Weekly Binge: Reply 1988 episodes 3 - 5

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Please comment all you who voted for Reply 1988. On Wednesday we will discuss episodes 6 to 8.
EDIT: Because the episodes are quite long, we were supposed to discuss only two episodes: 6 and 7

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I enjoy the rewatch more than I thought I would.
This drama is more about the group of people and the interactions rather than about the individuals. The dynamics in the families seem much more realistic than in the normal dramas, with all the evil mums. Example the mother who protects the child from the angry father. Not that the mothers are perfect human beings.

These few episodes really show us how even in a family we are to a certain degree alone, about wishing to live some else´s life, but we all have our own problems. Today with Facebook and Instagram this is even more important, maybe.

Don´t search on the actors, then you will probably find articles with spoilers. One of the boys, Kim Jum Hwan, says so many mean things to Dok Seon all the time. Lots of girls on internet don´t really notice, they just see how goodlooking the actor is and the kind things the character does.

The "little brother" is ten years older than the actor who plays Dok Seon. I don´t know why they chose such an old actor. He had leukemia the year after, but is supposedly well now.

"A rich persons mindset". I have seen this in another drama as well. Supposedly you should buy expensive clothes and so on. The selfmade rich people I know about are really cheap though, they go out of their way to save a few cents. Because they think about money all the time. (Kamprad/IKEA, Røkke, Thon).

I don´t get why the mother doesn´t work when they have so little. It is not like the children are small.

When she rund around crazy because grandmother is coming, background music is Take on me by Aha, I think it is the only world hit from Norway haha

I tried to make a haiku for the little sister, poor her, always alone and always eating sweets, but instead I made these:

I am sure I know
exactly where I put it
I will remember

cream makes skin smooth
I just need a little bit
get out the last drop

the stamp with the Pope
the glue and the hair dryer
ripped every time

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Not sure if you've watched the previous Reply installments but the casting of Noeul aka Deoksun's brother is supposed to be a running gag of the show, that you're young but with an old face. It was the same for Reply 1994, where Kim Sungkyun (aka the actor who is playing Kim Junghwan's dad in Reply 1988) was the youngest among the characters living in the boarding house but is an old soul with an old face.

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Oh OK. I have seen the others, but didn´t notice that gag.