And that’s a wrap on “My Perfect Stranger”! After eight weeks, 16 episodes, and an entire lot of shenanigans in 1987, we’ve lastly reached the top of a present that by no means tried to be greater than it was. Equal elements thriller, tenderness, and a love letter to oldsters, it upheld the significance of generational therapeutic and the way typically solely instruments from the current can repair the previous. Here are 5 mysteries that the ultimate episodes wrapped up and one that also stays open.
Warning: spoilers for episodes 15-16 beneath.
1. Answered: The killer’s identification
I had hoped that final week’s cliffhanger was a faux out and that Yoon Hae Joon’s (Kim Dong Wook’s) dad Yoon Yeon Woo (Jeon Jae Kwang) wasn’t the madman operating round murdering ladies who learn, however, alas, he’s. The worst half is the entire dissonance this provides Hae Joon as he tries to reconcile the distant however sensible father he knew with the vicious man attempting to bludgeon his head in with a rock. Luckily, Baek Yoon Young (Jin Ki Joo) and Baek Dong Shik (Choi Young Woo) arrive in time to cease him from killing his future son. Hae Joon recuperates, attempting to wrap his head across the reality and feeling responsible, however Yoon Young isn’t having the latter.
2. Answered: Why Byung Gu appeared to hate Hae Joon rising up.
The complete city is horrified on the killer’s identification. Yeon Woo’s father and Hae Joon’s grandfather, Principal Yoon Byung Gu (Kim Jong Soo), is a well-respected, beloved determine, and nobody can fathom how he may probably have raised a coldhearted assassin. Byung Gu is equally in shock at the truth that his son practically killed his grandson. He’s beneath a ton of strain—the police search his dwelling and discover a ton of suspicious occasions (equivalent to Yeon Woo having secretly returned to Korea sooner than when Byung Gu believed in order that he was capable of commit the primary two murders). But the police don’t have any direct proof, and Yeon Woo is aware of it.
So when Chung Ah (Jung Shin Hye), Yeon Woo’s ex-girlfriend and Hae Joon’s mom, involves Byung Gu with letters Yeon Woo wrote to her in “particular” handwriting he reserved for her (which matches the killer’s notes), Byung Gu is confronted with a troublesome selection. When he finds that Chung Ah is pregnant, he tries to spare Hae Joon the indignity of being a killer’s little one and tries to burn the letters. But Hae Joon has a obscure reminiscence of them from when he was a toddler and goes by way of Byung Gu’s issues. He realizes that Byung Gu would have had no cause to cover the letters except he was planning on withholding them from the police. He races from his hospital mattress and manages to avoid wasting one of many letters from Byung Gu. Hae Joon realizes that his grandfather will need to have hid or destroyed proof within the unique timeline too, which signifies that he knew that Yeon Woo is a killer. Byung Gu pleads that that is for Hae Joon’s sake, however Hae Joon yells that the Byung Gu he knew was wracked with guilt over hiding the proof and took it out on Hae Joon by being chilly and distant his whole life. With that ultimate blow, he palms within the proof convicting his father to the police. And it’s all lastly over.
3. Answered: the choice of Hae Joon’s mom
With the thriller solved and the automotive seemingly mounted, there’s no cause for Yoon Young and Hae Joon to stay in 1987. They attempt to go away however discover that the automotive’s time-travel facet isn’t mounted. Thankfully, this provides them extra time to make their farewells, leading to among the greatest scenes this present has given us but.
Not each little one can say that they really know their dad and mom, and Yoon Young has had the privilege of seeing her mom and father blossom. Lee Soon Ae (Seo Ji Hye) would have been a damaged lady with out Yoon Young in her life, and Baek Hee Seob (Lee Won Jung) would have been a haunted man, leading to an sad, painful marriage doomed by the ghosts of their previous. But Yoon Young and Hae Joon took these ghosts away, and she will be able to solely marvel on the carefree, glad teenagers her dad and mom are and tearfully want them the easiest of their shared future.
At Yoon Young’s urging (and on account of his very apparent fondness for her), Hae Joon makes up together with his grandfather, who has develop into the city pariah. People blame him for what Yeon Woo did, and Hae Joon can perceive why Byung Gu sought to spare him that. But the previous man perks up when Hae Joon awkwardly gives that they go fishing. They’re nonetheless discovering their means round one another, however Byung Gu earnestly asks Hae Joon how he can provide future Hae Joon a greater childhood. Hae Joon’s touched, and the 2 lastly name themselves household. But there’s yet one more member that Hae Joon must face.
He seeks out his mom Chung Ah, who’s dwelling in a quiet village, readying to present start. She plans on leaving her little one with Byung Gu as soon as he’s born as a result of she nonetheless fears that he’ll transform a monster like Yeon Woo. But fairly than resent her, Hae Joon offers her a bittersweet smile, saying that he understands. He thanks her for giving start to the kid and easily hopes that she lives with out remorse. It’s a fantastic second that exhibits that not each drawback will be mounted right here. Chung Ah wasn’t the scumbag Hae Joon believed. She was a frightened younger lady in a horrible place, and he lastly understands the place she was coming from.
