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I don't believe it. He's too much of a stickler for rules. Stealing a body of a known criminal is not something he'd ever do, even if he was acquantained with her in childhood. Furthermore, if he had it, he'd have lead FL to it eventually and then dealt with her, instead of sitting on it. After all, she took an innocent person's body as a vessel - and it's a grave crime and he can't abide to crimes. In reality, he had no practical ideas how to deal with FL and her being a danger as a shapeshifter.
Also, her body was shown up close on the pyre, burning. So unless it's some sort of trick from the villains, which they had no reason to do (they really wanted her perma dead), her og body is ash.

Totally agree. Should have left that subplot for a separate melodrama. Ruined my initial interest quite a bit.

This drama has almost no dumbassery and the plot stays consistent. Nothing outstanding, just a good legal/murder mystery drama.

While Blind is all over the place. ML is a reckless dumbass and characters in general only loosely follow the procedures when they feel like it. And some things there feel very contrived and annoying. But it's still a good enough "whodunit" type of detective fiction.

Also, for some reason ML here reminds me of Cowboy Bebop's protagonist (anime, not crap Netflix's live adaptation). ML there too had a similar company doing various jobs, cheerful on the surface but was not actually living, but merely existing in torpor because of his past love life. Another similar example - Gintama manga/anime.

Obligatory cliche tropes:
-Corrupt chaebols/civil servants/politicians pretending to be righteous;
-Useless corrupt superiors at work who are kissing ass to anyone above them and are always hindering main lead's job;
-Fearless, reckless and overconfident main lead who's got fiery justice up his ass;
-Senior mentor figure who's secretly corrupt as hell;
Nothing new here 🥱

As for ML's lady love - neither of us bought her character. Too unrealistic and perfect. Law Firm Baek is your typical unscrupulous large law company that became so big and successful because it puts money above all else. They specialize in bailing corrupt chaebols out of jail for obscene amounts of money. Only sharks who buried their conscience long ago can survive long enough in such a workplace to become top ace lawyers and be offered partnership. And yet here we have a compassionate top ace lawyer with a conscience (dissonance!), who later even resigns to work as a defender for the little guy for symbolic pay. Yea, right 🙄 . Unicorns also exist then. I guess it's your typical idealized depiction of a perfect love that died. Good luck any future contenders for ML's heart - can't ever beat what was painted here.
The only thing I believed here is that she liked ML, actress did her job right.
If you want to see practically the same type of character but realistic - go watch ongoing May It Please The Court - FL there is it.

As for ML, there are still lots of questions that remain:
-Why is he so rich when his father was a prosecutor and in his late years went into politics? Are they old money or something?
-Is he an illegitimate son? His surname was different and he never fit in with the rest of the family and spend his childhood in other countries.
-Why did he change his appearance when he became a lawyer? Aside from glasses it's still unclear. Is he imitating someone?

Also, both of us found his big change of behaviour after he became a lawyer to be weird. He was shown as quiet, introverted and aloof as a prosecutor. But as a lawyer he's sarcastic, talkative and playful. Usually after such hard hitting tragedies personality turns the other way around. It's weird.
Also, personally, I didn't buy his love for that lady lawyer. It looked like a reenactment of Goblin's interactions between the leads - ML blankly stares at FL who's blabbering whatever comes to her mind. And such "cuteness" is supposed to convince the audience. Was it real love? Looked more like FL just agressively wore him down and his was just an affection for her kindness and for sticking with him when no one else would.

Anyway, if you watched the preview of episode 9 after this extremely detailed sad backstory and are wondering whether it's for the same drama and not a completely different one with same actors for some reason, know that you're not alone.

I watched episodes 7 and 8 with a friend again to catch him up to speed and we both agreed in the end that it was like watching a completely different drama and it's not a compliment.
Aside from good acting from ML's actor, definitely not seeing what other people here found to be outstanding.
This drama established itself first as something funny, eccentric and fresh - that was what got us hooked. But ML's backstory, that for some reason took whooping 2.5 episodes to cover, was a completely tonally different cliche melodrama sprinkled with soap we've seen a dozen times over in other legal/crime dramas.

I’m watching it already.

You're forgetting that his memories are jumbled, very likely are false and he realized he's not actually Yoon Jae. And officially, Yoon Jae is dead. Also, his child actor is not number 13/Yoon Jae, he was not one of the presented boys. So which number he is, if any, is up in the air, it's all messed up.
The spectacled nerd is not proven to be the killer yet, but most likely he's one of the boys and is restaurant owner's missing son from 20 years ago.

He's too old looking, most likely he's one of the boys. Specifically restaurant ajhumma's son, who's been missing for 20 years. And I think he lied about his amnesia.

3. Brother judge is 11, but is ML actually one of the boys? The scene where he visited the Hope Center as a child suggests otherwise. If his memories are not wrong about what he overheard his parents were saying about him then he's also adopted, but not from Hope Center?

I don't think FL is related to Yoon Jae. It seems that his sister was raped and murdered by the police chief. And it was her skeleton with a pendant that was found.
But FL may be police chief's or some other Hope Center guard's daughter. Her nurse mother may have been raped as well.

Detective Kang looked dead with his eyes blankly open and he was taken by the ambulance with white sheet covering him fully - usually means a person is dead and there's no point trying to do anything anymore. The police may have lied to the press or it was mistranslation.

I don't think FL is related to Yoon Jae. It seems that his sister was raped and murdered by the police chief. And it was her skeleton with a pendant that was found.
But FL may be police chief's or some other Hope Center's guard daughter. Her nurse mother may have been raped as well.

Not really.

I've already completed 6+ kdramas and 3 kmovies while waiting. And am watching 6 more ongoing ones 😅Lots of good stuff this year.

Ah, you're right. Scrap that one.
Still, two burning unanswered questions.

It's adapted from a webtoon, so the writer didn't invent all of it. But it does take skill to adapt source material on screen well.

Burning unanswered questions:
-How first victim's earring ended up in ML's car? Brother judge found it, but never revealed it to anyone. Was he the one who was actually driving the car that day?
-Are both brothers actually adopted but ML is not from Hope Center?

MDL ratings in general are all over the place, never trust them to determine whether something is good or bad. There are lots of trashy dramas out there with overrated ratings because of hype due to various reasons, and there are lots of underrated dramas as well. Personally, I think Crazy Love flew under the radar when it aired due to lack of proper promotion and because there were other overhyped dramas airing at around that time, like Business Proposal, for example.
And I'm not sure what you were expecting out of a rom-com, but Crazy Love is definitely one of the best, if not the best, pure rom-com this year. All rom-coms have cliche plots, but this one at least tries to throw them upside down or at least make fun of them. And it definitely deserves more than 8.3.

ML's parents clearly said his name when they talked about him being adopted. But he's an unreliable narrator with his memories so messed up, so gotta take it with a big grain of salt. Or it could be that both kids were adopted, but ML wasn't from Hope Center.

Just a quick reminder - don't forget to watch extra scene after the preview at the end of each episode.

I've already thought about it since episode 2, but it worth repeating - rigging the jury is only possible from the inside or by hacking the system. So it's +1 sus point to both brother judge aka. number 11 and In Sung. Brother judge "wins" by a mile so far.