Every mom should watch and enjoy this drama. My most favourite character is Yuri's mom. Though the ending is realistic it would be even better Min jong met someone who loves her and Yuri staying alive. Anyways I felt worth watching this emotional roller coaster.
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Stupid show with a good start
The biggest problem with this show is that they made a 16-episode show with only 3 episode worth of content. They resort to filling the episodes with meaningless side characters and their stories that don’t amount to anything substantial. They shamelessly try to distract you by showing endless flashbacks and repeating the same scenes over and over again from slightly different angle to fill the run time. I keep seeing this in other K-dramas, too. Why do they have to be 16 episodes? Is this from some K-drama constitution that everything has to be 16 episodes long no matter what?The other problem is that characters don’t act like normal human beings. I get that this is a show about a dead person coming back to life, etc. The dead wife can’t control herself every time her daughter’s around seemingly because she missed her daughter so much. She forgets everything that’s going on around her. The husband might as well be dead because he’s detached from everything including his daughter, the new wife and his job. I’m not sure how he’s still employed. The new wife has no personality whatsoever and doesn’t talk much. The mother-in-law pretends like she doesn’t miss her granddaughter. Characters keep making unrealistic decisions all across the board. I do like the actors in the show and I feel like they could’ve done better with better story and directions.
You also get to see the K-drama staples like needless misunderstandings, incredible coincidences (it’s incredibly amazing how the characters somehow run into each other no matter what/where/when all the time over and over again), long stares, multi-genre confusion and so on. In fact, everything is turned up to 150%. Man, I had such a high hopes for this show based on the first episode.
I’ll continue to watch to see what will come out of this. The show is pretty good when it’s good but when it’s bad, it’s really bad and frustrating. Sigh...
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That to love means the ability to sacrifice
First of all i'm glad that this drama has a good rating and seems to be quite popular because if i remember correctly at the time of it's airing, It didn't get a lot of heat. The story was beautifully written, even though it's fantastical it has tight logic and there are explanation for each events. The acting was good and believable. I can't remember the music in it but i'm the type of person who thinks that if the music fit the mood and not irritating then it was good enough for me. I have watched this drama 2 times in it's entirety so i think that was enough proof that it has a good rewatch value because i'm the kind of person who rarely rewatch. In conclusion it was a drama with clear intention who doesn't aspire to be modern or keep up with what's hot or popular. The team clearly knows what particular story they want to tell and execute it brilliantly. Maybe to others it was a rather usual drama that has many shortcomings. But Hi Bye, Mama! struck a chord with me and make me remember it fondly.P.S. This is a belated review and english is not my first language so sorry if the review is not coherent or understandable
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i love this
really so much good 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍❤🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤎🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍💋💋🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍❤🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤎🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍💋💋Was this review helpful to you?
A heartfelt drama about loss and acceptance
Hi Bye, Mama was one of the first K-drama series I watched. It was such a shocker series for me, unlike anything I've seen in western tv series.The story is just perfect, about loss and reconciliation, acceptance, grief, regret, but also joy. The series has so much heart that I admit that this series made me sob the most, it really touches you.
It makes you truly think about the most painful things people go through, the loss of someone close.
The actors did an amazing job, all of them.
I did not know what I was going to watch when I started watching it, but I'm glad I decided to watch it "blindly".
It still sits in me to this day since I saw it earlier this year.
It's one of my top series to recommend to people, at least people who are open to drama series.
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About the content. I really loved the acting. To be honest, the emotions were perfectly conveyed and we felt each character's sincerity. I usually complain about some dramas for not showing clearly the reason why one character act a certain way but I think this drama shows otherwise because we got all the details we needed to understand each character's point of view. There were no real evil expect life's injustice, I would say? So that's a good reason to watch this drama, we can relate to it. Although I was a bit skeptical at first that the "supernatural" aspect would make it unpleasant and unrealistic, everything felt real, to me. It was neither slow nor quick, it was at a perfect pace.
So don't hesitate and watch this drama !!!
