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Maybe because of my anticipation of Season 2, the sheer length of the premiere episode or because I really didn't like the violinist's mom, but Ep 2 took a while to sink in for me. Literally 3 watches :) But yes, it is signature Hospital Playlist. I love the themes in every episode, the friendship and interaction between the characters and how it feels so real to see life and death ticking in a hospital through the stories of each character. I love how the characters aren't pinning their lives away for romance to happen. They have real jobs and man, do they put in all their best for those jobs. I would love my doctors and nurses to be like that if I was ill and being treated at a hospital! And, despite how I disliked the violinist's mom, she was doing what every mom would do - worrying about and protecting her child. It was the same for the other moms in the story this week - the one who lost her baby at 23 weeks (sob), the young patient's mom and even the wife of Ik Jun's alcoholic patient. Which mom wouldn't get mad when 2 of her daughters risked their lives to save her husband, only for him to return to the bottle? I love that it is the first time we see Ik Jun get mad at his patient. Makes him human and more likeable.

I want Ik Jun to be cupid for our Bear-Bear couple in OB&G, but I also want a cupid for Ik Jun. Maybe Uju will be his dad's cupid - after all, he is asking for a camping trip in the preview for Ep 3, and who is a better camping expert than Chae Songhwa?

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Thanks for the review!

To me, this episode was somehow even better than the first one.

The song the band rehearsed, Autumn Outside the Post Office, has made its way to my personal playlist. Btw, it is in D and has the same succession of chords as Pachelbel's Canon (Seok-hyung's theme song), which is a bit more prominent in the BTS cover. Kim Dae-myung's version just made my heart squeeze in the right way.

Also, I stopped the vid several times because I'm just a hopeless fan of the angles the cameramen use. :) I had to make a ton of screenshots. It's an art how they make small windows in doors work as picture frames. Art!

A round of applause for the cast too. This time, I could feel the surgeons' physical exhaustion after spending hours in the OR, the frustration, and the toil. When you watch medical dramas, you sometimes get used to doctors being heroic and always saving lives... guess what, it doesn't happen ALL the time. The highlight of the episode for me was Ik-jun and Seok-hyong's talk in the garden under the rays of setting sun. They are very different in character, temperament and experience. But they were filmed in such a way that we could clearly see that they are doing the same job, have the same ideals and struggles.

Song-hwa is a beauty. I agree with you, dear author, that at this point of her life, she doesn't need a man to be complete or fulfilled. She's basking in being able to do her job well, in serving people. But, despite what some fans may and do say, she and Ik-jun are probably the end game. The very amount of the scenes they share together since Season 1, and the contents of those... You have to be blind not to see how special he is to her, despite all the differences. He makes her laugh. He makes her look and behave like a real person in general, because of all the Lacking Five, her character is the least transparent. Yes, she's smart, talented, wise, gracious, all-around perfect. We are even shown some of her flaws, like eating like a vacuum cleaner or being tone-deaf - but those are cute flaws. The real Song-hwa is hidden. But it feels like Ik-jun knows the real Song-hwa. That's why I'm interested in seeing this relationship develop.

I also loved the cafeteria scene. We usually see this kind of childish behaviour and banter inside the 99z group, behind closed doors. This time, Dr Jang was a participant in the skit. I wonder if she would ever trust Jun Wan with relaying anything to Ik-jun again. I'd like to see more interactions between Thanos and Winter.

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