I just can't believe they didn't tell anyone he's dead/ disappeared. Is he going to be "travelling" forever?

I'm assuming it's meant to be kind - to allow people to live their lives happily or some such (how convenient that everyone else got a happy ending AT THE EXACT SAME TIME) - but just feels self-centered.

At least I got a laugh out of Yoo-jin and his kdrama-style run-in with the faceless woman.

Thank god this is over. I’m never watching anything by this writer ever again, good riddance.

Since I stopped watching long ago.... can somebody tell me what happened to both moms.????

Reading this final eps recap....did the writer take inspiration loosely from Hi Bye Mama?

OMG, where's @mindy? It was her fave drama... but she's kept busy! She will be miss this show.

This was a rough one...only finished off the last set of episodes for the bean. For two actors I really like, they sure picked a real clunker here. I often wonder how much of the script they’re given beforehand, and this just reinforces that wonder. How much of this could they have possibly read and thought it was a well written, well thought out script.

The initial episodes at least showed some fun fluffy promise, and there were glimmers of goodness throughout. But for every step forward, it felt like two backwards. The chemistry between the leads was pretty good, so let’s have them bicker and fight and break up for the same reason 3+ times...oof.

I’ll definitely be watching out for this writer in the future. Most likely in a “stay away from this one’s work” kind of way unfortunately. He wrote one of my favourites in Fated to Love You, but I guess that was an adaptation of someone else’s work as it was a remake of the 2008 Taiwanese drama.

I haven’t had such a hard earned bean since...Melting Me Softly. Another show where I loved both the leads in prevous works who just left me soul crushed afterwards.

Thanks so much for your weecaps, they were the best about this drama, along with gorgeous Nana and LMK.
I still wonder why and how I finished it. But I did. Very, very deep sigh.
I'm not even mad about the drama, just indifferent. I wonder how it was even filmed, but anyway... hope I can enjoy Nana and LMK in another drama where their talent is not wasted.

Congratulations @missvictrix, you did it !

I gave up at around ep10 when I realised I was gnashing my teeth at some parts of the show and - even worse - dozing off at others. Had a peek at the last few minutes of the finale and was shocked to discover that it all boiled down to the old "carpe diem" cliche.

I dunno. Maybe the writer thought he was subverting K-drama tropes - disappearing into thin air instead of dying of cancer; every couple except the leads getting a happy ending; a happy Alzheimer's patient; etc. But even subversion needs to be believable. Is everybody including friends and colleagues going to accept that Bi-soo is on an eternal Grand Tour? Is taking care of Joo-in's mum really as easy as just parking her at the record shop?

In any case, the latter half of the show was in the grip of the biggest tropes of all: Noble Idiocy and The Woman Who Just Keeps Giving. Bi-soo, so unexpectedly kind and considerate at the start, became an arsehole in the name of love, while Joo-in's initial feistiness dwindled into slavish devotion.

I suppose my main beef with Oh Master is that its supposedly fresh, quirky use of tropes has turned out to be both laboured and unconvincing. For a truly subversive treatment of terminal illness, grouchy hero and noble idiocy, viewers should watch the superlative Marriage Contract.

Didn't watch the show, just here to know how it all ended, after seeing Beanies reaction through the weeks..pity it seems to have been a disappointing watch for most ><
Speaking of, I just noticed the rating: 2.9?!?!
Wow! I don't think I've ever seen such a terrible one on this site before 😅

I had dropped it at episodes 10. I thought the writer thinks and writes like "viewers are morons."! How come these 2 famous lead accepted that script!

For a rom-com, it was a "wrong-rom." Everything after the initial premise set-up went wrong. It seemed like an 11 year old wrote it for a creative writing assignment by cutting and pasting a wikipedia article on Kdrama tropes. There was nothing funny. There was nothing romantic. It was just terrible, cruel and sad waste of everyone's time.

There was no understanding of stages of a relationship. There was no coherent understanding of Bi-soo's life extension. How can his dead father give him the "gift" of 49 days to ruin another person's life for the selfish desire that his son at least experience love? We are left with Joo-in pining for her (secretly?) dead boyfriend just like Bi-soo's mother did during her life. That was not a gift of love to her but a curse.

And what happened to Bi-soo's dead body from the TOD accident? In the end his 49 day body had to be existential, metaphysical because in the end he and his clothes vanished in thin air. That means he was not real but a physical ghost. From that perspective, the show is actually creepy.

