Unhealthy Reminiscence Eraser: Episodes 5-6
by solstices
Whereas our amnesiac hero finds his footing and places his succesful thoughts to work, a string of crises knocks his psychiatrist off steadiness. Issues of the center show to be extra difficult than they appear — and maybe love is probably the most tough recreation of all.
EPISODES 5-6
In some way, Joo-yeon bluffs her approach out of her trespassing with a half-baked excuse. Since Gun retains waltzing out of the hospital with no guardian accompanying him, Joo-yeon takes it upon herself to control him. She follows him to the horse racing observe, the place Gun appeals to a possible investor for his newly-founded company. Fibbing that Joo-yeon is the company’s staff physician, Gun employs a spontaneous statistical evaluation alongside Joo-yeon’s psychiatric analysis to efficiently predict the successful horse and earn the investor’s favor.
When Sae-yan presents souvenirs from Italy within the type of couple shirts, Joo-yeon seizes the chance to go all out. Adorning a hospital assembly room with balloons and candles — nevermind how unprofessional such habits is — Joo-yeon prepares to shock Teo, solely to overhear him flirting with the junior researcher in a stairwell. It seems Teo had promised to this point Joo-yeon after she returned from her abroad journey, solely to enter a secret relationship with another person as a substitute. (And he’s nonetheless stringing Joo-yeon alongside! Scum.)
Devastated, Joo-yeon rushes to place out the candles with a fireplace extinguisher earlier than Teo sees. Gun walks in on the pathetic aftermath, and when Joo-yeon refuses to cry, he argues that she’s simply deceiving herself as a way to act robust and keep away from her feelings. Stung, Joo-yeon snaps at him to cease being so clingy.
Later, Shin finds Joo-yeon crouching by the hospital’s curb, stifling her tears. Driving her again to her neighborhood, he buys her a cup of sizzling chocolate, which she provides to share. Shin demurs, explaining that sugary drinks maintain him up at night time, however he caves simply — and later that night time, he can’t catch a wink of sleep, clutching his fluttering coronary heart and squeeing adorably into his blanket. Aww.
Shin could also be giddy on the burgeoning pleasure of a brand new crush, however his previous dalliances have caught up with him within the type of an affronted Sae-yan. Reserving a whole movie show to speak to her in personal, Shin wears a nonchalant demeanor, dismissing Sae-yan’s considerations about her misplaced bracelet. She dropped it in his automotive? No matter, he’ll give her cash to purchase her a brand new one. Besides Sae-yan swiftly places him in his place: “Then how a lot ought to I pay to hit you as soon as?” Shin flinches, dropping the blasé act like a kicked pet.
Acceding to her calls for, Shin mails Sae-yan’s misplaced bracelet again to her home. Cue a flashback to the elementary college reunion, the place Sae-yan had chased Shin all the way in which again to his automotive, scaring the residing daylights out of him. How dare he dump her? Sae-yan pulls the flustered Shin right into a kiss, declares that they’re courting once more, then slaps him — “I’m the one who’s dumping you!” Then she storms away, as her bracelet falls off her wrist. Shin: “Save me…”
Within the current, Sae-yan ties the bracelet again round her wrist, wishing upon it as soon as extra. It appears she’s hoping to search out somebody once more, simply as Gun needs to reunite along with his old flame — however is Sae-yan actually the little lady who saved him again then, or is there extra to the story?
As for our dispirited psychiatrist, there’s extra heartache in retailer. The hospital director is working interference, endeavoring to shift the analysis undertaking’s focus away from psychiatry and over to neuroscience. That consists of ordering Teo to conduct undisclosed evaluations on Gun, in addition to eradicating Joo-yeon from the analysis she’d pioneered.
Joo-yeon has barely any battle left in her, and she or he heads to Teo’s workplace handy over the analysis supplies. Whereas she’s there, she clears his filthy desk for him, which ends up in her discovering his analysis report and all of the exams he’d run with out her or Gun’s consent. Grabbing Teo by the lapels the second he enters the room, Joo-yeon dumps the trash she’d cleared again onto his desk. Serves him proper.
