Emotional rollercoaster with a required pinch of happiness with amazing actors.
The moral of the story really got reflected in every episode " There is no biggest crime than taking your own life, just never give up".I always seek for cute romantic series but I dont know why this drama without a peck of romance made me feel 100% satisfied. I waiting for every ep to get released eagerly without fail. I guess I cried on every ep without even realising for good, I used to tell my roomies not to worry if i start crying all of a sudden on friday & saturday nights (I am happily crying).
I really loved the serial and hope to have a season 2 ,its totally worth! They have left more scope for S2. Other than that i am happy with how the drama ended but I positively hope Rawoon just die faster and go back to RM team as soon as possible and save more lives as a team and give us more ep to watch.
*Fingers crossed*
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Have a fresh way of dealing with such a heavy topic!
TW: Mentioned su1c1d3.The show is about a team of two grim reapers who tryna save suicidal people. Junwoong is a living human but he accidentially meddled in their business and got in a coma. When he was in a coma, he decided to become the third member of this team.
Honestly I didn't expect to love this show this much! It has been out for a while but I didn't hear anyone raved about it so I was just whatever although I saw netflix recommended it to me. I got bored one day and decided to just watch one ep, you know, see how it goes.
I got hooked from the first two eps, and then binge-watched it in two days. I couldn't stop it was so good and so refreshing! I saw reviews on here saying that they didn't like that Junwoong didn't have a back story despite being the MC. Personally I found it so refreshing! I'm tired of MCs with complex, miserable backgrounds. I mean, cuz almost everyone is like that already. It's so good to finally have a MC who's just straight up a BIG golden retriever in and out I was crushing on him sooo hard. He's so thoughtful and kind and positive and like dumb but kinda wholesome. I lovee the whole main cast.
The topic they chose was so heavy but they executed it pretty well. I am a suicide survivor myself and although i don't think they fully captured the complexity of the inner world of suicidal people, nor did they actually suggest a good way to support suicidal people, but they didn't disrespect. Like, they didn't talk about it lightly, like it's no big deal, but at the same time, they didn't make the show too dark that it couldn't reach the heart of people. It feels like how good outsiders think ab suicidal people, which I think is good bc i dont think ppl would understand if the story was written from the suicidal people's pov. There are many encouraging quotes, personally I like it when Mr.Park said humans are supposed to still move on even when they're in pain and misery kinda. I feel like many people can relate to the stories (although not me but it's really difficult to influence me so it doesn't count) and feel a bit more at ease by them. Oh and it's kinda comforting to feel that I'll prolly be alright even after I leave this world one day. I love how the loveline was kinda unexpected as well (although I could tell very early on but still, I love how it was very subtle). It's a very healing show overall. Really fun, everyone is so nice and wholesome, especially the big boss lady she's so kind and wise i love her so much. Idk what more to say it's the best kdrama i have watched lately. If you don't like kdramas that focus on romance, and you just want something fun and easy to watch, nothing too intense, you gonna love this. Kinda has the vibe of Attorney Woo (maybe even better), minus the loveline.
The latter half of the show is a bit rushed, but it's still okay. I love how none of them could really stay out of others' business or be professional they just had to get involved lmao. All of them just care so much it's wholesome.
I'll end my review with a quick comparison cuz the MCs feel like different types of animals:
Mr. Park: A black panther
Ms. Koo: A (strict) bunny
Assistant Lim: A grumpy cat
The big boss lady: A bear
Junwoong: As said above, a BIG puppy
They're all so amazing. Junwoong is prolly my fav character but tbh i like everyone.
Just watch it it's really entertaining but so underrated! I may watch it again prolly years later.
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Casting made the whole show.
Kim Hee Sun is a genius, Rowoon is the only male actor today that could portray this character and Su Hyuk has the best arresting face. Casting was absolutely the thing that this show the success it is, along with some pretty damn good storytelling. And I dare to say that this is and will still be one of the best portrayed sexual tension in tv history. Also, the ending Hee Sun and Su Hyuk characters' had was like getting hit by a Mack truck. Did not see that coming. Ever. This one deserved, at least, another 10 episodes.Was this review helpful to you?
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A drama that shows you reality
My main reason for watching tomorrow was lee soo hyuk. But in the end its everything about this drama that made me stay. The first episode was marely setting the premises.Tomorrow is based on the webtoon with same name but other than the drama name, character names and sub plots the drama was very different from the webtoon.
Every sub story made me cry rivers. The pain and the reasons why people choose to end their lives weren't grand but they were realistic.
I love lee soo hyuk but Yoon Jion was a surprise for me in this drama. Lim Ryun gu and his mother's arc made me cry a lot. I hope you get lot of work after tomorrow.
Kim Hee sun is obviously a star and no one would have played this role better than her. Rowoon is the best idol turned actor i would say. Choi Jun woong was a kind hearted person and deserved good things only.
There is nothing I disliked except I think Park Joong Gil deserved a better ending but since tomorrow was not romance I will still accept what we got.
The lessons that this drama taught I hope people can implement them in their lives.
We need more dramas like this.
