I loved how this week's episodes focused on contrasting unrequited loves, and how different it is to love someone in your mind (Won) than to love someone that you can see and has the smallest chance to be with (Seo-woo).

Hooray for Won doing the mature choice of letting Ji-soo rest in peace and crying his heart out. Now we can finally see what will happen to Seo-woo's 1% with Won. I NEED TO KNOW.

P.S. When Won told Seo-woo he now gets what it means to like looking at someone, I totally swooned!

I thought the end of episode 5 was initially a bit weird (had a bit of trouble interpreting it), but it made sense after I watched it again and after watching episode 6.

Honestly, although I thought episode 5 was worse than episode 2 and 3 (I like when they're cute), episode 6 was great and, as a whole, this week was top-notch. I'm glad I stuck around with this show despite the strange first week. These two actors are doing a great job and they've finally got me liking both characters (week 1 left me thinking Ha-won was a pitiful and a bit creepy and, while week 2 made Herculean strides towards rehabilitating him for me, it took episode 5 for me to really begin to empathize with and root for Ha-won) and rooting for the relationship between them.

This show has gone a long way towards rehabilitating JHI for me (hated Pretty Noona and Tune in For Love, and I found One Spring Night far too similar to Pretty Noona). I still want him to try new roles (tell me to shut up if I've said this too many times), but this show reminds me that he can do great things with competent writers and directors.

i started off with A Piece of Your Mind trying to grasp at the abstractness of it all, and grappling with how the characters knew much more between themselves than we did (of course this is usually the case, but much more than usual). but i have hopelessly fallen into this drama's charms now and i can't wait for more! looking forward to seeing how Seo-woo and Ha-won navigate the open-secret crush that lingers between both. quite amazed that it got pushed out in the open so early on!

if anyone is keen on keeping up with APOYM locations, we're tracking them here!

Maybe my experience with unrequited love made me watch this show out of curiosity. And sure thing I fell in love with it. This show and I'll go to you when the weather is nice have some contemplative vibe in common. Plus nursing a long-term crush on someone.
Jung Hae In got me with his "I'm looking at you with pity". I died laughing. Gosh I didn't want to watch this show because of JHI choosing sort of similar characters in his dramas but I think this drama is a gem I can't not watch. I'm curious with how Seo Woo's physical presence helps him heal and get over with his lifelong regret.. If he is a jerk it can be easily considered as a rebound relationship.. but I hope it leads him to true healing and growth. I hope the drama will handle it well.

I can't count how many times I paused the drama when Ha Won being swoooony (but seems he didn't realize) for screaming like seo wo did in the ep 5. Yess, you can't do that to the girl who likes you and stated her unrequited love.

Fyi the bad news is, TvN decide to cut this drama from 16 episode to 12 episode :((( seems that korean viewers like romance drama or makjang drama this time

thank you for such a lovely review.. i'm also hopelessly in love with this drama as well as with Ha Won and Seo Woo.. this one will stay with me for a long time.

I had commented in an earlier post that I thought this show was about a stalker stalking a stalker. But now I realise the stalk factor has actually multiplied. This is, in fact, a story about four stalkers - all the leads are stalking someone (Ha-won>>Ji-soo; Seo-woo>>Ha-won; Soon-ho>>In-wook; In-wook>>Ha-won...). That's a lot of stalking to follow! 

That said, these were much better than previous episodes. To begin with, Ha-won finally becomes self-aware of his problems. That is a relief. I like that Seo-woo was the one to call out Ha-won for his obsession. I didn't understand, though, why she was the one howling when telling him to let go. He should have been the one crying, IMO. (I get that the show is trying to make a big deal about him crying, etc., but still.)

While the show still completely ignores questions of privacy and consent, which have troubled so many of us, it does ask some very interesting questions about 'existence'. What does it mean to live, or die? Do your take your miseries and troubles to the grave, or do they live on amongst those who are left behind? Similarly, is it rational to have feelings (love/hate/whatever) for something or someone that doesn't exist? And what about memory - what do you care to remember, or why do you forget certain things, or why don't you want to remember certain other things?

These are all pertinent questions, where the show makes itself out to be a one-sided crush who is depressed and commits suicide. This new perspective doesn't redeem the chaos of the previous episodes, but it certainly improves on its opening. 

