Korean scriptwriters often come up with some very interesting time travel plots. My Perfect Stranger is a perfect time travel K-drama.
Two perfect strangers end up traveling back to 1987, both with two completely different objectives they wish to accomplish. But as they begin to unravel certain events, they discover that their purposes are connected.
However, it's the past. Everything has already happened. Can they really turn back the clock? If they could it would be wonderful, Especially since turning back the clock would result in preventing a serial killer from ever committing the crimes in the first place.
Hae Jun (played by Kim Dong Wook) works as an anchorman at a news station. One day as he is driving his car, his GPS starts acting weird and the voice announces that the directions have changed. Why do weird and strange things always happen on dreary rainy nights? Following the GPS directions he drives into a tunnel and is blinded by a bright light. He stops his car, gets out, and finds an abandoned car. At least …??? It looked like a car. It was actually a time machine. So he did what anybody else would do if they found a time machine. He got inside and tested it to see if he would really travel through time. First, he went to the future and then he went to the past. It was a blast!
But then he decided that since he had already made plans for what he would be doing once he retired, might as well travel to the future life to see if his life had worked out just the way he planned it. His future was not the way he planned it. He had been murdered! That was not a blast. It was a shock!
So! What would be your next thought? Time machine? My murder?
Go back in time to prevent the crime from happening!
Since he had successfully tested the time travel machine, going back and forth between the past and the present was easy. Just get in the car, set the year, and voila! You're there. But this one time, as he was driving through the tunnel, he sees a young woman standing in the pathway.
The woman is Baek Yoon-young (played by Jin Ki-joo), an editor who works at a publishing company. He swerves to try to avoid hitting her but somehow they both end up in the year 1987. She is from the same time period that he was from, i.e. the year 2021.
But why was this woman brought back in time with him?
To him, she's a perfect stranger. For her, the feeling is mutual. She doesn't know him either!
They both have two different purposes for wanting to go back in time. However, as they begin to unravel certain events, it turns out their objectives are intertwined.
- The death of Baek Yoon-young's mother was recorded as a suicide, but it is possible that it was murder. She needs to know the truth.
- Hae Jun is trying to find a serial killer in the hopes of preventing his own murder 30 years later.
The first murder occurred in 1987 and it took place in Woojeong Village. He and Yoon-young begin working together to unravel the mystery. They have a clue that is rather cryptic. There was a matchbox from the Boong Boong Cafe found at the scene of the first crime and it contained a note: “A woman who reads is dangerous.”
What could that possibly mean?
My Perfect Stranger is an extremely believable time travel drama and the murder mystery is a riveting crime thriller. The Viki viewing audience rated My Perfect Stranger, 9.5 out of 10 stars. I agree.
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