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A new week means two new episodes! How did the two most recent episodes for dramas ‘Moving’ and ‘Behind Your Touch’ fare?

Moving: Episodes 10-11

‘Moving’ maintained its strong and steady momentum with its two latest episodes. Episodes 10 and 11 centered around Jang Ju-won and provided his backstory on his superpower as well as his romance with his deceased wife. The drama has been good and stable so far and it only managed to pick up my interest even further with this focus on Ju-won. Ryoo Seung-ryong is obviously a very good actor and he’s so charismatic. But he also plays the ‘silly-clumsy-fool-who’s-in-love’ type of role very well which we saw in episodes 10 and 11. We learned that he was a former gangster who also met his wife, Hwang Ji-hee (Kwak Sun-young), while just living his day-to-day life. I was more interested in watching Ju-won’s relationship with Ji-hee (and I actually quite like the actress, Kwak Sun-young, who played the wife, so I was happy with her appearance in the drama). I thought it was adorable how they met, fell in love, and continued their relationship through the chaotic up’s and down’s. Ju-won liked Ji-hee for who she was and never judged her for her job or her background. His feelings for her were sincere and he proved his love for her in several different ways. Ji-hee reciprocated the affection and feelings after Ju-won gained her trust and it was history ever since. It was nice to see this backstory in their relationship and their romance. Obviously, Ji-hee unfortunately doesn’t survive and she isn’t alive in the present timeline. But it was nice to know who she was and what her story was and how she met Ju-won. She and Ju-won had a heartwarming bond with each other. The end of episode 11 was also a nice surprise in that it provided the pieces to the puzzle of how Ju-won and Kim Doo-sik eventually met and became colleagues in the same organization. Doo-sik rescued Ju-won’s life and took him in to work with him at their organization (hence, why, Doo-sik is Ju-won’s Sunbae/senior in the company).

It’s been interesting to see how each week of ‘Moving’ has been dedicated to certain characters. The first 7 episodes primarily focused on our high schoolers, but even then, there was an episode dedicated to Cha Tae-hyun’s character, Jeon Gye-do. There was also the villain, Frank, who received a good amount of screentime. Then episodes 8 and beyond focused on our parents in the drama and their backstory. Am I the biggest fan of the storytelling? Not so much. I’m a bit old-fashioned and would have preferred if things were told in a consecutive, linear type of format. But I do think the way that the drama has gone about telling the stories and showing the lives of the characters has also worked in a strange but refreshing way. 7 episodes focused on the kids, 2 episodes on Mi-hyun and Doo-sik, and 2 episodes on Ju-won. It’ll be interesting to see what direction the drama goes in next or which character will be in the spotlight in the next few episodes. One thing is for certain: this drama will definitely always be moving.

Behind Your Touch: Episodes 5-6

I think this week was my final week with this drama. I gave ‘Behind Your Touch’ an extra weekend to decide if I wanted to stick with it or not and after watching episodes 5 and 6, I came to the conclusion that I wanted to drop it. The thing is – I think I would have stuck with it if I just felt more comfortable watching it. There are parts to the show where it’s funny and comedic and I’m also intrigued by the murder mystery where I have my assumptions about who could possibly be behind it. But Ye-bun’s “superpower” is just too much for me to skip past or turn a blind eye to and that is unfortunately the biggest reason as to why I can’t continue with this drama.

In the latest episodes, things got a bit more personal for our characters, including Jang-yeol who got injured after getting stabbed by a person who he dearly cared for. Ye-bun has obviously been our main character thus far, but it was also refreshing to see the drama dive a bit deeper into Jang-yeol’s background and story. The drama also continued to show Ye-bun and Jang-yeol’s alliance with each other and things even turned a bit procedural with the way that they worked together to solve two different cases in episode 5. We find that there are more and more layers to Ye-bun’s superpower and that her hands have to be cared for in order for her superpower to work, haha. Of course, she uses this to her advantage to get what she wants from Jang-yeol but I thought the other interesting part about her character was the way that she lied about not seeing certain things when in fact she really did. We saw her do this to protect her grandfather who stole the list of donors from assemblyman Cha. For Ye-bun, it’s not just about seeing or not seeing things from the perspective of the person or animal who she touched – it’s transformed to whether or not she wants to tell the truth about what she saw.

It’s unfortunate that I’m dropping this drama because I think I would have kept on watching it if the premise was just different in a few ways. I did start to feel the drama slow down and drag a bit with episodes 5 and 6 but I think I would have still gone through with it even if the drama had to try new ways to keep viewers engaged and entertained. ‘Behind Your Touch’ had the potential to be the more light-hearted and funny drama for me in contrast to the other heavier or action-packed dramas that I’m watching at the moment. It’s sad that it couldn’t be that drama for me and that I’ll have to wait again to watch Lee Min-ki’s next project. Better luck next time maybe.