Angel's Last Mission: Love

May 27, 2019

Angel Dan (L/Kim Myung-soo) is sent to Earth with a mission: make the cold, genius ballerina Lee Yeon-seo (Shin Hye-sun) fall in love. He must not fall in love himself. The Seoul Arts Centre establishes Yeon-seo's professional world.

May 27, 2019

Yeon-seo's backstory — her loss, her isolation, her absolute dedication to ballet — is shown. Shin Hye-sun's performance immediately establishes the drama's emotional ambition.

June 3, 2019

Dan's increasingly disruptive interventions in Yeon-seo's life — all in service of his mission — begin producing the opposite of their intended effect.

June 3, 2019

A major ballet performance at the Seoul Arts Centre. Yeon-seo on stage is the drama's visual peak.

June 10, 2019

Yeon-seo's private life in her Seongbuk-dong villa — the isolation she inhabits when the performance is over.

June 10, 2019

Dan's feelings for Yeon-seo, which he is forbidden from having, begin to become impossible to suppress.

June 17, 2019

Yeon-seo's emotional walls — the product of everything she has lost — show their first crack.

June 17, 2019

Dan's growing feelings directly conflict with the mission he was sent to complete.

June 24, 2019

Dan and Yeon-seo's impossible relationship acknowledged.

June 24, 2019

What it costs an angel to love a human. The drama's supernatural logic taken to its emotional conclusion.

July 1, 2019

The drama's most acclaimed episode for Shin Hye-sun's performance — Yeon-seo's grief and love fully expressed.

July 1, 2019

The finale. Named best drama of 2019 by numerous critics for Shin Hye-sun's performance, which became the foundation of her subsequent stardom.