Worth the confusion
Although there were times when I did not understand what was going on and who was who, and which timeline they were in, the acting is superb. in addition, the story was just not a story that I’ve heard seen before. It was heartfelt and heartbreaking at the same time. The love between the male lead and the female lead was beautiful. The friendships were wonderful. And the ending made sense. I think I’ll eventually watch this again. I love the location where they shot the film. I thought the way they wrapped everything up in episode 11 and 12 was perfect.Was this review helpful to you?
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Brilliantly written
Not knowing any of the stars in this at the time I watched it, I wasn't sure what to expect in the way of acting or even the story. I'm so glad I gave it a chance. This was such an outstanding series, brilliantly written with a fantastic cast of characters.This, over any other series I've seen, definitely needs to be watched twice. The story is so intertwined from past, present to future ... 2023 back to 1998 ... to 2003 ... to 2007 ...back to 1998 ... to 2011. At times it does get quite confusing trying to keep track of everything happening, but if you rewatch a few scenes, or even an entire episode, everything eventually makes sense.
The writing is flawless, not missing anything, answering every question you come up with throughout the twelve episodes. And there are a lot of questions that need to be explained by episode twelve. Somehow everything gets resolved, maybe not the way you hoped for, but all the pieces do get put together to complete the puzzle.
The main trio of Hyo Seop, Yeo Been & Kang Hoon blend together so well. You never doubt for a minute that everything will work out fine, in whatever year they end up!!
It's not just a story of fate & love, but the story of the bond of strong friendship as well.
Once episode 7 plays out, and then truly the bizarre beginning of episode 8 happens, the drama goes into full gear, taking you to an even higher level of excellence. You really try to figure out what's going to happen next, but every time you do, it goes in a completely different direction.
It shows how difficult it can be to change one's destiny .... but they sure made it entertaining trying to do just that.
Two thumbs up for this great series!!
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The right person, in different lives .
I don't understand how some people dislike this drama. It might seem confusing at first, but once you follow it closely and it starts to make sense, it's simply perfect!I still can't believe it, how did they manage to meet in different lives but always end up liking each other, they're so perfect. For me, the chemistry between Jeon Yeobeen and Ahn Hyoseop was amazing!
I felt a little bad for the character played by Kang Hoon; he really liked her, but there was always something wrong with the timing hahaha 💔
Whoever decided to make this drama happen really has great creativity!!
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i didn’t like the way they portrayed TIME TRAVEL
My main issue with this drama wasn’t how confusing it was. it was the TIME travel, because what do you mean Jun-Hui went into the body of Min-Ju? That’s not how time travelling works and sure it’s such a small issue but it really bothered me, but besides from that I didn’t have an issue with this drama. The ending was so-so, but i did like Jeong Yeo-Been’s acting in this. the way she portrayed two characters and actually made them DIFFERENT was crazy acting. plus it’s a very visually aesthetic drama too.Was this review helpful to you?
Never been more confused in my entire life
I genuinely cannot tell you what was going on in this show, like thinking about it makes my brain hurts. Also it was honestly just so bad, when I thought it couldn't get worse, it did exactly that. And what the actual hell was that ending, I'm so pissed. LIKE EUGHHH. People who say it deserves the same hype as twinkling watermelon.....never diss my fav show like that. I almost dropped the show multiple times, but I finished it so that I could write this review on how horrible the show was. I kid you not I literally had to watch this show in 2x speed just so I could get it over with faster. The only thing that made me not give this 0 stars was the cute romance moments and the friendship between the trio, but even that made me wanna rage quit sometimes. OH AND the random ass deaths left right were getting me ngl cuz like what....Also I will mourn the doomed bl we could've had with yeonjun and tae ha...😪 Like they were so cute 💔 And the amount of times I said what the f am I watching should be studied because geniunly I have no words (even though I just wrote this whole ass paragragh)Was this review helpful to you?
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my heart BURNS.
i find a drama with palpable chemistry between leads every three decades & now that i did it?? it was so painful?? i'm never going to write a review for this & i'll also need like five business days to recover from what i just watched. jesus. but no, seriously? that unnecessary twist at the end...send the floods. i don't even care that i sound stupid right now. worst yet best thing i've seen in a while.AND THAT SONG. never play it in my presence ever. i can't do it.
