There are additional story threads introduced this week. The demons here are not the same ones taught in school. The heirarchy is off and I just dont want to think too much about it otherwise I would not like this show as much. I just focus on the story of Bitna and Daon.
I think Daon is still angry that she deceived him and tried to kill him. He may still be in denial and deep down already fell for her ever since that comment she made the first week.
I want Judge Kang to be smarter in choosing her targets. There is an obvious trend with the serial killings and her involvement however circumstantial on the surface. She does not need to take the cases of her targets so there will be less suspicion of her. Or better yet make sound judgments to put them to jail and then kill her targets strategically so she can get the police off her tail.

Hum... The fun part was the bantering between the leads. But now he wants to catch her for murder, it's less fun. I don't think he's completely naive. He wants the human justice system to work and not her system. By killing the villains she makes them victim too.

Her punishing scene are quite repetive and I don't really care about them.

I want Bit Na and DaOn to team up and find a middle ground. Does she have to kill to meet her targets or does she have to bring them to justice? I wasn’t clear what exactly was her punishment.
How is DaOn planning to prevent a demon from killing??
I am still enjoying the show and now I am worried that our demon is catching feelings which apparently is a crime worthy of death. why??!!!
I was hoping by episode 6 we have the leads on the same side or atleast something will change but we are still in the same place.

Now we have the assemblyman who hinted on long life. The show is doing very little to reveal about Bit Na and her past.

Not Da On accidentally becoming her alibi while trying to gather evidence of her criminal activities. 😂 Bless his heart.

Tbh, I was frustrated with Bit Na this week. I think she's gonna get stabbed again! I mean, it wouldn't be strange if one of the victim's love ones gets super angry after hearing all the BS she says in court, and goes give her a nice stab.

She isn't just ruining her career/reputation. She's becoming an easy target. OG Bit Na was already stabbed once.
Well, I'm pretty sure it was courtesy of ex-dad-in-law, but still... Who knows. She also made everything way bigger and sus by sending a TOD and kidnapping him.
She's becoming the center of attention in every front. I don't think that's good given that she still has a lot of kills to make.
Anyway, I wish she was more private about this.

"This time, our murderer (cameo by Yang Kyung-won) has been watching a little too much Dear Hyeri because he pulls the whole it-wasn’t-me-it-was-my-other-personality-that-murdered-my-wife-and-kids card, but super sleuth Da-on isn’t buying it." LMAO
This had me rolling, DaebakGrits. Thanks for the fun recap.

And Da On...
Maybe someone killed the murderer of his family? Maybe he felt empty after that happened and because of it he feels that what Bit Na's doing is pointless? I feel like everything he does is connected to that case.

I don't remember if the one who escaped was Lucifer or Satan or wtv, but I think that's related to Da On's family too.
Btw, what if the ex-dad-in-law is Lucifer/Satan? That ahjussi is sus AF.
And that would explain why Bael sent Justitia in Bit Na's body! 🤔
...Maybe I'm overthinking it.

"if I’m ever presented with irrefutable proof that not only are demons real but they’re on earth killing and dragging unrepentant murderers to hell, I’m not going to try and stop them."

What she said!

I just want to say that I rub my hands with glee every time I see a new episode has dropped.

That's how much I like this drama!

1) amazing innovations are happening in the Truck of Doom industry
2) this really should have been the drama called Love Next Door
3) imagine being so hot you make a demon faint and have heart palpitations
4) I want to have as much fun as Park Shin-hye is having with this role. The sheer enjoyment on her face...
5) I have seen only 2 dramas with PSH before this, all of them recent ones so i cannot speak for older ones. but I've never been impressed with her acting abilities, but this drama.... she is giving a full 100% so far. the body language (e.g. the cringing away from evangelical landlady), the humour, the facial expressions, the emotion in her eyes... I was unfamiliar with your game, PSH, I owe you an apology.
6) it seems like demons in the mortal realm slowly 'go native,' like undercover agents in enemy territory. it's interesting watching them gain human emotions and gain morality (they volunteer with seniors??). helped along with ML's face card & winning personality, we already see this with Justitia. anyways, never thought I'd feel so much pathos for a demon hell; RIP the demon who was really in touch with his emotions & whose only crime was loving his gf too much.
7) anytime you see a supporting female character in a crime kdrama, don't get too attached... but why did it have to be the poor single mom?
8) i hope we see a compromise between the ML and the FL's approach to justice.

