Find Me in Your Memory

The series is slow but if you enjoy it you will really get what you want / expect

Genre: romance, love, disease, trauma, memory loss-gain, stalker, crime, mystery, kidnap, damsel in distress, news media, film industry, social media, fan comments.

Story: A girl was killed by a stalker 10 years ago. Her grieving boyfriend and female friend, meet as a news anchor and a celebrity actress. Both of them have suppressed diseases- he has extraordinary ability/disease to remember every bit in his past, thus making him suffer from that pain; while she has lost parts of her memory thus living as a naive/straightforward cheerful girl. She pursues him with all honesty and he eventually loves her back, overcoming his past trauma, the moral dilemma and social scorn (of dating his dead lover's friend), her memory regain, and the revengeful acts of the stalker against the duo.

The girl absolutely rocked it: a beautiful gleaming face, a lovely female voice, lovely smile, long curly hair. So sweet and so natural in the open-hearted girl avtaar. Often effortlessly funny, close to comedian role-- a rarity for a female actor in my view. Her crying parts are good too. Hajin of 'Find me in your Dreams' is now in the league of Jiuna of 'Full House', Jandi of 'Boys Over Flowers', and Jiho of 'Because this is my first Life'.

The male lead has a great male voice (fitting a news presenter), a great smile, decent face, a decent walk, non-showoff hair, ordinary in emotional parts.

Good side characters- the news channel owner couple, the girl's sister couple, the cold hearted professor bordering on 'mad scientist'. Two stalkers were presented, not very realistically- more like cliched madness. The guy's handling of the stalking events was good. The duo's (multiple) together sessions, with open confession from both sides, were absolutely beautiful.

16 episodes. Last 2 episodes ruined it for me: unnecessary breakup, cliched 'two years after', 'fated' re-meet, change of the girl's attitude from cheerful transparent to sombre serious reserved. 2 points deduct for that. The first 13 episodes were a treat to watch/experience.

One of the best recent Kdrama in my list: My Mister, Because This is my First Life, When Amelia Blooms, Dinner Mates, Find me in Your Memory, Stranger (2017), Waikiki-1.

Some popular recent kdrama that are not that good in my view: Waikiki-2, my strange hero, Love w Flaws, Weightlifting girl.., Strong girl.., Her private life, Love alarm, Kill me heal me, Mask, Introverted Boss, What's wrong with secretary kim, Secret(2013), Suspicious Partner, Tale of 9 tailed fox.

Good start and concept, but the ending got boring. Plot goes really slow and a lot of unnecessary fill-in scenes. I'm left with not a single good scene to be frank. Could have stopped at 16 episodes. But the story is great - sad they didn't make it more compact and memorable.

Despite the harsh reviews, I decided to watch it and I have to tell you, I didn't regret it. The acting was splendid and, though the ending got a bit slow, I though it was a beautiful way of ending the story. It's actually a good drama, maybe not the best, but definitely worth watching. I recommend it.

I would have given this series a 9 or even 10 star rating if it had ended at episode 13. The last 3 episodes were extremely boring and I could not wait for the drama to conclude. The two lead actors acted really well though, with very good chemistry. I am particularly drawn to the male lead's character - he is so charming in the drama and I am re-watching the first few episodes because of him.