Blue Birthday

So, since little dude decided he'd watch The School Nurse Files with me, I needed another show to watch. I was at the gym, so I picked another Viki title: Blue Birthday that I'd seen a clip or two of. It's one of the PlayList Global shows and the things I've seen from them online have all been good, though I don't think I've ever done an entire show before. They're usually just up on YouTube (and I've seen the clips on Facebook), so I was surprised to see it on Viki. Could be they're moving up in the world.

The episodes are all quite short and random lengths, which is actually kind of good for gym time. I watched the first episode (25 minutes) while on the treadmill, then did a round of all the arm weight machines, then watched the second episode (20 minutes) while on the cross trainer. 

Anyway, this one is about a 28 year old woman who's first love committed suicide 10 years ago on her birthday. She'd intended to confess to him that day (they'd been friends for 10 years) but found him with his wrist slit in the photography room -- which he'd decorated with streamers and balloons and cake for her birthday. Which seems a bit suspect...

So, she's still not over him and thinks about him a lot, especially (as you might imagine) on her birthday. On this particular one, she's back in her old neighbourhood because of her job (rescuing animals) and finds his camera and some pictures she'd never seen before at a lost and found in a shop (and the shopkeep obviously knows something). She takes it all home and, in a fit of sadness, burns one of the photos. This somehow transports her back in time to the day of that photo.

She thinks it's just a dream and is so happy to see Ji Seo-jun again. But, when she gets "back" to the present day she realises that she's now got a scar on her knee from a fall she took in the "dream" and some new memories to boot. By the end of the second episode, she's burned another of the limited amount of pictures and is back in the past again. 

Not sure if this is going to end happy or what...the shopkeep (who she also sees during her first trip back to the past) makes it sound like meddling will cause trouble and there's a fair bit of rather heavy-handed hints about how living in the past isn't good. So, we'll see. The acting is good. The story is interesting. I do hope it ends happy-ish. Can she save him? I dunno. But I have some strong suspicions that his death wasn't a simple suicide. It'll be a good one to do when I go to the gym.

Edit: Have watched a few more at the gym and, at the end of the last episode, she apparently managed to save him (!) and he's in the present day...but in doing so, she managed to kill her friendship with her former best girl friend. There's more episodes but...I'm kinda like...does she try and go back again to fix the friendship? Girl, don't mess around! You literally brought the dude back from the dead (so apparently it was a suicide and the hints it was something more weren't true??). You KNOW that when you go back and meddle, things change. But is trying to get a friendship back worth someone maybe losing their life again? Just try and fix it in the present day! Or give up!