I...don't think it was Shin in the carpark? The show did a great job demonstrating how we view everything through the lead's lense. Meaning, it might have as well be in ML's imagination.

That question aside, the show provided a surprisingly good representation of depression. The main lead's (clinical) depression not being cute or cool was a nice touch. People's patience has a tendency to run out and everyone loving him, but also being tired of him, felt very realistic. The constant apologies, nothing ever working out for him, being a bit of a pushover were all the qualities I have noticed with the people in a terrible mental distress. I would have preferred if the show toned it down with his narcissism, but I suspect most of his memories getting erased reverted him back to his 12 y/o self?

Thanks for the recap @solstices
This really was a mixed bag but I can see it has potential so hopefully the over the top elements will be toned down and we can see more depth to the characters in coming weeks.

but did the rat have depression and deliberately jumped under the car?

The first two episodes were better than expected, but not really good. But at least I didn't have the urge to switch off and will watch the next episodes as well.

Although both the depressive and narcissistic personalities are pretty over-the-top, I found Gun more interesting in the first episode. Narcissist Gun may be good for a few laughs, but he's not really interesting. But there's hope that we'll see a less one-dimensional Gun in the next episodes.

What I found more interesting was how different the perception is depending on what state of mind you're in. Gun's family isn't really as bad as you might have thought after the first episode, but it's certainly far from perfect.

When Kun threw himself in the first scene, all I could think of is "you're probably going to hurt your bother and/or yourself way worse than that racket" and that's pretty much how the whole episode went.

1. Mom and dad abandon their hurt child since he isn't useful anymore, so they need to focus on training their other kid to make him their cash machine? Or the mom is trying to live her dream through him? Idk or care because they didn't even talked to the kid or said goodbye.
I'm pretty sure that's what messed up with Kun and not the accident itself. Who wouldn't have felt like a product that lost its value. Like a useless thing that needed to be throw away. It's just crazy. Why would a parent do that to a 13 years old that's hurt both physically and emotionally? He just lost his dream? Hello? Why take away his family too?

I wonder how did they treat the maknae before the accident.

2. The FL... wow. Just... WOW.
How is she not in jail or something?

3. And the ML went back to his old self because his entire life after the accident was a bad memory, but he seems to care very little about his family even without those memories. Is it just immaturity? Is it because of the repressed memories? Did he never care about them? Waking up with more than a decade of empty memories, and he only cares that he's pretty and was in love with a girl...? I'm guessing that's his defense mechanism but how are they going to navigate his delulu self, plus his past self plus the present lies? I'm curious about that.

Anyway, the first episode felt like a test that I wanted to fail, but episode 2 was better because I decided to pretend the whole plot is a joke, and I'm going to ignore the purple flag romance.
I'm just curious about the brothers and the fangirl. They should start their own agency.

This series is pure ragebait for me. I was completely floored when the father reacted so dumbfounded that his first son had no good memories after 15 - like, what did he expect? They abondoned him and he really lost everything - his dream, his career, his family. I dislike how depression is depicted as endless wallowing in self pity, but honestly: it's not all in his head - his mom and dad are abusive and horrible and he should have moved out of Harry Potter's broom closet/ Kimchi storage a long time ago.
The FL makes me worry for the whole of the Korean Health system. And the hospital has an ethics board? Do they also work for FIFA?
So many things to get enraged about - I'm already thinking about what kind of popcorn to make for next Friday.

Thanks for the recap. I didn’t enjoy the first episode and didn’t finish it. But I did like seeing Lee Jong-won on my screen. I was worried his character was unlikeable but it’s good to see it’s not the case.

Now I get that his family has tried and is tired of dealing with him. Leaving him behind was harsh. They didn’t even explain it to him that they couldn’t afford health insurance and hence he had to stay back. No wonder he is so lost.

I don’t get this first love obsession especially when he is struggling with his day to to day existence and being independent.

I didn’t like the way FL spoke to him during him visit to hospital. Nope. Just nope. Yeah, she called him back later but that doesn’t excuse her behavior, esp as a doctor.

May be I will continue when I was something mindless.

This is a weird little show. One the one hand it can be deeply emotional and heartfelt, and on the other hand the first episode had like four pratfalls and a mouse was run over by a van. I like it but I'm also concerned if that makes sense.

The plot reminded me Flowers for Algernon except this book was really great (and sad).

I only watched the first episode. JSY didn't become a better actress...

The parents really messed up their family. I understand they were forced to do something because they will lost the father retirement money but they just abandonned one son and forced the other one to assume the dream of his brother.

What have I gotten myself into? Who gave this woman a medical license? And why do I want to watch the next episode? Many questions.

These parents are trash. I know that they apparently love him, but they abandoned him so brutally and kept him in the bottom of the family hierarchy for so long. This alleged doctor told a depressed man that his life is worth less than that of a mouse. the brother... is honestly just annoying rather than abusive, but ig the drama wants us to think he pushed Kun off the bridge?

Anyways, I know this drama is going to raise my BP, but I still want to see where it goes…

She’s a psychiatrist? And she was "in the operating room" to observe the surgery? One test trial on a rat and we move on to humans? How is that hospital not shut down and every single so-called medical professional in it not in jail?

I found this show strangely watchable even though the acting is uneven, and the writing even more so. At first I thought it was actually a parody of the male trauma trope that dominates many shows, with the FL love interest being a "therapeutic" influence, but with her "therapy" making the ML arrogant and self-absorbed rather than the usual pattern of the ML starting out this way and changing under the influence of his love. In that way, his depression was being played for comedy rather than something that should be taken seriously.

But then, in the second part of episode 2, as it became apparent that the bad memories had not in fact been entirely erased, I found a few scenes actually quite poignant, as the ML egotistical strutting was revealed to be a kind of coverup for confusion and lingering pain he was still feeling. The shift from comic to melancholy was quite sudden, and not very well handled, but the tennis court scene wasn't bad, I thought, although it didn't redeem the FL in my eyes.
So while I did not think these episodes were that great, I will continue for the time being. I have to repeat my usual complaint though--will there really be enough to this trauma centered rom-com to justify 16 episodes?

I am enjoying the characters in this drama and the interactions between them. The mother is something else.

It's getting clearer that Shin did not take over his older brother's life but rather it imposed on him. He is desperately unhappy.

We mentioned how it was traumatizing for our main lead to be left behind. But what kind of message did that send to Shin? If you can't fulfill our expectations, then you will be left behind too. Is it a wonder that he tries so hard to live to satisfy his mother's ambitions and completely ignores his own? No wonder he is a basket case and needs therapy.

His mother might have had a come-to-Jesus moment regarding her neglect of her firstborn, but she desperately needs a second one to make her acknowledge what she did to the rest of the family.

There are many interesting things about this premise. This is exemplified by the ML's mother's self-aware comments about not being a mother to her son and being given a second chance at being one. However, this only seems to represent 2 minutes of 120 minutes of content. So, a little more than 1.5% of the drama. On the plus side, I like the fact that each of the characters seem to have their own motivations that diverge and seem unique. But, the philosophical implications and the different relationships seem unexplored. Also, the humor reminds me of What's wrong with Secretary Kim, which wasn't my favorite, but many people think it is a classic. The overly confident ML seems to be a common trope in dramas. I am not clear what that represents or identifies in the Korean consciousness. I reminds me of some of the foolish characters in Shakespeare. I think I will stay on and watch the characters for a bit. But, seems like I might drop it at some point.