Such a cute episode!! Star of the week was definitely Yul, he was so adorable with how he went along with Yoona's crazy scheme and then how he dealt with being the third wheel during Seowon's birthday celebration. He's been a consistently wholesome and golden retriever-esque character throughout but this ep. really highlighted it for me. And his new? little crush on Haena reminded me of the teachers I have innocently, but very dramatically, crushed on in high school. How very relatable 😂

As for our main couple, they're absolutely adorable people and I'm squealing over the slow-burn, but also simultaneously (and contradictorily) I'm also screaming at how slow it is. BUT we're only at ep 7 and have made significant progress so far in mapping out their feelings, so I'm hoping that means we'll get some cutesy couple fluff in the second half. I do really wish Haena had told Seowon at the restaurant - she was so close! - but I also understand why she's hesitating so much.

As for Bogyeom, what is he doing? is he good or bad 😭 I feel like his role in the last two-three episodes especially is just *stares ominously* Which I don't mind but like the ambiguity they seem to be building up about his character has me on edge because it's an unknown at this point.

Next Thursday can't come fast enough!!

I loved how whipped Seo-won is from day 1. Lol @ the multiple hair flip and them being 100% effective.

I know they're basically flirting and want to spend time together, but they could have tried to make Yul feel included too. Poor boy, it felt really cold, on top of being the third wheel.

Yes, I was also hoping they'd drop the weird student crushing on teacher trope with Yul... like, we’ve seen them change things from the webtoon. There's no *reason* to include this plot line, this isn't a jdrama after all.

Why can’t either of them complete their sentences 😭 even with all that Dutch courage... in the webtoon, aren’t they already dating when the reporter-bully shows up? Why can’t we have that? We're getting one ep per week, at least pick up the pace.

They made the bully even more of a lowlife in this. I didn't like this week's episode very much, and I’m certainly not looking forward to the usual damsel in distress kidnapping arc (gender flipped tbf), like with every crime kdrama. Hopefully we return to our regularly scheduled healing doggy drama soon.

I'm liking Cha Eun-woo more now.

There was a major change from the webcomic this week that really disappointed me - see my fanwall for more.

I was worried they'd killed off Hae-na's dad so I was really glad to see him!

May I say how much I hate seeing Kim Min Seok playing the bad guy? I am such a big fan of his from Because this is my first life and Hello my twenties.
If Yul was a real person, he would be damaged beyond words after what happens this episode. LOLOL. “Take your time and hurry” 😂
For once I would like to see someone just get to the point and say what they meant to instead of get drunk, stutter, delay and have secrets come out at the worst possible moment. Do you hear me Hae Na?

They did poor Yul pretty dirty. I'm glad he recognized his crush would go absolutely nowhere. As for our leads, happy days for them and their adorableness.

Please make it just a crush and end it right away. Don't make it like 30 but 17, my heart can't handle it T____T

The fact that there are only 10 days left to break the curse is giving me anxiety. Especially with how evil that reporter/bully seems to be. What if he pulls some crazy stunt like kidnap her to be able to film her turning into a dog and it results in more time lost? Also that poor uncle who is stuck as a dog and dying is too sad.

It was super frustrating how long it took both of them to say essentially nothing. We’re half done and they seem hellbent on making sure there’s the past to explore, the reporter to get rid of, resolving the high school crush, confession, mountain spirit reveal, breaking the curse and hopefully a little bit of happy fluffiness. Quite a lot of ground to cover and it will require a lot of patience to make it through the weekly drops.

I found the mum hijinks totally hilarious and Yul so precious! But there was still a niggling discomfort at the back of my mind at this whole plotline because it was as if a teacher was actively "leading" on a young, impressionable teenage student to cause him to develop a crush on her (and these are teenage years when hormones are raging), so it didn't feel that right for me to find it hilarious too sigh....

So, they just cut the cotton candy like this... I don't need a summary before each episode!

I'm not sure if I was the mum, I would have my own children. I think adoption was the best solution to stop the weirdest curse on my family.

Hae-Na can say whatever she wants, but she has the worse tastes in men. Her ex is a big jerk.

I'm not sure I'm interested by the "journalist" plot. I wished to see them as a teacher, in their dog training, etc. or know more on the curse.