"It's 1 p.m. Need to post on Instagram". The misterious tenant lady just cracks me up 🤣

On episode 5 suddenly I wasn't sure anymore if In-wook, the husband, was aware that Sijoo had died because he was getting all jealous and paranoid, That made me doubt if anyone took the trouble to tell him and he's still thinking that she just took off and is alive somewhere with Ha Won, but he knows, right?

I'm waiting for this drama to be over before watching (but there might be no one to discuss it with here). Too bad its shortened by 4 episodes. But if there's nothing to tell its fine rather than forcing to be really 16 episodes. I don't know how JHI chooses his dramas. In as much I want to patronize all his works, I find it distasteful sometimes. Sigh.

Ok, so I'm enjoying this drama, but I have so many questions! I don't know if it's that I'm lacking cultural context or if I'm just too practical-minded for this type of drama where most of the stuff goes on in characters' mind. Like, in the hug scene on episode 6, when Seowoo tells Hawon to turn around so that she can say goodbye to Mr. Dawn, what exactly is going on? Does she want to see him from the back, like the time she saw him on his almost-contact with Jisoo? For a moment, I thought she was going to give him a back-hug (would have loved a back-hug, although the actual hug she gave him was also super-sweet)

I LOVED the fact that Before Dawn made an appearance and they used it as a way for the two to make up. And Ha Won realising that he too, likes looking at Seo Woo - swoonnn..

Like other Beanies have said before, i hope he's not just latching onto a new obsession after quitting one.

I think I will miss Ji Soo in her AI version. I loved all these conversations between her and Seo Woo or Ha Won. They were beautiful moments with the scenery, the dialogues, the music.

The relationship between Seo Woo and Ha Won is really interesting. I love their honesty and how they tease each other like "I'm looking at you with pity" or "I forgot I was upset once I saw you cry" :D

Seo Woo helped him with Ji Soo and he will be able to help her with her parents.

For the husband, he needs to confront the truth because Ji Soo went in Norway for him and not for Ha Won. She went there to apologize to Ha Won's mother for him, I think she was ready to forgive him. I wonder if Ji Soo AI will come back for him.

things like shortening of 4 episodes do not happen in K dramas normally. They told the reason as the story will be more compact after this. This drama has been under my radar but I haven’t start it yet. I’ll start, but not yet.

Yes this drama is all kinds of beautiful for me, but there are some areas that confuse me, and extra storylines that I can't figure out why they are there.
What is the deal with the woman running the boarding house and her relationship with the younger man all about? He seems to be over the 'thrill' of the relationship when he commented on what she was wearing and boasting about how popular he is with the ladies now. But why is this storyline here anyway?
I'm more curious about the new ahjumma who is moving into the house and using the AI tool.
The scene on the overpass where he was saying her name to comfort her was probably all he ever wanted to do. I think he always wanted to comfort her in an albeit slightly obsessive way but at least he said rest in peace.

I'm curious as to where they are taking this story. But Won and Seo-woo are both so beautiful and I like their characters so for now I'm just watching for them.
The way he looked at her with those eyes. I didn't watch the last two shows he was in, but I remember him as the second man in "While You Were Sleeping". He will forever be that young cute police officer.

Thanks for wee-capping this lovely beautiful show!

I am really loving this drama. Am loving the character developments as well. Am glad Ha-won is finally moving on - and has learned to become swoony. Not that am complaining. I have to give it to Jung Hae-in, he's really good with his facial expression while delivering those swoony lines. I don't know how Chae Soo-bin can stand it, I would have melted in a puddle. Haha.

But Seo-woo is by far my favorite character. And Chae Soo-bin is playing her really, really well.

I am waiting how the story will unfold but I am sad that TVN has shortened the episodes to 12. I hope it doesn't break the story.

