It seems like the show veered off track completely. I was all set to watch a show with the two leads but instead I got family issues galore! This was not what I/we read in all the info they dished out about the drama. I feel like I've been hosed. Now I'm standing in the wind, drenched, and with a cold coming on. To hell with you show!

gonna go watch Community and drink cocoa.

Just read, haven't watched yet. Omggg I just want sionshon's career to take off and more romance already arghh!

Darn, I watched episode 28 but missed 27 but reading this re-cap/review makes me glad I didn't miss anything by not having watched 27 before 28.

does this mean that you guys can recap I hear your voice? I'm not really demanding but HOPING (and subtly begging) for sure recaps of the show. I kinda feel that Girlfriday will have trouble staying away from the pretty, er, show. But I wouldn't mind (it would be GREAT) if you guys would officially recap it. Your recaps are one of the few things that I look forward to every week.
but anyway, whatever show you choose to recap would always be welcome and more power to you guys. thanks

Thanks so much for the recaps and for opening up this thread for discussions. I for one totally appreciate it.

Now this is what I called ranting! Hehehehe. The story is a drag.

Looks like everyone sings the same tune... Drama is losing me.
I'm sad when I read people who say that this is why they don't do long dramas: It's not the length, it's the writer. Good or bad, simple as that.
When it started, I honestly thought it had more potential than I summon you, gold! What do you know, oppa picked the good horse and I'm happy (more plot, events & cute in 20 eps of ISYG than in 28 eps of YTBLSS).

Wait, please continue this! The mini-format is absolutely fine...I want to search for the cute without dragging through the bad using your help.

Young Hoon is such a ball of cute. And while I do wanna see more of him, I admit that if you consider further he really is just a ball of fluff compared to jun Ho. Still, he's so fluffy I'm gonna die~~~!!! (Despicable me ref)

Thanks for this! I think the open threads are a great alternative to straight-up recaps - at least I still find out what happens in the coming episodes, and the always fun-to-read feedback from Dramabeans.

Is it just me or does anybody else think LSS is a whiny quitter.
Because if anybody offered to make me a star just to get back together with their exes I wouldn't mind.
Besides she pretty much lost the opportunity to prove herself as an actress/star. Because anything she achieves from now on will be credited to her "mom".
The only thing I like about her is her attitude toward LMS.
The obsession about blood relations really tires me out. I should have dropped this show ages ago. But it's kinda like the Obama administration, they keep giving you this tiny bit of hope of change.

I'm not even surprised by your decision...the show has been going downhill since ajumma makjang took over.
I may be shallow but I'm here mainly for the romance not for the bickering between almoni, Song Mi Ryung and Jung Ae (it reminds me, I can't even remember bread man's name). It's been this way since episode 19, I just can't withstand it anymore. If it wasn't for Jo Jung Suk, I would have dropped it a long time ago.
I should lower my expectations I guess, I thought they would focused more on Soon Shin's rise to fame, the OTP romance and their growth...I guess I was wrong. I of course expected some family issues (it's a family drama after all) but not as much as they're shoving at us at the moment.
Chicken ajumma has more screentime than Jo Jung Suk for God's sake!! (and she doesn't even appear on the promotion poster)
No seriously, I reached my limit...the show better pick up next week (by this I mean more romance, less makjang) or I might just rely on my fast forward option...

I loved this show... I really hate to admit it, but it might be dropping time, or at least skipping episodes until there are fewer low points. This show had so much potential, but is just lost in horrible bad family land. I feel bad for the actors, who took such promising characters and roles and now have to act so contrary to them!

"I hear your voice" recap then?

Have not had a chance to watch episode 28 yet but I have seen 27.

One of my favorite parts of episode 27 was when Joon Ho showed up at Soon Shin’s house to save her from the reporters. He was her very competent white knight, which she, silly girl, did not appreciate.

She may have forgiven him for the bet but she no longer trusts him. These two seem to be drifting further apart rather then closer together. Shame.

The chicken momma is a waste of screen time.
Why is middle sister such an unpleasant person to EVERYONE? Chun U loves that prickly abrasive women; give that man a medal.

New format and forth dimension for the win!

Like watching the fast and furious - i'm going to zone out until its jun ho x soonshin lovin' time.

Totally agree that it's not worth it. I'm only sad because I had no interest in wasting my time actually watching the show, but enjoyed learning the story line through your recaps, so thank you for doing it so far.

I was excited when you decided to recap a weekend drama but sadly it is this one.

Although I love watching weekend drama, I do fast forward a lot because I tend to like side stories better than the main one. YTBLSS have so little side stories, I roughly watch about less than half of the drama. More Breadman and WooJoo moment please!

The problems I see in this drama are
1) too much focus on LSS birth secret plot
2) So little family love. I miss warm dad.
3) annoying characters rule the show.

