Well, I made it to the end.

But at what cost?

Really, this is an okay drama if you just stop after episode 8.
There will still be the mysterious Mountain God question, but watching the solution of that is not more satisfying than just stating: He was angry. But there was no reason to be so. He found out and stopped. The End.
The dog story was pretty cute, I think.
I watched episode 9 and decided to keep an eye on recaps and reactions to see if I ought to come back - I hoped so, actually but ... episode 8 is the right place to stop.

I just put myself in the shoes of a Lurker-Beanie from the future (in truth, by thinking about how I behaved as a Lurker-Beanie back in the day). I'd have They'll come here to the recap of the last episode of this drama to find out if it had a happy ending and how the recapper summarized the experience in order to decide whether or not to invest my their time.

I would have This future Lurker-Beanie will be faced with this, absolutely damning conclusion from @unit, making it clear that I would have they will never, ever hit play on It's a Good Day to Be a Dog:

In the end, I have no attachment or lingering feelings towards the show. I’m just glad the drama is over and we can all move on.

I might have even They might then even head off and read the manhwa instead! Sounds like it was cute and awesome!!

Im so glad I dropped this drama ages ago.

The webtoon had a meandering structure, and I can sort of understand that, since you're doling out the story in tiny bits at a time (drawing takes time!), and it goes on over a long period of time, and stories change in the writing thereof. But. The drama had the advantage of knowing the whole story from the start, and therefore the drama-makers had the chance to make it tighter and make more sense. Only...they did not do that. I don't remember the one-year time jump or the recap of the entire drama from the webtoon, either.

The characters were cute, but they should have either ended the drama once they got together and used his love for her to propel him to get over his dog trauma OR threaded the past life story along better instead of sticking it at the end. Ah, well. Some sweet moments and the actors did a good job with what they had. But that's the second webtoon-based drama I've finished in a row where I get to the last episode and I'm left scratching my head and wondering if I'm smart enough to understand where this ending came from.

I'm not gonna lie, I fast forwarded through a lot of this ep. The play made me cringe. I feel like there are so many flashbacks I have seen every part of the romance ten times, and it wasn't even that good the first time. I also really hope they weren't implying a romance between shaman girl and Bo-geum

This is such a disappointment, I was literally looking forward to this drama for years. Why didn't they just keep the webcomic's story arcs?

I like that OST track "Imagine" though.

*headdesks*
Thank you, @unit for your hard work on our behalf!
I may watch this last episode, or I may just pretend I did and take the Bean anyway 😝

Between dropped and not watching late 2023 shows my extra beans are slipping away😢😢

I don't understand the trope of one year jump when the leads act like they were still in their beginning phase of dating... Everybody knew for the colleagues who married at the beginning of drama and they thought they could do better? Instead to get the leads finally dating in broad daylight with dates, etc. we got a non really secret relationship like teenagers. What is the idea to make dating adults like teenagers in Kdrama?

The drama moment was from Lovers in Paris with Jo Sung-Mo's OST To Your Side. It was quite weird to get it in this drama but they were clearly lacking ideas to fill the episode, so why not?

In a general way, I don't think the drama really suffered from the one episode by week thing, because it was clearly not the main issue. The story didn't make sense, CEW's acting was weak, there wasn't cuteness enough, and way too many flashbacks with the same scenes.

Thank you for the weecap @unit you get the first 2024
🫘Beansprout🌱 award for ‘services beyond the call of duty’ by finding fun ways to give an overview of the episode for future beanies. It can’t have been easy trying to warn them to save themselves even though it’s too late if they already reading through the weecap🤣. It’s like Yul warning Haena to get out of his new driver Uncle’s car when they were trapped on the motorway!

‘I should have known this episode was going to be a waste of time when it opened with a one-year time skip’ 👈🏾 yes that summed up the whole episode. The shadow play was very good but it became the equivalent of the random inserts of a body drop in other dramas, we got it the first time.

