Please be aware that this post contains spoilers for the above episodes. All good things even a drama of the calibre of My Liberation Notes must come to an end. The writer had a story to tell and at the end of 16 episodes, viewers certainly were treated to a varied landscape of ideas and people to come to clear conclusions. Liberation is a journey not a destination so there will always be a place for the Liberation Club. There was never going to be a fairy-tale, happily-ever-after ending but it’s a relief to be offered some reassurance that these individuals whose lives that we’ve been tracking for 8 weeks are in a somewhat better place than they were in at the start. There will always be trade-offs and new challenges awaiting them so life goes on until it ends. Truth be told, the edge-of-the-seat fight scene between Gu and the gambling debt collectors had me on tenterhooks especially as it was taking place so late in the story but it turned out to be the push the taciturn Mr Gu needed to get himself out of the quagmire that he was sinking further into — not entirely of his own making of course but he was in effect feeding the habit hence the beast that was threatening to ravage him completely.
This was beautifully written, your prose and analysis is so eloquent. This is the kind of writing i hope to one day achieve. Amazing work