Ron Does Stuff

Oh would you look at that after months I am coming back to this? After everyone else has already watched the entirety of this series and know what happened? Yes, yes, I am.

The past few months were very busy and during the times I had free time I just slept because I am ancient, so there haven’t been any updates or blog posts about anything. BUT I’ll try to change that this year! Not that there’s a dedicated audience reading this thing but because I really did like just writing whatever without having to worry about being appraised or docked payment for it if it wasn’t up to par. I just want to do whatever! So let’s get into episode 11!

The previous episode months ago ended with what is possibly Eum Ji’s remains. DUN DUN DUN!

The episode starts out with three workers talking about how a fortune teller told them that moving this body in the day would be bad luck, which is why they’re doing it at night. So are you telling me that they know there’s a body there? Or maybe I misunderstood the subtitles because one of the workers seem pretty surprised when he pulls out a…femur? A bone.

While all of this is happening, Kang Min and his superior get a call about the remains found…in what was actually already a grave? I am confusion.

When Kang Min and his superior arrive I sorta get some clarity. The workers were supposed to move a body from that grave but this new set of bones — possibly Eum Ji — definitely weren’t supposed to be there. Kang Min’s superior picks out a ring — without gloves, by the way! — from the remains and I am assuming this is what ties the body to Do Ha but the police superior is being fishy about it.

Meanwhile, Do Ha and and Sol Hee enjoyed the fireworks at the neighborhood festival and come back to the tarot cafe with the rest of the gang. Sol Hee is pretty wily about getting to spend more time with Do Ha, not knowing that ~there’s a storm coming~.

At the “after-work gathering”, Do Ha and Sol Hee get questioned about the real deal between them and Do Ha is all “yeah she’s my girlfriend” and Sol Hee is all “they must be surprised” and girl. Neither one of you is asking “What are we?” stop being fake shy about it!

However, one of the people they’re drinking with is blurting out blatant falsehoods about the way he feels about one of the girls and Sol Hee is boiling and girl do not interfere especially with what’s about to happen with you and Do Ha you are going to regret it!

But Sol Hee just can’t control herself and tells the woman involved that she should get to know the guy more and knowing what’s going to come out about Do Ha? Girl this is all going to blow in your face and not in the good way!

Do Ha’s earlier decision to tell the convenience store clerk that he’s the Do Ha also isn’t working out for him because while the clerk didn’t think much of it the first time around, now that he’s just won a competition and drunk to boot he’s asking Do Ha to be his ~master~.

And since Do Ha is terminally honest when the people they’re drinking with start digging into him he tells them he did something wrong in his past and lordy lordy they’re going to drop you the moment the news about Eum Ji’s remains comes out! (Also the script referencing to the school violence rumors that hit a lot of idols at the time!)

After that gathering, Sol Hee and Do Ha kinda have a stranger danger talk as Sol Hee reminds him that not many people will react the way she did about the possibility of him being a murderer. To be fair, not a lot of people are walking lie detectors who can sus out what’s true or not!

Do Ha shares how being able to come out to Sol Hee about the truth has been a net positive for him, and I feel like the whole series would be more interesting and have a lot more layers if the main characters were gay but honestly would that have been marketable to a bigger Korean audience? Because from what I remember this series did decently when it came to ratings but I don’t know if it would have been the same if this had a gay couple in the center of it.

AND WOULDN’T YOU KNOW IT DO HA BRINGS A MAN HOME.

Okay, so it isn’t a love interest but the convenience store clerk he helped out during the festival. I don’t know yet what role he’s going to play in the episode but he was supposed to sleep at Do Ha’s place until he started snoring and Do Ha had the guy’s brother pick him up.

Meanwhile, the guy from earlier who was lying about his relationship is found out by one of the other guys from the neighborhood — I am really sorry I don’t know their names but to my knowledge the show never says their names! — and he is exposed for the dirtbag he is!

Anyways, back to Do Ha and the drunk convenience store clerk who turns out to be the brother of the idol group person several episodes back! I don’t know what this is building up to but I hope something comes out of it!