This drama suffer from some epic identity crisis if I've ever seen one. In a "nobody asked for this" attempt to add their own twists to the (I believe) simple and fluffy plot of source material writers kept piling up stuff until it was too much of everything - and yet not enough of substance to justify the existence of this trope salad. The end result? Probably an indigestion and lasting barking reflex. Should've really end it on Ep8 and that's it. Shame that's not what happened...

Uncle deserved better - than both that chick as a girlfriend (at least he's consistent with his poor taste in women, I guess) and having to bark for a whole extra year because no one bothered to care about that little detail. Yul deserved better than not having any life outside of being there for other people's drama and experiencing multiple unrequited crushes (I mean, he IS crushing on Jiah now? or they're just good friends? show didn't make it clear). Oh well, at least he's got a real dog now... Leads chemistry deserved better. BG didn't deserve anything nice - let alone that peaceful seaside retirement life - for being the dumb spiteful jerk he is but I suppose mountain gods in kdramas are really plot armored by default against any retribution for their crap. All in all, we deserved a much better show, but alas...

Shooting the drama scene was fun. Wasn't worth it to waste an hour of my life to get there tho. Previous 13 could've been spent on something less messy too. Why this ALWAYS happens when I'm trying to give romcoms another chance? Are you trying to tell me to just give up for good, universe?

Thank god this ended. It finally limped across finish line. There are some bad drama you watch because they are so bad they are good , some of them are train-wrecks from which you can not take your eyes off and some of them you watch out of morbid curiosity to see how bad it can get.

This drama belongs to third category for me.....

One more thing..justice for poor doggy uncle...the guy spent 18 years as a dog due to a malevolent, petty, childish, idiot of a mountain god.. again spent 1 year with barking and at end ends up dating the shallow, money obsessed teacher...ha ha...I am not laughing show...

Weird complaint considering the whole nature of the show, but I wish the drama never actually went to the Joseon & past lives path. I would have loved it a lot more if it was just a cute silly rom-com with some loose/last minute explanation on why Hae Na transformed into a dog after the kiss.

I dropped the show and webtoon when they took that overly complicated direction. Some shows are just not meant to be angsty and dramatic. The dog drama is one of those.

SIGH, we made it. At least the cute moments were cute. SIGH,😂.

"A Good Day to Be a Dog" should be changed to "A Good Way to Ruin a K-Drama."

More clips and a time skip. SeoHa couple has not advanced their relationship in a full Year? Still secret dating at school? And Uncle now lost his voice because of the Vice Principal but he is now wealthy stock investor? Yes, again, the show makes little sense even in the confines of its own world building. Even the little things like HaeNa typing on an English keyboard was annoying. A lack of attention to detail. Or the fantasy element that HaeNa can bang out an original play in a few hours. The finale seemed to be an OST PPL. The last few episodes were very disjointed and not very rewarding.

This series had all the elements to be a good story: a comedy-romance at a high level. The director and writer hinted at them but failed to execute any real plan. We did not need the Curse backstory in order to tension between the leads. KISS: Keep it simple stupid. Just HN and SW overcoming their fears would have been enough. And after the curse was lifted, if HN kept certain dog traits (like the uncle did) then it would have been a funny dating theme that could have been quite enjoyable (like the couple hand in hand until a car passes by and HN quickly runs after it.) It could have been better if SW overcame his fear of dogs while caring and adapting to HN’s latent dog traits until their mutual love cured her. But instead we got no advancement of their relationship, no unique moments or a clear resolution of their story. The ending was bleh.

I blame the writer and director, but also the network for treating the show like a rabid dog: once a week on dead night in TV schedule, many preemptions, and an overdose on past clips in current episodes. The story meandered like a lost puppy. I don't blame the actors; they were given no meat on the bone. This was not a show that could have been better, it was a show that SHOULD have been better. Quite the disappointment.

@unit, thanks for the recap !
Oh show, what happened !?! 😣
BG Mountain spirit retires to the seaside 🤔
His student stops by, mentions her college test results ? Oh, she’s going to college, so BG isn’t the deranged Mountain Spirit teacher anymore and will get up with his former student , ‘cause it happened in Joseon. 🤢
Vice Principle stays on as a pervert .
Show ends with a weak attempt at PPL for dog biscuits ?
A contender for dumpster fire of the year , just 2 weeks into the new year.
I feel for the original author .