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taking the concept of afterlife on another level
okay to start off...wonderful concept ! I have never gotten this emotional while watching a drama before. it was like ,I feeling the actual pain of the suicidal cases show in this drama ..the way my eyes were filled with tears on each case. even koo ryeon case ! she was in Soo much pain. the love she had for jungil and the way she hid it. how much pain would she have felt when the love of her life was right in front of her eyes ,but neither did he recognize her nor did he love her.He resented her ..they had a happy ending though! but I did not like the ending to be honest ! they shouldn't have made him rowoon forget about the time he spent with the grim reapers and jumadeung.like I felt like the whole point of drama was just like destroyed ..he doesn't remember all that time ? and if they made him forget because he knew grim reapers and all..why were all suicidal cases seeing and remembering grim reapers ..even the last singer ! she knew about everything. and she was his destiny so she can just meet him and like tell him everything!Was this review helpful to you?
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A DRAMA I WOULD RE-WATCH OVER AND OVER AGAIN
Tomorrow was my comfort drama during the weekends. It served as my reward for a job well done during the workdays. Some might find the theme disturbing but it tackles the topics the society has to recognize in order for us to live in a less cruel world.The cast were well picked and they gave their characters the justice it deserves. I must say Kim Hee Sun slayed her character as Koo Ryeon, a modern girl boss with a tragic Joseon past. Her over-all aura in the series made me want to grow up exactly like her sans the tragic past but not excluding Park Joong Gil my latest dream guy. I was just sad that her story with Joong Gil was revealed in the latter part. It would have brought us much more pain knowing earlier that Joong Gil was Ryeon's husband. I was suspicious of Joong Gil's character on the first part of the series. However I fell in love with him on his Joseon Era. His love for Ryeon was so true and pure that it surpassed several lifetimes. The transition of his cold gaze and stare turned into looks of love and longing for his wife melted my heart. I mean. He's one of a KIND! Who doesn't want a man like that? A man who is ready to protect and sacrifice.
I had a gut feeling that there will be a Season 2 because it is open ended and hints were dropped in the last two episodes. Before the end of the episode, my suspicion would be a prequel where it will feature the back stories of the reapers in the Joseon era especially Joong Gil after the death of Ryeon. But when Ryeon mentioned "After 50 years" the plot for the possible Season 2 was sealed. Nevertheless, it was an excellent drama the ending was happy yet open ended but it doesn't make it a less appealing one. So netflix & mbc, the netizens are clamoring for a second season! Why not give us the S2 we deserve?
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Unique, edgy and brilliant
One of my top ten favourite kdramas from the past few years. Unforgettably sad, unforgettably funny. A fusion fantasy/scifi/healing drama about an understaffed, experimental and not very gentle team of Grim Reapers tasked with easing the pressure that Korea's high suicide rate is putting on an overcrowded Hell.A Korean Hell just for Koreans, by the way -- one of my favourite scenes has the head of the Grim Reaper Escort Team, Park Joong Gil (played by Lee Soo Hyuk), rescuing a group of Korean souls during WWII who were being stolen off to a Japanese Hell by a pair of Japanese Reapers!
The Team Manager of the euphemistically named Risk Management Team of the Jumadeung Corporation is a parolee from Hell. Koo Ryeon (played by Kim Hee Sun) has a tough love approach to her work. For example, scaring silly a van full of would-be suicides who are using online instructions, by driving the wrong way through traffic. They beg to be allowed to live. In other cases she uses her supernatural powers when scare tactics dont work.
Her only employee is Lim Ryung Gu (played by Yun Ji On) who refuses to work more than his 8 hr shift (so rebellious in SK context!). The Jade Emperor(ess), the CEO of the squeakily antiseptic white-walled corporate Jumadeung skyscraper, decides to add a recently comatose soul wandering freely as a temporary worker to the team. Choi Jun Woong (played by Kim Seok Woo a.k.a. Rowoon) had just begged the heavens to give him an employee ID card by any means, when he fell off a Han River bridge trying to stop a suicide jumper.
The Team is alerted to each case by a 'negative energy' alert monitor app and they use a variety of scifi methods to investigate each one: entering the subject's dreams or their memories (with very Matrix-like FX), observations of their work environments along with persuasion on a personal level.
Jun Woong slowly transforms Koo Ryeon's approach to suicide prevention as he matures from a bumbling and irrepressible newbie into a hugely compassionate and effective intervention agent. The absolute and pure warmth of Rowoon's performance elevates what would have been a grittily comic Reaper story into something only Korea could have produced, a full length (16 eps at 1hr ea.) clear-eyed depiction of the cascade of forces which drive a person to fear tomorrow more than death.
I stopped at over two dozen listing all of the misfortunes woven into the stories of the dozen or so individual cases the Team handles, Each crisis is developed in original ways, often with an interesting point of view. An excellent compilation of the pressures of life in Korea, some of which are universal but some of which are unique to the history and sociological culture of the peninsula.
One woman feels so guilty over not believing the stories of the suffering of the Korean 'comfort women' enslaved into prostitution by the Japanese Army of WWII because her best friend was taken by them, that she contemplates taking her life. The Team asks her to meet with another sufferer who wanted to see someone who had known their mutual friend before she passed away, and so their pain is sweetly dissolved through tears.
