The Regulation Cafe: Episodes 13-14

The Legislation Cafe: Episodes 13-14

by DaebakGrits

Our primary couple’s romance is a pendulum that swings back again and forth among two extremes — sickeningly affectionate and dramatically argumentative — and neither mood is appealing to the community people. But in involving the ups and downs of our leading lady’s marriage, she tackles a new scenario and sets out to expose a scummy politician.

 
EPISODES 13-14 WEECAP

Jung-ho and Yuri are officially with each other, and although this is ordinarily a cause for celebration in dramaland, my belief is aligned with that of Joon, Eun-kang, and the community ajumas: their sugary sweet relationship is quite dang troublesome. I will concede, even though, that their dynamic does have a be aware of maturity that is refreshing and unconventional (by K-drama criteria). I imply, I’ve definitely in no way viewed a character talk about delivery manage and orgasms with Yuri’s degree of frankness prior to.

In my viewpoint, the novelty of this unique morning-right after conversation was lost in the humorous formality of Yuri’s composed partnership deal. Even though it was exciting that her blunt discussion of their sexual intercourse life was her way of overcompensating for romance insecurities and preemptively avoiding long run misunderstandings by fostering open communication and intimacy, I’m not a admirer of how her want to speak about their intercourse lifestyle is swiftly disregarded in favor of showcasing Jung-ho’s “passion” for PDA. The supposed humor of the scene — and how immediately it diverts to a far more socially satisfactory matter — undercuts the critical purpose these types of discussions participate in in serious grownup relationships. But, hey, perhaps I should not get so caught up in how the content is being introduced and just be delighted it was integrated. Baby methods, amirite?

As our couple’s general public displays of passion maximize in frequency and depth, the relaxation of our figures determine it is time for an intervention. They can only abdomen so considerably of Yuri and Jung-ho’s not-so-top secret partnership, and it is time for the few to tone down the lovey-dovey crap. Regretably, without the need of their former bickering and will-they-won’t-they stress, the spark is gone, so what does the drama do? Predictably, they are given a new case and a recycled reason to start combating again.

Yuri’s following scenario requires CHOI Song-HWA (Lee Min-younger), a cafe typical and the (one) mom of KANG YI-SEUL (Ahn Se-bin). Yi-seul seeks out Staff Cafe due to the fact she fears her mother is terminally sick and won’t explain to her about it, but the truth is that Track-hwa’s bouts of illness are a psychological response to currently being sexually harassed by her boss Assemblyman CHOI YEO-HWAN (Lee Jae-yong), who is in mattress with everyone’s favored bad person Pyun-woong.

The situation stirs up marriage drama in between Yuri and Jung-ho for the reason that — of training course — Jung-ho is anxious that provoking his uncle (all over again) will set Yuri in hazard. Did not he take in anything she mentioned the past time they experienced this argument? Guess not, since when Yuri’s purse — and the spy pen containing audio of Music-hwa’s covert operation to record Yeon-hwan performing like a pervert — is stolen by a person of Pyun-woong’s goons, Jung-ho goes into white-knight mode. Yuri, even so, won’t allow for panic for her particular security reduce her from searching for justice for her client, so she and Jung-ho start a new spherical of fighting that’s so unpleasant for outsiders that our secondary characters host a second intervention.

Even though Jung-ho realizes that there’s no fighting Yuri on this individual concern and seeks his father’s input on how to carry down Yeo-hwan, Yuri normally takes a highway vacation out to a prison and picks up a not too long ago released thief (cameo by Kim Jin-woo), who is type of like a modern day Robin Hood with decide-pocket and protected-cracking abilities. He, together with the rest of Workforce Cafe, complete an elaborate heist to steal back the recording from Pyun-woong’s lodge place, and once they have the audio in hand, they perform the recording in excess of the loudspeaker at an party Yeo-hwan is (ironically) internet hosting in honor of ladies.

This is only the very first stage of their plan, while, for the reason that Seung-woon’s tips to Jung-ho was for him to produce a rift in between Yeo-hwan, Pyun-woong, and the rest of their corrupt boys’ club. They require to give the other members of the team a reason to abandon Yeo-hwan and cling him out to dry, so the sexual harassment allegations in opposition to Yeo-hwan need to be irrefutable.

Of course, the villains of this drama try to help save their buddy by ruining Song-hwa’s popularity, twisting the narrative to paint her as a gold digger who was “asking for it.” Even the investigator for the prosecution is disgustingly sexist, ignoring Tune-hwa’s assertion that the skirt she’d worn on the day she was sexually assaulted experienced been modestly knee-duration. Instead, he frustratingly latches onto the actuality that the A-line style and design designed it straightforward to lift up. Yuri and Jung-ho — who are now back again to cooperating peacefully — just take turns getting incensed and reining in every other’s urges to throttle the investigator for his clearly biased interpretation of situations.

