What an awesome re/weecap @missvictrix! I love the snark you brought to this piece. :)

Ugh. I LOVE Yeon Woo Jin, but I wanted to smack Yoon in the head and tell him to get lost (Master's Sun style). That is the only emotion this drama has drawn out of me from beginning to the end.

I'm currently in the middle of watching the last episode and am trying to figure out how this couple had more chemistry when he was being creepy and stalkerish... 👀

I can not believe they did not go out with the reformed symphony performing a powerful piece. What a missed opportunity.

And I STILL think they should have gone noir with our heroine a villain, a temptress, a femme fatale, for a much more interesting drama.

★~⚘~🕱 The Gelfling Queen Sicarius of Melonia 🕱~⚘~★
August 28, 2019 at 8:54 PM
Week three of Sic wondering why the flip she's so addicted to this show and if it is secretly brilliant or actually trash.

Well, it certainly wasn't brilliant, although I think it had the potential to be almost brilliant, but then ... everything has potential.
Was it actually trash? I guess that depends on your definition of trash; I've watched a lot of trash this year, some things others think is also trash and some they don't, and this was hardly either a) the hardest show to watch this year or b) even necessarily the worst technically.

This was watchable. I enjoyed the first half. The second half fizzled out into badly plotted tropey mediocreness, like many, many shows I have watched before, and perhaps fortunately for it I just finished a show I found much more hair-tear inducing not four days before, so finishing this was breezy in comparison.
And it did all the same things that average shows like it do, so much so that its faults are predictable and although I dislike them, they are merely eyeroll inducing rather than rage quit inducing; a title that becomes meaningless, a mystery that is not as intricate as it says it is, tension that dissapated, tone that got bland, quirky indiosyncracies that are forgotten and fade out (the singing, the insomnia and the music), random supposedly important plot points that become void, several vehicles of doom, amnesia, time jump, noble idiocy... Alas this show turned out to be as formulaic as they come, and far from the secret brilliance I wished it possessed.

It did have a few saving graces though, which I feel deigned to point out; YWJ was delightful as creepy (healthy? No. Compelling? Heck yes), I found the characters to be fairly consistently written (far from perfect but still, they all had distinct voices, even if that voice was stupidity *ahem*), the dysfunctional weirdness of the beginning is something I would like to see more of and followed through with commitment in some directional experiment that blends slice of life and thriller (it drew you in and I think accidentally tapped into something that has a lot of potential), and ofc the music.
Alternatively this could've also been fantastic had YY or Yoon actually been murderers...

You gotta laugh at that last conversation between them though,
"Why did you run away everything you said was wrong!!"
"I know I was stupid I regret it I'm sorry"
Ya, writernim, if you're self aware why'd you still do a time jump and noble idiocy? Lmao.

I still don't see the use of Jiyeon's character. Eunjoo is such an unnecessary character.

I just watched until the end for Yeo Woo Jin :p He was good as charming/creepy hero singing awfuly.

The big villain's revalation was not very spectacular...

The second characters were weirdly written, Eunjoo was useless and Maestro Nam presented as a good guy until the end. I never felt pity for him...

I think bigger villain for Yi Young was her family... They never understood what was good for her... Like the aunt who said she should give up music and work in her shop. I found sad the FL never really played her instrument except at the end. I wanted more music and more orchestra! I wanted to see the both of them playing together on stage. For this kind of story, 10 episodes would have been enough, they dragged so much the big villain story for nothing.

If I watch the last few episodes I can gain a bean. But can I endure that??
As if baddie hat repeating the dialogue wasn’t bad enough, Yoon kept saying the same thing.
Pretty much everyone were annoying me.
But thanks for sticking to this till the end so people like us can read the ending and put an end to this misery.
What a lost opportunity this was. Started off so well and then zzzzzz.

I enjoyed the earlier episodes but later on, I lost interest. Thanks for this @missvictrix at least I get to read how the show ended.

Looking forward to seeing YWJ and the rest of the cast in another drama!

@missvictrix, thanks for the weecap, esp. the first paragraph. And yes, it was super satisfying to see Prof. Kang cowering on the ground in front of that car.

The thought that I just can't shake is: the whole drama could have been nulled if Prof. Kang had walked up to Ian and said, "Oh, did you see my pen on the floor? Can I have it back? Thanks!" Even if Ian had to say, "Darn, it's in my jacket that I gave to my brother. I'll bring it back tomorrow, OK?" Why the heck would he hire a bad guy to rough them up to get it back? Why would the bad guy tie them up and leave them in a warehouse if his aim was to get a pen back? Come to think of it, why hide your secrets in a pen in the first place? Maestro Nam's intervention is also seriously implausible. You either rescue someone or you don't; the halfway rescue just left them in harm's way.

It also really bugged me that YY was supposed to be charged with negligence (under those circumstances?) but we never saw any follow-through.

I also had the feeling that we only got one kiss in this drama because of the age difference. Somehow it reminds me of Charade, with Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn. Even though the age difference was much less here, they still went light on the romance in the same way. At least Alfred Hitchcock pulled off a more flippant ending.