The show could have been fine if it just focused in on the two leads in the original set-up as an odd couple under one roof. But the relationship and love triangle were dull. The secondary characters added nothing; there school yard crushes added nothing to the leads story line. Joo-in had a very cardboard cut-out character; flat emotional scale and no depth. Bi-soo had no real growth or redemptive qualities. We were thinking the only way to save the show was a "it was all a coma dream" experience but the writer was too dumb to think about that Hail Mary pass. For those who bailed on the show, no regrets. For those of us who finished it, we should get combat medals because each week was a war on our nerves.

The medal for valour in truly dire circumstances is yours, @missvictrix. Well done for emerging from the disaster zone that this was - I only wish it were unscathed!

Simply couldn't believe that episode 15 continued with Bi-soo *still* being a complete moron. What was the writer trying to achieve by this? Did he think it was charming? Realistic? An opportunity for Joo-in to shine brighter? What a horrible, horrible own goal: it achieved nothing but to make me ever more certain that Bi-soo was toxic. As others have said, Joo-in's devotion to such a person was not heroic, beautiful, or admirable - it was simply blind, and did nothing to endear her to us.

When they tried to play with the audience at the end by suggesting that alternative endings might happen (eg. it might just be a mistake and life would carry on for another year as if nothing had happened), I couldn't even muster up the energy to get irritated, as none of the endings presented (including the real one) made sense or explained what had gone on. Seconds after mouthing, "What?!" at the screen, I simply concluded that I didn't care.

Kept going because I desperately wanted to believe something would happen to raise it back up to the promise it had in the earliest episodes - learnt my lesson there. I reckon that's my hardest-earned bean ever.

@missvictrix, thank you for taking this one for the team. I mean this sincerely—your writing has helped me give better "velvet hammer" critiques at work.

Oh! Master one of the worst dramas I've ever seen. I've dropped shows for many reasons: dull stories, bad haircuts, wrist grabs, boorish men, terrible costumes, etc.

But this show was a carnivorous plant that lured its viewers with the sweet scent of charming actors only to slowly kill them with an incomprehensible script and the most loathsome of tropes.

As a UX (user experience) designer, one of my main tasks is lessening the user's cognitive load. When I watch dramas, I want to be engaged in understanding and enjoying the story. But, by episodes 10-11, the show sucked out all the joy because of its unbearable cognitive load—my brain kept trying to fix the script while I was watching it!

Good storytelling is hard and it feels magical when everything aligns. The failure of this drama reiterates what we already know—the SCRIPT is the foundation of a good drama! It's possible that the writer had a lot of script interference but—let's be real—the foundations were wobbly from the start.

My main regret was not dropping it sooner. I stopped watching full episodes after Ep. 11 and skimmed the rest out of perverse curiosity. Once shit-posting lost its allure, I was left with regret and disappointment.

i did not earn a bean for this show and... im ok with that.

oh, the drama this should have been indeed :(

So, people that loved Bi-soo aren't allowed to get closure, to say goodbye to him? Will all of them believe forever that he is travelling?

The saddest thing is that Joo-in has lost every loved ones, and her (forced?) brightness seemed not healthy.
Despite the voice over, I had the impression she won't get over him and go on with her life.

Also, it seems to me that all this thing of the second chance was only to benefit Bi-soo, while Joo-in suffered all the time but a week or so.
And how cruel of the father/angel to allow his son to live mostly to comfort his dying mother? If he had had some concern for Bi-soo, I didn't feel it.

This is sadly the worst show of the year to me, I hope better dramas await us.
I still believe Melting is worse, but it wasn't as a torture to watch as Oh! Master, because in that case I had not the impression that it could be better or that they were wasting a great chemistry between the leads.

I watched the first 2 episodes of this show and decided to drop it. I wanted to read the final recap to see what happened and all I can say is HUH? This show had promise to be cute and fluffy, but I couldn't connect with the characters right away. Glad I dropped because this seems to have turned out anything by light and fluffy. Classic dramaland bait-and-switch.

This show was perfect in the beginning, I seriously don't know what happened to the writer. Everything was such a mess. I feel really sorry for the cast because they obviously, I'm 100% sure, didn't know how this drama was going to develop. The message OML wanted to pass is just not executed right, and the reality was: how to destroy a life of a beautiful and powerful woman, making her traumatized with the loss of her loved ones. That's it.
The positive thing about this show is the incredible chemistry between Nana and Lee Min-ki. I only stayed til episode 16 for them, for their interaction. The skinship and kissing scenes were so well done, you can see they are giving their all to the story. I would love to see them reunite in a decent and well written drama, it would be fire.