Reviews

This demonstrates an excellent recipe for keeping the viewer engaged with useless drama. I'm just hoping and praying that real international crime units don't work this shabby, because if they do, good help us! Sorry if this gives out any spoilers!

I couldn't resist providing a positive review. Very rarely do I come across pure gold.

A rather mature and debatable topic has been handled with grace, sensitivity and beauty. I cannot recall having seen anything as beautiful and amazing with similar topic. This production reminds me of 'My Rainy Days' (2009) 'Tenshi no koi' (original title). I take a bow to the whole production team, starting from the novelist who wrote the novel, to the editor who put it all together. Just because I'm being super critical that I am rating it as a 9/10 - it is near perfect anyway. Kim Go-eun is a very talented actress. Having seen her two other major productions I can truly appreciate her talent.

I was waiting with baited breath for a proper ending for this beautiful experience. It was delivered to near-perfect expectation. The movie left me with a warm smile.

Given a very potent and debatable topic, I feel the writer has not justified the topic promptly, maturely or courageously in the way that the topic deserved, assuming that the writer wanted to justify the topic in consideration. Since this was released in 1999, it was probably way ahead of its time. Nonetheless, the script probably was written to score ratings through melodrama and cliff hangers, as most of opportunities for rational, logical and straightforward plotlines have been ignored. I rated this series for its potential, rather than the actual outcome. I applaud the courage of the writers and producers for opening up this can in the first place.

A potent theme/subject/topic of time travel poorly executed through a feeble plot line (with lots of plot holes) and very confusing and unhelpful editing.

Without giving too much away, I'd say that no amount of time travel will give anyone ability to play God in order to prevent simple human stupidity. Something that most kids recognize all over the world - not to run on to a busy road- seems the main reason in the plot at the end in the series; The lead female character, aged 30+, runs on to the middle of a very busy 6-lane road junction to retrieve a paper marriage registration certificate, knocked out and blown away by a passer-by. If it's that important why wasn't it tucked away safe inside a folder rather than being waved around while held in hand, and even if it gets lost, it is a paper document after all- a reissue could have been requested later. If that is a plot hole, I've just illustrated one of many. You get my point.

Nonetheless, this series (and many others) does make me convinced that if multi-universe theory is true then time travel would be a futile attempt anyway, even if it was made possible. With multitude of time-lines, it would deem sensible to just live your life to the fullest in the time-line that you are in, rather than waste time trying to affect other time-lines with inconsequential outcomes.

One indicator of a brilliant drama is its capability to take the audience through maximum different emotions. This drama scores very high on that respect. When a person rides a roller- coaster, it is important that the transitions from one maneuver to the next is as smooth as possible. This drama takes you through transitions very smoothly throughout. I p*ssed myself laughing at some scenes while shed tears at others. Although there is a bit of melodrama at few times, the entire cast has done a brilliant job at acting (there is no over-acting by any character). By the end I had warmed up to every character in the drama. The chemistry between the main two characters feels so real. Dong-Wook Lee has been brilliant and its been great seeing an actor of his caliber. It was my first time seeing Ryeowon Jung but she did remind me of Go-eun Kim from Goblin. A very hopeful and feel-good drama that at times seem to take unnecessary turns but overall leaves you feeling good. I wanted to leave a review since there is no plot summary added. It is one of the best k dramas I have seen in a long while. Absolutely loved it.

A perfect demonstration of how in today's world personality traits of being callous, innocent, naive and gullible aren't looked as attractive, lovable or even charming when it comes to chasing dreams. It is very adorable to dream, and to dream big. Even if one doesn't have the skills to attain them, they have the responsibility to develop the skills to achieve those dreams. The above mentioned qualities don't help. One needs to be shrewd, wise, self-aware, and competent. That doesn't mean one should be cruel, sly, corrupt or deceptive either. The world can still be a better place by being good.

It is only because of some weird and absurd rule of IMDb for the review to have more than 5 lines that I'm forced to string futile words so I can make this review post valid. Otherwise this series deserved one word review - c*ap. I guess if in a series where insanity, idiocy, immoral and unethical selfish behavior can be justified as love, I could include some more memorable works by accomplished writers - Misery, Fatal attraction, Dead calm ; you get my drift. I thought love was supposed to be pristine, hallowed and pure. But what does a fool know. Given from the popular ratings that this series has had, I guess in today's world love is meant to be what this series portrays it to be. Whatever it may be, this series takes the biscuit!