Rikki Don't Lose That NumberMy wife, an avid television watcher, had not so far succumbed to the K-Drama spell, though she would occasionally be in the room during my sessions. She thought the teaser for It's Okay To Not Be Okay looked promising, so we embarked on this one together. It's a romance with some darker elements of fairy tales, mental illness and a sprinkling of homicide.
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The story revolves around Ko Moon-Young (played by Seo Yea-ji), an antisocial children's book author, and Gang Tae (Kim Soo-hyun), a caregiver who works in mental hospitals. Gang Tae also takes care of his autistic older brother Sang Tae (played by Oh Jung-se). Sang Tae likes art, and loves Moon-Young's fairytales. When Gang Tae takes his brother to Moon-Young's book signing event, their lives become entangled with the beautiful and unpredictable author.
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My wife and I were riveted for 16 long episodes as the plot unfolds. We discover that Moon-Young and the two brothers grew up in the same small town a couple hours from Seoul and, indeed, the 'kindergarten kismet' trope comes into play. Through flashbacks we learn that Moon-Young's mother was a writer of thrillers, and isolated the young Moon-Young from other children. They lived in an opulent but spooky mansion built by her father, who worships the mother until things go psycho.
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There is a rich cast of secondary characters including Moon-Young's publisher, the staff of the psychiatric hospital, and the nurse Nam Ju-ri who works there and has carried a torch for Gang Tae since childhood. Ju-ri's mom Kang Soon-deok plays the role of the wise and warm woman who nurtures everyone who comes into her orbit, providing homespum wisdom and delicious food.
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I don't want to give away too much, but there is some genuine menace at play, and some surprise twists before things come to a conclusion. Ko Moon-Young is one of the more compelling characters that has been brought to screen, and one of the more dazzling beauties. Many excellent performances here, and overall a sophisticated and compelling drama. Five stars.
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It’s Okay To Not Be Okay addenda. We loved the show so much that I made my wife a Mang Tae “Nightmare Catcher” doll as a gift (and another smaller one to hang from her rear view mirror (if you know, you know) 😉
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Now that my wife is caught in the K-drama spell, my project of finding 'important and influential' dramas will be set aside, as we cruise through a series of slick, recent dramas with mass-market appeal. If you cannot stomach 'Kindergarten Kismet' and related tropes, I advise you to stop reading 😉 Love Next Door, a romcom from 2024 was our next watch. Some light spoilers follow.
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Our story begins when Bae Seok-ryu (played by Jung So-min) returns to Korea after her successful career with an American conglomerate called Greip suddenly (and at first mysteriously) implodes. The love interest is (duh) her next-door neighbor Choi Seung-hyo or Choisseung (played by Jung Hae-in), who she has known since they were small children.
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Through flashbacks we gradually see how their relationship evolved from her bossing him around in a big sister-ly way, to becoming platonic besties through high-school, until she goes to the US to attend college on a scholarship. Choisseung stays in Korea, pursuing architecture when his dreams of competitive swimming are crushed after being hit by a vehicle. He's gained some recognition in the architecture world, but is struggling to get his newly opened firm off the ground.
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Seok-ryu's parents, especially her mother Mi-sook, are furious that she has foolishly quit a successful career and broke off an engagement, both of which were considerable sources of pride to the Mom. Mi-sook is especially shamed because her best friend Young-nam, who happens to be Choisseung's mother, is a wealthy and somewhat superior acting diplomat. Mi-sook has bragged incessantly about her successful daughter, and hates to eat crow in front of her fancy friend.
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Choisseung's parents Young-nam and her physician husband Seung-joon are wealthy, and their house is posh, though sterile, while Seok-ryu's family is struggling financially. The father Geun-sik runs a tteokbokki restaurant that seemingly attracts zero customers. Though their home is modest, as we see over time Seok-ryu's family is warm and expressive, while Choisseung's is frigid and unable to express their feelings.
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We come to realize that Choisseung has indeed harbored love for Seok-ryu since high school, but has not been able to say anything for all these years. This is one of the most common and infuriating kdrama tropes: dude who cannot say 'I love you' to save his life, and we have to endure episode after episode of him tying himself in knots to not say what has been evident from the first 15 minutes. But that's just how it works, folks.
