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Pleasantly touching, with nice music, interesting episodic stories with main characters who have had something happen to them and it constantly manifests in their lives (I'm talking about the male characters, the one main female character was rather flat, uninteresting, and pretty much color by number). It tries to call attention to the problems in Korean society, but I still feel like it's pretty much stuck in that patriarchal frame of mind – men play the lead, men say the important stuff, men get the last word. Which then seems a bit at odds with the fact that the show is trying to highlight the injustices rooted in Korea. Some may counter that there were female characters like the prosecutor or the lady who brokered the illegal fights, but were those characters really significant enough to use as an argument? Well, whatever. As for the TV series itself as a form for entertaining/amusing the viewer, that's fine of course, no one is addressing that, not even the depiction of a person with Asperger's Syndrome, the main thing is that the story was coherent and the two main actors played it to the best of their abilities. A weaker 4 stars. (17.05.2021)