Tomorrow

A learning experience.

I read a few reviews after i watched this drama and was amazed how everyone processed it differently. I myself loved it and the cast did a wonderful job portraying there characters. The storyline was unique when Choi jun woong was involved in stopping a suicide and was accidentally injured causing him to be in a coma for either 6 months or 3yrs. He find out that he is neither dead or alive and is now a Grim Reapers for the RM team (risk management to prevent a suicide ) for 6mo. He causes problems, but also fixes them. I liked how they tried to instill that *Words" can be interpreted as helpful, hurtful and harmful . As the old sayings was "The pen is mighty than a sword" was used to instill positive thoughts and feelings, but as time went on the sword became sharper and used the pen to install harm. Sadly we live in a world that uses other malicious things like cyberbullying, IG, tweets, tiktoc etc. belittling people who they dont even know or just jump on the bandwagon to get likes. I felt that this show was trying to express how ones words and comments can be positive and instill hope. When other are negative and cause despair the complete loss or absence of hope which causes failure and pushes one to suicides. Some people are crying out to get help and other feel like a burdens to someone, but if only someone could lend an ear and listen and show them there away out. Remember if you dont have something nice to say dont say it at all.

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UNDERATED

This show was so good. I say it is underated because i feel alot of people dont want to watch sad things but there was alot of messages in this show that need to be shared and people need to see because people in real life go through these things or have gone through them.
On a lighter note i loved rowoon's character and all the characters for that matter. I do wish there was more between miss koo and mr park. Iove their story and wish they did more with their relationship. Do i wish for a seaspn 2 yes of course in hopes rowoon can come back and join the team and i could see more relationship development. Thats wishful thinking because i know they wont make a season 2 ㅠㅠ

Needless to say JUST WATCH IT.

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A thrilling kdrama with an important message

The suicide rate in South Korea as well as in many countries in the world is alarming. So it´s courageous to do a drama about a topic so difficult and sad and make it bearable for the watcher, gripping even, at the same time. And gripping it was!
"Tomorrow" basically deals with various aspects of "suicide" in little chapters. The four main characters are more or less intertwined by fate and it´s fascinating watching them and the people they try to save overcome their demons.
The show doesn´t shy away from showing unpopular themes such as "school bullying"; "eating disorders", "mental health issues", "sexual harrassment", "cyberbullying" and even sheds some light on difficult parts of the korean (and japanese) history.
I truly loved the actors portrayal of their respective parts, especially the female lead, who was a really strong female character. But also the rest of the cast was great!
I also think the show way consistently interesting till the final episode. Nothing was dragging. The ending came full circle.
Highly recommended!

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live for a better tomorrow

"What saves people is not your powers, but the weight of your words."

This drama is the proof on how words can affect people so much, either in a good or bad way - they have so much impact and we often do not realise it.
This series made me rethink many of my past mistakes but also sad past moments that I went through; and i think they wrapped up some very serious issues such a good way.
What is to remember is that no matter how hard life may be, it is not the end - we have so much more to see, discover, understand, meeting new persons that will impact our life some ways. It will not always be just good moments, we may be sad, angry, mad, empty of feelings; but we will also be joyful, happy and full of hope.
Everything will get better, you just need some time and a bit of help.
This also do show that even when they helped people from committing, it does not mean they will be fine right after - they are still on the list and watched and will slowly recover and live a better life. You also get attached to each characters easily, each are unique in their own ways with different stories.
This show is definitely worth watching, prepare tissues as well - cried during each episodes.

The cast is powerful and talented
The OST has such great songs

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Getting more and more interesting..

Each episodes/story of individual repesented morale and value behind their struggles in life.

