This show literally gets better and better with each week. The writing is top notch, literally how is a show serious, swoon-y but also so hilarious, all in the right balances?

* The secretaries are so funny - the Park Fuck You bit from ep 5, the clap-off at the wedding and the ‘and now he realises he no longer understands himself’ meta narration had me dying on the floor omg.
* Gu-won was a bit of a prick for most of ep 5, though it was in line with his character and it was needed to get to where we did by the end of that episode, which had me like like 🥰 (also just what a stunning frame in general).
* I know some aren’t that keen on the lingering stares but honestly I don’t mind in the slightest, especially because OTP development hasn’t been compromised nor is soley relying on longing stares for foundation. So it’s just added decoration and fan-service I guess, and I’m here for it!
* Episode 6 was such a riot!! THEY FINALLY GOT MARRIED! I absolutely adore their dynamic now post ‘marriage’ 😂 Gu-won slowly realising - and then trying to un-realise - that he’s caught feels was very endearing too. He’s loosing control over his reactions to things as each ep passes - so many little smiles, giggles, ‘looks of fondness’ started appearing in higher frequencies around Do-hee, that were then promptly wiped away with a ‘what on earth is wrong with me’ expression. Adorable.
* Do-hee is also continuing to be one of my favourite FLs, definitely one of the best for me in this years picks, with her self rambles and how she literally has taken almost everything in stride without being too ruffled. She’s a fighter! And she holds her own with Gu-won, which leads me back to why I adore their dynamic so much right now. Both the coffee scene and the ‘can you put this in your bag’ for me scene (which I ended up screenshooting for the fan wall because I loved it so much) were funny and cute beyond words. A VIBE I tell you, they are such a vibe together. They’re the same but also different enough to complement each other nicely, and although Gu-won is her ‘bodyguard’ it feels like she’s not just on equal footing with him but also his bodyguard (as she said herself) too in many ways.
* And although they’ve been in denial/still are to some degree about their feelings, since their very first meeting both DH and GW kind of clicked into place and have fallen into a natural rhythm around each other. They literally went from strangers -> bodyguard -> ‘I’m a demon’ ‘ok cool’ -> mutual decision to get contract married, which is actually like drastic leapfrogs in terms of relationship development but it feels so natural and I think that’s because they’ve sort of been in tune with one on some level from the outset.
* The other thing I like is that they’re very much themselves when they’re with each other, and niether feels like they’ve got to change for the other. They’re also the type that show care with the things they do rather than the things they...

I'M OUT

I have no idea what happened this week but I felt like I was watching a completely different drama. No, two different dramas. Episode five and six felt disconnected.

After tango Gu Won gets scared and annoyed because "he's too good to have romantic feelings for a lowly human", so he treats Do Hee like trash and blames her of ruining his life. And then he starts acting like a jealous boyfriend? What? He doesn't even notice how hurt Do Hee was and ignores her every time she asks him to mind his damn business.

Watching Gu Won act like a brat while Do Hee was feeling hurt and lonely because her only family died, the guy she likes keeps giving her mixed signals, and someone's trying to kill her and steal her money, was awful.

2. The next drama we get (EP 6) is that someone attempts to kill Do Hee and as a result she gets two marriage proposals??

Watching the two guys at her house talking about "what's best for Do Hee" yada yada yada was so random. Then I blink and she's already married to one of them??

My Demon built the leads' relationship for two weeks, made us excited about their future and somehow managed to make the most anticlimactic wedding in kdrama history. And what about those kisses? Was I supposed to feel happy about them? In my top 3 worst first kisses of the year, one is for DwY and the other two go for the ones in this episode.

What happened to all the honesty and the leads' dynamic? I don't care if they were trying to create some conflict or show Gu Won's human side. Everything felt so out of character and so out of place. Do Hee got really hurt by what Gu Won said but they never talked about it. They just got married? When we still have a million reasons to be mad at the guy? And the random ten minutes love triangle was so cringeworthy.

Totally meaningless and random. Do Hee almost got killed only for that?? So we could have those meaningless scenes with the two guys and then get her married ASAP? They had a lot of excuses to get married. He could've proposed to her right after the tango scene! Literally a bunch of gangsters what to catch him and he needs his powers!
Why make him act like a jerk and then propose out of nowhere only because another dude proposed to her first? *Roll eyes*

They ruined my ship and then they married them? Without bothering to fix anything?

