Head Over Heels episode 12 (finale) review: The kiss, the exorcism, and everything that stayed behind

Head Over Heels ends after twelve episodes, four years, and a life built in fragments. The drama finale closes the loop that began with a girl who saw too much, felt too deeply, and carried more than she knew how to name. And now she carries it all with grace.

This very satisfying closing episode of Head Over Heels brings Seong-A back to the question that started everything: What would you do if you saw someone crying? She sits beside a ghost child and stays until the silence changes. The girl who once watched people walk away chooses to remain, even when words are no longer needed. When the ghost leaves, the boy, her love, arrives, safe. Gyeon-U finds her there, steady and present. They kiss without fear, without hesitation. At last. And the moment exists because they reached it together after a lot of ordeals.

A clearing after the storm

The light in this scene carries a different weight. It touches her face, her shoulders, and her future. The curse has been lifted, and there are no visions, no voices, and no shadows pressing in. Only clarity. The moment works because it was built from every ache before it. Each time she stayed quiet, each time she tried to protect someone, each time she broke. All of that lives in this yellow-colored field. The peace feels simple, but it holds everything.

Their hands meet the same way their paths finally do. After all the distance, physical, emotional, and spiritual, they walk forward together.

Head Over Heels: The last confrontation and the shape of mercy

Before peace settles in, the final episode of Head Over Heels returns to its deepest conflict: the main antagonist, Yeonhwa, stands on the edge of collapse, hollowed by choices that fed on anger and fear. At this point in the story of Head Over Heels, she is no longer cruel. However, while her spirit mother's sacrifice did not erase what happened and what she did, it gave her a second chance.

Seong-A does not punish her, but she does not exactly forgive—neither does Gyeon-U. She watches and witnesses, and that act alone changes everything. The girl who once asked for guidance now becomes someone others look to for truth.

Around her, others move too. Friends gather in small ways. Some apologize. Some protect. Some stay close without saying anything. All of them grow.

But that moment when their spirit mother and Seyong-A appeared near the old haunted house? Mesmerizing. The highlight of the episode.

The first spirit, the final choice

At the end of Head Over Heels, Seong-A returns to the exorcism that opened the story. Back then, she had to leave it unfinished because of a school exam. Now, older and fully grounded, she steps into that room with calm and strength. The spirit that once escaped no longer resists her. She completes the ritual with presence, not as a girl trying to prove something, but as someone who knows who she is.

The exorcism no longer feels like punishment or duty. It becomes a form of care for the boy who was once possessed, for the part of herself she had abandoned, and for the role she now embraces fully.

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The scary ghosts in Head Over Heels are gone, but the memory of them will never leave Seong-A. And maybe that’s what healing is.

Rating with a touch of flair: 5 out of 5 blue butterflies glowing beneath a yellow sky, waiting for someone who finally arrived.

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