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We have a healthy buffet of cliché tropes and plot devices on offer here, but they are employed with enthusiasm and there are a plenty of great comedic moments. There are many well done characters here, and there is much to keep you hooked for 16 episodes. I found Seok-ryu to be a very compelling and vulnerable FL. Her best friend Mo-eum (played by Kim Ji-eun) is the cutest, along with Mo-eum's sometimes reluctant suitor Dan-ho (played by Yoon Ji-on). 4/5 totally entertaining.
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Friendly Rivalry is a dark, stylish story about Korea's cutthroat competition for achievement that takes us on quite a journey in 16 short episodes. The plot revolves around Woo Seulgi (Chung Su-Bin), a teenage girl with no parents, who is trying to get ahead in a small town in Korea. In pursuit of her dreams of becoming a doctor, Seulgi starts using performance enhancing drugs to become top in her class, and thus transfer to an elite high school in Seoul.
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The competition and hierarchy at Chaehwa Girls' High School in Seoul is cut throat, and the "bumpkin" Seulgi is bullied as soon as she arrives. The top student is Yoo Jae-yi (Lee Hyeri), the daughter of a hospital director. Somewhat mysteriously Jae-yi takes the bumpkin under her wing, and shields Seulgi from the other girls. Seulgi is understandably suspicious of Jae-yi's intentions, and indeed we are kept in suspense until the end what each of the girls' motives are.
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Seulgi is quickly drawn into a dangerous world of violence, drugs and (suggested) sex. Jae-yi's father casts a long shadow over the action, as he subjects Jae-yi and her friends to mysterious performance enhancing medical procedures, and turns a blind eye to the fact that they are swiping drugs from the hospital. We also learn surprising details about Seulgi's father, a former teacher at Chaehwa Girls' High who died under mysterious circumstances.
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There are a few sympathetic adults, notably Seulgi's step-mother, Kwon Hee-yoon (Kang Jin-ah), but the best part of this series is the portrayal of the rivalries, affections and struggles of our young female characters. Of course I would probably love anything starring Lee Hyeri (of Reply 1988 fame) but my wife and I were both riveted through this short, stylish drama with a killer soundtrack and arty, cinema noir aesthetics. Five stars.
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Queen of Tears is a mega-popular drama from 2024 which, at times, threatens to overwhelm the viewer with a nutrient-dense stew of high-stakes romance, moral dilemmas, intrigue and seemingly every trope in the book. Nevertheless, the creators have pulled off a tour de force, with every character and nuance somehow working together to create a powerful and memorable blockbuster of a drama.
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We have a romance between the dazzling, successful CEO of a huge conglomerate called The Queens Group, Hong Hae-in (Kim Ji-won) and her dashing husband, Baek Hyun-woo (Kim Soo-hyun), an executive/legal eagle at the same company. However, things are not all rosy with the attractive and successful couple. Marrying in to the Queens group has been more than Hyun-woo, the son of hard-working farmers in Yongdu-ri, bargained for.
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Hae-in is extremely competitive, and focused on growing her company, while their home life is sterile and cold. The two sleep in separate rooms, and Hyun-woo secretly prepares divorce papers to serve on Hae-in. However, just as Hyun-woo is about to tell Hae-in that he wants a divorce, she informs him that - suprise - she has an inoperable brain tumor, and has been given 3 months to live.
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Hyun-woo immediately hides the divorce papers, since he would be better off as a widower than an ex-husband. This sets up a clever romance wrinkle, of how our two lovers can re-kindle the love they once shared and walk back from the brink of divorce, even as Hae-in seeks treatment for her life-threatening illness.
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The romance plot plays off against an elaborate web of skullduggery, as Hae-in's friend from university Yoon Eun-sung (Park Sung-hoon) has returned from America, ostensibly eager to partner with The Queens Group, and possibly even woo Hae-in away from the apparently estranged husband. We are soon made aware of an extremely elaborate plot on the part of Eun-sung and a network of collaborators to wrest control of Queens away from Hae-in and her family.
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Relief from the snakes nest of power and money hungry schemers, as well as Hae-in's illness, is provided by Hyun-woo's stolid and earthy family in the country. We have the somewhat familiar trope of the simple and loving working-class characters demonstrating common sense and a wholesome way of life, in contrast to the power-hungry rich characters. And we get some schadenfreude and comedy when circumstances force the two families to unite against a common threat.
