Call It Love: Episodes 5-6

Call It Love: Episodes 5-6

by Dramaddictally

It’s happening! We’re not even half-way through and our leads are shaking under the weight of their feelings. These episodes pack the feels — and the laughs, if you can believe it! — giving us the possibility of multiple love lines, relatable family dynamics, and more of the enviable friendship between our heroine and her bestie. Now, if we could just kick the villains out of the picture, this could be a perfect show.

 
EPISODES 5-6

Was anyone else holding onto their seat since last week waiting for these episodes? I wasn’t expecting much from this drama before it began, but now I can’t stop thinking about it. The beautiful camera work, the quotable one-liners, the likable leads — it’s got all the makings to become a classic. And this week, we’ve even got jokes! I was laughing and squeeing all the way, until we hit the end of Episode 6 and the story took a turn that has me a little worried.

Last time, we ended with Woo-joo pulling Dong-jin out of the way of oncoming traffic. We now know that she followed him when he left the bar — which is how she was able to seemingly appear out of nowhere to save the day. She also heard everything he said on the phone to Sun-woo about Min-young, and when she pulls him to the sidewalk, she’s upset on his behalf. She yells at him to take revenge on his ex (“at least trip her or something!” lol).

After this little inkling of feelings, Episode 5 moves on to full-blown cuteness and obvious liking between these two. First, Woo-joo takes Dong-jin to the pharmacy to patch up his bloody hand (injured on broken bottles). Outside, they have a talk about revenge and we learn that Dong-jin isn’t above it, he just has different ideas about what it means than Woo-joo does. Dong-jin’s idea was to a live a better life without Min-young, but he’s failing at that.

This conversation makes Woo-joo think back about her own methods of revenge and she breaks the news to Dong-jin that his company is in more trouble than he knows. Of course, true to character, she tells him in a way that makes him seem stupid for not already knowing that his clients are being stolen out from under him.

Later, she gets a chance to prove her loyalty (or like) even further by telling Dong-jin that the spy employee is leaving Best Fairs to join their competitor — and he’s recruiting his whole team to come with him. Woo-joo tells Dong-jin to take his revenge now and Dong-jin goes to the spy’s home to fire him, as Woo-joo packs up the employee’s belongings at the office.

Woo-joo stays late to pack and helps Sun-woo find the evidence he needs to prove the spy was stealing clients. Afterward, she hangs back at the office alone and texts Dong-jin, “Where are you?” (Which seems a little too close too fast, but I’ll go with it because…) Dong-jin says he’s headed to the office and she asks if he wants to get dinner together. (What a huge step for her!)

While she’s waiting for him to arrive, Min-young shows up looking for Dong-jin. When he gets there, he looks pretty happy to see Woo-joo (I mean, as happy as Dong-jin is able to look), but then he sees Min-young and his mood drops. Min-young starts acting as if she’s close to him, holding onto his busted-up hand and saying she needs to tell him something. He tries to rebuff her but she says it’s about the company — she pretended to be an investor and met up with his competitor to “find out what he’s up to” (huh?). She says she wants to help Dong-jin.

After he calls her out on her BS of wanting to help, she reveals she never got married and was alone in the U.S. the whole time. She wants to apologize. Meanwhile, Woo-joo is just standing there listening to all of this, not even pretending not to (she cracks me up).

Dong-jin tells Min-young to keep thinking about the reasons she shouldn’t show up in front of him and then grabs Woo-joo by the forearm and says, “Let’s go.” Woo-joo fixes her eyes on Min-young, breaks free of his grip, and interlaces her fingers with his to hold his hand (ahhhh!). He looks down at their hands in surprise and Woo-joo finally drops her death stare at Min-young and drags Dong-jin out of there.

Squeeeeee! This is the end of Episode 5 and what a cliffhanger. I went into the next episode with a happy heart and continued to smile every time the leads were on screen, which is quite a turnaround from the heaviness they produced in prior episodes.

Before they get outside the office building, Dong-jin breaks away from Woo-joo and says, “You can stop now. That’s good enough.” He tries to cancel their dinner plans and at first it seems like she’s overstepped a bound. But when he says, “Don’t do anything like this again.” He follows it with, “I don’t like being misunderstood, or misunderstanding.” (Ooooo! We know what that means!)

