Wish You : 나의 마음속 너의 멜로디 Epi: 1&2 Review
Magical. Amazing. Mind Blowing. Cinematic masterpiece. These words can’t describe how simply magnificent the first two episodes of this drama are! Not exaggerating. Within the first few minutes of the first episode we were so beyond sold we were ready to sell our souls for more episodes. Wish You we wish you were longer than 8 episodes that are only 10-15 minutes long. *sobbing uncontrollably*
Now onto the show!
WARNING: THERE WILL BE SPOILERS FROM HERE ON OUT! If you don’t want to know before you watch then pause on reading, watch, and then come back to us so we can have a full-on discussion.
1화 (huwa-chapter/episode): Well as you read in our intro, the first minutes sold us on the entire series.
Aerial shots of a night in Seoul, with a tranquil score playing behind it, set the tone. A young man is strolling down the street, music pumping in his headphones, when he reaches the corner to see another young man busking with a friend filming his performance.
The first man we see stops, his eyes seem surprised to see this performer, and suddenly the score music mingles with the busker and it builds into this gorgeous symphony.
Now you may say we are being dramatic. Go watch. We promise it’s exactly as we described.
We finally meet the characters when the one who stopped to listen to the busker, (our boy Waffles…IYKYK) is sat on a bus that pulls up to a stop where said busker and the busker’s friend are stood to get on the bus. When Waffles sees the man who had caught his attention previously, he is in shock to run into him a second time.
The busker friend hops on the bus and then opens one of the windows to talk to handsome performer. And this is when Waffles pulls the most savagely swift move of unplugging his headphones so he can listen to the young men talk.
We find out the busker’s name is 인수 (In Soo), which is actually the actors real name as well. We wonder if they did this on purpose or not. Anyway, 인수and his buddy are talking, with Waffles in between them, about the latest video upload of 인수’s performance. Waffles is so cutely starstruck that made us giggle at how adorable and nervous he looked.
Waffles ends up going to an office 회식 (hwaeshik- this is an event that companies do a lot of nights after work. Everyone goes out to eat and drink together) where he steps out for a bit to continue watching his boy 인수’s YouTube videos. One of the other employees finds him outside, and we finally hear his name, 상이(Sang Yi), which is kinda like his real name as well, watching the videos and asks who the man in the video is.
He tells her about 인수 and she agrees that he is very talented. She then proceeds to hit on 상이 which were like, “excuse me beesh! NO!” but he seemed totally unphased by her hitting on him and she simply changes the subject.
Suddenly the whole team comes out of the bar ready to go to their next stop and as they are walking you will never guess who they run into! Oh…you can guess? Well sheesh way to spoil it. 인수! And here is where the woman redeems herself and tells 상이 to go and follow 인수 so he can get a selfie and autograph and maybe even his phone number, and that she will make up an excuse for him leaving. BRAVA!
상이 runs to find where 인수 and his buddy ran off to. And he does! The two young men are at a bar drinking together and 상이walks in ready to talk to the man he clearly has a major fanboy crush on.
And when we finally think these two will utter any sort of words to each other, or at least 상이 will say something to 인수, all he does is embarrass himself and…BOOM! EPISODE 끝 (kkut – end)
OUR FAV SCENE: That intro to kick off the show really did send us. Like we said, it was so beautiful and simple and just amazing that it had us sold without either actor speaking a word.
Our cutest scene: The bus scene was a fan fav. The way 상이unplugged his headphones so he could hear the convo was really savage. But the reason we think it is the cutest is because of 상이’s facial expressions. He looked like a little puppy who was just begging to be noticed.
Our least fav scene: The end. Only because it meant the episode was over.
2 화 : We start this episode where the first ended. 상이 chickening out and instead of telling 인수 that he is a fan, he ends up just making up an excuse to why he was there, at their table. UGH! He could hit on Sammie irl (not that she knew it) but he can’t speak to 인수! Well maybe…hmmm. Now we have even more questions. Lol.
Any way he runs away like a scared little boy, pissed at himself. Almost as pissed as we were for him leaving. He goes to find his 회식 group again but instead only runs into the young woman who had hit on him, then told him to chase the cutie singer. She is all alone, and she tells him everyone left already.
She asks if he was able to talk to 인수 and is instantly disheartened by the look of disappointment on his face.
When they part ways she hops in a cab and makes a sus phone call, at least it looked sus. There were no subtitles when we watched this episode and couldn’t understand that scene very well.
It cuts back to who we want to see, which is our boy 상이 lying in bed. We think he is asleep until he throws his hand in the air and starts reenacting what he should’ve said to 인수. It was actually super cute, and let’s be real who doesn’t think about what they could’ve said in a situation instead of what they did?
He gets so frustrated with himself that he can’t sleep and so he gets up to reveal he has a whole small makeshift music studio in his tiny apartment. He plops down in his chair to start listening to 인수once again and suddenly he is mixing his own musical talents with 인수’s. And dear god what a panty dropper. He not only plays the piano to create more depth to the song, he HARMONIZES with 인수! Our hearts ripped out of our chests and started vibin’ with the beauty of both the talent and the men.
But of course the beauty gets cut short by a loud banging on his door by his neighbor who is complaining of 상이 playing piano and singing so late at night. RUDE, because honestly the vocals and music would be a gorgeous lullaby and she should feel blessed to have such a neighbor. But we digress.
The next morning, he goes to work where the company is in a meeting to find new talent and their boss is getting more and more frustrated with the people she is hearing. The girl who seems to be on 상이’s side asks him to pull up 인수’s videos and the boss is impressed with the talent.
The boss agrees that he is a good find, and she wants him to sign with the agency. The hidden joy on 상이’s face is so charming we are just waiting for his ship to sail! He grabs coffee with the girl and they go for a walk to talk about 인수.
Speaking of 인수, he is at the café that his busker buddy works at and as they are talking a young girl tries to get his phone number, but busker buddy tells her that 인수is his boyfriend and she runs away embarrassed. Which made us giggle a bit. As the girl leaves, two men appear and busker friend whispers nervously “surprise!”
We noticed the one guy was in the scene when the company was looking for talent so I am assuming they are managers trying to get 인수 to join the company.
While this is all happening, 상이 is still with sus but not sus girl. We are still undecided about her. She makes a dating joke, and then says something about proposing but then spins it to she wants him to work on the 인수 project. We don’t know how to feel about her. We want to like her, but then she does some sketch shiz we don’t like. We will see how it ends up.
The episode ends with 상이 performing with some other musicians on the street and, we are sure you already guessed what happens but we’re gonna tell you anyway, 인수 shows up to listen. As he listens a smile grows on his face and 상이 clearly falls even harder for the man.
끝. End episode. And no preview for next week!
OUR FAV SCENE: 상이 adding his own little mix to 인수’s performance. The singing was just amazing. We seriously can’t wait for them to actually start working together.
Our cutest scene: Might actually have to say that same scene but the seconds beforehand where 상이 is running through what he really wanted to say to 인수.
Our least fav scene: Once again, the end because it meant that there was no more to watch. And this time there really wasn’t because no more episodes have come out yet.
If you want to watch the show yourself and see everything we talked about and more, the show is airing on Viki. Check it out. So far we have not been disappointed and neither will you. If you want to chat about the show feel free to reach out to us on Instagram (@koreanfromcontext) or Twitter (@koreanfrmcntxt). We would love to hear if you’ve started the show and what you think!
