the ambiguity of the drama is seriously killing me but i am very intrigued. The cinematography and acting from the cast is so beautiful to watch that i want more. This drama is kind of like watching water droplets fall but i want to know what motivates the characters and the relationship between Jisoo, Ha won and her husband. It felt like i was dropped in the middle of the drama with no context but i want to see how things unfold which is a good sign.

I have to admit the first part of this was rather confusing, but much of it got filled in next episode. Looks interesting so far - there seems to be some mystery here that has not been revealed, such as why Ji Soo actively avoids Ha Won.

I've watched K-dramas for the past 15 years and none of them has confused me as much as this one...there's no intro! It feels like we were dropped into a middle of a conversation during the first second of the scene! Also, it doesn't make sense that Chae Soo Bin would do the things that she's asked to do without question...it's just so unbelievable. I guess I'll stay tuned for next week and see where this goes...otherwise, I might drop.

I have to try and keep going. It was confusing and boring in the first episode. I'm hoping it gets better.

Yess it's confusing, lots of question, don't know the show where going, but I found myself watching the next episode because of Jung Hae In and Soundtrack! Really the ost are so sooo good.

But I read article about PD who said that the opening episode will make us uncomfortable cause it different and not typical like other drama. Ok, I try to watch until episode 4 and decide wheter I keep watching or dropping it

Thanks for the quick weecap, @missvictrix! (Like you, I like weecaps more than recaps).

I haven't seen enough kdrama to have any business to make this statement , but this seemed like an avant garde first two episodes. Henry James-esque is one way to look at it, although I would have thought it more post-modern than that. One alternate title for the show I thought up while watching was "Norwegian Wood" (with due apologies to the Beatles and Murakami :p).

Melancholia seems to be the flavour of the season- at least  three shows I have seen this week have some kind of depressed central character (#WeatherFine, Nobody Knows, and this)

I liked (theoretically) the emphasis on music, but I personally would have liked it more if Seo Woo was more of a nerd when it came to her work, and her character broke down the sound engineering part of it  more. They give enough airtime to Ha-won's professional interests, so it would be appropriate if they did the same with her.  For example, what took her so long to figure out whether it was a human or simulated voice that spoke to her? 

Seo-woo is a good choice as a "reliable narrator", although Soon-ho might have been more grounded! But there is some trauma in her past as well, right? - her parents in the forest fire, that recording of her mum's she keeps playing. The show will surely bring all this up again later on.   

The diplomat-grandmother is an enigma, and I look forward to being introduced to her through the show sometime soon. I'm a fan of hers even though she hasn't appeared so far. She's preserved her heritage home well, and hosts house concerts for indie musicians, and has a farm. Could she be any cooler? 

When the show started off with an unrequited love, and if the designated OTP was Ha-won and Seo-woo, it became evident to me that the only way to resolve it was to kill Ji-soo off. I had, though, expected a death to occur later in the show. That is, assuming she has died (we won't know at least until the next episode, I think - there's a chance she survived the tree fall/snowstorm with severe injuries). If, indeed, she has died how on earth are they going to keep the unrequited love story going? Through flashbacks? (*Groans*).

Am I also reading too much into the show potentially hinting at a pairing between the pianist/errant husband (In-wook) and the manager (Soon-ho), or another unrequited love there too?

The cinematography was spectacular in places, especially the Norway scenes. For someone who lives in the tropics, I find visuals of snow to be particularly evocative of something ethereal and unearthly. (I'm sure if I would have a very different view of  snow if I were living in the mountains!). There's an entire essay that can be written on the symbolism in these two episodes as well, but I am not inclined to go into it for now.     

Finally, I did not really love the opening, unlike my reaction to #WeatherFine (in the same genre), but I like the fact...

Nice to hear I wasn't the only one a bit confused - so much so I felt the need to re-watch the first few minutes again. Or should I wait until more episodes have aired? Is this one that's better to wait and binge?

