#or because hjw's mom didn't recognize him after being in the hospital herself. tell me i'm seeing something that's not there pls

[pepi-nillo]

"just one ep" yeah yeah there's no only one ep in my be brainrot, so here's a few things from eps 14-16

to start: soup scene my beloved <3 one day i'll do an extensive analysis of the soup scene and it will the most useless yet emotional and passionate thing i've ever done

something that went over my head before is how they make a point to frame the garage of the han family house, that day jw bugs hkh's car. jw arrives in his car and gets in, the camera lingers on the garage, then jw goes out and the camera pans from the garage to the front door. gosh, this show and the attention to detail

it's so cool to see jwds start working like a well greased engine after lee changjin's interrogation before chief jung died. lee changjin walks out and they start talking about what they've learnt and bouncing ideas off each other. they really look like they've been partners for a decade

do haewon's actress is so good like. that lil councilwoman is absolutely crazy. the scene where she admits locking park jeongje up as a kid just because he annoyed her... literal chills down my back, i had the same reaction as pjj lol

(from the previous point: be characters are all so traumatized i want to hug them)

it's interesting how both Han make references to rabbits, jw with the "how wolves hunt rabbits" and hkh with the story of the hare and tortoise (i heard he used the same word as rabbit, so i guess they don't have a distinction in korean?). combined with the rabbit plushie from jw's flashback, either jw naturally had a rabbit phase or hkh has followed that story of "if the strong don't make a mistake the weak don't have a chance" so long that it fed jw's interest for rabbits. honestly for any other household the first one makes more sense, the kid getting obsessed with something and the whole family also learns about it, but if hkh didn't even bother to be around his son for more than a year, well... still, why would he be associated with the animal that loses in both stories? being hunted and not winning the race?

since we're talking about hkh, he's as much as a mess than jw but worse since he's been fucking up for 21 years, and only appears to be put together. makes jw being like his mom seem like a compliment instead of the insult he thought it was

and i really love the dialogue in these episodes. i know like three and a half korean words, but having a very vague sense of how characters address each other and their wording choices is pretty interesting and gives the scenes more meaning. jw using his good memory in his dialogue is a character trait i honestly love, and he's using it in his confrontation with hkh as a subtle way of manipulation even? using hkh's own words of "all of them have to go" against him so it drives home the point of "i am your son, you have to do this for me too", and it worked. the kid can use his braincells when he wants to lol. he's a good actor too! enough to make people see what they want to see

i really wanna hug park jeongje right now

also hjw's scene at the bathroom after chief jung died? amazing acting i love yeo jingoo. and the way he desperately scrubbed was the cherry on top of the emotional breakdown i love how relatable it felt

seeing dongsik play ppl like a fiddle and leave them right where he wants will never get old. gaslight gatekeep girlboss. also, they should've given him a metal bat from the start, he deserves it.

and this is more of a personal opinion/thought, but hjw and jihwa's relationship is underrated. she expressed worry about him after he went mia for a week after listening hkh confessingto killing yuyeon, looked almost betrayed when hjw got lee changjin out of interrogation and ofc, the texts after everything wrapped up and the invitation to nam sangbae's anniversary. their personalities are kinda alike but different enough to not get into each other's nerves too much (and i feel like post canon hjw is more prone to yield to the manyang ppl than before, after they convince him his face is welcome around the town), and no one can fight against older sister instincts lol. i don't know, it's not that big of a deal but they feel a tiny bit similar, in a "jihwa can learn to read him with a glance if he sticks around more" way, if she hasn't learnt to do that yet. quiet understanding maybe

final thoughts: this was such a bad idea. i have been, without exaggerating, sobbing for the past 15 minutes. the power of one "Juwon-ah" is strong enough to reduce me to a mess. it is 1am now and my tears are very salty. i'm so glad i decided to watch beyond evil today, that was very very soothing and i don't think i'll ever love anything the way i love beyond evil. it is rather hard to see through the tears so i'm not even gonna check what i just wrote. go rewatch beyond evil <3

the way hjw and dongsik have been shown side by side instead of face to face, symbolizing their partnership to bring justice with any resource instead of the confrontation stance of early episodes makes me crazy. early in the show it was all collar grabbing face offs, in these last episodes i saw today they were most often side by side, sometimes even talking sideways when they would've turned to fully face the other before. that really shows the mutual trust that snuck upon them. i think it was ep 15? the scene where they both got off from the elevator to jung cheolmun's office left a mark on me, i really like it for some reason

i'm gonna watch one BE episode as a compromise 🧘‍♀️