Intense doesn’t even begin to describe this episode 14 of The Girl Who Sees Smells. The drama has actually increased a noticeable bit of ratings this week, reflecting both an uptick in narrative intensity as well as a new competition in town that didn’t hook the audience right off the bat yet. I thought episode 13 was a welcomed improvement … Continue reading →
The relief heading into the final stretch of The Girl Who Sees Smells is that it doesn’t get any worse, and there are plenty of dramas with precipitous declines even with only a few episodes left. It’s just hard to wrap things up, and take this from someone who writes daily and still finds it a challenge. The disappointment with … Continue reading →
Moo Gak and Cho Rim’s romance is the main reason I love The Girl Who Sees Smells, with bonus points for the bar code serial killer actually being interesting and deadly scary. The police investigation increases in brain power this episode, with the cops finally taking tricks from the killer’s playbook and trying to one up him. Too bad he’s too … Continue reading →
This episode of The Girl Who Sees Smells might as well be titled “he knows, she knows, they all know, everyone knows, so now what?” I feel the drama has enough gas in the tank to propel the remainder of the narrative without deflating now that the secrets are out of the bag. Frankly speaking, this drama didn’t exactly have secrets … Continue reading →
The Girl Who Sees Smells may not be perfect but it continues to perfectly elicit both my delighted squeals and my holy mother of batman freakout screams. Episode 10 ends on the tensest cliffhanger moment yet, a reckoning of sorts for all three main leads. I consider Jae Hee integral to the story even as the soulless antagonist, the writer … Continue reading →
This was a slower episode of The Girl Who Sees Smells, with no major breakthroughs on the investigation side but one delayed step forward on the romance side. There is hand holding, sweet sleepless texting, jealousy and worry bundling together, and the very dreaded male reluctance to explain things clearly butting up against the female desire to have certainty. Moo … Continue reading →
My love for The Girl Who Sees Smells continues to grow as this drama keeps getting better and better. Let it be said that this drama keeps my attention in all aspects when the lovely kiss in episode 8 isn’t even the highlight of this episode but is just one of many great narrative moments. Moo Gak’s stabbing at the end of episode … Continue reading →
Now that the who in The Girl Who sees Smells has been revealed, the drama is free to dole out the hows and whys of whatever grand killing scheme is being cooked up by the villain. Poor Doctor Chun makes multiple appearances in this episode, confirming that he’s deader than dead and really the victim of being in the wrong … Continue reading →
Holy smokes, the last ten minutes of this episode of The Girl Who Sees Smells may call for having smelling salts on hand. I was genuinely quaking with dread and awe at how masterfully the story turned the corner and reveals the big bad with such sinister perfection. We learn who the bar code killer is this early in the … Continue reading →
The Girl Who Sees Smells continues to be the bees knees, just what the good doctor ordered to cure my recent drama disappointment. It keeps on delivering the lovely and entertaining moments, never straying beyond the existing storyboard and spending all the development time in all the right places. Moo Gak finds out his Eun Seol died in the worst … Continue reading →
The detective squad and the bar code serial killer investigation gets shaken up a bit in this episode of The Girl Who Sees Smells (Sensory Couple), which continues to nicely balance the crime mystery with steady character development. Moo Gak and Cho Rim remain so super cute together, her playful and him stoic, and then switching it up with him being … Continue reading →
I continue to love The Girl Who Sees Smells, no ifs buts or caveats. For a drama with a dark serial killer underbelly, this story makes me laugh way more than even pure rom-coms that deal with only light subject matters. What works is natural laughs that comes from sweet and sassy Cho Rim and her alchemy interactions with dour … Continue reading →
A little bit of a good drama goes a long way to lifting my spirits again. Like a parched throat getting precious drops of liquid, the first two episodes of The Girl Who Sees Smells (Sensory Couple) is just what my doctor ordered to recover from the recent drama beat down. This drama continues to be cute and sweetly simple, … Continue reading →
