This article contains spoilers. 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....
Ji Chang-wook as lead character Yoon Gyeo-rye in a still from If You Wish Upon Me, a Korean drama series set in a hospice that also stars Sung Dong-il and Choi Soo-young.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.
We met many of the elderly supporting characters in the series at the end of their journeys but for some people, like lead Yoon Gyeo-rye , life is just beginning. The show had more surprises in store – we realised that not only had we witnessed the start of Gyeo-rye’s redemption story, we had joined Tae-sik midway through his own.
At first, Gyeo-rye’s father appears to be suffering from amnesia. When his memories trickle back in, he appears to have turned over a new leaf. This illusion does not last for long and he is soon back to his old tricks, manipulating the people around him.