why can't people be rightfully mad with those ones who wronged them?

this could have been an interesting watch because of the storyline where she got deceived into getting married to a different man. the fact that she was trying to get her divorce papers regardless of how would she look as a divorcee and her economic situation make for an intriguing show. haitang had to put up with horrible mistreatment from everyone on the family (except yuexuan, and only because he actually realized how he wrong her), having to live together with a man that she have never met before and hadn't agree to marry with. you could actually see how her entire character changed from those initial episodes where she was always in good spirits to downright be miserable.
after she finally got her divorce papers, i keep thinking that she either would get revenge or simply cut off ties with the whole family. but of course she couldn't stay mad nor be indifferent towards them because according to this show you have to be forgiving regardless of what they did to you.
in fact i initially didn’t even wanted that yuexuan and haitang to be together because what he did was actually unforgivable. for me, even though it was nice seeing that he apologized and was genuinely remorse, it was not enough for them to be together. yet the more everybody (especially the lang family) wanted to pull them apart the more i actually wanted for them to be together, because in all honestly even though i hated yuexuan after the wedding i started to like him once they told us he was adopted because it become then evident how he was treated by his family so i couldn't 100% blame him.
the more they showed us his supposedly "good" relationship with the lang family the more i realized the microagressions that he suffered from them (minus the sister, who actually treated him as her older brother). the fact he didn't even noticed (or maybe simply ignore) that there was a vast difference from the way he was treated that the way yueming was treated. i was honestly just feeling sad to see yuexuan giving all his energy everytime for the family and the company only to be blamed for all the bad situations and being reminded repeatedly that he is *actually* not a lang.
to see him feeling better and not be taking by those negatives comments while he was with haitang was actually quite sweet, i keep wanting for him to just literally move out of his family's house and go live with haitang and both of them never having to relate themselves with the lang family, but once again we couldn't have that.
at the end these two putting their lives at risk for yueming –from all people–, i was just furious by then.
not a single apologie or some sort of amendment from anyone, just the lang family saying we did bad stuffs :/ and them going with their lives as if it was nothing. it was just awful.
honestly the lang were just so evil i keep wanting the villain to actually win (until he started just doing way too much evil things) and lang li chun to dissappear.
i thought several times to just drop this but i actually liked haitang and yuexuan, and i always kinda finish shows even if it's making me angry. either way you can watch it for those two because there is definitely not another good thing.

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Almost a perfect show only to be ruined by two things.

this could have been easily of my top 3 favorite kdramas but it left me completely disappointed. i do think it has a probably one the best use of comedy I have seen in kdramas and that's why i was just so mad when i finish it because i cannot call it my favorite comedy kdrama.
one of the two things that took away my enjoyment was the main couple. at first it seemed like some sweet-simple-like-romance until we are told the way they met and that's when it stopped being romantic and become gross. the age gap and the dynamic relationship makes enough for not to like the main character, as he is after all the only guilty in the relationship. i simply tried to ignore him but he is THE main character, which is kinda hard not to notice him.
yet i was ready to be oblivious because my main focus was on looney. and here is where it comes the second thing that annoys me: looney's ending literally ruined everything for me. i mean everyone got if not a happy ending, at least a hopeful ending (captain yoo) but it has to be the gay character who simply couldn't be happy. not only this show had already depicted that the "best" way of dealing with an addicted person was apparently sending them to jail (which it does more harm that good) but at the end we couldn't see him having at least some hopeful ending with his partner. it was honestly just nasty. everything that i have loved of this show (minus the main couple) was simply thrown away by this decision.
and that's why i can't just give it a higher rating.
(sidenote: but they couldn't give us either a gay character to mend their mistakes in hospital playlist?)

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not part of vincenzo nation i’m afraid.

i started this right after i finished watching arthdal chronicles (which make me a song joong ki fan) and also hearing all those good praises for this show i decided to watch it, and it started good to be honest, it made me laugh at the beginning and i have always like the “fighting evil with evil” type of stories which is not that typical in kdramas. however afterwards it become so disappointing and very dragging (almost hour and a half per episode!), big flaws really started to show, the whole concept of the story just kinda fell apart and by the time you reach episode 20 you are already tired of it all. it took me almost a year to finish this. it’s sad to think that what i initially enjoyed become so tiresome to watch. this show really had so many potential and it’s completely wasted.

but well;

about song joong ki’s acting though i like it and i kinda accept him playing a mafia character i feel he does a much better job in arthdal chronicles in which he plays *2* different characters (i believe it’s his best work so far), i’m inclining to think the fault is on the script, which just reinforces the missing opportunity of what this show could have been.

