BEFORE YOU CONSIDER THE MDL's RATING...

I liked it. You might like it too. It's a hit or miss.

The major let down for most people who didn't enjoy this was the pacing of the story. The answers to the snowballing mystery were initially given too slow. And when this happens, the audience are bound to lose their attention and forget what the original suspense was about.

I personally did not mind this. The writer still managed to hook me into the mystery. and as each week passed, I found myself growing more and more ravenous for answers. For some, this will deter them from coming back to watch it due to the lack of trust in the plot as the answers to the mystery weren't delivered in a timely manner. But for myself and others alike, this will compel us to drop all our work and chores to stream it the second it the episode is available.

This show is definitely a hit or miss. It is one that requires patience to be enjoyed. The story slowly builds up with suspence and only rewards the audience with answers until the last remaining episodes. It is really down to preference, but for me, when the answers to the main mysteries were rewarded (after sitting through 10 episodes of confusion, frustration and having absolutely no idea to what is going on in this unpredictable plot) it felt very liberating.

The acting was decent. I liked it. This wasn't a surprise as I was familiar with Cho Yeo Jung from Parasite and Kim Young Dae from Extraordinary You. I haven't heard of the other lead actors until now, but they did a good job.

The show didn't have a particularly wide range of music scores, but regardless I found the OST enjoyable, especially the ending theme 'O.V.E.R.' by Suran. The song gave me a lot of sweet psycho vibes, which suited this drama very well.

I'd say give this show a chance. As I said, you'd either really like it if you have patience, or drop it. I mean, the worst possible outcome is that it's not your cup of tea, and that's okay, at least you gave it a shot.

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This drama was indeed very fun to watch!

I am a hopeless romantic and absolutely loves rom-com cliches, but this is one of the very few shows that makes me forget about romance. If anyone out there is a little turned off because of the face that there won't be any romantic scenes, STOP. Seriously, the clever storyline and incredible acting will make up for it.

SPOILERS AHEAD!!
I felt the ending was poignant. Sure, LJH's character went through another reset and saved NJH's character. But going by theories of how parallel universes and time travel work in the universe, there are multiple timelines where Shin Ga Hyung remains dead, along with all the other reset participants. And, out of all the other timelines created, only one existed where the main protagonist was alive. It was definitely bittersweet when Ji Hyung Joo went beyond his efforts to revive his partner and create a new timeline, but I can't get the idea out of my head that the characters I've grown so fondly met such tragic fates multiple times in different universes, and there is nothing that could reverse that.

The only negative thing about this drama was that because there were so many plot twists and the storyline was intricately written, it is quite hard to rewatch it because you don't feel that thrill of 'What's going to happen next!?!?' anymore. If only I could forget everything about this drama just so I could watch it again and feel the thrill once more...

***this is not a kdrama, but when I was watching this, it reminded me so much of the film 'Searching'! I totally recommend this movie if you loved this kdrama. The move 'Searching' has an insane amount of mindblowing plot twists to the point I was gripping the edge of my seat throughout the full duration of being in the movie theatre, and I was unable to trust every single character! It was of the few movies that left me going like '...holy shit'. And a bonus to this is that it has Asian representation (main actor is Korean American I think) in a Holywood film, which I absolutely love!!!

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