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Review | K-drama review: If You Wish Upon Me – hospice drama starring Ji Chang-wook ends season with new beginnings
- K-drama If You Wish Upon Me, starring Ji Chang-wook and Sung Dong-il, concludes where the series began – at the beach and fulfilling a patient’s last wishes
- Though it started strong, the show’s contrived plot, sentimental send-offs and lack of development for some characters means it ultimately fails to deliver
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3/5 stars
Hospice melodrama If You Wish Upon Me has spent a lot of time showing us the end of life’s journey – admittedly through rose-tinted glasses.
With the help of the Team Genie volunteer group at Woori Hospice, patients have been able to see their last wishes fulfilled before gracefully shuffling off their mortal coils.
These last wishes have often involved going back to earlier, happier moments in their lives. Some patients, including the first we met in the opening episode and the last in this week’s finale, opted to go to the sea.
Journalist, producer and consultant Pierce Conran has been based in Seoul since 2012, where he served as the Korea Executive for LA-based production company and sales agent XYZ Films and as a long-time editor of the Korean Film Council’s English website KoBiz until 2021. Born in Ireland and raised in Switzerland, he received an MA in Film from Trinity College Dublin and is currently the Korean drama critic for the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong, as well as a programming adviser for the Fribourg International Film Festival and Fantastic Fest in the United States.
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