@unit you were not alone in your nitpicking! I too was wondering how her clothes were magically back on. It was already inconsistent, because when Yoo-ra's curse was broken as a kid, she came back fully clothed too, but I just figured that was because she's a kid and they weren't going to film her half dressed. Anyway! Moving on.

I honestly loved her family going around trying to solve this situation. Maybe some folks weren't into the fact that Hae-na took a backseat for that bit, but I wouldn't let my family member confront their tormentor either, so I'm glad they kept her (as much as they could) from further trauma. Also, I loved that her family never crossed the line into actual harmful behavior towards the baddies. Break their instruments of torment? Definitely. Freak them out a bit? Absolutely. But no one actually sustained bodily harm at their hands, and I appreciated that too.

Our leads are soooo cute together. I loved how worried Seo-won was when he heard Hae-na was sick, and my heart hurt with hers when she tried to tell him everything so many times and just couldn't. I loved her asking him for another kiss at the end, and his tentative question about whether she would transform. Hae-na: You could kiss me 1000 times now without me changing. Seo-won: challenge accepted. Me: *rewinds to watch again*

The drama was fun until now but with the whole you tuber thing it went into completely weird territory. I imagine they wanted drama but this just felt forced. I am guessing now that the curse thing is over or at least ML knows about it, we will move on to the SML and the Joseon era story. I said a couple weeks ago that I felt that his actions always ended up helping the leads, as ominous as they make him seem, I continue to believe that.

Mostly a clip show to get to the Main Event. Somehow, the transformation and curse breaking was not big or bold as the lead up would have suggested it to be. There was a lot of side angst from other people in the Bad Reporter being evil showdown, but not a lot from the main couple. It was not quite anticlimactic but not as dramatic as expected it would be. The post dog smooch was cute fitting the overall theme of the show. But the show now diverts to another side path with the Mountain Spirit story line, which begs the question why he is an immortal high school teacher who apparently has stayed close to Hae-Na’s entire clan for generations. If it was guilt, he could have ended the curse a long time ago. If it was for his bemusement towards humans, would not have gotten stale pretty fast? You would think a Mountain Spirit would have more pressing matters like guarding nature from global warming, clear cut logging, nature trail litter bugs.

They're making this so needlessly dark and complicated. Why do dramas keep doing this to Lee Hye's comics? IMO, half of the appeal is that they're chill and cozy, but still interesting enough to keep you invested. You don't have to make them all dark and high stakes. I also prefer the way the comic handled some of the scenes. See my fanwall for a discussion of what the drama changed from the comic.

On a more positive note, that kiss scene was really good and I really liked some of the OST in this episode (I should check to see if they released any of them).

I wished that she told him her secret even if he already knew. I didn't like she didn't find the courage to tell him and she turned in dog because it was midnight. Her sister's ex was awful but she had other examples like her father, Yul or Woo-Taek who ran after the ex to help the family. She could have trust Seo-Won too. So the scene was disapointing.

Bo-Gyeom is the worst regarding the curses. What a twisted idea even for the Joseon era!

There were so many emotionally resonant scenes this episode. It made my heart feel happy and squishy. Hae Na's fear and anxiety around being so incredibly vulnerable and risking opening herself up for not just rejection but potentially putting herself in danger was incredibly moving.

I still dislike most everything around the reporter plotline, but mom and dad and older sister's best friend taking care of business was a very high highlight of this episode. I was dying laughing.

I'm very surprised they went ahead and resolved everything around her transforming when we still have six episodes left. That means they will probably be focused primarily on the past life stuff now, which is another plotline I haven't enjoyed. Hopefully, this episode is an indication that they plan on actually moving things along on that front instead of spending so much time on what I've been calling PPL for Bo Gyeom's face. I'm willing to enjoy this plotline if the writers are willing to invest in it. I just don't want anymore scenes where Bo Gyeom does nothing.

As for her clothes, I'm head-cannoning it that that's how it works when you finally kiss for the second time and end the curse. Everything gets reset. If you think about it that way, it works.

Oh, and while I enjoyed seeing Bo Gyeom wreck creep-reporter, it also made me wonder, if he could have done this the entire time, why he didn't do it before now. You know, like, actually doing something in the story minus brooding.

@unit, thanks for the recap !
Last week I was wondering why Tiger Man wasn’t using his super powers to get the bad guys .
Well I got what I asked for. 😂
Yay Cocoa’s curse is broken ! Ding dong the curse is dead !
Tiger Man and Shaman Girl , romance or grudge cage match ?
Yul could /should have a age appropriate gal pal not necessarily a GF
Sis and Her Veterinarian Guy should tie the knot.
Uncle should be cured

Yeah, the clothes thing bothered me too. I get that kdramas are allergic to full nudity unless there’s strange slapstick comedy involved, but the blatant flouting of established worldbuilding irritated me. We could have this ridiculous YouTuber stalker plot line, but not some consistency? C’mon guys.

And anyways, thank god the stalker thing is over. It felt really out of place in this otherwise fluffy but undramatic story and it went on for longer than it needed to. I’m kind of dreading the Bo-gyeom episodes because I have a feeling it’ll be just as overdramatic and totally inconsistent as Eun-hwan ones. Goddamn, Lee Hyun-woo is wasted in this. I don’t get why he keeps taking these thankless, nothing roles in dramas when he’s a pretty well-known face in Chungmuro.

AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

The way I was giggling the entire time Haena's parents and Woo-taek were interrogating Yoo-ra's ex. My kind of hijinks. I especially loved when he escaped and they chased him while riding scooters. I think the show needed that levity given the seriousness of the situation.

This ep made me laugh really hard and tear up too unexpectedly! The mum and dad were hilarious with how they were chasing the jerk ex bf, I'm glad they got the spotlight this week. It was really super adorable how the family came together to protect and comfort one another too ❤️

And gosh, I thought she'd tell him first so I didn't see that alley way scene coming at all, but I was close to straight up crying when Seo-won picked up dog Hae-na who was all scared and looking at him like ⚫️.⚫️ What an utterly heart touching scene!! And then the kisses at the end, be still my heart!! I really really liked that he 'figured' it out but also wanted Hae-na to feel comfortable telling him herself. And then he picked her up despite his fear and GOSH 💕

I can't wait for the cuteness overload next week!

I must be the only one who disliked this episode a lot. Yeah, we got some fun and cute moments. Like See-won almost breaking your future FIL's arm or the whole conversation between father and daughter, which was super sweet.

But from then on, this drama turned into a dark crime thriller. Good God, did they Flanderize the bully. Like I've said before, he was bad enough in the webtoon, but here he full on commits kidnapping, blackmail and was barely prevented from committing sexual assault.

And like, all this needless melodrama 😭😭 They essentially just re-traumatized poor Seo-won with this bully-kidnapping arc... Completely opposite to the webtoon's spirit, where they sedately heal each other's pain.

And it's a livestream... Now that Haena's identity has been leaked, how do they go back from this? How do they address it going forward? did her students see all this nonsense? Will tiger man wipe every single viewer's memories?

Yeah, it was cathartic to see Jin beat up the bully up but… Was all this necessary? all this melodrama essentially forced Haena to tell Seo-won instead of her actually working up the courage and choosing to? Hell, even after all of Seo-won's prodding, she doesn't admit it on her own, the transformation does it for her. I wish the story here gave her the agency to explain everything on her own initiative.

Two other things I did like: 1) tiger guy in that hair and robes hit diff. 2) the epilogue was cute in a cringey kinda way. Almost made up for everything that came before.

Also, what is the Lifetime channel doing here?? how are they involved in this drama's production?

Episode 8 is my fave so far, with the breaking of the curse, and Haewon romance officially starting; and sealed with passionate and fluttering kisses. Cha Eunwoo played his scenes so perfectly, including the action scenes, and kissing scene of course. He truly is a romance drama King. His Seowon portrayal is so satisfying, so that I just turn a blind eye to some inconsistencies with Gaena turning to Haena scene. I really just love episode 8 and looking forward to more sweet and interesting scenes in the next episodes. Wednesday come fast please.

Give me supportive family like haena's and loving man like Seowon, please 🙏
That kiss, smile & pecks is chef's kiss, no wonder its going viral in twitter & korean's forum 😍

Good thing it's finally over, and by it I mean both curse and bully subplot, show is much better off with them gone. Otherwise, it was hardly a good episode - sure, lots of what I liked the drama for returned, like leads being super cute together, actually funny family hijinks (what a supportive clan they are! parents are the blast together, much better than just mom and sisters alone) and plot went places, unlike last week - but wow, did they really have to go this far and dark in this story? I agree with many other beanies that this was rather unnecessary. Oh well, at least some super annoying "doing dangerous stuff alone without warning anyone" tropes were partially avoided. Baby steps.

Pacing could've do some improvement as well - we spent so much time on YR's shitty ex and related trauma, for example, that show's supposed MAIN CONFLICT - SW's dog phobia delaying the curse lifting, remember that tiny detail? - was sidelined so much that we didn't even see ANY of his internal dilemma once he knew for sure about the curse. He just went from slightly suspicious to knowing it all over a few scenes (mostly off-screen - WHY, show, why?!), and then they just smooched the damned curse away anticlimactically. At least the following kiss fest was almost enough to sweeten my lukewarm overall impression... almost. THAT was great, they looked so relieved, happy and in love, for once a proper post-confession behavior in a drama! *wails in single along with recapper*

BG to the rescue once again, I guess - when will he stop doing nice things while looking awfully creepy? And when will YR finally stop crying over her long failed romance with that walking crap and notices the vet guy (Angry Birds nickname folks on MDL gave him made me HOWL lmao)? And when will poor Yul gets a puppy and life of his own instead of constantly fixing everyone's problems? AND when will kdrama stylists will burn this sageuk Lee Yeon terrible wig for good? NONE of k-actors can make this abomination work (except maybe YSH... maybe), stop using it for every drama mountain god ever, once was already too many, let alone more!

Not that I'm against all the remaining episodes being dedicated solely to OTP being mushy workplace couple, but some other filling is needed in this dessert, and I'd rather it to be something else other than Past Life Drama and whatnot.

P.S. Was really nice to see SW in fully unleashed mode, it suits him so much.
P.P.S. Un-curse the uncle before it's too late, dammit!

To Beanies who watch this show later: I hoped you enjoyed this show.
It stops here: After this, the storyline is a slowly spiralling mess, and while fans wait and hope that excitement about Bo-gyeom, it is taken up, but stays incoherent and without urgency.
So - stop here, and use the remaining 8 hours to imagine how this would have played out with you in the main role, and your male lead of choice. Or just watch another drama.
You're welcome.