Maestra: Strings of Fact: Episodes 3-4
by mistyisles
Maintain onto your sheet music, people — we’re veering sharply into makjang territory as a betrayal rocks our heroine’s world and long-kept secrets and techniques teeter on the sting of discovery. However she’s removed from down for the rely, as a result of so long as she’s upright and respiration, nothing goes to come back between this conductor and her music.
EPISODES 3-4
After a prolonged evaluation of final week’s occasions, we bounce again for a more in-depth take a look at Pil’s affair with French horn participant LEE AH-JIN (Lee Shi-won). Pil had promised to interrupt issues off with Se-eum, solely to depart Ah-jin hanging as soon as Se-eum truly received again on the town. Therefore, it was Ah-jin who, out of jealousy, lured Se-eum to witness the stairwell makeout session. Additionally value noting is that Jung-jae is aware of in regards to the affair, which is why he tried to sabotage each the orchestra live performance and Se-eum’s marriage. To spare her the heartbreak, he claims. (Nonetheless doesn’t make him any much less controlling, I say.)
Within the aftermath, Se-eum ignores Pil’s panicked makes an attempt to clarify, in addition to Jung-jae’s unhelpful makes an attempt at comfort, and wanders off to drink her sorrows away. Jung-jae finds her later anyway and places her up in a resort for the night time. She shouldn’t be grateful.
Within the morning, Se-eum returns dwelling, the place Pil has been anxiously ready. He launches into his clarification, by some means managing to each come clean with his “mistake” and blame his infidelity on her as a result of “she by no means visited and he was lonely.” Then he hammers the nail in his personal coffin by pointing to her previous relationship with Jung-jae as if it’s proof that she was additionally going behind his again.
To Ah-jin’s dismay, Se-eum pulls herself collectively and doesn’t even miss a day of labor. When Ah-jin hints that Se-eum ought to stop for his or her mutual consolation, Se-eum tells her to depart her private life at dwelling and keep away from giving Se-eum a (skilled) motive to kick her out.
However bother continues to be afoot, as a result of oboist KIM BONG-JU (Jin Ho-eun) additionally noticed Pil and Ah-jin within the stairwell, and he leaks the photographs he took on-line in trade for a provide of medicine (apparently a standard apply for him). The following scandal engulfs not solely the concerned events however your complete Han River Orchestra, to the purpose that Jung-jae has to vow his firm’s executives that he’ll personally cowl the price of damages.
So Se-eum takes issues into her personal arms. In a televised interview, she declares the photographs pretend and expresses unshakable belief in Pil as a accomplice in each life and music. What’s extra, she pronounces that her orchestra is about to carry out his latest composition of their very subsequent live performance.
That is information to Pil, contemplating Jung-jae has simply fired him for failing to jot down any new music over the previous few years. He’s in a droop, and having his affair uncovered actually isn’t making the music circulation any simpler. However whereas Se-eum has accepted the top of her marriage, she’s not going to let something wreck her orchestra, so she exhibits up at Pil’s dwelling to assist him end the piece. They pull a number of all-nighters to do it, however ultimately, they’ve a completed piece and Pil has a renewed appreciation for what an important factor that they had collectively.
That’s when Ah-jin arrives and slaps an ultrasound picture down in entrance of Se-eum, demanding that Pil determine between them proper right here and now. Se-eum musters a flat, “Congrats. You all the time needed a child.” And Pil drags Ah-jin outdoors to ask for time to consider it. Which is in itself a solution.
Se-eum resumes rehearsals with the brand new piece, minus Ah-jin and Bong-ju, the latter of which was kidnapped by Jung-jae’s minions for publicizing the scandal. Jung-jae hits Bong-ju proper the place it hurts — he reviews him to his assemblyman father, who promptly locks Bong-ju in his room so he can’t trigger any extra bother.
Simply as Se-eum settles into a brand new groove of pretending every part is ok, her automotive will get T-boned by none aside from Ah-jin. Everybody, unborn baby included, survives the crash, however Se-eum’s arm is damaged. Nonetheless, solely her father is ready to persuade her to remain within the hospital and recuperate. Se-eum is decided to conduct the brand new piece throughout the live performance itself, however requests that the conductor she changed fill in for her within the meantime, because the musicians already know and belief him.
Pil learns belatedly about Ah-jin’s involvement, and tells her they’re by — essentially the most he’ll give her to any extent further is baby help. Ah-jin insists the accident was attributable to failed brakes… which seems to be true, for those who interpret “failed” as which means “intentionally minimize.” She factors the detective to Se-eum as a potential perpetrator, however there’s no proof to help or disprove the declare.
In the meantime, Se-eum’s father gently tries to persuade her to endure blood checks whereas she’s hospitalized. Her mom, it seems, has a hereditary illness that causes deterioration of reminiscence and motor expertise. Se-eum prefers to not know if she’s inherited the situation till and except it renders her utterly unable to work.
Her refusal of checks pings Jung-jae’s radar, since she did the identical again once they had been relationship. It doesn’t take him lengthy to seek out Se-eum’s mom and be taught all about her situation — and he decides to confront her about it proper when she’s about to step onstage for the live performance.
There’s lots to unpack right here. I’m guessing Se-eum’s mom tried to kill her in a warped try at “saving” her from this horrible illness. Which, when mixed with Jung-jae’s makes an attempt at fixing issues for her (often towards her will), may make for an attention-grabbing dialog about what it actually means to have somebody’s greatest pursuits in thoughts.
On the similar time, this probably unavoidable destiny explains Se-eum’s laser give attention to making absolutely the most of her profession whereas she will be able to. And, whereas I’m undecided she’s let herself assume this far upfront, it additionally makes dropping her religion in her husband that rather more devastating in the long term. Now that I give it some thought, although, I’m curious if she sees the “stunning tragedy” depicted of their “Sunflower” piece as a metaphor for his or her relationship or for her profession. Or each.
On that observe, this week did an important job of displaying why Se-eum and Pil made such an important crew within the first place — and the way proper Se-eum was when she known as Pil a coward who offers up on the first signal of issue. If he does intend to win Se-eum again, he’ll must do a whole lot of rising in that division.
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