Crazy Love: Episodes 5-6 Open Thread

by missvictrix

Weird and random though it is, Crazy Love definitely has a knack for putting our characters in awkward situations that make you legitimately laugh out loud. With multiple layers of lies and pretense added onto the already complicated relationship between our leads, we watch as they cope with all the bizarre tangles they find themselves in.

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Yasss, Go-jin is truly faking his amnesia, and though he’s trying to get to the bottom of who plotted his hit-and-run, he can’t lose the opportunity to also lavish some praise on himself: “I didn’t realize I was so good at acting!” Go-jin thinks it’s his genius IQ level that makes it possible for him to not only fake having amnesia, but also fake not having (fake) amnesia in front of all of his employees.

Meanwhile, everyone else around him has a different read on the situation entirely: falling in love made him into a changed man! Even though they tried to hide their “engagement,” GoTop Education is a tried and true gossip mill and before they know it, Shin-ah is revealed as Go-jin’s betrothed and is even referred to by some with the respectful term samonim — quite a step up from being Secretary Lee.

For most of Episode 5, we deal with all the hijinks at GoTop, now that Go-jin is back and double-faking everything. The company hosts their annual entrance extravaganza, and Go-jin is so electric on stage that even Shin-ah gets stars in her eyes. In fact, that’s a point that keeps getting highlighted even more this week — Shin-ah’s very haphazard dealings Go-jin.

Though she’s neck-deep in her revenge scheme, she also continues to play cover for Go-jin, and she protects him, defends him, and all-around helps him. And then, sprinkled in between are her moments of petty revenge, like sending out a company-wide email in his name that no one should ever work late again, and that he will pay for all company dinners where there shall be beef, and only beef. She even goes on a shopping spree for designer clothes with him — you know, so her future husband doesn’t appear stingy.

Speaking of company dinners, Go-jin attends his first ever (to the shock of, well, everyone), and it’s littered with ridiculous moments and physical comedy — which seems to be the MO the drama has settled into. We get hilarious moments like Go-jin’s absolute caterwauling at the company’s noreabang stop, overturned bowls of noodles, and one of the most graphic vomit-played-for-comedy scenes I have ever witnessed (I’m queasy just thinking about it).

But for all its madcap moments, the noreabang scene also shows us something important: it’s the first time we see Go-jin view Shin-ah in a favorable and — ahem — romantic light. She sings a mournful song like an angel (seriously, her voice is lovely), and we’re left wondering how in the world the drama will take the mess it’s purposefully created and get a romance a’brewing too.

In the midst of all the crazy scenarios he has to fake his way through, Go-jin is also secretly trying to figure out who was behind the hit-and-run. Go-jin has been, of course, highly (secretly) suspicious of Shin-ah, and thinks she was an accomplice, but Kang Min insists he was drunk and acting alone that night. However, with another flashback to the accident, we again see a man standing beside a nearly unconscious Go-jin, and we get a close-up of his watch.

For a genius, Go-jin is really slow at unraveling this mystery, but I guess we can’t blame him — he’s surrounded by lunatic employees, has amnesia to fake, people to fool, an old lover to avoid, a fake lover to keep tabs on, and a back-stabbing enemy that’s probably closer at hand than we all think.

That brings us to the two possible culprits of the hit-and-run. The first is the theatrical and ridiculous Yang-tae — he’s a known enemy of our hero, and whether he’s trying to wheedle information from Go-jin’s employees, or he’s plotting to take down GoTop Education, the drama doesn’t hide the fact that he’s an antagonist. But he’s also the comic relief.

Im Won-hee plays this character to the absolute nines and sometimes I don’t know if I’m cringing or laughing. (Either way, the scene with his wife in the store exemplified how this drama has everything turned up to level 10, for better or worse.) Anyway, I’ll be disappointed if Yang-tae plotted the hit-and-run, and I don’t think he did.

That leaves the other possibility, and that’s our deputy CEO Se-gi. He is all smiles and kindness and triangle kimbap, and I don’t know if it’s Ha Joon’s performance or the writing, but I didn’t trust him from the second we first saw him in Episode 1. It’s highly possible that the drama is setting him up as the back-stabbing enemy who’s close at hand — but please drama gods let this be a red herring!

We got our first clue that Se-gi might be up to something this week (his visit to the detention center to see Kang Min), and I’m just hoping he’s not the Big Bad. Not because I care about his character that much, but because I would have seen it coming from five minutes into the drama, and that’s kinda sad. Prove me wrong, Show!

Baddies aside, the best part of this week’s misadventures was the fact that even though Go-jin and Shin-ah are secretly and not-so-secretly at odds, they are also forced into teaming up, due to circumstances. My favorite example of this was probably the scene at Shin-ah’s father’s house in the countryside. The neighborhood ajusshis are forcing congratulatory shots of soju on Go-jin, who not only can’t drink but wants to drive the heck outta there ASAP. Shin-ah winds up helping Go-jin fake all the shots he’s “drinking” by dumping them in a hidden cup while she refills his glass with water. At one point, to create a distraction, she even pretends that she’s mourning the life of the crabs that are on their dinner table, and it’s all Go-jin needs to fake downing more soju. It’s hilarious.

But the drama also tries to show us some deeper moments, too, what with Go-jin and Shin-ah both experiencing the early loss of their mothers, and the accident that Shin-ah witnesses at the end of this week’s episodes. Seeing someone’s life taken so suddenly (by the Car of Doom, no less) makes her realize that maybe her situation isn’t so bad after all: she gets to knowingly say her goodbyes.

Serious (or is that mock-serious) underbelly notwithstanding, it’s definitely the quips and physical comedy that continue to be my favorite thing about the drama. Go-jin falling out of the car, Go-jin fainting flat over the “ghost,” and even Shin-ah’s line about him once needing to go to the ER after watching a horror film — I laughed a lot, and that lets me forgive the drama for being obvious, meandering, or anything in between.

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Crazy Love: Episodes 5-6 Open Thread