Myungsoo Sly and Single Again Myungsoo
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Sly and Unmarried Once again: Episode 1
by awcoconuts
Sly and Single Again, or Cunning Single Lady, is the newest in the trendy category of divorcee rom-coms. Nosotros meet the 2 leads who are in their mid-30s and were one time blissfully married. The union doesn't last long; the man continues to fail at his business ventures, and his wife becomes tired of working multiple jobs to keep them both afloat. The ultimate irony is that afterward she chooses to end their marriage, he goes on to become a hugely successful businessman.
It's a Wed-Th MBC drama, but the first two episodes aired dorsum-to-back on Thursday night due to Miss Korea ending on Wed. Sly and Single Once more faced some stiff competition as it aired the aforementioned night as the the Yous From Another Star finale, and therefore it premiered at v.iv% in viewer ratings.
EPISODE 1 Recap
In voiceover, we hear Mom telling her girl NA AE-RA (Lee Min-jung) that a woman has two opportunities in life: the first is to succeed on her own, and the second is to meet and marry a good man. Mom continues her lecture as the two sit preparing food for the family unit's restaurant. Mom tells her to be selective virtually who she dates and to curb her quick temper, at which Ae-ra flares up indignantly.
Mom points out CHA JUNG-WOO (Joo Sang-wook), a nerdy-looking restaurant patron, and says admiringly that he's supposed to be an splendid computer science student. Ae-ra later notices him dozing off in the restaurant and laughs to herself.
Dad and Oppa raucously enter the restaurant, clearly having had a few drinks. They inquire Ae-ra to bring them soju, to which she snaps back that they can get it themselves. They continue singing loudly (Cho Yong-pil's '80s classic "Leopard of Mt. Kilimanjaro") and Mom rushes up to Dad, smacking him for being so boozer.
Nosotros see her brother lying on the flooring of his room, watching an inappropriate video with his earbuds in. He'southward just reaching his hand under the covers when Ae-ra bursts in, grabs the laptop and smashes it to the ground. She looks downward in satisfaction at her handiwork and is gone in a flash with the damaged property, leaving her oppa startled and sputtering behind her.
Ae-ra brings the reckoner to Jung-woo, who happens to be in the restaurant once again, and Mom looks on approvingly as Ae-ra calls him Oppa, bats her eyelashes, and asks him to take a look at the laptop while shoving it into his easily. He'south startled but pleased by the attention, and stammers to himself that he'll have to take it home to work on it.
She invites herself over, and browses around while he is engrossed in fixing the laptop. To thank him, Ae-ra gives him a stack of coupons for gratis meals at the eating house. He declines, saying it was no problem. He gets the notebook to boot up and LOL, if it auto-launches the video her brother had been watching… and BAHAHA, certain enough, erotic noises offset emanating from the speakers. Ae-ra lunges to shut the notebook, at a loss for words in embarrassment, merely Jung-woo just laughs kindly.
Thus begins their dating relationship, and while Jung-woo clearly already had a trounce, Ae-ra definitely pursued him, giving Jung-woo extras at the restaurant and winking and flirting up a tempest.
Nosotros see her at his side when he passes his professional engineering exam, and time skips alee to life shortly after their wedding (and thankfully, Jung-woo'south horrible basin cutting is gone).
He builds a small model house for her and says that he'll piece of work hard and make lots of money to build her a house like it. The 2 are clearly smitten with each other.
Ae-ra gets together with her girlfriends, and they are in awe over an flat ane of the girls received equally a gift from her in-laws. That girl, OH BANG-Soon, apprehensive-brags that she's simply upset she has to pay more in taxes, every bit her in-laws are planning to give her and her husband another edifice too.
Ae-ra's best fried, KANG MIN-YOUNG, accidentally spills something all over Bang-shortly'south skirt, and she freaks out and angrily sniffs, "This brim costs more than your husband's one month bacon."
Ae-ra is almost to requite her a piece of her mind but Min-young silences her with a look, and does her best to smooth ruffled feathers between the friends.
Ae-ra takes a call from Jung-woo, and the other girls comment that Ae-ra married a good man as well: he has an impressive pedagogy, passed the national exam, and is on his way to becoming a civil servant (a respected position in Korea – it's quite difficult to get one).
Ae-ra tells them to terminate, pointedly saying she wouldn't want Bang-presently to feel bad because Bang-soon's hubby failed the examination 7 times, when Jung-woo passed it on his get-go try. They merchandise barbs filled with faux business organization, and thankfully (I'm suffering whiplash from all the back and forth), Ae-ra is off to see Jung-woo for dinner.
