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365: Repeat the Year korean drama review
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365: Repeat the Year
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by ocean
Apr 30, 2020
24 of 24 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 9.0
Story 9.0
Acting/Cast 8.5
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 9.5
This review may contain spoilers
A solid time travel drama! Watch it for the story, the suspense, and the plot! Those were amazing enough!

This is a fast paced drama that sets around serial killing, time travel, schemes, friendship, and psychological issues.
A really solid writing and world building. Even if there are plot holes, but it was not big ones. What I love about the plot is, we've got some hints, accurate hints. That around ep 16, we can guess who is the real villain that causes all these massacre and who seems fishy. But it was still really enjoyable watching it unfolds.
The characters are written well but not really deep. Well, afterall this is a 12 hours drama that tackles some big story tropes. Some may say that the killer doesn't have motivation but he does have it.

In the first few episodes, the pace was messy. It was kinda obvious they tried to shorten many scenes and only show the important part. And it was kinda off-putting. But as the story progresses, the pace got better and start to become really thrilling.

The music was okay, I guess. It served its purpose of carrying the atmosphere. But, there is nothing really memorable of it. Some scenes and corpses are horrifying, I simultaneously said 'that is straight out of horror movies'. But it was enjoyable.

There is kinda a hinting that the 2 main leads may have some romance down the road. They have amazing chemistry as friends. But until the last episode, I can't really feel the spark between them lol. It felt like brother-sister relationship rather than romance. Or maybe, my romance radar is blunted HAHA.

*spoilers ahead*

But on a second thought, for me, this is more of a parallel universe than a time travel drama. Because we can see in some scenes, the characters have some recollection/deep down feelings they may have known other person. E.g. when maru goes to HJ directly on their first encounter. I don't know whether this is an error of some sort of the production or whether it is just the dog, but it really disturbs the whole setting and atmosphere. For a time travel and pure reset, they shouldn't have any knowledge about the other person, at all. But for parallel time universe, it may happen, imo.
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