Time slot: Monday-Tuesday
Broadcaster: tvN
Genre: Rom-com, fantasy, time-slip
Episode count: 16
Global streamer: Viki
Reasons to watch: With a promo game that’s been 10/10, one can only expect the very best from Lovely Runner. With Kim Hye-yoon back on our screens in a role that seems made for her (i.e., adorable, desperate, devoted fangirl), what more can you ask for than a time-slip rom-com where said fangirl goes back to her high school days and gets a chance to save her beloved. That beloved is none other than the idol played by Byun Woo-seok, and really, this is everything I need to know to get me to watch. But to top it off, the writer from True Beauty is responsible for our script, so I am pretty confident the drama will be self-aware enough to be a blast — rather than a self-serious slog. (Bonus reason to watch: the epic height difference.)
TL;DR: Kim Hye-yoon is in her fangirl era and has to save my her idol Byun Woo-seok