I didnt know why I wiped like crazy person over the first lady story (highschool trauma). It was real good moment when ChoiJoonWoong hugged her and gave the encouragement words. That's exactly the kind of mental support we want. Without realizing, as any human being whom been stressing about life - we all actually just wanted to hear that kind of simple words. (Curious what he said? then start watching this show! Lol)

Also, there were times, I really do feel like slapping that CJW. He's just too reckless! Sigh.. but that makes his personality outstand in this show. So I'm gonna suck it up. Moreover, I can wait to find out the history of Ms. Kim's sin and death..

But well, yeah.. Is good show and worth your time :)

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now i like this kind of drama too

Firstly the cast is soo fiiine, I started watching this drama mainly becouse of Rowoon he amazed me with his acting skills for the first time in extraordinary you and this, it just felt so real. Also I really like the female lead too and her character, she has strong personality and she's also good in fighting. I loved the parts where she was fighting with the bad guys the most.
Story? I really liked it and when i was thinking about watching it i had hard time choosing if i should, becouse the main reason is that i don't really like kdramas with gream reapers but this, it never made me feel bored and i was fascinated the whole time, i was waiting every week for new episodes. But i haven't watched it all yet so.....
And the only thing that it lacked was that this kdrama has only slight romance or even maybe none. its just about my preference but i think it would be better with it. Im right now on 13 and half episode so i can't really tell much but its ending in a few episodes so.

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The theme is interesting, but the drama is not

The Korean society seems more prone to suicide than most of countries. The theme is important, but the drama did not kept me interest in it .
The way the afterlife organisation was constructed was annoying to me. Lots of holes with weird outcomes. The past story of the characters were very superficial, the different teams, etc.

STORY - maybe a message of hope to some people who are in a down part of their life. For them, please keep up! But nothing more...
Most of the suicide stories were very boring for me, but maybe lots of people can see themselves in those struggles.

ACTING - wonderful the lead actress. The other 2 members of her team were ok. And that is it.

MUSIC - do not remember any of the songs or melodies...

REWATCH - never. There isn't a single scene I would like to see again.

OVERALL - a different theme rapped up in a fantasy world of the death. I realised that there are thousands of grim reapers with nationality! Amazing!

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Too Episodical and Not Enough Backstory

TLDR: Started off strong, too many episodical episodes, not enough Worldbuilding for the Reapers and their rules, not enough Character Backstories/Development for our 4-5 main characters, too many messages (e.g. suicide is a sin) I disagreed with.

As the title suggests, I felt this drama was too episodical when all I really wanted was backstories and worldbuilding for our Grim Reapers and the Grim Reaper world. The episodes were fine a 1 to 2 capsulated stories until about episode 8, and then I was getting bored of the format and just wanted to know all about our 3 main reapers (Koo, Lim, and Park), plus the boss of them. I wanted so much more worldbuilding of the Reaper world, the rules, their day to day life, what they did in their free time etc. by that point.

So the last 8 or so episodes were a bit of a drag. I absolute loved the two episodes spent on Lim and his backstory but I feel like we super super rushed through Park and Koo's -- also I was expecting there to be a twist such as he's actually her son or something, rather than the predictable story we did get.

I wish we had gotten like the first 8 episodes as is, and then the last 8 episodes were actual worldbuilding and backstories of the Reapers and the Reaper World -- it fell very lacklustre at towards the end.

Also, you can see the Christian values and the influence it has on Korean culture within this drama such as "reap your sins before death", "purgatory before you can go to heaven or reincarnation", and "suicide is murder and a sin" which are things I personally disagree with.
I AM happy that towards the end we do see Park change in his thoughts of "suicide is sin and people who kill themselves should suffer in hell" somewhat, but I wanted something more explicit from him.

Another thing is you can see the heavy handiedness of the Pro-South-Korea messages throughout the show where it makes the Reaper world very unequal/unfair. I'll post the full explanation at the very end because I get very detailed and could make people uncomfortable and angry but TLDR: there are some Pro-Korea episodes, and one is basically "look how amazing South Koreans are and we're so amazing that after death, even if we killed people in war, we aren't going to hell for these sins because we were the winners." Which, I thought the Reapers were supposed to be fair? So surely, they should be going to hell because they did sin?!

