Jealousy Incarnate

August 24, 2016

Pyo Na-ri (Gong Hyo-jin), a weather caster who has loved news anchor Lee Hwa-shin (Jo Jung-suk) for three years without him noticing, encounters Oh Ja-young (Go Kyung-pyo) — younger, warm, falling immediately for Na-ri. The SBS broadcasting station establishes the media world.

August 24, 2016

Hwa-shin is diagnosed with breast cancer — the drama's most unexpected plot pivot and its most seriously handled medical thread.

August 31, 2016

Hwa-shin's specific way of noticing Na-ri — only when he faces losing her to someone else.

August 31, 2016

The SBS station's internal world — the newsroom politics, the gender hierarchy, the specific dynamics of Korean broadcast journalism.

September 7, 2016

Na-ri's weather casting career and her ambition to become a genuine anchor.

September 7, 2016

Hwa-shin's cancer treatment — the drama's most vulnerable sequences for a character defined by professional armour.

September 14, 2016

The three-way dynamic — Na-ri's patience for Hwa-shin, Ja-young's genuine warmth, Hwa-shin's inconvenient awakening.

September 14, 2016

The drama at its midpoint — the romantic triangle and the medical drama in perfect tonal balance.

September 21, 2016

Oh Ja-young's genuine goodness — the drama's most interesting challenge to the audience's loyalties.

September 21, 2016

Hwa-shin's acknowledgement of his feelings — the broadcaster finally without his professional mask.

September 28, 2016

Na-ri's anchor audition — her professional goal reached in the same episode as her personal situation peaks.

September 28, 2016

Hwa-shin's cancer treatment's resolution.

October 5, 2016

Na-ri's choice — made with full information about both men.

October 5, 2016

The newsroom's political war and how it intersects with the love triangle.

October 12, 2016

Na-ri and Hwa-shin's relationship — the broadcaster who finally learned to say what he means.

October 12, 2016

Neighbourhood sequences in Mapo — the domestic world outside the broadcasting station.

October 19, 2016

Na-ri's anchor career — the professional success that runs parallel to her personal life.

October 19, 2016

Hwa-shin's character fully revealed — the man underneath the broadcaster.

October 26, 2016

Oh Ja-young's graceful resolution — the drama's most generous treatment of a secondary character.

October 26, 2016

The newsroom's future — and the people in it.

November 2, 2016

Na-ri and Hwa-shin's relationship announced to the people who matter.

November 2, 2016

A significant broadcast moment for Na-ri's career.

November 9, 2016

All threads converging.

November 9, 2016

The finale. Gong Hyo-jin and Jo Jung-suk's chemistry in one of SBS 2016's most entertaining adult romances.