She Was Pretty Episode 4 Recap

Episode starts with Sung Joon in the coffee shop. He gets the phone call and sits down on the notebook. Hye Rin has stepped outside. She tells Hye Jin that Hye Jin has no sisterly love. She tells Hye Jin that, since she’s in the neighborhood, she’ll just go to Ha Ri Unni and ask Ha Ri to buy her a meal. Hye Jin reluctantly agrees to come.

  
Sung Joon looks at the notebook: Kim Hye Rin's secret notes. Hye Rin tells him it’s hers. She clarifies that the notebook he’s holding is hers. He says nothing, just looks at her and smiles.

Hye Jin enters and sees them meeting. She tries to run but gets caught in a crush of people. She hides behind a sign and sees that Sung Joon has brought Hye Rin a drink.

Hye Rin asks how Sung Joon knows her sister. Who is he? He replies that he’s her friend. She asks what kind of friend.

Hye Jin uses the sign she’s hiding behind to sneak out of the store, much to the complaint of one of the servers. She gets on her phone and places a call, worried that Hye Rin is going to screw everything up. I don’t’ think she will. She seems very savvy.

She Was Pretty Episode 3 Recap

Episode starts with Sung Joon leaving his meeting and seeing Ha Ri in the rearview mirror. He stops in the middle of the road and leaves his car there to run inside. He does the wrist grab and starts to ask what’s going on? Why is she there? His voice trails off as he notices her clothes. She quickly wraps both her arms around him in a hug and acts excited to see him as she quickly takes off her name badge. She throws it over her shoulder – which hits one of the hotel staff on the head.

Ha Ri lets go and asks how they met there? What is he doing there? He says he’s the one who should be asking that. Why is she there when she went to study abroad? Staffer picks up the name tag and seeing her, calls out her name. Sung Joon quickly rushes him outside. Staffer starts to follow. Outside, Sung Joon starts to try to get answers but a doorman comes up and asks him to move his car. It’s causing quite an uproar. He apologizes and tells Ha Ri to wait there while he moves it. Staffer arrives with her name badge and Ha Ri takes that moment to briefly freak out, out of Sung Joon’s ear shot. What is she going to do?

Switch to Ha Ri nervously bouncing her leg as she sits with Sung Joon at a café. She sips her drink. She says that she did go to study abroad. He replies that she did. She even sent him a picture she took in London. She asks why he thinks she’s there. She draws out the last part of the sentence and giggles, smiling broadly, and I wonder what’s in her drink. She giggles nervously and Sung Joon is not smiling. She says that she did go, but she got a call from Korea not too long afterwards. She got a chance to work at this hotel, and she got greedy. So she just returned urgently. She smiles, uncomfortable. Sung Joon’s still upset. Her leg shakes some more.

Finally, Sung Joon stifles a laugh and looks away. Turning back to her, he says that she should have called to say she came back. He almost left even when he saw her earlier, because he thought she was still in London and he was seeing things. Ha Ri holds up her arm and points at it. She just got goosebumps. As a matter of fact, she was going to call him today. She snaps her fingers and asks how they ran into each other there like this, huh?! And she is being so weird right now. He says that it’s good. He was sad when they parted ways like that. Awkward smile from Ha Ri.

She Was Pretty Episode 2 Recap

Episode starts where we left off, but with a different angle. Instead of the close-ups, it’s more of a medium shot. Right after Sung Joon introduces himself, we get a flashback. The person he’s talking to sounds like they’re actually American and Park Seo Joon did really well with his accent. Caller tells Sung Joon that he only has three months. He can’t forget! He only gets three shots at it. And what is it? Saving the magazine? Proving himself? What is it?

Taxi driver remarks that Sung Joon looks like he came from overseas. Not sure why, but he just heard him talking in English so that could be it. Sung Joon replied that he’s returned to Korea after about 15 years. Driver says what I was thinking: Wow, that's quite a long time. He asks why Sung Joon is back. Sung Joon replies that he has things to do, and something that he must find. That part at the end, from the way he says it, he’s thinking of Hye Jin and the puzzle piece.

