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Hi Bye, Mama! korean drama review
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Hi Bye, Mama!
1 people found this review helpful
by MaikuFX
Aug 26, 2020
16 of 16 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 10
Story 10.0
Acting/Cast 9.5
Music 8.5
Rewatch Value 8.5
This review may contain spoilers

Everything about this show was perfect

'Hi, Bye Mama' to me was perfect in everyway, I found no faults with the drama. The whole premise of a mother dying for her baby then coming back to life 5 years later for 49 is very intresting but sad. This is the first show to where I can fully say I did not dislike a single character in the whole show. Normally I would dislike one of the leads in dramas due to the way they are put in the story but with this, instead of disliking them I loved them instead. I would normally not like Min Jeong because she'd be a threat to Yu Ri for getting back with Gang Hwa but instead she was the most graceful person here.

First off with Yu Ri, I couldn't feel anything but sorry for her. She died protecting Seo Woo and then lived as a ghost for 5 years watching over Gang Hwa and Seo Woo to make sure they were okay and what was heartbreaking was when anything bad was happening to them she couldn't do anything but watch because she cant talk nor touch them so she would just suffer while watching them. The whole 49 judgement days were quite cruel because halfway through I realised that it was judging her on wether she would be selfless or selfish and she was probably the most selfless person In the show, every action she did was for someone else and she wasn't greedy in the slightest. Her relationship with Seo Woo was really fun to watch but also heartbreaking aswell, in the 49 days she had Seo Woo didn't know she was her Mom and never called her Mom once so that mustv'e broke her heart everytime. When Yu Ri was saying goodbye to Seo Woo and Seo Woo said 'Goodbye Mom' that was the most saddest moment in the show because that was the first and last time she would hear the words 'Mom' from Seo Woo and it breaks my heart. Yu Ri literally makes us queation ourselves because in the fact that If we left now and came back for 49 days, would we do what she did and be selfless because I know for a fact 75% would be greedy and live thier life like they want to.

Gang Hwa character really hurts to watch at times because he went through 13 years of being with Yu Ri thinking he would grow old with her watching Seo Woo get married and live her life but instead in the blink of an eye his world gets torn down by the sudden death of his Wife. When he met Min Jeong and his time started to start again, he finally picked himself back up but in the back of his head when he was happy with her and every positive emotion he felt, he would be hit with a pang of guilt reminding himself of Yu Ri and he would feel terrible. His relationship with both Yu Ri and Min Jeong are both beautiful in thier own way and are both the lights in which make him feel better again. At the end of the show when he had to accept that Yu Ri is going to die again, you can clearly see that the time in which stopped 5 years ago has actually started again and whenever he thought of Yu Ri he would have a smile on his face.

Min Jeong in my opinion is such an amazing character, evrn though she didn't know Yu Ri was Seo Woo's mom she treated her like a best friend and was glad to have met her. When she found out that Seo Woo's mom has been her friend for a while and it was Yu Ri I have no possible idea how she must of felt when she cried. She loved Seo Woo even though that she didn't give birth to her but despite that she did. She was consistantly very caring and kind throughout the whole show and we never saw a bad side of her. Min Jeong was a main character but was a secondary main and normally I don't like them at first and they get redeemed later on but not once did I not like her, her relationship with Yu Ri was beautiful and after she Yu Ri died again she probably cherished those moments and loved Seo Woo and Gang Hwa even more so Yu Ri didn't have to worry about them.

Just quickly with Seo Woo, I'm going to guess that she got told that the pretty aunt that she was with when she was five was her birth mother as at the end we see that she kept the picture of her and her dad inside the book so that she wouldn't forget her. She probably considers both Yu Ri and Min Jeong as her moms and will cherish them both,

I want to quickly talk about the ghosts. Even though they were not main characters, whenever they had a story to tell I cried for them which is unlike me because I normally only care about the main but the way they told the story of the ghosts and treated them as indivuals with thier own story was amazing. Especially that kid at the start who was the cause of Seo Woo going into the freezer, that kids story had me crying more than any main lead I have cried to which showed just how much thish show cared for its casts.

The OST was just perfect for this show, I liked how they didn't overuse them and used just the right ones for the right moment so the scene would feel more special and that was probably one of the reasons why I cried so much during my time watching this drama.

Overall this drama was just amazing, If your looking for a Romantic Comedy then this is not teh show for you, This show is more a show of healing and shows us what someone would do if they died unfairly and had 49 days to live left. If your looking for a show where you want to like whole cast and love the story without feeling empty at the ending I whole heartedly wish you would watch this show and give it a try.

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