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 components thriller, tenderness, and a love letter to oldsters, it upheld the significance of generational therapeutic and the way generally 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 under.

1. Answered: The killer’s id

I had hoped that final week’s cliffhanger was a pretend out and that Yoon Hae Joon’s (Kim Dong Wook’s) dad Yoon Yeon Woo (Jeon Jae Kwang) wasn’t the madman working round murdering ladies who learn, however, alas, he’s. The worst half is the entire dissonance this offers Hae Joon as he tries to reconcile the distant however good 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 entire city is horrified on the killer’s id. 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 presumably have raised a coldhearted assassin. Byung Gu is equally in shock at the truth that his son practically killed his grandson. He’s underneath a ton of strain—the police search his house 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 “special” 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 baby and tries to burn the letters. But Hae Joon has a obscure reminiscence of them from when he was a baby and goes by means of Byung Gu’s issues. He realizes that Byung Gu would have had no purpose to cover the letters until 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 should 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 automobile seemingly mounted, there’s no purpose for Yoon Young and Hae Joon to stay in 1987. They attempt to go away however discover that the automobile’s time-travel side isn’t mounted. Thankfully, this offers them extra time to make their farewells, leading to among the greatest scenes this present has given us but.

Not each baby 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 girl 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, completely satisfied teenagers her dad and mom are and tearfully want them the easiest of their shared future.

At Yoon Young’s urging (and as a consequence of his very apparent fondness for her), Hae Joon makes up together with his grandfather, who has turn out to be 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 outdated man perks up when Hae Joon awkwardly provides that they go fishing. They’re nonetheless discovering their approach round one another, however Byung Gu earnestly asks Hae Joon how he may give future Hae Joon a greater childhood. Hae Joon’s touched, and the 2 lastly name themselves household. But there’s yet another member that Hae Joon must face.

He seeks out his mom Chung Ah, who’s dwelling in a quiet village, readying to offer delivery. She plans on leaving her baby with Byung Gu as soon as he’s born as a result of she nonetheless fears that he’ll develop into a monster like Yeon Woo. But relatively than resent her, Hae Joon offers her a bittersweet smile, saying that he understands. He thanks her for giving delivery to the kid and easily hopes that she lives with out remorse. It’s an important second that exhibits that not each downside will be mounted right here. Chung Ah wasn’t the scumbag Hae Joon believed. She was a frightened younger girl 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 surprise 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 every thing, 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 house 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 try this when he dies in 2022, however his son insists that Hae Joon didn’t truly die then and that there was part of that future that Hae Joon missed. A component the place he was married and had an excellent baby 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 completely satisfied. 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 preserve 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 automobile 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 compensate for a thousand missed notifications in the course of 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 house 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 snigger and joke collectively in one of the best of the way, and she or he’s ridiculously completely satisfied to see them so completely satisfied and have the connection she all the time wished to have with them.

She’s relationship 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 seems and sounds precisely like a relatively 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 surprise why she by no means instructed them the reality when Hae Joon instructed his grandfather. But time fixes every thing, and there’s nonetheless one final thing they’ll do.

6. Answered: What grew to become of the time machine

On the one 12 months 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 another roundtrip, and Yoon Young asks if he’s pondering what she’s pondering. The subsequent factor we all know, they’re again within the automobile and able to return to 1987 for yet another 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 a number of unanswered questions and a few leaps in logic that don’t fully make sense. How did Hae Joon witness a false way forward for his dying? Why did his dad kill/attempt to kill him? And why did he all of the sudden kill Yoon Young’s mom after staying dormant for thus lengthy? But general, this present was a delight to observe and with a romance that felt like an outdated married couple discovering pleasure in one another’s presence. Jin Ki Joo and Kim Dong Wook have unbelievable smiles, which definitely helped with that.

At its core, “My Perfect Stranger” was a present about kids 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 dying. All of that went proper again to Yeon Woo, so he constructed a time-machine. Yoon Young wished to offer her mom the prospect to dwell 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 comply with us to the long run 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 cross one of the best components of ourselves down. The work we put in at the moment 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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Shalini_A is a very long time Asian-drama addict. When not watching dramas, she fangirls over Ji Sung, and spins thrillers set in more and more incredible worlds. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram, and be at liberty to ask her something!

Currently Watching:  “My Perfect Stranger,” “See You in My 19th 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.