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This was my exactly my experience. Halfway through ep. 13, I realized this is boring, and I'm not having a good time! I actually dropped it when this was airing a year ago and only now came back to finish the last two episodes. This was a tough one to rate because the first half really was well executed. The darker, melancholic tones and acting felt suited to the character's slowly developing relationship and self-healing. The second half… well, it was boring with frustrating characters that I didn't care about.

totally agree! Kim Ji Eun really crushed her role. Lomon did a decent job as well. It was fun to watch the frequency of the body swap increase throughout the show to see both the actors play polar opposite characters in increasingly frantic positions. The beginning prior to their first swap and the ending when they were antagonistic toward eachother wasn't quite as fun, but probably had to be done to create a stronger conflict in the narrative.

I also agree about the idiot underdog team. If I was to rewrite the series, I'd make them less stupid. instead of getting demoted for being idiots, perhaps they could have been quirky characters who failed their projects through no fault of their own but took the blame. as written, the queer character is a sexual harasser (constantly talking about his coworkers attractiveness, constantly touching people inappropriately) whose actions are brushed aside because of his queen sexuality? Another character is a habitual thief. You don't get demoted after being caught stealing multiple times at the work place, you get fired. She was never even shown contributing anything to the company anyway. The youngest of the trio was the least offensive, but perhaps the most incompetent. She was supposed to be the social media expert, but her coworkers had to tell her how to do her job constantly. Really grew to dislike them more than the actual villians, haha. thankfully there's enough well executed aspects of the show to look past those three characters.

i thought it was a manifestation of her guilt. it showed up after she learned about the death of the woman in the fire. she went on the be part of the 'coverup' in order to save her own career. my assumption is that once the coverup was revealed and she apologized/came clean, the guilt was lifted. Hopefully the ghost is long gone now!

They had one part where they described how the other people all have black marks on their records like suspicious stock trading, DUI, etc.

It was revealed in ep 14 that her father was supplying the drugs. Not good that she was not getting treated by an actual doctor to say the least.

Judging from these comments, I must be one of the only people still enjoying this series. Yun Jin is doing a great job of acting the unhinged sociopath. Like Jae Won mentions, YJ really needs help/mental health treatment as much as Jae Won does. YJ is fixated on revenge for irrational reasons, and she is ruthless to get it. Great acting and an entertaining character.

Jae Won's character captures some really interesting aspects of the irrational narrator literary trope. The watchers slowly come to realize that what we see from her perspective may or may not be true. JW slowly comes to the same realizations culminating in her husband's death and her breakdown/admission for mental treatment. It's not easy to effectively portray the slowly mental state of the FL from her own perspective. Respect to the writers for that.

It's not a 10/10 drama, but it does some interesting things very well.

Thanks!

Here's how I think she was written: a strong tough character that struggles with mental health issues. She overcame her illness and graduated college, and went on to build a very successful furniture/design company. She's a tough cookie, but has her own personal struggles.

She suffers from a mental breakdown after she is confronted with the intruder/killer/stalker at her workplace. Not only was that a traumatizing experience, but her husband is implicated. This show revolves around how she is breaking down after it's revealed that her most trusted person, her husband, may be involved with trying to kill her while also having an affair with friend. She finds out her father may have killed her mother for insurance money. It's all about how a person that struggled with mental issues in good times becomes overwhelmed while her family, friend, and husband are put into questionable circumstances. Plus somebody trying to kill her at her workplace.

I refrain from setting too much judgement on SJW for her actions. She's going off the rails - from her increased use of the medication to the increasing number of dreams/hallucinations/unreliable narrator scenes. Is she weak or strong? I lean towards strong but human with human fallibility.

Honestly, the therapist seems like a hallucination.

Cop fan-fiction melodrama. Throughout the series, you can see the writers and directors attempting to slovenly j*rk off authority figures and cops. The whole plot devolves into watching unreasonable people act in unreasonable situations solely to have cops acting like shitty cops save the day. Yeah. Cops acting like bad cops but justified because everybody they are surrounded by are even worse people.

this is a fun show as long as you don't take it too seriously. I recommend folks give it a chance. It's surprising to see so many people speaking critically after only 3 episodes.

it's missing something. On paper, the story seems interesting. But the pacing seems to be off. Dropping this one and I'm doubtful I'll come back. There's just too much other good kdrama television out there.

I agree, however the content that follows the resolution of the dog curse is just as painfully dragged out, with even less romantic tension, so it falls even faster for me.

The historical flashback scenes did not hit, at all. spent more time fast forwarding than watching by the end.

they really weren't lol

I think that it's an issue with the Prime service at large and not just this show. Try turning subtitles off and then back on to reset it. Sometimes I have to do this 4 or 5 times an episode.

I couldn't get past the age and maturity difference either. It's so highly rated, but the main couple doesn't do it for me.

absolutely. She should ring that doorbell and assert herself in the relationship. So far, it's been very mature and level headed. Let's so that continued.

It was rather depressing and impressive how there wasn't a single health relationship portrayed nor any that grew over time to fix their core issues.

There were so many scenes with no redeeming qualities. I made it 3/4 of the way through and dropped it after realizing that I was just hate watching it to pick out all the shitty behavior by teh characters.

I can relate to this comment.

In the first couple episodes, I thought they were going to do something very different with the story. Looked like the FL would be working to restore her name in the photography community with the help of her Jeju friends and ex. The ex would take the HQ job and have to balance his own struggles living in the city with supporting his ex. The rich friend would enable the whole friend group to go and live in Seoul while trying to help the FL. There would have been an actual conflict, self growth, characters reaffirming friendship and love. The female antagonist would actually be smart and have a plan. What we got is, frankly, not that interesting.

I would describe this show as a slice of life, family melodrama. Unfortunately, there is no conflict, clear antagonist or protagonist, character development, comedy, tragedy, or other plot points to speak of.

I am dropping this. It is going to be very difficult for the writers to stretch this out for 16 episodes in any meaningful way.

I personally thought the first half was better than the second so far.