After trudging forlornly by way of the rain, a drenched Joo-yeon exhibits up on Gun’s doorstep. She declares that she’s accepting the staff physician place, then overtly asks him for 3 months’ room and board at his new residence workplace. (Pressured cohabitation trope, right here we come?) Seems Joo-yeon turned the tables on Teo and the hospital director by interesting to the analysis investor, so she’s now supposed to look at Gun in his day by day life exterior the hospital.
Nonetheless, Gun refuses to just accept — it appears he’s resolved to maintain his distance and quash his old flame flutters. (Although he’s not doing an excellent job of it.) Making an attempt to persuade him, Joo-yeon raises a problem. If she will persuade Shi-on into staying with Gun’s company and continuing with physiotherapy, then Gun has to rent her. Alas, Joo-yeon barely even has a rudimentary understanding of tennis phrases, inflicting her to fully misread the exasperated Shi-on.
What Joo-yeon lacks in information and professionalism, although, she makes up for in dedication. Buckling down to check tennis with a complete stack of guides, Joo-yeon asks Shin to show her the principles. Delighted, Shin opts for hands-on studying as a substitute, beaming like a smitten pet even when her ponytail smacks him within the face with each swing of the tennis racket. (I do not know why or how Joo-yeon is doing this in heels, however Shin is just too cute for me to complain.)
On the way in which residence, Joo-yeon senses she’s being adopted. Fortunately, Gun isn’t far behind, and he takes out the stalker earlier than he can get too shut. It’s Teo, who claims he simply needed to apologize to Joo-yeon. (By skulking round?) Teo backs off, however not with out first instilling doubt in Gun. Is he actually sure that Joo-yeon is his old flame? Can he bear in mind how he met her?
Joo-yeon returns to an empty workplace, so she solutions the doorbell when it rings — besides it’s Shin, and the implications daybreak on him simply as Gun arrives. “That’s proper, she’s my old flame,” Gun declares.
I feel this drama has a imprecise thought of the story it needs to inform, and the scenes it needs to function, besides it hasn’t fairly bothered to work by way of the finer particulars. Sadly, it exhibits in each the execution and the plot coherency. Ethics are thrown out the window, work protocol is never upheld, and characters’ emotional trajectories really feel disjointed. The present lacks polish, and its inconsistencies break immersion.
Nonetheless, I’m already rising invested in Shin and Sae-yan’s storyline — their petty bickering is hilariously endearing, particularly since they broke up after simply three dates. It has the potential to be a enjoyable lovers-to-enemies-to-lovers-again storyline, particularly with how simply the whirlwind Sae-yan knocks Shin off-kilter. Along with her, maybe he may discover liberation from his inflexible life-style. Although the Italian mafia connections that Sae-yan’s household appears to have are regarding, and the stalker that’s tailing Shin must be handled first.
Shin might have dismissed the photographs of him and Sae-yan collectively, however there’s an alarming one he failed to note, which captured the brothers’ confrontation. Opposite to Shin’s assertion that he was a distance away when Gun jumped into the river, the picture clearly exhibits Shin greedy Gun’s lapels. I’m nonetheless giving Shin the advantage of the doubt, as a result of this present likes to recontextualize previous scenes with subversive reveals, although I can’t assist however marvel — what’s Shin hiding, and is it solely for Gun’s sake or is there extra to it?
I want the present would give attention to the brothers extra, as a result of there’s a lot to mine. Their relationship, fraught for years, has immediately been mended in a single day — besides it’s nonetheless a festering wound beneath a flimsy band-aid. It’s endearing how Gun’s amnesia has him reverting to his previous disposition, teasing Shin about his childhood clinginess and pranking him identical to previous instances. I can solely hope the drama doesn’t go down the weary love triangle route, as a result of I’d hate to see the brothers torn aside over a lackluster heroine.
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