Ron Does Stuff

At last, we reach the final episode of My Lovely Liar! It’s been a months-long ride that was very delayed but I finally made it! I think I fared better this time around than Alchemy of Souls because I really could not finish that!

Let’s check out the finale!

So, we’re back to the heterosexuals and Sol Hee’s de-powered state. Which couldn’t have come at a worse time because her mom *deep sigh* comes barging in to her tarot cafe to say that no, she did not have an affair like Sol Hee’s father was saying was the reason for their divorce. As I’ve made very clear in multiple posts, I really do not like Sol Hee’s mom.

That’s really one weakness of this show, to be hoenst. You’ve already so clearly defined who these people are in the first few episodes that it’s really hard to turn away from those definitions further on down the line. I wish they hadn’t drawn them so starkly in the beginning and gave them more depth, but I guess that’s the consequence of having Sol Hee’s power.

Anyways, we then head on over to Do Ha’s place where he has a man over *wink wink nudge nudge* but unfortunately it’s not for anything gay. The lone homosexual in this universe is already in jail, after all.

The person he has over is Ethan from the now disbanded boy band Atlantis, and Do Ha has a song for him. And you know as someone who stans these idol teams in the year of our goddess 2024, it really is an outdated idea to think that being a soloist or non-idol music is innately better than being in a group of being an idol. It’s not just BTS, there are a number of groups who may not be as big as they were when they first came out but are still doing very well AS A GROUP while also working as soloists. Time to ditch this thinking because it just becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy!

Another thing that is a staple of the K-dramas I’ve finished — there’s just three of them so it’s not much — is that they tie up the subplots in the final episode rather than the main plot? I’ve just been so used to the Western way of storytelling where the subplots are resolved first so the main plot gets the focus in the final episodes so this K-drama way of doing it still takes some getting used to. There are some subplots I don’t care for so resolving them AFTER the big main one really doesn’t help me stay interested! Like this ongoing thing with Sol Hee’s mom. I. DON’T. CARE

Back at the Luni Cafe, business is booming but Chi Hoon is stressing. He wants to live his fanboy dream of being Syaon’s bodyguard but he’s also worried that Sol Hee may get hurt because apparently his loyalty to the team is only up to a certain point. Honestly, if Yoongi asked me to leave my job and work for him as an assistant I would leave my job like that. No questions asked. And he was worry about nothing because Sol Hee’s fine with it!

Then we go back to Sol Hee’s mom’s subplot and I am a little amused at Sol Hee and Do Ha trying to hide the fact that the two of them are in the same apartment folding laundry from Sol Hee’s mom. BABES, SOL HEE’S MOM SCAMS RICH MEN FOR MONEY I DON’T THINK SHE’D MIND HER DAUGHTER HAVING SOME PREMARITAL SEX.

Anyways Sol Hee’s mom realized that Sol Hee wasn’t the cause of the divorce and WAS THAT SUPPOSED TO MAKE THE EMOTIONAL ABUSE BETTER? DO BETTER SHOW.

There’s this whole thing about Sol Hee’s mom and dad being honest with their feelings AND I DON’T REALLY CARE. They’re trying to be cute about this — at least at first! — but it’s too late in the show to make Sol Hee’s mother look cute! It’s grating at this point! Then Sol Hee says that because she can’t hear lies anymore all of what her parents are saying sounds sincere and she can’t take them being hurtful toward each other.

Do Ha has a better time of resolving things with his mother, who apologizes to him and wishes that she was a better mother to him and not in the job she is in. I was a little torn about this because on the one hand she did put her job above everything else but on the other hand, women in South Korea are vilified for wanting a life outside of having a family and I wonder why this show is trying to reinforce that messaging. “Be a career woman, your son will end up falsely accused of murder!”

The rest of the episode, quite frankly, seems like meandering at a mall when you already know you’ve seen everything there is to see. Chi Hoon gets to be with Syaon everywhere, and Sol Hee and the gang prep her dad to meet her mom and steal her from the ugly rich dude she’s going to marry. And since I have no love for Sol Hee’s mother I just watch all of this in a DAZE. And then how Sol Hee’s mother hangs all of her happiness on her husband? Like…I don’t know.

We get some product placement for the Ethan storyline and that’s not really an attractive looking sandwich sorry to say. And I don’t care about Ethan that much! He’s made too few appearances throughout the show for me to give a shit! Although other viewers may have a different opinion.

BUT THEN! The show brings back murderous homosexual Deuk Chan and I am seated once more!

Well they bring him back to absolve Eom Ji and give some consolation to the straight man he pined for all of these years but what else is new? It’s been that way for queer people throughout history. Do Ha doesn’t even flash him a bit of anything as thanks.

Then the heterosexuals get their happy ever afters bye.