Lee Joon...
He is so so so good and I love his outfit!

I'm into this show also.
I absolutely love the blonde boy and the butcher lady.
I found it funny Hwal was drinking blood from a big mug like coffee.

Since RS is over, hope ratings will go up a little at least.
It definitely deserves more love and recognition than NWABU...

I have to say that I feel nothing about Sang-eon. She is like one of those female leads from the older dramas whose whole personality was to be kind and pitiful.

Yeah and Lee Joon is fantastic here. The cinematography is especially great on his scenes.

Whoever did the wardrobe for Lee Joon deserves all the awards. It's "Gone with the Wind" curtain dress + The Picture of Dorian Gray dandy + excellent hair product to create a visual feast.

That scene in the restaurant was riveting due to the whole epic nature of their conflict, and the dialogue and acting were great, but his hair and suit are what commanded my attention.

Other thoughts: the teenage blonde boy is killing me with his longing for Hwal's approval and acceptance; Sang-eon isn't a particularly well-drawn character yet but I'm hopeful as the layers unfold her backstory alone and with Hwal will be more interesting; and I still don't really understand why Sang-eon's sister told her that "Bulgasal is the sword to kill Bulgasal." That seems very inefficient. Why not just say: "The Bulgasal in the hoodie can kill the better dressed one" or something. Why refer to one of the monsters as "the sword?" Not sure why, but this bugs me, lol.

Lee Joon really is fantastic. He brings so much energy to his scenes, and I love his line delivery. His wardrobe is something else too lol.

I found Episode 5 kind of boring. I'm just not that interested in Hwal and Sang-eon, and I'm going to find any romance that is probably coming disturbing after all the strangling and threatening. I enjoyed Episode 6 much more with the whole gang together. I do like Hwal and Sang-eon's relationships with the other characters, particularly Si-ho.

So the painting that Ok Eul-tae was looking at appears to give clues to the backstory. We learned Bulgasal was first heard of 1000 years ago when a village was slaughtered. I'm guessing whatever happened there led to the curses on Eul-tae and Hwal.

I'm still in on this show, despite many things that aren't consistent.

Yes, certain *ahem*visuals are helping, but I'm also a cryptid fan. So a show that covers those that are not the usual done to death isn't hurting either.👹

"...rather, I’m almost getting the feeling that where we started at the beginning of the drama wasn’t truly the beginning." This is exactly my thoughts. Now that it's pretty clear that Sang-eon and Hwal are the main love-line (evident by all the sprained-ankle-mending and kenchanas and CPR kisses and neck-grabbings and the past love being conveniently pregnant), I kept wondering if they are the OG OTP, that formed way before Hwal married his wife, perhaps there was some love triangle involving monsters and humans before Hwal reincarnated as a cursed boy. It does appear like a huge chunk of the story is missing: why was Hwal-boy cursed to begin with? Why Sang-eon-bulgasal saved him as a boy? Why does Dark Hole insist he's older? Why does the dinner between the two bulgasals left more questions (at least for me) than answers, like Ok Eul-Tae is hiding something important from Hwal? Who was Eul-Tae' assistant with a neck tattoo. So many delicious questions that hopefully will be answered.

As a side note, what is up with all the neck-grabbing? I'm trying to take it seriously (i.e. he's trying to choke her from some sense of inner hate and revenge) but it comes across as if I'm watching a K-drama awkward interpretation of erotic asphyxiation. Should I laugh or clutch my pearls or fan myself? I can't decide.

Don't think it was intentional, but Ep6 was really funny. Bit of relief because Ep5 came off a bit dull.

But they seriously treated him like a sack of rice until they got back to safe-and-unclean-house and its like, wow he's not waking up... maybe CPR?

For the CPR scene, I remain a bit confused on why he didn't seem interested in the blood on her hands despite being in a bad shape. Maybe I was thinking Bugasal was much more like a vampire than he really is. But that can also account for why blood seems to be sprayed everywhere instead of consumed.

why does a monster who could cut a hand in his bare hands froce needs a knife to kill his victim? i rolled my eyes in disbelief when he grabbed the knife from his pocket.

"poetically dilapidated house..." this description totally hits the spot. Bulgasal's set design and cinematography are first rate. Can't wait to find out what happened 1000 years ago.

I'm properly hooked to the story now. The world-building is just so good, which makes each new revelation that much more satisfying.

