About Time

It is sooo hard to write a review about this show. Because I loved several things about it but, at the same time, it has so many flaws really impossible to ignore.

PROS
The cast is AMAZING. Lee Sung Kyung and Lee Seong Yoon are perfect in their roles, they have lot of chemistry and, let's face it, they're both so beautiful that just staring at them is fine. The ensemble cast is really, really good too.

The premise is very good and interesting, albeit sad, yet it manages to be funny.

Lovely OST, I specially loved the two main songs "Yesterday" and "Amazing Thing". Mika hopes to become a musical actress , therefore Lee Sang Kyung sings too: I am really impressed by her beautiful voice.

CONS
After a few, very promising episodes, you will slowly realize that the writers of this show have basically no idea of what they're doing. A show that, regardless of its sad premise, managed to be quite funny at the same time, suddenly becomes a tearjerker device: not only Choi Mika's life is about to end, but also the lives of almost everyone she runs into (Lee Do Ha's brother, her actress colleague, her mentor's boyfriend, Lee Do Ha's obsessed ex fiancée): seriously, how many people are supposed to die here, just because the story needs to produce 16 episodes? At the beginning I cried for certain scenes, but later everything was just too ridiculous to be sad.

Many episodes were just repeatedly stating the same concept on and on: Mika will die, but she gains time by sucking Lee Do Ha's time, hence she's so noble that she'd rather die than telling him the truth, and she starts telling lies over lies that shatter his heart in pieces in order to save him. This is what happens in... probably 10 out of 16 episodes. Over and over again. No progression. And, in the end, a very convenient "miracle" gives us the long-awaited happy ending without any real logic explanation. I know it's a fantasy, but I still appreciate some effort from the writers in giving an appropriate resolution and, possibly, with no loose ends. This is NOT what happens here. Which makes anyone's suspension of disbelief basically impossible.

I am really disappointed. With such a great cast and good premise, this show had all the requirements to become a real cult and one of the best. But it wastes its amazing potential along the way and it even looks like who wrote it don't even really care about it. Like: "This is how it ends: it doesn't make much sense, but you'll have to accept it anyway because we're too lazy to put some thought into it". Bummer.

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I was really interested in this show. The idea of the girl who could see the life span clocks of everyone was unusual and intriguing. And for about the first 10 episodes, I really enjoyed it. However, then things changed.

The main female lead started getting on my last nerve with her choices. I liked Lee Sung Kyung in other things so it's not her acting. I think it was the writing for her character that really started to bug me. The on again/off again way that so much of the story was written just became too much for me. It is just riddled with plot lines that are "lets do this, no wait, lets not do this, ok well, maybe lets do this." And I'm not just talking about the main characters story line...it's literally throughout LOTS of the story lines. You just want to shout, "SOMEONE STICK WITH A DECISION ABOUT SOMETHING!"

So, I can't really recommend this show. It's not horrible, but it's not great. It's decently acted and will fill some time for you, so if that's what you are looking for, then it can fill those requirements.

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Ablity to see a person's lifespan is interesting

The synopsis was intriguing. Having the ability to see a person's lifespan makes quite an interesting series to watch. With 16 episodes and a total of 1 hour per episode, it is actually quite ok.

Overall, the series is very nice to watch, quite interesting. Although the vast age difference between the Male and Female lead is interesting. The Male Lead also did a very good job playing the "blur one" most of the time. I would say overall all the casts of this series did a good job bringing life to this series, although I personally wouldn't mind a bit lesser of the psychotic fiance of the Male Lead. Extremely disturbing lady that one! Nonetheless, she did play her role superbly.

The music is also beautifully paired and I really enjoyed the music.

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Let me review this drama by points,

1) Amazing plot ruined by story writer

2) Chemistry between the two main leads not enough. First I think it will grow over the upcoming episodes but I am wrong.

3)Mika's brother relationship with Mika's friend is more interesting than the two main leads.

4) Lead actress performed well than the lead actor

5) If they use this clock concept with perfectly well written story ,this drama will be the best drama of the year.

6) Overall it still watchable if you have time , just give it a try for the handwork of about time drama cast.

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2nd time watching this drama and I liked it better this time around.

I like my stories with a little otherworldly characteristics, so this genre was something I was always going to like. The story was written well, the actors were pretty good, the pacing was also just right. These are the dramas where the actors are so good that you often forget that these are just stories, figment of someone's imagination and not just two people falling in love.

I don't know why I had a wrong memory of this drama, this is probably what happens when you binge watch kdramas with no break in between, the stories all seem very similar making it hard to separate them. You know how in Kdramas there is separation for few days, months, or years due to some pressing reasons and sometimes it is noble idiocy. I thought it was the ML in the drama being a noble idiot, but nah it was the FL. My dislike for the noble idiocy stems from the humiliation of the other person, thankfully, this drama didn't add that.

I like my dramas with just a little bit of angst. This has made my rewatch list.

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Didn't like the ending, didn't really liked the cast, as if there was no chemistry between main male and female actors, but what bothers me the most is that it was pretty much useless. I was hoping one of them would die in the end or something different would happen (I'm a fan of sad endings or some type of endings that aren't happy with this type of storyline), but instead of sad ending they put useless ending instead which destroyed everything I've watched from the first episode.
Would never rewatch this drama, would not recommend to anyone. This is only good as a background if you're doing something else, not a drama to go very deep into trying to understand what's happening when in the end it's a total flop.

