okay this show is hilarious and sweet and tragic and heartfelt all at once, so if you're looking for a show that can literally do everything, this is for you for sure!
ye-bun and ok-hui is a friendship for the ages. her tutorial on the lowdown of the school was amazing. the montage sequence where she bullies anyone who even looks at ye-bun the wrong way was so funny. "It's too late for me, study hard on your own" and just going to sleep in the study hall instead lmao. everyone needs at least one disaster friend, and I sort of like the way the show implies that ye-bun is the disaster friend actually.
the scene where jang-yeol is accosted by the sidewalk flyers the second he gets off the bus from seoul was hilarious. of course there's candidate cha's re-election flyers, but then he gets the religious flyers ("God is all knowing") and the shaman flyers ("General MacArthur is all knowing too") and I legit shrieked out loud at the comedic delivery of that last line. of course ye-bun showing up to give him a flyer to her vet clinic with cows and pigs on them (rather than the cats and dogs she actually only treats) was the perfect meet-cute. his disdain for the idyllic countryside immediately annoying her, and then of course their reunion when upon arrival to his new precinct jang-yeol is immediately brought into a "violent crime hostage situation" that is not a real attack by any means but just poor ye-bun being stuck on a runaway cow. cue the second meet-cute. he hates his life so much, and i love it. lee min-ki does the perfect "what the fuck is my life" face.
ye-bun and ui-hwan's relationship is going to make me cry eventually, I just know it. I'm so curious why he's so withdrawn from his granddaughter, and what his relationship was like with her mother to treat her like that. prepare for the eventual waterworks.
ye-bun and hyun-ok of course are the best. I love a good niece-auntie dynamic, and the fact that hyun-ok has been posting about how all "pigs and cows" are welcome in ye-bun's pet vet clinic causing people repeatedly to come into the business thinking it's a bbq place had me on the floor. I'm excited for the potential love story in the works for hyun-ok also! I hope she gets to be happy again with the detective.
the delightful twist that is ok-hui being deok-hee's sister was perfect. I giggled when she demanded jang-yeol ask her out already if he's gonna keep staring, when he was staring because he was literally waiting outside their family hostel to rent a room.
in general, I love the small town feel of this show's setting and I can't wait for more jang-yeol as a fish out of water awkward scenes as he tries to make sense of his banishment to the backwaters of seoul. ye-bun doesn't help with any of this, proving instead that country bumpkins are apparently a real phenomenon, so you know the romance part to the story is going to be a very slow burn lol.
ye-bun being a disaster is sold so well because han ji-min is fantastic at playing loveably unlikeable characters. her impulsive decision to become a shaman after she starts getting her visions was so ridiculous, and so was how bad she was at it. trying to tap into her psychic powers by catching petty criminals and playing the lottery and failing magnificently at both is absolutely perfect, and only because this actress can pull of insane plot lines with pure grace and comedy. I just know she's going to continue to cause everyone headaches, and it will be highly amusing.
yes the premise for the show is very very very silly, the idea that ye-bun's psychic powers are activated when she touches anything's rear end, but she does get called out on it and it's obvious why that's the eye-rolling gimmick at play in the show, specifically in that this is how we get the third meet-cute when jang-yeol arrests ye-bun for touching a stranger she had witnessed stealing people's wallets, and they finally have a real conversation then where she confesses she is a psychic and it goes about as well as you'd think, so you kind of have to accept the silliness. plus it gets us the fourth and fifth meet-cutes of the episode, which I won't spoil because even though you see it coming, it's worth it.
anyway, it starts of a little slow but I am hoping the series picks up when the real mystery gets going, and the cast alone is worth it!