They're celebrating the 100th mean solar day since their hymeneals, and in the romantic dinner setting, Jung-woo asks Ae-ra if she doesn't regret marrying him. She says her dreams came truthful; she e'er wanted to be a housewife, and he had told her to marry him and then she wouldn't have to work anymore.
She goes on to say that he didn't make off also desperately either; she talks herself up, saying she'due south pretty, cooks well, has tons of aegyo, and had lots of suitors. He'due south aware of all that and reminds her of his promise when he proposed, that he would never let her regret her choice. (Famous last words!)
He tells her that on that note, he's made a decision for their future together, and wants her to confirm that she'll become along with his conclusion. She emphatically agrees, saying they're a couple who volition live out the rest of their lives together.
And he drops a bombshell: he handed in his resignation today. He goes on excitedly well-nigh launching a start-up, and already we can meet Ae-ra waver in her resolution to stick with him through thick or thin.
Ae-ra picks up several odd jobs as a waitress, a hustling door-to-door insurance salesperson, and a street clothing vendor. The two are forced to downgrade to a shabby apartment, and Jung-woo comes home one twenty-four hours to find that the lock code for the front door doesn't work.
He calls Ae-ra, apologetic about waking her, and she bristles, "The lawmaking doesn't work considering I changed information technology. Don't even think nearly coming home until you lot tin get investors and pay off all of our debt!" He starts spending nights at his threadbare function, and nosotros run into Ae-ra selling clothes on the street in winter, chilled to the bone.
She falls sick, and friend Min-immature comes to care for her, while Ae-ra sheds silent tears of desperation. Jung-woo comes home, and Min-young approaches him with an envelope of money. He refuses, but she insists, maxim that she heard their gas got cut off.
Jung-woo sits contemplatively and remorsefully amongst their holding, and craaaaaack, there crumbles the marriage, and their wedding photo frame shatters.
Fast-forward into the hereafter 3 years subsequently the divorce, when we see Ae-ra and Min-young attending Bang-presently'south kid'southward 1st birthday party. Ae-ra compliments Bang-soon on the success of her husband'southward businesses, and Bang-soon sniffs that she lost all interest in what was going on with Ae-ra after her divorce.
Ae-ra is rightfully at a loss for words, so Min-immature jumps in, saying that Ae-ra's doing fine and living with her now. Bang-before long asks if she's dating, and Ae-ra declares she doesn't have time to date. Yet when Bang-presently hints that ane of her husband'due south business partners is an eligible human, Ae-ra is all ears. She goes on about his desirable qualities, then mockingly reminds Ae-ra that she said she doesn't like entrepreneurs.
Equally they leave the political party, Ae-ra grumbles nigh how Blindside-soon likes to rub salt in wounds, but Min-young defends her, saying that Bang-before long is lending them the money for the security eolith on their apartment. Ae-ra is dismayed to hear it, just perks upward when Min-young offers to drop her off at piece of work.
At the high-finish boutique Ae-ra works at, a casting managing director for a reality show asks the director if she knows any pretty divorcees who could be a contestant for a single-again dating show.
Ae-ra walks by and a lite bulb goes off. The manager calls Ae-ra over, and the director says she'd never considered Ae-ra because she thought she'd never been married, merely every bit a divorcee, she'd be perfect for the dating show. Ae-ra turns the offer downwardly, proverb she probably wouldn't exist very popular.
Afterward, Min-young tells Ae-ra she should've taken it, but Ae-ra clamors, "When would I have the time to date? I'one thousand swimming in bills!" Min-immature is onto her ever playing pitiful considering she thinks she'll be pushed to help out with the living expenses, because it gets worse whenever the bill comes.
Ae-ra smiles coyly and offers to go halfsies starting next month, because by then she'll be done recouping debts. Min-immature sighs exasperatedly that the debt wasn't even hers to begin with.
Ae-ra goes to visit Blindside-presently, who is her usual unpleasant self. She gives Ae-ra the money for the security deposit, and tsks-tsks that she should never have gotten divorced. Ae-ra tells her not to worry virtually the past, but Bang-before long wonders if Ae-ra hasn't heard the news.
She hands her a magazine with Jung-woo on the encompass, who'southward now and so successful he's practically a chaebol. Ae-ra reads the article in utter disbelief and about passes out from the shock.
Jung-woo is in the midst of accepting a major award for entrepreneurs. In his speech, he notes that his modest venture company, started four years ago, is now the creator of Korea's No.1 social networking application, and he plans to revitalize the mobile world.
