Never been much of a rom-com stan, except for that brief time when I was obsessed with Duckie getting Andie at the end of Pretty In Pink, because that's what happened in the novel(ization) and apparently in the original screenplay and because Duckie getting Andie was the ultimate Revenge of the Nerd, a fuck you to all the Cool Tables of life we will never get invited to. But at the end of the third episode, I was given over to whatever was budding between Bongseok and Huisoo so thoroughly, that the no-slouch Heroes inversion surrounding it often paled in comparison. Happened with another K-drama I loved, Happiness, where the arranged marriage between Sae-bom and Yi-hyun had me more on hooks than the zombie apocalypse it was really about. Happened, too, with The Leftovers, where, after all that rapture weirdness was said and done, it all boiled down to Nora and Kevin having that exhilarating cup of tea, in a feature-length finale that felt like its own autonomous film. When we got to the last three episodes here, though, I had become invested in, and was bawling my eyes out on, the other things that swirled around them. There's a lot more I want to talk about this show, from how ballsy its narrative structure is to how deft its sociopolitical nuancing gets to how it fleshes out every single character to how gleefully it subverts superhero (and even rom-com) tropes without rejecting its pleasures. But for now, I'm sticking with the implied ever after of Bongseok and Huisoo. Least until the second season.