The IMF crisis which deprived so many families of their livelihoods is seen through the eyes of a little child who only remembers a miraculous birthday, and the fried chicken event staged by the team helps to save him as an adult struggling with exam failure. The threads connecting the past with the present have seldom been so delicately indicated,
The show balances the unchanged penalty for suicide in the afterworld as a crime, with deeply moving episodes portraying individual suffering which elicits compassion from the viewer. The joy of Tomorrow is two-fold; it is exhilarating to watch Koo Ryeon stomping the bejeezus out of all the cruel and thoughtless people who torment others to make themselves feel better, and Rowoon's unique ability to project sincere love and care is as always a pleasure. Compassion is the true message of this beautiful show.
A StudioN/MBC show, with the composers Jo Seung Woo and Won Ho Kyung. The creators of the show, the writers,-- Park Ran, Park Ja Kyung and Kim Yu Jin, and the directors, Kim Tae Yoon and Sung Chi Wook, deserve enormous credit. Hoping to see more of their work.
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Incredibly emotional - bring tissues!!
I don't think I've ever watched a TV series that made me feel so many different feelings. I cried during so many episodes. Sadness, happiness, empathy, sympathy and compassion.The main characters are deep with beautiful stories, and the people they work to save have incredible stories of their own, we can learn a lot by paying attention to what they teach in this show. I will remember these lessons and make an effort to live a better life thankful for what I have after seeing so many people who have had things worse or have felt a hopelessness that I have personally never had to face.
This is definitely a ahow I recommend to anyone who enjoys feeling the broad spectrum of virtually everything within the time span of an episode. I howpe others enjoy it as much as I have.
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A bit sad but happy ending
Most episodes of the series are sad which I normally don't go for but I am content with the ending. I was perfect and not illogical or incomplete as the last couple of episodes were hinting at.The story is kind of mixed but overall is about a team of grim reapers who saves people from committing sucides.
I think it would have been presented a bit better if they would have include more scenes showing how happy people's lives long were after they were saved.
A bit rushed ending but I liked it. It's kind of perfect. As him having his memories would have been illogical and since living humans cant be grim reapers he cants just to stay fully alive and continued working.
2 things I didn't like about the series
* Sad
* They started with something else but the base story was changed as the episodes progressed.
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If you want to watch it, buy some tissues.
Although being the Grim Reaper is associated with taking lives, here we meet a very unique team - the Crisis Management Team, which is dedicated to discouraging people from committing suicide.In almost every episode, we follow the fate of another unhappy man standing on the edge of the abyss, thanks to which we learn many painful stories. We also learn about the backstories of the main characters, the Reapers.
I think you can learn something valuable from every story in this series. And cry, so for those who plan to watch this series - I recommend buying a large amount of tissues.
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Phenomenal
This drama is truly excellent. The writing, the acting, the production, everything was amazing. I will assume that you have read the synopsis and are aware of just how dark this show can be. This show brings up extremely upsetting and heartbreaking topics, forcing us as viewers to acknowledge their existence and see what damage they can cause. I do warn you that the episodes can be extremely hard to watch so be sure to check descriptions so that you can prepare yourself some. Overall, this drama is absolutely fantastic and I highly recommend that you watch it.Was this review helpful to you?
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A sad fairy tale
Tomorrow had many aspects that truly appealed to me: a compelling cast and an exciting setting with grim reapers and ghosts. I'd say that in itself was enough to give this drama a try. I personally think that episodic dramas can be very addicting if they're done right. Tomorrow concentrated on dark and sad stories where our main characters were working to keep people from taking their own life. I liked the narrative of "the one who can save you is you yourself" because, let's be real, most of us are struggling with things in our lives, be it body image or self-confidence. Those are things that we humans are usually our own enemies. Someone might have brought your confidence down at some point but you decided to believe their words. I feel like that narrative truly is heartbreaking when you think about it. I related to some of these stories and cried over most of them. Death as a topic is definitely risky for a drama but I think that Tomorrow did moderately well with the Christian model that they had chosen. I do not agree with heaven and hell and most definitely I do not think that suicide is a sin. However, in a drama, that idea is an interesting topic to discuss.Now to my least favorite part of the drama. The overall plot of the main characters was disappointing. While I enjoyed the episodic stories, I can not really say the same about the main characters. The show brushed past too many interesting plot points and characters but decided to do nothing with them. Joon Woong's friend and the last girl that they saved were almost completely brushed aside in the last episode and I thought it was very disappointing. Considering that he was the first character introduced, I wished they had cared a little bit more about his story. Goo Ryung and Joong Gil's story was so much anticipated but it truly fell flat. They showed too many flashbacks and bits in the earlier episodes that when the final story finally was shown, I felt like I had already seen all of this. There was nothing new from what I had already gathered.
In episodic dramas, I personally feel like the smaller stories obviously have to be good but you can't abandon your main characters. In Tomorrow I truly felt like the main three main characters mentioned above ended up not feeling like the main characters at all.
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