Eps 21 to 24

[Knov1]

Warning: Post contains spoilers!

Jae Hyuk is allergic to strawberries. He drinks water, takes medicine and is fine. No Eul tries to stir up drama between Hae Kyung and Do Hee by bringing up Do Hee and Jae Hyuk's past relationship. Hae Kyung responds that he already knew about them and to drop it unless No Eul wants him to really get mad at her. Hae Kyung and Do Hee have dinner together. He tells her that she did well with the Jae Hyuk situation at 2nBox. All of them doing the show together is uncomfortable for him but he’ll bear with it. Jae Hyuk eats with Do Hee’s mom. She wants Do Hee and Jae Hyuk to get back together but he thinks Do Hee is over him. Ah Young has no plans of cancelling Have My Heart. Ah Young wants homeless doctor to live with her. Do Hee admits to So Ra that she’s dating Hae Kyung. Hae Kyung tells Do Hee he loves her and asks her to trust him. Homeless doctor meets with Jae Hyuk. Jae Hyuk wrote an article full of lies about homeless doctor that ruined his family and career. He wants Jae Hyuk to make things right. Jae Hyuk is willing to do anything else for homeless doctor except for that. Hae Kyung and Do Hee watch a movie together. Jae Hyuk breaks into Do Hee's home and makes a mess of things. When Do Hee gets home, she finds Jae Hyuk hiding behind a curtain.

Hae Kyung checks on Do Hee to make sure she’s OK. She covers for Jae Hyuk and tells Hae Kyung that she's fine. Hae Kyung knows she's lying. Jae Hyuk went to Do Hee's home looking for anything related to their past relationship. He couldn’t find anything and feels like Do Hee might actually be over him. Do Hee tells Jae Hyuk that breaking into her home is a crime and asks him to leave. Do Hee spends the night at her mom’s house. Her mom wants a divorce. Do Hee changes her passcode when she returns home. Do Hee feels her life is a mess but seeing Hae Kyung makes her happy. Hae Kyung tries speaking with Do Hee in a more casual manner. He wants them to be comfortable enough to share things with each other like when they were just dinner mates. Geon Woo calls Do Hee about Jae Hyuk. Do Hee thinks Jae Hyuk isn't well, needs professional help and wants Geon Woo to stop calling her about Jae Hyuk. Geon Woo tells Jae Hyuk that Do Hee suggested he go the hospital. Jae Hyuk responds that he feels better just by hearing that. Mun Jeong is having surgery and wants Hae Kyung to call her mom. If the surgery goes well, she wants to get to know Do Hee. Do Hee encourages her mom to get counseling. Do Hee’s mom goes to see Hae Kyung about her divorce. Do Hee calls Jae Hyuk. She hopes he gets professional help and will tell Geon Woo about Jae Hyuk breaking into her home if he doesn’t. No Eul is doing an interview about Have My Heart and her relationship with Hae Kyung. Do Hee suspects she’s up to no good and asks her to be careful with the interview. Jae Hyuk goes to see Hae Kyung for counseling. Geon Woo tells Do Hee about Jae Hyuk's life story and about him going to see Hae Kyung. An upset Hae Kyung warns Jae Hyuk to stay away from Do Hee while she's standing right behind them.

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Hae Kyung and Do Hee have their nice moments but a lot of this is just dumb. It's good that Hae Kyung and Do Hee had a conversation about trust. Considering what they've both been through in past relationships, especially Do Hee, I wish there was more to it than “I love you. Trust me”. Then after that conversation, she’s lying to Hae Kyung and he knows it too. I was hoping Do Hee wouldn't find Jae Hyuk inside her house. Because I knew the scene would play out exactly the way it did. She would cover for Jae Hyuk and lie to Hae Kyung. That was so bad. I have no sympathy for Jae Hyuk . Having a rough life doesn’t mean you turn into a creep that harrases your ex because she won’t get get back with you. I have no sympathy for No Eul either. This isn't about love anymore with either of them. Both Jae Hyuk and No Eul are miserable and so they want to make life miserable for Hae Kyung and Do Hee. It was interesting that Hae Kyung mentioned that he wanted to talk openly with Do Hee like when they were just dinner mates. It does feel like their conversations were more meaningful prior to them getting together. Now they’re dancing around issues. With the way ep 24 ended, I'm guessing Do Hee is going to be mad at Hae Kyung and he’s going to somehow be the bad guy in all this.

[ajk]

By four minutes into hour 11, the whole thing went sour. Usually I’m not crazy about this phrase but here it’s perfect: this series has officially jumped the shark. They went to the endgame way too soon and now they’re just killing time with other stuff that just isn’t very interesting. knov is right, there are still nice moments between Doc and Dohee...but too many dumb other things are crowding them out.

First Dohee gets blamed for Ex eating the strawberries, like she’s expected to know the food allergies of all of her guests. And she accepts blame for it! Everybody else calls Ex a fool—"Can’t you see what you’re eating?”—but then later in the episode it’s presented to us that he really did not know about the strawberries and it wasn’t a stunt by him to play up to Dohee after all. Even though we could all see the strawberry right there in front of us as he bit into it. What a mess.

And the rest of the hour (and hour 12) was way too much about Ex. Who cares.

