Hello, I am a Witch and my Crush Wants me to Make a Love Potion!

The second she slipped that she knew his name the whole thing got tense in the best way. Four years of feelings crammed behind a curse that wont let her say a single untrue word. That lake monologue about witches and lies sat with me longer than I expected and reframes how you read every earlier scene with her fumbling around him

The second Harij explained the lettuce I had to put my phone down. Her grandmother planted food so this girl would actually eat and Rose never even noticed. That's the kind of quiet love that gets me

Harrije saying she doesn't need the hood around him because he is the only one she can be fully honest with. She actually lowers it. That whole exchange was so warm and quiet

Cottage is slowly getting cleaner and brighter every time he shows up. The embroidered cloth on that dusty old table said everything without a single line of dialogue

so the love potion was for the princess to fall for some widower herself and not to trap anybody? that reframes the whole thing and makes it way sadder than I expected from this show

That mandragora scene sent me. Rose just yanking screaming root babies out of the dirt while looking mildly inconvenienced is exactly the kind of chaotic energy this cozy show needed

the witches cannot lie rule is such a brutal setup for this kind of story. every time she opens her mouth she has zero armor. no polite little white lies to protect herself from him. just the truth landing on her own heart every single time

OK so this episode went full healing romance on me and the princess having under a year left to live and begging for a potion to love the man she must marry is such a heavy setup to drop at the top. Then it slides back into tarte tatin and teasing and I am just sitting here holding both moods at once. The show is quieter than the first two episodes made it look and I respect that it is willing to slow down and let Rose actually process a memory of her mother

I got weirdly emotional over the lettuce. Her grandmother grew it so she would actually eat something instead of living off bread and tea. That is love expressed as a vegetable patch

The witches can't lie rule is going to wreck me later. Right now she is just dodging and it is funny but the second he asks something direct she is finished and I need to see that

the smug deer lurking in the background is doing more emotional labor than either of these two. every wide shot it just judges them

Rose buying fancy fabric for a new robe while hiding her face behind her hair is peak girlfailure logic. She wants him to notice her but also wants to vanish

Rose munching that bread with her hair falling over her face is the most absurdly cute thing I have seen all season. She is basically a stray dog who got adopted and does not understand why the knight keeps showing up with food

That little dog like face she makes while eating the bread is going to live in my head rent free. She is a feared forest witch and she chews like a nervous puppy. The show gets her completely

Honestly? the pacing dragged in the middle stretch with all the fabric chatting. The last ten minutes saved it though and the bread scene is genuinely the sweetest thing this season

The parents begging Rose for forgiveness because they were scared of a curse not because they felt bad. That detail stung more than the stones did

The kids throwing mud at Rose and her just standing there taking it because she thinks that's how it's supposed to go. That killed me more than anything Harij did afterward

I was not ready for how much that mud scene gutted me. She closed her eyes and just endured it like she had done it a hundred times before. Broke my heart for a fictional witch

The fairy tale flashback explaining equivalent exchange as a kid is such a clean way to set up why she's like this. She decided as a child that kindness has a price and now she can't accept any without paying

The kids throwing rocks at her and yelling monster was hard to sit through. What got me was the parents bowing to the witch out of fear not actual regret. Nobody in that town learned anything