I loved the 2 episodes because it was pretty different. The utilisation of the AI was poetic. Ha Won doesn't look like the cold ingenieur who doesn't understand people, it's nice that his character looks like a nice and warm person. I really liked how Seo Woo was involved in their story. She tried to not get involved but she was drawn by their love. Ji Soo's indecision seemed to have hurt herself and people around her. I'm curious about their past.

I really liked the OST.

while i am not yet sold on the melancholy melodrama jung haein seems to be in, chae soobin as han seowoo is my favorite thing this season.

ok any season.

ok i just really love chae soobin.

First, our heroine agrees to record someone's voice without proper justification with too little protest.Then she doesn't even bother asking the name of the guy whom she ran into more than a couple of times. And then she proceeds to share a very personal story with the same stranger, not bothering to ask his name. And proceeds to make 2 people meet without thinking if that's what they want. I liked her despite all this but still it's pretty unbelievable.

a lot of people are complaining that this drama is 'odd', but to be honest, that's what is making me eager to tune into next week. so far, it's not like any drama i've seen before, and that (along with chae soo bin) are enough to get me to tune in to next week

i know it's not gonna happen (especially considering Ji Soo's currently ambiguous fate) but the first episode especially got me shipping Seo-Woo and Ji Soo hard

I'm hoping ep 3 and 4 will be easier to understand. I do think it is shot beautifully and this might be the first time I listen to a lasse lindhl song outside of a drama.
Since the husband was struggling to play piano, I was wondering if he knew what ji-soo was going to do. I keep thinking he is involved in Ha-won's mothers death but maybe it is something like stealing her composition and passing it off as his own? I do want to know more about ha-won and Seo-won, because it sounds like she is falling for ha-won and his memories stored in the AI and not Ha-won the real life person

What irked me in the 2nd episode was Ji Soo hopping into that plane, going to a remote place with no plans and all. Also, I'm not really a fan of killing off a character just for the OTP to make sense.

But I'll check a few more eps to see how this goes.

I'm not sure where this show is headed, but it certainly is beautiful to look at, and the music is lovely, too. Now that we're just past the vernal equinox in real life, here's hoping the gloomy vibe lightens up. Several other currently airing dramas are also suffused with melancholia, and it's wearing on me.

Having spent the fall semester in northern Germany years ago, I well recall how depressing and oppressive the darkness became. I would set off for my work-study gig in morning darkness, and not leave for home until well after sundown as the moon rose. It must be even worse up in Norway. My Seasonal Affective Disorder is kicking up just thinking about it.

I suspect that, as with CHOCOLATE, we're dealing with a drama that is more of a character study than a plot-driven production. I have an inkling that the structure might be kishotenketsu. That would lend itself nicely to this kind of story. See:
https://stilleatingoranges.tumblr.com/post/25153960313/the-significance-of-plot-without-conflict

My initial comments on A PIECE OF YOUR MIND are posted here:
http://www.dramabeans.com/2020/03/premiere-watch-365-repeat-the-year-a-piece-of-your-mind-
welcome-a-couples-world-unique-chef-moon-rugal/#comment-3632118

I've posted the Erik Satie piece on my fan wall:
http://www.dramabeans.com/members/pakalanapikake/activity/1017223/

This was a very strange beginning.
I don't really know if I like it or not, because there were things I liked and others I didn't like at all.
I loved the FL and the ML. I didn't like how a tragedy needs to take place to make them together.
I'll give the show another week.
Jun Hae In, you'd better make it worth it!

I was intrigued by the use of AI for healing an therapy but this show is so different than what I expected. I didn't mind the first episode but I'm really bored before I hit halfway through the second.

I am not at all interested in the story of the guy who is so hang up on his ex that he is literally stalking her, gets her voice recorded without disclosing it is for him (I am really bothered by how unethical that is) and keeps calling this married woman.

I like Ha Won and Seo Woo's scenes but Ji Soo bores me to tears. She is inconsistent and doesn't interest me enough to get curious as to why. If she is going to die as some predicted Ha Won needs to get over her first to be with anyone else but that isn't the healing story I am interested in. It would have been much better if Ji Soo was a ghost from the beginning.

