Can We Love? - Yes.
Can We Act? - No.
Eugene is fresh off her hit, A Hundred Year's Inheritance. (Can you believe that show won an award for best drama? Can you?) Uhm Tae Woong is fresh off his horrible mistake, The Blade and the Petal. It's understandable why these two actors have been paired together. They're both very popular and they both can't act.
There's nothing like starting off your drama with shrill screaming. Oh, it's high school girls. That explains everything and why it's (Answer Me) 1995. It's taking a real stretch of the imagination to buy Eugene as a teenager. Yoon Jung Wan and her friends are going to her mother's salon for a makeover to celebrate being accepted into college. (Mom is Jung Soon Ok, played by Kim Hye Ok.)
Mom does a horrible job, IMO. Now all the "teenagers" look like the 30 year-old women they really are. Hold on to your hats, kids, as we're about to make a time jump to 2002. Jung Wan and her friends are still shrilly screaming as they watch a soccer match. Jung Wan is mighty pregnant at this time. Her husband, Han Joon Mo (played by Shim Hyung Tak), is a bit of a nerd. Good grief, I didn't recognize one of Jung Wan's friends is played by Kim Yoo Mi of Heartless City.
Hold on to your hats again as we're zooming to the present. Jung Wan is divorced and working as a screenwriter. Her friend Kim Sun Mi (the part played by the aforementioned Yoo Mi) is an interior designer famous enough to be interviewed on TV. (Oh, Yoo Mi, what have they done to you? You were so slick and fine in Heartless City. Now they're making you look frumpy. I hope the DramaGods give you a makeover.)
Sun Mi is at a hotel getting frisky with one guy when Choi Yoon Suk (played by Park Min Woo, "Batman" from Scandal: A Shocking And Wrongful Incident) shows up. Sun Mi gives him the brush off, leaving the poor kid crying in the hallway. That's where he is when he's passed by Jung Wan and a television executive. She thinks they're coming to this hotel room for a business meeting. Are you really that naive at 39, Jung Wan? Since that job doesn't work out for her, Jung Wan must go to her fallback work at the grocery store. Hey, bills gotta get paid somehow.
Now it's time for Jung Wan and Sun Mi to check up on their other squealing friend, Kwon Ji Hyun (played by Choi Jung Yoon). Ji Hyun is married and a mother and seems to have it all. Those are the ones you have to look out for.
(You may be wondering, where's Uhm Tae Woong? He was shown briefly on the TV as he was given a directing award.)
Hold on to your hats, kids, as I'm about to time skip myself forward through this drama. So anyway, Jung Wan's ex-husband (who doesn't look so nerdy anymore) has got himself another girlfriend. She's a twit but she at least has a sensible brother in Ahn Do Young (played by Kim Sung Soo). Do Young is also in the entertainment industry and Jung Wan has a business meeting with him (NOT at a hotel) about her latest script. He's the one who brings up the idea of Jung Wan working with famed director Oh Kyung Soo.
Ji Hyun's mother-in-law (didn't I just see her in Princess Aurora?) is a bitch. What a surprise. Sun Mi overhears the guy she was getting frisky with talking smack about her.
Do Young takes Jung Wan to meet the director. Oh no, it's another empty hotel room. Jung Wan accuses Do Young of being a pervert. This is the embarrassing scene Kyung Soo walks in on. Sure that any hopes of a job are over, Jung Wan quickly leaves.
Blah, blah, blah, everyone is unhappy.
Ji Hyun is at a screening of Kyung Soo's award-winning film when she spots Do Young and has a definite "My first love that I gave up to marry a rich guy!" moment. Sun Mi goes to Yoon Suk to cry on his shoulder. A drunk Jung Wan gets into Kyung Soo's car, mistaking it for a time-traveling taxi, and cries that she wants to go to twenty years ago. Everyone cries. I'm crying. Feel free to cry.
Sun Mi goes to the home of Frisky Guy and trashes the place. Other stuff happens as I check out my Twitter page. Everyone's miserable and the episode ends.
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