A few thoughts on today’s ep of When the Camellia Blooms below:

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    1. We’ve gone from a romance/neighborhood/slice-of-life story bookended by murder mystery scenes, to sprinkled with murder mystery scenes, to knowing who will die, to having a countdown clock. Yikes, I’m a little afraid what the first scenes next week will be.

    2. Hyang-mi ended up dying for DB, because Joker expected DB to make the delivery and called back when she didn’t. I’m pretty sure Hyang-mi recognized him, because I am more sure than ever that it’s Heung-shik’s mysterious father, the other person who was in the apartment.

    3. Hyang-mi’s backstory was really sad. All this time I thought she was being blackmailed, and it was just her privileged scumbag of a brother sucking money from her, while she had nowhere to live and was committing crimes to support him in comparative luxury.

    4. I hope DB recognized that hoarse cough. Why didn’t she call YS?

    5. I actually liked the way Gyu-tae told off Hyang-mi and pointed out the differences between her and DB. She was so much like an unloved stray dog.

    6. I also liked the way Hyang-mi told off Jessica. They were really so much alike, but with different outcomes.

    7. Was the whole point of YS’s mom’s rant a plot tool to separate them, so DB would be alone tonight?

    8. I was laughing so hard I was pounding the table when Mom grabbed Jessica’s mother and dragged her out of the bar, then excused herself, “I have dementia.” Ha, ha, ha!!! It’s good that the writer can make us laugh about something in the middle of a murder countdown.

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    Two people were at the scene of the last murder. One set off the sprinklers. What if HS is a firebug? Hence the lighters and the sprinkler, the fire in the Little League office. The other is Joker. He has a hoarse voice. He stood in the doorway of Camellia muttering at the end of a recent episode, and DB greeted him. Isn’t it very strange that HS would lock his father in the store and say it’s better that way? And that HM would hear another person at his spooky house? Either his father is Joker, or the father is alive only in HS’s mind and has something to do with him being Joker.

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    Oh, yes, she was. Because she went home with the guy who’s feeding/poisoning the cats, and the guy who’s feeding/poisoning the cats is HS. HS who has lighter burns on his furniture, who burned the underside of the table at Camellia while YS was painting the wall.

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    So where do you think the clues lead? Or do you really think the writer is just tossing lots of red herrings, and will pull a giant surprise at the end?

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