Rewatched it recently and it's still as amazing. Ep 8 had me breaking down once more like no tomorrow. Every episode had. Istg Lee Do Hyun is actually one of my favourite actors of all time. This man can ACT. Name one other person that can act like an old man in the body of a teenager, pretending to be a teenager, but failing miserably. Like, you can't even tell there is a big age difference between him and the main actress, cuz boy, oh, boy the chemistry was chemistrying man. It was off the charts. And it didn’t even feel weird in the slightest, cuz boy wasn't even pretending to be 18. Only Lee Do Hyun people! ONLY HIM!!
The way this show shot up to the top of my favourite Korean dramas of all time is actually not funny. I love the movie 17 Again, the best thing Zac Efron did after High School Musical, so when I found out there was a Korean re-make I jumped on that without a second thought. I thought it was going to be something stupid and goofy as the original with some heartfelt moments, BUT BOY, OH BOY, WAS I WRONG. This show was nothing but an emotional wreck with heartfelt moments that had goofiness sprinkled in. I was so scared they were gonna keep the weird incestuous undertones, but I'm so glad they go above and beyond to make sure there are no misunderstandings anywhere.
This wasn't just a show about a guy turning 18 and getting back his life, this was about a guy returning to 18 and re-learning about his life and how valuable everything is to him. And not just him, but the whole family. They all start to realise just how important their father/husband is to them, despite them all not giving two shits about him before. This is how you write flawed characters, and watching them all learn and grow as people was one of my favourite things ever. The moment I started sobbing uncontrollably in episode 3, I knew this show was going to be unreplaceable in my heart. And don't even get me started on the little snippets of the baby twins and the ML in the end credits, every single one of them had me crying like no tomorrow. All these problems weren't something ridiculous or out of this world, it was just real-life mundane issues. Communication. Lack of time. Explosions after bottling up emotions for too long. They were human, they felt human, and it was why it was so much sweeter and heart-wrenching to watch them progress as the show goes because they start realising their mistakes and learn how to improve on that. And FL and ML only loving each other even after the divorce is just the kinda of romance you don't see everyday.
I have so much love for this show that words could not describe it.
The way this show shot up to the top of my favourite Korean dramas of all time is actually not funny. I love the movie 17 Again, the best thing Zac Efron did after High School Musical, so when I found out there was a Korean re-make I jumped on that without a second thought. I thought it was going to be something stupid and goofy as the original with some heartfelt moments, BUT BOY, OH BOY, WAS I WRONG. This show was nothing but an emotional wreck with heartfelt moments that had goofiness sprinkled in. I was so scared they were gonna keep the weird incestuous undertones, but I'm so glad they go above and beyond to make sure there are no misunderstandings anywhere.
This wasn't just a show about a guy turning 18 and getting back his life, this was about a guy returning to 18 and re-learning about his life and how valuable everything is to him. And not just him, but the whole family. They all start to realise just how important their father/husband is to them, despite them all not giving two shits about him before. This is how you write flawed characters, and watching them all learn and grow as people was one of my favourite things ever. The moment I started sobbing uncontrollably in episode 3, I knew this show was going to be unreplaceable in my heart. And don't even get me started on the little snippets of the baby twins and the ML in the end credits, every single one of them had me crying like no tomorrow. All these problems weren't something ridiculous or out of this world, it was just real-life mundane issues. Communication. Lack of time. Explosions after bottling up emotions for too long. They were human, they felt human, and it was why it was so much sweeter and heart-wrenching to watch them progress as the show goes because they start realising their mistakes and learn how to improve on that. And FL and ML only loving each other even after the divorce is just the kinda of romance you don't see everyday.
I have so much love for this show that words could not describe it.
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