![]() When his wife dies in a car accident, Do-Hyun’s father has to decide what to do with her daughter, Ri-Jin. During the six years or so that they lived apart, each had a child with a different partner. But they had a loveless marriage and divorced - or thought they did (the papers were never finalized). Ri-Jin’s mother was married to Do-Hyun’s father. Throughout the series, I worried that they were biologically related, but they both had different sets of parents. To avoid confusion, I will refer to each by the name they called themselves as adults. I’ll add a bit more about this in the spoilers below.Īirdate: Twenty hour-long episodes aired on MBC from January 7 to March 12, 2015. To the writers’ credit, they had him verbalize that because they grew up as siblings, this is not something he should pursue (especially since Ri-Jin only thinks of him as her brother). (Not an easy thing, since she was about six years old at the time she joined the Oh family.) What I really disliked was how it’s obvious that Ri-On has feelings for Ri-Jin, not just as a brother, but as a potential romantic partner. However, it’s also obvious that they didn’t talk about it and had hoped she would just forget she was adopted. The parents are open about her adoption when she asks about it. Ri-Jin has a loving family that treats her no differently than their biological child. While “Kill Me, Heal Me” wasn’t as nuanced as “ It’s Okay, That’s Love,” it was close.Īdoption is handled relatively well in this series. But I really appreciated the lengths that the writers went to present mental health as an important disease that can and should be treated, rather than as a weakness or - even worse - a freak show. I’m not well versed in psychiatry, so I hope those of you who are will chime in if I’ve gotten anything incorrect. Their roles weren’t as flashy as Ji’s, but their characters were well fleshed out. And as her twin, Ri-On, Park Seo-Joon was charming and protective. ![]() And when it was time for them to disappear, oh, the lump in my throat.Īs Ri-Jin, Hwang Jung-Eum was feisty and sympathetic. I never once found the personalities distracting. I also find it funny that some of the most handsome men make the most unattractive females, and such was the case with Yo-Na. They were three distinct characters, of different ages and gender, and Ji literally became these characters. My favorites were Yo-Sub, Yo-Na, and Perry Park. With a few cosmetic changes, dialect and glint in his eyes, he literally became seven different characters. I don’t want to give too much of the plot away, so I’m going to talk about what an outstanding job Ji Sung did in this series. Secrets always get out, though, especially in an office enviroment where no one seems to close the doors before having private conversations. Of course, as the heir to a huge company that he is expected to helm, his mental illness has to be kept a secret. Behaves like a father.ĭo-Hyun created each of these personalities to help him cope with the childhood trauma that he lived through. ✔️ Na-Na: A 7-year-old who embodies the traumas Do-Hyun remembers from his childhood. The 17-year-old loves K-Pop and handsome men, like Ri-Jin’s twin brother, Ri-On. Upon finding this, Ri-Jin changes his graffiti to, “Heal Me.” The series title comes from an incident where he writes, “Kill Me,” prior to his plan to commit suicide. ✔️ Yo-Sub: An artistic and sensitive high school boy who is suicidal. ✔️ Perry Park: A happy-go-lucky ajussi who loves fishing and has a knack for building bombs. Also, in an unusual twist, he is the man stuck in the second lead syndrome. ✔️ Shin Se-Gi: Looks like a rock star, fights like a MMA champion. He suffers from dissociative identity disorder and “lives” with six other personalities: She meets a seemingly disturbed man named Do-Hyun, who asks for her help in treating his mental illness. ![]() So to all of you who nudged me, thank you! It was my Twitter followers who insisted that I had to watch this and that I would love it. I started with the first episode last fall, didn’t think much of it and put it on the back burner. As each new backstory is revealed, it felt like a jolt to my heart.įull disclosure: It took me six months to watch all 20 episodes. ![]() I finished watching the final episode of “Kill Me, Heal Me” early this morning, and I am left with a sense of melancholy - not because the ending was unhappy (it wasn’t), but because the series was so good I wanted to see more. ↑ Note: Korean names denote the surname followed by the given name. ![]()
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