allkpop TV Guide: 'Oohlala Couple' (Episode 2)

Official Synopsis:

How much can a wife endure when her good-for-nothing husband is a womanizer who embarrasses her at every turn?�Na Yeo Ok is fed up with the infidelity of her hotelier husband,�Go Soo Nam, during their 12-year marriage and demands a divorce. However, a major accident causes the unimaginable to happen � their souls are switched into each other's bodies. As the couple bumbles around in each other's identities, will Yeo Ok and Soo Nam develop a deeper understanding of each other?

Ratings:

KBS2TV's�'Oohlala Couple' (starring�Kim Jung Eun and�Shin Hyun Joon) brought in 14.5% of viewer ratings for its second episode.�Meanwhile, SBS' 'Faith' (starring�Lee Min Ho and�Kim Hee Sun) rose from 9.3% to 9.5% for its sixteenth episode.�MBC's 'The Horse Healer' (starring�Cho Seung Woo and�Lee Yo Won) rose from 8.7% viewership to 9.7% for its second episode.

Recap of Ep. 2:

Another rather intense episode, considering how this is�supposed to be a comedy...



Episode two backtracks a little - we see Yeo Ok having the�hidden cameras installed at the apartment when she's�interrupted by a call from her son�Gi Chan's school - he hasn't been to�class for several days. She hurries over to the PC bang and�spanks him in front of the other patrons. She takes him home�and stares at him while he studies English. Il Ran comes in�the room to say that Soo Nam will be staying late at work- we�all know what that means. Gi Chan keeps yelling at Yeo Ok to�leave, and she finally snaps and starts hitting him. He�starts crying and Il Ran separates the two, taking him out of�the room.

We catch up to the point where Soo Nam sees the video of�himself and Victoria in bed. He ejects the disc, breaks it,�and throws it down, calling Yeo Ok stupid and insinuating that�she's all talk. She asks why he's so mean to her and nice to�Victoria, going on to say that men never mature or become�adults - they just fool around, lie, and treat life like a�game. She demands a divorce immediately - if he doesn't give�it to her, she's showing the video to his boss and his mom.

He laughs at her until she reveals that she's actually already�sent a video to his boss - now it's her turn to laugh. He�beats feet out of there to intercept the package, while she�simultaneously laughs and cries. Soo Nam makes it to the�hotel just in time to get the package, which Victoria was�unknowingly�delivering. She's suspicious, but he tries to�pass it off like it's nothing.

In Baek Ho's office, Baek Ho, Ae Sook, Soo Nam, and Yeo Ok�have a meeting. Ae Sook demands to know why the men cheated,�and Baek Ho insists that's just how men are. He�unsuccessfully tries to blame the wives, and then tries to�shift the attention to Soo Nam. Yeo Ok explains that she can�never get the image of Soo Nam cheating out of her mind, and�she can't go on living with him after seeing that. Baek Ho�cuts in to suggest she wait until Soo Nam gets his promotion,�but she refuses- she'll keep his secret until he gets his job,�but they're getting a divorce now. Cut to divorce court- the�marriage is over.

The two walk out in somber silence, watching a line of�husbands and wives screaming, fighting, crying, and begging�with each other outside the courtroom. Outside, Moo San appears next to a security guard (the same guy from the�street food tent in episode one), whining that if Yeo Ok and�Soo Nam knew what they'd been like in their previous lives,�they wouldn't be acting like this.

The man tells Moo San that the�whole thing was her fault- she should have just left him alone�and not let him fall in love with another woman. Moo San says�that "she's not just any woman! She was his wife in his past�life. She was sent far away to Sweden as soon as she was�born, but fate is very scary. You can't do anything either,�Elder Wolhwa!" So Victoria was a wife in one of Soo Nam's�past lives, too? Wolhwa says that he himself is also at fault�for believing in people.

