Someday or One Day is one of my favorite dramas, so I was both excited and wary about this remake. I have to say it doesn't fully capture the unrepeteable magic of the original, but as far as remakes go, this is a really good one. They kept the plot and the characters almost intact, and that's why it works. This story is just really f**king good, so as long as you stick to its essence, there's no way you'll end up with a bad show. This version is a bit more confusing, though, since they had to cut and sum up some stuff to fit everything into 12 one-hour episodes, but it still works. The acting is pretty great too. Jeon Yeo Been pulls off the dual role with ease, and I was pleasantly surprised by Ahn Hyo Seop's performance (although nobody will ever top Alice Ko and Greg Hsu). Tbh, my biggest complaint is the cinematography. This remake looks so bland and lifeless when compared to the original. Anyway, I had fun reliving this story through a slightly different lense, and I think A Time Called You will be immensely loved by k-drama fans who haven't watched the masterful original.
It had been a while since I watched a nice romantic comedy. It had a little bit of everything and there was substance in the plot. I liked the characters and their stories. The friendship between Jae Hoon and Yeo Reum feels natural and genuine. And I like the quartet of high school friends: Yeo Reum, Jae Hoon, Dae Shik and Hye Jin.
You could say this series is divided into two parts. The first one is where we see Jae Hoon's love for Yeo Reum. The friendship that he doesn't want to cross, afraid of being rejected because she is still hung up on the finance who left her. Kim In Woo returns after living in the United States for many years. He now wants to get back together with Yeo Reum. She goes back to him mostly because she keeps thinking about how they were before he left. She doesn't want to face the fact that they have both changed.
The second half of the series focuses on how Yeo Reum realizes and faces the fact that she is in love with Jae Hoon. And this happens in the process of producing Kingdom of Love 2 where he became a participant to replace a person who left at he last minute. But in this reality show will also be participating the young woman his mother made him have a blind date with months ago.
Here we are introduced to another set of characters that also caught my attention. I became invested in Ji Wan's and Chef John's story. Chef John, who had been a jerk in the first part of the series, gets to show us a different side of him that makes us forget that first side we saw earlier.
I won't go into too many details, but I liked how each character faces their sadness, difficulties and move on. I like the fact that those characters we learned to care for have their happy ending.
This is a really sweet story and I recommend it!
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I think I fall in love with every leading man in most of the Kdramas that I watch.… LOL. Koreans have this undescribable way of pulling out emotions from me with these stories. Sometimes, days, even weeks after the series ends, my mind keeps going back to those particular characters and many of them I actually miss. You may think me silly, but isn’t that the purpose of watching TV and movies? My own life is boring and dull, so these characters fill a much needed void. Thank you to the story writers, screenplay writers, directors, film crew, but especially to the actors and actresses that bring these characters to life for me every day. This list is not in any specific order.
So, who are my lost loves?
(1) Memories of the Alhambra:
I lost two loves in this series. First, why did Seo Jung-Hoon (played by Min Jin-Woong) have to die?? 😭😭
He was cute by his own right and so kind, sincere, and caring. But his dedication to his boss, Jin-Woo (Bin Hyun), went above and beyond. He took everything that Jin-Woo hashed out in stride and with a sense of humor. He even learned the game to assist his boss with moving up levels and that is what got him killed. But he resurfaced in the game as an ally and does continue to defend his boss. I cried and cried when Jin-Woo had to stab and kill his secretary’s character in the game so that the game would reset.
Secondly, Hyun Bin, even when being a jerk, is lovable. He is so charismatic! The more you learned about Yoo Jin-Woo (played by Hyun Bin) the more you cared for him because you could understand where his anger was coming from. And despite being hard-core on the outside, on the inside he was very vulnerable. This series ends with Jin-Woo disappearing in reality only to be found, still alive, within the game itself. 😢 Season two is a must! Jin-Woo needs to be found!
(2) Hyde, Jekyll, me:
I miss Robin (played by Hyun Bin)! I know he was incooperated into Goo Seo-Jin’s personality, but with the combination of both personalities, it’s still a different person. Robin was the best! He was selfless, fun loving, protective and he wasn’t afraid to show his emotions. Everyone loved him. It’s a shame he wasn’t the one to “survive”. 😢
(3) Vincenzo:
Played by Song Joong-Ki. He’s not dead, just ‘missing’. He’s very far away in another country and he’s keeping his whereabouts hidden. Come back Vincenzo! I miss you!
(4) Mouse:
I lost two loves in this series, also. Kim Young-Ok plays the grandmother that was stabbed to death by the serial killer. Later we discover that the serial killer was our sweet and kind officer, Jeong Ba-Reum. Grandmother was murdered by someone she knew and trusted. 😭
Which brings me to my 2nd lost love, Jeong Ba-Reum played by Lee Seung-Gi. I know he ended up being a psychopathic serial killer, but as the sweet, kind, helpful and caring officer, he took my heart.
After his brain surgery he began to feel emotions that he had never felt before. Watching him, as guilt and compassion started causing him pain, made me 😞 sad. Oh, he totally deserved it, but it still made me sad. The worst though was he in the church alone and dying. I still want to cry just thinking about it.
(5) Crash Landing on You:
He was such a player but why did Seong-Joon (played by Kim Jung-Hyun) have to die just as he started caring about someone other than himself?
He was at the airport. He would have survived. But he actually cared for Dan, who was kidnapped, so Seong-Joon went back to rescue her. He succeeded but it cost him his own life.
Writers: Oh Hye Won & Park Seul Ki (based on the webtoon by Song Jung Won)
Mini-review:
Well, this drama was entertaining, but nothing more. It was especially funny at the beginning, thanks to that sort of 'rivalry' between the leads. However, once they solved that and started moving into purely romantic territory, the story began to lose steam quickly. Tbh, I kept watching to the very end because of the sizzling chemistry between Jeon Jong Seo and Moon Sang Min. And I guess I wanted to see how in the world they were gonna clear up the mess created by the characters, which was pretty fascinating. I feel like the show would have been better if the director had put more thought into its style, cause the whole thing looked pretty cheap and bland. But still, Wedding Impossible is fun enough, and I can see fans of classic romcoms enjoying it a lot.