The Obsessive Dilettante

Ahhh, good question, although I’ll probably struggle to answer because I’m a love’em & leave’em kind of girl so I’ve already forgotten a ton about this show even though it’s barely been a week.

As for Tae-gu’s most memorable scene, hmm… how shallow would I be to say it’s whenever he’s in the bath? Kidding! Kinda… Honestly, probably just about anything from the last couple of episodes would do, especially when he finally got to act in the same room as everyone else. Probably his stand-off with Jin-hyuk as Jin-hyuk threatened him to shoot.

For Kwon-joo, ahhhhh, it’s hard to decide, since honestly a lot of her scenes run together for me since so much of the time she was in the call center talking to everyone over the radio. But the moment she had to break the news about Choon-ok’s death to her brother had a lot of understated emotion in it, which is all thanks to the lovely Lee Ha Na.

For Jin-hyuk, I’ll forever adore that lowkey scene when he’s like, “hey, we all make mistakes, don’t beat yourself up about it. I forgive you.” I can’t even remember what case it was, but it was somewhere in the middle, and Kwon-joo was super apologetic that she had heard wrong. It was such a small moment, but it meant a lot to me when it came to figuring out his character, and it felt like the tipping point of their working relationship when he went from angrily thinking she let his wife’s killer get away to deciding that he was finally going to trust her and treat her with respect as a coworker and boss.

For Dae-shik, no question, the scene in ep 15 where Jin-hyuk confronts him about being the mole. Baek Sung Hyun was phenomenal in that scene.

Even though there was woefully not enough of Hyun-ho and Eun-soo, and what we did get was mostly wasted exposition and PPL, I loved their first meeting when she shut him down and was willing to report him for sexual harassment because he wanted to know how to hit on girls in Russian. I think I also loved that scene because it gives me the sensation of what dynamic these two characters could have had if only the writer had allowed a little more opportunity for character development. Although Yesung with the puppy deserves a little love, even if it wasn’t necessary to the actual plot. But it was dang cute.