About Time (2018) User Reviews

Good Enough

[PennyReviews · 6/10 · 29 July 2018]

About time introduces the viewer with a new concept, the ability to see your time of death. The whole drama revolves around the question, what if you meet someone who can extend your life? So, the premisses nice enough, the story interesting, the chemistry between the two leads is killing it and the first episodes were sooooo good, it was only a matter of time beofore this one started to go down. And it did. Unfortunately, the musical parts were tiring, the story started getting boring and the twists were just too predictable to entertain. Those things killed the romance, that was so strong and emotional at first. The final ending was good, but I guess a more dramatic one would have been kind of better.

Slow

[dolly-vinnie · 6/10 · 7 May 2020]

It started out with a wonderful concept of something supernatural.. but it's such a slow moving plot

Classic Romance K-Drama with Musical Aspects

[nishera · 8/10 · 20 February 2021]

As with any film, whether you will like this show depends on what you are looking for. Personally, I would rate this show 7.5 stars (rounded up to 8). It started relatively strong and had some moving moments, but IMO, the last 4-6 episodes dragged.

The Good/Fresh

• Overall the show was technically sound with a great cast and solid acting. The plot concept wasn't particularly unique, but the execution was interesting enough.
• There aren't many KDramas about musicals out there, and the featured songs/singers were pretty decent (the stage acting could have been a bit more polished though). If you enjoy musicals, this might be your cup of tea.
• The script was generally well written with deep emotion and touching observations about life.

The Bad/Cliche

• The first half of the show had good pacing and smooth story progression. However, as many K-Dramas do, things began to bog down at the "angst and suffering" stage. I understand that these emotions need adequate screen time to be fully conveyed, but IMO this film could have still gotten the job done with 25-50% less (though maybe that's just a cultural thing, since Asian theater is notorious for its focus on tragedy). In any case, the last 4-6 episodes were rather slow and had too much contrived struggle for my taste. I kept skipping ahead to hurry the story along.
• The cliche vicious female love rival makes an appearance here, which could be a turn off for some viewers. Although I must add that if you are willing to sit through the scenes, ISM unswervingly plays her role to the absolute 9's. You will love to hate her.
• The ending, though happy, was rather chaotic, and IMO the various scenes jumped around a bit too much, rather than blending into a harmonious finish. But hey, a happy ending is a happy ending, right?

ROMANCE RATING: * * * 8.5/10. LSK & LSY had decent chemistry together, and though none of their 3+ kiss scenes were especially spicy, they still felt invested and passionate. However, some viewers could be put off by their obvious age gap

love clock that keeps ticking

[pagal-tigerniskson · 10/10 · 21 July 2020]

This is a extremely heartfelt poignant love story. Made me cry me eyes out in most of the episodes. Really saddening and deep lesson learnt through personal loss of the close ones. I would absolutely rate this 10. I can't understand the most viewers about it being boring and dragging. For me i was able to closely relate to the love they shared and best thing the drama mostly revolved around the Main Leads struggle without any distracting side stories. Even the FL brother's love story was very cute and adorable. The FL however looks way too thin for her appearance and height made me worry looking at her lean bony hands than appreciate her beauty. ML is not that attractive , i find he was better looking in Angel Eyes and look old here. I couldn't accept the FL aching with love during the separation which was some reason did not seem believable for me. May the ML has not done much to earn the feeling she showed during that time i guess. overall this is splendid drama which made me emotionally cry and drains my eyes out for the most part which is quite surprising as if it was some known melodrama considering how unpopular this drama and its ratings are. I am sure there are lot more people could relate to the drama without criticizing too much. I would definitely watch it again in the years to come.

About time

[brendamas · 9/10 · 20 June 2018]

Enjoying this drama very much really like the Actor / Lee Sang Yoon first saw him in Angel Eyes found him to be very warm actor loving this story so far just hoping for a happy ending !!

Didn't hold my attention

[droche-49966 · 5/10 · 31 July 2018]

While I normally love K-dramas, this one was a rare one in that I simply got bored about half way into the series and couldn't finish it. It's a shame because I really liked the main lead actors in their other works and even the story was intriguing in the beginning. It just started lagging after the basic premise was introduced and the leads fell in love.

So much potential -

[CrookshanksG · 8/10 · 21 February 2024]

I watched this because of Lee Sung Kyung. And she's the only reason I finished this series and giving it an 8. She's perfect for the role and he voice is amazing, she has so much talent.

The story has so much potential but unfortunately it drags. Too mang cliches. And kinda illogical.

And I personally don't feel much connection with the male lead. I think the age gap if quite noticeable. His expression is usually blank and too hard with his eyebrows. And there are scenes that I can feel him holding back or being too controlled - example during confrontations with LSK in front of her house where he learned why Mika broke up with him.. It was a big scene but he's too controlled that I didn't feel much of an impact on such a big scene. He's not that attractive for as well to have 2 beautiful ladies pine for him, especially Beth - she deserves so much more.

I love Mika's relationship with her best friend who can also act very well and cute. Also with that granny friend from her part time. Their relationship is wholesome, i love it.

Overall though, i have to say that while watching, it boils down to the director and the writers. The transition between scenes are not really good. The actors tried their best with what is given. But there are just too much cliche, repetitive scenes, like going back and forth with the investor or not, power control between the muscical director and male lead.. it was repetitive, and it's not even that interesting. The ending is also very convenient and the whole series about time simply conveniently disappeared without logic and sense after all the time of Doha transferred to Mika in snap - also illogical and does not make sense. Maybe Love really fixes everything. Lol.

At the end, I love LSK, and Mika... but I would rather have a sad but logical ending with her really dying when her time runs out while making peace with it.

Terribly disgusting

[nora-03048 · 2/10 · 22 March 2020]

The idea is actually cool but it's really really terrible