Now may be a good time to go back and watch the notorious 'Meow the Secret Boy'. It got so much abuse when it first came out but it does hold up as an unassuming little parable for pet ownership. Bite size half hour episodes. And its got pre-The Glory Shin Ye-eun.

I'm only up to episode 10...should I just give up? The drama is not good and there's too many hiatus that I've lost interest...

Yay. It’s done, and that’s all I have to say about that.

I love love loved the first half of this show but completely lost interest after. Glad it’s done

Cha Eunwoo's acting is so good. He proves again why he is king of romance. His loving gaze is unbeatable & his chemistry with Park Gyuyoung is over the roof that makes me giddy, squealing watching them.
After Wonderful World, I hope he will do romance again. I dont are if it romcom or melodrama, I need his romance.
He emotes well, no exaggerating face at all. His subtle & nuance acting is the best at.

I loved this drama at the beginning. I would still recommend. Just watch episodes 1-8 and the finale. It is really too bad they went for the mountain God nonsense instead of maybe more cute content of secondary couples, as well as potentially conflict from uncle almost dying, or even something where the curse was broken when one put their life for the other to "prove their love" as the original curse said. Bo Gyrom finding out the real story and then helping them out, so many better avenues to extend to the 14 episode count. Sorry to see how much of a fail the last few episodes were.

I think they must have paid some shadow puppet masters a lot of money so to get their money’s worth they showed us the play and then showed us him watching the play. I didn’t need a play of a recap of a show which kept recapping itself. My memory may be weak and my attention span poor but I don’t actually need to see the whole show in repeat flashbacks multiple times to remember why I got tired of watching this. A tighter show with more respect for the audience would have made it 10 episodes long. Sigh.

How lame that the fox was unable to break his own curse and the poor uncle was stuck like that for over a year. It was unnecessary. His storyline which was not in the webtoon was only necessary in the beginning to bring tension and pathos but did nothing in the end except filler.

So everyone in this room pretty well agrees this drama is a 'fail'? I agree about the meandering last three episodes, but I quite enjoyed the story concept and even liked the leads. More important, I'm glad I watched all the way to the boring repetitious last episode because it was Cha Eun Woo's best. Likely because his character was exonerated from his actions in that deadly previous life, and also he was finally over his fear of dogs. Which meant at the end he didn't have to play so 'serious' anymore. The writer or director finally allowed him to smile in that last scene with Hae Na. You could tell on his face that he was relaxed and at his best having some lighter dialogue, even flirt- teasing with her, and that great kiss scene wasn't as tentative as their early ones, although must say he was in the driver's seat for all those earlier kisses though. As for the plot...aaargh...I had such hopes when the Joseon period arrived. I love the fusion of modern mixed with historical to set up the character's wounds in their future lives'. But the problem for me was that the main leads fell for each other so quickly when they met. No small steps to show why they liked each other so much, which distanced me a bit from caring about their relationship. Yet it was a whole other story for me when it was our Mountain God bonding with the young widow who lost her baby. Their story had all the elements necessary for me to forgive him for being such a jerk-spirit in the present. I grew to care for them more and more as she tied his hair in side braids when he lay his head in her lap. Also their conversation about her dead baby and how he got her through the numness of her grief. And best of all, how she taught him 'to play' with each other. I quite empathized with the dark, brooding loneliness of Bo Gyeom that was exposed in the past because of the bright cheerful armour he wore as the school's favourite teacher in the present. He was definitely the double-edged sword of this drama's plot. Lee Hyun-woo delivered an awesome best performance...especially the brittle & bitter anger he felt towards the leads...all because of a misunderstanding. Very sad. Especially since that skewed perception about how his love was taken from him, made his heart so twisted that he missed the opportunity to renew their relationship when they met again. It was THAT bit of plotting out of this whole story that stuck with me. I'll likely remember it longer than the early part of this drama. So I can't join everyone in dismissing this show. There were parts I liked and parts I clenched through...so again, like our Mountain God, this double-edged drama was confusing and quite a bit unsatisfying for me in the end.