Adults Don’t Make Friends Without Motives
Episode 2 of Green Mothers’ Club starts with Eun-Pyo first meeting Louis. They’re in Paris, and the pair snap photos together, enjoy time down by the beach and even share a bike ride. The city of love is very much blossoming romance, as Louis and Eun-Pyo share a extended amount of time together. He even surprises her with flowers too when she wins an award. ..
Eun-Pyo is at a loss as she watches her friend Jin-Ha laugh with Louis. Suddenly, the timeline jumps to the present and Eun-Pyo is left in confusion. What happened?
Eun-Pyo arrives at the waiting room and sees Louis and Dong-Ju sitting there. After dropping her off at school, it’s Chun-Hui who happens to be watching on and notices something is wrong. Of course, those rumours spread across school, with Chun-Hui even poking fun at Eun-Pyo for offering to pay back the new violin monthly. ..
Eun-Pyo’s home life is hardly welcoming, with her dead-beat partner leaving his clothes all over the place and not even able to cook for himself and the kids. Naturally, this just makes Eun-Pyo resent her family set-up even more. It also doesn’t help that Dong-Seok is disruptive in class, using his lively personality to blurt out the wrong answers and further alienate the other parents against the family. ..
This situation has created a rift between Eun-Pyo and Dong-Seok, with the latter feeling that his teacher is not supportive enough. This has led to him feeling left out and frustrated. In addition, this situation has also made it difficult for Eun-Pyo to get along with her classmates.
Eun-Pyo’s kids are hard workers and unfortunately, Eun-Pyo caves and decides to take them out to the park instead. While there, someone throws a glass from the top floor of an apartment. Eun-Pyo sacrifices herself to save Yu-Bin, as Chun-Hui comes racing up to check on her darling daughter. When she learns Eun-Pyo “saved her life”, she helps patch up Eun-Pyo’s cut arm.
This story begins with Chun-hui agreeing to write off her debt and allowing her to buy a few coffees to make up for this. Jun-Hu, ever the chameleon, is there too and she delightedly applauds Cun-Hui’s kindness. Now, it would appear that the glass in question that was smashed may well have been from the penthouse, which would denote Jin-Ha or Young-Min being responsible.
Through all this craziness, Chun-Hui and Eun-Pyo surprisingly start to grow closer together, going for coffee while the latter tries to probe over a good academy for her boys. Ironically though she simply refers her to Jin-Ha, given she’s the one with all the connections. Now, Chun-Hui has been receiving constant calls from a strange number she keeps ignoring, which only furthers the secrets these women appear to hold.
Eventually though, Eun-Pyo is awkwardly put on the spot alongside Chun-Hui as they’re all roped into visiting Jin-ha’s place. All the kids head off to play, while Jin-Ha puts Eun-pyo on the spot and asks her why she dropped out of the academy in France. One could guess that this is linked to the anaemia diagnosis that Louis mentioned earlier in the episode but for now, that’s speculation.
Jin-Ha takes Eun-Pyo aside and warns her that Chun-Hui hides a darker side to her personality. Eun-Pyo hits back, pointing out she doesn’t even know her. Dong-Ju interrupts though, pointing out he can’t understand what the other kids are laughing about. It turns out they have a movie on but it has no subtitles and it’s told entirely in English. Inevitably, all the kids end up leaving.
That night, Jin-Ha went to Eun-Pyo’s house to give her a gift. He gave her a scarf which is a sign of romantic interest. This was followed by Eun-Pyo touching her face and the hand that was holding the gift. This could mean that there is something romantic going on between them. ..
Eun-pyo throws a gift back at Jin-Ha that night, calling out her for playing with her emotions. After a slap between the pair, everything is left wide open for next week’s follow-up.
The Episode Review
The Green Mothers’ Club returns for a follow-up chapter that starts to depict more of Jin-Ha and Eun-Pyo’s complicated ties to the past. It seems as though things aren’t quite as simple as we first sensed, with perhaps a slight lesbian angle going on.
Despite the series’ strong start, it has done a good job of focusing on the different women’s experiences. There is a slice-of-life angle to this series, with Chun-Hui’s worried calls from an unknown number hinting at deeper character development. However, there is still more drama to be revealed and we will have to wait and see what this show has in store for us next. ..
