She's Different from Day to Night: aka Miss Night and Day
July 23, 2024 4:52 AM - Season 1 (Full Season) - Subscribe
Miss Night and Day (Korean: 낮과 밤이 다른 그녀) (aka She's Different From Day to Night) is an ongoing South Korean television series starring Lee Jung-eun, Jung Eun-ji and Choi Jin-hyuk. It premiered on JTBC on June 15, 2024, and airs every Saturday and Sunday at 22:30 (KST). It is also available for streaming on Netflix in selected regions (it is currently on episode 12 of 16 in Canada on Netflix).
"A bittersweet romantic comedy about how a woman who magically switches between her 20s and 50s lands an internship at the Prosecution Service, caught between two generations and a tough boss."(IMDB)
I was going to wait until it was done but I got impatient. Note that "Miss Night and Day" is how it is listed in Netflix (the IMDB entry is under "She's Different From Day to Night"). I'm really enjoying this show - they have a gift for throwing tired old tropes at us (the henpecked husband, the driven investigator with a tragic past) but then quickly subverting them by showing us the depths in each character. The trope is the mask, so let's look behind it. My favorite is the "overbearing mother who also berates her meek husband", played by Jung Young-Joo, as we come to *see* how much she loves her family and then get our hearts broken as we learn about her tragic loss and the constant pain she is in.
It's 16 episodes, dropping 2 per week on Netflix in Canada. With that many episodes, there's a lot of room for plot, and boy howdy do we have a bunch - there's a serial killer on the loose with an obsessed prosecutor chasing him, there's a cursed twentysomething trying to lift her curse while caught in a love triangle (or is it a square?), there's a handsome K-pop star who is learning about real life and discovering his own inner strengths, and let's throw some comic relief in there too, shall we? It can sometimes be a bit muddled, imho, but emotionally quite satisfying.
I was going to wait until it was done but I got impatient. Note that "Miss Night and Day" is how it is listed in Netflix (the IMDB entry is under "She's Different From Day to Night"). I'm really enjoying this show - they have a gift for throwing tired old tropes at us (the henpecked husband, the driven investigator with a tragic past) but then quickly subverting them by showing us the depths in each character. The trope is the mask, so let's look behind it. My favorite is the "overbearing mother who also berates her meek husband", played by Jung Young-Joo, as we come to *see* how much she loves her family and then get our hearts broken as we learn about her tragic loss and the constant pain she is in.
It's 16 episodes, dropping 2 per week on Netflix in Canada. With that many episodes, there's a lot of room for plot, and boy howdy do we have a bunch - there's a serial killer on the loose with an obsessed prosecutor chasing him, there's a cursed twentysomething trying to lift her curse while caught in a love triangle (or is it a square?), there's a handsome K-pop star who is learning about real life and discovering his own inner strengths, and let's throw some comic relief in there too, shall we? It can sometimes be a bit muddled, imho, but emotionally quite satisfying.
Lord help me, but I'm enjoying this show. I'm a sucker for the magical transforming girl trope (Full Moon o Sagashite!) and it's nice to see a K-drama version of that. The English translation is good too. I have to wonder how all prosecutors in K-dramas are also martial arts experts? Also, why do a flashback to something that happened fifteen seconds ago in the same scene.
posted by jabah at 10:45 PM on July 25, 2024
posted by jabah at 10:45 PM on July 25, 2024
Watched the first episode and it's great! Definitely didn't understand everything that happened though.
posted by Zumbador at 11:54 PM on July 25, 2024
posted by Zumbador at 11:54 PM on July 25, 2024
That being said, episode 13 drags and episode 14 is 50% exposition in one big dump. Both these episodes (which dropped this weekend) have such uneven pacing that I'm not sure what to make of them.
posted by Mogur at 4:20 PM on July 28, 2024
posted by Mogur at 4:20 PM on July 28, 2024
And then 16 rips my heart out, in the best possible way.
posted by Mogur at 10:04 AM on August 4, 2024
posted by Mogur at 10:04 AM on August 4, 2024
This was a light, frothy but enjoyable show, despite the serial killer story. The male lead, like a lot of male leads in Kdramas, was sort of a wet fish, but had some charm. The young and "old" female leads were great (hey, I'm 57, it doesn't feel old). The lady who played the serial killer was compelling, despite a meager part. The side-kicks were fun. It was a little strange that two people with the same name was not a big deal the first episode (Lee Mi-jin), but afterwards became a McGuffin (Lim Sun). As someone who used to do payroll, I kept wondering how you get a government paycheck when you have a false identity. Also, seems weird that Mi-jin's family keep their alcoholic beverages in clay pots outside the fence of their residence. Is that really a thing? LOL, the magical cat went from being super important to not important at all!
One thing for sure: the fringe is in. Even the old doctor had one. And everyone has a folding phone! It's funny how Korean dramas get stuck on one trope (body swap, time travel, the split-age thing) until the next one comes along and sweeps everything in. Hello, Me is another one on Netflix. It was okay but Choi Kang-Hee never gets the scripts she deserves. I wonder if that's why she became a Youtuber.
posted by jabah at 3:15 PM on August 11, 2024
One thing for sure: the fringe is in. Even the old doctor had one. And everyone has a folding phone! It's funny how Korean dramas get stuck on one trope (body swap, time travel, the split-age thing) until the next one comes along and sweeps everything in. Hello, Me is another one on Netflix. It was okay but Choi Kang-Hee never gets the scripts she deserves. I wonder if that's why she became a Youtuber.
posted by jabah at 3:15 PM on August 11, 2024
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I am really hoping that the prosecutor has already figured out the transformation and is just respecting Lim Sun/Mi Jin's secret, or else I will lose so much respect for his basic intellect and powers of observation (she has the same backpack augh!).
posted by TwoStride at 11:41 AM on July 23, 2024