Go Back Couple

October 13, 2017

Ma Jin-joo (Jang Na-ra) and Ban Do (Son Ho-jun), a bickering couple who have lost all feeling for each other, are magically returned to 1999. They wake up as their younger selves at Yonsei University.

October 13, 2017

Their initial reaction — joy at the chance to change things, horror at facing each other before they even like each other.

October 20, 2017

Both characters making different choices than they originally made — some better, some merely different.

October 20, 2017

The Yonsei University world in 1999 — its specific culture, the PC bang, the fashions, the specific texture of late 90s Korean student life. The Sinchon streets in character.

October 27, 2017

The old feelings — before they became a couple, before they disappointed each other — resurfacing in unexpected ways.

October 27, 2017

What they actually want — is it their marriage saved, or their individual selves free of it?

November 3, 2017

The other 1999 people whose lives their choices are changing — the butterfly effect of their second chance.

November 3, 2017

Jin-joo and Ban Do at the drama's midpoint — both beginning to understand what they actually lost.

November 10, 2017

The specific things about their marriage that were good — remembered now from inside the time before it went wrong.

November 10, 2017

Both characters' decisions about whether to pursue the same path or different ones.

November 17, 2017

The mechanism of return to the present — and what has changed.

November 17, 2017

The finale. A romantic comedy that took its time-travel premise seriously and used it to ask what love actually requires — and whether what we had was worth what it cost.