He exits the ceremony and is interviewed past reporters, who inquire what the near difficult feel was during his challenging early venture days.
He flashes back to a time when Ae-ra chastises him for not receiving funding, and takes away the food she prepared for him, saying he doesn't deserve to eat. Jung-woo answers the question: "What was most difficult was the coldness and ridicule of the people I trusted."
The reporters enquire whom he's near thankful to? He starts off saying, "I'm thankful to many, but if I had to option 1 person…" He flashes dorsum to following Ae-ra to the courthouse to file divorce papers. He begs her not to, request her to give him another chance.
He pleads that the chances of funding are skillful for his new product, but she tells him bitterly she's lived similar this for iv years and cannot take it whatsoever longer.
He asks if they didn't agree to be a married couple, seeing each other through good times and bad, and she says, "No, y'all're wrong. My definition of marriage is you lot providing for me, non the other way around. Stop dragging me downwardly with you."
Nosotros return to Jung-woo, who finishes answering the interview question with gritted teeth, "The person I'thou near thankful to is the person who made me adamant to succeed, no affair what information technology took."
Cut to Ae-ra, head on table at a fried chicken and beer articulation, with Min-immature murmuring "unbelievable" in disbelief. Ae-ra is livid: "He was doing then well. That's why not a trace of him could be found for the past iv years, that icky jerk!"
Min-young is rational: "Yous divorced, why would he take shown up?" She asks Ae-ra if she's feeling jealous, which Ae-ra adamantly denies.
"No, I'm not jealous, I'm indignant. You know how hard I worked. I spent all these hours doing odd jobs, only then he could keep researching. In fact, he can thank me for his gratuitous texting idea!"
Jung-woo's flagship production, DonTalk, is a WhatsApp-similar text-over-data app. "It'south because I sent 200 texts out to sell insurance and we were shocked when we got the nib!" In flashback, we find Ae-ra telling Jung-woo angrily that instead of working on other projects, he should develop a way to send text messages for free.
She tells Min-young, "If he's got whatever decency, he should name me as the copyright owner!" Min-young brings her back downwardly to earth, calling her crazy and pointing out that she'south never even received a cent of alimony.
Ae-ra says that's considering he didn't have any money, and Min-young, always the vox of reason, tells her she shouldn't have split with him when he was so poor, and should've waited until he got rich. Ae-ra guzzles her beer and puts her stein downwards decisively, determined not to have the revelation of Jung-woo's success lying down.
In the next scene, her store manager puts in a call to the casting managing director, proverb Ae-ra has agreed to go on the divorcee dating show. Ha, so this is her revenge strategy?
Nosotros then get footage of a show-within-a-show, equally the divorcee dating special airs (Information technology's a parody of the bodily dating reality show Jjak). The captions are hilarious; just as clever as they would be on the actual show. We get a brief panning view of a grassy field by the ocean, where all of the contestants are sitting on blankets eating together. On the screen flashes the words: "It looks like a pretty picture, but the atmosphere is cutthroat!"
The camera zeroes in on the contestants: Ae-ra is sitting by herself (her caption dramatically declares that she's cold because she's all alone) while the others sit in small groups.
One woman tells the men that her male parent is badly looking for a son-in-police to accept over the business. At this, the homo next to her randomly flexes his biceps. The conversations continue like this, and haha, this is like the divorcee version of The Hunger Games, where, instead of emerging the sole victor, the goal is to pick off the other contestants until you lot end upwards with the about desirable partner.
The female competitors race and the kickoff to grab the flag at the end gets to cull a partner for a date. With the theme song from Chariots of Fire playing in the background, Ae-ra reaches the flag first and waves it around, victorious.
Subsequently in the bear witness, the homo who had been eyeing Ae-ra during her obstacle form run suddenly calls her out to talk. He turns out to be a dermatologist, and he gives Ae-ra some facial masks to put on her face up. Ae-ra is flattered and chooses him as her engagement.
As they take a walk together, the testify sets them up in a romantic light and fireworks suddenly appear in the heaven. Ae-ra says she wishes her life would explode like the fireworks higher up. Dermatologist reassures her that her life will exist like that, and that her prior fault only happened so that she could encounter a better human. She smiles up at him.
Cut to an interview, and Derm has only sugariness things to say about Ae-ra, how he wants to make her smile, and how he'd like to protect her. Ae-ra's besides interviewed: "I like the feeling of beingness taken care of; it's been a really long time since I've felt this way," and then she starts to go teary.