If we had been given more details and explainations in the show for things like this rather than have 13+ episodicals. Even just a simple "if you're killing people in self-defense or without malicious intent (such as defending your country from invaders) then it's not seen as a sin in the Reaper world." would've been good enough for me, but even this isn't explained.


Conclusion: Started off strong, too many episodical episodes, not enough Worldbuilding for the Reapers and their rules, not enough Character Backstories/Development for our 4-5 main characters, too many messages (e.g. suicide is a sin) I disagreed with.


****


Here's the long version of my Pro-Korea part:

We see two episodes of two different wars (WW2 and the Korean War).

First episode: it's never said or confirmed that the South Korean soldiers will be sent to hell for killing people (when killing is very obviously a sin). This show very much felt like it was implying: so long as you're defending your country and you're on the side that wins, killing people is absolutely fine according to the Korean Reapers. But neither the rules nor explanation is in the show.

Secondly, we have a heavy Pro-Korea and Anti-Japan episode which to me felt very intentional (therefore harmful) which is what I disliked about it.

If you don't know Korea-Japan relations and history this is a very important, eye-opening, horrific, and informative episode. Everyone should know about this history, absolutely!

But, I personally felt the message of this episode is intentionally very harmful: "hey, young Koreans, Japanese imperialism did this to us and they still haven't apologised for what they did. So, we're making this episode because we want Koreans furious at Japan for another year and we wanna increase the anti-Japan views in Korea even more than they still are".

But as someone who has studied it:

Actually, Japan HAS apologised (since 2007) and has done for many times.
Korea DEMANDS apologies every single year and has done for many years (more so from great-grandchildren now rather than the people who actually suffered because most have passed away, rest their souls - which you could probably now call 'generational-trauma').
Japan HAS compensated the families and victims (apparently 1 billion yen -- although I know that it won't ever be enough for the victims).
Korean newspapers and politicians still post and encourage anti-Japan views - they literally blamed Japan for the 2022 Itaewon Halloween incident in a few newspapers - while Japan is embracing Korean culture at an alarming speed (thanks to KPop and Korean food).
This history is still not in Japanese history books (especially in school ones where they rarely learn modern history anyway).

So, as you can see, both sides are bad!

I can't help but think this episode wanted to strain Korea-Japan relations even more than it already is. It feels like the episode was created on purpose to make Koreans continue the rage and the pain, rather than "this was absolutely horrific but it's time to heal; educate ourselves and others while trying to build a better future and relationship with each other both inside and outside Korea." and I personally find that in very bad taste.

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TOO RUSHED AND 0 CHEMISTRY

I binged it over 3 days and found myself fast forwarding half the episodes. More effort was given to aesthetics than to the dialogues which were bleak and not strong enough for the theme. IDK how these many liked it. Maybe I just saw better ones than this in this genre. The chemistry was very forced and due to lack of proper backstory the couple had not even a thread to romantic look between them. Also rowoon was very annoying and stupid with no character development. The rules of the reapers were vague and unclear as they were ONLY applied to the scenes to enable the story.
As someone working in the mental health field, what I liked was how the problems were portrayed BUT I absolutely hated the way they were handled. Such serious issues like PTSD, Eating disorders, depression etc... that are serious enough to warrant suicide CANNOT be solved in minutes or through words of comfort alone. Their attempt to stop suicide was very lethargic contrary to what they say and that red light app was yucky. I cannot even remeber any ost.
overall a decent watch which satisfies your eyes but not your brain or heart

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Novel concept but unrealistic as a whole

I find the premise and concept of the drama to be quite novel as it's not a storyline I have watched before. However, I do feel that the drama tends to make these savior attempts of mentally distressed people quite simple. Sometimes, I don't think with mere words, you can really save a person who decides to die.