4. Answered: Who left Hae Joon the time machine
With nobody left to repair the time machine, Hae Joon and Yoon Young marvel if they are surely caught in 1987. Yoon Young wonders how Hae Joon discovered it within the first place and is intrigued to listen to that it appeared to be ready for him by the tunnel. Hae Joon ponders that too in addition to the mysterious voice he heard again when he practically hit Yoon Young and the 2 of them ended up in 1987. The voice stated that solely they may repair the whole lot, and he wonders who it may very well be.
We don’t have to attend lengthy to seek out out. A mysterious determine exhibits up at Hae Joon’s dwelling when Yoon Young is absent and secretly fixes the time machine earlier than being caught by Hae Joon. He’s is flabbergasted to acknowledge that the person’s voice matches the one he heard. The man (Jung Jinyoung) admits that he left Hae Joon the time machine. When Hae Joon asks why, the person reveals the reality: he’s Hae Joon’s son.
WAIT WHAT?
Hae Joon’s in shock that he has a son and wonders how he managed to do this when he dies in 2022, however his son insists that Hae Joon didn’t really die then and that there was part of that future that Hae Joon missed. A component the place he was married and had a superb little one who constructed his dad and mom a time machine. Hae Joon is heartened that his son treats him with real affection, which means that his childhood was glad. And as for Hae Joon’s spouse? It’s none apart from Yoon Young. Hae Joon’s delighted to listen to it, however insists that they maintain it a secret from her as a result of he doesn’t need her realizing the ending of their story too quickly. And with that, the automotive is mounted, and our couple ventures again to a future they hope is brighter.
5. Answered: Yoon Young’s dad and mom sooner or later
Yoon Young and Hae Joon know they’re again when their telephones make amends for a thousand missed notifications throughout the month of their absence. Hae Joon is greeted with a loving name from his grandfather, asking him if he’s again. Clearly, Byung Gu knew the place Hae Joon vanished off to and was patiently awaiting his return. On the opposite hand, Yoon Young’s dad and mom had no clue. She nervously returns dwelling to a mom who’s alive in addition to a bestselling writer and to a heat, loving father. And the 2 dad and mom are clearly nonetheless deeply in love. They snicker and joke collectively in the perfect of the way, and he or she’s ridiculously glad to see them so glad and have the connection she all the time wished to have with them.
She’s courting Hae Joon now (Kim Dong Wook all the time finally ends up being an anchor someway!), and it confuses her dad and mom to no finish to see him. They each insist that he appears and sounds precisely like a fairly heroic highschool instructor that they had again within the day, and Yoon Young has to battle to not giggle. They additionally wistfully reminisce over pal of theirs named Yoon Young, whom they named her after. Her mom can’t recover from how they give the impression of being oddly alike, and Yoon Young has to battle to cover her laughter. I do marvel why she by no means advised them the reality when Hae Joon advised his grandfather. But time fixes the whole lot, and there’s nonetheless one very last thing they will do.
6. Answered: What turned of the time machine
On the one yr anniversary of their journey again to 1987, Hae Joon and Yoon Young stroll alongside the seashore as they as soon as promised to do. He reveals that the time machine nonetheless has sufficient in it for yet one more roundtrip, and Yoon Young asks if he’s pondering what she’s pondering. The subsequent factor we all know, they’re again within the automotive and able to return to 1987 for yet one more spherical. This time, they’ll save everybody: the teacher-in-training, Soon Ae’s sister, and Hee Seob’s pal. And maybe this time, they’ll let Soon Ae and Hee Seob in on the reality in order that they know that the pal they cherished is the daughter they cherish.
What a stunning ending to a present that has stayed constant to its message from the beginning. There are nonetheless just a few unanswered questions and a few leaps in logic that don’t completely make sense. How did Hae Joon witness a false way forward for his demise? Why did his dad kill/attempt to kill him? And why did he out of the blue kill Yoon Young’s mom after staying dormant for therefore lengthy? But total, this present was a delight to observe and with a romance that felt like an previous married couple discovering pleasure in one another’s presence. Jin Ki Joo and Kim Dong Wook have unimaginable smiles, which actually helped with that.
At its core, “My Perfect Stranger” was a present about youngsters giving their dad and mom a second probability. Hae Joon’s son wished to assist his dad and mom with their regrets. In the unique timeline, he would have had a father who couldn’t cease his personal near-death and a mom who by no means forgave herself for her mom’s demise. All of that went proper again to Yeon Woo, so he constructed a time-machine. Yoon Young wished to present her mom the possibility to stay freely with out remorse, and Hae Joon wished nothing to do together with his household however ended up saving all of them the identical.
This present acknowledged that our regrets, failings, and imperfections can observe us to the longer term in ugly methods. They can flip us into individuals we by no means wished to be who can inflict hurt on subsequent generations or hang-out us each hour of the day. Not everybody has a time machine to return and save our dad and mom. Yet, there’s nonetheless to unpack generational trauma in ourselves and our dad and mom the place doable, so we solely go the perfect elements of ourselves down. The work we put in at present will end in a brighter future for everybody. And that saves the individuals we love simply in addition to any time machine.
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Currently Watching: “My Perfect Stranger,” “See You in My nineteenth Life,” “Delightfully Deceitful,” “Lies Hidden in My Garden,” “Numbers,” and “King the Land”
Looking Forward to: “Gyeongseong Creature,” “Ask The Stars,” “The Girl Downstairs,” “The Worst Evil,” “Queen of Tears,” “Vigilante,” “Demon,” “Daily Dose of Sunshine,” and Ji Sung’s subsequent drama.
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