Happiness Episode 5

[iaria]

+ I really do love Sae-bom. She's so great.

"They want to open the door!"
Then you should stop them, not run away."

That's just her in a nutshell but also I love her take on things. If you see someone doing something dangerous/wrong then you should try and stop them instead of simply being a spectator. That said in a zombie reality running away when things look to be going south isn't a bad instinct to have.

Also I love that despite what she said the first thing she did was to open the door and tell them to go out if they wanted. I liked her understanding of people here - give them what they say they want, dare them to take it. She knew they wouldn't.

+ I like how Sae-bom and Yi-hyun work together as a team and the way they support each other. It was small but I liked that they clocked the shoe at the same time.

+ Sae-bom gave Yi-hyun shit about planning to go outside with the group and then trying to convince him not to go except we saw her bringing out her own uniform already so...

+ Sae-bom comforting Yi-hyun at the end was sweet.

+ I also like how Yi-hyun tries to protect Sae-bom, and while she may sigh and make snarky comments, she lets him. Let him have the bat and go first, took the catcher's cage and wore it.

+ Joo-hyung is a terrible person but his plan to get rid of the two people focused on arresting him was actually pretty clever. Him playing his wife's zombie shrieks to lure more of them was a nice evil touch but also one that really tipped his hand. He could have played the rest of it off innocently but that was over the line.

+ "I feel like if I cross the line once, then the line might move by itself." That seems like a pretty solid line of thinking to me tbh.

+ Yi-hyun rubbing the blood all over Joo-hyung's face was rather satisfying but it's one of those things where you really need to measure immediate personal satisfaction and righteous vengeance against potential future problems and in this case creating a zombie in the apartment building would be terrible.

+ "No, I don't go to dangerous places because they are dangerous." LOL. But also too right! Please be keeping that mindset. Jung-kook is a sweetie but I am very worried about his survival chances. He seems exactly like somoene who is going to die. Possibly by doing something dangerous to save Yi-hyun. Him not being able to turn off the phone made me shake my head, panic induced helplessness is not a good survival aspect!

+ Speaking of lack of survival instincts - Bo-ram hiding behind the register and then sticking her headphones in and hiding her face is a terrible idea! How can she hear her potential death coming? Though her putting them back in as Joo-hyung played the zombie sounds was a little background detail I liked.

+ I do like this version of zombies. The fact that they can come back to themselves is interesting and I hope they do something really interesting with it.

+ It hasn't been addressed yet but there have to be people who go zombie and then upon realising what has happened react by seeking help or killing themselves and not just trying to protect themselves, or hiding in denial. I hope we do get some of that.

+ I really liked how Na Hyun-kyung has been so dismissive of her brother and was disdainful about what he had to say about the zombies but as soon as Hae-seong turned his own disdain and disbelief on Soo-min she was jumping to his defence and ready to throw hands.

+ I was annoyed by Soo-min's unacceptable attempt to force him and his children into his sister's apartment however he's not as bad as I initially thought.

+ Oh Sang-hee. She is making so many bad choices and I really hope that in the next episode she has the sense to have gotten herself out of that apartment. Although I'd get it if she is still there if only because she is trapped in an apartment building with him with no known timeline on getting out and she now knows just how far he'll go to protect himself, and she is the biggest threat against him.

+ Since Sae-bom is seemingly immune I am really surprised that she was allowed to stay in the apartment and wasn't taken to be confined in a lab. Especially considering how bad things are getting. I'm half expecting that in a future episode we are going to get a bunch of soldiers rushing in specifically to either save her or get her out.

+ I get the reasons why (budgetary, not wanting too many characters) but the lack of the upper floor residents is rather strange.

+ Tae-seok's decisions in how to deal with this outbreak seem to be very influenced by his wife's infection. Ji-soo seemed surprised by the non-violent track he's taking. Hopefully this doesn't come around to bite everyone.