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predictable and confusing but entertaining
there are definitely parts of this series where it makes no fuckin sense lmaoo but i wanted to add first and foremost: i can’t believe that the gay man died to house a hetero in his body and live his hetero romance im sickkkkkk😭😭😭the 5 minutes of gay representation eliminated by what happens next and i absolutely don’t think it’s okay 😀 they could’ve made him a straight man why did they erase his identity AND kill his partner 😭
ANYWAY. other than that i predicted pretty much the flow of the story but there were some twists/turns about it. there are some times where it’s not believable bc how the characters act are so out of whack to reality but we have to suspend some belief in order to enjoy our time-traveling shows lol.
i’m sure there were some loopholes but i don’t remember them much now—should’ve wrote them down on the spot.
but i did enjoy this, though not as much as i wanted to. i didn’t really like the turn of events where the girl returns to her own body and completely ignores the fact that she’s a murder target and someone in her school legit got brutally murdered as well—all bc her crush is finally paying attention to her. and i also didn’t like the fact that the male lead turns his back on the girl once he finds out that she’s back to her normal self. they were friends before all this body swapping happened so it’s sad to believe that he would not care about her after the person he had a crush on left her body (sorry i forgot their names already; i’m reviewing a couple weeks after i finished).
i also don’t understand why the brothers would have swapped ?? what is going on with that town!!!! lmfao
overall enjoyable if you don’t mind being confused and annoyed lol
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We can even break the cycle we live in.
For me, this is a romance that isn't exactly within my usual range of tastes, but it was a great surprise. I think for many, it might be a little confusing, but that's also part of the premise of this drama. For me, everything is very good and well done, but I realize it won't please all audiences because the romance here is much more symbolic and melancholic. I'm only not giving it a 10/10 because I think the author, in wanting to create the ending his own way, made the final message too vague. I believe that after such a complex drama, the viewer appreciates something more comforting and vibrant than just an open ending where we're not even sure if all their effort really served a purpose or if it was just to finish a cycle.Was this review helpful to you?
a yearning man
Nam Si-heon, the yearning man that everyone could ask for."What if I miss you so much that I could not bear with?"
A! YEARNING! MAN! Ive repeated myself that the male lead is such a yearning character. I love how he potrayed his love towards Han Jun-hee. How he instantly knows how to differentiate between Han Jun-hee and Kwon Min-ju. Trust me;
'To be yearned for, to be seen" has been the criteria that I am looking for in a man.
A Time Called You is a time-travelling series and it is hard to understand all hence you need to watch till the end, then you will start to understand the storyline. I am happy that Jung In-gyu deserves his love line after all the hardships in the beginning, and the jealousy. We will never can be another person. It's always us, ourselves that need to change anything related to us. Someone's help can be considered, but it's always you.
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Woah
I liked it, it’s worth the watch if you want to watch a meaningful love story and if your interested in time travel, soulmates kinda thing. Honestly I didn’t like one of the main characters for her personality but the story is good and ends well.The music from this really STUCK with me, so I think very positively of this kdrama it felt so meaningful and fulfilling to see how it ended.
Gather my tears by Seo Ji Won is a song I’ll listen to for a while now lol it really reaches my heart and so did this kdrama.
Note this tho, if your a sensitive person do recognise this story involves murder/suicide/violence and can get creepy which is what I didn’t like but the ending is rewarding and calm :)
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Quite the Love Story
This was an amazing show to watch and I geuinely loved it especially the 'Gather my tears' by Seo jin-won as it was my first time hearing it...but the last 2 episodes made the show seem inconsistentThroughout the series from episode 1-10 the show was foreshadowing and evoking the themes of a thriller murder mystery which made the show exciting and seemed to pass by quickly with each episode...but in the final 2 episodes they switched it to promote a different theme entirely, this in turn made the final 2 episodes seem so draggy and frustrating as it felt all the built up of the first 10 episodes was quickly undone in the final 2 episodes.
I guess it highlighted the serious topic of "suicide' because of the true unfortunate story of Seo Jin-Won, the artist of the song "Gather My Tears" who took his own life on January 1 1996 at the age of 19 only for his song 'Gather My Tears" to be released not that long after his death and becoming a big hit in South Korea, knowing this much the emotion pain in his song hits so much deeper
The show is worth watching but I most likely wouldn't consider this a comfort show
7.8/10
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Watched for the leads
I watched this drama for both the leads and I was not disappointed in terms of the acting. The acting in this drama was really good.Was up with the kiss scenes, both ML & FL can kiss as seen in their previous dramas so I’m guessing this was on the director and that was super disappointing, they had really good chemistry only to be let down by such mannequin kiss. Anyways luckily the story was good enough to let it slide. Now the plot was a little confusing at first with all the timeline changes and whatnot but after awhile you get the gist of it.
One of the reasons I didn’t rate this higher is because I refuse to accept the reason giving for why MinJu wanted to kill herself, claiming it’s depression, I disagree, IMO she wanted to kill herself because a boy didn’t like her back, when she came back in ep11 instead of Jun Hee, she was all well and good as long as Si Heon didn’t notice and continued to like her but when he finally realized she wasn’t Jun Hee all of a sudden she wants to kill herself, and also Si Heon and In Kyu were friends with her even before Jun Hee showed up, so that whole monologue of nobody talking to her and liking her was complete BS, In Kyu liked her but apparently that didn’t count because it wasn’t Si Heon, so I don’t agree with the reason giving for why she wanted to kill herself.
Anyways I don’t think I will be rewatching this but I recommend for a one time watch.
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