Uh... we may have a case of quirky spelling of the FL's name (?)

Thanks so much for the weecap!! I also enjoyed the opening episodes a lot, something I anticipated as I absolutely adore both KDW and JKJ.

So far I have no much to say, rather than I had so much fun, that I always love a time travel adventure (as long as they make sense) and that all our characters are related to the crimes, even mum, and not only as a victim.

I have to say that I just loved young HeeSeob. How adorable was he thinking that his shoulders can break skulls? I wonder whatever happened to that sweet and muddled headed guy turn into the mess he will be as an adult. So I am rooting for young HeeSeob and young SoonAe to join forces with their future child to change their fate.

It has a lot of similarities with Tunnel ( K drama ) ( the time treavel, the tunnel, the car, going back to eighties, the serial killers), but hey I love Tunnel

This is an obvious mashup of the kdrama The Tunnel and the U.S. film Back to the future, with clear references to both. But still, it had some appealing elements. By the well-established fundamentally scientific principles of time-travel, Yoon Young can't work too hard to discourage the relationship between her future parents, or she's going to disappear! So we'll see how the show handles that issue. (Back to the Future had that same concern--I wonder if Hee Soeb will develop a crush on Yoon-Young just as Marty McFly's Mom did in the Back to the Future). But I did find the way this show handled the time travel daughter's meeting with the young future Mom effective and actually quite poignant, giving this scenario a bit more emotional weight than it might otherwise have.
Like @quirkycase after 2 episodes I'm much less invested in Hae-Joon, in part because there is a lot that wasn't revealed about him yet. I assume that will come as the show develops.
The serial murder aspect could just imitate the Tunnel and follow the pattern of the hundreds of other serial murderers roaming the kdrama universe, OR it could be something more interesting, with themes of living in different universes through fiction. We'll see how that develops, as well. But it is promising, for now!

I was sadly not as impressed with the show as I hoped to be. The plot points are so heavily telegraphed in advance - the book not being Mi-sook's own, the mother's death being murder, etc. - it's like paint-by-numbers.

Also kept shaking my head at Yoon-young's impulsiveness in the past timeline. I can see her making a lot of foolish choices as time goes on, putting a wrench in what Hae-joon is trying to do. Right now past Baek Hee-sub is my favourite character lol.

You built a time machine out of a DeLorean, I mean, an old car? That was honestly my first thought.
This is another drama I decided to watch out of sheer boredom, and to my surprise, I connected with the first two episodes. Maybe it’s because the scene in the club when the girls were dancing to Bananarama’s “Venus” had me up on my feet dancing, just like I was in May of 1987 when my friends and I used to (legally) hit the clubs. Or because I, too, had a red boom box like Soon-ae’s and can remember the days when I would steer my car with one hand while using the other to pop in a cassette tape. I thought I was invincible.
Yes, the nostalgia is fun for me because I was of a similar age in that era, but I am also surprisingly interested in these characters. I, too, want to know what happened to poor Hee-seob and Soon-ae. I know Life can interrupt our best-laid plans, but what specifically caused them to become shells of their former selves? Soon-ae, especially. We She was reading Virginia Woolf. In English. And what is it about that town? Why does it feel like there’s a spell that’s been cast over it? It most definitely is a character in this tale.

Love this show already!
I'm a Back to the Future fan and this is literally Back to the Future's evil doppelganger so I'm here for the ride!!

I love how in the movie the mom wouldn't let the kid alone, but here the kid won't let the mom alone. And in the movie the son would bond with the dad to help him get together with the mom and not be erased from existence, but here the kid literally wants her parents to never become a couple/she doesn't want to be born.

Too bad that the real problem isn't the dad but the bullies and the stealer (the FL's boss).

No, wait, WTF with the dad. He was damn cute, he was an innocent kid, what happened to him? He just wanted to be a rock star. Wait, was that the problem? But that's so cliche for real.

And the FL being so damn slow to get things is freaking hilarious LMAO. I'm having so much fun with the leads' dynamic too.

Also, we don't know much about the murders but I'm enjoying the ML's plot too. I don't think this murder plot is going to annoy me. And I just like his character in general, the dude is chill.
I'm happy to see the facial expressions from Coffee Prince coming back LOL. Maybe it's because I've only seen oppa in slice of life and horror but I've missed his comical side.

Btw, the actresses playing the mom really look/act alike.

PS. The soundtrack of this show is totally my style. Yay!

It was interesting that Hae-joon could control his time travel, at least for a moment. He was using it in a smart way. Yoon-young kinda was with her mother like her father was. If I understand why she left her home, she could see her mother in another place to spend time with her.

I'm really curious about the rest of the story.

Sounds so good! And I can watch it!!! thank you Viki! Take that D+

I did find two episodes interesting. I am not yet sure if I like it as it keeps reminding you of other time travelling shows especially the tunnel and back to the future. There is certain staged, fake feeling to the village as well.
But I loved the contrast between motivations of two protagonists. One is trying to save himself and other is trying to erase herself. I can get behind both. At this moment I find Yoon Young more interesting than Hae Joon but I am hoping that it will change soon.
The biggest mystery I am interested in is the time travelling car itself. Who built it and how did it find it’s way to Hae joon – just the perfect thing that guy needs to save his life.

I liked the first two episodes better than expected and I am curious to see what happens next. Who else from the present will play an important role in the past?

At the moment, I'm more interested in Yoon-young's family story than Hae-joon's search for the serial killer.

