When I read the synopsis for this show, I was looking forward to a fun time travel. But the result was more than disappointing. In fact, given the high score for this show, I wonder if swarm intelligence has any real validity. Apparently, no one noticed the similarity at the end to "Back to the Future" either.
Having appreciated Kwon Hye Joo's work on Hi Bye, Mama! (2020), I was looking forward to Go Back Couple. However, the sensitivity he showed in Hi Bye, Mama! was completely absent in Go Back Couple. There was no explanation for the time travel and the character development of the protagonists was also poor. Even the secondary characters were template-like and superficial.
The message that money alone is the only option to be happy together is also debatable. Other couples manage to get by with little money. But Ma Jin Joo and Choi Ban Do lack depth of character, their problems, misunderstandings and anger at each other could have been solved without time travel.
But obviously this show is not about emotional depth, but about superficial and skechy scenes that are supposed to be funny. So the protagonists don't go through any development either, but simply throw their intentions from the first half out the window and suddenly behave completely opposite. Yet the initial situation offered a lot of new paths and developments.
Go Back Couple is just teeming with logic flaws and awkward twists. The characters were flat and lacked appeal. The cast was no help there either - except for Kim Mi Kyung.
From the beginning everything was predictable, there was no surprise in the plot except that everything was put forward so naively. However, the show seems to have found its audience.
After watching quite a few Korean series, I notice that often the female characters in particular are portrayed as very strong and independent in the first half of a season - only to suddenly buckle and submit from the second half on. As if one would want to send the message to a woman: Hey, this is how you are, strong, brave, independent - but that's wrong, you have to be a man's wife, cuddly, polite and demure, obedient, to be happy. What kind of message is that? Of course, there are some shows that don't adhere to this conservative thinking. Park Hae Young did not let her Lee Ji An in My Mister fall into this trap.
Strong Characters whose actions are justified and understandable should not be expected on Go Back Couple. The characters in this show remain jokes without depth. Like this whole show, you can quickly forget - no, you have to quickly forget!