‘Vincenzo’ Episode 3: Reactions, Review & Recap

We’ve officially gone past first gear in the show after Vincenzo episode 3 climaxes in a massively explosive way. The woman behind it? Ms. Choi. In this episode, we finally see where Ms. Choi’s true allegiance truly lies.

While we didn’t get many moments with our favorite tenants from Geumga Plaza, it’s about time the show really upped the stakes and let us know how devious our enemy, the Babel Group of Companies, truly is.

Now that you’ve been caught up, it’s now time to scroll down for our real-time reactions and review of Vincenzo Episode 3. You can discuss everything you want about this episode in the comments below!

And if you missed our recap and reviews of previous Vincenzo episodes, you can always go back to them HERE.

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Vincenzo Episode 3 Reactions

1. “You’re trying to make this sound romantic even though we both know it isn’t.” – ha, Cha-Young is saying exactly what I was thinking!

2. How many of y’all’s panties dropped when Song Joong-Ki whispered “relax” in the girl’s ear… seductively?

3. Hong Cha-Young’s philosophy of “if you have the money to solve it, why don’t you” is straight out of 7 Rings by Ariana Grande.

Vincenzo interacts with tenants; Chef Toto hires a spy

4. MORE. Give me MORE Ms. Choi Zumba dancing scenes!

5. Here we go: Chef Toto’s third taste test for Vincenzo. Will he pass? Will he fail? Aaaannnd, he doesn’t. Better luck next time, Toto.

6. Wait, who was that guy who bumped into Vincenzo? Did I completely miss him, or is he a spy from Babel? Either way, he knows how to worm his way into Chef Toto’s heart. I mean aww, look at how happy Toto is!

7. That monk is unbothered by Vincenzo, and honestly he is the level of zen that I long to be.

8. I would actually watch a show with Chef Toto’s new assistant trying to figure out who Vincenzo is. His inner thoughts are pretty entertaining.

9. So now we learn that Jang Joon-Woo (aka Cha-Young’s intern) came from New York. And apparently, New Yorkers can’t be nosy people?

What is Babel up to?

10. The whistleblower just revealed that Babel Pharmaceuticals did a critical trial for narcotic (read: addictive) painkillers causing deaths of many patients. He is so dying before this episode ends.

11. This woman is the sexual harassment survivor (of the Babel chairman) from the first episode, right? The plot thickens… and damn, I need a better memory.

Ms. Choi vs. Cha-Young

12. So what do you all think of Ms. Choi? Is she a good guy for following her principles in the previous episode, or a bad guy for joining Wusang Law Firm who is representing the Babel Group? Or is she somewhere in the middle?

13. Oh shit, she did not just impersonate Ms. Choi’s dancing laundromat moves. There can only be one Dancing Laundromat Girl in this show and Cha-Young, it is not you.

14. I thought she was gonna get mad at Cha-Young, but glad to know she has a sense of humor.

15. Note to self: the building is called Geumga Plaza. For such an important element in the story, they sure do not say it that much.

16. Nevermind, Ms. Choi is definitely a villain. And I am here for the brewing feud between her and Hong Cha-Young. *sips tea*

Ms. Choi’s true nature revealed

17. Laughing at this Vincenzo and Cha-Young scene. This girl has the best dynamic with the other characters in this show by a mile. Translate!

18. Could it be that Oh Gyeong-ha (the patient in the hospital) is actually Vincenzo’s mother? I’m struggling to thi— nevermind, there’s my answer. At least they didn’t drag this “mystery” for too long.

19. Here’s our backstory! I think this is the first time we really got to see Vincenzo in a vulnerable state. This was five years ago, so he might have forced himself not to care about other people afterwards.

Babel kills their employees

20. YES! We finally get another explosion after the first episode. I mean it did kill 14 of Babel Pharmaceuticals employees, so I’m not extremely happy about it. But… EXPLODING THINGY!!!

21. I find Jang Joon-Woo, his English vocabulary, and his naivety endearing.

22. Okay, I admit Hong Yu-Chan’s ethical behavior is strangely cool now that I’ve warmed up to it.

23. They found the whistleblower! It was nice knowing ya. Now he wants to testify in court? Dude, do you not watch any TV? There is no way you’re not dying.

Vincenzo’s plan for the tenants

24. How much is the gold in the basement actually worth? Vincenzo has now thrown a 10-million won party, and is now buying a mall for the residents just to get the gold?

25. I don’t blame these residents for trusting Vincenzo after the monk said they should. Everything that comes out of his mouth sounds wise.

Why Cha-Young really hates Yu-Chan

26. Oh wow. I thought Cha-Young was going to say something funny when she said she was gonna say hurtful things. I did not expect her to bring up her mom’s death and get real.

27. I loved seeing Vincenzo trying to escape the drama by stumbling and bumping into stuff. He looked lame.

28. Can I just express how betrayed I feel from learning that Ms. Choi (formerly known as the Dancing Laundromat Girl) is actually a bad guy?

