From Now On, Showtime!

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From Now On, Showtime!

지금부터, 쇼타임! (Jigeumbuteo, Showtime!) · 2022 · South Korea

WriterHa Yoon-ah

DirectorLee Hyung-min, Jung Sang-hee

Episodes16 eps · ~60 min each

Where to Watch✅ Viki

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Binge Time16h 0m

AiredApr 23 – Jun 12, 2022

GenreFantasy · Comedy · Mystery

Content Rating15+

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GhostsMagicianPoliceRomanceSupernatural

The whole verdict, boiled down to one box.

A magician, a cop and the ghosts who keep the show running.

Park Hae-jin

Cha Cha-woong

Lead

Jin Ki-joo

Go Seul-hae

Lead

Jung Jun-ho

Choi Geom

Lead

Ko Kyu-pil

Ma Dong-cheol

Supporting

Kim Hee-jae

Lee Yong-ryeol

Supporting

Jeong Seok-yong

Nam Sang-gun

Supporting

Jang Ha-eun

Cheon Ye-ji

Supporting

Cha Mi-kyung

Na Geum-ok

Supporting

Park Seo-yeon

Kang Ah-reum

Supporting

Kim Jong-hoon

Seo Hee-soo

Supporting

Ha Sung-kwang

Hoe Do

Supporting

Shin Hyun-jun

Grim Reaper

Supporting

Just enough per episode to remember where things stood.

EP 01

The Secret Behind Magic Tricks

Apr 23, 2022

Seul-hae, a cop with an oversized sense of duty, chases a purse-snatcher straight into a magic show and mistakes the performer for the thief. She tries to arrest Cha Woong mid-act, in front of a full audience. For a man who guards the secret behind his tricks above everything else, that is a very public problem. He answers it by deciding to appear on a TV show, secret still intact.

EP 02

Evidence of a Culprit

Apr 24, 2022

Cha Woong tells Seul-hae he works with ghosts, and she flatly refuses to believe it. He proves he isn’t the hit-and-run driver and shows he is a medium carrying a dead man’s last message. She comes around, but the real culprit is slippery. Cha Woong’s ghost employees end up doing the legwork that finally corners the killer.

EP 03

The General Spirit’s Curse

Apr 30, 2022

Choi Geom, the general spirit his family has served for generations, wants Cha Woong to accept life as a shaman. Cha Woong would rather endure the curse than give in. Geom offers a compromise: Cha Woong joins the Civil Police Unit that Seul-hae runs. His motto for the job is to work short, effortlessly and impressively.

EP 04

Civil Police Officer Cha

May 1, 2022

Cha Woong keeps closing cases as a civil police officer, and Seul-hae is the reason most of them close. Spending more time with her, he can’t stop thinking about her. On the anniversary of her father’s death, the two visit his grave together.

EP 05

True Partnership

May 7, 2022

Cha Woong learns something shocking about Seul-hae’s father and decides the safest move is distance. Seul-hae, oblivious, is thrilled to finally have a real partner. A drug case lands in the middle of one of his magic shows, while she tails a suspect without seeing how dangerous it is.

EP 06

A Misunderstanding

May 8, 2022

Going through one of Cha Woong’s boxes, Seul-hae finds a photograph that links her dad to him in an unpleasant way. Cha Woong’s reaction is to move house. Adviser Choi tries to explain the Full Moon Murder, but he has no way of reaching Seul-hae.

EP 07

Lingering Feelings

May 14, 2022

Cha Woong admits he has a little something for Seul-hae and sets about impressing her. At an orphanage where the unit volunteers, men who look like gangsters demand that Head Yoon sell the land the building stands on. Days later Head Yoon is attacked alone in her store and critically injured.

EP 08

The Enemy Within

May 15, 2022

Head Yoon is unconscious in hospital, and the attacker turns out to be her closest partner. Seul-hae admits she backed the wrong suspect and restarts the investigation from zero. She and Cha Woong then design a small magic show built to push the culprit into confessing.

