Loved the premeire week so much! It's zany and wholesome and very much gives the Lovely Runner vibes I've been missing this year. Hope the drama holds up. I'm betting it won't take long before Kyun-woo is head over heels for her too :)

I really want to see Cho Yi-hyun's character tell our archer ML that she used to know someone else who was good at archery. Those who have watched All of Us Are Dead will know what I mean. Those who haven't watched it, should.

Those episodes were funny and cute.

At least, in Lovely Runner, Sol's reason to save Sun-jae was because he saved her thanks to his phone call, in this one, it's because he's handsome and she didn't care about her classmate because he wasn't 😅 They have could found a less shallow reason.

I don't want a love triangle, Ji-ho is such a nice guy. I want him happy!

Great recap, Unit! Thanks.

I watched both episodes in a row, and while the first one had some pace and tone issues (which made me think this wasn't a good show), the second episode was much better in everything.
I already like the three main leads (please, no love triangle), lovely grandma and the coach who decides to help the missing sheep, in his own words.

It was fun watching the premiere episodes. It’s still a bit early to tell how the show will fare overall, but it definitely piqued my interest. I really like the FL — she’s quirky and offbeat, but also full of heart.
I already feel for the ML, who seems to be living a lonely and sad life, which is bound to unravel with the loss of his sweet grandma.
Ji-ho is fantastic as the bestie — I hope the show avoids turning that into a love triangle.
And can we talk about Dongcheon’s hairstyle? Absolute top-tier styling choice — gives total bad-ass vibes!

Well this was depressing. My goodness, he is going through it. I am glad he found people before his grandma died though.

Is there a kdrama equivalent to "doesthedogdie.com"? Like "doesthehalmeonidie.com"?
Because honestly, the grandmother dying was a real gut punch to something I expected to be a light, silly, maybe even slightly bananas shaman-shenanigan romcom.

It seems like a mix of drama, a great shaman, and the concept of "tomorrow with you." But as we all understand, escaping death isn't possible without confronting it. That's the unchanging rule. Either someone has to face it, or, more often, a parent might make a sacrifice for their child

I don’t watch many school dramas, but I have a soft spot for fantasy and Jo Yi-hyun charmed me in The Matchmakers, and Choo Young-woo in The Tale of Lady OK. And well, tbh, there’s not much else going on Monday - Tuesday.

And I had so much fun! The Power of Low Expectations. LOL. (Despite that, I say this is smoother than my other low stakes drama, The First Night with the Duke.)

Jo Yi-hyun is such a cutie-pie in this. (PBY, watch out.) And she ages down really well, more than Young-woo imho, hunk tho he is, and not very smart, that sheer mask our fairy wears is the worst disguise ever. Does her hat distract him from recognizing her? The way celebrities supposedly change hairstyles to distract you from surgery?

Such are the important questions this drama raises.

Along those lines, why is she called a fairy? Is there no better translation? And why is shaman jr fronting the biz and not spirit mom?

I feel like it's been a while since I was this enamored after a premiere week! I am positively loving our characters, and the setup feels fresh and interesting.

I love that Seong-a is not a typical "she never lets the terrible things in her life get her down!" candy. She has nightmares about abandonment and she is clearly affected by her classmates' dismissive comments (that top-of-their-class girl seems especially nasty! "sorry I called you that but it's kind of true"?! I was ready to throw down right there). But she puts on a brave smile and pretends to be okay. I'm excited to watch her drop her facade a bit as she gets closer to Kyun-u.

And poor Kyun-u is so resigned to his fate it breaks my heart. He is so kind underneath everything, and I can't wait for our FL and archery coach to help him open up again. I totally understand his disgust with shamans in general, if his grandmother spent lots of money and time going around to lots of them with no success. Also, we are definitely headed for a childhood connection, because if that person who came into the frame near 8 year old Seong-a is not Kyun-u, it will be the twist of all twists.

I like Ji-ho a lot and it seems like he is a good friend to Seong-a in almost all ways, but he has been friend-zoned so soundly it's almost hilarious. I was also surprised that even though he knows she's a shaman, he didn't know about her parents. So clearly she isn't sharing everything with him even though they are close.

It seemed inevitable that we were going to lose Grandma, so I'm actually kind of glad it was early on. Not that I want to pile on Kyun-u more, but at least now he'll have to rely on other people, and there is no where to go but up!

Watching anything on Amazon Prime is such a chore--slow to respond to commands, delayed or missing subtitles, frequent freezing and ads that cause technical issues--that it's a clear compliment to a show when I muddle through all of this. In fact, to complete the first episode, I suffered through about 10 different instances of the screen freezing up and had to start over three times. So yeah, I liked it!

Due to all the time-consuming issues I detailed above, I haven't yet watched the second episode. But the first kept my interest all the way through, in much the way "Lovely Runner" did, although the ML here isn't quite as charismatic and dreamy (at least, not yet) and I feel really bad for Ji-ho! I could gripe about the constant focus on looks here, and the fact that the FL is so conventionally beautiful that her being bullied doesn't ring at all true, nor does her rejection of the plenty handsome Ji-ho on looks alone, but I'll roll with it for now. This drama is cute, but also feels surprisingly substantive, and I'm curious to see what happens next, even if I have to deal with Amazon Prime. At this early stage, that's definitely an unqualified win.

Thank you for the recap. 👻🩹🤕💁‍♀️

I had almost forgotten about this drama till I read the Premiere Post. While it is a tad darker than what I had hoped and the halemoni bidding her goodbye a bit too soon was a shocker, still Park Sung-ah is all kinds of adorable. Bae Kyun-woo (even his name has bae in it 😍) is really at the lowest of his low when we meet him. 😢 Hopefully Sung-ah and Ji-ho with their unconditional love and friendship respectively will help him gain some spark. I love how attentively Kyun-woo listens to Ji-ho talking about how hard Sung-ah works at her part-time job - finishing late every night. Kyun-woo seems intrigued and surprised by Sung-ah at every turn. He doesn't seem able to peg her just yet. Luckily uri Sung-ah and even the archery coach Yang Ju Seop have him pegged neatly as the lost sheep. How meaningful. I cannot wait for Kyun-woo to find his faith.

