Premiere Watch Review: "365: Repeat The Year" and "A Piece of Your Mind"
"365: Repeat The Year"
Time slot: Monday and Tuesday
Broadcaster: MBC
Genre: Fantasy, mystery, thriller
Episode: 24 (35 minutes /episodes)
Director: Kim Kyung Hee
Screenwriters: Lee Seo Yoon, Lee Soo Kyung
Detective Ji Hyung-Jo, together with his team, capture notorious criminals on the loose. He is skilled in arresting offenders of the law but he was eventually locked in prison. His partner and a good friend were murdered in his own house. The killer made it possible to avenge all the prosecutors responsible for his imprisonment.
Famous webtoon artist Shin Ga Hyun resents the fact that she is handicapped and being locked in a wheelchair. Her boyfriend's family does not approve of their wedding plans. She fought with her good friends and kept them away from her life. She felt helpless and unable to do things as normal people do.
These downfalls made the two characters lose hope towards work and life. Things start to change when they receive an invitation to meet Ms. Lee Shin, elegant and persuasive with the way she talks about "reset." In one meeting place, together with 8 people from all walks of life gather for one purpose. Everyone had the chance to travel back in time for a year. Ms. Lee Shin promised to meet them again in the same place after a year of "reset."
It is a mystery to discover how each person changes a thing of the past. The "reset" allows the viewers to learn the things each one regrets to do. That impacts his present life to be miserable.
"A Piece of Your Mind"
Time slot: Monday and Tuesday
Broadcaster: TVN
Genre: Melodrama, Romance
Episode: 16 (1hour 10 minutes /episodes)
Director: Lee Sang Yeob
Screenwriter: Lee Sook Yun
Genius Ha Won works in a hi-tech company that specializes in discovering new technology that aids artificial intelligence. One of his great inventions is an "AI Memory Box" where a person's memories are stored. His biggest challenge is to make the "AI Memory Box" make a significant on-point reaction to any questions asked. He needs to configure the outcome of the "AI Memory Box."
Ha Won admires listening to any classical music. On his way home, he heard extraordinary music. His interest leads him to follow and find the source of the sound. He entered a room and met a lady surrounded by mixing boards and electrical instruments.
Han Seo Woo works in the studio as music or sound engineer. She has been packing her things as the studio is about to close because the owner decided to sell the building. The music soothed the mind and made a flashback to Ha Won's past. A young girl came to his memory running in the snow. He remembered the place to be in Oslo. The girl in his memory is Kim Ji Soo who happens to be his first love.
Ha Won tried to lock the memory he had with Ji Soo in his "AI Memory Box." He also decided to work with Seo Woo to record the music and at the same the voice of Ji-Soo.
The first episode introduces the 3 characters: a man who adores a lady with all his loyalty and lady who invests her emotions to support the man's dream even if it breaks her heart.