With so many interesting dramas airing or about to start I think I'll give this one a pass.

This is the PD's interview about the premiere. I hope the show gets better next week.

https://www.soompi.com/article/1390268wpp/a-piece-of-your-mind-producer-responds-to-premiere-reviews-and-talks-about-whats-to-come

I hope this drama will be good because I really like the leads.
The 2 episodes might look confusing but since I follow this drama's news from the start to the characters description, it didn't confuse me like it did to others.
I'm also quite familiar with AI, so from my pov he needed her voice not for his personal desire but it is necessary for him to find the point of reaction for his device. His plot was wrong yes but I agree with Q, he didn't actually keep it a secret from Jisoo about the voice recording. Some might say he is stalkerish but I quite disagree, it has been 7(?) years into their marriage and he didn't bother her. Until after he listened to her voice and realized that she was depressed then he tried to contact her. I know maybe for others he shouldn't contact her because she is married, but their bounds were quite strong to ignore her condition.
I also still want to believe that she wasn't dead, I want her to be alive when Hawon tried to let her go so it doesn't look like he was forced to forget her because she is dead.

Only watched episode 1 and... not a fan of Jung Haein's character (although definitely a fan of him as an actor), but I'll keep on watching, might still change my mind about him. Also, shoutout for Nam Dareum - baby is growing up well - and the beautiful OST!

Like many other, I thought premiere week was confusing, but in a good way. I am left intrigued. The only part that got me frustrated was the fact that, the information that the writer wanted to let out to create interest and I guess this "intrigue" was not effective. Comparing to When the weather is fine, which i think has the same set-up, the information given for each episode me me intrigued, interested but also left me wanting to know more. But, in this I was left mostly frustrated. And Ji Soo's character was bothering me, Idk if it's the acting (probably is) or the way she was written, I found her not interesting at all, she just did not captivate my attention. I look forward to the bond between Ha won and Seo woo to grow and I hope we'll understand better the context nxt week!

I loved the first two episodes. The cinematography is amazing, the music is lovely, and the characters are interesting. I was skeptical about the genius programmer ML but he doesn’t come off as cold. I liked that the device he is making is therapeutic in nature and I liked that they touched on privacy/testing aspects of technological tools. I also like how SeoWoo’s career is a blend of science and humanities. I liked SeoWoo as a character and could understand her motivations for most of her actions, except her not asking “Before Dawn” what his real name is. I loved that SeoWoo and JiSoo became friends and SeoWoo wanted to protect JiSoo. I didn’t want JiSoo to die and felt that the connection between SeoWoo and HaWon was strong by itself to overcome the whole 10 year unrequited love. In fact I felt that if JiSoo dies then it would be harder for SeoWoo and HaWon to be together, if that is the end game. I’m now curious to see how they move this story along. This is the first kdrama I’ve felt like watching (rather than reading recaps and watching clips) in more about two years. I hope it doesn’t let me down 🤞🏽😁

Thanks for the weecap.

This show's first week was a poem. A dreamy, almost unreal poem that was in such soft focus I was wondering if there was something wrong with my glasses. It seemed part arthouse film, past European fairy tale, part deeply-cliched kdrama. And while scenes like him staring at a crescent moon while intoning that he just wanted a piece of her were almost hilariously cliched - and I sometimes wondered if I needed my eyes checked or if what were seeing was even supposed to be real - the ethereal execution drew me in and kept me.

Will I suddenly decide the spell is cast is broken in the next few episodes? It's entirely possible. But for now consider me in love.

I like the intro eps. It's a show that I cannot fast forward lest I miss anything. It may be confusing that the feeling it evokes more than make up for it.

I loved the first episode. Seo-woo's meeting Ji-soo was spot on like "kindred spirits" meeting. Sometimes you meet someone and just want to be friends, like kids at the playground. It's that simple. I didn't find it a confusing episode at all. ❤️