“A Time Referred to as You” was launched in 2023, has 12 episodes, and is streaming on Netflix. It’s a Korean remake, based mostly on the Taiwanese tv sequence “Sometime or One Day”, it may be categorized as Supernatural or Fantasy, Romance, and Time Journey.
“A Time Referred to as You” is an uncommon love story. The boyfriend of a younger girl dies in a tragic accident. She desperately needs he would come again to her. An unexplained occasion happens the place she travels again in time. She meets a boy who appears like the person she loves. Was she being given a second probability?
♦ As soon as upon a time in 1998
In “A Time Referred to as You”, the primary episode is about in 1998. A teenage woman, Kwon Min-ju, works at a music retailer, 27 File Store, which two teenage boys frequent. One of many boys, Jung-In-Gyu, likes the woman, and his greatest good friend, Nam Si-Heon, is all the time pushing him to method her. What he doesn’t notice is that the woman likes him and never his good friend.
Quick ahead, a number of years, and two younger adults, Han Jun-hee and Koo Yeon-Jun, are in a relationship. Han Jun-hee needs to make a profession resolution that may end result within the couple being separated. The profession alternative is in New York USA, however it’s just for a yr. They’ve a distinction of opinion.
Koo Yeon-Jun may be very sad about this. For Han Jun-hee, cash issues if they’re to have a cheerful married life. For Koo Yeon-Jun, each treasured second spent along with her is all that issues to him. There isn’t any legitimate purpose or justification to just accept dwelling for a complete yr with out her. However, she presses him to agree along with her resolution and belief her as a result of it’s best for his or her future.
♦ If Solely Life Was a Fairy Story
In “A Time Referred to as You”, life isn’t a fairy story romance. “As soon as upon a time” is how all wonder-filled fairy story romances start. They often finish with the phrases “fortunately ever after”. Regardless of his disagreement, Han Jun-hee heads off to the airport decided to point out Yeon-Jun that she made the appropriate resolution for each of them.
Sadly, folks make plans about their future, after which … life occurs. An occasion that drastically alters every little thing modifications the fairy story ending. The story is edited by an invisible Author who strikes by means of the phrases “fortunately ever after”.
- Sky Airways Flight 6809 departed Incheon Worldwide Airport. Koo Yeon-Jun was not prepared to stay a yr with out Han Jun-hee, so he boarded that flight to observe after her. The airplane crashed and the information reported that everybody on that airplane perished. Everybody??
A lot for his or her stunning future which she had deliberate with such certainty. Somewhat than a fairy story, her life was a tragic unhappy story. IF ONLY Han Jun-hee might journey again in time and reverse the choice she made.
♦ It’s My Birthday, However Who’s That Lady?
Koo Yeon-Jun all the time remembered Han Jun-hee’s birthday. It was her birthday and on the day that his household determined to register his dying formally, somebody despatched Han Jun-hee flowers. Who? Who was it that remembered her birthday? Her birthday is when she misses her boyfriend essentially the most.
Whereas she is scrolling by means of the images saved on her cellphone somebody sends her a photograph. There are three (3) folks within the image: two guys and a lady. The three (3) individuals are highschool college students. One of many guys appears precisely like Koo Yeon-Jun. However for positive, the woman isn’t her; and he or she additionally doesn’t acknowledge the opposite man within the {photograph}.
Sudden and unexplained occasions proceed to occur. Who despatched her this photograph and why? An Web search revealed that in 2008, the photograph was uploaded to a web site known as “Faculty Days”. It’s a website the place folks add outdated pictures within the hopes of discovering mates from the previous.
As if the {photograph} isn’t mysterious sufficient, she sees somebody from a distance on the subway station. Is she seeing issues? That mysterious particular person appears virtually like Koo Yeon-Jun. However … ??? … he’s imagined to be lifeless. She tries to achieve him however the shadowy determine disappears.
Everybody tells Han Jun-hee to overlook Koo Yeon-Jun and keep on along with her life. However how can she when surprising and unexplained occasions in her life maintain taking place? It’s laborious sufficient for Han Jun-Hee to hold on along with her life after having misplaced the person she beloved by means of a tragic accident. However now there’s this photograph of a lady who appears nothing like her, standing subsequent to a boy who appears precisely like Koo Yeon-Jun.
Was that woman his past love? Was Jun-Hee only a alternative for her? In different phrases, did one thing tragic occur to that woman and that’s why she and Koo Yeon-Jun couldn’t be collectively?
- Maybe he determined to hold on together with his life by having a relationship with Jun-Hee.
- Maybe that’s the rationale why he was unwilling to let her go to New York by herself.
- Maybe he thought that one thing tragic may occur to her too.
She needs with all of her coronary heart that Yeon-Jun would come again to her. As if her want got here true … one other surprising and unexplained phenomenon occurred. She awoke in a hospital mattress and Koo Yeon-Jun was there. At the very least … he seemed like Koo Yeon-Jun.
She known as out the identify “Yeon-Jun”. However the shocked younger man didn’t name her Jun-Hee. As a substitute, he known as her Min-ju. (???) What was taking place? Discuss an surprising and unexplained life-changing occasion.
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Viewership and Ranking:
- IMDb: 7.8 out of 10 stars
- My Drama Checklist: 8.4 out of 10 stars
- Dramabeans: 8.7 out of 10 stars
- NME: 3 out of 5 stars
- Public critiques shared by way of Google: 4.3 out of 5 stars
My private score is identical as My Drama Checklist; 8.4 out of 10 stars. There are numerous causes for my score such because the acquainted Ok-drama tropes and the thriller created by the highschool {photograph}.
“A Time Referred to as You” has three acquainted Ok-drama tropes: highschool romance, a love triangle, and time journey. However it’s the highschool {photograph} that creates the thriller. Receiving the mysterious photograph within the current and touring again in time to the previous arouses the curiosity of the viewer. The surprising and unexplained occasions make the viewer need to unravel the previous.
Since “A Time Referred to as You” is simply 12 episodes, it was good for binge-watching. Additionally, Ahn Hyo-Seop has an enormous fanbase and I’m a kind of followers.
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Netflix Ok-Content material. “A Time Referred to as You | Official Trailer | Netflix [ENG SUB].” YouTube Video. YouTube, August 24, 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_sKheuGE7o.
