Miniseries · MBS
If Only You Weren't the One
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How If Only You Weren't the One actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
If Only You Weren't the One reads strongest on Serialized, Character Depth and Bingeability.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
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
After a painful breakup at thirty, a woman’s life is thrown into turmoil when she reunites with a former illicit lover at her workplace, reigniting unresolved desire and drawing her back into a secret relationship where love and temptation blur.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Writing
- Naho KamimuraWriter
Direction
- Naho KamimuraDirector
Where to watch
Streaming
Availability verified against regional listings.
- Rakuten VikiStreaming
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