A Week Before I Die (2025)

Perfectly Balanced Heartbreaker That Never Lets You Fully Break

This drama is like a friend who tells you a sad story. They know you might cry, they know you might feel guilty, so they throw in a random joke to make you feel better.

To say this drama was a big surprise to me is like saying nothing. When I first found out it existed, I thought it was just one of those short romance dramas, nice to watch, but forgettable after a week.

Way Back Love is anything but what I just described. It's a beautiful story about love, friendship, and learning to accept the guilt you carry from the past. It's definitely a hopeful yet sad journey, but it never felt overwhelming. It never made me feel too hopeful, and never too sad. The director balances all kinds of emotions, and somehow, it just worked for me every single time.

They kept jumping between past and present timelines, but it never felt random. Whenever something heavy happened in one timeline, I was taken to the other in a way that made me feel okay again. It always felt connected. When a character did something in the present that they had also done in the past, I was taken right back there with them to also experience it. The pacing here was great, it never felt boring.

So yeah, you can probably tell by how I described it, the directing here is chef's kiss. One moment the scenography is colorful and full of life, and the next it's bleak and heavy, and every time, the music fits the mood perfectly. Nothing felt out of place.

The performances? Absolutely amazing. I'd only seen both leads briefly in other projects, so maybe that's why I was so surprised. They were both great, but I really have to mention Kim Min Ha, she was just on a completely different level. Her acting felt so natural it honestly didn't feel like acting. It was like someone just said, "Be Jeong Hee Wan," and she just was. Also, shoutout to Jung Gun Joo, really, really good performance too.

Overall, a truly amazing watch. One could say, after reading the synopsis, that this is a story already told many times, and I would even agree. But the key is the execution, and the execution here made it feel really special.

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Life really goes on doesnt it? //maybe spoilers.

all along I had hoped that this won't be the ending but this hit me. it gave me a reality check, this show is truly a masterpiece. Ever since I started this I had hoped that some deity magic will happen like it happened in doom at your service but I was wrong. this was something that made me realize what death really is. This show is truly good and the acting was mindblowing. let's talk about the ending, at first I was like yeah he's gonna come back somehow with the timeskip like I saw on extraordinary you or doom at your service but this hit me very hard. you have to live on after someone dies kim ram woos mother or you could day jung hee wan's mother was living her life but still keeping her son in her heart truly made me cry. the ost and the acting is truly good. I loved kim ram woo's character so much the line "why didn't you ask me to spare you?" truly touched me. I'm still kind of sad I wanted a happy ending for them but I guess this was it I didn't want him to die tbh, no one did. I wanted him to come back desperately and live with hee wan. Atlast the writer truly did a really good job aswell as ths actors and production team.


Thankyou for this masterpiece 💜

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