My Girlfriend Is a Gumiho · Season 1 · Episode 1 · 11 August 2010
S1E1 Episode 1
THE MOMENT Mi-ho first steps out of the painting and encounters a world she has not seen in centuries - her bewildered curiosity played with enormous charm.
The premiere sets up the mythology with a light touch - the nine-tailed fox's release from the painting is played for comedy before the show's central irony is established. Lee Seung-gi's hapless Dae-woong and Shin Min-a's literal-minded Mi-ho make an immediately entertaining pairing.
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My Girlfriend Is a Gumiho Season 1 Episode 1 aired August 11, 2010 on SBS as the premiere of a 16-episode supernatural romance that accumulated over 180 million views on Chinese platform Youku and won multiple awards at the SBS Drama Awards. DramaBeans named it Favourite Drama of 2010; it later won Best Foreign Drama at the 2012 USTv Students' Choice Awards in the Philippines. The premiere sets up the mythology with a light touch - the nine-tailed fox's release from the centuries-old painting is played for comedy before the show's central irony is established: the ritual Dae-woong has agreed to complete requires his life. Lee Seung-gi and Shin Min-a's instant pairing is the episode's operative charm, with Mi-ho's literal-minded bewilderment in 21st-century Seoul carrying the tonal register the series will sustain.