them to barter a brand new deadline for the house digicam gadget they’re engaged on. They comfortably banter like good buddies, and I’m already having fun with their rapport.
Sadly, issues begin to go downhill in three terrible methods. To start with, Jae-won’s approached by the life insurance coverage agent NAM TAE-JOO (Park Ho-san), who raises his doubts about her mom’s dying. She’d been hospitalized 3 times for ingesting pesticide, and Tae-joo suspects foul play by her husband. Jae-won is staunchly defensive, however Tae-joo’s executed his analysis; her mom remarried, so he’s truly her stepfather.
Jae-won’s unwavering pillar of assist is Quickly-young, so when she returns house after three grueling days on the workplace, she hugs him and remarks that she lastly seems like she’s gotten a correct relaxation. Quickly-young reads her expression and immediately is aware of one thing’s incorrect, and his light concern has her opening up about Tae-joo’s suspicions. Tellingly, she’s much less satisfied of her stepfather’s innocence now that she has the security of privateness.
For the second incident, the drama takes a drastic tonal shift. One late evening when Jae-won’s working time beyond regulation, a masked man wrecks her trophy show, then smashes his means into her workplace. Fortunately, a safety guard arrives within the nick of time, however the shut name leaves Jae-won deeply shaken.
To the police’s dismay, the workplace CCTVs have been below upkeep through the assault, and a company-wide electronic mail had been despatched to tell everybody in regards to the lapse — which implies any workers member might be the perpetrator. Unwilling to danger unhealthy press, Jae-won declines an investigation.
When she discovers a parking ticket in her workplace, although, she decides to take issues into her personal palms. Retrieving the automotive key with the ticket, Jae-won snoops by means of the car and finds the clown shirt that her assailant had worn. Then she returns the automotive key and lies in wait, however the subsequent revelation stuns her — the one that claims the important thing and will get into the automotive is Teo.
Reeling from her discovery, Jae-won beelines straight for Quickly-young, however his fitness center informs her that he’d terminated his membership three months prior. It immediately units off her paranoia, and when she tracks the placement of Quickly-young’s smartwatch, she’s dealt her third and most devastating blow. Quickly-young and Yoon-jin are having an affair.
Jae-won’s barely in a position to pull herself collectively for a piece occasion, and he or she wanders the streets aimlessly afterwards. Interspersed between are snippets of an interview, the place she credit her success to her persevering father, her devoted husband, and her supportive colleagues. Oof. All that has crumbled to mud in a mere on the spot, and Jae-won breaks down into hysterical laughter and heartrending sobs because the rain pours down.
Barely has Jae-won recovered her composure when she receives a message from an unknown quantity: “Watch out. It’s harmful to be out alone at evening.” Then she notices a well-recognized automotive — the identical one which had abruptly swerved into her lane and nearly brought about an accident a couple of days in the past — and it’s all an excessive amount of for her to deal with.
She nearly seeks assist from a close-by police automotive, however she shortly offers up when she remembers her status is at stake. There’s no likelihood of a break for our heroine, although, as a result of her assailant is after her as soon as once more. Along with his reappearance, we’re caught as much as the drama’s opening scene, and he tosses Jae-won over the bridge and into the waters under.
Fortunately, she’s swiftly rescued. When she wakes up within the hospital, she’s surrounded by the three males who’ve betrayed her — all donning their deceitful masks and feigning concern. As Jae-won gazes up at them, their lies recent in her thoughts, she vows to make them endure the identical hell they’ve put her by means of.
Oh, boy. I needed to love this, however because the episode unfolded I discovered I couldn’t fairly connect with the story. It’s all very… abrupt? The sudden tonal shifts don’t do the drama any favors, both. I do know the double-crossing is the premise of the story, and we have to get the setup out of the way in which, but it surely seems like we barely had any time to connect with our essential characters. Consequently, their betrayal doesn’t reduce fairly as deep.
It’s a pity, as a result of I wish to like these characters. Jae-won could also be a workaholic fueled by the fervour for her craft, however she’s additionally a thoughtful boss and loving spouse. Her enterprise started from the dream of making cozy furnishings for her household, which speaks to how heat her coronary heart is. Jang Nara is doing a stunning job of balancing assured assertiveness with winsome appeal, and I used to be already rooting for Jae-won from the get-go.
Alas, the present’s overly-brisk pacing undercut Jae-won’s characterization. We’re informed that she’s been stalked long-term, however we don’t expertise it alongside her. All we’ve seen to this point is a passive-aggressive flower basket from somebody who signed off as “Ami,” which makes Jae-won’s sudden panic and paranoia really feel considerably overwrought. If her intense response was meant to distinction her earlier confidence, then I believe it went just a little overboard, leading to two dissonant sides of Jae-won that I couldn’t fairly reconcile.
Proper now, the narrative may be very a lot The Rely of Monte Cristo, and if the present desires to ship a equally thrilling revenge mission, I hope it commits to the bit and goes all-out in its vengeance schemes. Both that, or there must be much more depth to the motivations behind the betrayals. In any other case, the present would have pointlessly sacrificed its potential goodness (home husband Sohn Ho-joon!), and our leads deserve higher than a half-baked story.
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