Crushology 101- Episodes 5-6

BBQ Disasters, Emotional Whiplash, and a Surprise Kiss?! 😳🔥

Raise your hand if you're emotionally exhausted and obsessed. 🙋‍♀️ Because episodes 5 and 6 of Crushology 101 just delivered a rollercoaster of feelings, BBQ smoke, love triangles turning into squares, and one well-timed rain scene. Let’s break it down!

Episode 5: Cold Weather, Warm Feelings (and Smoke Alarms)

We pick back up from Jae-yeol’s drunken confession, and Bunny’s in full mental spiral mode: does she like him now? Should she? Is this a plot twist or a fever dream? (Answer: both.) She tries to keep things neutral, but fate + group study = classic K-drama setup. A blackout leads her to a late-night library hang with Jae-yeol, Do-ha, Ji-won, Kkot-nim, and Bo-bae. Enter chaos.

Because clearly, nothing says “bonding” like trying to BBQ indoors during a blackout. The smoke alarm goes off, everyone scatters to fix it, but our self-sacrificing Bunny stays behind to save the equipment... and ends up drenched and freezing. Naturally, she catches a cold. Jae-yeol goes into panic mode and buys her a mini-pharmacy’s worth of meds, which — admit it — was kind of adorable.

Meanwhile, Do-ha’s busy nursing his own heartbreak. He thinks Bo-bae isn’t into him... but wait! She gives him a theater ticket the next day, and suddenly the lights are back on in his love life. 🕺🎭

Episode 6: Jealous Exes, Job Shenanigans & The Kiss

Tensions rise fast when Jae-yeol catches his mom canoodling with a professor — cue dramatic mother-son blowout. He runs into Bunny mid-breakdown, and their small talk offers a quiet pause in the middle of all the mess. But that peace doesn’t last.

Plot twist incoming: enter Han Yeo-reum, Jae-yeol’s ex. She’s gorgeous, she’s bold, and she wants him back. Yikes. Meanwhile, Bunny’s academic life tanks, her grades drop, and midterms don’t go well. Ji-won, ever the human golden retriever, takes her for a drive to cheer her up. 🥺❤️

Bunny’s torn — she’s starting to kind of like Jae-yeol, but Yeo-reum’s sudden reappearance gives her pause. She questions whether Jae-yeol’s feelings are real or just leftover heartbreak dust. He insists it’s her he wants, not the past.

And then comes the moment: after working a part-time job together (yes, they end up as extras on a film set because drama logic is beautiful), Bunny impresses the staff by fixing ruined artwork in the rain. Jae-yeol is smitten. She’s talented and cute in a soaked hoodie? He’s done for.

The episode ends with Han Yeo-reum trying to corner Jae-yeol for a heart-to-heart — but he shuts her down with a firm rejection... and then plants a kiss right on Bunny. IN PUBLIC. IN FRONT OF YEO-REUM. Bunny = SHOOK. Us = SCREAMING. 😱💋

DramaZen's Opinion

Episodes 5 and 6 bring the heat (literally — that BBQ incident!), but they also show us the messier side of growing feelings. Ji-won’s finally stepping up, Jae-yeol’s trying to prove he’s changed, and Bunny? She’s caught in a whirlwind of emotions, expectations, and love confessions. Again.

There's commentary here too: the show hints that love-bombing and constant rescuing can feel more suffocating than supportive. Bunny deserves space to shine — not to just be someone’s love interest of the week.

But let’s be real — we’re all tuning in for the drama, the tension, and every slow-mo stare these boys throw at Bunny. Bring on episode 7, because this crush course... I'm failing spectacularly and loving every second of it. 💘