The Mountain God plays all his cards and power to emotionally abuse Hae-Na’s family. I thought the worst for uncle last episode, but the twist to show that the curse is reversible was cruel. The Mountain Tiger is merely playing with its prey. But most of the rest of the episode was Joseon era filler. Is BG’s petty destroying SW and HN’s current love by erasing their memories going to make him infinitely happy? No. He could have done that before. I guess it will be up to Teen Shaman to slap some “humanity” and spiritual enlightenment into BG since she has figured it all out.

Last week I wondered “I would rather have the story continue with the "aftereffects" of breaking the dog curse (for example if some dog traits are now hard wired into her personality and actions.)” Well, we got a taste of that with uncle’s transformation. It seems like a wasted comic opportunity for the leads.

I think all the flashbacks and playing up the curse story over the romance is a way the producers are trying to keep the audience guessing because of the network limitations and scheduling issues. I don’t think it is working well.

The mountain god has turned into a vengeful spirit now. On one hand he asks Ji ah to forget about him as she is not Cho young but on other hand, he is hell bent on punishing Hae-na and Seo-won for supposed crime of Mak-soon and Soo-hyun.
How he can apply one set of rules for one person and another for different? It has ventured into horror category where a vengeful ghost from past is trying to harm the leads.
Where is the exorcist when you need it? I vote for Priest Johan from the Island. The show doesn’t need to pay any extra. (and I don’t want any other actors to be associated with this show)

This has become quite the tedious watch,—-
@unit gurrrl you said it. I’ve been putting this off since Wednesday

The trademark "kdrama midway 180 genre flip" is predictable, but always disappointing. I keep hoping each time they'll avoid it even when the tell tale signs are there (I'm aware this is the definition of insanity). Alas, A Good Day to Be a Dog: I mourn thee truly.

Bring back Yul!

“ Hmmmm. Hae-na is built like me for real, because I’m almost tempted to walk away from the show.”
You and me both, @unit! Thank you for the dryly funny recap of a show I am so over! I am disappointed to learn it’s not ending at 12 episodes 😒 Ugh, bring back the cute and fun please!

I don't mind when shows get angsty, but this is just a mess. Even knowing the backstory I'm not interested in Bo-gyeom's vengeance, so nothing involving him works for me. It seems like he's playing games with peoples' lives just for fun. And I'm not getting to see characters I do like because of all the repetitive flashbacks. At least involve all of Haena's family in this like they did with Yuna's boyfriend and the reporter. Give us something.

I really, really don't like the past life stuff. It was entirely different in the comic. And from the preview, they're gonna change something that I was most looking forward to.

I did laugh at the dog uncle stuff. Low hanging fruit but eh. I'm weirded out that Bo-geum's former love is a student and he's a teacher. Eghh

Just a little rant. Don't mine me.

K-drama writers are so predictable, and as I watch more and more of them (I just started during the pandemic), I get the feeling that they write from a boilerplate script.
1. Spend too many early episodes denying the main couple's attraction to each other.
2. Make the male lead an asshole.
3. Break up the main couple. Usually after one episode as a couple.
4. Send someone off to the States for some dumbass reason and forget about Facetime and texting, let alone calling.
5. Last episode, put the main couple back together even if they haven't communicated for 2-3 years.

To be fair a lot of interesting stories start out pretty well and then fall back on the above in some way.

Good thing that uncle is alive - and hopefully uncursed now after a false alarm. Another good thing is that the show finally bothered to give a little more depth to SH-MS past life romance, so I was less annoyed at their story than last week... Still doesn't make much sense for them to jump each other's bones before actually eloping how they were planning to, but oh well, young lovers under pressure are prone to do impulsive things. And didn't MS try to deny snitching on CY before BG cut her off? Perhaps she had some plan but things went wrong... Also damn, he really killed SH, left an innocent child an orphan but STILL felt that his revenge was not enough? That's one petty spirit right here...

Everything else was... not great, sorry. As much as I liked SW and HN openly talking about their supernatural "problem" and promising to fight for their love, magical amnesia or not, the whole sequence was a bit too anticlimactic. Is the real angst reserved for next week? Sis and vet guy should've gotten closer far earlier imo. And I'm with the mom here - whatever reason uncle's first love had to let him down like that, it happened 20 freaking years ago, dude, just move on! Or focus on more pressing matters first at least. Like getting used to the lack of fur and re-learning to do your bathroom thing NOT under the nearest bush...

