Hi Bye, Mama!

February 22, 2020

Cha Yu-ri (Kim Tae-hee) has been a ghost for five years since her death — watching her husband Oh Kang-hwa (Lee Kyu-hyung) raise their daughter Seo-woo and find a new partner. She is given 49 days to return to the living world and complete unfinished business.

February 22, 2020

Yu-ri returns to the living world — visible, physical, able to interact. Kang-hwa does not yet know who she is.

February 29, 2020

The family home in Seodaemun-gu used for the drama's domestic sequences — the space Yu-ri knows intimately from five years of haunting, now inhabited as a living person.

February 29, 2020

Yu-ri's relationship with her own daughter — who has no conscious memory of her — is the drama's most emotionally complex thread.

March 7, 2020

Kang-hwa's new partner, who is good to both him and Seo-woo, complicates Yu-ri's return in ways she did not anticipate.

March 7, 2020

The Yonsei Severance Hospital exterior used for the medical sequences — Kang-hwa's professional world and Yu-ri's awareness of mortality after experiencing death.

March 14, 2020

Kang-hwa begins to recognise Yu-ri. The drama's most carefully managed revelation.

March 14, 2020

The full truth of Yu-ri's return and its 49-day limit is known. The drama's countdown begins in earnest.

March 21, 2020

Yu-ri and Kang-hwa — and Seo-woo — as a complete family for the first time in five years. The drama's warmest episode and its most bittersweet.

March 21, 2020

The 49 days are visibly shrinking. Every scene is shadowed by the known ending.

March 28, 2020

Yu-ri's preparations for leaving again — what she wants to ensure is in place for Seo-woo and Kang-hwa.

March 28, 2020

Kang-hwa must make a choice about his future — with the new partner, with Yu-ri's memory, alone.

April 4, 2020

Seo-woo begins to remember her mother — not consciously, but in her body's responses.

April 4, 2020

Yu-ri begins saying goodbye. The drama handles this without sentimentality and with absolute emotional honesty.

April 11, 2020

The final day of the 49 days. Every relationship in the drama at its most fully realised.

April 11, 2020

The finale. Kim Tae-hee's return to drama after years away — a performance that reminded audiences what she is capable of when the material matches her.