I'm enjoying this show, but I do think the way the show is structured is becoming very repetitive, because it's essentially always the same thing. Episode 1, 3 & 5 end with Bit-na pulling her knife out, and episodes 2, 4 & 6 then have an extended "revenge" part. This wouldn't necessarily be a problem if there was any kind of variety to the "cases", but there isn't. There's never really a mystery, or a twist, to these cases because the guilty party is immediately obvious, and they never show any remorse or guilt. So all you're left with is a case that's barely even a case, and you're essentially just waiting for the show to get to the main event (the revenge part) already, because these cases have nothing else going for them. There's a lot of potential for interesting ideas here though, but the show just isn't using it.

Luckily all the other ongoing plotlines are more interesting, but I really feel like the generic cases are starting to hold the show back, so hopefully things quickly improve in that regard.

I felt bad for the demon that had to go back to Hell because he became "humanized".

I don't think I'm ever gonna have the same reception to this as other people are. I still don't see why people say this is so fun or it has the viewership it does. To me the standout isn't how "fun" it looks but how "expensive" it looks haha. Every time I watch an episode, I have a moment when I'm just like wow, this must've been so expensive to do.

Maybe it does also have moments when it looks like it may be fun to shoot such as when Park Shin Hye gets to act hammy or immature (like when she tried ducking in a chair in her apartment to hide from the neighbor or when she's doing the infernal trials).

I have mixed feelings about the criminals she tries because the cops make it seem like the "right" thing to do is let them go to prison and apologize to the victims families and that's even what the victims' families want or deserve but the criminals are unrepentent sociopaths. Them apologizing doesn't mean anything; they're manipulative liars who don't feel remorse. The thing is I want to Justitis to keeping "winning" but then that is cheering for a serial killer and it feels kinda weird haha. I don't even know how to explain it because a show like Dexter existed yet it feels different from this.

Also, I kept thinking that if Justitia got caught and went to prison, she might be able to find those unrepentent murderers she needs but I get that it goes against the premise of the show.

I think the assemblyman and his son(s) are responsible for Bit Na's murder and other actions that led to people either actually dying or the mental/emotional deaths.

The assemblyman's actor is just always greedy, selfish, or sinister and unremorseful about it. Oh! He or his son(s) might be Lucifer looking for the macguffin so they may or may not do a infernal trial like what we've seen so far.

Still watching and enjoying it in a weird sort of way. Love the leads, hate the revenge part cause the victims die so she can get the baddie. I would like to see the leads working together in a less revengeful way yet giving the baddies their comuppance.

I appreciate the campy performance of Park Shin Hye, and I know viewers in general love revenge dramas, the bloodier the better, so I’m not offended by the utterly gratuitous violence, although it does get a little tedious.

But in addition to trying to figure out the fantasy rules (which like many of these fantasy shows, are changing as the show develops—(like human love resulting in banishment to hell for demons, Satan on the lose getting chased by demon followers of Baal?) the problem I’m having with the show now is the motive of the detective.

Usually, in these kind of vigilante dramas, the detective is making the case that even murderers need to be tried and punished according to the law, because without the rule of law, society would descend into violent chaos, with everyone violently exacting their version of justice. So the detective opposes the vigilante because the detective represents social order, vs. a kind of brutal anarchy of individual avengers

But in this show, since demons apparently are around killing guilty people everywhere, the detective seems to be opposing Justitia because human justice is more meaningful to the victims families than demonic justice. But how is that true? The mother of the victim says she wished she would have gotten an apology, so she felt unsatisfied with the murderers death. So is the detective assuming, that if Justitia hadn’t killed them, the murderers would all apologize to their victim’s families? But what if the murderers don’t apologize? Then would the detective prefer a jail sentence, because he is more forgiving? But he hasn’t said he forgives the perpetrators at all, and in fact he’s indicated in the first case that he is willing to take justice in his own hands and beat up the culprit even after the culprit served his time.

Plus, as @daebakgrits said, you’re dealing with the supernatural, so why exactly does the detective think that he needs to stop Justitia, let alone how he thinks he is going to do it?