She explains her tears past saying she had a really tough fourth dimension in her marriage, and wonders how she had the misfortune of marrying her ex. She says with conviction that she doesn't ever want to meet a man like him over again, EVER (methinks the lady doth protest also much), and she just wants to be happy again.
Back at the bazaar, Ae-ra's co-workers compliment her on her successful stint on the bear witness and for landing Derm every bit a potential suitor. He's even ordered 100 of the store's latest wallets, and Ae-ra says airily that 1 of his sunbaes needed some VIP client gifts. Her manager teases that at this charge per unit, she'll get married adjacent calendar month. Ae-ra dismisses the thought, but non without an inkling of hope.
Second pb KOOK YEO-JIN (Kim Gyu-ri) finally makes her advent in a board coming together for Jung-woo's company, D&T Soft Ventures, during which they talk over increased contest for their app and ascension server costs. She concludes that the company needs to start charging for their service.
Jung-woo disagrees, and says his first priority is to build a great service, and if the platform is gear up correctly, sales will follow. He tells the lath to get their priorities straight, and exits the meeting.
He heads to his office, and Yeo-jin storms in after him, telling him he doesn't empathise that the investors are in an uproar. He asks if this is virtually her male parent, and tells her that he can pull his investment out then.
She says no, that she convinced her father to invest because she believed in him. Still, she's starting to tire of his stubborn ways, and he tells her to pull out now, since there's more to get sick of and he doesn't want to disappoint someone who's trusted him.
She scoffs and says that she tin can't even contend with him because her words aren't connecting. He says he doesn't similar to argue with women, and asks if she can't simply trust him. She says that she's won at least ane battle, in that he is acknowledging her as a woman.
We encounter Yeo-jin'due south father, President Kook (why hello, Hwi-kyung'due south dad from You From Some other Star), who is overseeing the firing of i of his old buddies. He lights upwards when Yeo-jin arrives home, merely she'due south testy and heads off to her room. He wonders why all the women he likes don't like him back.
Ae-ra and Derm accept plans to become out of town for the weekend to stay at a holiday house with his friends, a close sunbae and another dongsaeng. Ae-ra has brought a bottle of wine, and they brand the drive together in Derm's convertible.
The conversation turns to her ideal type, and she says her information technology would be someone who owned a vacation house in their destination boondocks. He says she's lucky, because she will run into her ideal man today, and she does a little internal squee.
They get in at the vacation house and information technology is gorgeous, but then a younger attractive girl makes a beeline for Derm, who reciprocates with fondness. Ae-ra stares at the two (her WTF expression is priceless), who are looking curiously couple-y. Oh no. Information technology seems like Derm has been a stand-in for Sunbae, who, well, looks like this:
Sunbae was the human who ordered 100 wallets from the shop Ae-ra works at, and according to Derm, has several other vacation homes. Sunbae wonders if Derm will have the time to holiday at his other villas, since he's been actually decorated.
Derm concurs: ever since he appeared on Sunbae's show, business organisation has been booming. He wonders if he should go on another time, and his girlfriend is clearly miffed, saying she only agreed to let him do it one time.
Ae-ra looks on in disgust, downs her glass of wine, and excuses herself to the powder room. She'south rightly incredulous and irritated that Derm lied to become on the bear witness to promote his do.
When Girlfriend lets her know they're leaving, Ae-ra says she'll grab her things, but Girlfriend says, "Y'all can't go, we're leaving so that yous two tin can spend some time together. Even though he looks like that, he'south really generous with his women. He even bought his ex-girlfriend an apartment."
Ae-ra hurries out later on the couple, and slaps Derm a good ane. "Practise I look that easy to you?" He's shocked, saying, "Isn't information technology nice if you have a sponsor, too? Isn't that why y'all followed me here? What, did you think I would marry you lot?" Girlfriend hands back the vino, proverb neither of them drink that cheap stuff.
They drive off, and Ae-ra walks domicile in the pelting, pitifully clutching the wine. She attempts to catch the bus, but even it abandons her. On her way home, the entrepreneurial awards ceremony is ambulation on a giant billboard.
Utterly down-hearted at seeing Jung-woo'southward successful, grin confront on the big screen, she turns and stops at a pojangmacha on her manner home.
Whilst downing soju, she overhears a nearby table discussing D&T Soft Venture's CEO and his divorce. They gossip nearly how the ex-married woman received alimony, and is at present demanding equity because the company is doing well. She's incensed because, every bit we know, she got nothing out of the marriage.
