I Think Part Of My Disappointment With The Ending Was That I Expected Catharsis. The Show Deliberately

I think part of my disappointment with the ending was that I expected catharsis. The show deliberately opened with covid screenings for Minchae’s performance, and there was a recurring theme about the how the times can take away or alter your dream. I expected them to explore the parallel between covid and the financial crisis differently, or at least to reach a different conclusion at the end. I expected them to say “the times will be hard. they will take things from you and you won’t be able to go back. what you experience might not even make you stronger, it might just hurt. but eventually you will heal and things will be better, even if it isn’t what you expected, even if the happiness you experienced during those hard times was temporary.” But I feel like the show stopped short of that catharsis. Instead we got the 9/11 plotline, which was another instance of the times taking things from the characters, which would be fine if it resolved in a more definite sort of happiness for the main character. Instead, we got a sort of placid tranquility for her, an absence of memory, and some unsatisfying dangling plot points. The show said that the times will take things from you, but we all already know that. I wanted something more