Even bottles of soju cannot break the shyness barrier between Hae-Na and Seo-Won. The supporting cast continues to shine, especially Mom and Yul, as their family dinner meeting was the highlight of the episode. There is a weird wingman turning SML syndrome in Yul which is understandable as he is a hormonal teen boy but the idea of him joining forces with Teen Shaman is even better. Bully Tabloid Reporter needs to get beaten with some values but even if he reports the fantasy folklore, who would believe him?

Uhm, where did my cute, lovable fluffy drama go?((( OK, I've anticipated the nasty ex being nasty and was spoiled about SW's bully making a comeback with vengeance, but that was not the only problems here. The entire sequence about Yul posing as a fake boyfriend made me screaming in cringe, who tf though it was a good idea to begin with? Ah, YN, right. When will our FL stop playing along with her sister's outrageously dumb schemes? I understand that in SK culture there's nothing unusual about grown ass working adults fearing their parents' wrath as if they were still kindergarteners, but what exactly could her furious mom do if HN just REFUSED to share any info on the man she activated the curse with and said she's gonna deal with it herself - scream at her? Resort to kdrama beloved trope that is Funny Domestic Violence? *rolls eyes*

And THEN we've got something even more annoying and pointless - Yul being the sulking thirdwheel on his uncle's birthday date. My overall displeasure with love triangles within the family must be already known very well here, but just in case - there was no freaking reason for that! There's rarely IS one, and this drama is NOT that story! And the overly dramatic way poor kiddo's puppy crush on his puppy teacher was shown - totally for cheap laughs - ewww, I can't think of any description more befitting than "tone deaf" here. Hopefully that was the end of it, plot surely has enough of stuff to deal with already.

Aside of Yul's heartbreak, the date itself was very cute (why tf did drama cut cotton candy scene? this becomes a pattern and I do NOT like it!), love was thick in the air, chemistry nearly peaked... until the suuuper awkward bar convo happened. And while I see why they both could be shy enough to fail at spilling the beans right away, that was too much of a back and forth ultimately leading to nothing. Why did HN had to stop him from saying his part? He was almost there, woman!

Villains were too much - both in quantity and quality. At least SW came through with his no nonsense attitude towards the bully (chokehold threats? the "I've always been taller than you" snide remark? yes, pls!) And what the hell BG even wants? He's got his allegedly lost love reincarnated (there's even a portrait of her in his lair to clear out any doubts!), but he does nothing about the fact, just keeps walking around aimlessly and giving creepy glares to camera? How exciting! *sarcasm*

I sincerely hope this was a one-time blunder and drama gets back on track from Ep8 onwards. Get a grip, show!

All of the cute things about this drama are still incredibly cute, and I'm definitely sticking around for them, but they are really being overshadowed by both of the overly dramatic subplots, which I'm not a fan of.

I was okay with the past history stuff in the beginning, even though it didn't necessarily do anything for me, but as the story has gone on, the past history subplot has become taxing to watch. We're learning essentially nothing of value, just watching one guy give ominous but hard to read facial expressions, and I don't care about it anymore.

I'm also 100% not a fan of the reporter storyline. The bullying subplot is a very serious and heart-wrenching story that I legitimately care about it, but I don't care about his childhood bully showing up to blackmail him. Certainly not if you're going to make it so dramatic that it essentially belongs in a different genre.

I just want a cute rom-com, guys! Is that too much to ask?

Thinking about this has actually kind of coalesced for me one of the reasons why I've moved away from Kdramas lately and towards dramas from other countries. Because Kdramas have this ever-present need to throw everything and the kitchen sink into their stories. Kdrama writers seem to have an aversion to writing stories that are just straight rom-com or mystery-thriller, etc., and I don't understand it. And they never advertise this about their dramas. They lure you in with trailers and posters that make you think the drama is going to be one way then bam! they throw in a metaphorical truck of doom to hit you as you're harmlessly crossing the street.

I'm not saying you can't have dramas that utilize multiple genres. I think that's absolutely fine. But does it have to be Every drama???

I do want to read the webtoon, and I know both of these subplots are present there, so I realize it's not really the fault of these drama writers. They are working with the story that already exists. I am hoping these subplots are better integrated there than they are here though.