This has been a subdued week for K-ent after the Itaewon Halloween tragedy naturally led to show postponements and event cancellations. KBS went ahead and premiered new Mon-Tues drama Curtain Call but did cancel the press conference, and in the end the drama is probably facing an uphill battle every which way. The first episode got an okay 7.1% but due to a delayed baseball game going on on Tuesday the second episode took a nosedive off ratings cliff down to 3.1%. While there is a reason behind it I feel this drama isn’t as captivating right off the start as another drama that went for the same old school vibes with stirring North-South separation themes. Yes, I’m talking about Crash Landing on You which while hokey did it in an entertaining way. Here it’s just sad and mopey and the whole fake grandson bit at least isn’t calculating but done so a dying grandmother can leave this earth without that one big lingering regret. Ha Ji Won is doing a great job as the female lead, she looks fantastic here and the character suits her, but Kang Ha Neul doesn’t have a fleshed out character yet and I’m worried about the chemistry between the leads and how to thread the needle on a romance when he’s pretending to be her first cousin. I’ll keep watching for now but it’s not a homerun out of the gate.