Actor Kim Hee-seon exerted an extraordinary late-game push to dominate the living room drama.
TV CHOSUN Monday-Tuesday miniseries "No Next Life" (directed by Kim Jung-min, written by Shin I-won) in episode 10, Kim Hee-seon (playing Jo Na-jung) deeply captured the realistic emotions of becoming a right parent, adding solid persuasiveness to the working mom survival narrative. Na-jung's struggle against injustice raised the drama's density even further.
Na-jung tried to persuade Ye-na (played by Go Won-hee), who had cooperated in covering up the sexual harassment incident, but Ye-na insisted on her false testimony, saying "to survive." Because she even remembered Seon-min (played by Seo Eun-young) crying beside her, Na-jung's anguish and frustration deepened.
The company pushed Na-jung into late-night and early-morning broadcasts, pressuring her to the brink, and to clear her husband Won-bin's (played by Yoon Bak) name they tried to obtain evidence through an employee at the golf course frequently visited by Chief Kang, but the attempt was foiled when Chief Kim Jeong-sik (played by Lee Kwan-hoon) discovered it. Fear grew, but Na-jung's desire to be a respectable parent to her child did not waver. The son's words "Mom, I like that you have been smiling more lately" gave her the strength to endure again. At that moment, Kim Hee-seon's slightly teary smiling face made viewers' eyes redden.
Afterward, Na-jung noticed that Chief Kang and the deputy minister were moving together and began to pursue the possibility that clues remained on the car black box. With Tae-jung's (played by Baek Jin-wook) help, Na-jung succeeded in sneaking in and directly witnessed Ye-na being assaulted by the deputy minister, and she chose to protect the victim rather than the evidence. Na-jung's action eventually changed Ye-na. Ye-na retracted her false testimony and gave the correct testimony. The ethics committee dismissed the deputy minister and decided to reinstate Won-bin, and it seemed that justice had been restored.
However, in a shocking twist at the ending, only Na-jung, the sole intern among them, received notice of early termination. Although she corrected the injustice, the cost fell only on Na-jung. That day's broadcast posed a blunt question about what face working mothers' survival wears.
Kim Hee-seon heightened immersion by delicately and steadily drawing the emotional line that swings between empathy and anger, fear and courage. The gaze that seems about to collapse but endures, the trembling that preserves a smile only in front of her child, the breathing that swallows and suppresses emotion — the persuasiveness possible because it was Kim Hee-seon deeply shook the living room.
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