Oh! and isn't the Flower Master just the perfect little sunbae. Lol at him getting his pretty baby soles cut by none other than the Hacker Ajhumma 😂 and omona isn't her massive sword scary.

I will surely be tuning in next week.

Thanks for the recap @unit . I hope this show turns out to be worth your time, although I have a sense of foreboding about this one, as if it is stalked by the specter of sappy solemnity. But I do really like Cho Yi-Hyun as an actress, and in the first two episodes she’s been able to show the depth behind her characters forced cheeriness. She’s so appealing that one of the more unbelievable fantasies in this supernatural story so far is that Gyeon-woo can’t recognize her as the shaman through a translucent mask covering her mouth, even after staring into her eyes in several scenes.

After a number of years watching ghost kdramas—including a few episodes of the currently Oh My Ghost clients—I have become quite expert in shamans, exorcists and Korean ghosts of all types—resentful ghosts, regretful family ghosts, virgin ghosts, egg ghosts, fire ghosts, water ghosts, and semi-ghosts of people in comas, etc.—and its not just that I’m a ghost of my former self. (Speaking of that, do we know for sure that Pyo Ji-Ho is not a helpful ghost? He seems awfully angelic, and he’s already been ghosted by Seong-A.) I also know a great deal about how people are seemingly forever cursed, thanks to the Witch, although my knowledge may only apply in Kang Full’s universe and not to the universe I normally inhabit.

Anyway, I wouldn’t be surprised if, as Unit suggests, there was some sort of childhood connection that will prove key to removing Gyeon-woo’s curse. Gyeon-woo’s hatred of shamanism, even as he is being saved by a shaman, is pretty typical for kdramas—shamanism’s skeptics are always shown as foolish to mistrust shamans, because kdrama writers in general love shamanism. Probably they all depend on talismans for their shows’ success, which is why there are so many weak shows about shamanism. But still, I bet his attitude will be shown to have a childhood basis—likely a shaman, maybe even Seong-a’s spiritual mother Kim Mi Kyung (who of course is everyone in kdrama’s spiritual mother) told his parents that he would be cursed, which is why he was abandoned. Or maybe he was briefly placed in a shaman orphanage, or shorphonage, as they are known, where he stood beside Seong-a while she was sobbing. In any case, I anticipate there will be some shamanistic cure because of this connection. Unless the three leads fall into comas and become partial ghosts, requiring a sequel to resolve. An open ending and Head over Heels Part 2 would be typical behavior for the streaming ghouls.

Sounds like I am missing a good watch. No money for Prime.

HOH wasn’t on my radar at all until just about to air episode one. I loved the premiere episodes. I had no idea my picture pal Kim Mi-kyung is in the cast as spiritual mom. Our boy Kyun-woo will be in good hands with Sung-ah, mom and coach on his side even with the loss of grandma.

Love the show! My only complaint (and this applies to most K-dramas) is: why are we always burying old people? The moment an elderly character appears, I already know they’re going to die before the 12-episode run is over. I get why the writers do it—but honestly, I don’t need that. It feels overused. As fun as the angst can be, I would have preferred to simply feel endeared by the relationship between the grandchild and the grandma.

Pegging Gyeon-woo as lost sheep, as the archery coach calls him, really is fitting because my goodness is the poor boy going through it. It breaks my heart to imagine how this broken young kid could deal with losing his only family in the world. And after being abandoned by his biological parents too! I have to say - dramaland's got no shortage of irredeemably terrible parents, but Gyeon-woo's ones must take the cake. At least a spot in a top ten worst listicle or something. Idk, I just think you have to be especially awful humans to abandon your own baby for being unlucky. But oh well, friends are the family you choose and I'm sure Seong-ah, Ji-ho, and the new archery coach (maybe the Heaven and Earth Fairy shrine) will take him right in.

Jo Yi-hyun is such a cutie patootie! She looks absolutely beautiful in her shaman garb and I need little convincing to believe Seong-ah would have two boys fighting for her affections (pls no love triangles! i want a normal, platonic male-female friendship for once!!). Her performance is my biggest takeaway from the show so far and I think its what's elevating and keeping me hooked so far. I want nothing but happiness and endless campus house parties for her and her (future) beau.

Whoa, there was more action and varied ghost encounters than I expected for the first week, but it was all thrilling and riveting~!
I knew I wanted to check out this drama for the two leads at least and the premiere did not disappoint. I haven't seen Jo Yi Hyun is so long. I was fond of her when I saw her in 2019's My Country.

Sung Ah is so cute and fierce. I totally cheered when she kicked down the door of the burning storage space.

I didn't know Kim Mi Kyung was in this!!! So happy to see her here. Looks like she'll be in a fun, tough mama role. Cool sword too. x]

Strong emotional pull at the end. Grandma! T_T So far, this drama has a bit of everything - cuteness, bits of humor and lightness plus the mystery and action~!

The archery coach was real cute with his lost sheep analogy! Totally won me over with that.

so cute, these kids!! love it so far...

I finally had time to watch the first two episodes.... and gosh, I haven't had such a strong SL syndrome in ages!! Yes, yes, uri ML is the typical kdrama lead... but this time, I somehow fell for sweet Jiho. 😍

(I also love Couch who doesn't care about the curse and just wants to bring Sheep Kyunwoo too him and take care of him. ❤️)