BG doesn't make any damn sense. Not that he ever did, but wow, telling Jiah off and proceeding to torture others for the sake of his revenge right after? He just LIKES to be evil and bully mortals with his powers, that much is painfully obvious now. Wonder why there is no repercussions for all his actions, seems really unwise from whoever put them in the mountain god position in the first place. Idk if he's supposed to be "nice to people" as HN once wondered, but surely messing with humans to such an extreme extent shouldn't be allowed by heaven's law or something. Also, the way he compared MS to a dog... yikes. Someone pls exorcise this ancient being back to the past!

P.S. With the way CY played cupid for MS and SH from the start I'm now even more sure she did THAT to herself. Poor thing, she gave her supernatural boyfriend way too much credit in the brain kindness department...

I am so done with this drama. Sure, maybe it wasn't possible for the live-action adaptation to make me feel the same feelings as the webtoon but... they're making so many unnecessary changes and not for the better? the preview for next week shows this story going in even more ridiculous direction.

I really want to drop this but there's only 3 eps left and I'd feel foolish...

Also, at the end of all of this, if the centuries old Bo-gyeom ends up with Ji-ah - his 19?20? year old high school student - I will personally report him to the FBI. I don't think they have jurisdiction in South Korea or over mountain animal deities, but I will give it the ol' college try.

"This is what happens when you over-stretch a story beyond its capacity in an attempt to squeeze out unnecessary angst." 1000000%. I struggled to stay invested this week, literally was like 😐 the entire way through because I simply could not find it in me to care about Bogyeom's past, or Maksoon/Soohyun, or the angst that the show was trying to create. IT was a bazillion times better when it was fluff, light, swoony and just didn't try to explain the rationale behind the fantasy bits. Why on earth bring in - or try to bring in - a tonal shift in the 11th hour?!

And it's a shame because I've really enjoyed this drama for the most part 😭😭😭 The only nice bit is that we all seem to share the same opinion on our dislike of ep 11 - yay for camaraderie!

If I was a Mountain God in Korea I will send a protest truck to Kdrama compagnies who always portrays them being completely stupid...

He's a god and he's the one who failed to protect the woman he loved. The 2 mere humans tried and one ended in prison... I mean even if she betrayed her (but I think she didn't), it was to protect her baby and the man she loved. After all, what could happen to Cho Young who was with a god?

His revenge is just petty at this point.

I am still holding out hope for this one. Hope that Bo Gyeom will relent, with help from Ji Ah. Hope that Mak-soon's snitch was some kind of clever play that didn't go the way they planned. Hope that we've mostly come to the end of the flashbacks. Hope that we'll get some more lovely, color-saturated scenes like the umbrella moment.
You can do it, Show!

Why Eunwoo stopped emoting again?
I wanna see Seowon's laugh 😮‍💨

Thanks for the weecap @unit I came back from holiday with a long list of dramas to catch up on and this and Castaway diva are the ones I was struggling to dive back into which you summed up beautifully 👉🏾 ‘A Good Day to Be a Dog has fully leaned into its dark side, and it makes me wonder what happened to the fun doggy show we started out with. This has become quite the tedious watch, and that’s never a good sign’
I loved this show at the start it made me laugh out loud every week and the one episode a week or not even that was annoying but now slogging through my pet peeve of ‘light shows turning unnecessarily dark’ I am glad I didn’t binge watch from the start. I read and enjoyed the webtoon and I don't remember it being this dark for this length of time unless I purposely missed some episodes like I had to when reading Death’s game which I went in to knowing was DARK.
I am only watching on because I know there will be a return to the fun element but I will be VERY disappointed if they stretch this darkness into the final week and we only get ten minutes of the old joy at the end.

I also miss Yul, his actions have always brought the funny and his only return to that side was his liberal use of salt in the ‘follow the light scene’🤣 and that was buried in at least 5 episodes of heavy so was not enough to lift the mood.

Poor, brave you who is watching this for the rest of us.