I’m so in love with this show. I’ve actually watched episodes 3-6 twice. This is a first for me. I love it’s quiet moments. I love the way SeoWoo looks at HaWon and I adore the way he looks at her. I liked how AI JiSoo was given a goodbye. Though it was sooner than I expected and I am a little worried that he’s replaced one obsession with another I am hopeful. It’s because SeoWoo is fundamentally different from JiSoo. I’m JiSoo and HaWon’s relationship it was HaWon taking care of JiSoo, being mindful of her, protecting her. With SeoWoo there is a little bit more balance. He doesn’t have to be careful and considerate all the time. He can be a bit playful, bit more dynamic. I’m hoping that shows him how to have a healthy relationship. His face when SeoWoo hugged him was was sweet and heartbreaking.
I think I’m obsessed with SeoWoo and HaWon and this beautiful drama 😬😁

I'm in love with JHI and CSB performances here. I might say it's their best imo. haein is clearly a strong actor for this type of melo/romance dramas and while I will love to see him going out of this zone and try new things, I won't ever blame him for playing his strength. a lot of actors do this and that's not a problem at all. one fine spring is similar to pretty noona imo, but I don't think a piece of your mind is similar to the other two at all. just the fact JHI is using long coats lol

I'm really sad with the news of the drama being cut from 16 to 12 episodes. this is a disrespect with the staff and actors involved. tvn has all the resources to deal with any monetary loss they might have. I bet it's more like not wanting a "bad record" with a low rating drama they expected to be a top one. and it's also a huge disrespect with viewers who are tuning in for each episode. some knetz are already dragging JHI, saying he's not that good as a lead.... (when I bet most of them were singing a different tune when he was charming everyone with previous characters). anyway, sorry about the rant, but this really pissed me off. it's just really disrespectful from tvn and f*** capitalism, honestly.

back to the drama itself, I was curious how they would move the leading love line when so much focus was put on ha won's first love, but I'm surprised how natural it went? I don't find it weird what he said about liking to look at her at all bcs he always seemed comfortable with seowoo and since the first time he saw her (and how he remembers it clearly), he was impressed in some type of way. and there's not jisoo there to be the bridge. I can't wait to see how they will navigate this. hawon never rejected seowoo since he found out about her crush and I think this says a lot.

I have no idea what's going one between jisoo's husband and soon ho. and I'm also bracing myself for when everyone finds out how entangled their lives are. it will bring back a lot of pain, especially for our main couple.

I am on board! I don't know if my mood changed or if the show changed pace and finally seems to have found its footing, but I have been thoroughly enjoying this show. I love LOVE L O V E Chae Soobin as Han Seowoo and I will follow her story wherever it goes. I may not be 100% objective here...

Beanies, I need some help. I keep reading that InWook had something to do with Won's mum death, but I jus can't remember anything of it. Episodes 1 and 2 were really confusing to me and I don't have the courage to go through them again. Any help so I can go and watch that precise moment? Thanks!

How can this confusing and sometimes creepy show (it begins with a depressed woman, an obsessed man and an innocent woman, and the first week it ended with the depressing woman committing suicide while talking in the phone with the innocent girl who clearly seems to have a crush on her) be the one I can't pass without? I'm astonished with myself, because instead of understanding things better, every week I seem to be more confused and yet I'm liking it more and more.

I love this drama to bits. I first tried watching it when it premiered but I wasn’t in the right state of mind and gave up after 10 minutes. However I gave it a second chance last weekend and I ended up loving the first episode and marathoned the remaining episodes.
I am sad that it was cut to 12 episodes but I pray that it will make the drama and it will be one I can always re-watch

I'm really surprised the show seems to be bringing Soon-ho and In-wook together, as they are two personalities that don't seem to mesh well at all. In fact, one would expect In-wook to despise the meddlesome, illogical Soon-ho. A rather extreme case of opposites attracting, if indeed they end up a couple.

Break my heart into a million pieces HW - he wanted to say her name and tell her goodbye. I teared up at that and his cathartic cry at the cafe. I like that he realized that it wasn't just this love that he had held on to that he had to let go, but also his own regrets about her that needed to end. Character growth!
I've never watched any dramas that JHI was in the ML, but swoon - him looking at her is a mixture of curiosity, amusement and a hint of affection - its perfect and JHI is nailing that expression and giving me butterflied.

I think mysterious boarder is Jisoo's Mom. Why? because everything has to be connected.