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Love is a question of time or timing...

Could be awesome with the wonderful and thrilling idea of the story.

STORY
Life time is imprinted in everyone's skin but only few can see it. One of the few is Choi Mika, a joyful girl that has less than 100 days to live. But...
She encounters Lee Do Ha that can stop her clock and, as she discovers later, even increase her life time.

And the drama is about that. The stage is a cultural enterprise that will produce a Musical show. It deals with practice, actors, castings, etc but I think this is not important to the show. And, at least for me, is a little boring.
They struggle because of the fact that her time increases draining his time. So Choi Mika prefers not to be with him, but he loves her very much...

ACTING - it is good. Everyone does the job, but I like specially Bae Soo Bong (Im Se Mi), even if I find her character weak, even if she resembles being very strong.

OST - it's fine, I don't appreciate very much musical songs.

REWATCH - no, because there are so many shows better for me and I know the outcome of this.

OVERALL
Don't know how I can put my thoughts in order.

Is there a love triangle? Don't think so because Lee Do Ha never thought about Bae Soo Bong.
Don't understand Bae Soo ending like that! I such powerful woman and...she deserves a better ending for her. I think there are not any interesting things happening except the time struggle. Well, the second couple romance is kind of cute.

What is the reason for that ending. I think it is poor, long without addressing some issues and...
It could be so much better...

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Very good plot, but spoilt by side stories

Some generic stuff before the review of the drama: I am from India. My first review here. Used to watch Korean drama clips on Facebook. Very impressive. I don't know the titles of the clips. Very interesting fresh dramas..But then I don't get those clips these days often in my feed for whatever reason. Indian TV dramas are single dimensional. I am not going to crib about it here. I like the way how Korean people apologize each other with a half bent. Very respectful towards others., Elders are treated with respect. Quite close to Indian family standards.

This is my first Korean drama which I watched fully. I was able to finish this one completely because of the impressions i got from other korean dramas.

I am not familiar with the names of the actors. I may use their roles instead.

The plot was very interesting and fresh. In the small clips that I used to see in my feed, I got to see the intro of the drama and I felt it was an interesting perspective. In fact that single scene and the lead actress are the reason the show was watchable for me. I am here reading reviews after watching the ful drama because of the only reason that I am unhappy with the way the interesting plot was messed up because of not so good side stories and unrelated musicals / songs in between ruining the whole plot. I skipped all the songs. It was slowing down the show.

- The whole casting was good. Except that the age difference between the two lead actors was visible. He is a great actor, but for his age. three women fighting over him was bit unacceptable

I totally get that the hero was grim because of his past break-up and if it has been a young actor, someone like that director in the drama, it would have been great.

The best scenes are the ones between the lovers. The actress negative role was also good.

All the sub plots seems okay. Somehow the drama didn't have the same impression i used to get in the clips

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Skip it or Drop it!

I would never recommend this drama to anyone.
It starts off brilliantly with the fascinating "life-span clock" concept, and the chemistry between the actors is good. However, the characters of the ex-girlfriend and Doha's fiancée were overdone.
I began watching it when it was still ingoing because of Lee Sung Kyung, inspired by her previous work "Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Jo", but it turned out to be a waste of time and a disappointment.
The ending was confusing, and there were several plot holes that needed closure and explanation.
I couldn't stop watching this drama because I hadn't yet learned how to let go of things I don't like.
All of this is my opinion!

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About time introduces the viewer with a new concept, the ability to see your time of death. The whole drama revolves around the question, what if you meet someone who can extend your life? So, the premisses are nice enough, the story interesting, the chemistry between the two leads is killing it and the first episodes were sooooo good, it was only a matter of time before this one started to go downhill. And it did. Unfortunately, the musical parts were tiring, the story started getting boring and the twists were just too predictable to entertain. Those things killed the romance, that was so strong and emotional at first. The final ending was good, but I guess a more dramatic one would have been kind of better.

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About Time (2018) - The concept of the drama is really nice, but I think the chosen actors for the drama fell short of my expectations, and eventually made the drama uninteresting for me as a viewer. I did finish this drama for the sake of finishing this one. There is no definite reason behind the clock and all and so I think an answer was not given to me as a viewer to think that it is the main focus of the drama as the name suggest. I think it’s too “romantic” for me, still there are heartbreaking moments especially when it comes to family but I think it gets more tiring at the end part since the comedic part was nowhere to be seen which is what was initially portrayed in the drama. No chemistry between the leads and sorry female lead, this type of character does not really suit you.

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Decepcionante

Esse drama tem um plot muito bom, mas infelizmente eles se perderam no meio e não souberam desenvolver, o que tornou o drama chato e repetitivo.

Preferi mil vezes o casal secundário do que os protas.

E honestamente, esse final foi muito decepcionante. Sem explicações, corrido e confuso. Sofreram um acidente de caminhão e do nada ela para de ver o relógio e tá tudo bem, demorei pra entender que aquelas cenas não eram um flashback. Achei forçado e irreal.

A Mika me irritou horrores com aquele drama desnecessário sobre roubar o tempo dele. Uma única conversa e tudo tava resolvido. E quando você acha que tá tudo bem, que tá resolvido o assunto já que eles conversaram, ela vai lá e foge de novo no último ep por causa disso. Chato e repetitivo.

Enfim, me decepcionou bastante, esperava muito mais.

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