Love Take Two Episode 3 Review: Another Fantastic, Emotional and Moving Watch

Last week, Ji-an got the shock of her life when Hyo-ri revealed that she has an aggressive brain tumour and doesn’t have long to live. Heartbroken, she decides to join her daughter in Cheonghae Village, hoping to help her heal and convince her to get the surgery that might help her stay alive.

Love Take Two Episode 3 has a runtime of 61 minutes.

Love Take Two Episode 3 Recap

The episode starts in 1998 with Ji-an’s mother telling her that she’s moving to Vietnam with a man, leaving her behind in Korea. Ji-an is left heartbroken and screams at her mother before walking away from her. In the present, Ji-an is convinced of taking care of her daughter, but Hyo-ri implores Sun-young to take her mother with her lest it permanently damage their relationship. Ji-an, meanwhile, learns about an abandoned mansion in the village, and she is immediately interested.

She takes Jeong-seok with him once again to renovate the house, but he is completely against the idea and shoots her idea down. Of course, Ji-an refuses to take no for an answer, and Jeong-seok is eventually sucked into the idea. Meanwhile, Sun-young arrives at the village, and Ji-an excitedly tells her about the mansion renovation. Sun-young is confused and doesn’t agree with her plans at first, but Ji-an’s enthusiasm wins her over. Elsewhere, things start to get tense between Hyo-ri and Bo-hyeon, as she experiences the things that she’s never experienced before… like surfing!

Meanwhile, while the entire village thinks that Ji-an and Jeong-seok are about to have sex, he finally agrees to remodel the house where Hyo-ri and Ji-an might live eventually. After the kids have a fun day surfing, they come back to have dinner together at Jeong-seok’s house, where Tae-oh reminds him that he is a divorcee and that there’s nothing wrong with him dating.

After dinner, Ji-an tells Hyo-ri that she left her job, which makes her spiral as she lashes out at her mother for doing so because she’s dying. Hyo-ri continues to speak ill to Ji-an, ending in her walking out when she starts to feel unwell, but not before telling her mother that they should stay away from each other so that they have a happy life apart.

The next morning, Ji-an is shocked to see that Hyo-ri has fallen almost unconscious, leaving her to rush her daughter to the hospital. They diagnose her with tonsillitis, leaving Ji-an worried sick for her daughter. When Hyo-ri finally comes to, Ji-an tells her a story from her childhood regarding her own mother, who dated several men after her father’s death and eventually abandoned her to follow him. It’s a heartbreaking story as Hyo-ri is shocked because she was told that her grandmother was a nice woman who loved her. This results in her accusing her mother of always pretending to be fine, as it puts the burden on her as well.

In a rare moment for Ji-an, as she breaks down and tells Hyo-ri that she’s scared because she doesn’t know how to be a good mother, and now that Hyo-ri is dying, she feels helpless. She opens up further about her mother abandoning her and tells her that she doesn’t want her to have regrets with her daughter and begs her to stay with her. Hyo-ri, in turn, opens up to her mother about being scared as the two comfort one another.

Love Take Two Episode 3 Review

An episode that had me entertained from start to end, Love Take Two episode 3 is fantastic and will linger on your mind long after it’s over. The emotions and the interactions are so relatable and down to earth, and the performances are so natural that sometimes it’s easy to forget that we are watching a drama and not real life play out. Yeom Jung-ah and Choi Yun-ji have fantastic chemistry and feel like mother and daughter at every turn. The way they bicker and the raw emotions during their making up are hard to ignore. You will find yourself getting emotional as things take a positive turn in their relationship.

All in all, a really good direction for this one.

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