"Watashi no Otto wa Reitouko ni Nemutte Iru" drama: Episode two recap

 

 Air Dates: April 10th until May 15, 2021 Friday nights at midnight on TV-Tokyo

Title translates over to My Husband is sleeping in the Freezer.... Subs by Mikilove13

Main Cast: Have just viewed the first two episodes but there shouldn't be many changes that need to be done as it's such a short series.

Yuika Motokariya as Nana Kisaragi.... Nana is mainly a stay at home worker for an online shop selling imported furniture and other items. But her quiet life is suddenly thrown into turmoil as one night she couldn't take the abusive ways of her future husband Ryo and killed him! But things become much more eerie as he somehow has come back to life though his dead body was still stored in a freezer.

Jin Shirasu as Ryo Sato.... Nana's ex-boyfriend and say ex for she killed him in the beginning of the first show! But he somehow came back to life the following day yet his dead body is still in the freezer Nana stored him in, how is that possible????

Yuki Saito as Kujaku.... Middle aged woman who is a mystery writer and lives across the street from Nana. She's also a very prying person who isn't married and claims to have never had a steady boyfriend though in the first show we did see a man come out of her house. 

Miyoko Asada as Konome.... Nana's mother who is a psychiatrist and can't stand Ryo.

Sho Aoyagi as Kosuke Karasawa.... Local real estate agent who we met briefly in the second episode and he seems a bit suspicious to me.

Hajime Okayama as Makoto Akutsu.... Private investigator hired by Nana's mother who we only saw for about twenty seconds in the second show.

 No intro like I usually have as we'll get right to the action. If you read that first recap you know that Nana had strangled her future husband Ryo to death, he was such an abusive man so you could say he deserved it. But somehow he's come back to life even though his dead body is still stored in a freezer in Nana's backyard shed. Nana seems to know so much about horror movies from viewing these first three episodes, to her the only way to kill a potential Zombie is to kill it again?! So what she proceeded to do was to chop off some of the dead Ryo's body parts and skin, Nana then proceeded to cook those parts up in kind of a humorous scene.

 Above was the result of Nana's cooking as she had prepared Ryo a bento(lunch). In Nana's mind if a Zombie or whatever kind of creature eats themselves then they'll end up dying again, to me it made little sense but she firmly believed it. Inside that pouch was a.... Ryo-Burger as Nana had made a lunch from the arm and whatever else she chopped off, wonder what happened to the rest of the burgers? However her efforts went to waste as when it came lunchtime Ryo smelled a rat(himself?) and just threw the lunch away. Where he had gone was to a job interview, seems Ryo's quit his part time cleaning job and has made a vow to Nana to begin carrying his weight. Then again Nana doesn't know what to think as she's still in total bafflement on how Ryo has come back to life.

 We didn't learn much about the two men above as we just saw them for a few seconds in this show but do get to meet them a bit more in the next episode. At the top is Hajime who is a private investigator and appeared to be tailing Ryo when he went on his job interview. Hajime was following him and why will be explained in the next post. Second man down is Karasawa who is a local real estate agent. He popped in at Nana's house while she was having tea with her neighbor Kujaku and gave the two women the impression he was interested in purchasing their homes. They wanted nothing to do with the man who we'll also see more of in the next episode, to me he's kind of a suspicious sleezeball.

 Later that day Ryo returned home saying that bento Nana cooked up was delicious though we know he just dumped it in the trash. That kind of put a kink into Nana's theory, isn't a creature/Zombie supposed to die when they eat themselves? She thought perhaps she hadn't prepared enough so for dinner that night were the other burgers I was wondering about though Nana had made them into 'beef patties'. Once again Ryo was a bit leery about eating a dish Nana created, could be somehow smell that the 'meat' was from a dead person or to be more specific, himself? But the old adage saved by the bell came into play as just when Ryo may have taken a bite the doorbell rang!

 Of all people to be at Nana's door was her mother Konome who had never met Ryo and was curious about what was going on in the household. Konome isn't all that close with her daughter but deep down does care for her, she can't understand why Nana could invite a man to live with her and be engaged in just a six month period. But Ryo assured Konome that Nana means more to him than anything in the world and is doing some serious job hunting, she shouldn't worry about a thing. Famous last words as Nana was behind Ryo listening to everything, she's still petrified of the... man? creature? or Zombie and as you can see still sleeps on the couch away from Ryo. After Konome left the home she ran into the neighbor Kujaku and seems like these two knew each other in the past but may not care for each other. Kujaku is such a prying woman and told Konome not to worry about a thing as she'll be keeping an eye on Nana, she too feels something mysterious is going on.

 That brings us to the end but almost left out one key detail. When that real estate agent showed up Nana had been telling Kujaku about how she met Ryo. It's now March and back on September 8th Nana had bumped into Ryo at a bakery where he was buying a birthday cake, he was celebrating his 28th but all by himself. Nana said it was also her birthday and from that moment the pair began dating, within a few weeks Ryo had moved himself in. Once he was Nana's dream guy but had turned into an abusive monster. That wraps up this recap and the one for the third episode is the next post. Very interesting ending as we learn that September 8th actually wasn't Ryo's birthday.