Eleison

Something like this is looking more likely after today's episode! Though the preview seemed to point towards Deuk Chan's younger brother as the obvious next prime suspect which feels too soon of a reveal considering it would only be Episode 13. 🤔

I'm assuming "Behind Your Touch" is a pun/wordplay on the word "behind" in English (considering the FL's special ability) which is trying to mimic a similar kind of wordplay in Korean?

This episode seemed to rule out Eom Ji's dad as the murderer, since he didn't get the insurance payout until after they discovered her body; if he'd murdered her he could have received the money much sooner, correct? He could have found some way to get them to find her remains so she could be proclaimed dead and he could get his money. Seeing how money-motivated he is, it's unlikely he'd have passed up the opportunity, and he doesn't seem smart enough to have intentionally waited for them to discover her remains so he wouldn't look suspicious. He must not have known she was dead, too!

Flower of Evil, My Perfect Stranger

😅 Duly noted!

I feel like I normally get a pretty good sense for what I'm getting myself into after synthesizing the various positions and views expressed in the comment section, but I'm struggling with this one.😅 I can't make heads or tails of the comments or come out with an impression of what it's like. To be fair, it's only halfway done. I'll check back after Part 2 is concluded. 😏

I thought that poster looked like Uee when I saw it in the upcoming list! I'm still not super into family dramas but I'll lurk in the comments to see its progress and decide once it's over. For me, they're too long to invest in if they go sour part way through. 😅

It was definitely weird for the brother to tell his sister Do Ha should be her dream (she actually had a good, healthy plan until he told her that 🤦‍♀️). It gave me just a bit more pity for Do Ha's ex, as it lends some nuance to her obsession and panic when he breaks up with her since she's been convinced her awful life will only improve if she's in a relationship with Do Ha. Her world came to revolve around Do Ha, and she was blind to how suffocating that became to him...

That was a theory that crossed my mind, too! It would explain how guilty and deranged he is. Though not sure what motive he'd have when we see him care so deeply for her?

Looks like I dodged a bullet by deciding not to watch this!

Now the pieces are falling into place. I think this passes as a valid reason, but only if you watch this knowing sexual/romantic undertones were written into their interactions. This would never be a valid reason for friends or coworkers to live together with so much "unsaid" in a typical drama, lol.

Is there a way for me to add an LGBTQ+ tag to this drama? The tags are there to help guide viewers on the genre they're getting into, and I think it would be helpful here. I mean, there are dramas with less romance or overt romantic tension than this that have "Romance" tags. 😅

I personally think this is a closet LGBTQ+ drama (and I say LGBTQ+ not BL because they also imply something between Ga On and Su Hyeon (his female policewoman friend), at least as far as I've watched). As I've thought through things that have no explanation in the story (I'm thinking specifically things between our MLs), they make more sense when you interpret their motivations and their actions from a sexual/romantic motivation. It's definitely subtle, but it's there. It also sounds like the original script was more aggressive in its choices (I haven't researched it, this is just what I've been hearing from some on his thread), but maybe it got censored before airing? 🤷‍♀️

I like this one so much better than their other dramas I've seen!

Right! Yeah, that makes sense, but the drama never gives us an explanation for why Ga On would have to do that by living with his coworker 🤔; even stranger is the fact that Yo Han lets Ga On live there for what seems to be no apparent reason (and he knows that Ga On doesn't entirely trust him yet, so why let his critic live with him? Is he paying rent?). Did I miss an explanation somewhere? I could suspend disbelief when Ga On was recovering from the effects of the bomb, but even when he recovered we still see him living there. Also, while Ga On was recovering, didn't Yo Han take his phone away for a while? Lol, how was Ga On so chill about that? He was a patient, not a prisoner. I know they were revealing to the audience more about Yo Han (they were teasing us with possiblities: "Is this guy a crazy person or is he secretly a zealot for justice with unconventional methods?"), but a few things like that that happened went unaddressed by characters (aka the writer) and I was hoping maybe I just didn't catch these reasons provided as opposed to them just not being written into the script. I get that they are nitpicky, and I know Kdramas always require some form of suspension of disbelief to enjoy them but for some reason it really bothers me that these plot points never get explained. 😫

Whoops, good point about the spoiler tag!

Thank you for clarifying! I can see what you mean now by "something deeper" as something "unsaid" or "beneath the surface." I've never read the original script or watched interviews with the actors so I didn't know what you're describing as "unsaid" was intentional and meant to be queer understones. I suppose this checks out with the night robed/shirtless scenes between Ga On and Yo Han if the undertones are indeed a directing choice.

I appreciate you taking the time to respond. :)

When you say that there are "obvious hints of something deeper" between Ga On and Yo Han (and by "deeper" I assume you mean "romantic"), do you mean romantic love is a love with an inherently deeper connection than the love of friendship?

I haven't finished this, but I don't understand why Ga On continues to live at Yo Han's place even after he recovers (and why did it take so darn long to recover from a couple cuts?)... the twists and details are carefully paced and released bit by bit throughout--so why don't they ever address this large detail? Is it for his protection since the bomber was still not caught? Even then, nothing is being done to protect the female judge or Yo Han (who the bomb was intended for), so why Ga On? It makes for good development between the characters involved but is never explained, which kind of bothers me. It's so random and feels like a sloppy oversight by the writer.

At this point, I'm curious to see where on earth they'll take this with 6 episodes left to fill AND I'm curious to see how they will connect everyone together. Many of the characters' stories only overlap because they know Sol Hee or Do Ha and I have no idea how they'll tie everyone together. I like the idea that Kang Min will solve the mystery. They're doing a great job keeping anyone with a clear motive from us, or at least keeping us from having strong reasons to suspect any of our possible suspects... all we have to go off of right now are things like, "He's shady," or "Something's not right about her." 🤣 They haven't given us anything concrete.

If Sol Hee's dad was somehow involved I could totally see that becoming a reason for the typical "break up" at the end of the drama where the FL and ML find out that one of their loved ones is responsible for their significant other's suffering and they feel too much guilt to keep dating. However, I hope I'm completely wrong, cause that's one of my least favorite Kdrama tropes. 😵

Getting American Western movie vibes from the trailer!