What a viewIn Netflix murder mystery K-drama You Are My Spring, Seo Hyun-jin gets some harsh psychotherapy and falls for her psychiatrist

When things begin this badly, you know it must be love. Having been forced to flee the family home as a child thanks to a violent, alcoholic father, Kang Da-jeong (Seo Hyun-jin) is now, many years later, finding her feet in Seoul and planning a new start. But it is far from her first.

At an awkward social gathering with friends, her character is dissected by preternaturally perceptive psychiatrist Ju Young-do (Kim Dong-wook), whom she has just met – which doubles the mortification she feels when this almost total stranger discerns that she dreads emotional commitment and the idea of settling down.

He also analyses her, correctly, as a walking catastrophe when dating because (carrying that childhood hangover) she subconsciously repeats a pattern by which she attracts men who are destructive or otherwise unhinged.

Da-jeong lashes out, verbally and physically, and so, having made such a lasting impact on each other, these two are bound to live happily ever after. And that, with such a sappy, translated title as You Are My Spring (Netflix, series one now streaming), might be all you’d expect from a cuddly caper like this.

Not so fast. Because before any of that happens, the unlikely pair find themselves embroiled in a murder case that the Seoul police have been unable to solve.

Luckily for them, Young-do is a consultant to the police; and luckily for him he is able to keep his cool when suddenly burdened further by a second murder, on his door­step; the reappearance of a petulant, supposedly suicidal, self-obsessed model (his ex-wife); and the emergence of a well-dressed stalker with a smooth line in patter (Da-jeong’s other admirer, who may be a killer).