My Love from the Star · Season 1 · Episode 1 · 18 December 2013
S1E1 Episode 1
THE MOMENT Min-joon saves Song-yi from a speeding car, the first of many interventions he swore he would never make.
The premiere establishes Do Min-joon's 400 years of solitary Earth residency and engineers his collision with Cheon Song-yi. The tonal range is established immediately - historical prologue, present-day celebrity satire, and a genuine romantic undertow - signalling a show with more formal ambition than its rom-com packaging suggests.
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My Love from the Star Season 1 Episode 1 aired December 18, 2013 on SBS as the premiere of a drama that averaged 24 percent nationwide viewership, swept the Baeksang Arts Awards, and won the Magnolia Award for Best Foreign Television Series at the 2014 Shanghai International Film Festival. IMDb audiences scored the series 8.2. The Drama Corner scored the series 9 out of 10 for sustaining its genre-blend energy across 21 episodes. The premiere establishes Do Min-joon's 400 years of Earth residency and engineers his collision with Cheon Song-yi with a tonal range that signals the show's formal ambition: historical prologue, present-day celebrity satire, and a genuine romantic undertow are all present from the first episode. Kim Soo-hyun and Jun Ji-hyun's chemistry, cited by critics as among the finest pairing in the genre's history, is established from their first shared scene.