Do Ha and Sol Hee are out eating in public and Do Ha’s all cool about it now because he’s ~in love~ and Sol Hee’s more than a little proud of herself for bringing about this change. Whether this lasts for very long considering the beginning of the episode is something we’ll have to see. Which may be in just a few minutes after this scene because the discovery of the body is right on the news playing on the restaurant television!

Back in Hakcheon, the police superior still has the ring in his possession, one of the identifying items mentioned in the missing posters for Eom Ji. Did he really cover up for Do Ha? What is his deal?

Meanwhile, in a subplot I have repeatedly said I hate, Do Ha’s mother looks to have won the primary she ran for and now she is the candidate for governor. With the discovery of Eom Ji’s body, I wonder how this will backfire on her and Do Ha?

And here comes yet another subplot I hate, Sol Hee’s mom who tells Sol Hee she needs to marry someone rich and hot and for once I agree! But those two things rarely converge!

We take a break from all of that to see Do Ha playing the piano at the jazz bar he frequents and I had to avert my eyes a bit because there’s a part where the audience is clapping along and they were not on the beat? My ghad? Was that put in to torture me? Because we quickly switch back to the tarot cafe where Kang Min meets up with Sol Hee.

Kang Min, of course, is there to tell here about the possibility of Eom Ji’s body being found. He also throws a spanner into the works by pointing out that Do Ha/Seung Ju was on medication at the time and could possibly have no recollection of killing Eom Ji, although we know that Do Ha already thinks he killed Eom Ji. Sol Hee stands up for Do Ha, but her eyes tell another story.

Whatever misgiving Sol Hee may have about Do Ha at the moment are temporarily quelled by a piano lesson where they play “Chopsticks” on the piano. It’s kinda like that piano playing scene in Stoker except PG.

Chihoon, on the other hand, is watching a movie where Syaon is featured on the soundtrack and just like in episode three, he ends up alone with Syaon again. Syaon, girl, want the one that wants you. This is the cock that you dodge professional responsibilities for!

Meanwhile, Eom Ho has caught wind of the remains found by the policemen and of course has barged into the police station to see what they found himself. To be honest, I’ve had it with the guys overwrought performance? It’s tiring!

We then get possible homosexual Deuk Chan looking at news reports about Eom Ji’s body being found and I really suspect that he’s got something to do with this. But that’s going to be a problem for another day as the top idol in his company, Syaon, has decided to take a break and study music so that she can make her own songs. You go girl!

However, that means Deuk Chan and his entertainment company are in a bind. With his star composer possibly headed to jail and his top idol taking a break, they don’t have any moneymakers to keep the company afloat. This is why you should diversify! He tells the company to debut the teams they think have a chance and to drop the rest. Honestly, even as someone who is not a businessman at all it just seems like bad planning to not have another artist aside from Syaon! OH but it turns out that they have another artist, Atlantis, the boyband introduced in the first episode and whose brother Do Ha worked with during the festival, but Deuk Chan says they should be dropped. Oooffff.

While Deuk Chan grapples with the possible collapse of his business, Do Ha’s mother is possibly seeing the end of her political career when the police superior tips her off on the discovery of Eom Ji’s body. Of course, true to her character as a politician with questionable morals, Do Ha’s mother quickly moves to remove her or Do Ha’s connection to the crime. HOWEVER, her plans are thrown into disarray when the woman who was taking video during Do Ha’s performance during the festival uploaded the video, proving that he is in Korea and not in Germany like his mother keeps telling her partymates.

There’s a b-plot about the plagiarist composes sidling up to the now jobless member from Atlantis but the meat of the next few scenes is Do Ha’s new interrogation, where he sticks to what he knows to be the truth rather than the first statement that he gave five years ago during the initial investigation. BUT the police officer in the pocket of Do Ha’s mother doesn’t record the confession. On the way out of the police station, Do Ha gets warned about Eom Ho, who as it so happens is in Seoul looking for him…and stabs him — or someone the show wants us to think is him — when he finally arrives back home.

Cliffhanger!