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A Good Day to Be a Dog: Episode 7
by Unit
It’s a good day to try — and fail — at confessions. But more than our OTP’s struggle to convey their feelings for each other, we also get fake boyfriends, nosy reporters, and the usual hint of a past life that we are nowhere close to unraveling.
EPISODE 7
If this week were a weather forecast, it’d be a mix of sun and clouds. We get the usual fun moments we’ve come to know this drama for, but we’re also advancing into more sinister territory. I guess we can’t always hope for sunshine and rainbows in what is supposed to be a fluffy rom-com. Sigh.
To confirm her suspicion that one of her girls has been struck by the family curse, Hae-na and Yoo-na’s mother (Jung Young-joo) pays them a surprise visit. The girls refuse to spill the truth, but all Mom has to do is wait till midnight. As expected, Mom catches Hae-na dog-handed, and she goes from “OMG! She finally found a boyfriend!” to “What!? She kissed someone who wasn’t her boyfriend?” In panic — and to avoid Mom’s scolding — Yoo-na goes, “Of course, she has a boyfriend!” But Mom is nothing if not thorough, so she insists that they bring said boyfriend home. Oops!
Once again, it’s Yoo-na to the rescue, and the boyfriend of the day is… Yul in his uncle’s suit. Ha! Yoo-na is such a fun bulldozer, and Hae-na doesn’t even get the chance to protest despite her very valid concern that she could get arrested for fake dating a minor — and her student at that. Anyway, Mom is instantly smitten with the “30-year-old” Yul, and he does his best to play the part — with a few slips here and there.
Mom might seem overly forward with her insistence on meeting Hae-na’s boyfriend, but she’s actually just worried about her daughter. She wants to be sure that the boyfriend is okay with Hae-na’s secret, and that he can be trusted. Yul replies that he’s not weirded out; neither does want Hae-na to feel insecure or unloved because she turns into a dog.
Yul might be her fake boyfriend, but everything he said about Hae-na was true to him — as yunno, human to human. But Mom gets all caught up in the moment, and drops the “I guess you love Hae-na very much” bomb on him. Love? All of a sudden, Yul’s heartbeat spikes and he begins to see Hae-na in a different light. Omona!
Before Yul can process his thoughts, Mom hits him with another bomb: he must sleep over, and break Hae-na’s curse. She actually locks him in the room! LMAO! Between revealing that her boyfriend is fake and outing herself as a girlfriend who kissed another man, Hae-na goes the cheating girlfriend route. Mom is appalled by her daughter’s improper behavior, so she releases Yul to go home amidst multiple apologies. Lol.
While all of this is going on, the real boyfriend-to-be is at home watching “how to ask a girl out” videos. Not that Seo-won needs to go over and beyond, because Hae-na also likes him — to the point where she invites herself to his birthday dinner with Yul. Hae-na’s presence adds spice to what was supposed to be an ordinary uncle-nephew dinner, and it’s all fun and games until Yul notices the sparks between his uncle and Hae-na.
With the realization that he has become the third wheel, Yul gives us the best eye-roll of the year, before excusing himself and trudging home like the main character in a sad movie. Lol. Finally, it’s just our OTP chugging down multiple shots of liquid courage because they each have something to tell the other. For Seo-won, it’s his love confession and for Hae-na, it’s also a love confession and her dog-secret.
Hae-na asks to go first, but she cannot bring herself to tell Seo-won the truth. “If it’s hard for you to tell me, you don’t have to say it,” he says. And when Hae-na drunkenly likens herself to a hydrangea that changes colors depending on where it’s planted, Seo-won tells her that, “No matter what color you are, I’m sure you’ll still look pretty.” How reassuring!
Since Hae-na’s curse was activated, she’s been on a 100-day countdown within which she must break the curse or stay as a dog forever — case in point, an uncle of hers who has been living as a dog for years now. Currently, she has ten days left to break the curse before her fate is sealed.
While Hae-na is worried about how Seo-won will take the news, she also thinks he’s trustworthy enough to not use the information against her. Yoo-na is relieved to hear this because she doesn’t want her sister to go through the humiliating experience she had with her trashy ex. Mom even had to pay off the jerk to kiss Yoo-na and to get rid of every video he made about her. It makes sense as to why Mom is now overly concerned about her daughters’ love lives.
Unfortunately, said trashy ex just won’t let it go. After seeing Hae-na with Seo-won last week, he made an internet post about a woman who turns into a dog every night — and uploaded a picture of Hae-na and Seo-won. Despite the lazy attempt to blur out their faces, Seo-won is recognized by his high school bully, KANG EUN-HWAN (cameo by Kim Min-seok), and things just spiral from there.
Eun-hwan is a trashy online “journalist” on the prowl for stories to cover, and he tracks Seo-won down to get to Hae-na. Seo-won doesn’t give him the time of the day much less wait around to hear stories about Hae-na’s secret. But Eun-hwan’s visit is not all a bust as he spots Hae-na poking out of the corner. He doesn’t exactly witness her transformation, but he soon sees Cocoa running off, and more importantly, he sees her clothes on the floor.
Being the perverted bastard he is, Eun-hwan makes away with Hae-na’s clothes. He also takes her work ID, and begins snooping around. He visits her parents’ restaurant, gets a friend to plant a video recorder in Woo-taek’s vet shop, and even comes around the school to question her students. The concept of boundaries doesn’t exist to Eun-hwan, and he’s further ticked off when Seo-won warns him to back off. So, he contacts the trashy ex to buy Yoo-na’s video off the guy.
After confirming Eun-hwan’s sketchy interest in Hae-na, Seo-won becomes more concerned about her safety. When a suspicious man approaches Hae-na as she waits to cross the road, Seo-won dashes across the road — without waiting for the lights to turn green — to sweep her into the protection of his arms. Thankfully, there are no Trucks of Doom in sight. Phew! But I can’t even swoon over this scene because while I think the “suspicious” man was just an ordinary passerby, there’s an actual threat on Hae-na’s back out there!
A Good Day to Be a Dog said, “let’s raise the stakes,” and it did just that! We now have a countdown to Hae-na’s curse becoming permanent, a trashy journalist who just won’t go away, and of course, Bo-gyeom — who at this point needs to actually get a life outside of being the lurking agent of gloom.
There’s also Yul and his implied crush on Hae-na. (Did we really need this arc in the middle of everything that’s going on right now?) But I’ll take this one-sided crush if it’s the “trouble” that Ji-ah was referring to last week. So far, the show has done well with its balancing act between the fluffy and the serious, so I kinda want to trust that it won’t deviate from that path as we dive into the second half.
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