Lee Joon-gi is a favourite and so it was inevitable that Again, My Life would make a way to my watchlist. I’ve watched almost everything he’s done and certainly every drama since Moon Lovers. In this latest project, Lee Joon-gi dons the role of prosecutor Kim Hee-woo, a well-intentioned lad, full of righteous fervour, out to get big bad politician Cho Tae-sub played by Lee Kyoung-young who has made a career of playing villains that everyone loves to hate. Like all K drama baddies, Cho Tae-sub is a slippery eel with tentacles (apologies for the mixed metaphors) all over the country’s landscape and there’s nothing he won’t do to amass power in the name of the country. The maverick Hee-woo accumulates a pile of evidence and witnesses, only to lose everything, including his own life in one fell swoop. At the moment of his death, a grim reaper in the form of a woman appears and offers him a second chance to do some serious damage to the invincible Cho Tae-sub. In an instant, Hee-woo is transported to his younger past still eking out a living in a convenience store. Armed with foreknowledge and a providential chance to turn the Cho juggernaut around, Hee-woo is now driven to change history as he knew it one person at a time.
Also finished watching Again, My Life. Entertaining one.