EP 09

The Broken Seal

May 21, 2022

Cha Woong keeps seeing Seul-hae in his dreams and has no idea what to do about it. Then he hears Hee-soo plans to ask her to be his girlfriend. A new case echoes the Full Moon Murder, and Seul-hae is so sure of the link that her feelings start overriding her judgment.

EP 10

The Forgotten Enemy

May 22, 2022

Choi Geom comes face to face with an old enemy he can’t beat alone, and the threat is already loose. Cha Woong wants only Seul-hae’s safety, so he acts by himself. She works out what he’s hiding and runs to find him.

EP 11

The Princess and Poong Baek

May 28, 2022

Cha Woong is in hospital, unconscious after trying to settle everything alone. Something has also changed in both of them: Seul-hae can now see ghosts. While she waits at his bedside, he is lost in a past life, one where he loved a princess deeply.

EP 12

Back to Cha Cha-woong

May 29, 2022

Cha Woong wakes from his past life, and not everyone is happy to have him back. He tells Seul-hae the story, including the part where she was the princess, and she finds her feelings are stronger than she thought. Things look normal again, but Hee-soo has been different since the night of the encounter.

EP 13

Dong-chul’s Lover

Jun 4, 2022

Seul-hae can hardly stand to be around Hee-soo, who now seems like a different person. She takes a case about a string of car accidents that all hit one specific car. Cha Woong and his ghost staff join in, and what they find behind the accidents is not what any of them expected.

EP 14

The Final Showtime

Jun 5, 2022

The closer Cha Woong and Seul-hae get, the sooner Choi Geom reaches Nirvana, and when that happens Cha Woong stops seeing ghosts. Everyone prepares one last show together. Hee-soo sees an opening and plans to use it.

EP 15

The Farewell

Jun 11, 2022

Sang-gun tells the story of how he became a ghost before he lets go of a life full of loose ends. Cha Woong and the whole staff decide to do him one favour: a meeting with his daughter. Seul-hae, meanwhile, grows uneasy around Hee-soo.

EP 16

The Showdown

Jun 12, 2022

The evil spirit keeps consuming people, and the only way to put it to sleep is for Cha Woong to sacrifice himself. Knowing how dangerous that is, he vanishes from Seul-hae’s life to keep her out of it. One last clash remains, and he has to make the biggest choice of his life.

Full spoilers ahead — everything that happens in the finale and what it all means.

What actually happened The evil spirit loses. Cha Woong deliberately offers himself as its host to keep Seul-hae out of danger, and Choi Geom drives the sword in to seal the spirit for good. Cha Woong survives it, and the threat that ran through the back half of the series is finished.

The villain’s trail Before the final clash, the spirit hops from person to person. It uses Seo Hee-soo first, then moves on to his father, the police chief, who kills the shaman Na Geum-ok and leaves Cha Woong holding the blame. Once the spirit is sealed, the chief is arrested and his crimes come out. Hee-soo wakes up with a hazy memory of everything done through him, and Seul-hae decides not to tell him.

What happens to Choi Geom The general spirit who spent generations living off the Cha family does not get a clean exit. He is punished for posing as a protector, and his sentence is being born into the household he sponged off: he returns as Cha Woong and Seul-hae’s child, named Ma-ru. It is a joke and a mercy at the same time, which suits the show.

The ghost crew The epilogue jumps ahead about five years. Cha Woong and Seul-hae are married, though the wedding happens off-screen, and Cha Woong is still performing with a new trio of assistants. At Ma-ru’s party, his friends move, talk and dress like the old ghost staff. The show never says it outright, but the staff have clearly been reborn, which gives Sang-gun’s earlier farewell a softer landing.

The KDW verdict The finale trades a tragic sacrifice for a reunion, and it earns the swap because the series spent 15 episodes making these characters a family. Cha Woong gets to keep Seul-hae, Seul-hae gets answers about her father, and the ghosts get second lives. It is a gentle ending, and a satisfying one if you came for the warmth.