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my one [big] issue.

this obviously has a LOT of issues but i actually had fun watching it so i don’t mind most of them, i finish it in less than a week and i enjoyed most of the time.
however there is something that bothers me specifically and it’s that i just can’t be 100% on board with this romance when we know that his feelings were forced that way. like i do believe he felt some sort of remorse/guilt (and that’s a stretch) before the geumganggo because he abandoned her when she was a kid so he definitely does threat her differently (like him fixing the umbrella) but that’s still not love.
and it’s not that i don’t like her character (though she is so badly written, like she truly had the worst character writing). i wanted her to be safe and that’s why i understand that at the beginning she had to give him the bracelet, but she should have taking it off of him a couple of episodes later and simply go with the original deal they made in ep1 and afterwards he could had still fell in love her, it would have feel natural and more deserving of him feeling heartbroken.
or if they wanted to go with the whole “its necessary to use the geumganggo in order to protect her and save the world” they could have made someone else to put the spell/bracelet on him and make it so he would start loving her and therefore having to protect her, and also making so in a way that she can’t take the bracelet off even if she wants to, that way at least it means that she is not the one who has the control of the geumganggo.
but we instead have to watch how she doubts all the time whether or not his feelings are real yet we already know they are not real, at the end he simply gave up and the show wanted to sell us this as if it was true love. we are told several time how the bracelet can actually harm him or even kill him yet in every moment she refuses to take it off.
there is a time when he tells her that she must not love him enough because she doesn’t want to remove the bracelet and that for him the geumganggo is actually a prison, i’m sorry but after those lines how can i believe this a real love story?

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Taxi Rainbow Team undecided....

in one place we have the Taxi Rainbow Team who every one of the squad have experience at first hand what its like to lose a love one in a very violent way. they know how the system does not help the victims and consequently the family of the victims. therefore they have to spend their days knowing they will never get justice. that the system was never there to help the victims but to protect the bad guys. with that they decide to take revenge in the name of those who can't, with their own methods, outside the law, their ways can even be said to be derived from morality;

in the other hand we have Prosecutor Kang Ha Na who believes bad guys needs to get punish through law and the law only, any other method will make you as bad as them. she is the shining example of what "justice" is —rightfull, law abiding—. you see, she's the good cop, the one that follows the rules, can't get corrupted and works hards to get the villains in jail. she's different from the others —which can include even her sunbae— because she can see what is "right" and what is "wrong". therefore for her The Taxi Rainbow Team is in the wrong, The Taxi Rainbow Team broke the law so they deserve to be punish as well. in fact this particular 'case' of a Taxi Driver who kidnaps bad guys deserve her full attention. because for her if you don't follow the law —or rather, the system— then you need to be judged.

yet she watches over and over again how the system she so much believes in is unreliable, unable to actually help those who need it and rather benefits those who don't deserve it. but you see for her it's not the system, it's the people who utilizes the system in benefit of the bad guys. even when she's the one who requires the service of The Taxi Rainbow Team she's unwilling to accept that is the system that it doesn't work and has never worked. she even managed to give them a lecture about how wrong their methods are and gets to be the one who helps them to punish "rightfully" the bad guys at the end of the show.

the Taxi Rainbow Team finally decides —with a little bit of help of Prosecutor Kang Ha Na— that bad guys go to jail because apparently the prision reform is "helpful" and therefore they are respecting the law. that their ways have crossed the line so there was no need anymore for the company to continue with that project. that bad guys are to be left to the police because apparently they actually are "useful". and with this new "realization" they part their ways....

....but no longer after, they reopen the The Taxi Rainbow project?

does it means that they realize —once again— that the system truly will never be there for the people? that as long as they live in a capitalistic society the system would be there only to give profit to the powerful and therefore the non privileged are set to suffer? that at least the little support they offer help the victims in a way....?

....yet we find that now Prosecutor Kang Ha Na is part of the team. does it means then even though they will follow with the Taxi Rainbow activities they'll do it according to the law and therefore they are given their hopes on this flawed system?
the fact that Ahn Go Eun decides to become part of the police reinforces the idea that they have decided somehow to believe in the system, making then this just another cop propaganda show and therefore undermining how these cases both in here and real life are wrongly handled, which makes you wander then what's the point of this show?

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