BAEK GUN-Gentleman (Oh Min-suk), the prosecutor assigned to the case, is not as prejudice as his investigator, but his narcissism blocks him from seeing fact — specifically that Yuri, his ex, is over him. His ambition, even so, operates in Workforce Cafe’s favor. Jung-ho picks up on the reality that Gun-person has political ambitions, and this is just the form of job-setting up situation he desires to take to get his name out to the community. There’s just one challenge: in purchase for the charges towards Yeo-hwan to stick, he’s going to have to have far more proof that will drive it previous a vintage case of he-stated-she-stated.

Which is wherever Group Cafe arrives into participate in, and they start out calling Yeo-hwan’s past and present staff members. When most of them are unwilling to come ahead, Eun-kang and Joon — who taps into his own encounters with sexual harassment throughout his military provider — are in a position to encourage just one of Yeo-hwan’s previous staff to occur ahead. And thankfully, the worker also has dated journal entries chronicling the handsy assemblyman’s molestations.

With a further witness coming ahead to corroborate Song-hwa’s accusations, Yeo-hwan’s allies start distancing on their own from him, and when Yeo-hwan catches wind that they are about to slash him loose, he turns to Byung-wook for assistance. He’s massively mistaken in imagining Pyun-woong’s father will toss him a bone. As a substitute, Byung-wook not only tells Yeo-hwan to flip himself in, he desires the assemblyman to switch about a flash push to the police and acquire Pyun-woong down with him.

With the scenario generally wrapped up, the target of our tale returns to our primary couple, and though Yuri and Jung-ho labored harmoniously alongside one another all through the latter half of the sexual assault lawsuit, problems of a diverse kind has been steadily brewing. And the source of that difficulties is Jung-ho’s romantic relationship insecurities.

Initial, Gun-male dismissed Jung-ho as a practical suitor for Yuri. Then, Byung-wook tips Jung-ho into attending a blind day due to the fact he disapproves of Yuri, and Yuri is — much to Jung-ho’s frustration — entirely copacetic with the scenario. Simply because, you know, it’s not like he selected to go on the blind date.

So how does Jung-ho compensate for his unjustified jealousy, anxiety, and overeagerness? Properly, he decides to adhere to Beyonce’s assistance and “put a ring on it.” (Oh, Jung-ho, you’re flying additional red flags than the flagman at a NASCAR race.)

It comes as no surprise that — just as Jung-ho is about to propose — Yuri unknowingly crushes his plans by declaring how joyful she is in the moment. She, not like Jung-ho, has no drive to hurry issues. You’d imagine that would be the billboard-sized hint he requires to sluggish down and recall that she isn’t on the identical timeline as him. But nooooooo, after meal, Yuri reiterates how blissful and safe she feels in their partnership, and Jung-ho decides her present joy is the justification he desires to pop the concern right after all. *Facepalm*

Thanks to this cliffhanger, I have pretty combined emotions heading into the finale week. Finest situation circumstance, I’m hoping there is some but-to-be-seen disclaimer that he tacks on to the finish of his proposal. You know, like, “Will you marry me…two yrs from now?” Yeah, I question that will transpire. In which situation, my choice would be for Yuri to reject the proposal, but do I actually want to suffer by way of the inevitable conflict her refusal will cause? Not notably.

The extended I look at this drama, the far more I understand I’m not actually a fan of the Yuri and Jung-ho pairing. Alternatively, I like Yuri, and right up until recently, her uniqueness — along with the drama’s representation of typically avoided topics — has productively overcompensated for Jung-ho’s dumbassery. But now that they are a pair, the writers have taken actions to prominently element and integrate Jung-ho’s flaws into the plot, and I locate myself consistently siding with Yuri — and growing more and more aggravated with Jung-ho’s clinginess. I absolutely appreciated him much better when he was seeking to avoid her.

I’m also a bit upset in the facet romance involving Eun-kang and Track-hwa. On the 1 hand, provided Track-hwa’s predicament with her boss, it was not the proper time for a flashy adore confession, so I do like that Eun-kang expressed his fascination in a far more subdued manner. (Jung-ho could study a thing or two from Eun-kang.) On the other hand, I nevertheless sense like Eun-kang didn’t get a lot of a redemption right after that whole trapping-a-teenager-in-a-burning-setting up fiasco.

But I guess Eun-kang however received a greater deal than lousy Joon, who has nonetheless to have his possess very little featurette. I’m resigned to the fact that we will not get to know a lot much more about Joon, which is disgrace. Soon after understanding about his awful practical experience in the military, I’m even extra curious to know a lot more about his character.

One particular matter I am searching ahead to is the final showdown amongst our heroes and Pyun-woong. I just hope this isn’t a person of those dramas wherever the whole resolution to their conflict performs out in the courtroom — many thanks to whatsoever proof Byung-wook gave to Yeo-hwan. Naturally, I really don’t want our very good men to go fully Vincenzo and set Pyun-woong on fire whilst blasting jazzercise tunes, but I at least want a climatic moment where by we see Pyun-woong go absolutely off-the-rails in advance of he is detained by authorities. And primarily based on how we ended items with him this 7 days, that moment might take place concerning him and his father.

 
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