: Episod 1~6 A Comfort to Each Other){kind=link}
※ This review contains spoilers.
Available on Disney+
I enjoyed this drama more than I expected. This was the first time I watched a drama Lee Sung-kyung starred, and she did better than my expectations. She expressed gloominess of her character. It was very convincing.
This drama reminded me of My Liberation Notes. Heavy atmosphere, live with bearing sorrow, but finding someone who gives solace. That’s exactly the kind of drama I love.
The story centers on a woman (Sim Woo-joo) who falls in love with the son of the woman who had an affair with her father. Why fall in love with an enemy’s son? The drama takes its time explaining this. Woo-joo’s growing attraction to Han Dong-jin and Dong-jin’s quiet acceptance of Woo-joo feel persuasive. The only part that felt unrealistic to me was how she managed to land an interview with such a rubbish cover letter. If I were the manager of HR, I would never interview someone with such cover letter.
Kim Young-kwang’s character(Han Dong-jin) is a man who knew his girlfriend was cheating on him but endured it for a whole year. Honestly, what kind of “consideration” is that, and for whom?
“ I let it slide when you cheated. I pretended not to know. So you shouldn’t have done this.”
That line made me laugh.
Did anyone ask him to overlook when she cheated? Did anyone ask you to pretend not knowing she had cheated? He did it for himself, and now he acts like it was some grand favor? Yes, Min-young was wrong to cheat, but to scold her with “I tolerated it, so now you owe me” logic makes no sense. It would’ve been better not to let it slide from the beginning. Betrayal is betrayal. That alone is reason enough to be angry.
Then there’s the line:
“I was born to be a little too human.”
“But still, you won’t fall apart.
You know how you can tell a lot about someone just by the way they walk?
That’s what I mean.
And you— you’ll never fall apart.
I know that.”
The way Han Dong-jin's expression when he heard this simple faith—how profoundly comforting such words can be.
I love stories like this, gloomy subdued romances where two people become each other’s salvation and comfort. ♡ It’s really worth a try.
Woo-joo continues to wrestle with her pity for Dong-jin, reminding herself that he’s still that woman’s son. By the end of episode 6, she discovers that the mistress moved into the house Woo-joo once lived in—and that it was Dong-jin’s family who drove them out. (That mother really is shameless.) And of course, she encounters Dong-jin there. Now he will finally realize who Woo-joo really is.
I’m excited to see how their relationship will tunnel its way forward, despite everything standing in the way.