‘Mine’ EP 1-16 Discussion Post

[kyungwons.livejournal.com]

Director: Lee Na-Jeong
Writer: Baek Mi-Kyeong
Network: tvN
Episodes: 16
Release Date: May 8 - June 27, 2021

Plot: A story of women who try to find their true selves, freeing themselves from prejudices in the world.
Seo Hi-Soo (Lee Bo-Young) was a star actress, but she gave up her career to marry the second son of a chaebol family. The chaebol family runs the Hyowon Group. She does her best to fit in as a daughter-in-law of that family. She acts confidently all the time to not to lose her true self.
Jung Seo-Hyun (Kim Seo-Hyung) is married to the first son of the same chaebol family. She is also the daughter of a chaebol family. She is elegant and intelligent. She is also very rational.

You can watch on Netflix.

sources: TVING (Poster Source), asianwiki (Drama Detail & Plot Summary)

Comments

[kyungwons.livejournal.com]

i was critical of this drama at the beginning and thought the first few episodes were a drag but i ended up really enjoying it at the end. it really was female focused, showed a really nice supportive relationship between lee boyoung and kim seohyungs characters, handled the issue of adoptive parents not being seen as real parents well (within the overdramatic context of the show) and although kim seohyungs character didnt get a super explicit happy ending it handled her coming out as a lesbian nicely and respectfully. like a lot of the show is still rich people nonsense but there is more good parts than bad to this show which i didnt expect because makjang dramas are usually not for me.

i'll throw my more specific thoughts about it under spoilers incase anyone hasn't finished it yet or is planning to watch.


i really liked hisoo and seohyuns overall narratives throughout this drama. i wish seohyun had been given a slightly more explicit and romantic ending but overall i'm really happy with how her storyline was handled especially as i lost hope half way when the husband of the actress who played her love interest spoke out to say the show was about lesbian characters "returning to normal" (theyre from a homophobic church) but like dude clearly didnt read the script (i kid he was probably just saying whatever to defend himself from his fellow homophobes) but i liked her coming out scenes with her husband and hisoo and the ex-nun apologising that she ever had to be in the closet for something that isn't a sin. like there was a lot of positive and reassuring scenes towards her and her sexuality which for a drama that achieved really decent ratings 10%+ is really nice to see. the only character who wasn't good about it was hisoos husband who is shown to be a terrible person.

with hisoo i loved that from the beginning she was just genuinely kind and i loved that it showed a really positive relationship with her and her son and kept emphasising that just cause she didnt give birth to him didnt mean she wasnt his real mother. i also liked that her and the birth mother/tutor were able to have some sort of understanding even though it was a bit messy at times, like the irony of having seohyun, the lesbian character, say someone can't have two mothers...okay lol....i get that it probably meant they were competing to have the exact same role in his life i guess which is impossible but at the end them saying they would raise him together was nice.
the only thing i was a bit hmmm at was hisoo faking amnesia to protect her son from the knowledge that his dad was trying to kill her like that cant be much more traumatic than thinking your mother forgot you and will never remember you? it didnt seem that in character but whatever.

hisoos husband really was the worst like he kept getting progressively more evil but that is the nature of makjang drams. between this and swnk lee hyun wook keeps playing people i really hate lmao. his captions (https://twitter.com/hwanansae/status/1409328275772428290?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1409328275772428290%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fomonatheydidnt.livejournal.com%2F27840641.html) on instagram (https://twitter.com/hwanansae/status/1406297691290673153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1406297691290673153%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fomonatheydidnt.livejournal.com%2F27840641.html) have been quite funny lately complaining people keep cursing at him, thankfully he deals with it pretty well but i do wish people would learn better boundaries talking to actors

supporting character wise i could have done without the rich lady bible club characters as i don't think they added anything but i guess they were supposed to be comic relief? and i'm happy the writer as they went along included less and less of the sons scenes with the maid, i like hakyeon and jung yiseo but their storyline was sooooo boring, they were okay to watch in scenes with other people but their romance was such a snooze i'm glad it wasn't included much in the last couple of episodes.

[kyungwons.livejournal.com]

i need to limit my talking lol

overall though i did really enjoy it and i didnt expect to i initially only started watching purely because of the lead actresses but i'm glad i did as there arent a ton of dramas keeping my attention lately. kim seo hyung remains flawless and i hope this isn't her last lgbt role, she spoke about wanting to do a korean remake of carol before and i would like to see it!!!

[sunsetburgundy.livejournal.com]

I agree with everything you said.

There were some characters and storylines that had no value or were handled poorly (e.g. the sister) but I loved that it was truly women-centric and it gave us more Kim SeoHyung.

[lightframes.livejournal.com]

I agree with everything you said about Seohyun, she was my favorite character. (And her wardrobe was amazing)

[thebloomroom.livejournal.com]

I don't want to read the comments for spoilers, but let me know if I should watch it omona! I know my fave N is in this but I havent been watching dramas recently

[kyungwons.livejournal.com]

i will keep this comment spoiler free.

cons — i love hakyeon too but his scenes in this are so boring that i fast forwarded most of them so if you're only going to watch for him i wouldn't lol. it's a makjang so its not realistic and features a lot of rich people nonsense. the first couple of episodes drag but it does get better.

pros — its entertaining, is female centric, has good female characters and interesting relationships between them and handles issues like adoption nicely at least relative to other dramas i've seen and in context of what is a very dramatic show and features a lesbian character whose storyline is handled very respectfully.

[thebloomroom.livejournal.com]

Thank you!! I will add it to the list then for whenever I get back to kdramas. Damn, bummer to hear his character and scenes were boring. Vixx is dead, pick better roles sir

[kyungwons.livejournal.com]

yeah he just wasn't in it much and when he was it was the most boring storyline of the show so its a little disappointing, i thought he was good in children of nobody so its not like he doesnt have the talent to get more interesting roles