What was fun about the leads' dynamic and their personalities died this week, and I couldn't care less about the rest of the plot. And what's with the SML digging in Gu Won's past?? *roll eyes*

Do Hee should send that heritage to the garbage. Girl, she didn't leave you a company, power and money, she left you a death threat and a horrible step family. She should throw Gu Won to the garbage too.

Peace out.✌️

This drama is delightful! I love that the leads are so petty yet when it matters they show so much trust and care.
I totally felt their struggles when they had their fight. There was so much feelings all around and words came flying. The fight felt read.
Also, the dramatic save on the terrace was well done.

The killer. Sigh. As someone pointed out for a guy who covers his face, he seems too chill about the neck. The major clue in identifying him.

The nephew is creepy as f.

I loved these two teaming up to stalk him. It was so fun. Poor guy, someone give him a coffee!

I am totally digging the secretaries. The whole wedding clap was hilarious.
I also loved how Secretary made sure the wedding was done as how Madame Ju would have liked. She is such a mother hen.

Overall, highly entertaining episodes. Not a dull moment. The show balances fun and seriousness very well.

Gu-won x Bok-gyu is my OTP. Their scenes together are gold. Bok-gyu's chipmunk laughing sound effect cracks me up. I'm amazed at how the actors could keep a straight face in the "F*** you" scene. I can see that the show is trying to turn Ga-young into Typical Second Female Lead, but it won't work on me. I still love her, and while I don't ship, I like her chemistry and banter with Gu-won. I understand why he likes Do-hee, but her family's corporate politics and serial killer are a drag, so I prefer our fun Sunwol Foundation found family over our romance. I'm sure that Seok-hoon will find a forty-year-old photo of Gu-won looking exactly the same as now. I can't imagine if Do-hee had married Seok-hoon, how awkward their kiss in front of the reporters would be.

I used to never save my emergency contacts, but thanks to My Demon and Castaway Diva, I've now saved them. So if I'm chased by a serial killer, Beanies will get an SOS message. Or if someone can get me our demon's (or any of our supernatural characters with powers) phone number.

Up until today, I'd been thinking of today as a chance to say what I think of My Demon and that's great! That's why I'm, for the most part, here--to hear the same from you all.

But today, I want to pay homage to @alathe. You are an amazing recapper.

Our demon has come to a very troubling conclusion: his heart, it seems, may not actually be made of stone. Or, perhaps, 200-year-old ice cream. Either way, this is the worst.

This recap starts out with a BANG. I mean, the solid focus on the fact that this drama rests on a taut balance between the ridiculous and the absurd...and it's doing it well, so far?? Amazing. Accurate. I'm here for you.

The realization that he might have — ugh — feelings for Do-hee has hit Gu-won like a truck, and no amount of angsty shower scenes can express his discontent.

Here, I have to disagree. There were not nearly enough of angsty shower scenes and there totally could have been. We had one. ONE. That's not the level of angst here. He's a demon from hell who, for the first time, has feelings for a human. I think that deserves at least two shower scenes...also more...ahem. Not enough. Two, fine. Three, OTT. So...two.

Gu-won exercises his customary levels of charm and tact by throwing tantrums over instant coffee.

This to me is the sign of a post-post-modernist PPL. I mean, how else are we to be attracting attention to the "stuff that needs to be bought?" Affective tension, that's how. But affective tension that we feel at a distance. Too close? I don't want that. Just close enough? GIMME THOSE PACKETS. (I'm having My Mister flashbacks...)

As ever, Do-hee’s only ally in the family is Ju “my second-lead senses are tingling” Seok-hoon.

This here, @alathe, is a tease. That Seok-hoon is Spiderman is now my greatest dream and hope and I'll never let it go, and YOU STARTED IT.

Seconds prior to impact, Do-hee snatches her wrist from Gu-won’s grasp. They clatter harmlessly to the floor. What is your problem, she asks him, disgusted. You, he snaps back. She looks at him, stung. Then let’s stop, she says. You are no longer my bodyguard.

That you left this interaction more-or-less uninterpreted was genius. The balance between letting us insert our own experience and your narrative leadership is exceptional. I'm in awe.

It’s a lot of pressure, and Do-hee is kind of super traumatized!

Yeah. Let's just pause here for a moment. Yeah. These men. They're not thinking about anyone but themselves...and maybe that's OK for the demon? But...