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Love That Refuses to Leave, Even When We Do
Grief has never hit me the way Hi Bye, Mama! did — not with screaming or spectacle, but with these quiet, exacting cuts. The kind that show up when you least expect them: folding clothes, hearing a laugh that sounds like someone you lost, watching someone smile through pain because they don’t know how to stop taking care of everyone else. That’s the kind of grief this show understood.I didn’t start it expecting to unravel. I thought I was walking into something gentle — a touching ghost story, maybe a second-chance fantasy. But Hi Bye, Mama! doesn’t play in wish fulfillment. It sits with the ache of unfinished goodbyes, of memories that cling too tightly, and of a love so fierce it can’t bear to be forgotten.
Kim Tae-hee gave Cha Yu-ri a kind of radiance I wasn’t prepared for. She wasn’t just a mother who died too soon — she was a woman still full of life, overflowing with it, trying desperately to stay present even when the world had already moved on without her. The way she loved her daughter wasn’t soft-focus idealism. It was raw. Unapologetic. Desperate and beautiful. And when she smiled — when she chose to smile for the sake of others — I broke a little more.
What floored me most was the way the show treated death. There’s no horror here, no fear-mongering. The afterlife wasn’t a threat. It was just... waiting. Patient. Soft-edged. A space where ghosts watched the living with both joy and unbearable longing. It wasn’t cruel. It was just real. Because grief isn’t cruel. It’s just what’s left when love has nowhere to go.
Sure, not every subplot landed. Some stories felt stretched, and the pacing wobbled under the weight of its emotional scope. But none of that dulled the core. The show never lost sight of what it was about: not death, but the aftershocks of love. The kind that keeps echoing, even when the world says it’s time to move on.
It reminded me that we’re all walking around with our own ghosts — not always seen, but always felt. And that sometimes, the bravest thing we can do isn’t to hold on tighter. It’s to let go with love.
Hi Bye, Mama! didn’t ask for my tears. It earned them. Quietly. Fully. And I’m still carrying it, in all the best and hardest ways.
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The acting was astounding, I felt the connection and chemistry between all the actors. Prepare for many, many tears. It really does push the message to live every day like it’s your last and life to the fullest. Tell friends and family you love them as much as possible. You just never know when death may happen.
I actually really loved the ending. It was realistic, as that is how life is- it's not always a fairy tale, but obviously with the supernatural aspect.
Overall, this is just so beautifully done.
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“Goodbye”
leaving is hard, but it's harder to stay.he keeps showing you who he is, but you turn the other way.
you still have hope, but he's not going to change.
starting over is scary, but you have to be brave.
"Perhaps the most beautiful thing we can feel in our lives is telling someone we love that we love them and thanking someone whom we're grateful for. "
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I cried in almost every episode…
There was no villain in this story, just life 👩👧This K-drama presented grief in so many forms—sometimes loud and overwhelming, other times quiet and hidden, carried silently as people go on with their day-to-day lives. It reminded me that grief is not always visible, but it lingers, shaping the way we love, move forward, and hold on.
What I appreciated most was how it gave us both perspectives: the one who left, and those who were left behind. Each had their own struggles, regrets, and unspoken feelings, yet all were connected by the same longing for peace.
At its heart, the story was never just about loss—it was about healing, closure, and acceptance. About how even in the deepest pain, life still finds a way to move, to breathe, to grow.
A tender reminder that loss isn’t the end of love—it’s proof that it existed, and that it will continue to shape us 🥺
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this dráma IS very emotional
this story IS very sad ... this story is very sad. I even cried the part when she met her mother, it was very emotional ... the whole story I felt sorry for the main character ... it was very real that her husband started all over again. sniekyn inim thought it was selfish that he didn't think about nana, that's why I didn't have to him in this drama ..... I enjoyed her mother the most and she the story between the mother and the dead daughter, similar to Good Bad Mother, I like the family drama ... but this one was the saddest drama I've ever seen right from the first episode I had tears in the corner of my eye, a terrible drama you must watch it, it's definitely added to my favorites ... the female role was very balanced even after her departure, that's why I give her 10 / 10Was this review helpful to you?