Like the new implication of Hwal's soul being born into the body of a twins. Suddenly that didn't feel like a freaky coincidence it seemed to be all this time, instead probably a result of some strategy Sang-yeon's previous existence concocted in order to kill Eul-tae. The separated soul seemed to be the key to split its power from the curse. Which was why Sang-yeon retained the memories of all her previous lives and the cursed shoulder scar (which marked her as the previous Bulgasal), while Sang-un got the build-in alarm for monsters and protection against the Black Hole Bulgasal while she remained as human.

It's interesting that after the bloodbath that happened very regularly throughout the drama, eventually everything came down to a battle of (mis)information. Every major player only has the tiniest morsel of information, so it's a question of who can turn that into an important leverage to get what they needed from their potential allies or enemies. Take for example the information about Bulgasal's real origin and identity. It's baffling that no one knows much beyond the folklore about it as some sort of the king of monsters, even though that understanding must be crucial to finally end the centuries old curse.

I enjoyed the current turn of event where the sisters finally got the upper hand against Hwal. The fact that they chose to work together with him (albeit very grudgingly) and being forced to understand and sympathize with him on a deeper level made for an interesting shift of tension between these people. It's also fascinating that as Hwal inched even closer to his goal of mortality, he seemed to truly live again for the first time in 600 years. No matter how mismatched the group of people that now populated his home seemingly is, it clearly brighten Hwal's life just a little bit. And I'm definitely not opposed be able to see him smiling a bit more.

Since last week I've shared my complaints for the director, it's only fair that I also give my compliment where it's due. First, I'm not sure how far the director's intention goes, but I appreciated every bit of the pent-up tension during almost every confrontation between Hwal and Sang-un that somehow felt like a confusing cross between hatred-based and sexual. The deliberate use of proprietary words like 'mine' and 'yours' that usually pertained something romantic only heightened the heavy horror-thriller vibe between these two. Second, I think it's an accomplishment that for a drama this brutal and bloody, the creator never stoop down to gratuitous violence.

P.S. Am I the only one who experienced whiplash from Do-yun's blase reaction to almost everything? The thing is, I don't think this is a problem of acting, directing, or writing because it felt too deliberate. All the other characters, save for him, has reacted...

It was Sang-eon's utter stupidity that made me check out of this drama at ep 5.

If a guy locks you up in a room, I don't think you should trust him and get into his car, no matter how much he says 'you don't have to worry about your sister anymore' (that would freak me out so much) and has a scar on his hand. You just run. Especially if you've been trying for years to keep safe. It was just the dumbest thing to do and if Other Bulgasal hadn't called at just the right moment, it would have seen her killed.

Yes, Lee Joon is mesmerising and Gong Seung-yoon was utterly epic in Ep 1. But now I've dropped it as it seemed to turn into men just chasing (and trying to kill) clueless women. Not my type of drama, I'm afraid.

EP 5 wasn't too bad. There were even a few lines that got a chuckle out of me. I like the lighter moments with humor. I had expected to see more of the water monster though.

There was some humor in EP 6 too after all the action. I knew Butcher Lady Hye Suk was gonna say Hwal was her son, but that and his bewildered face still cracked me up.

Do Yoon had a peculiar line when he didn't want to give Hwal CPR. He said he was afraid he may never go back to his old self if he does it. He said it with a sort of serious/mysterious tone before quickly making up an excuse and running away. I can't tell if he was joking, if he just didn't want to put his lips on the guy, or if he is hiding something. Wondering if maybe his chatty, innocent-looking demeanor is a front.

I'm loving the folklore/fantasy part of this drama.
Can't wait to see more!

Why did they make the female lead so boring? You'd expect having lived for hundreds of years as a bulgalsal, she'd have more to bring to the table than wide eyed innocence and a good nature. Urgh. I wish her sister was the one who had survived the attack, she'd make a more compelling female lead.

Lee Joon's character is the only one that is doing immortality right.

I feel like this drama could do without an OTP. I'm not feeling the Sang-un and Hwal connection, as much as the drama was trying to establish that in ep. 6.

This drama is amusing but it is also a guilty pleasure.
So many silly things will probably not get answers.
Why do they reincarnate with the same face? How could one soul get into twins? Why did older sister remember her past? Why would Si-Ho not believe her sister if she had special powers of her own? If previous SE's lives were killed by Crazy Bulgasal why would Hwal not know about it, if he had pictures of her in the past? Why does he think she can remember anything if everybody else, including the monsters, doesn't have memories from other lives? Why does he live in a horror movie set? Is it to match his food?

I'm wondering if the Bulgasal woman from the past was actually a twin too: the good one who saved Hwal when he was a child and the bad one who killed his family and who he stabbed and then carried the scar (and who has now ended her reincarnations).