Switch to the elevator. We see what happened after Hye Jin got off. Sung Joon got Pretty Girl’s attention (taps on her shoulder) and asks if PG is busy. She plays with her hair and says that she’s not. Half smiling (half ticked) Sung Joon asks if – since she’s not busy - how about getting back her conscience now? Bam! That was awesome. PG can’t believe it. Everyone looks at her, waiting for her to get off. Even though they were perfectly happy to let her stay before Sung Joon said something.

PG gets off the elevator. The guy who tells her to get on the elevator (while keeping the door from closing) is Shin Hyuk. With a smile on his face. Whenshe hesitates, he wordlessly tells her to get on – in that conspiratorial way that friends talk to each other. Sung Joon is looking at some papers so he doesn’t see her face. She smiles and says that it’s a relief.

Back to Driver, who asks what Sung Joon’s there to find. He replies, “My umbrella.” And I swoon just a little. He came back to find his umbrella. Totally called that!

She Was Pretty Episode 1 Recap

Okay, so I’ve been eagerly waiting for this show. Hopefully, it will be as good as I’m hoping.

Series starts with gentle, nostalgic music playing. It’s raining in the big city and in a tall skyscraper a faceless man (who has a really nice apartment and a miniature Eiffel Tower on his desk) takes out a Mason jar that has puzzle pieces in it. They’re really big puzzle pieces, so it must not be that difficult of a puzzle. I mean, they’re kid-sized puzzle pieces. But maybe that’s the point.) As music continues, man assembles puzzle. It’s Renoir’s ‘Danse à la Campagne (Dance in the Country),’ painted in 1883 and which now hangs in the Museé d’Orsay. It’s displayed with ‘Danse à la Ville (Dance in the City),’ which was painted the same year. A bit trivia: Paul Lhote was the man in both paintings and the woman in Dance in the Country is Aline Charigot, who Renoir married in 1890.

Man finishes the puzzle but there’s one piece missing. His hand hovers next to the hole. He jumps on his computer and goes to a site designed to find people: Spokeo.com. This is an actual website and not something that they made up for the show. I have never heard of it, but cool.

He types – in English – Kim Hyejin. It pulls up a list, along with their aliases, ages and where they’ve lived. If you type the same thing, the same list pulls up. And for some random reason the second Kim Hyejin, who is 42, has lived in Columbia, MO, and Sunnyvale, CA. Yes, I’ve lived there and it’s the home to the University of Missouri, but it just seems random that it would show up. And I notice that he has Google and YouTube bookmarked on his toolbar. Heh. He eventually gets to Korean results. He goes to a box of letters. Lots of letters, All marked ‘RETURN’ (Return to Sender). It’s so sad. He doodled on a lot of them.

Super Junior-M's 華麗的獨秀(S.O.L.O.) with Lyrics

One of my new favorite songs is the theme song to Skip Beat!: Super Junior-M's 華麗的獨秀(S.O.L.O.). It has an exuberant, joyful feeling to it, which I feel every time I listen to it.



The lyrics:

Love is a solo show. Solo Solo.
I want to solo for you.
Love is a solo, solo solo,
I want to give you a solo

I Strayed Again: More Taiwanese Dramas

Even though it's not flu season, I managed to catch the flu, which means several days of fever, sleeping and not wanting to do much else. So what did I do while home sick? Watch dramas, of course. I still need to finish 'Oh My Ghostess' (since I got side-tracked with 'Mask'), but feeling terrible didn't really motivate me to want to do the work of a recap. So, instead, I decided to check out a couple of Taiwanese dramas on Viki.

Smiling Pasta


The first drama I watched was 'Smiling Pasta,' a 2006 drama starring Cindy Wang as Cheng Xiao Shi and Nicholas Teo as He Qun. Xiao Shi is a girl who has had 17 boyfriends and all of them have dumped her before the relationship gets past the 3-month mark. She wishes on a shooting star that she will find someone to break her curse (because she believes that she is cursed) and to cherish her forever. Fate decides to answer, by having her lips collide with famous idol He Qun. He Qun has just been dumped by his secret girlfriend, Rita, who left him for his estranged brother, Ah Zhe. And to make the quadrangle complete, Ah Zhe is Xiao Shi's first love and the one who seemingly cursed her relationships in the first place.