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tenillypo and I enjoyed the first nine episodes of the kdrama Strong Girl Do Bong Soon, and then spent the subsequent seven watching in increasingly bewildered horror.

The initial plot: Our Heroine, Do Bong-Soon has hereditary mystical super-strength passed down from mother to daughter, which will disappear if she abuses it to hurt an innocent person! Our Hero, a video-game CEO who's been receiving mysterious death threats, sees her beat up an entire collection of gangsters and immediately a.) falls madly in love b.) hires her as his new bodyguard. Also there's a love triangle involving Our Heroine's childhood friend, a handsome cop who could probably be out-thought by a box of rocks; also Do Bong-soon's neighborhood is being threatened by gangster-run redevelopment; also there's a serial killer on the loose!

The first nine episodes are nonsensical but mostly entertaining hijinks! We enjoyed:

- Bong-soon casually sending gangsters flying every episode
- Bong-soon accidentally recruiting an entire gang of delinquents who follow her around adoringly
- Our Hero's refreshing openness about the fact that he just wants his superpowered bodyguard to completely wreck him
- the handsome cop going undercover as a beautiful woman for reasons that are wildly unclear, but enjoyable!
- a visit from Bong-soon's superpowered grandma
- Bong-soon's stressed-out doctor brother, who just CANNOT KEEP UP with all the destroyed patients his sister keeps sending his way

We had conflicted feelings about:
- the subplot in which Bong-soon mistakenly believes Our Hero is gay and planning to steal the handsome cop away from her; we liked the subsequent strong threesome vibes but did not like the related casual homophobia

We did not enjoy:
- frequent cutaways to the serial killer's dungeon basement of despair
- frequent cutaways to the world's most frustratingly incompetent cops failing to do anything useful to catch the serial killer, ever

Then we hit the midway point. ( The rest is cut for spoilers and confused anger )