시지프스: The Myth
- Eloi Honorable Mention
- by 전찬호 and 이제인, directed by 진혁
- Miniseries
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- Korean
- 시지프스: The Myth by 전찬호 and 이제인, directed by 진혁, 16 untitled episodes (JTBC-TV, Korea, 17 February to 8 April 2021).
Young genius Han Tae-sul is the focus of dangerous people and a mysterious woman—Gang Seo-hae—from a war-torn near future.
Sadly, the story comes close to being a slick static timeline, but alas, the writers could not follow through.
Sadly, the story comes close to being a slick static timeline, but alas, the writers could not follow through.
—Michael Main
The Downloader is a real piece of work. There’s only a ten percent chance of success, eh? And even if they make it, half of them get caught by the Control Bureau.
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 2000 to 2099: Almost all the travel is in the 21st century, although some of Han Tae-sul’s experience of his past life must be in the late 20th.
- Timeline Models
- Timeline Needs Immediate Attention!: At one point in Episode 16, the main characters start to flicker away, causing an urgency to deal with things before they disappear entirely.
- Time Travel Methods
- Time Catapults: The machine seems to catapult people into the past with no return mechanism.
- Time Platform: The travelers stand on a platform that decomposes them before firing them into the past.
- Themes
- Causal Loops: There may be several causal loops, but the one I have in mind is that Han Tae-sul bought that particular diary because it’s the one that he already saw.
- Escape through Time: Many of the travelers hope for nothing more than escaping the future war.
- Fix History!: Han Tae-sul and Gang Seo-hae want to stop the war.
- Fix Your Own Past!: Many of the travelers want to fix their own regrets.
- Get Rich Quick through Time Travel: lottery numbers and Sigma taking advantage of his knowledge of stock market movements
- Incorporeal Traveler: When Gang Seo-hae and others revisit their past lives.
- Lost in Time: Some people become unstuck in time, skipping through their past lives, mostly as observers.
- Messing with Someone’s Younger Self: Both Han Tae-sul and Gang Seo-hae try messing with young Sigma.
- Object Meets Self with Bizaare Consequences
- Public Notice from a Time Traveler in the Past: When Han Tae-sul and Gang Seo-hae are trapped in the school, they leave a message for Yeo Bong-sun.
- Rescue after the Fact: In the church, Han Tae-sul seems to know that future Gang Seo-hul and himself are going to come to save their present selves.
- Retrocide: Park considers killing his younger self.
- Save the Bigwig (excluding JFK and Lincoln)!: Gang Seo-hae wants more than anything to save Han Tae-sul.
- Self-Visitation: Gang Seo-hae and others meet or see their younger selves, though doing so can cause one of the selves to become unstuck in time.
- Time Cops: the Control Bureau
- Time Invaders: Sigma is certainly an invader, but also the Control Bureau considers all of the travelers to be illegal immigrants.
- Time Travel Sickness, Injuries, and Mixed-Up Body Parts: nausea
- Real-World Tags
- 9/11: 9/11 plays a minor role in Sigma’s get rich quick scheme.
- Fictional Tags
- Future Wars: The future war seems to be caused by Sigma sending missles back through time to 2020.
- Groupings
Variants
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Translations
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- English (dubbed and subtitled).
Sisyphus: The Myth by 전찬호 and 이제인, directed by 진혁. - Chinese (subtitled).
시지프스: The Myth by 전찬호 and 이제인, directed by 진혁, [This is the Korean title; we saw no Chinese title with the Chinese subtitles on Netflix.]. - Japanese (dubbed).
시지프스: The Myth by 전찬호 and 이제인, directed by 진혁, [This is the Korean title; we saw no Japanese title card with the Japanese dub on Netflix.]. - Portuguese (dubbed).
시지프스: The Myth by 전찬호 and 이제인, directed by 진혁, [This is the Korean title; we saw no Portuguese title card with the Portuguese dub on Netflix.]. - Spanish (dubbed and subtitled).
El mito de Sísifo by 전찬호 and 이제인, directed by 진혁, [Spanish title from the Argentinian release as per the IMDb, but we saw no Spanish title with the Spanish subtitles on Netflix.].
Indexer Notes
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- Title–The title, 시지프스, is a phonetic transcription of the Greek mythological king Σίσυφος [Sisyphus].