I am surprised to see many comments here which is contrary to what I felt. Its an amazing drama both in terms…
I agree. I too enjoyed this drama. The only thing I can agree with the people that complain about this drama was the forced romance. I enjoyed Kame's acting here especially the emotional scenes talking about his mother.
Anytime I am feeling down, I'm going to rewatch this drama or watch the scenes between Oguri Shun and Ishihara Satomi. It's my new comfort drama. Anytime I look back at this drama, I can't help but smile. The chemistry the 2 had were astonishing.
I strongly have some similar feelings of this drama like your review. Although most people thought the first 10 episodes or the episodes involving the older Hye Ja was boring, I thought it was good. I liked how she accepted being an elderly person and the lessons she learned/taught along the way.
Then that plot twist for the last 2 episodes confused me. Everything that happened was just a dream of Hye Ja who is actually a elderly person. So her "brother" doesn't have a sister after all. I felt a little upset because of how invested I was in the plot of how she became a elderly person and how she would eventually transform back to her "normal" self. I also wondered how they would connect all of the moments she interacted and impacted Joon Ha's life to the eventual romantic happy ending. Although there is a comment by a user named TuRaCh that better explained how the life she lived in her dream connected to the actual present. The ending to this drama shows her son realizes her mother Hye Ja actually did love him when he discovers that she was the one sweeping the snow off the stairs and such so he wouldn't slip.
Some things I don't understand is how she became more of a lively caring person as she became old compared to how she looked dead inside younger when she raised her son. Or how the thugs in her dream now work in the hospital as good people. That one irritated me.
Those last 2 episodes were very difficult to watch after seeing what her past was like. First Hye Ja and Joon Ha's son gets hit by a car and loses his leg in this accident. Then Joon Ha is trapped in the jail while being questioned and beaten. Maybe I forgot but did they ever explain to what was the reason he had to be questioned and then beaten to death? The scene that hit very deep is when she goes to the police station to retrieve her husbands ashes and items only to find out the watch she gave him is not there. She confronts the douchebag officer and sees him wearing the watch which she starts to explode. When she started to scream at him to give back the watch then scratching his hand leaving a scar, that was very depressing to see it unfold.
After watching the drama, I understood why she didn't show much care and pity for her son. When I was watching it, I was disliking her for not showing much care to him. Even though the bastard officer gave her the watch back at the hospital he was in as well, I still find it hard to forgive him.
Some or most people disliked seeing the old "Hye Ja" as the MC for the drama and wanted the "normal/younger" Hye Ja to return, but I enjoyed it. The drama for those episodes where she became a elderly person delivered good life lessons/issues/messages about the elderly. The one that hit me hard was the reasoning of her friend Choi's suicide. Choi felt not wanted anymore from her son when she met him again. Then her letter revealing how she wanted to be Joon Ha's mother. If only she could have stayed alive to make that happen.
There's a lot in this story. I watched this a year ago, but boy did it leave a huge impression. "A life with regrets"…
Thank you for your explanation. After reading your explanation, I got a better understanding now of how the first 10 episodes connected to the plot twist. If only your comment could get pinned to the top so others can be able to better understand the meaning of the dream she had.
I ended up watching this drama because I came across the song sung between Jung Eun Ji and Seo In Guk on youtube. But after watching 5 episodes, I dropped it. This always happens to me where I come across a song from a drama before I watch it and I like it where I go watch the drama. Then a couple episodes in, I end up dropping it for reasons.
I liked what I saw of the ML's character but that was it. Maybe I was the wrong audience that this drama was intended for.
I really liked the 2 actors playing the leads and their characters. But the plot was like a mess or uninteresting.…
I don't remember if they ever mentioned Soo Yeon dreamed of becoming a pilot. I agree with some that say this was a bad way of portraying a person with a disability. I don't love the idea of a person using his disabled arm support and legs to fight and other stuff. The whole plot of the gang related to his brother was annoying, boring, and confusing where we don't see how that end at all. I wish they removed the gang/thugs and all the fighting or strengths of his disabled arm support. I wished this drama was more like a slice of life.
