A Good Day to be a Dog Episode 7 Review

A Good Day to be a Dog’ story so far: The protagonist, Han Hae-na (Park Gyuyoung), accidentally kisses her colleague Jin Seo-won (Cha Eun-Woo), triggering a curse that transforms her into a dog from 12 am to 6 am every day. The only way to break the curse is for the same person to kiss her while she’s in her dog form. However, Jin Seo-won is afraid of dogs, so Han Hae-na tries to help him overcome his fear. Meanwhile, her protective sister Han Yoo-na (Ryu Abel) keeps coming up with schemes to end the curse as soon as they can.

Viewers finally get to see the dreaded mom both Han Hae-na and Han Yoo-na are so scared of in episode seven of “A Good Day to be a Dog.” With only ten days left for Hae-na to end her curse, failing which she will remain in her dog form forever, her mother (Jung Young-Joo) demands to know who her boyfriend is and even wants a meeting set up between them. Yoo-na convinces Seo-won’s nephew Choi Yul (Yoon Hyun-Soo) to be her sister’s fake boyfriend and hilarity ensues.

While half the episode maintains a lighthearted tone, it also continues a significant twist from episode six, where a jilted ex-boyfriend of Yoo-na takes pictures of Hae-na and Seo-won together. As it turns out, he uses the photo to publish an article about a family suffering from a curse that turns them into dogs, and a shady journalist shows interest in pursuing the crazy story. Kim Min Seok plays the new entry Kang Eun Hwan, the journalist/antagonist for this edition, and is instantly unlikable; so that’s a job well-done.

Yoon Hyun-Soo is effortlessly clueless and endearing as Choi Yul, who has to pretends to be his teacher’s peer and lover. There are also some romantic scenes between the lead pair, although a rather clichéd scene where both of them struggle to tell each other what’s on their minds drags the pace of the episode down in the second half. Hae-na literally stops Seo-Won while he is still mid-sentence, clearly trying hard to say something important to her. Not only does she stop him to say her own piece, but after interrupting him, she rushes to the bathroom to rehearse what she wants to say. Seriously?

Anyway, except for the slow bits, it’s entertaining to watch the growing chemistry between Park Gyuyoung and Cha Eun-Woo, whose characters are steadily getting closer with each passing episode. Cha Eun-Woo very convincingly emotes the love-struck look whenever Seo-Won is around Hae-na. I wish there were some more flashback scenes to explain their historical past and connection to Lee Bo-kyeom (Lee Hyun-woo). Unfortunately, the history teacher Lee and the new mysterious Shaman character get very little space in this edition, so viewers will have to wait to get more insights into what is brewing between the two. Meanwhile, there’s also tension and suspense over whether the journalist will be able to expose the dog curse in Hae-na’s family.

You can stream A Good Day to be a Dog on Viki.

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