Soo Nam calls Yeo Ok a fool for not requesting alimony, which�is when she reveals that she put the apartment and all of�their savings under her name. Thanks to a little trick from�Wolhwa, Soo Nam loses his balance and trips down a long�flight of steps. Yeo Ok calls after him, running towards him to find that he is unconscious and bleeding. Moo San is excited- Yeo�Ok wouldn't react like this if she didn't still love Soo Nam,�right? Yeo Ok yells at Wolhwa to call for help.�We flash back to a much younger Soo Nam and Yeo Ok at a�jewelry store. Yeo Ok buys a ring for her mother, while Soo�Nam buys an engagement ring- Moo San is his salesperson. They�both have their purchases wrapped, accidentally switching�boxes. Soo Nam notices the switch as a storm kicks up�outside, and he runs after Yeo Ok. Lightning strikes as he runs,�decimating the store. He doesn't get his ring back.

We then cut to him having dinner with another girl, In Young�(Eugene). He explains that the ring saved his life, telling�her how he ran after the ring he'd actually purchased, which�was intended as an engagement ring. She takes this moment to tell him�that she's on her way to volunteer in Africa and not looking�to get married. Soo Nam is devastated,�drowning�his�feelings in a bottle of wine while In Young continues eating.

Yeo Ok and Soo Nam both wind up on the same ferry to Jeju�Island. Wolhwa approaches Soo Nam, dressed as a normal guy,�introducing himself as "the Elder who brings husbands and�wives together". Yeo Ok eavesdrops. Soo Nam asks him to�ensure that he and In Young end up together- Wolhwa answers he�only brings together those who are a match that heaven has�been working on for hundreds of years. People die alone�because they haven't built up enough favor with him. He tells�Soo Nam to let In Young go- his real match is close by, and�they'll meet soon. Later that day, Yeo Ok rescues Nam Soo�from drowning at the beach.

In the present, the ambulance takes Soo Nam and Yeo Ok away.�Moo San reiterates that she hasn't done anything and that Yeo�Ok deserves better than Soo Nam, telling Wolhwa that he should�break Soo Nam's legs- Wolhwa says that punishment isn't big�enough. He suddenly appears in the middle of the road in�front of the ambulance, causing the driver to turn away and�crash into a tree, knocking Soo Nam and Yeo Ok both�unconscious.



At the hospital, Yeo Ok wakes up in severe pain, calling for�Soo Nam. A nurse realizes she's calling for the person she�arrived with, and sends her off to the ICU. She freaks out at�the�sight�of her own body lying on the cot, which gets her�sent back to her original room by the hospital staff. Her�mother-in-law and Il Ran show up and ask what's going on,�hitting her (remember, they think they're talking to Soo Nam)�for landing Yeo Ok in the ICU. Later, they overhear Yeo Ok�talking to her own body- where she assumes Soo Nam must be-�about the affair. Because of the switch, they think it's Yeo Ok who had the affair.

Soo Nam's mother forces Yeo Ok to go�home, saying she has to work tomorrow, which brings on a whole�new level of panic for Yeo Ok.�Soo Nam's mom is there when Soo Nam (in Yeo Ok's body) wakes�up. He demands to know where "that woman" is and if she's�okay, when he notices his long hair and new figure- he checks�himself in the mirror and faints. He wakes up in the middle�of the night and storms down to the lobby. Yeo Ok approaches�from behind and touches his shoulder, which sends him�skittering across the floor. He gets up, examines Yeo Ok, and�screams, "MY BODY!"



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contagion's Thoughts:

[ Note : This post reflects the opinions of the author, not necessarily those of allkpop ]

Now that we've reached the body-swap part of the show, I think�we can expect the next episode to be a lot funnier than this�one.�I really appreciate the writers' decision to set the rules of�this show early on. We understand why fate is trying so hard�to keep these two together, even if we don't quite understand�how everything went wrong. I'm very interested to see how�they turn things around, because I'm pretty sure nobody wants�to see the main couple stay together right now. I mean, they�have gone to great lengths to make Soo Nam into a terrible�person, so they must have a heck of a plan to redeem him.

I mentioned it in my last review, but I love how Soo Nam's�family seems to genuinely like Yeo Ok and think that Soo Nam's�an idiot for being mean to her, even while they take advantage�of her. This is such a true-to-life family dynamic that we�hardly ever see in the media, and I'm impressed. I feel�really bad for poor Gi Chan, who's stuck in the middle of all�of this.

I don't have too much else to say yet (other than to compliment the actors on their excellent performances), since these episodes�have been mostly set-up. Can't wait for episode three!