It's funny and also frustrating to read how many people have been confused by this drama. It seems that if people can't get answers to all their questions in the first minutes of the first episode, they stop watching. I am loving this drama for a whole lot of reasons. It's visually beautiful, not to mention the fabulous sound track. The main characters have had to deal with some big issues (not all of which we know yet). It's about grief. It's about mediating loss. You pointed out earlier that there are countless scenes in which people are seen through windows or visually "framed". I think this shows how we can be seen from a distance by others but separated from them. On top people have been mediated by others and by technology. Seo Woo has acted as a go-between with Ha Won and Ji Soo (a mediator for his grief). and then there is the therapeutic role that the AI technology is being designed to address (not to mention Ji Soo dying on the phone!)

We should be able to suspend our need to know everything at once, Where's the fun in that? Although I have to admit I found Ji Soo's way of dealing with things to be horribly toxic, I am sure we will eventually understand her and her husband's guilt.

And the issue of stalking seems irrelevant to me because I don't yet know what happened to get them all to this point. Seo Woo's family tragedy in the forest fire and her struggle to rise above the loss (her need to hide her happy face in the photo with her parents) may provide a hint of the comparable fallout for Ha Woon, Ji Soo and In Soon-ho, who are all still struggling to work through the damage from what happened in Norway.

I love everything that JHI has been in that I've seen. None of his roles are the same. He is an actor who can convey a subtle range of emotions. and he often takes on a drama that is thought provoking and socially provocative. Something in the Rain, One Spring Night, A Piece of Your Mind, Prison Playbook, While You Were Sleeping - kudos for his acting in all of them. No other actor is doing what he is doing. And he looks like an angel. Wikipedia tells me that "Jung Hae-in's third great-grandfather is Jeong Yakyong, a great thinker of the later Joseon period". My admiration for that third great-grandfather is only enhanced by his talented descendant.

I'm not even sure if I could craft a sensible comment about this show. I just love it so much in all its dreamy, surreal, ambiguous wonder. Even long scenes of two people drinking coffee or standing on an overpass are mesmerising. I love every minute of it.

I'm a bit sad about the cut but, at the same time, being only 12 episodes could be the best thing for this drama. It could end up being my favourite thing this year.

I'm in love with the show. It was confusing but in the end, I was intrigued by the first week's episodes.

But I'm reading comments such as Ji soo did something unforgivable to Seo Woo alluding that she killed herself. To me, she didn't. It was a natural accident. Yes, she was reckless. But the weather was fine when she went to the forest. And she actually called for emergency help.

About the relationship between Ha won and Se Woo. I think he liked "looking at her" from the very beginning even when Ji soo was still around. He just wasn't aware of the implications of it all. He deliberately and unconsciously choose her to be part of his journey as he observed "I know someone who would suit Ji soo" which could also mean I know someone who suits me. I can't wait to watch this 1% grow.

Thanks for the weecap.

I was afraid that the low ratting would make them cut a few episodes but I was only expecting 2 episodes, not 4! :( Really bummed. On the one hand, I don't mind if it's 12 episodes if that was what the writer intended. But I have so many question.. like how much have they filmed? Were they filming (going to throw a random number)... episode 10 when they got cut? Do they have to go back and redo some thing so the story makes sense or are they just going to rush the episodes they haven't filmed? Sigh I'm so sad at how this cut can impact the story like. I feel like there's actually a lot of things they have setup ... like more about Ji Soo's husband and what he lied about, the Parasite lady's story, diving in Seo Woo's parent's death, Ji Soo's husband and Soon Ho's loveline (?)... I am definitely interested in learning more about these other things going on but I hope it won't take away from the main storyline so they could answer everything ... (Okay I'm done complaining about this)

I can see why this drama isn't entertaining in the obvious way. The characters aren't loud or making dramatic decisions that are funny or extraordinary. One appeal of drama is that they are great escapes. This drama is so soft and gentle. It doesn't try to get your attention through grand gestures but it ask you to wait and be patient with its characters as they go through their own moments of grief and healing. I am so invested in Seo Woo and Ha Won falling in love because of how they setup the story. Ha Won leaving behind his Great First Love (albeit a little obsessive) for something so much better, something real. I am so very much like Ha Won because I'm always stuck in one-sided love. I never want to face reality. Just want to stubbornly admire from afar. I am so proud of him for letting go and saying goodbye in the capacity and time he needed. I do think that Ji Soo really cared about Ha Won but I suspect that she really did love her husband and despite their marriage being rocky at the end, I wonder if she went to apologize on behalf of her husband because she couldn't stand that he did something ... really bad? I don't know... that's where my train of line went. Because i think it would be sadder if she actually was in love with Ha Won and couldn't be with him because of some barrier we don't know about (another thought line lol)