The next day, Do-hee sits musing in her office, when Seok-hoon shows up with a flowerpot.

...as you do.

At one point, he brandishes a cluster of sugar sachets as if he intends to present them to Do-hee like a bouquet...

no amount of angsty shower scenes can express his discontent.

I feel the show has not adequately tested this hypothesis.

The tango was hilarious and hot at the same time and it was fun to see a slightly different take on it. I’m mainly in this for laughs and eye candy, but I found the hugging and crying scene in the stairwell genuinely affecting - Kim Yoo-jung was great throughout that whole sequence - which made the farcical competing marriage proposals a bit flat in contrast. I’m finding the looooooong stares a bit much, too, but Gu-won staring at Do-hee while dripping with very un-demon-like sweat, breathing hard, and looking like he’s just had every bit of faux indifference shocked out of him was pretty satisfying.

Wasn’t a phony ship purchase an accounting fraud plot point in Numbers? A

The fun just continues with this show! Looking forward to Gu-won and Do-hee's next adventure! (Because it seems action-packed adventures are what these two get embroiled in!).

The assassin is dangerous, of course, but who's really creepy is Madame Ju's grandson. He's clearly not quite stable and seemingly one misstep away from becoming totally unhinged. He certainly comes across that way.

I really like this two even when they are being complete idiots. Like come on! You like each other and now kiss!
Gu Won's eventual addiction to coffee is hilarious. He completely forgot that he insulted the office workers of drinking it in the pantry.
He even have a big bouquet of coffee sticks he plans to keep for himself! Also how adorable that he got his own espresso cup and even kept it in Do Hee's bag!

Gu-Won’s snobbish view on pour over coffee and his secret growing affection for instant coffee - if this is a PPL for Maxim instant coffee - this might be the best designed PPL ever.

That old Kdrama swoon is back! Those swoony male leads who were as cranky and full of themselves as they were simps for the FL! The spontaneous delight on GuWon's face when DoHee praises him and the way he tries to control his expressions immediately 😍 It's getting more and more delicious as their awareness for each other is growing (and so are their denials 😄).

I wonder if it is a deliberate choice that everyone else in this show is quite average looking, including the male second lead?

@alathe: This is official. I will fling away my squatter status, contract a legal title deed and camp out here every Monday now.

As a certain greeting card would say: "I am so glad it's Monday!" said no one EVER. Your DB recaps have definitively overturned every ounce of misery typically associated with the first 10 minutes of the workday on a Monday morning.

Yours truly just finished reading the scope of my next two projects -- one: to do landscape scans into crushing social issues with data collection, gaps analysis, social strategies recommendations (read: very somber) and two: to interview celebrities and ferret out their unsolved family mysteries and secrets (read: very fluffy).

After reading the emails, I just feel my fighting spirit leave me momentarily, and need to go to the kitchen for a stiff drink (I know it's morning, don't judge me). *then* I thought, maybe the MD recaps have been uploaded!

You did not disappoint me.

If there are any site admin reading this, I want to petition that Alathe be duty rostered to recap weekend shows from henceforth so that side-splitting endorphin-releasing recaps are uploaded first thing on a Monday morning (here in my part of the world). Humor is seriously life-saving work, I tell ya *so good*

I'm really loving this drama. I don't really trust the 2ML, I gotta say

Thank you alathe for another wonderful recap.
This show continues to be a joy to watch. 
Every aspect of it is hitting the ball out of the park.
Long may this continue. 
Hwaiting My Demon.  

I’m more in middle about this drama. I do love some of the really fun scenes between our OTP, the secretaries, and our demon’s little family. I’m not as invested in the killer (who I’m beginning to roll my eyes at), the chaebol politics (if only they could have kept it to a fun whodunnit) and I’m afraid to say the OTP.

I wish the drama wasn’t quite so focused on the pretty, but greater acting range (esp our ML) and heart. Speaking of which, the most heartfelt moments did not come to me at the stairwell (overwrought) but with Do-hee’s ongoing conversations with the dead Madam Ju. So touching.

Thank you for the spirted recap, alathe!

The Clap-fight at the wedding was 10 levels of awesome! The show knows how to deliver humor using unexpected situations. That and the OTP chemistry are keeping it afloat for me. I particularly love it when they're in the car together.

