Love is for Suckers: Episodes 3-4
by Dramaddictally
If this drama hasn’t already made you a sucker, I don’t know what to say. I find it irresistible! We flip down the humor only a tad this week and take a extra melancholic tone. However the theme of late-30s love continues sturdy with a relatable heroine who needs all of it, and eventually looks like she simply would possibly get it. In the event you’re on the lookout for real looking 30s dilemmas, unrealistically handsome buddies to lovers, or Choi Siwon in board shorts, you’ve discovered your match.
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To select up the place we left off, the kiss doesn’t occur (besides in Jae-hoon’s head, however we’ll get to that later). Nonetheless, the absent kiss offers us numerous details about how our leads actually really feel about one another. Yeo-reum puckers proper up, able to go for it, whereas Jae-hoon will get himself out of there instantly (he’s too tempted). Each are kicking themselves within the morning at how awkward they’ve made every part, as they attempt to act regular.
Irrespective of how awkward issues could seem, Jae-hoon continues to be the primary individual Yeo-reum calls when her father is rushed to the hospital. However Jae-hoon is with a affected person and may’t choose up, so Yeo-reum begins to depart on her personal. As luck (or whole creepiness) would have it, In-woo is outdoors her home and gives to drive the few hours to Chuncheon so she will be together with her dad and mom. When Jae-hoon sees his missed calls, he has no hesitation in calling again, however Yeo-reum is simply too tied up by then to reply.
When her dad is in secure situation, Yeo-reum and In-woo drive again to Seoul and get a number of issues off their chests. In-woo apologizes for the way in which he left three years in the past and Yeo-reum says it’s nobody’s fault, and that they had been each very emotional. He says he’s regretted it ever since, and Yeo-reum absolutely appears extra relaxed with him than she did earlier than.
After they arrive to her home, Jae-hoon watches from upstairs as In-woo is available in at 1AM for ramen (however, like, actual ramen). Clearly jealous, Jae-hoon begins making as a lot noise as potential, dropping dumbbells, vacuuming, dancing to hip-hop — and succeeds in disturbing a kiss earlier than it happens. Previous to all of the racket, In-woo had simply been telling Yeo-reum that he’s watched all her exhibits, and he hasn’t gotten over her.
When In-woo lastly leaves, Yeo-reum marches upstairs to ask Jae-hoon what the hell he’s doing and likewise will get an opportunity to inform him about her father being within the hospital. Jae-hoon turns severe quick and apologizes for not with the ability to take her name earlier. The subsequent day, he calls her dad and mom, sends them lunchboxes, and speaks to her dad’s physician to verify all is okay. He additionally needs to contribute towards the hospital invoice. Jae-hoon tells Yeo-reum all this when he’s referred to as her over to place potato slices on his sunburned again and their awkwardness dissolves into aegyo. It appears for a second that issues are again to regular between them.
After the evening she nearly kissed In-woo, Yeo-reum will get excited concerning the prospect of seeing him once more — squeeing together with her buddy about it at a jjimjilbang — and never even mentioning the almost-kiss with Jae-hoon. She says she likes the familiarity with In-woo and feels prefer it’s been eternally since anybody checked out her like that. Her buddy encourages her to get again with In-woo, whereas secretly plotting to get her and Jae-hoon collectively by urgent Jae-hoon to admit. Jae-hoon admits he has emotions for Yeo-reum typically but it surely’s not sufficient to behave on.
In the meantime, In-woo is all about performing on his emotions. He invitations Yeo-reum to dinner, the place she solemnly asks why he hasn’t moved on. On the stroll residence, he pulls out a hoop and asks her to marry him once more, saying “I’ve at all times been in love with you.” She’s shocked and isn’t able to reply. She takes the ring (however doesn’t put on it), needing time to determine. When she tells Jae-hoon, he’s offended, asking the place In-woo has been for the final three years. However Yeo-reum is extra sensible: she’s 37 and he’s 40; in the event that they’re going so far they need to do it with marriage in thoughts. Yeo-reum needs to get married — and she or he is aware of Jae-hoon doesn’t.
