Crazy Love: Episodes 3-4 Open Thread

by mistyisles

Ahh, revenge – a dish best served lukewarm, with onions. Our heroine fully commits to the role she’s invented for herself, determined to make sure she’s not the only one who has to suffer. But she’ll have to fool a lot more people than she initially bargained for…

EPISODES 3-4 WEECAP

For better or for worse, it seems Go-jin’s memory is completely gone. Like, can’t-remember-his-own-name gone. However, the doctors are hopeful it won’t be permanent, especially if his brain can be stimulated by memories. Luckily, his “fiancée” is here to do just that.

Infuriated that Go-jin is blissfully unaware of how he’s previously treated her, and coached by her actress friend, CHOO OK-HEE (Park Han-sol), Shin-ah plays the doting fiancée to the hilt, replete with massages, walking him to and from the bathroom, and making sure he gets to eat all his favorite foods.

…Except, she’s here for revenge, so she takes full advantage of the power she holds by sneakily making him as miserable as possible in the process (I kid you not, she stuffs every food item she feeds him with onions, even extracting the juice for him to drink!). There’s also a running gag about people accidentally bumping his injured leg, but I’m pretty sure – on Shin-ah’s part at least – it’s anything but accidental.

The longer it goes on, the more I can’t help feeling the tiniest bit sorry for Go-jin. The amnesia makes him jarringly soft-spoken and pleasant-mannered, with a patient smile and deadpan humor that comes out when you least expect it. And though he does question the wildly cheesy love story she makes up on the fly, she piles on detail after detail, making it increasingly harder for him to protest.

The longer they spend together, the more his fear of what she might do next grows – and with good reason. When he’s finally discharged from the hospital to his Seoul apartment, Shin-ah accompanies him, turning his evening into a full-on nightmare as she chops fish in the dark kitchen, getting blood and fish guts everywhere, and then chases him to the bedroom to innocently ask what’s wrong.

Meanwhile, other people in Go-jin’s life start to become aware of what’s happened. Shin-ah clearly didn’t anticipate having to keep up her lie in front of so many people (especially Se-gi, who gives her a huge case of the hiccups), but somehow she always just manages to skate by on luck. For example, speaking of Se-gi, he doesn’t buy it at all – until he remembers that Go-jin made an offhand (sarcastic) remark about having a date not too long ago. Then it’s suddenly plausible.

Interestingly, though, Se-gi later tells Shin-ah that he doesn’t really care if she’s telling the truth or not, because regardless she’s taking care of Go-jin right now.

Soo-young also learns of Go-jin’s accident and goes to visit him. At first, she thinks he’s faking just to spite her, but after she does a little digging and learns it’s real, she decides this must be fate giving them a second chance to fall in love again.

Shin-ah is so committed to her revenge plot that most of the time she forgets about her own health crisis. But when she does remember, it hits her hard, especially when she talks with her father or her little brother and can’t bring herself to tell them. In fact, she hasn’t told anyone, not even Ok-hee, who always manages to explain away Shin-ah’s little “Well, I’m dying anyway” comments as hyperbole.

Still, she’s not about to just sit down and accept her fate – not when she has the chance to take Go-jin down into misery with her. She moves her stuff into his apartment to make it seem like she’s stayed there frequently, and goes so far as to commission a gigantic bad-luck talisman to hang on his wall (which of course she tells him is to keep bad luck away).

But when Go-jin returns to work, things start to get a bit messier. The goal is to keep people from finding out about his amnesia (since that won’t exactly be good for business), but every time he encounters a new person, he plasters a big friendly smile on his face and greets them, then proceeds to rattle off a list of information he’s memorized about them.

He also comes right out and tells one employee that Shin-ah is his fiancée (also supposed to be a secret), and sends her a grin that looks almost too triumphant not to have been his own form of petty revenge.

One positive result of Shin-ah’s little acting gig is that it emboldens her to stand up to a senior employee named MA EUN-JUNG (Baek Joo-hee) who delights in belittling her. Turns out, Eun-jung previously tried to bully Shin-ah into leaking Go-jin’s private information (so she could report it to his rival Yang-tae), but Shin-ah refused, hence their enmity. Ever since, Eun-jung has taken every opportunity to kill Shin-ah’s dream of becoming an instructor and make her feel small.

This time, however, Shin-ah doesn’t just tuck tail and take the abuse – she throws a drink in Eun-jung’s face and all but dares Eun-jung to follow through on her threat to get Shin-ah kicked out of the education industry altogether.

But Shin-ah isn’t the only one keeping secrets. Disgruntled former instructor KANG MIN (Lee Shi-un) seems to be the actual hit-and-run perpetrator, and has spent the ensuing days hiding out and gambling.

He gets a tip that Go-jin has amnesia and goes to see for himself… but when they’re face-to-face, Go-jin’s whole demeanor changes. His pleasant, slightly sassy grin takes on a menacing edge as he jeers that people are so quick to believe amnesia is as common in real life as it is in dramas.

Oh, this’ll be fun – he’s faking, too.

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Crazy Love: Episodes 3-4 Open Thread