She chases him outside, not registering his comment, and he has to repeat himself: “It’s that I might misunderstand you.” This is followed by a loooong pause of silence and stares. The tension is just bubbling and finally she says, “Let’s go have dinner.” (Yes! She wants him to misunderstand. Or, I should say, to understand exactly correctly!)

At the restaurant, they sit at the counter (meaning they don’t have to face each other) and Woo-joo runs through her rendition of comfort talk. She tells him to go on the internet — “There are so many stories much worse than yours.” He looks at her perplexed, “Are you trying to console me?” (lol.) The funny part is that she is. She says it makes her feel better to hear that others have it worse than she does.

Later, he thanks her, saying he didn’t want to eat alone. But rather than respond directly, she orders kimchi pancakes for him to try. (I love that they’re trying to take care of each other already, and that they both seem to get it.)

When they leave the restaurant, Woo-joo discovers that her brother, SHIM JI-GU (Jang Sung-beom) is working at a café — not studying for his civil service exam like he’s supposed to be. Ji-gu hides behind Dong-jin to protect himself from Woo-joo and, as she starts going after him, he pushes Dong-jin into her and runs away. This leaves our leads in an embrace, gazing at each other for an extended time. They finally break apart and Woo-joo walks away, but Dong-jin is so flustered it’s like he doesn’t know what to do with his body.

Woo-joo being mad at her brother is a nice setup for us to see more sibling interaction, which is one of my favorite parts of this show. Ji-gu runs away from home and Woo-joo and Hye-sung have different views about how to handle it. Hye-sung is free-spirited, wanting to let Ji-gu follow his dreams of becoming a singer, but Woo-joo wants to control what he does and force him to go back to studying. I like this dynamic — Hye-sung is turning out to be more perceptive than I originally thought, and Woo-joo is beginning to falter in her tough-girl stance.

And speaking of Hye-sung, the absolute greatest thing in these episodes for me is the burgeoning flirtation between her and Joon. First, let me just say that Joon is an awesome character, and Sung Joon is doing an amazing job in this role providing comic relief. There’s a moment when Joon accidentally startles Hye-sung, just after she’s gotten out of the shower, and she drops her towel (though she has underwear on). The reactions of both are adorable. He’s all, “I have astigmatism. It was all a blur.” And she’s all, “I wasn’t wearing my best underwear!” I am so for this pairing.

To end our episodes, we get a mass exodus from Best Fairs, as the employees leave before the company fails. Dong-jin and Sun-woo have easily mended their friendship after last week’s fight about Min-young — because, thankfully, I was way off-base wondering if Sun-woo was the co-cheater in her affair (it’s still not totally clear, but it seems they are just old friends).

Together, Dong-jin, Sun-woo, and the few remaining employees fight to save the company by organizing a new kind of trade expo. Just when they think they are about to sink, Dong-jin obtains some bailout funds from a former colleague, allowing them to go forward with their plan.

At the same time, we learn that Hee-ja never sold the house that belonged to Woo-joo’s family. Instead, she’s living there. Woo-joo finds out and goes to the gate, screaming for Hee-ja to open the door. For some unexplained reason, Dong-jin has been looking for “the daughter” of the former homeowner, and as we close our episodes, he is on his way to the house too.

Hmm, honestly, the Episode 5 cliffhanger with sudden handholding was a much better way to keep my attention than whatever is unfolding at the end of Episode 6. What happened to the jokes, awkwardness, and playfulness? Sure, I have a lot of unanswered questions about the house (like, what is Dong-jin’s stake in this?), but I’m tiring of the villains already. And the last thing I needed to see was Hee-ja and Min-young in the same scene with no other characters present — neither of them warrants their own screentime.

I think we’ve got sufficient problems in this drama that Hee-ja and Min-young (who are basically versions of the same character) could disappear from the present storyline — and remain demons of the past — and we’d be okay. Dong-jin has a failing company and is fighting his competitors. Our leads are sorting out their feelings for each other — and each of them is enough of their own obstacle to keep it interesting. Hye-sung needs to get over her boy hang-ups, and she and Joon are walking a tightrope that might help with that. And the siblings are fighting over how to keep their family together. Just sayin’, I could watch this as a slice-of-life and be fine with it.

 
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