In-woo begins to attempt to woo Yeo-reum by sending items to her workplace within the type of large balloons that say “Marry Me” and costly footwear “for her to put on when she involves him” (I imply, the man’s bought sport). Yeo-reum goes out of her strategy to get the balloons residence by means of elevators and buses (and I can’t assist however consider how she refused the enormous bouquet that Jae-hoon purchased her, claiming it was too massive for the workplace). When her balloons get caught in a tree, Jae-hoon helps her seize them and walks them residence, despite the fact that he’s mad about them being from In-woo.
In a really odd change, In-woo goes to see Jae-hoon and says to not get in the way in which of him and Yeo-reum. He thinks Jae-hoon resides upstairs as a result of he likes her — he ought to get misplaced or come on the scenario like a person. Together with the buddy who informed Jae-hoon to admit, this interplay pushes him additional towards his emotions for Yeo-reum. In a remaining act, he tells Ji-yeon — who actually, actually likes him—that he’s not fascinated by her, ending any ambiguity and liberating him as much as pursue Yeo-reum.
Lastly feeling prepared, he goes to satisfy Yeo-reum after work on a wet day, catching her underneath an umbrella. And, oh, the look! (What are you doing to me, Siwon?). However In-woo exhibits up on the identical time with an umbrella and a large teddy bear (why is every part outsized?). Yeo-reum goes with In-woo and says she’ll get ahold of Jae-hoon later. Within the automotive, she learns that In-woo doesn’t consider in friendship between women and men, so if she chooses to marry him, she’ll be giving up Jae-hoon too.
She says sure. They begin to plan their marriage ceremony and Yeo-reum appears to be like so completely satisfied that I can’t assist however smile too, even when I’m rooting for Jae-hoon. And Jae-hoon has the identical downside. He needs to inform her how he feels, however how can he? She’s radiant with In-woo. One evening, he runs to her, considering of all of the issues he ought to have mentioned and performed to inform her how he feels (and we get to see what that kiss would have appeared like), however when he arrives, she and In-woo are completely satisfied and laughing and he can’t.
On the marriage day, when the ceremony is about to start, Yeo-reum tearfully stands in entrance of all of the friends in her bridal gear and calls the entire thing off. We don’t know why, however there are solely two actual choices. Both she’s had a change of coronary heart about Jae-hoon, or the random New York woman that confirmed as much as see In-woo has prompted a significant complication. I’ll go together with the latter provided that we had a lesson on the love lifetime of Klimt in the course of these episodes. Ji-yeon’s professorial query to her artwork college students was, “Why did he love her and but harm her?”
If it’s potential, I feel I preferred these episodes much more than final week. They really feel very self-contained and will even stand alone as a film. Between Episodes 3 and 4, we get all of the beats of a regular romantic comedy, from the eternally buddies disrupting their relationship with an almost-kiss, to the male lead actually operating to inform the feminine lead how he feels. Even that take a look at the tip between Jae-hoon and Yeo-reum was sufficient to be the beginning of one thing between them. Though, don’t get me flawed, I’m nonetheless on the sting of my seat for extra episodes!
I really like that this drama is absolutely hitting the appropriate notes for late-30s dilemmas, and I used to be moved by practically every part that occurred. When Jae-hoon informed Ji-yeon he’s not , after she was pursuing him so laborious (and so sweetly), I felt for each of them. And when In-woo proposed to Yeo-reum, it made whole sense to me why she would need that. The love of her life reappears and nonetheless loves her. Now she will get her profession and the person she needed to marry with out selecting between them. I perceive why she says sure.
On the identical time, the drama can be taking part in on different points of getting older. Yeo-reum’s dad will get sick, she goes by means of a traumatic occasion by speeding to the hospital to be with him, and her dad and mom begin worrying about her being alone after they’re gone. She’s worrying about it too. Despite the fact that she admits she’s thought of Jae-hoon previously romantically, she’s considering virtually. And, I’ve to say, my favourite line is when Yeo-reum is making an attempt to win a stuffed animal from a claw machine and says, “I’m making an attempt to undertake a pet bear as a result of my life is so lonely.” It may need been a throwaway line — or actually unhappy sounding — however I laughed uncontrollably, as a result of it simply rang true.
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