This review is more for the people who already watched the show and want to hate on Tae Woong; this ethnic household is a Tae Woong hate zone and a Tae Woong hate zone only. Plus, if you haven't watched a 12 year old K-drama classic, that's a little bit on you (this is my plea for you to go to Viki and watch Reply 1997 RIGHT NOW!)

After a recent rewatch, it's like watching this show with adult eyes has made the entire Tae Woong storyline even more insane, which begs the question: who the heck saw this being written, produced, directed, acted, edited and STILL went, "Ohhh yeah, a little more of this, nice, nice, nice." EVERYTHING about Tae Woong and his insanely random and creepy "love" for Shi Won was poorly thought out and irrelevant.

To start off, the Sung Song Joo storyline...because, why. I'm 1000% sure Shi Won was supposed to be an only child but they wanted to shove in a sad past for Tae Woong for somewhere and- what do you know! - why not give Shi Won a DEAD SISTER that he loved? A DEAD SISTER that is first mentioned in episode 8. A DEAD SISTER that doesn't show up in any of the family's official pictures in the living room. A DEAD SISTER that is never mentioned, even in passing, EVER. A DEAD SISTER that dies in a bus crash... and there is ZERO MENTION OF THIS ever even when Shi Won takes the bus alone to Seoul to go to college and tells her mother "don't worry, it's not like I'm going to die or something." Ma'am...the beating and lectures I would get. The agony from my family. And yet, no mention of her DEAD SISTER that DIED this way.

And Song Joo could have been the perfect reason for Tae Woong's misplaced love and obsession with a CHILD 10 years younger to him, especially when he mentions he likes Shi Won's spunk and finds her pretty. The arc could have been about unresolved trauma, lost love, and moving on...instead, he "gives Shi Won up" to his brother? NONSENSE, when she barely liked him at all! You didn't have a fighting chance, uncle-o! OOO the way that "plot twist" made me so mad because he was the one who decided to be a creep and pursue his younger brother's best friend, a CHILD he watched being born and raised, and didn't think for once about his brother's feelings on the topic. Heck, he wanted to TIE DOWN a CHILD 5 minutes before she moved away to college because he loved her that much? NONSENSE! NOOOONSENSE! That's a groomer talk.

The reveal that Shi Won and Yoon Jae liked each other was frankly the most hilarious part of the whole show for me, because tell me why a shittier, uncle version of Oscar Fishtooth from Fish Hooks looked like he was SLAPPED when he heard about it, like this was something SO shocking and outrageous. Like he doesn't get absolutely mogged by his younger, more attractive, more age-appropriate brother. When I catch the writer who put their entire sweat and tears into trying (and FAILING) to convince me this botox peasant was attractive, on God,,, its on SIGHT.

I am his BIGGEST hater, if Tae Woong has no haters I am dead. That weird thing he does with his lips every 2 minutes, where he purses them forward and smiles with 30% teeth capacity, all while serving goofy Justin Beiber in his Youtube era, makes me want to donate my eyes. Because any universe where I have to watch a minimum of 10 extras in the show talk about how hot this fruit seller-looking uncle with the fashion sense of Chinese mob boss #3 is not one I want to witness.

I wish this character died. The end <3

PS: I'm never changing the rating for the show bc I would never do my king and queen Jung Eun Ji and Seo In Guk like that, I love you guys <3