This show is a really comforting watch for me. I love rom coms with a dash of fantasy, I love episodic stories about saying goodbye that tug at your tear ducts, and if a drama has both? Even better.

If they were going to kill off halmeoni (and I think in this kind of story, they always were) I’m glad they did it relatively early so that it’s not a tragic thing that happens at the end and shakes our leads apart. Because how cute are they?! I was also expecting to go through the whole series with Ki-joo having to translate for Bom, but I loved that her “side effect” was that seeing ghosts is more permanent! I’m so glad our loney hero won’t have to be so lonely anymore, because he is really breaking my heart with his careful habits in the outside world and quiet competence around death.

Not breaking my heart this week was our amazing priest/Aespa fanboy scene! I went and watched the music video immediately afterward and have had “Next Level” stuck in my head ever since! Not mad about it.

I was glad Ki-soo buttoned up a few more buttons for the flower photo shoot at the end because earlier it was *ahem* distracting.

I've seen this actress' characters die 4 freaking times now! And once again I teared up over it. I wonder how weird it is for actors, especially the older ones, to keeping playing characters who die and having memorial pictures taken.

This was the first time I've ever seen or heard Aespa haha and what a fun way to use them as a cameo. I was wondering why the priest was making such an issue over the video and his password and even though it was a dumb misdirect, it was fun so I'll allow it haha

Granny's death hit hard. I wonder if it was really necessary or just a plot device to get Bom on board.

I love the dynamic between the leads.

Honestly, I didn't quite get the relationship between Grandma and Bom. It felt inconsistent? I'm not sure the grief and other sad emotions this episode kept trying to evoke on Grandma's behalf felt earned, at least to me. I didn't even realize she was Bom's Grandma because our first introduction was her trying to evict Bom.

Oh my God that kpop dance scene was the best thing ever, especially when the leads joined in. It took probably like five minutes and I want one every episode now.

I sobbed when Halmoni died, even though I knew it was coming. The whole episode. The aespa priest was funny.

This show is really growing on me and it's probably due to the fact that the romance is more central to the plot than I assumed it would be. I also love the conceit of the hero having to stay close to the FL for protection or respite from ghosts. Like others, I wish I had better understood the relationship between the FL and her grandmother, but I suppose if it had been more fleshed out, the grandmother's death would have been harder and more painful to accept.

homies had an AESPA MV in the middle of the drama
😭😭 God I love this goofy ahh drama so much. You can see the leads cracking up too, did they forget to take out the bloopers 💀💀

Ok I'll be honest the ghost grandma arc was kinda boring to me. If I hear someone say the word spring one more time ...

And this poor grandma can never catch a break, always getting killed for plot progression 😭😭 they literally killed off grandma just so Bom'd get over herself and help ML.

I was under the impression this was also 12 eps in total. And yes, the previews did give me hope that they'd kiss...

I liked the AESPA plotline. That was a nice misdirect, suggesting the Priest might have x-rated videos on the computer, only to have the whole police station dancing.
I personally thought the rest of these episodes wallowed too much in Grandma's death, but after all, Kim Young-ok is Korea's national grandma, so every time she dies it deserves at least one full episode. Seriously, I hope she is able to keep dying for at least 10 more years, because she is pretty amazing at age 86.

However, I have to say one thing: even after 4 episodes, at times Joo Wan's orange perm looks so bad, depending on the light, that I can't believe he agreed to it. Its not just the color, its the shape of the perm which is singularly unattractive. Why does exposure to the dead generate such bad kdrama hairstyles? I guess maybe Hyeri in May I Help You escaped corpse contact with her hairstyle intact, although as I recall in that one her hair was a little flat, and needed some body. Poor Yoon Chan-Young in Delivery Man was given hair with a weird ankh shaped part, Now I know that was probably symbolic, but it just tended to accentuate the blank look on his face that he carried the whole drama.
Anyway, this offensive aspect of the plot won't cause me drop the show, but it does make me unusually ambivalent about any romance that might develop. Maybe its best in this one if the two leads just maintain separate salons.

This was my first time hearing/seeing Aespa. What a great dance sequence, particularly all the Priests and the ML/FL joining in. Did it remind anyone else of the Spice Girls and Wannabe from 1997?

how long will they torture us b4 we get a Gaksital reunion? the whole drama? bet

I was really hoping Kim Young-ok could survive this drama! We need a chart of every drama where she lives vs every drama where she dies.

The dance party scene was so trippy as it went on and on! Like something out of a PSY music video. I was really happy to get one ghost whose story doesn't make me cry my eyes out.

I think we need one funny case and one heartwrenching one per week. I don't think i can take crying in every episode.

Glasses Ghost's shock at Bom's preference for Won Bin over Hyun-bin was funny!

I'm not a big fan of Bom for now. Until now, they showed us how unprofessional she is, how she uses law to threaten the ML...

They killed Geum-soon too soon. They didn't build a strong relationship with her grand-daughter and we didn't see her so much.

It will be interesting now with Bom who can see ghost too.

This show's great, but having to deal with (dead) users who can't remember their passwords was too close to home.

Too real, show. Tone it down.

Thank you for such an evocative recap.

This has become my favorite-ist drama of Joo Won, who I have loved in everything ever. His Seo Ki-joo is really special.

While our K-drama leads are usually rather burdened it seems Ki-joo has never seen any happiness and the little comfort and protection afforded to him by his father and uncle were snatched away.

Still being surrounded by scary ghosts all his life, he has not lost his sympathy, dignity and respect.

While his ghostly assistants call him heartless we see that he is anything but that. He treats his visitors with kindness and respect and ensures he fulfills their wishes even if he's humiliated or in danger in the "outside" world.

I love that the OTP have eyes only for each other and have to be reminded by the police office to talk to him. Hehe. Of course that impromptu Aespa dance party was all kinds of awesome.

That orange feather duster with which Ki-joo was enthusiastically cleaning the photo studio to welcome Bom was so cute. Even though disappointed with Bom's refusal to be his safe zone he doesn't protest to tries to convince her otherwise or tells her any sob story.

I like the two ghostly assistants who are the perfect foil to Ki-joo. While the three years old "senior" ghost Go Dae Ri tries to pull rank he is firmly put down by the "junior" police officer ghost who is not only powerful but also hospitable and apparently even makes refreshments to offer to visitors. I want to know all their backstories.

The drama feels like my safe zone with its heartwarming scenes.

The dance party was fabulous! So fun to break up the sadness with some catchy music and dance moves. Loved it.