1 highlight in Episode 27-- Joon Ho calls out two moms on the show and calls them selfish. I was screamed, "OMGAFT"

Though I about lost it on Mi Ryeong digging through LSS's closet when she was told no.

But the adoption storyline is both spent and done poorly. So I hope they pick up the romance again.

I actually started watching LSS from episode 20 after i saw my sister watching. She caught me up for all of the 19 episodes (19 hours) i missed. i really didn't miss anything. This kinda shows how slow the drama is and how much unnecessary details it has. I hope it really speeds up!

Noooooooo! Why are you doing this to me pls pls pls ! I had a schedule made to fit ur recaps I feel angry that j drop it now after 28 eps cone on !
Eeee I'm sorry I can't blame u for that ! Either! Bravura pls who ever has and idea where is recapped pls tell me pls

i wish you would continue to post recapp. i was very haappy while reading them. as i do not get time to watch the drama, this recapp was what helped me a lot.. please continue to post recapps... :)

love this summary ish open thread. so much more enjoyable, i bet for you as well! thanks for the forethought to keep the discussion alive.

Hey Javabeans, thank you for all your hard work so far.

Also, I'm loving the new format. I think it works for this show. I have to agree that this show is the type where I sometimes hit the fast forward button because I really do not care what is going on. I just want them to get through this birth secret dilemma and get to the romance, but I also know that this will only bring on the SECOND birth secret problem (Soon Shin's real dad). Ugh!

Can someone make a poster of all the mommas and grandma for this drama,

So angry, wasted drama

Thanks for the recaps up to this point! I will probably keep on watching the show, but I would have liked a 20 episode version better. If it's going to be this long, I want to see more of the other sisters' relationships! I wonder if the focus on the older generation has to do with the ratings. I read an interview with IU where she discussed the lower ratings for the show and the age of people who make up the weekend drama viewer. I'm probably not the target audience, but I'll keep watching because I like the younger characters a lot, however I may do more fast forwarding from now on.

Ep 27-28: Another two episodes of anger exploding from YS on everyone, doofus girl stalking Chikn family, Bakerman just being silly, MR or Queen of Manipulation using her birth child as bait - Why? all cause of SS was rasied by a somewhat beastly family. Chikn mom is so irritating with her chihuahua voice I am about to bail on this series, because of her alone... The two leads SS & JH story, is so lost among all the other ridiculous & irritating characters, its hard to keep watching. As for keeping an open mind - writers need to get moving or cut this short at 30 eps, cause 50 eps of this wandering plot will close anybodies mind.

I have been watching this and in all honesty there isn't really enough going on to warrant a recap and I think this open thread is a great idea. I am happy they finally got the birth secret out but seriously can we get moving with the story already. I mean we are at episode 28 , more than half way through this drama and the only couple that somewhat got together is Chan Woo and the infuriating Yoon Shin (love Yoo Inna but her character is annoying). I mean I get that this is a family show and not solely about the OTP but at this far in the show if the OTP isn't together I would hope the peripheral stories would be further along so that the next 20 episodes we can finally get some development on the OTP front. I mean at this point we should have some admitting of feelings or awareness on both fronts because they still need to get together and the reprecussions of that (he is a ceo of her former company and there were already rumors about them) will need to be dealt with .

Also on that OTP front, I really hope that IU's nation's little sister role doesn't effect or isn't effecting how they portray the OTP's relationship ( I know she had a scandal with SUJU's Eunhyuk but she is still considered Nation's little Sister). Because I remember it was years before they let Moon Geun Young have a proper loveline with kisses and all due to her having the reputation of the nation's little sister.

@yukiyukiyu, good job for making this OT as reference for KBS, hope they will consider it very soon. If more people send email to KBS, they will reckon it, right? Please come back JJS, I watch this show for you...Reading all of your comments here is entertaining,anyway hehehe

I looked forward to this show every Sat-Sun at the start.

This past 2 weekends I fast forwarded through most of it.

I was under impression that the 3 sisters' are the MAIN CHARACTERS, not the ahjummas... but all I have been seeing are the 3 ahjummas, SS's mother, Chicken Lady, and Song Mi-Ryung.....

WHAT IS HAPPENING???

OMG!!! I honestly haven’t been checking on this page as much as I’ve been the past weeks (hee…sorry but I’ve been sick the past couple of days—SJH withdrawal symptoms maybe?lol) coz I thought you dropped this drama (as this is the only drama I’m following right now) and to find this, especially when I least expected it, is like finding gold in the middle of the street! I totally loooooovvvveeeee you guys for doing this!!!

