#but im curious to see if the producer decided to end the series or continue with 3 and soon 2

[babieken]

real talk tho, are they gonna wrap monmukgo with 3/6 being gone? like they seem to have recorded a good amount of content with the 5 of them but what happens when they run out? are the INTROVERTS still recording monmukgo????

i need to know....

[ginatries]

Week 3: Currently Watching

So I did not succeed in waiting 2 weeks for the final episodes of Our Beloved Summer (OBS). I did wait until Tuesday to watch both episode 13 and 14 back to back and these episodes weren’t mind-blowing in terms of development, but I think they were good for building up to the final 2 episodes. At least I hope so. OBS hasn’t disappointed me yet, so I think they will do a great job with the wrap up. 

There hasn’t been a dull moment yet. Everything that has happened has held some significance to the story, and they’ve circled to back to the moments that were seemingly insignificant. I’m curious what, if anything, will be shown about that last day of the documentary filming when they were in high school. I’m pretty sure the producer left the camera on to capture if anything would happen between the two of them as he ran back for another battery - I think that was just an excuse. I’m hoping we’ll get to see something, because Ji Woong changed his mind on filming the documentary after watching the recordings, so there had to be something there.

I also decided to re-watch the final episode of The Red Sleeve (TRS) and boy, was that a bad idea. It was just heartbreaking to watch Deok Im slowly lose herself. She lost her son and then her friend. It was also heartbreaking to watch San lose her. It was just an entire episode of pain and the ending did not bring much comfort. It was only after they lost everything and died that they were able to be together.

I was trying to think of another tragic love story, and one that I would compare TRS to would be Youth of May (YoM). 

***Spoilers for those who have not seen YoM yet***

Both female leads died young and the male leads had to continue living without them. What made YoM less tragic was that even if it was just for a short while, Hwang Hee Tae and Kim Myung Hee were able to love each other to the fullest. They were able to confess their feelings and share their love. Whereas with TRS, Deok Im hid her feelings to the very last moment. Even in death, in that last scene, she never said her feelings out loud.

TRS was so beautifully tragic. I plan to re-watch the entire series. There’s probably so much to pick out and analyze. I do hope Junho and Lee Se Young are able to do a modern drama at some point in the future - and please have it be a sappy rom com. 🙏