In the end, what drew me into this drama was the suspense between YY and Yoon. Who was he really and what was he after? What did she do and why did she do it? Once that suspense was gone, nothing really took its place. The "I love you but I can't be with you" line couldn't carry that weight, and the drama gave away too early that Prof. Kang was the ultimate bad guy. I'm glad it's over. I wish it had been able to maintain suspense of some kind until the end. I also would have liked to see the tension between the leads maintained until the end, and resolved with a little more fire, or at least a little more flair.

🙈🙉

I'm so far behind....how'd this happen?

Once upon a time there was a show with a flat wide smiley oblivious heroine..... Who we hoped would find her smarts like a butterfly out of its cocoon after she regained her memories.... But alas.
At least the creepy dynamic was interesting while it lasted.

It wasn't that bad, could have been a lot worse. Oh well.

My snicker moment of the last episode was when that rich well connected violinist, who according to general consensus got her spot through her connections was a part of the new orchestra too.

Also when Yi Young woke up with a start at the professors intrusion ; that scene looked like it was a perfect possession scene. Sejeong bored me greatly in this drama, but that scene had potential. I could see her as an extended cameo in a spirit possession type drama.

Thanks, missvictrix!

I'm still thrown by that weird separation and time jump. What was it for? I must have missed some dialog, but I don't want to go back and watch again for clarification. It feels like the writer just had to fill 20 minutes and couldn't think of anything else.

I did enjoy the music in this, and the actors did a good job. I really liked Song Jaerim here, I hope he can get a lead role (Gapsoon doesn't count) soon. Maybe as a cat doctor?

Last week we left off with Yi-young unconscious after her car accident. Thankfully, she awakens with no amnesia or other side effects, almost to the point where I wonder why we needed this accident to begin with. To show that Maestro Nam really cares about Yi-young’s well-being, based on how he flew to the hospital when he heard? To show us the strength of Yoon’s love for her as he weeps in the hallway? To make Yi-young vulnerable to the creepy strangulation hands of Professor Kang?

Pretty sure the accident was what prompted her to remember the events from the night of Ian's murder.

thanks for the recaps...i just got access to this show today & watched ep1:-)

I forgive this show for the anticlimactic reveal, the slooooow development, the lackluster villains, and the dumb heroine because they gave us Yeon Woo-jin being amazing and lots of Song Jae-rim but the noble idiocy and time skip at the end really annoys me. This show could have the time skip without the noble idiocy and it will be the same show but the writer chose to make the characters idiots until the end.

This show was really good in the creepy department at the very beginning. Maybe if it continued to be funny, creepy, and mysterious from start to finish, this show could have been the cracktastic drama of 2019. Here's another bean for us.

Finally the ending for a so-so drama. It began with so much promises, but then the spark of the show fizzed out in the 2nd half. The only saving grace of this drama was the chemistry between the leads. The second half bored me so much, that i finished some episodes in 15 min, skipping the scenes where everyone blabbered the same thing over and over again.

The thrilling factor was missing. It had so much potential to make the mystery of Ian's killing in a more interesting way.

Coming to the the supporting characters, they were just there for the sake of the script. The Orchestra consisted of many personalities, but we could not get deeper in to their personal lives. I really laughed out loud when the orchestra group came to visit Do Hoon the day he got discharged from hospital . They just performed and viola! they were gone the next minute.There could have been some fun conversations between the introvert Do Hoon and the different members of that group.

If we look up from the positive lens , this show really made me very emotional. It did deal with the struggles of someone losing memory and how they coped in every day life. I felt so much for Yi Young. She is a very sweet cheerful girl,though she didnt have the best of brains and mouth. Her story is inspirational enough to show that honesty and hardwork will help you to reach your goals. I ugly-cried when Do hoon kept pestering her to remember about Ian and how she felt guilty stabbing Ian. Kim Sejong is such a great actress.

I just wished that this show was a normal rom-com rather than a psychological thriller. Rom-Com set up would have lit the show and would have suited with the characters.

I will miss Yeon Woo Jin. The guy is charming in every form in every drama he acts. Do Hoon wasnt likeable in the beginning for me , but i started to love him afterwards when he fell for Yi Young for who she really is, and admitted himself that he really cant leave her.

I loved the chemistry between the leads. I waited for more romance scenes to show up,but didnt happen. There should have been a final kiss scene in the last episode.

Last but not the least, I loved the all the OSTs in this drama. It went well with the scenes. I cant stop listening to Dazzling day and its been on a repeat for today. Even the Orchestra performances were so good to listen. Hats off to the music director.

It was a cute drama. Would I recommend it? Hard to say. It does give the viewer a few romantic thrills. It has likeable leads. It has a semi-interesting mystery plot. It just wasn't exciting. But I've spent a lot of time on dramas that were very exciting at the beginning and completely fizzled. That doesn't really happen in this one. I'd say give it a shot when nothing else appeals, keep your expectations low, and just go with this enjoyable ride - more a merry go round than a roller coaster.

i gave up on this drama. it was really hard to get through. it had its moments but it got really draggy at the end. i liked the leads but i can send my time watching something else.