I am with everyone on the romance bit. Although I am probably one of the very few who don’t really mind the birth secret plot, I must admit what got me hooked on this drama is the chemistry between SJH and LSS. They really need to step up on it!!! I need my SJH/LSS fix reallllyyyyy baaaaaddddd!!!hahaha

Anyway, to finer points in the drama (sorry, I tend to overanalyze):

I love how SJH came and literally swept LSS away from the barricade of reporters. I just know later on, when LSS finds out SJH’s stand on the whole birth scandal release, she will be able to look back and see all this in a different light and finally realize SJH’s concern for her. SJH’s efforts to protect LSS so far are reaching everybody but her—mom, HS, breadman, SMR, YA, even YH—so it will be interesting to see how LSS will react to it once she finds out. Also, it gives him plus points from the family!hehe

When SMR asked SJH who he was working for, if it was for her or for LSS—and his response-- Stellar!!!lol I think it won’t be long before SJH lets go of SMR as his talent coz from a business aspect she has already done so much to be considered for a breach of contract. Okay, maybe that will just be his justification coz right now business-wise, SMR is the company’s moneybag but really, I just don’t think he’ll still be able to stand watching LSS getting hurt and used. In fact, I think he’s already passed his boiling point upon hearing of the SMR/LSS interview.

I’m still not convinced that YH is interested in LSS romantically. Most likely, he’s trying to extend his support knowing about LSS current situation, especially since it strikes a very familiar chord in his own life experience, and all this “dates” are just his way of cheering up LSS. I do agree though that both guys offer a healthy contrast regarding their approach on LSS. Still, not sure if it’s just because I’m such a huge SJH/LSS shipper, but I really don’t feel any chemistry between the two aside from the big bro-lil sis type. But it sure is fun to watch SJH’s reaction (and actions!) whenever he sees them together!

I also like to point out that, interestingly; LSS finds it difficult to stay mad at SJH. She gets crazy mad at him one minute, deliberately ignores him the next, and then we go back to her being casual while shooting those curious, vaguely wistful glances at him. Someone who changes her approach regarding a person this many times must have done A LOT of thinking about that person! lol

Finally, the show and after-show date! There’s just sooo many things I love about this scene (coz it’s the only scene in these two episodes that actually showed some cute!), but I try (hehe) not to be redundant so I’ll just mention what others haven’t pointed out yet.I totally felt SJH's heart drop when he found out that YH's date was LSS. Also, I love how SJH said after the show that it was enough to watch his talent’s showcase and he doesn’t need to have dinner with them—when all the time he was training LSS they always go out for dinner or whatnot! And right after that speech, HE asks LSS to have dinner with him!HA It’s just so cute how he tries to wiggle his way (figuratively and literally) into their date!lol

Okay, enough fangirling! Hahaha…seriously, this is how I stretch out 5-10 minutes of cute just to keep my sanity!lol Luckily, I am not so heavily invested with the rest of the pairings or subplots. Otherwise, my raving might fill a couple more pages!lol

I just read a couple of funny comments on the KBS site. One person suggested changing the drama name from "You're the best Lee Soonshin" to "You're the best Song Miryung." Indeed, the further we go with the episodes the more we see of SMR. I remember "King of Dramas" in which the famous actress Song Mina made the writer change the script to include more scenes with her. I wonder if Lee Misook, who's quite a high calibre and still appearing in a weekend drama' is flexing her influence muscles and turning this show into a one-woman show (plus some boring scenes with the Chickensons and hysterical women, young and old, just when she is too busy to be in every possible scene). Another comment was: "And finally, 30 min after the beginning of the show there's our male protagonist." Someone complained that A Eee U must be really busy because there are not many scenes with her. I think it's the actor who plays Junho who's really busy, or the PD or the director don't like him. For all the talk about live shooting and how Korean drama PD's wait for the audience's reaction, well, they are not doing it with this one. Every single comment in Korean blogs and on the official site is begging the writer to speed up with all three love lines, especially LSS and SJH, stay away from all the bad mothers, they are even saying "well, aren't you afraid that your ratings, already low for a weekend drama, will drop even lower." But, no one seems to be listening. The writer really needs to take some more creative writing classes. Why not go into the stories of Bread Man's past, Miryung's past, include more characters, more action. It's repeating same lines over and over again through the mouths of different people that is truly maddening. After we just saw the scene of MR offering the money, we have the scene in which the adoptive mom is telling this to the Chicken ajumma.
DUH! we just saw that. You really want me to switch to another channel. Anyway, the highlight in the last truly tedious episodes were a few minutes of Junho's jealousy and Soonshin's being flustered around him. Let's hope next weekend be more exciting. Jeongmal!

And Jun Ho actually doesn't have a purpose in SS's life anymore because 1. he hasn't even admitted to himself that he likes her and 2. she doesn't work for him anymore.... YATBLSS writers.. WHAT THE F*** ARE YOU DOING?? Wake up! You're starting to ruin your characters!

wow!!! all comments only show how cheated the viewers are...

The birth secret story line is not yet done. 1st 25 episodes were wasted on birth secret-mother, and the last 25 episodes will be wasted on birth secret-father. Great!!!!

Due to viewers demand, this show will now be titled:
THE BIRTH SECRET OF LEE SOON SHIN

everyone, clap your hands!!!!