Boss Lady: “Seeing the four of you together makes me so anxious. I can’t do it.” Well whose fault is THAT? You’re the one who shoved them together!

“I can’t hold my alcohol.” The one very funny moment of the hour. Boss Lady admits that to her date...and the next camera shot is five empty soju bottles. A rare, welcome laugh.

And then that whole paintball team-building business, completely ignorable. Yawn. Paintball, on and on and on, who the bleep cares. The only thing that would have redeemed it is if one of the minor characters had gone absolutely bonkers and dominated it, that could have been funny. But no.

And of course you just know that the minute Barbie starts crying on Doc’s shoulder, Dohee will show up and see it. What a tired cliché.

Homeless guy has become the only interesting thing worth watching at this point. His suddenly confronting Ex, that was a good scene. “Now that I see you...I feel bad for wasting my life resenting you and living a horrible life...When you realize you did wrong, correct it yourself.” But do we spend the next five hours waiting for Ex to redeem himself? This isn’t what I signed up to watch. Homeless Guy and Boss Lady I can live with, but not him.

Prediction #2. Once everything is in the open and settles down and Doc and Dohee are together, Dohee’s ex is going to get jealous of Doc and write a negative exposé about him. They may not give him the chance to do it to Doc, but look at that he already did it to homeless guy.

Doc told her he loved her but she hasn’t said it back yet...and a lot of clock has ticked away. Then later he tries to make a move on her and she shoots him down. Gotta up your game again Doc! Woof.

And now at the end Dohee walks into her apartment and instead of wisely getting the heck out of there, thinks she’s going to subdue a burglar with a frying pan. And we’re supposed to get caught up in suspense? It’s so silly, who cares.
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Hour 12 starts and we find out that Doc told her to get out of there, but she still went in with the frying pan. She said she’s a bad cook—is she planning to poison the burglar? Yawnnnnn... And then Doc comes to her door, and she has someone in her apartment who needs psychiatric help immediately...it’s just too bad Doc isn’t a psychiatrist or something like that. UGH.

And she tells Ex to go back to America? Hey! What did we do to deserve this? Sheesh.

On second thought, we sent them Pizza Hut so yeah I guess we do deserve this.

So among the post-endgame filler, now we’re getting Dohee’s parents. Her mom seems like a decent sort...but her dad, in what universe is that guy a player? Awfully hard to swallow. But it could sort of explain Dohee’s issues with relationships.

They threw a rubber chicken at Sora on camera? I’m telling Svengoolie! Lawyer up!

“Everyone including students and office workers gets counseling these days.” There was some cultural stuff in Hour 12 that I didn’t get, like the honorifics versus casuals, but this was an interesting moment, the older person stuck in the old attitude that Korea used to have about therapy.

Aw, they ruined the grocery store music joke by playing it in the gym as well.

And now we’re going to get a catfight between Dohee and Barbie? There was always that possibility but you hoped the series wouldn’t stoop to it. Another tired cliché.

I said this already. Doc has no business having anything to do with Ex as a doctor because of the conflict of interest. And here they are in his office screaming at each other. The ending was awful. What doctor behaves this way? And who in that waiting room of patients is still going to be there five seconds after seeing your therapist roughing up a patient? For that matter, why are there multiple patients in a therapist’s waiting room? Those sessions take time, it’s not like an emergency room.

And four more hours to fill with this kind of stuff, yikes it could get really ugly.

[Knov1]

Jul 1, 2020 0:48:42 GMT -5 ajk said:

And then that whole paintball team-building business, completely ignorable. Yawn. Paintball, on and on and on, who the bleep cares.

Yeah, that's why I didn't bother to mention it in the summary. Pointless filler.

Jul 1, 2020 0:48:42 GMT -5 ajk said:

I said this already. Doc has no business having anything to do with Ex as a doctor because of the conflict of interest. And here they are in his office screaming at each other. The ending was awful. What doctor behaves this way? And who in that waiting room of patients is still going to be there five seconds after seeing your therapist roughing up a patient? For that matter, why are there multiple patients in a therapist’s waiting room? Those sessions take time, it’s not like an emergency room.

I was thinking about the ending again... Jae Hyuk probably mentioned breaking into Do Hee's house and that's what set Hae Kyung off. There was a reporter in the lobby and I'm guessing Jae Hyuk is trying to make Hae Kyung look bad in front of everyone. Do Hee already thinks her life's a mess. She's embarrassed by what's going on. She doesn't want to talk anyone about it. She's probably going to push Hae Kyung away to prevent things from getting messier.

I did some research and seems like there's a lot of viewers that are unhappy with the dark turn the series has taken.

[ajk]

Yeah it occurred to me the next morning that this may be ex's way of setting Doc up to take him down like he took down Homeless Guy. That would be really ugly, but it's very possible with the way things are going. And that's good to hear about the public reaction. The way the series was promoted, and just from the source material, nobody who started watching it wants it to go where it's going.

Another thing I forgot to mention was that scene with the teenager patient. The kid can't even put down his phone and look Doc in the eye, but Doc tells him he doesn't have to come back any more. Apparently it was supposed to be funny, with Doc not knowing the techie stuff, but the kid has a serious problem and needs help for it. He doesn't need a therapist telling him to go away. Once again the writers not treating Doc like he's an actual professional doctor.