DramaAjumma

Wow... this is good. Excellent actually. Reminds me a tad of the US tv series Grimm while incorporating K sensibilities and social issues.

It's a lovely drama. Does everything right as far as I'm concerned.

This is such a beautiful drama about grief and the inability of those who are left behind to move on because memories can have such a powerful effect on trauma -- that debilitating imprisoning effect.

What this show does it does so well.

My daughter who has read the webtoon in its entirety told me that I should watch this drama and so out of curiosity. I did. Surprise. Surprise. I really like the first three episodes. It's very rare that I'm sold on a drama right off the bat but I was with this one. I think I know why they picked Ahn Bo-hyun for the lead role. He projects that "lost boy" vibe quite well. Very similar to his role in Kairos.
I'm really enjoying the interactions between the leads.

My favourite character by the end has to be Aziz. He's a wonderful addition.

I'm glad I persisted past the first two episodes. This is probably the best rom com I've seen a while. It does a really good job of blending the romance and the office hijinks while twisting the beats and subverting expectations.

Mostly the latter.

This is my problem with the first couple of episodes and almost put me off the show entirely. But once you get towards the end of the fourth episode, it does get better.

I'm glad I persevered. As a time travel police procedural it was so-so and derivative. More of a MacGuffin really. The serial killer's motives were somewhat anticlimactic -- shoehorned to fit in with the show's primary themes. As a second-chance family healing drama, however, it was pretty good. The show would probably have benefitted from a lower episode count and tighter storytelling. The pacing is inconsistent punctuated by long stretches of talky moments that could be trimmed. Although I think the leads did have some chemistry (and were good in their roles), I don't think they were well-directed in the romance department.

Overall I enjoyed it. More entertaining than many of the popular dramas that I've seen this year.

I've done 3 episodes but boy, already this feels like a poor distant cousin of Back to the Future, Tunnel, 365 and the K version of Life on Mars (All far superior stories). I don't really like it when characters who find themselves in a different dimension or era act like they know exactly what's going on and bumble around turning over rocks without any circumspection. I don't like that kind of writing. It just breaks immersion.

Will persevere for one more episode.

It's rather over praised to my mind.

Personally, from my perspective, you're right on the money with your comments. This show has a lot of problems with its messaging because the script isn't properly thought through and it lacks cohesion. It lacks depth which is why everything feels inconsequential.
Honestly, even if you don't end up finishing this, you're not missing a whole lot. The actors put in great performances but the storytelling is mediocre at best.

I really enjoyed this one. Reminds me of a good old fashion 80s or 90s action flick. Lee Jun-hyuk was effectively villainous in this.

Well, that's not true actually. The revenge is a really big part of the show. It is the rationale behind just about everything that goes bad in the show. And of course all the noble idiocy that ensues. In fact the trial is the culmination of said revenge plan. That's why the way it plays out has to be done properly because of all the build up that came before.

Only at the cinemas at the moment. Check your local cinema.

The trial at the end was a farce -- almost as bad as the presscon at the end of Reborn Rich. It's like watching an episode of the Jerry Springer show with all the parties bickering in front of the camera. I'm just surprised that Song Woo-byeok didn't jump out of his seat and throw punches at Oh Tae-soo.

Thank God someone said this. Thank you. True the show has nuggets of gold. But honestly, the titular character is just one of worst characters ever written in a K drama. She's not a character but a plot device.

I don't have a problem with tv shows depicting what happens in real life. I've spent a lifetime watching crime shows which is proof of that. But crime shows generally know when moral and ethical lines are crossed and portray them accordingly. Here however the ambiguities (at best) justifying Mother's "tough love" is troubling. The use of flashbacks and comments by other characters seem to point to Mother being a sympathetic figure whose actions are justified because she had a tragic life and has to do it tough as a single mum.

I'm also very uncomfortable with attributing cultural mores to some of Mother's parenting style. I too am "Asian", brought up by "Asians", spent my formative years living in "Asia". "Asian" parents exist on a spectrum and they aren't a monolithic group of extremes. Especially in the 21st century. I am especially troubled by the show's mixed messaging regarding people with disability whether or not intentional. The whole incident of pushing Kang-ho to walk reeks of abuse. But then the neighbours talk about it as a miracle from on high. Maybe it was and I would have bought into that narrative if the show hadn't predicated it by Mother pushing Kang-ho off the wheelchair and forcing him to walk.

Is the show condoning abuse? Because a lot of what Mother does in the name of tough love can be interpreted as abuse. Especially all the things that she does to get Kang-ho walking again. The show also appears to paint her as a sympathetic figure. I can't help feeling somewhat manipulated because it tugs at the heartstrings in relation to the Mother-Son dynamic. On the one hand it implies her methods are over-the-top but on the other hand, they work. What if they didn't? Mother knows best?

Is Lee Do-hyun the father of twins again?

First two episodes are a hoot. Love the black comedy.
But Mum's idea of tough love is a hard sell.