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He Took a Mistress, I Took the Sky
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How He Took a Mistress, I Took the Sky actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
He Took a Mistress, I Took the Sky reads strongest on Character Depth, Serialized and Bingeability.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
Ji-young dreamed of becoming a pilot, but an unexpected pregnancy led her to give up her captain’s seat to her husband, Min-gyu, and become a housewife. On their seventh anniversary, she catches him cheating and dies in a plane crash. However, fate has other plans. She wakes up before the tragedy—and this time, she’s ready to take back the sky.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Direction
- Oh Ki-hwanDirector
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