Episode 6
Episode 6 of Cinderella at 2 AM begins with Ju-won and Seong-min fighting over who will take Yoon-seo with them. Eventually, Yoon-seo decides to leave with Ju-won, who takes her to his car near the Han River. However, Seong-min is just as determined as Ju-won and jumps into the car, forcing them to drop him off near the subway. At the Han River, Ju-won tries to convince Yoon-seo to date him, but she refuses. Frustrated and sleep-deprived, she yells at him for repeating the same conversation and heads home.
Meanwhile, Ju-won’s mother is worried about him leaving home. Si-won shows up at Ju-won’s hotel room with a list of properties for him to consider but also conveys that their mother wants him to return.
The next day, Seong-min visits the office to finalize his contract for an exhibition project, revealing that he and Ju-won have known each other since college. The team prepares for an office dinner, and although Ju-won wants to attend, he learns that Seong-min is interested in Yoon-seo. However, he is called away to an urgent meeting in Jeju Island.
At the office dinner, Seong-min takes pictures with the team, standing beside Yoon-seo, and changes his display picture, which irritates Ju-won. He wants to return to the dinner, but his flight is too late.
Feeling sorry for his younger brother, Si-won, remembering how much Ju-won likes Yoon-seo, arranges for a helicopter to take them back to Seoul. Ju-won surprises the team at the dinner, and they end up going for more drinks afterward. At the bar, Ju-won and Seong-min engage in a whiskey-drinking contest. Soon, everything becomes a blur, and Yoon-seo and Ju-won wake up at Seong-min’s studio, embarrassed.
Yoon-seo heads to I-rae’s restaurant after telling Seong-min that he has been crossing the line with her and that she doesn’t appreciate him meddling in her business. She confides in I-rae about how hard it is to break up with Ju-won, especially since she still has feelings for him.
Meanwhile, the relationship between Si-won and Mi-jin seems to be progressing better than that of the main couple. Mi-jin accidentally sees Si-won naked, providing some comic relief in an otherwise bland plot. The next day, Mi-jin invites Si-won’s mother for breakfast and appears to idolize her. Si-won, touched by Mi-jin’s kindness toward his mother, indirectly shows his affection by giving Mi-jin a stuffed toy to take with her on her business trip to Paris.
Later, a scandal breaks out on the internet about Seong-min, revealing that he is the estranged son of a politician. The media accuses him of benefiting from nepotism in his debut as an artist. Ju-won and Si-won decide to handle the press, while Yoon-seo visits the exhibition site to check on Seong-min.
They walk along the beach, where Seong-min reveals he wasn’t trying to harass Yoon-seo. He explains that his father is a violent man who destroyed the career of a close aide who was helping Seong-min build his art career against his family’s wishes. Seong-min felt guilty for being involved in ruining someone’s life and was about to jump off a building when he received kind text messages from Yoon-seo, who had mistaken him for Ju-won.
Her kindness made him realize how full of life she was, and that’s why he wanted to meet her. The two spend time painting together, but the episode ends with Ju-won witnessing Yoon-seo patting Seong-min for accomplishing his dreams despite his family’s opposition, making them appear close.
The Episode Review
Cinderella at 2 AM seems to have lost its narrative direction. Yoon-seo and Ju-won’s repetitive cycles of chasing and breaking up have become monotonous. In a 10-episode series, with six episodes in, both main characters feel shallow and underdeveloped. Seong-min’s clichéd and lazily written character background only adds to the show’s decline.
Interestingly, in this romcom K-drama, Yoon-seo and Ju-won’s relationship has become so frustrating that Si-won and Mi-jin’s dynamic is far more engaging. Overall, the past two episodes have been uneventful and lackluster. The writing is undeniably lazy, and the characters lack the charm needed to sustain the otherwise boring plot.
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Episode Review
(2.5)
I’m disappointed in female lead. When she took money from the ML’s mother it cheapened her character. This is not a Cinderella like thing to do. Given that, how can a viewer feel sympathetic toward the female lead. I think the ML could do better. When Female lead took money it ruined the story for me.