#extraordinary you

[fake-married-my-dead-fiance]

Wacky relationship dynamics that I love:

Edit to add:

Alchemy of Souls, Doom at Your Service, Extraordinary You, Moon in the Day, Marry My Husband, Guardian: The Lonely and Great God, Oh My Ghost, W: Two Worlds, Lovely Runner, The Judge from Hell, When the Phone Rings

[liveasbutterflies]

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KIM HYE YOON: Lovely Runner (2024) · Snowdrop (2022) · Ditto (2022) · Girl with a Bulldozer (2022) · Midnight (2021) · Secret Royal Inspector & Joy (2021) · Extraordinary You (2019) · Sky Castle (2019)

[wolha]

EXTRAORDINARY YOU 어쩌다 발견한 하루 2019, dir. Kim Sang-Hyub, Kim Sang-Woo

[lurkingshan]

The other day in a conversation about I'll Turn Back This Time, @troubled-mind asked me about my favorite dramas that show the same couple falling in love multiple times, in different iterations.

So of course, I am now here with a list! Takes on the fantasy trope that ITBTT uses--an alternate universe and/or time travel mechanism that sets up the protagonist to fall in love with the same person, or different versions of the same person, more than once--is actually not super common in dramas, but there are a handful of shows that do something like this:

Triage 

If you ask me what is the best QL with this trope, I don't even need to think about it: Triage is the answer. I love this show, and alongside its masterful suspense plot you get to watch these two try (and fail) to get the other to fall for them over and over again. It's a great time.

Someday or One Day 

If you ask me what is the best drama with this trope, period, I have to hand it to Someday or One Day, a Taiwanese drama that is probably my favorite time travel alternate universe romance of all time. In this one you get multiple versions of the same characters falling in love with each other and traversing time and space to find each other. It's so good that a Korean production attempted to replicate its magic. An absolute must watch for people who love this trope!

Every You Every Me

Now we're getting into some with asterisks. In this show you get to watch the same two actors play multiple different pairs who fall in love with each other in different universes--kind of. I can't say more or I will spoil it for those who haven't seen it yet! It's not a perfect show by any means, but it's a lot of fun.

4 Minutes 

This show is not a great example of this trope IMO, but it sort of gets at the experience, as you see a few different versions of the lead characters and their relationship through various narrative turns. I'm keeping it vague because saying much more would be spoilerific!

The Legend of the Blue Sea

A mermaid meets a conman, has a whirlwind romance, and then deletes his memory. But oops! They were already lovers in a previous life, her mermaid powers are not working quite as planned, and she can't stop herself from finding him again anyway. It's all a bit more complicated than that, but the point is you get to watch these two find each other and fall in love several times in multiple lifetimes. And damn did I love it every time.

Until We Meet Again 

In this drama, the story is about two souls who meet again in another life after a tragic end in their first. So it kinda fits here, but their reincarnated souls go into new characters played by different actors, so the experience of watching it is a bit different. This one is less about time travel and choice as it is heavy on the red string of fate.

Extraordinary You 

In this fantasy drama, our mains are side characters in a manwha who gain sentience and start trying to change their story together while an omnipotent writer keeps shuffling them back to where they think they belong and deleting their memories of each other. It's definitely a unique twist on this trope, and you get to watch them fight to remember and fall for each other and find a way to take control of their destiny over and over again.

In addition to narratives with a fantasy construct that resets or produces multiple iterations of the core relationship, I also thought about second chance romances where you get to see both the original and the second chance love story in full, giving you the experience of watching the same two people fall in love twice. Some noteworthy dramas in this category:

Lighter and Princess

This drama centers on two tech genius types who originally fell in love in college and started a company together before something went very wrong, resulting in his incarceration. The story picks up when he gets out of prison and sets out to reclaim his legacy, and you get to live both their first and second love stories in detail. One of my absolute favorites and permanently in the rewatch rotation.

We Best Love 

This story is told in two parts, with the first focused on their original enemies to lovers romance in college, and the second their reunion after a confusing and closure-less break up. It's honestly kind of a mess but I love it so much anyway, in no small part due to the actors.

The End of the World With You 

And now for something a little darker! This one is heavy on the toxic psychosexual vibe, and all the more fascinating for it. Two former lovers meet again at the end of the world, and we see what went wrong for them in college and watch them sort through the wreckage as adults and try to make something of the time they have left.

First Love: Hatsukoi

Two high school sweethearts get separated by life circumstances, and meet again twenty years later to realize they are still not over it. I was charmed by the teen love story in this one especially.

Let Free the Curse of Taekwondo

Let me end on a note of excellence and take this opportunity to again implore everyone to watch this beautiful show. Both iterations of this relationship are compelling and complicated and full of deep feeling; it's one of the most satisfying second chance romances I have seen, and after everything they've been through, it's so rewarding to see these two get the chance to fall in love again.

[cuddlybitch]

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EXTRAORDINARY YOU (2019)

[ourjisoo2]

✦ Lee Jae Wook ꒰ Ator ꒱ lockscreens !

𝐿𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑜𝑟 𝑟𝑒𝑏𝑙𝑜𝑔, 𝐼𝑓 𝑢 𝑠𝑎𝑣𝑒, 𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒

[noona-is-afk]

For everyone who’s looking for kdramas to watch between Lovely Runner episodes may I suggest:

Twinkling Watermelon

similarities: time travel, lots of shenanigans, great music, disabilities and mental health themes

A Time Called You

similarities: time travel adult back to high school, great chemistry between leads, murder plot

twenty five twenty one

similarities: ml falls first, love over the years, high school to college years

True Beauty

similarities: same writer! second lead syndrome, love triangle, high school love story, idols in training

Honourable mentions:

Record of Youth (Byeon Woo Seok plays second lead! Idol drama!)

Sh**ting Stars (Idol drama!)

Extra-ordinary You (Kim Hye Yoon FL, tall drink of water Rowoon ML)

20th century girl (movie but Byeon Woo Seok is incredible in it)

Strong Girl Nam Soon (nothing like this show but Byeon Woo Seok plays an INCREDIBLE villain)

[dailyasiandramas]

Don't cry Dan-oh. Today is the happiest day for me. I'm happy that you're my beginning and my ending. Please call my name. Dan-oh. My name.

KIM HYE YOON and ROWOON as EUN DAN-OH and HARU EXTRAORDINARY YOU 어쩌다 발견한 하루 (2019)

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[btssoul7]

Kim Hyeyoon 💜

[my-drama-heart2406]

Lee Jae Wook's jaw deserves a fanbase of its own.

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[deokmis]

Lee Jae-wook as Baek Kyung in Extraordinary You [2019]

[fake-married-my-dead-fiance]

Lovely Runner 🤝 Extraordinary You

Kim Hye-yoon tries to change destiny while a tall guy saves her from situations and has heart eyes.

[liveasbutterflies]

What are you looking at? You. Extraordinary You (어쩌다 발견한 하루)

[wolha]

It’s cold. Hey! If I say it’s cold, shouldn’t you offer me your jacket or something? You’re so slow-witted.

EXTRAORDINARY YOU 어쩌다 발견한 하루 (2019) dir. Kim Sang-Hyub, Kim Sang-Woo

[jsvausvqbd]

I would LOVE a Rowoon cameo on Lovely Runner lol. Imagine: it’s near the end of 2022, Sun Jae is ecstatic because he’ll finally meet his Sol again and then an article pops up that says “Actor/Idol Haru rumored to be dating film Director Im Sol as the two are spotted together” and Sun Jae’s delusional ass imagines a whole telenovela with the two just for the rumor to be debunked later lol