
Tomorrow · Season 1 · MBC / Netflix
Tomorrow Season 1
Tomorrow Season 1 is a WORTH-IT, BollyMeter 7.6/10. 16 episodes on MBC / Netflix from 1 April 2022.
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What BollyAI Thinks
Tomorrow arrived on MBC in April 2022 with a premise that could have gone wrong in several directions - grim reapers preventing suicides is a premise that demands both tonal precision and genuine empathy. Critics internationally, including NME's 4-out-of-5-star review, noted that the show largely earns its subject matter through the humanity of its episodic structure. Each episode's crisis case is treated with specificity rather than generic melodrama, and Kim Hee-sun anchors the supernatural workplace dynamic with authority. Domestically the show premiered at 7.6 percent before declining to an average of 3.4 percent, a gap that international streaming numbers on Netflix partially offset. Rowoon's contract-employee protagonist provides the necessary audience-entry point into a world of supernatural bureaucracy. The show's structural willingness to sit with grief rather than rush through it is its defining quality.
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Standout Episodes
The hours worth arguing about - premieres, finales, and the turning points. BollyAI reads the room episode by episode.
- E1Episode 17.9
The premiere opens the underworld crisis management premise with a strong 7.6 percent domestic rating and establishes the show's tonal contract quickly - supernatural bureaucracy as a frame for empathetic engagement with human suffering. The worldbuilding is set up without over-explaining.
The moment: Choi Joon-woong's accidental entry into the Crisis Management Team and his first glimpse of the work grim reapers actually do sets the series' emotional stakes.
- E5Spring8.9
Episode 5 carries the series' highest IMDb episode rating at 8.9. The crisis case at its centre is handled with restraint rather than melodrama, and the episode stands as the clearest demonstration of the show's approach to its subject matter.
The moment: The episode's central crisis case, resolved with restraint rather than melodrama, became the most-discussed single hour of the series.