Series synopsis
Alice, also known as 앨리스 is a South Korean sci-fi & fantasy television series that premiered on SBS on August 28, 2020. It ended on October 24, 2020. It stars Kim Hee-seon, Joo Won, Kwak Si-yang and Choi Won-young.
It’s the year 2050 and time travel exists thanks to Alice, the mechanism through which the intriguing practice is made possible. But a rumor based on a prophecy beings to spread about time travel coming to an end. When You Min Hyuk and Yoon Tae Yi are sent to the year 1992 to find out about the prophecy, Tae Yi realizes she’s pregnant and decides to stay in the past by herself. She changes her name to Park Sun Young and eventually gives birth to a beautiful son named Park Jin Gyeom, whose mental ...
Premise
It’s the year 2050 and time travel exists thanks to Alice, the mechanism through which the intriguing practice is made possible. But a rumor based on a prophecy beings to spread about time travel coming to an end. When You Min Hyuk and Yoon Tae Yi are sent to the year 1992 to find out about the prophecy, Tae Yi realizes she’s pregnant and decides to stay in the past by herself. She changes her name to Park Sun Young and eventually gives birth to a beautiful son named Park Jin Gyeom, whose mental health suffers due to radiation exposure. Fast forward to the year 2010, and Sun Young is murdered by someone. 10 years after her death, her son Jin Gyeom is on a mission to find who is responsible for his mother’s death. But while searching, he runs into Yoon Tae Yi, a physics professor who looks exactly like this mother. What will become of these individuals caught tragically between time and space?
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- Kim Hee-seon as Yoon Tae-yi
- Joo Won as Park Jin-gyeom
- Kwak Si-yang as Yoo Min-hyuk
- Choi Won-young as Seok Oh-won
- Lee Da-in as Kim Do-yeon
- Yeon Woo as Yoon Tae Yeon
- Bae Hae-seon as Kim In-sook
- Lim Jae-hyeok as Lee Dae-jin
Supporting cast
- Song Ji-hyuk as Hong Jung-wook
- Kim Ji Yoo as Yoon Tae-Yi [Young]
- Carson Allen as English teacher
Guest cast
- Carson Allen as English teacher
Episodes
This series spans 1 season with 16 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 16 | August 28, 2020 | October 24, 2020 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Episode 1 Part 1: Yoon Tae Yi and Yoo Min Hyuk time travel from 2050 to 1992 and recover the "Book of Prophecy," a book that reveals the tragic end of time travel. However, Tae Yi finds out she is pregnant and decides to stay and have the baby by herself. She changes her name to Park Sun Young and gives birth to Jin Gyeom, a boy who grows up lacking pro-social emotions. Part 2: After celebrating his mother's birthday, Jin Gyeom finds his mother dying on the floor. Her death hits Jin Gyeom hard, and he decides to become a police officer. Now in 2020, Lieutenant Park Jin Gyeom takes on a case where a kidnapped child claims she was with her mother from the future. |
August 28, 2020 |
| 2 |
Episode 2 Part 1: After chasing down a suspicious drone, Jin Gyeom thinks he sees his mom and suddenly gets hit by a car. He's not the only one who claims to have witnessed a drone, and strangely, reported sightings all occur at odd crime scenes. Jin Gyeom continues to work a kidnapping case involving a mom from the future, hoping it will lead to seeing his mother one more time. Part 2: A time traveller out to get revenge escorted by Alice, an organization providing time-travelling services, commits murder in the past. Jin Gyeom chases him down but loses him. When Alice tries to ban him from future time travels, he takes down an Alice guard and makes his way back to the past and knocks on Jin Gyeom's door. |
August 29, 2020 |
| 3 |
Episode 3 Part 1: Agents from Alice try to recover the time card in Jin Gyeom's possession. But they don't realize he has two of them. Jin Gyeom, who thinks Tae Yi is his mother from the future, asks her to take a look at the bizarre card to see if she can figure it out. Meanwhile, Jin Gyeom looks into Tae Yi's family. Part 2: A desperate mother from the future takes drastic measures to stay with her child. Although she successfully retakes her past life, it puts the child's life in danger and exposes time travel. Meanwhile, the card Jin Gyeom gave to Tae Yi does something strange in front of her eyes and finally gets her attention. |
September 4, 2020 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | SBS |
|---|---|
| First aired | August 28, 2020 |
| Last aired | October 24, 2020 |
| Runtime | 70 minutes |
| Status | ended |
| Schedule | Friday, Saturday at 22:00:00 |