There were some episodes in this drama that stood out for me. Particularly, the war veteran and the comfort women episodes as these can make people cry. The episode on the depressed dog was also a delight as I definitely did not expect them to narrate the story from a dog perspective. However, there were some episodes that I hated, particularly the ones where Rowoon's character was being annoying. Out of all the characters, I dislike the ML the most as he was loud and stupid sometimes. Overall, while the show is a nice watch, I don't think it's worth the time to rewatch as the story can get depressing due to the heavy subject matter it is trying to portray.

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Choro, choro e mais choro.

A forma como esse drama aborda a questão do suicídio de uma forma respeitosa e bonita (em forma de esperança), me fez terminar esse drama que eu estava enrolando em um dia.

Saber que alguns dos casos abordados aqui, como as mulheres de conforto na Invasão Japonesa, assim a crítica em como o governo negligenciou e ainda negligencia seus veteranos de guerra e idosos, me fez ter um sentimento tão mal, tão forte em relação a isso.

E saber que atualmente, na época que assisti esse drama, o Japão não reconheceu o genocídio que cometeu durante as suas invasões me faz me sentir tão mal por todos esses povos.
E a questão de aposentadoria ser algo tão difícil para os idosos coreanos, principalmente aqueles que viveram o período de guerra, é de quebrar o coração.

A forma que o drama abordou o suicídio de uma forma delicada e respeitosa, foi divino. Até por que esse assunto, saúde mental, é considerado um tabu na Coreia e saber que esse é o quarto países no ranking de suicídio... Me fez pensar.

Sobre esse drama eu só tenho pontos positivos, principalmente:

- Elenco.
- Cinematografia.
- Enredo.
- Músicas.
- História.

O único ponto que eu posso talvez me atrever a reclamar é como eu queria mais desenvolvimento do relacionamento dos nossos queridos ceifadores, entendo que o fio deles foi cortado, mais imagina o quão lindo seria a história deles juntos assim, agora como ceifadores? Até por que eles não irão reencarnar.


Enfim, é um drama muito bom, digo também, uma obra magnifica que aborda assuntos pesados com respeito e delicadeza, o que deixa toda a situação mais leve de se ver. Esse drama são para pessoas que buscam algo profundo, sério mais delicado, com um certo alívio cômico entre as cenas.

Acredito que super vale a pena esse drama.
Terminado: 21/02/2024.

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You will have a higher EQ after watching this !

When it comes to K-dramas that balance heart, humor, and humanity, Tomorrow stands out as a masterclass. The cast is a massive part of why this drama works so well—they’re magnetic, oozing chemistry and handling their roles with an incredible blend of nuance and depth. Watching them juggle comedy and tragedy so effortlessly was a treat, showcasing a balance even seasoned actors often struggle to achieve.

One of the most compelling aspects of Tomorrow is its anthology-like storytelling. Each episode unravels a new story, shining a light on various social issues, making this series more than just entertainment—it's a conversation starter. The social commentary is where this drama truly soars. From bullying to bulimia, comfort women to elderly isolation, and the often-overlooked realities of the celebrity industry, Tomorrow dives deep.

Most notably, it tackles the weighty subject of suicide with unflinching honesty and profound empathy. As a mental health advocate, I was deeply moved by the show's ability to bring awareness to these topics so thoughtfully. The analogy that suicide is like being trapped in a burning building—choosing to jump rather than endure unbearable pain—was handled with such care, making the message resonate deeply. This show gave me a higher emotional understanding of the pain behind these decisions and the importance of compassion.

The sprinkling of romance was another unexpected but welcome element. I’m a sucker for understated, epic romances, and Tomorrow delivered. It was subtle, meaningful, and beautifully woven into the larger narrative without overshadowing the primary themes.

In short, Tomorrow is a drama that stays with you. It’s heartfelt, socially conscious, and emotionally resonant—a must-watch for anyone who wants their entertainment to leave an impact.

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