A Good Day to be a Dog Episode 8 Review
A Good Day to be a Dog’ plot overview: 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 so that they can end the curse as soon as possible.
Episode eight of ‘A Good Day to be a Dog’ ends with a super cute romantic scene featuring Hae-na and Seo-won, and it won’t be too surprising if this episode turns out to be a fan favorite. The plot now focuses on new entrant Kang Eun Hwan (Kim Min Seok), a journalist/youtuber who finds out about Hae-na’s family curse and attempts to blackmail her into either exposing herself or giving him money. While Hae-na and family figure out how to deal with this new nuisance, she also faces the dilemma of telling the truth to Jin Seo-won as she is running out of time to end her curse and could end up being a dog for the rest of her life. Meanwhile, Seo-won learns that Coco isn’t a real dog like his nephew Choi Yul (Yoon Hyun-Soo) told him.
The first half of the edition was bumpy and with a few story twists that were annoyingly unreal and could’ve been tweaked with more realism for the onscreen adaptation. For example, Seo-won barges into Eun Hwan’s place unannounced, then chases him to a dark alley, where magically, Eun Hwan summons his lackey with a dog to intimidate Seo-won. When the character Lee Bo-kyeom (Lee Hyun-woo) does unexpected things, it’s fun because he is supposed to be a supernatural being with powers, but Eun Hwan is a petty villain who gets too much screen time (even though Kim Min Seok does a good job at portraying an evil bully) & power over others.
While Hae-na is usually shown as a mature, decisive teacher, who is quick-witted (remember the number of times she helped Seo-won?), it was disheartening to see her turned into a helpless damsel in distress in this episode. She doesn’t even attempt to put up a fight against the scheming Jang Eun Hwan and even her usually feisty older sister Han Yoo-na doesn’t mutter a word against the man. The dramatically serious tone of this episode complete with a cliched villain doesn’t mesh well with the overall plot, unlike the school-bullying issue featured in episode 5 of “A Good Day to be a Dog”. Although, there are a few funny scenes featuring Hae-na’s parents, as they try to scare Yoo-na’s disgruntled ex-boyfriend.
Overall, episode 8 felt overstretched but finally pushes the story much forward as far as the primary plot is concerned. It ends with a romantic moment between Hae-na and Seo-won as the two protagonists finally pick up courage to reveal their feelings for each other. Park Gyuyoung and Cha Eun-Woo are adorable as the lead pair and deliver a memorable rainy romantic scene in the last minute. Since there have been plenty of hints that Lee Bo-kyeom has plans to drive the couple apart, the real conflict of the tale will only be unraveled in the coming episodes. And the mystery over the historical reasons for the dog curse continues to be under wraps too.
You can stream A Good Day to be a Dog on Viki.
Read Next: Congrats My Ex! Review – Everybody Wins, Save the Bride
Also Read: Scott Pilgrim Takes Off Review (Audio Version Below)
