This drama is on a new crack!

I haven't figured out if I like it or not

Only saw episode 3, but my eyes welled up at the reunion of Noona and Nam Tae 🥺🥺 He grew up into a man and she missed seeing this happen. Name Tae was the baby brother she used to carry on her back; now he’s big enough to carry her when her legs failed her. Twenty years did feel long during this scene. It was a beautiful reunion.

I thought the show would improve for me once we had them set in the present (because two episodes of setup was just alot) but it really didn't too much. I really liked the emotional scenes of MI-ran and her family, but besides that it wasn't doing it for me. I came to the conclusion that I think it's the directing. I already know these actors can act, & the story is dumb but the concept is fun. But there was certain scenes I just thought it has to be the direction given, like whenever the station President and Hyun-gi interact.

These two episodes were better but this show is still not about... anything. And I'm not really going to care about what happens if they keep undercutting any emotional core they might otherwise achieve.

I don't know if anyone tried to watch the existential horror that was Meteor Garden 2018, but like, it was painful to sit through. And yet, sometimes it made me feel things. I eventually figured out why - it wasn't the actors, or the plot, it was the MUSIC. Whenever they played Say Something, I cried.
This is another instance of the music making the show. I completely skipped the first half of the episode, and the second half wasn't much better, but Can't Take my Eyes Off You started playing, and suddenly I was having a good time and ready to come back next week! 😂

Well, according to most of your comments, this show hasn't improved so much, so... I am ok dropping it after the premiere. Sorry for wookie, but... I have better to do.

It breaks my heart to see JCW in such a bad show, I think I will go re-watch healer instead.

I'm glad someone is amused. I'm not. DB recappers have a gift for making terrible things sound palatable.

Seriously what is with Hyungi's and the Chief's screeching?! SO very annoying to see them open their mouths for no apparent reason. I understand comedy, but honestly, this is so exaggerated. And Mi-Ran's ex-boyfriend? So dramatic....

JCW, love the effort he's putting into this. Sad he's on this show tbh :( Wasting talent :/

As opposed to many I had not thought it was the worst premiere last week but the fact that there are still serious problems with delivery do not bode well for the rest of this drama. There are clear problems with the large holes in the plot as well as some very problematic directorial choices, overdramatization and lack of subtlety. I think sobering and hilarious can be done if not simultaneously definitely successively but not like this. I did not find the opening scenes of Mi Ran coming to terms with the fact that she lost 20 years of her life and the way she reunited with her family touching but seriously frustrating. The whole not finding her family at home, announcements at school and yelling her name on campus were unnecessary. A silent face off would have been lot more powerful. I am worried Wookie might not be enough to save this show if some of these mistakes continue into the following episodes.

I also did not like how stupidly the frozen couple are acting regarding their adjustment to the fact that they fast-forwarded their life 20 years. I know they have other problems but if that happened to me I would try to catch up with the times before attempting to jump back into my life immediately. I would check out the history, technology, fashion, TV shows etc. of the last 20 years. Those jokes aren’t landing for me. For example, PD Ma suggesting PD Na’s shows is funny in a meta sense but not in the context and characterization of the hero of the story. If he watched TV like crazy in the last couple of days how come he doesn’t know the most famous shows of the decade? If I was in his place I would do a lot of research before suggesting a “new” idea in a meeting full of people. He was supposed to be a genious. What the hell was with Mi Ran’s make up in her first class? She didn’t have that kind of make up in 1999 (and no one else did either, it reminded me of Sung Deok Sun's make up in Reply 1988). She was like that for that one scene and for that one stupid joke only. I am also tired of characters trying to pay for the bus with their butts. These unnecessary and cringeworthy scenes made the episodes drag for me. These aren’t the funny jokes these circumstances offer. They should instead focus on people’s reactions to their youthful looks and the couple’s reactions to other people. For example I am loving Hwang Byung Shim who is always triying to look so cool keeps falling off because of his “hallucinations” of his ex. His imagination is as vivid as 20 years ago and it continues to crack me up: “my mom told me all about you.” LOL. Him being a professor at her school and her not recognizing him due to the name change was brilliant. His wife turning out to be one of Mi Ran’s best friends was an unexpected twist. I was wondering why they kept showing his home life. Now we know. Her friend didn’t tell Mi Ran who her husband is so we have her reaction to finding out a) her professor is her two timing ex and b) he is married to one of her besties to look forward to. While the start of the interest was very silly we also have the potential of the classmate cutie’s interest in Mi Ran.