The wedding is finally here and the cohabitation! Hallelujah! The last part of ep 6 makes me wish for a version of the drama that is just Gu-won and Do-hee being a mystery-solving couple who end up in tight spaces all the time. I really like having our OTP on the same side since Do-hee is a ton of danger. Speaking of danger - do we need a stalker/murderer and an obsessed dancer when the FL already has a whole bunch of family members hating her?

The drama still has an issue with too many lingering shots. It just kills the moment for me. Like holding a pose too long that it becomes awkward. I'm with Do-hee, just feeling exhausted by all the stuff happening to her. I'm tired of Do-hee getting pushed around by the whims of others - whether it be by Madam Ju adding that marriage clause to her inheritance (I would never want to put someone I love in a situation where she would be desperate enough to marry that lobster guy) or by our two guys who always think they know what's best for Do-hee or by all those people out for her life.

It is good when the drama is entertaining and double good when the beanies are equally enjoying it, but the real delight is in getting to read recaps that oozes as much fun and excitement as the show. Thanks @alathe for the recap.

Just when I thought they were overdoing the bodyguard bit, they brought in the marriage at the nick of the time and made me squee with the exploding chemistry, near kiss and the real deal! Wrist holding has never been so romantic 😘 With 10 more episodes to fill, I expect nothing less than burning passion at every gaze and wrist-hold.

Yes, the visuals are everything like how they both were suspended from the balcony on a high rise building (which shouldn't have made me laugh and by the way the FL's costumes are so gorgeous), but Do Do Hee crying near the staircase after the near death scare shows how vulnerable she is despite her confident and bold attitude. Kim Yoo Jung was good in this scene.

I find Lee Sang Yi's character, Seok Hoon to be bland. If he is the hidden villain, they better turn up his psychopathic skills that would rival those of the drug addicted grandson. I really have no interest in the evil son, his wife or his sister because the whole chaebol stuff is humdrum and the office workers are more interesting in contrast although the only thing they do in the drama is chat about office gossip.

I hope Ga Yeong is not the Demon's past lover in his human life. I would hate the leads journey to be obstructed by an unwanted love triangle. Instead have Do Do Hee befriend Ga Yeong because both of them have no friends.

If there is going to be a romance between both the secretaries, count me to join their ship. Their dynamics is hilarious and mimicks an older Gu Won and Do Do Hee.

Is anyone else getting a major "My love from the star" deja vu? Fantasy rom-com+ a crime investigation angle +FL in danger and in constant need of ML's magical company +past life love. Also the most dashing MLs with a great haircut! They've replaced the deliciously brusque alien with a deliciously brusque demon and thrown in some contract marriage instead of the neighbour aspect. I cannot believe I am about to say this but atleast so far My Demon is better than My love from the star. The suspense is really suspended for one (we do not know the killer for sure). Second, the tango scene was just too iconic and I am hard pressed to find anything close to it in My love. I love My love from the star also though!

despite the script of the show feeling like it was generated by ai its a surprisingly enjoyable watch. you would think kim yoojung and song kang are too perfect to be fun on screen but life proves you wrong sometimes

I'll have a few other things to say, but right now that lobster scene was genius, and the clapping contest after the wedding which Do hee's secretary won decisively with uncharacteristic whooping, had me in fits.

I adore your recaps. They make me laugh as much as the show does.

It's really a fun drama. I love the main characters together. Do-Hee is very honest with her feelings and can handle them, when Gu-Won was being cold, she just accepted it and thought to her plan to get back the society. She's pragmatic.

I wonder how Gu-Won's powers work because he seems having difficulties with flash lights, first with the car lights and then in the photobooth. But otherwise, I wish he came home to clean too :p

Sung-Min already disapointed his mother, Do-kyung is a psychopath... We still don't know about the identity of the man who spoke with Madame Ju. In the list of men, sadly, Seok-hoon is remaining, he works for the compagny and he's family.

Best quips this week go to....Bok-gyu!

"He is like frozen ice-cream, forgotten at the bottom of the freezer." (so spot-on my mind automatically crept to one such abandoned tub of cookies and cream that has crawled to the back of my freezer to d-i-e🤣 )

"And he has become someone he no longer understood..." (love the meta moment)

I have nothing more to add.. all the beanies and our wonderful @alathe have said it all. I absolutely loved your recap @alathe , you are a gifted writer and I will definitely watch the dramas you're recapping just to read your recaps in context.

