W: Two Worlds

July 20, 2016

Oh Yeon-joo (Han Hyo-joo), a surgeon, is pulled into the world of W — her father's webtoon — and meets Kang Chul (Lee Jong-suk), the manhwa's hero. Her presence in his world begins to change its story. The Han River sequences establish the W world.

July 20, 2016

Kang Chul's world in W — his investigation into his own past, his suspicion that his world is not entirely real.

July 27, 2016

Yeon-joo's repeated crossings between worlds — the specific disorientation of a person who exists in two realities.

July 27, 2016

Yeon-joo's surgical world at the Yeouido hospital — the reality she keeps returning to, changed by each visit to W.

August 3, 2016

Kang Chul's growing suspicion that his world is a story — and that the woman who keeps appearing in it is its author's daughter.

August 3, 2016

Yeon-joo's father, the webtoon's author, losing control of his own story — the creator trapped by his creation.

August 10, 2016

The antagonist of W who has no face — the drama's most original invention.

August 10, 2016

Both worlds at their midpoint — the boundary between fiction and reality becoming dangerously permeable.

August 17, 2016

The webtoon reaching a potential ending that neither Yeon-joo nor Kang Chul will accept.

August 17, 2016

Kang Chul crossing into the real world — the manhwa hero in the world that created him.

August 24, 2016

The drama's most direct examination of what makes a person real — existence, memory, relationship, or continuity of consciousness.

August 24, 2016

The faceless villain's face is finally revealed — and what it means.

August 31, 2016

What Yeon-joo's father owes the people his imagination created.

August 31, 2016

The collision between the fictional and real worlds reaching its crisis.

September 7, 2016

The webtoon's final chapter — written in real blood.

September 7, 2016

The finale. 13.8% nationwide — winner of Drama of the Year at the 2016 MBC Drama Awards. Lee Jong-suk and Han Hyo-joo in one of Korean drama's most formally inventive narratives.