Come and Hug Me (Season 1)

Come and Hug Me (2018) is a South Korean crime drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Choi Joon-bae. It opens with two teenagers who were each other's first love — and ends that chapter with a serial killer, a pair of deaths, and a decade of separation.

Do Jin (Jang Ki-yong) grows up to be a detective haunted by his father's crimes — it was his father, the psychopath Yoon Hee-jae (Heo Jun-ho), who murdered Jae Yi's parents and tore everything apart. Jae Yi (Jin Ki-joo) is now a well-known actress coping with panic attacks she can't fully explain. When they cross paths again, neither is ready for what follows.

Heo Jun-ho's performance as the cold, calculating killer gives the whole series its teeth. The show is heavier than a typical romance — the trauma is real, the atonement slow. Stream Come and Hug Me (2018) online on iFILM.