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oh, uh, how about you go do that and never set foot near hr ever again okay? okay

What I really like about this scene and what puts it over the top for me is that Joke knows Jack is talking about him. Like, there's surprise and shock that Jack is openly addressing it, but there's no confusion. There's no "who is this mystery person that Jack has feelings for?" This scene just felt a lot more exciting and tense because Joke understood what Jack was saying and exactly what he was choosing.

Sad there’s not a chapter today but! I thought you might enjoy knowing how much I adore this series of yours.

Now when I began to rewatch this show for horse purposes I was almost certain there wouldn’t be too many horses. That conviction lasted about one minute until I had watched the intro in full.

Oops- there it is, I had forgotten about that. But we’ll get into the significance of this little symbol later.

Still, the first episode wastes no time at all (59:59), our first horse appears at the bank, and what a glorious horse it is!!

From then on, they really just keep it coming, and we haven’t even gotten to the main event yet!

Boss himself is a man very fond of a horse, which we see in episode 2 (19:00-20:30).

Poor Joke, some might say his past is haunting him after getting out of prison but I’d personally say it’s that horse from the bank haunting and sending all its friends after him. Because damn it, it just doesn’t stop.

This is the point where it gets REALLY bad.

8x Combo!!!

Eight horses at ONCE that is quite the attack! (EP 7 - 27:08)

These rich people call themselves “the four horsemen” which is actually quite self reflected since they are in fact horrible people draining the life out of everyone else, but I digress.

Point is, each of them wears a (horribly ugly) ring with 4 horses on them, so that would come out to 16 horses in total. And unfortunately, it doesn’t stop there.

Their staff sometimes wears these brooches with that same symbol, so technically and for accuracy purposes I should have been counting every staff member and checking if they’re wearing a brooch.

I’m not gonna do that.

Instead I’ll count the brooch two times for the two times we see it clearly. (EP 9 - around 37:00)

In other news, Joke can’t even reconcile with his father without the presence of a horse.

Brutal.

The only thing that’s harder than that is having to keep track of horses in a mansion while the characters are running.

But I did it, here’s one at EP 9 32:39

And five more that same episode at 58:25!

That brings us toooooooooo…

30 horses!

In case you were wondering, that does not include the special episode, no, I didn’t feel like causing myself harm. (Although I will probably be checking that for horses in the future.)

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And on another note, while talking about these horse sightings with my friends and reading through their blogs, as well as through my own research, I’ve noticed something.

Usually, the amount of horses in a show is highly dependent on the setting. And what I mean by that is - the richer the characters are, the more horses you’ll get to see.

There’s exceptions to this rule, of course, but generally these horses often seen in places of wealth. (The bank, offices, mansions, palaces).

Oh people are being forgiven too easily for your taste in that story about forgiveness?

Oh that story about community doesn't focus on overthrowing the bad guys enough for you?

Like? I sorta get it, but you gotta enjoy stories for what they are not criticise them for what you think they should be.