Kiss Sixth Sense: Episodes 1-2

by Dramaddictally

Disney+ dropped the first two episodes of the straightforwardly named Kiss Sixth Sense this week featuring what may be some of the strangest superpowers in K-drama history. Luckily, the rules of this world are set up quickly and don’t seem too complicated (yet), so we can settle in and get straight to the action — and boyyy was there more action than I was bargaining for.

EPISODES 1-2 WEECAP

We meet our heroine HONG YE-SOOL (Seo Ji-hye) at her office where she works practically around the clock as the newly promoted PM of an advertising agency. But before we learn about her work, we get a more curious moment where she is able to predict the start of a rain shower down to the second and tells us that it’s her sixth sense.

As it turns out, any time her lips come in contact with another person’s body, she sees that person’s future. Are you ready for this setup? In this instance, the woman who is about to slip and fall in the rain had earlier smacked her long locks into Ye-sool’s lips in a crowded elevator. Hence, the miraculous fortune telling on Ye-sool’s part, and the start of a lot of eyebrow raising on ours.

We get Ye-sool’s backstory from an inner monologue and find out her powers started when she was a kid and kissed the hand of her dying father. Since then, any passing brush by the lips or full-on kiss gives her a vision that “always comes true,” though she doesn’t know when it will happen.

The sad part is that whenever she’s kissed someone she loved, she’s seen their future… but not with her. With someone else. To avoid this, Ye-sool has vowed never to kiss anyone again — going so far as to play sick and put on a mask to evade contact with a boyfriend. Of course, this leads to the same result she is trying to avoid: break-up. Whether she sees the guy’s future and dumps him preemptively, or tries not to see his future and gets ditched for lack of intimacy, she’s doomed either way.

Since this is dramaland, where the accidental kiss-o-meter is off the charts, avoiding contact is not an option. Cue our male lead CHA MIN-HU (Yoon Kye-sang) who is Ye-sool’s boss and seeming adversary. What we know about him so far is that while he yells a lot and Ye-sool thinks he hates her, he also worries about her health, supports her in her new role, and even compliments her work by the end of Episode 2.

When one of their commercial sets (in an ad for a mattress, no less) gets rained out and the two have to go clean up in the downpour, a classic trip-and-fall kiss onto said mattress leads Ye-sool to see their future — gulp — together.

And what a racy future it is. In a blurry vision she sees them enter an apartment, knock over a potted plant, and keep kissing like crazy people until they hit the bedroom. Yowza. While they’re undressing, she notices a deep scar on his back that later, in a requisite shirtless scene, we see does not currently exist on Min-hu’s body.

This lack of continuity makes Ye-sool doubt her vision of the future. Not only does she feel intense dislike for this guy (so, how could this happen?!) but also he doesn’t have the scar (so, it can’t be him, right?). That is, until he gets said scar.

The team is running a pop-up event for the mattress company they’re doing the ad for, and everything is going well — almost too well. Then, a random homeless guy causes a disturbance. Ye-sool gets knocked backwards off the set, and Min-hu catches her — thus getting the corner of a set piece jabbed in his back… at the very location of his future scar.

This catch is in juxtaposition to an earlier scene where Min-hu let Ye-sool fall down some stairs, even though he was in distance to help her. What changed since then? Well, the accidental kiss.

We slowly learn that Min-hu is super sensitive to sensory inputs like sights, sounds, and smells (in fact, he’s taking a barrage of medications to tamp down the pain from sensory overload). At the pop-up event, he had asked for the set to be reinforced before the disturbance occurred. It’s not clear if his extra-sensory powers simply enable him to better predict risks, or if he also has premonitions of his own, but through another character we find out that when he kisses someone he gets “sick.”

OH JI-YOUNG (Lee Joo-yeon), our probable villain and definite misdirection for our female lead, is the actress starring in the mattress commercial. She clearly has a thing for Min-hu, mentions that they kissed in the past, and says she wants to do it again. Min-hu says it wasn’t really a kiss and that their lips just touched last time (sounds like a recurring theme for him).

Ji-young goes to Min-hu’s apartment, like the forceful second lead female that she is, and notices that he’s sick like he was after their “kiss.” She demands to know who he’s kissing now, but Min-hu shows no interest in her and ushers her into the elevator to leave. While we don’t know exactly how kissing affects him, we do know something has changed in his attitude toward Ye-sool since their lips touched.

At the hospital where Min-hu is getting stitched up after his fall, Ye-sool discovers that she and Min-hu have the same doctor (Tae In-ho) who, as it turns out, is a friend of Min-hu from high school who knows about his abilities/sensitivities. The doctor asks Ye-sool to drive Min-hu home, but he passes out in the car before they arrive, and Ye-sool has to piggyback him upstairs (nice to see the regular-old piggyback ride with the roles reversed).

Once inside his apartment, Ye-sool realizes it’s the place from her earlier vision and we get a fully fleshed out (pun intended) make-out scene. Ye-sool (like me) wants to see more and leans in for another kiss while Min-hu is passed out — except he opens his eyes just before she gets a chance, and that’s where we end for the week.

I was worried about how kitschy Kiss Sixth Sense would be, but I have to say it’s exceeding my expectations so far. While it feels a little predictable and there are certainly more tropes on the way (anyone else getting a possible childhood connection vibe linking their abilities?), it’s packin’ some serious spice.

I’m looking forward to seeing how these two make their way to each other and, also, how each of them will develop as they do. At the moment, the stakes aren’t too high (but we’ve yet to meet our second male lead) and the premise might not make total sense, but it’s definitely fun. I think my sixth sense might have been off on this one. Surprisingly, I’m hooked.

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Kiss Sixth Sense: Episodes 1-2