Crash Course in Romance season 1 episode 12 recap & review: Point of Intersection between Comedy and Tragedy

Open Go TV / February 24, 2023 / Reviews

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In Crash Course in Romance season 1 episode 12, Hui-Jae’s arrest makes his family concerned; Haeng-Seon and Chi-Yeol have their first fight.

Recap

Hui-Jae is arrested and Haeng-Seon keeps a grieving and wallowing Sun-Jae company at the police station. Ms. Jang eventually arrives there and asks Sun-Jae to go home and study for his exams.

Meanwhile, Su-Hui spreads the information of what just transpired with Sun-Jae’s family and the truth about his older brother to the rest of the program moms.

When Hae-e feels worried about Sun-Jae, Geon-Hu cheers her up by taking her ice skating. However, her worries don’t end there. Later, she meets Sun-Jae, who instantly embraces her, as she consoles him.

Dong-Hui turns out to be Jeong Seong-Hyeon, Su-Hyeon’s brother. However, Chi-Yeol is still oblivious to his true identity. Meanwhile, Dong-Hui works hard to keep Chi-Yeol busy so that he doesn’t spend time with Haeng-Seon anymore.

He even deletes her message from Chi-Yeol’s phone when he’s not looking. However, the fresh couple ends up patching up regardless, and later the star teacher takes his girlfriend to the ocean on his yacht.

Dong-Hui initially puts up a front, making Haeng-Seon doubt her previous hunches about him, but later injures her by making an intentional abrupt and hard turn. Later he apologizes and Haeng-Seon again becomes highly suspicious of him.

Later, Chi-Yeol takes her to his home and asks her to spend the night. The two get intimate and sleep together. She returns home the next day to a giddy, lovesick fervor.

Meanwhile, Ms. Jang strikes a deal with the director of Sun-Jae’s school, which entails the latter leaking the exam questions to her. She hands the sheet to Sun-Jae, which he later ends up sharing with Hae-e.

During the exams, the two soon catch on to what has transpired and feel really guilty. Meanwhile, Su-a continues to do badly on her tests due to her increasingly debilitating vision.

Ms. Jang continues to defend Hui-Jae, and later at the warrant review, tells him not to do anything out of the ordinary and let her take the reins. However, Hui-Jae finally decides to take responsibility and confesses that he bore witness to the murder of Jin Yi-Sang.

Crash Course in Romance episode 12 ends with a delivery man dropping a heavy parcel full of metal balls at the doorstep of Dong-Hui, aka Jeong Seong-Hyeon. Before the credits roll, he’s shown to park the car nearby the Banchan shop and aim his metal ball slingshot at Haeng-Seon.

Review

Crash Course in Romance gears up for the last leg as long-awaited revelations are finally made. Dong-Hui is Su-Hyeon’s brother who saw Chi-Yeol at his sister’s wake.
A lot of things about Chi-Yeol’s lifestyle and the events that transpired around him and to people around him make sense now. It’s clear from the number of photographs and clippings Seong-Hyeon has at his house, that he’s obsessed with the star math teacher.
However, is this obsession destructive to Chi-Yeol or only those who either pose a threat to him or can take the teacher away from him? Why does he mention Chi-Yeol having not remembered the girl who committed suicide, aka Su-Hyeon, his sister?
Is it because he wants Chi-Yeol to keep remembering her, as a form of torment he wants him to keep feeling? And does this desire for Chi-Yeol to keep being tormented a result of his hatred for the teacher or love for him?
These are some of the pressing questions that Crash Course in Romance episode 12 poses, along with the ones pertaining to Hae-e and Sun-Jae, who have inadvertently fallen victim to Ms. Jang’s obsession with her son’s academia.