Dramas like
The Atypical Family

A damaged family treated as a medical condition rather than a mystery. The Atypical Family runs the same idea through fantasy: the abilities are symptoms, the house is the ward, and getting better is the arc. Both put a woman with a con and no conscience next to a man who has stopped feeling anything, and both let her be the one who improves. Difference: it is a full romance from the start, where The Atypical Family keeps the couple at arm's length until the con collapses.

Slow start Episode 3, when the brothers' history starts opening up.

Time travel used to look at a parent when they were still whole. Both shows send someone back not to change events but to see who their family used to be, and both find the answer harder to carry than the mystery was. Family comedy on top, quiet ache underneath. Difference: Twinkling Watermelon is a youth drama with a band and a first love, so it is much lighter hour to hour.

Hooks early Episode 2, once he lands in 1995 and meets his father at eighteen.

Three people flattened by their own lives, in a house that cannot help them. This is the emotional register The Atypical Family reaches in its back half, sustained for sixteen episodes with no fantasy at all: exhaustion, small rooms, the specific numbness of a commute. Difference: nothing here is a metaphor and nothing gets resolved by a power returning. It is slower than anything on this list.

Slow start Episode 3, once Mr Gu starts drinking with Mi-jeong. Before that it is deliberately airless.

A power that costs the user their own time. Same trade as travelling back to your happiest moments and losing the present: the gift is the wound, and the show is about the family living around it. Twelve episodes, comic surface, hard centre. Difference: its structure is the whole point, and it is far stranger formally than anything here.

Slow start Episode 4. Sit with the confusion, it is doing work.

Going back to save one specific person, over and over. If the thing that got you was a man diving into his own past because the present is unbearable, this is the pop version: bright, fast, and completely sincere about wanting to rescue somebody. Difference: the aggregate is 8.9 from more than a hundred thousand ratings but the written reviews average a 1.08 rewatch, and the middle is repetitive enough to explain both numbers.

Hooks early Episode 2, the first jump back. Be warned: the lead's fan-girl register in the first two episodes is a lot to take, and it settles around episode 6.

Supernatural chores as therapy. A family business with strange rules, a bad-tempered woman running it, and a job that involves walking into other people's worst memories. It is the closest thing to The Atypical Family's mix of comedy, family duty and other people's grief. Difference: it works case by case rather than building one long arc, so it never hits the same emotional peak.

Hooks early Episode 1. The bar, the debt and the rules are all on the table immediately.