29. Finally, some real progression between Vincenzo and Cha-Young’s romance!

A death and a shocking ending

30. Yup. Totally did not see this death scene coming. Well whistleblower, it was nice knowing you.

31. Vincenzo, don’t be stupid. Pick up the damn phone!

32. “It takes a devil to take down another devil” – I love that proverb. I’m gonna start using that one.

33. HOOOOOLY TRUCK THAT I DID NOT SEE COMING!!! They’re not gonna kill Yu-Chan off that easily right?! Either way, it’s on!

READ: ‘Vincenzo’ Episode 2: Reactions, Review & Recap

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Vincenzo Episode 3 Review & Recap

If the first two episodes of Vincenzo was all about character exposition, then this episode brought some much-needed action back into the main plot. We witnessed a lot of surprising and not-so-surprising events here that will heavily impact the episodes to come.

One of the more surprising events is the introduction of Vincenzo’s mother — or rather, the reveal that a character was his mother. The woman we only knew as Oh Gyeong-ha is now bed-ridden in a hospital. Hong Yu-Chan brought our mysterious lead along with him when he visited her because (another twist) he had figured out that Vincenzo was his mother.

I think I was more shocked by the fact that Yu-Chan was able to piece together Vincenzo’s well-hidden family history when he had seen the latter’s frustration in Gyeong-ha’s sexual harassment trial. Not much has come from this revelation yet, but with his mother closing in on death, we expect some tear-jerking moments to come from her that will humanize Vincenzo further.

And speaking of the “humanization of Vincenzo”, we got our first legitimate romantic development between him and Hong Cha-Young in Vincenzo episode 3. I say “legitimate” because this is the first time where we saw someone in the couple explicitly express something that remotely resembles flirting to the other.

I’m talking about the scene where Vincenzo leaves an umbrella for our favorite fiery lawyer after getting into another fight with her father. I’m sorry to all the people who ship them, but I still do not see any romantic chemistry between them.

At this point, I’m not sure if the chemistry problem is between the characters, or between Song Joong-Ki and Jeon Yeo-Been, the actors who play them. I’ll let you know when I find their scenes more romantic than the scenes with Cha-Young and her intern, Jang Jun-Woo.

But we’ll see. Like I said, this relationship is still in its early stages that it’s easy to miss their chemistry altogether. I do find their scenes entertaining so I’ll be keeping an open mind when it comes to them.

Cha-Young continues to climb her way up my list of favorite characters in the show. While she has her bratty moments, we also had an uncomfortable scene where she and father argue. We learn that their rocky relationship goes beyond being on opposite sides of the legal spectrum, and that Cha-Young feels that Yu-Chan let her mother/his wife die while he’s trying to be Gandhi to everyone else.

Now that feels like a legitimate reason for their relationship to turn out so ugly.

This episode also featured the beginning of the feud between Hong Cha-Young and Ms. Choi, whom I still feel really betrayed by. In such a competitive environment like Wusang Law Firm, it’s expected that the two alphas would find themselves at each other’s throats, so it’s only a matter of time before they drove each other crazy.

I absolutely loved the sequence where Cha-Young copies Ms. Choi’s zumba dancing skills in front of their colleagues, she laughs along with it, and then pulls Cha-Young aside to warn her never to mock her again. Pure passive-aggressive energy.

Cha-Young will probably be become a “better lawyer” like her father in the future when she sees Ms. Choi for who she is: a sneaky and evil woman who turns out to be less innocent than she lets on.

That’s right: Ms. Choi is actually the definition of evil. Vincenzo episode 3 built on some previous foreshadowing that Ms. Choi is not as innocent as we had once thought when we had only seen her as Dancing Laundromat Girl. Her feud with Cha-Young aside, it seemed like she ordered the murder of Vincenzo and Yu-Chan as well.

In this episode’s most shocking turn of events, a truck busts through a bar that our favorite quasi-father-and-son duo were drinking in and hit them pretty hard. That set up our next episode, so we still don’t know if they’ll be able to make it out alive.

Well we kinda expect that Vincenzo will be in 100-percent condition because hey, he is the main character after all. But Yu-Chan? I actually don’t know!

The hit happened just moments after the Babel whistleblower was killed, which was the least surprising thing to happen in this episode. It’s interesting how Yu-Chan withheld information to Vincenzo about the whistleblower though, and we’ll see how that affects their budding friendship when they both recover from the attempted murder.

With the whistleblower gone, and the employees killed in a gas explosion, it’s getting tougher to suppress an emerging narcotic/painkiller created by Babel.

I don’t know about you, but I am ready for Vincenzo to turn full Breaking Bad. With more comedy from Chef Toto and building tenants, of course (which this episode was unfortunately lacking in).

 Vincenzo Episode 3 Rating: 7.5/10 

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Favorite Moments in Vincenzo Episode 3

1. A truck hits Yu-Chan and Vincenzo, who remains photogenic AF

2. Cha-Young copies Ms. Choi’s zumba skills

3. Vincenzo attempts to escape the Hong family drama

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