Is it Friday yet? I want the next episode now. But guess what?! It's Monday and that means our heart-clutching, learning-swimming-and-sword -fighting-from-books, adorable matchmaker is going to be on screen later today.

Kim Yoo Jung is so beautiful it doesn't seem real. I put the first image of the article as my desktop wallpaper!

Thank you for the equally funny recap!

I thought ep 3 and 4 were my favorites. Now it has become this week's set of episodes.

I love the nonbreakup break up scene. They really needed that to move forward. Gu Won has been a brat in ep 5, but it is keeping in line with who he is. Sometimes I forget that he's a demon, and the scene showing how he could have easily killed the gangster dude (and had wanted to) reminded me that yes, he is very much a demon.

The proposal felt right. With all his realization, it was a fitting conclusion especially with how he witnessed Do Hee almost dying and how she trembled in his arms.

His logic behind the proposal made the whole thing even more thoughtful. He didn't just say, "I don't want you to die." Behind those words he said, "I'll never let that happen again. I'll keep you safe." And Do Hee heard and that's why she chose him.

SeokHoon can be the best guy in the world, but he can never protect Do Hee the way Gu Won can. That's why this is the only choice that makes sense for Do Hee.

Anyway, I didn't think I could love this show more!

This week's episodes were still hilarious. Gu-Won is such a child, but he has his deep/emotional moments with Do Hee. I hated that he treated Do Hee so harshly after the epic tango scene. I was expecting for the ship to sail. But at the same time, I never expected Do Hee to go back "one last time" to check Gu-Won's feeling, it didn't seem like her character. I think that's one thing about this drama: it never goes as planned, and I like it for it. Now, I am more curious about the cross on her wrist. I want the drama to focus a bit more on that so we get a glimpse at how they can resolve both their problems: DDH's family issues + GW's loss of powers. So far, we pretty much kind of have an idea of who the killer could be (I might be already a bit bored with that). It would be great to balance that out with clues on how DH got the cross on her wrist that made lose his powers and how it could be solved. For now, the hijinks of cohabitating are promising, and I can't wait! Thanks @alathe for such a funny recap, I was LOLing throughout, remembering the different scenes!

the assistant is my death because I cackled in the middle of the night at her antiques. like help please warn me if you gonna go slapstick out of the blue.

I also really like how they are saying hilarious stuff in a REALLY sophisticated high class speech like you dont hear middle class characters talking like that and they use so many idioms and almsot literary expressions, and like it is double funny because the situations are so awkward.
why do dramas never have any merch tho. I want tattoo stickers, photo booth polaroids, bad profiler drawings of myself, and a demon manual. with blueprints. maybe a small sword pendant.

I noticed how we lingered on Song Kang’s six pack a few times. Lol. I am sure it was completely unintentional.
The grandson 😱 he gives me serious serial killer vibes. He says “I killed someone” I am taking that to mean he is the one who killed grandma. I had a hard time following the part with his interaction with the doc.
The evil siblings said something about an announcement and to let Do Hee have her happy day. Not looking forward to that.

I just realized, did anyone tell the prosecutor that the marriage is off? LOL

I love this show best when it's delightfully odd and the leads bicker, but I wish the writers would let the romance breathe a little bit. The premise and attractiveness of the main actors are already so very over-the-top that I was delighted to find that the moments I enjoy the most are when Do Hee and Gu Won seem the most silly/petty (Gu Won getting jealous, inflating airbags just because he can, or hiding his growing addiction to instant coffee) and human (Do Hee experiencing real shock after her almost-fall-to-her-death and crying in GuWon's arms). I don't need prolonged stares into each other's eyes or close-ups that exist only to remind me (as if I could forget) that these two are preternaturally pretty, or even fake/strategic kisses. Just let them tease each other or flirt in their own surprisingly awkward yet endearing way.

The secretaries won this week! That clapping contest is the scene that made me laugh the longest and hardest.

I wish the evil family members were less cardboard cutout-y, especially that sociopathic son. And I think the show is wasting that actor who's playing the current CEO.

Final thought: I could see that Song Kang was wearing pants in that shower scene. That really took me out of the moment.

In case anyone's wondering why comments go into moderation or seemingly disappear only to pop up hours later: the word "emergencee" (except spelled correctly) is an Inappropriate Word here and gets caught in DB's filter. 🙄

I am finally starting to onboard the Song Kang train...