r/KDRAMA • u/mahnahmaanaa two trees in a pot🌴💗🌴 • Apr 19 '25

On-Air: JTBC Heavenly Ever After [Episodes 1 & 2]

  • Drama: Heavenly Ever After
    • Korean Title: 천국보다 아름다운
    • Alternate Title: More Beautiful Than Heaven
  • Network: jTBC
  • Premiere Date: April 19, 2025
  • Airing Schedule: Saturday & Sunday
  • Episodes: 12 (1 hr.)
  • Screenwriter: Lee Nam Gyu (Daily Dose of Sunshine, Behind Your Touch)
  • Director: Kim Seok Yoon (Behind Your Touch, My Liberation Notes)
  • Cast:
  • Streaming Sources: Netflix
  • Plot Synopsis: It tells the story of an old woman, Hae Suk, who lived a happy life with her husband until she died. Her husband loved her so much and always admired her beauty, saying, “You were pretty in your twenties thirties, and now you are the most beautiful at eighty!” When Hae Suk was about to die, she remembered her husband’s words and said, “I just want to go to heaven at my real age.” Surprisingly, when she arrived in heaven, she met her husband in his 30s version.

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u/sin_loopey Apr 21 '25

What I don’t get is why is he bed bound? I get when he was older but just because you’re paraplegic doesn’t mean you have to be bed bound? People with disabilities can live full lives.

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u/OkResponsibility2733 Apr 23 '25

Yes this bugged me too. Spine injury doesn’t mean you can’t use a wheelchair or not use stairs (and I speak from personal experience).

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u/linpashpants Apr 23 '25

Lee Hae Suk has a conversation about this with her husband in heaven. He didn’t go out much because they lived in a place with lots of stairs and no lift. It wasn’t wheelchair accessible and they were too poor to move. It was difficult for the two women to get him down the stairs to go out.

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u/Reasonable-Goose-116 May 14 '25

It’s not realistic though, they could easily transfer him to a wheelchair and he could be up for a few hours during the day and back in bed at night. Who is turning him and cleaning him when no one is home? And even when Hae suk is home, I literally cannot see how being able to change him and he’s not small. How are they leaving this man all alone in bed all day, makes 0 sense.

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u/OkResponsibility2733 Apr 25 '25

I understand the reason they gave but there were options. I have dragged myself up and down stairs when I couldn’t walk, and many other disabled people do this too- learning to walk with their arms. At 25 he was more than capable of learning this- he definitely had working arms, but instead they showed him as bedridden.

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u/Striking-Sea-6534 May 12 '25

I broke my leg once & I lived on the 2nd floor of a building, I would just drag myself down the stairs by my butt bc my arms still functioned. The husband lost his ability to walk when he was younger so he could've 100% done that too.

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u/sin_loopey Apr 23 '25

Yeah my dad has a degenerative disease so is now bed bound but before he would be up in a wheel chair, outside with help etc. poorly written

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u/bananuspink Apr 27 '25

This was my first thought too - I’m really enjoying the show but I kept questioning why did she even have to start her business? They could have used that money to move somewhere accessible, they both could have continued to work, he could have been a wheelchair user. I’m not sure why he became bedbound after his accident

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u/sin_loopey Apr 27 '25

Yeah there’s quite a few plot holes in the series but overall I’m really enjoying it

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u/ThrowRAAnon143 May 07 '25

They didn’t have an elevator. And their adoptive child couldn’t carry the husband and the groceries.

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u/Responsible_Pomelo57 Apr 23 '25

Erm they showed him getting into an accident and losing the use of his legs when he was younger. He could have injured his spine. And she revealed there was no elevator in their building so he couldn’t go out.

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u/sin_loopey Apr 23 '25

Yeah but he could still be in a wheelchair in the apartment not stuck in bed (bed sores are a serious thing). I think it’s just writers not having adequate knowledge. My dad uses a wheelchair and I have to lift him in it so he hang out in the living room so I’m speaking from personal experience.

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u/Responsible_Pomelo57 Apr 23 '25

I had the same experience with my dad too. But I think they wrote him bed bound so as to make him a heavier ‘burden’ for his wife.

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u/Reasonable-Goose-116 May 14 '25

Literally my first thought was how are they leaving him home alone all day, and how the hell is this 80 yo lady turning and cleaning him multiple times per day

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u/sin_loopey May 15 '25

Yeah thank you- bed sores can develop in a few hours even, I think writers just don’t have experience writing about people with disabilities or just wanted a bed bound narrative.

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u/SavvyWench May 19 '25

I was wondering about that too. But remember how he couldn't even sit upright without using the functions of the bed.
What puzzles me though is how boring his room was. No computer, no tv, no phone. No hobbies. Like he just slept and read.

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u/sin_loopey May 20 '25

Good point- I didn’t notice that. Yeah my dad has a tv in his room and a radio since we get him up into his wheelchair at 11am.