Crazy Love: Episode 2 Open Thread

by missvictrix

Things escalate quickly when our secretary finds out she’s short on time and full of vengeance for the boss that brought her to the breaking point. But rather than a straightforward act of revenge, our secretary and CEO find their lives, fates, and futures all in a giant tangle. Already.

Editor’s note: Coverage of this drama will continue with weecaps.

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I can’t help but compare this drama to Business Proposal. Even though they’re tonally quite different, both shows lean into their tropes with abandon — Business Proposal with the cheesy hilarity, and Crazy Love with the weirdness, over-the-top theatrics, and tongue-in-cheek comedy. Both shows are super fun in their own way, and hooray, because I love fun shows that just go full steam ahead.

And full steam ahead is where we pick up in Episode 2: Shin-ah is back on the park bench processing her diagnosis and we’re treated to a hilarious-but-sad montage of all the grief Go-jin has given her over the past year. She (understandably) takes out all her terminally ill ire against him, but rather than the murderous intent we’re led to expect, she has something else in mind entirely. For instance, the ominous body bag is actually filled with onions, which she sets loose in Go-jin’s living room as if they were grenades. Instead of harming him with the hammer, she slaps him silly. Everything about this scene is so over-the-top hysterical, with its mock-seriousness.

And it just keeps going! Go-jin is furious with her and also flabbergasted, because when he yells, she now yells back at him louder, and even has hilarious lines such as, “You aren’t the only one that can throw things!”

Eventually Shin-ah tries to make a run for it back to her car, but the fight only escalates as Go-jin chases her through sprinklers (omg the music!) and back to her getaway car. They even have a scuffle in the car, which knocks off the black box (which will be important later). For some reason this fight isn’t hateful — the comedy rules the scene — whether it’s Shin-ah driving into every streetlamp or pole on her way off his property, or the fact that when she’s driving away she picks up his phone call and they fight some more on the phone as she flees the scene.

It’s important that she’s on the phone with him, though, because she catches the sound of what is an actual murder attempt of Go-jin. And, because she’s actually a nice and non-murderous person, she drives back to the scene and essentially saves his life.

In fact, it’s as if Shin-ah forgets entirely that she’s enraged at this man; she’s smeared with blood and mascara from crying like a fool over him, and waits anxiously for news of his successful surgery outcome. If she’s forgotten her anger against him, she’s also forgotten about her current health status — until a later phone call from the hospital reminds her that she has to admit herself for treatment.

While Go-jin is unconscious in his post-surgery coma and Shin-ah is at his bedside nursing him, we meet a new player: BAEK SOO-YOUNG (Yoo In-young). She’s drop-dead gorgeous, and has just returned to Korea to lead her family’s education company to greatness (and, I’m guessing, will be a direct threat to GoTop’s #1 spot).

But this isn’t the first time we’ve seen her… before Shin-ah turned up at Go-jin’s house with a hammer and a bag of onions, he was enjoying a glass of wine, stargazing, and imagining Soo-young curled up next to him. This definitely seems like a lost first love type situation. He leans over to kiss her, but because it’s all in his imagination, he tumbles off his chaise onto the floor. I love how this drama (and the entire cast!) just go all in for this comedy.

And another hooray: I actually really like Soo-young! She doesn’t seem like she’ll be the typical sophisticated second lead female antagonist. In fact, her first accidental encounter with Shin-ah is positively sweet. She accidentally spills coffee on Shin-ah, and then takes her up to her suite and gives her an expensive dress to borrow.

The two share a very sweet exchange, but as the camera goes back and forth between the two, suddenly the visual similarities between the women starts to crystallize. They both have the same shade of hair, the same waves, and now, Shin-ah is walking around wearing the beloved blue dress that Soo-young received from her first love. Uh oh!

As expected, the police are sure that Shin-ah is responsible for the hit and run, and rightly so, because all her actions, however innocent, don’t look that way on the black box footage, or when she tries to explain herself.

To add a further wrinkle, Go-jin finally wakes up, but Shin-ah is warned that there’s a situation. Go-jin has had a very uncommon reaction to the anesthesia, and though he’s awake, he now has… amnesia! “Like happens all the time in dramas?!” she asks, incredulous. To make it even more hilarious, Shin-ah is more upset that he won’t remember her night of revenge than she is about looking like a murderer. LOL!

As the episode ends, Shin-ah not only looks like the culprit, but does not have Go-jin’s memory to back her up with the truth. So what’s a girl to do? Shin-ah has a moment of inspiration and then announces to the doctor, her friend, and the cops, and whoever is around, that they’re engaged. She is Go-jin’s fiancée.

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Crazy Love: Episode 2 Open Thread