In other words, the detective’s opposition just doesn’t make any sense, unlike the rest of the show, which is totally logical!

I do however, anticipate the ending. The detective and Justitia will fall in love, Ah-rong will say to Justitia that she resume her old existence if she kills the detective and sends him to Gehenna—but in the last episode, Justitia will stab herself with the purple dagger and go to Gehenna herself to save the detective, proving that to be a demon is to sacrifice yourself for others.

That’s why they are stressing the “Heartbeat” of Justitia to prepare us for another very, very, meaningful tragic end to a supernatural/human romance. Get out your tissues for what comes after demon love!

This show's writing is terrible. Park Shinhye is super fun to watch but the plot about the detective trying to stop a deity from enacting judgment on murderers just so he can feel righteous about follwing human laws is pitifully obtuse. She literally can't kill the innocent. Murderers are going to hell. Let her meet her quota and then life continues as is. Her normal job is to send people to hell since they deserve it. Arghhh the detective is so frustratingly kdrama. "Hey, you're a god of death trying to find murderers, how can I help you?" Is what he should be thinking.

I wonder what the "humanized" demon's mission was; was it just to try to find Satan or the macguffin?

If that's the case, no wonder he started enjoying human life. How tedious would it be to search for things when you have no clues or place to start?

He was the most impactful character to me haha.

Even though folks keep saying how Park Shin Hye is having so much fun with this role, I think part of the reason I'm not so into it is because I just don't buy her as "mean". The scenes when she's dealing with kids or even her assistant, are fine and campy but being the cruel menencing demon? That requires some suspension of belief for me.

I honestly wondered how Son Yeji would be in the role (I know she's cancelled or something but that didn't stop her coming to my mind). I don't know many actors.

I actually understand the detective. Imagine a man who brutally killed his wife and two children declared innocent. What would you think about it? The detective is a human and not a demon. Also he doesn't know the things we know about Justicia.

For me everything is fine in this drama. The major complaint I have is the obvious suspicion that follows when she lets go of the criminals with light sentences and kills them. Like can't there be a better way to kill the killers ?
I am seriously getting tired of this trope and hope show comes up with something different. It's only a matter of time when the entire police station connects the dots between bit na's ruling and death of killers and starts actively investigating her.

This show is my favourite weekend treat:) I normally would only keep watching rom com sort of dramas and do not like violent shows but that one use the violence exactly in a right direction. So far all the cases were was about domestic violence. I found rooting with our FL. They all deserved it. We could get our justice at least in dreamland since we cant have it in the real world. Love her! I am not so much in to a romance part but I guess it is going there.

I love this show, even if it's a little campy! I also like the role reversal with the FL being the dangerous, amoral one while the ML is like, "but you can't do that!!" And Park Shin-hye is killing it with the comedic timing and the brazenness.

I love the tension of Da-on struggling to stop Bitna from killing and Bitna having to do the extra work of evading Da-on. Da-on nicely toes the line of getting in her way without actually getting in her way because demons are just more wily and powerful.

I like how the evangelical landlady has her lovely side too.

I felt really bad for nice demon. I hope he can come back in the end, maybe in a different body. Maybe he can be reincarnated. He just felt like he was meant to be human.

Yang Kyung-won did an incredible job. The type of guest role that really make your jaw drop.

I hope we get to learn more about Bitna in the next few episodes, since we're about half-way now.

Thank you for the recap. 😈👩‍⚖️👮‍♂️🔥

Demon Next Door and Love Thy Neighbor is exactly what works best for the drama.

The Demon Cooking Class is a reality show I would happily watch too.

Also the "demon Airbnbing a human’s body" one. Oh! wait, what!? Isn't that like every demon drama ever. 😱😅 But I love your description.

I loved that the human was being the ghost under the bed. It was such a fun scene. Okay I may have screamed a bit - but surely not loud enough to wake the dead.

Apparently I am still conflicted about the murderer of the week reliving their crimes bit. But then ottoke, that is the whole drama - when it is not Airbnbing as a rom-com of course. 😂

I don't know about you guys but I hate Gremory / A rong , she is annoying and infuriating 😑😑😒😒😒