She goes upwards to them and threatens, "Who's spreading those kinds of lies?" 1 of the men pushes her and she falls to the ground. The men endeavor to leave, believing her to exist boozer, and in a fit of anger she launches a pig's foot at the man, which hits him smack in the forehead and knocks him out cold.
Min-immature arrives at the law office to retrieve Ae-ra, who is told by the officer that if they can't settle this, she could be charged with set on. She states that one of the men pushed her first, to which they argue that she came over and started causing a ruckus.
Ae-ra sputters that they were defaming her laurels as a woman, and the men belittle when she insists that she is the CEO's ex-wife they were talking about, and tell her to bear witness it.
When the officer asks her directly if she is truly the ex-wife, Min-young emphatically confirms, pointing to the men and maxim, "Y'all're all dead," merely Ae-ra, in a change of heart, says it isn't true. She is embarrassed by the situation, and appears not to want to bring her ex into all of this.
Jung-woo is hard at work in his home role when the phone rings. He answers, only to realize it isn't his current prison cell phone that's ringing, but his old one, which has been tucked away on a back shelf forth with the model firm he built for Ae-ra.
It'due south Min-immature, calling his old number from the station. She tells him it's urgent and asks him to come, but he says Ae-ra is nothing to her.
Ae-ra is moved to a holding cell, while Min-young desperately tries to placate the men so they don't printing charges. Ae-ra is fighting off a homo placed in the same cell when (cue heroic music and slo-mo action) Jung-woo arrives at the police station to salve the mean solar day.
COMMENTS
The first episode did a good job of introducing united states of america to the two leads, and giving us the history of Ae-ra and Jung-woo's relationship. Cheers, show, for giving information technology all to united states of america in the kickoff episode, versus making u.s.a. wait several episodes to encounter how the romantic bliss turned sour (ahem, Emergency Couple).
It had practiced pacing, merely the prove-inside-a-show, while agreeable, made the episode seem longer. The satirical take on Jjak made for a few laughs, and the writers made information technology work, yet the detour ultimately didn't seem to practice much to develop Ae-ra's character.
Ae-ra is pretty and confident, but somewhat of a simpleton and cocky-centered. She just wants to be a housewife, and when marriage is not what she expected, she tries for four years, and then throws in the towel. Lee Min-jung plays her well (she really excels at subtle and adorable facial expressions), but I'm not completely invested in the character yet. She's flawed and not completely likeable, and I tin can't help but think she didn't fight hard enough for her marriage.
Granted, life didn't turn out as expected, and she was upfront with her requirements from the onset of the relationship – but, she signed up for "better or worse." Perhaps I'm beingness too harsh; iv years of working yourself to the bone and shouldering fiscal responsibleness when you weren't expecting it could cause irreparable cracks in whatever relationship. Information technology's just that I felt no sympathy for her during her reality show interview, when she was in tears discussing how difficult life was during her wedlock.
Also, stay classy, woman! Don't talk poorly most your ex on national television! While the numero uno in her life is herself, she does take some redeeming qualities: she does have standards and didn't think twice about leaving Sunbae'due south house, and she feels pangs of embarrassment over her actions at the police force station. We'll see how her character develops over the side by side few episodes.
In the picayune we've seen of Jung-woo, he seems to be the improbable successful businessman; ane who is all the same a chip naïve in that he cares more about customer service than acquirement. Nosotros're shown that he's bitter about the way his marriage concluded, but at that place seems to exist something more…
He kept the model house and his quondam cell telephone: Is it because he has deeply hidden hopes of rekindling the relationship? Or is he and then bitter that he'southward held on to them in case the opportunity for revenge presents itself? It's the same question I'm left with as we end the first episode. Does he go far at the station because he still cares for her? Or volition this be a take a chance for him to stick it to her? Does he revel in the prospect of leaving her indebted to him? Mayhap it'southward a combination of all three.
Currently, the scales are tipped in Jung-woo'south favor, which makes information technology hard to root for our 2 leads to become dorsum together – and possibly we're non meant to. Nosotros see too little of 2nd female lead Yeo-jin to guess at her chances, just nosotros know she's interested in Jung-woo as a man. It's also early on to tell, merely perchance she'd make a worthier partner.
Or maybe we'll get to see a softer, more than loyal side to Ae-ra, or we'll find that Jung-woo's resentment has hardened and changed him into a different person entirely. I'm looking forwards to learning more nigh what'south in the hearts of both our leads.
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