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The writers have done a great job of weaving several complex storylines into a coherent whole. The cast is fabulous including many truly hateful villains, along with many good-hearted characters who are there to save the day at key moments. They really pack in a lot of story in 16 episodes, but the direction and acting are top-notch. The story never loses its impact or coherence as it unfolds, and you'll be on the edge of your seat for every episode. Five stars.
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My wife and I were still on our road trip when we finished Queen of Tears, and I wanted to watch a more low-stakes romance for a change of pace. Somebody on this site had mentioned "Run On," which is notionally a cute and lighthearted opposites attract story. Our ML is Ki Seon-gyeom (played by Im Si-wan), a national track star and a child of wealthy parents who seems to daydream through his life.
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Seon-gyeom has a simple and good-hearted personality, in spite of his father being a scheming politician, and his mother a popular actress "the Queen of Cannes". Enter our FL, Oh Mi-joo (Shin Se-kyung), a worldly wise and scrappy translator of cinema subtitles. Mi-joo, an orphan, loves film, collects handgun replicas and is always on the hustle for her next gig.
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When Mi-joo is ripped off by a shady guy over a handgun deal, Seon-gyeom happens to be running by and helps apprehend the baddie. Their first meeting winds up with the two of them at the police station. They meet a second time when Mi-joo is hired to serve as Seon-gyeom's translator at an international meet and it seems that fate has brought them together.
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There is a compelling secondary/parallel romance, involving Seon-gyeom's agent Seo Dan-ah (played by Choi Soo-young of Girls Generation!). Dan-ah, like Seon-gyeom, comes from money, and her high-powered career representing athletes does not seem to leave time for dating. Dan-ah is also very brusque and seemingly inconsiderate of others. She does love art, and finds herself getting lost in a painting that hangs in the cafe where she gets her morning coffee.
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This leads her to track down the artist, a struggling but fun-loving art student named Lee Yeong-hwa (Kang Tae-oh). Yeong-hwa falls pretty quickly for the dazzling Dan-ah, but she keeps him at arms length. She just wants to him to make her a painting, and has no time for frivolity. Dan-ah plays up the fact that she is older, and from a completely different economic strata than the student Yeong-hwa.
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Yeong-hwa is nothing if not persistent, and eventually Dan-ah does reveal feelings for him. I confess that this drama made wish I had a better understanding of Korean language and manners. Much of the humor plays off a native understanding of Korean formalities, and modes of address. Dan-ah would frequently act (fake) shocked at Yeong-hwa addressing her informally.
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At various times characters would pause to debate whether or not to use honorifics, and I couldn't help but feel that I was missing some of the humor. Another way the characters' emotions are revealed is through elaborate dream sequences, styled as movie scenes based on whatever film Mi-joo is working on. These were cute and comical, with the soft-spoken Seon-gyeom appearing as a gangster, and Mi-joo and Dan-ah as runaways or street urchins.
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I understood that the director was making some kind of meta commentary with these sequences, but I will conceed I frequently felt like I was missing something. On one level, we have a completely enjoyable romcom with two very appealing couples being cute on screen, and let's be honest that's what many of us are here for. We've got some societal and cultural commentary, and some bossy patriarchs who get their comeupance.
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When Life Gives You Tangerines is perhaps my favorite genre of k-drama - an emotional and intimate examination of the lives of working class Koreans. The Netflix thumbnail for this drama - a smiling young couple standing in a field of flowers - suggests the series will be a romance. And there is a great love weaving through the series, but that is only one thread among many.
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This is an epic and often tragic story that in a way mirrors Korea's own metamophosis from a poor, traditional society to a prosperous and modern one. Our story follows the life of Oh Ae-Sun, born in the 1950's on Jeju Island in Korea. Ae-Sun's mother Gwang-rye is a haenyeo, a woman who dives in the chilly depths every day for abalone to support her family.
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Gwang-rye is one of those indomitable women who works tirelessly to provide for her family, and her one wish is for Ae-Sun to have a better life, and certainly not one as a haenyeo. Gwan-sik is Ae-Sun's contemporary, a boy from a marginally more prosperous fishing family. Gwan-sik latches on to Ae-Sun from the time they are children, though she rebuffs him and treats him like something of a simpleton.
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The drama picks up with teenage/young adult Gwan-sik and Ae-Sun, played by Park Bo-Gum and k-pop idol IU respectively. She wants to be a poet, go to college and 'marry a boy from Seoul', but she is thwarted by poverty and family obligations. Ultimately she realizes that she really does love Gwan-sik, and trades in her dreams of Seoul and college to be a fisherman's wife and mother.