Other jokes that worked included Dong Chan’s confusion over whether to speak in banmal or honorifics and yes I could watch him confuse his brother with his father or fumble with technology again and again. I also enjoyed how scared Kill Bill Mi Ran made Hyun Gi and the imaginary shampoo ad moment.

I was wondering why everyone trusted the dolphin video back in 1999. A PD should know best videos can be faked. We finally learned the stakes. Our leads’ lives are in danger until the professor remembers everything and fixes their problem with a magical shot.

Finally finished 4. The most shocking statement from Candy Go Mi Ran...
GMR: Life 20 yrs later is so hard. It's SO MUCH harder to find a job now.
Family: That's okay. We are doing better now. You can just stay home and do nothing.
GMR: Don't expect me to change my mentality overnight. I NEED to find a job!

Me: I SERIOUSLY don't get you!!
I suspect GMR is sentient. She refused to get out of her Candy status.😏

Honestly, this show feels all over the place and is much, much different from what I imagined this was going to be from the trailers. This kind of broad comedy is something that I realized I just can't connect with. It's the same reason why I just couldn't sit through Strong Woman. I still gave this drama a try since it has my two favourite actors in it and I thought it was going to be a little more sober, especially when dealing with the effects of having lost all that time. Instead I got slap sticky comedy that's definitely too loud for my taste. Dropping this for a later time.

I have decided that I'm just going to enjoy moments in this show instead of the drama as a whole. There are many things that I feel keep getting skipped over, like how our two human popsicles got out of the bunker or were Dong Chan's car was all this time(is it the car he was driving before he was frozen? Where was it kept this whole time?) Or when Obvious Villain Dude was frozen and then unfrozen. I do get that some things get revealed in a show as it goes on but I'm too impatient for that. So instead of trying to figure out the great mystery, I'll just keep on enjoying hair dryer "commercials" that are as disturbing as they are hilarious and Dong-chan's great ideas...that are just 20 years too late.

I wish we would get more fish out of water scenes. I feel like, they adapted almost without any problem. The attempt at showing Go Mi Ran's dated make up skills was something that annoyed me. I don't remember her wearing make up before and/or after that scene. It was really just that, an attempt to show the viewers "see? she is from 1999!!1!!1!". This drama does have fun scenes but the female lead and other actors are overplaying. If your main leads are nicely written and have chemistry, even if the screenplay is meh, it is enough to make me watch the drama. Here? I don't feel anything. Scenes go on for minutes and minutes and nothing really happens. Also, the lip tints *sigh*

I will watch the next episodes but if everything is the same e.g no chemistry, bland scenes, overacting I am probably out :/

I ffwd through episodes 1, 2 and 3. There's too much slapstick, too much suspension of disbelief, and too little emotional and psychological coherency for me to watch every scene play out. Everyone is acting at a fever pitch so there are no mellow moments where the characters feel real and tangible. And besides her feistiness and his arrogance, I don't really have much of a sense of their personalities.

I'm so bummed out. I was so looking forward to this show and it's a shiny, handsome car crash.

I really wanted to give this a chance because of Wookie... but after ep 4, I think I can't go on any longer. Ep 4 was a complete mess sigh.

For all the negative comments about the show...here's a positive one. I like it. Agree that this is not the best drama and was hoping for more but I quite like the retro feels and all the music and most of the humor. Don't like the humor they're doing to the professor right now and can't stand DC's sister, but otherwise, am looking forward to watching ep 5.

I'm an escapist and I watch shows to be entertained. I hate slice of life type of shows and perhaps that's why I like this with all the illogical gaps. I'm okay watching this zany and sometimes wacky drama that makes me laugh out loud and yet, is able to warm my heart too.

This show is a hoooooot messssssss - but I kinda like that? At least some of the characters (including the leads) are not just shallow caricatures, which makes some scenes watchable despite the ones that are brain bustingly icky.

I'm going to stick around - mostly for Wookie, a little for the leading lady and her family, a smidge for the Dong Chan's former lover (she just feels like she was dumped into the wrong genre). The rest I'll probably ffw through - doubt I'll miss much by doing that.