Anyway still bummed that despite how beautifully crafted this drama is, it got cut because of popularity and that it doesn't fit the typical mold of dramas. What a talented team. I wish they knew how much we appreciate it!

First of all, all these people need to see therapists.

The pace of this drama is slow but fast at the same time, I don't know how to explain it. 6 episodes in, we're slowly introduced to each character, which feels a bit weird (in a good way) since there was almost no introduction on the first episode.

This drama is good in playing with the small details! Touching our hearts with the smallest details has always been k-dramas' strength but this is on another level. The story depicts human emotions soooo well I feel like crying everytime I see them hurting.

I just can't wait to find out what Inwook exactly did that made Jisoo felt so miserable and guilty towards Won. He doesn't seem like a bad person, but he does have much suppressed feelings and that won't do him any good. Luckily Soonho is there and isn't taking any bullshit, I just hope he won't hurt her too much since Won said that she's actually very fragile (that scene at the restaurant really got me).

All the main characters have an unrequited love (that will slowly turn into successful love stories, I hope!) and it's interesting to see how their 1% chance slowly become more.

The 4-episode cut may actually bring out the best of this drama because I honestly don't know how they're going to stretch this into a 16-episode drama (the pacing is a bit too slow for me). The layers are peeled very, very slowly though (I mean it's been 6 eps and we pretty much know nothing about Won, JS and IW's lives in Norway besides the fact that JS-W are bffs), and there are side stories as well so I hope they'll find a way to tie everything nicely.

Speaking of side stories, I don't really like Minjung's story as of now since it seems very unrelated (I know it's not) to the current story. Changseob and Eunjoo are starting to frustrate me too, they're not being honest with each other and they're not being honest with themselves in my opinion.

That's all my opinions so far, and I really do hope they'll all get therapies although they'll heal each other. Sometimes Won and Seowoo can be scary hahahaha

Ok so um like what's the four week rule? >.<;

I started this drama when there were already 4 episodes, and I have to say I am now fully invested. I have not been this invested in a drama since Healer back in 2014. I cannot describe my anticipation for the episodes of drama.

Anyway, I am interested to see how Ha Won's attitude towards Seo Woo will change, after he allowed himself to be free of Ji Soo, and to finally let her go. I think Ha Won may have loved Ji Soo in the past when they were young, but to me, Ha Won had not properly grieved the end of his relationship with Ji Soo back then (before she literally died), because he was stubborn and decided to love her on his own, even when she married another guy, In Wook. His inability to grieve that relationship made him unhealthily fixate on the idea of what he and Jisoo shared, and this idea kept him stuck on Ji Soo. Truth be told, he might not have loved Ji Soo as much as he thought he did. I believe you cannot truly love a person you don't know, and they spent years apart without communicating, they practically are strangers when they met Seo Woo. So he might have unknowingly sabotaged his own happiness than to get rid of the idea of him being happy because of Ji Soo, because that idea "kept him in place", and not actually Ji Soo, the person. That realization is very hard to accept, that the person you once loved, no longer makes you feel the way you "remember" how they made you feel. So Ha Won kept on fixating on the idea of Ji Soo keeping him in place. I believe in reality, what kept him in place was himself, as he said, he is a determined person.

Now that Ha Won has properly let Ji Soo and the idea of her go, I am excited to see how his attitude towards Seo Woo would change, especially now that he also accepted that he has this "feeling that he can't exactly say" towards Seo Woo. If you go back to the first episode, you could exactly tell Seo Woo already caught his interest, he remembered exactly the first time he met her, but he was still self-sabotaging so...

I hope writer is able to wrap this up nicely even with 12 episodes, cos we are now technically half-way. My concern is that the episodes would feel too rushed. :(