It's Friday! Thank goodness! This week went by really fast and now I'm rewarding myself with a day devoted to being a couch potato - err- rather a bed potato? Either way, I'm going to burn my corneas as I snuggle in bed with double stuffed Oreos as I watch none other than Shut Up Flower Boy Band!! I'm determined to play catch-up with all the episodes, but I'm also sad because this is the penultimate episode, the second to last!
Episode 15 felt short and straightforward, so this review most likely will be too. At the beginning, each member is shown gradually going back to their old lives. Kyung Jong is back in Busan stuck with his mom at the fish market. Do Il is confined at the pool hall. Ha Jin is taking acting classes and Ji Hyuk is loping about the city commiserating over his sad life, with the exception of Hyun Soo who is in the process of making his solo album, but even he isn't happy. In fact, nobody in this episode is happy. Su Ah wants to be alone, while Seung Hoon....well, he's Seung Hoon and he's pretty much doomed himself to be miserable for the rest of his life.
Haha |
Mostly, I am so happy with the writers of this drama, because I can already see that they carefully planned this drama, and they don't intend to leave any strings untied. In this episode, Ji Hyuk confronts his past. And all this time I thought he was just born a brooding, moody, musician with an aptitude for making ramyun. Out of the blue, here comes his mother! Like I said, no strings left untied. The trouble was the conversation was a little bit hard to follow, because we, the viewers, have no background information about Ji Hyuk at all which leads to some inference. From what I can infer and I could be wrong, Ji Hyuk's mother abandoned him at a young age, because according to her, she "didn't want to pass on her poverty." Later on she marries a wealthy man, which explains why Ji Hyuk would have older brothers, but Ji Hyuk refuses to take his inheritance.So, naturally, he refuses his mother's offer to study music abroad etc. Nonetheless, I really appreciated this scene because part of knowing a character is knowing their background too, and nothing, so far, has left us wondering about the characters. Like peeling the layer of an onion, one by one, things are being revealed.
What kind of mother is she?! |
Someone doesn't know how to keep a secret. |
Awww....the band is back! |
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