I wish someone would remake this drama or make a drama like this but with a better script. I want the ML to be have the same background. He had a poor childhood. His mother didn't care for him much and was a lone a lot until his mother remarried and had a new brother based on my prediction. A disable ML/person you really feel pity for unlike those that are rich/fame.
So that ending is he left for a year somewhere. He came back at the airport where Yeo Reum runs to hug him. They never showed his face for a reaction only Yeo Reum. I seen others comment that maybe the ML actor was busy and couldn't be there to record that scene.
I really liked the 2 actors playing the leads and their characters. But the plot was like a mess or uninteresting. As others said, the ending was so confusing. It leaves you confused and lots of unanswered questions. Such a shame that the 2 main actors were wasted on a bad script
Just watched the 1st episode and my god I wasn't prepared for this. That episode made me think that MDL should have some extra tags or a level meter for the amount of comedy is in a drama. I'm not the biggest fan of Romcoms or just Comedys. I was waiting during the episode if it would ever calm down.
I enjoyed it more than I expected. I was shocked at the amount of characters that were killed by the villain. The villain was believable with their backstory for revenge. The flashback scene where he kills Miho (Fushimi's wife) always haunt me. The way he would let her talk to him through face time on the phone then quickly he dragged her out and stabbed her while the phone was still on.
The Sensei's big bodyguard guy was very tough to beat until we find out he takes pills to help him stay focus and strong. He was too strong to beat but Minatogawa stole his pills earlier on that helped Fushimi defeat him as he was losing focus. The fight scenes between him and Fushimi were very good that look like fight scenes you might see in the 90s.
I don't like that tease at the end where Haruka (Yuri's sister) is shown with a bag that has the villain's logo on it. That might mean she was cured by him somehow and is brainwashed into the group now even though he is in prison. If they ever do a season 2 I wonder how that will play out.
My favorite of all the country's school uniform has to be China's tracksuit. It is not the most fashionable but the comfort must be great. The colors of the tracksuit are kind of catchy too. As someone who he has weak taste in fashion, I wish the schools in America had uniforms required like those tracksuits but also affordable for students. Or I wish I was born in a Asian country going to school wearing uniforms. I'm one of the few that likes the idea of wearing uniforms to school.
I really had high hopes for this drama when I saw it years ago. The 2 leads Yang Mi and Bai Yu are 2 of my favorite actors. I enjoy medical dramas but this was my first medical Cdrama. I'm putting this drama on-hold for now instead of dropping it. I stopped watching because it felt repetitive. This is one of those dramas that make me wish Cdramas would cut down on so many episodes. 40 episodes feels too much especially for a modern drama.
I think if they limit one patients story for 2 whole episodes it would have moved along better. Jdramas do this but focus on one patient for one episode and it works fine. In Thank You, Doctor, they diagnose like 2 or more patients each episode. I know doing this can feel more realistic by how the doctors face each day, but I couldn't connect with those patients by how fast they move on from them.
Don't get your hopes up on romance for this drama. As much as I love Yang Mi and Bai Yu, they didn't have much chemistry for romance so far. Also I was a bit disappointed how little medical aspects was shown. Maybe thats the life of ICU doctors? This drama kept me bored with the lack of good interesting characters besides the leads and even them weren't that interesting.
I'm in the unpopular opinion but I didn't enjoy this drama as many others did. I gave up after watching 6 episodes. I had high hopes for this since it was Netflix drama and so many people were able to watch it quickly. The high score and the main cast looked very good especially since I am a big Takeru Satoh fan. But man it just felt flat to me.
I was not a fan of each episode focus on half the time or even more on the past. I wanted to watch this drama for Takeru Satoh but it got annoying when his version of Harumichi was shown less. Even when he got screen time, the story of his character wasn't that interesting. I actually started to liked the actor who played the younger Harumichi. But I wished if they were going to do this, why not use the 2 main actors to play their younger selves. I know they might be too old to play high school students but it would have kept me more interested.
The acting is good and I like how it is produced like a film. The story is just what made me dropped the drama. I also have similar thoughts about this drama as KassyFan27's review.
Wow I just found out they are making movie. I never thought they would continue the series. I wish it would have been a season 3. Feels kind of sad seeing Koto sensei have grey hair now.
