All of a sudden dramaland has jumped on the Interesting Spells and Curses train as a way to add the element of surprise to its rom-coms — and hey, I’ll take a love potion or a family curse over a rando serial killer any day.
With MBC’s upcoming fantasy romance A Good Day to Be a Dog, our heroine Park Kyu-young (Celebrity) must deal with just this problem. Her bloodline is cursed with a very strange and unfortunate setup: when kissed, she will turn into a dog nightly at the stroke of midnight. After a few hours she returns to her human form, but yeah — you can see why she has avoiding kissing altogether and dealing with that whole mess. Well, until ye olde soju has something else to say about it.
Like so many heroines before her, a drunken kiss leads to major problems. And in this case that problem is Jin Seo-won, played by Cha Eun-woo (Island). With the curse activated, the only way our heroine can break it is to get this young gentleman to kiss her again. While she’s in her dog form. Oh, and he’s terrified of dogs. Cue: hijinks.
Happily, the drama’s teaser posters do an excellent job of setting the tone they’re going after, with the little dog’s caption reading: “I’m probably the most unfortunate woman in the world,” and the caution triangle reading: “Beware of dog. Lovely! Caution!” Even though the setup is silly, I think the drama will have a lot of fun with it, and we’ll get a cute story here. Park Kyu-young is never not charming, and Cha Eun-woo is quite good at looking pretty + astonished simultaneously, so, what more can you want? Furthermore, we’ve got Lee Hyun-woo (Money Heist: Korea — Joint Economic Area) playing a mountain spirit (I’m thinking Go Kyung-pyo in My Roommate is a Gumiho here, hah) who’s involved in our heroine’s accursed fate.
Notably, the drama will air once a week in a Wednesday-only slot, as MBC appears (don’t quote me) to be running a balancing act to SBS’s Thursday-only slot.
Directed by PD Kim Dae-woong (Start Up The Engine) and adapted from the original webtoon by Baek In-ah, A Good Day to Be a Dog premieres on October 11.