18 Again

September 21, 2020

Hong Dae-young (Yoon Sang-hyun), 37, wakes up in his 18-year-old body (Lee Do-hyun) the morning he is finalising his divorce from Jung Da-jung (Kim Ha-neul). He must now watch his former wife — who doesn't recognise him — from a distance. The Mapo family home establishes the life he almost lost.

September 28, 2020

Da-jung's career as a TV presenter — rebuilt during the marriage, now its own source of pride — is shown as the drama's competing emotional centre.

September 28, 2020

The Seoul broadcasting headquarters used for Da-jung's professional world.

October 5, 2020

Dae-young, watching his wife from outside the marriage, begins to see what he took for granted inside it.

October 5, 2020

Their twins' adjustment to the divorce — shown with unusual care for a Korean melodrama.

October 12, 2020

A new man in Da-jung's life. Dae-young's jealousy from within an 18-year-old body.

October 12, 2020

The comedy and the pathos in balance. Lee Do-hyun carrying 37 years of adult regret in an 18-year-old's face.

October 19, 2020

Dae-young's realization that he wants his family back — not the comfort of it but the actual people in it.

October 19, 2020

Da-jung's growth — during and after the marriage — shown as its own arc independent of her husband's regret.

October 26, 2020

Da-jung begins to recognise something in the 18-year-old that makes no sense unless the impossible is true.

October 26, 2020

The truth of who the 18-year-old is, revealed to Da-jung. Kim Ha-neul's best scene of the drama.

November 2, 2020

Both characters navigating the truth's implications.

November 2, 2020

The drama's focus returns to what was almost lost — the specific texture of this family, these people.

November 9, 2020

Both Dae-young and Da-jung making choices about their future.

November 9, 2020

The finale. A drama that used its body-swap premise to ask whether a marriage can survive the honest accounting of what each partner failed to see in it.