Then that plot twist for the last 2 episodes confused me. Everything that happened was just a dream of Hye Ja who is actually a elderly person. So her "brother" doesn't have a sister after all. I felt a little upset because of how invested I was in the plot of how she became a elderly person and how she would eventually transform back to her "normal" self. I also wondered how they would connect all of the moments she interacted and impacted Joon Ha's life to the eventual romantic happy ending. Although there is a comment by a user named TuRaCh that better explained how the life she lived in her dream connected to the actual present. The ending to this drama shows her son realizes her mother Hye Ja actually did love him when he discovers that she was the one sweeping the snow off the stairs and such so he wouldn't slip.
Some things I don't understand is how she became more of a lively caring person as she became old compared to how she looked dead inside younger when she raised her son. Or how the thugs in her dream now work in the hospital as good people. That one irritated me.
Those last 2 episodes were very difficult to watch after seeing what her past was like. First Hye Ja and Joon Ha's son gets hit by a car and loses his leg in this accident. Then Joon Ha is trapped in the jail while being questioned and beaten. Maybe I forgot but did they ever explain to what was the reason he had to be questioned and then beaten to death? The scene that hit very deep is when she goes to the police station to retrieve her husbands ashes and items only to find out the watch she gave him is not there. She confronts the douchebag officer and sees him wearing the watch which she starts to explode. When she started to scream at him to give back the watch then scratching his hand leaving a scar, that was very depressing to see it unfold.
After watching the drama, I understood why she didn't show much care and pity for her son. When I was watching it, I was disliking her for not showing much care to him. Even though the bastard officer gave her the watch back at the hospital he was in as well, I still find it hard to forgive him.
I liked what I saw of the ML's character but that was it. Maybe I was the wrong audience that this drama was intended for.
I wish someone would remake this drama or make a drama like this but with a better script. I want the ML to be have the same background. He had a poor childhood. His mother didn't care for him much and was a lone a lot until his mother remarried and had a new brother based on my prediction. A disable ML/person you really feel pity for unlike those that are rich/fame.
So that ending is he left for a year somewhere. He came back at the airport where Yeo Reum runs to hug him. They never showed his face for a reaction only Yeo Reum. I seen others comment that maybe the ML actor was busy and couldn't be there to record that scene.
The Sensei's big bodyguard guy was very tough to beat until we find out he takes pills to help him stay focus and strong. He was too strong to beat but Minatogawa stole his pills earlier on that helped Fushimi defeat him as he was losing focus. The fight scenes between him and Fushimi were very good that look like fight scenes you might see in the 90s.
I don't like that tease at the end where Haruka (Yuri's sister) is shown with a bag that has the villain's logo on it. That might mean she was cured by him somehow and is brainwashed into the group now even though he is in prison. If they ever do a season 2 I wonder how that will play out.
As someone who he has weak taste in fashion, I wish the schools in America had uniforms required like those tracksuits but also affordable for students. Or I wish I was born in a Asian country going to school wearing uniforms. I'm one of the few that likes the idea of wearing uniforms to school.
I think if they limit one patients story for 2 whole episodes it would have moved along better. Jdramas do this but focus on one patient for one episode and it works fine. In Thank You, Doctor, they diagnose like 2 or more patients each episode. I know doing this can feel more realistic by how the doctors face each day, but I couldn't connect with those patients by how fast they move on from them.
Don't get your hopes up on romance for this drama. As much as I love Yang Mi and Bai Yu, they didn't have much chemistry for romance so far. Also I was a bit disappointed how little medical aspects was shown. Maybe thats the life of ICU doctors? This drama kept me bored with the lack of good interesting characters besides the leads and even them weren't that interesting.
I was not a fan of each episode focus on half the time or even more on the past. I wanted to watch this drama for Takeru Satoh but it got annoying when his version of Harumichi was shown less. Even when he got screen time, the story of his character wasn't that interesting.
I actually started to liked the actor who played the younger Harumichi. But I wished if they were going to do this, why not use the 2 main actors to play their younger selves. I know they might be too old to play high school students but it would have kept me more interested.
The acting is good and I like how it is produced like a film. The story is just what made me dropped the drama. I also have similar thoughts about this drama as KassyFan27's review.