I was extremely hyped for the premiere of this drama and I got... what feels like a very typical time-travel drama. I enjoyed myself, don't get me wrong, but it's not exactly very innovative; that being said, I'm still invested in how the next few episodes go.

I'm the complete opposite with regards to ML. We don't know much about him, it's true, so I'm neutral towards him. The FL, OTOH... yikes. She (and her dad tbf) treat her mom so cruelly. It's even more tragic considering how lonely and mistreated Soon-ae already was as a teenager, the fact that she grows up to be an ignored and lonely woman... oof.

the actress who plays 1987 Soon-ae is so pretty!

I really liked the first two episodes. Although I enjoyed Yoon Young's story more, man her poor mother, that broke my heart. She was obviously murdered by that psychopath. I am curious though that if Hae Joon saving the girls affected Soon Ae's fate in the future. Was the change already there or did it happen because Hae Joon saved them from dying. That being said the murder mystery seems interesting, but we haven't delved enough into it for it to be more interesting than Yoon Young's story.

I wasn't really sure what I was expecting since I don't know any of the cast but it is definitely not me crying all throughout episode 1 and episode 2, mostly at episode 1 tho. I think I am just weak for mother and daughter relationship since I'm really close with my mother. Now I really won't ignore any phone calls from my mom. I am excited to see the next episodes. I already love the first two

I am more connected by Yoon-young's story so I want the drama to give us more on Hae-joon or else there won't be balance.

I am curious about young Soon-ae and He-seob, the murder story. All in all, I got hooked by the story and keep craving more. The threads are connecting everyone together in a way that makes the ride exhilirating.

I am loving this so far! It has such a fun and fresh feel (but then I didn't see Tunnel). I also like both of the main leads and think they'll do a great job conveying falling in love, when the time arises.

For once, the mystery also intrigues me. They're hinting it's the author but, if I have learned anything from murder kdramas, it's that if it's too obvious from the beginning it's probably not them. I liked the bait and switch/red herring they did with the author in the past, too, where you thought it was the mean girl but it was actually the nice girl.

My husband didn't understand why Soo-ae hung out with those girls, but I told him of course she'd rather look like she has friends than be by herself. I definitely understand, especially for a teenaged girl.

OMGGGG LOVED IT!
I was already excited before this drama premiered, but now I'm even more excited for the rest of the story! Loved that they jumped right in so we weren't bogged down with excess background info leading up to the main plot.

The story is rich with the mysteries, all of the different characters, and the time traveling element. All the family connections and the emotions with seeing their relatives as their past selves compared to their present too.

It's cool that not only Hae Joon goes back to the past, he also goes back and forth to the present or other years to gather intel from different people.

Love the background music matching the time period well and the humorous scenes were good. Kim Dong Wook deadpan/annoyed expressions killed me.

Seo Ji Hye is so pretty. She nailed the kind and shy role of young Soon Ae.

Nothing new here, but I do not mind the good ol' tropey time travel plotlines because they are being used at the right places and with the current dearth of good kdramas, I am sticking with this.

Believe it or not this drama had me in the first few minutes. I love how it dives right into the action. So many dramas lose me with dragging out the setup for episodes and episodes and this one doesn't waste any time. There are also very few time travel k-dramas in existence and I'm really digging it so far. Not only do I like both leads as characters, I feel both actors are giving such multilayered and subtle performances that I'm in acting geek heaven. Needless to say I'm very interested in the plot as well and the cinematography and OST are also lovely. I hope this show doesn't go off the rails as some sci-fi/fantasy dramas do because so far it's a hit with me.

I finally got around to watch this drama (better late than never, right? 😉). I'm so glad this was recapped here, because I finally knew where to dump all my excited rambling about this show.

I have to admit I was wary to dive into this drama, exactly because I have near blind love for time-travel-themed drama. It's not easy to pull the combination of humor and angst that drama set to deliver. Not to mention the whole serial murder thing that seemed to be the core of the drama''s mystery. But if the 1st eps was any indication, the drama is off to a very promising start.

Not even halfway through the 1st eps, I found myself falling for Yoon-young already. She was very easy to love, despite (or maybe because of) how imperfectly human she was. Her fight with her parents, the way she prioritized her work despite her love-hate relationship with it, the silly everyday memories she has of her mother. She felt grounded in reality, like someone I knew all my life, and Jin Ki-joo clearly sold that character to me. I couldn't get over how good she was during those scenes in the aftermath of her mother's death and the first time she met Soon-ae. How raw, unadulterated, and childlike she was in her grief and joy. The drama chose its first emotional hit so well.

Yoon-young was also the perfect counterpart of Hae-joon, whose pragmatism and cool-headedness sometimes left me scratching my head. I kept waiting to see more behind his calm attitude because I can see emotion churning discontentedly there. I guess we need the right trigger to see that composure cracked. For now, I'm going to enjoy the interesting contrast between Yoon-young's no-holds-barred emotional response and Hae-joon's carefully calculated moves.

Speaking of these two leads, I like the setup that threw these two seemingly unrelated people into this unprecedented journey. Just like how Hae-joon described it: everything that could go wrong went wrong in the most natural way possible, so that while I know there was a writer who arranged everything to collide into the beginning of this drama's plot, the preparation stage felt blessedly natural instead of cliche, and I appreciate that. I also like how we learned about them just alongside them learning about each other. It created a stronger connection with viewers, as if we are really a part of this mad adventure.