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I'm not going to go into a lengthy plot summary. If this sounds like your thing, I encourage you to settle in and watch this drama. It is a genuine masterpiece, and everything about it is moving and exquisite. All of the actors are first rate, with IU in particular compelling as Ae-Sun. I really liked Ae-Sun's mother Gwang-rye, too. She seems stern and harsh at first, but we see how she treasures her daughter and struggled to give her a better life.
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Even though she dies somewhat early in the series, her mom's presence is never far from Ae-Sun as we see in numerous flashbacks. I think I cried at some point during every episode, but they were good, cathartic tears. And there is laughter and triumph as well. Highly recommend 5/5 stars!
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After the epic When Life Gives You Tangerines, my wife and I needed some more lighthearted fare. We watched the drama Backstreet Rookie - reviewed previously - since she had not seen it and it was leaving Netflix in July. That prompted us to look around for another drama starring the adorable Kim You Jung, one of many former child actresses who acquired the "Nation's Little Sister" label. We settled on the preposterously titled "Clean With Passion For Now".
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This is an "opposites attract" tale about a germophobe guy, Jang Sun Gyeol (played by Yoon Kyun Sang), and chronically messy Gil Oh Sol (played by Kim You Jung. As is inevitably the case, the dorky premise belies a multilayered and quite compelling love story and pleasing character arcs. Our story begins when Sun Gyeol's robot vacuum goes missing. Oh Sol finds the vacuum in the street and, thinking someone has thrown it out, brings it home.
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Sun Gyeol offers a reward and subsequently she gets in touch to return the vacuum. Unfortunately their meeting goes spectacularly wrong, with Oh Sol crashing into Sun Gyeol's car, resulting in him demanding 3,500,000 won for repairs. Oh Sol, who is looking for work and already short on money, is despondent. After bombing out of several interviews for office jobs, Oh Sol decides to try out for a high-tech cleaning firm called Cleaning Fairy.
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After proving to be the top candidate, she discovers that the CEO is none other than Mr. 3.5 million won himself, Sun Gyeol. This sets up the central conceit of the story. The action bounces back and forth between some great comedy, and the unfolding backstory (and tragedy) that ultimately connects Oh Sol and Sun Gyeol. Despite their comically opposite personalities, our two leads really have a lot of chemistry.
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Oh Sol is just so appealing with her messy hair, crumbs on her mouth and adorable heart shaped face. ML Sun Gyeol takes a little warming up to, as he spends a lot of the drama scowling at messes, running his white glove disapprovingly, and being impossibly awkward around Oh Sol. This is softened by a sympathetic perspective of Sun Gyeol's psychological condition, and his struggles to overcome a crippling germophobia and participate more fully in life.
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As is so often the case, there is an excellent cast of supporting characters. Sun Gyeol's assistant at Cleaning Fairy, Secretary Gwon is a particularly sympathetic presence. This is in contrast to Sun Gyeol's grandfather, the controlling and critical figure who seems in large part to blame for Sun Gyeol's mysophobia.
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We also meet Daniel Choi, who is renting the rooftop apartment of Oh Sol's family. Daniel seems like a charming and ambitionless guy, but we eventually learn his backstory as well, and his surprising connection to Oh Sol And Sun Gyeol. There is nothing groundbreaking here, but I found it to be a thoroughly enjoyable story with many great comic moments and plenty of genuine feeling. 4/5 stars.
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So, I'm 15 series in to my kdrama journey, and I've settled in to the predictable nature of the romances. Honestly I enjoy familiar plot devices, tropes, and character types. Like many folks I watch tv to unwind and feel comforted in some way. At the same time, it's important to feel that the writers are putting some creativity into the product. I don't want to watch the same show again and again - give me some surprises and unexpected character arcs to change things up.
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"Doctor Slump" is in many ways a formulaic romance, but I found it heartwarming and extremely compelling. ML Yeo Jeong-woo (Park Hyung-sik) is a dashing young plastic surgeon at the top of his game. His "NeoTube" channel has millions of subscribers, and he has opened up clinics across Korea. Jeong-woo has boyish good looks, and a cute - if conceited - personality. I thought 'he's probably a k-pop idol', and indeed he was a member of boy band ZE:A.
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FL Nam Ha-neul (Park Shin-hye) is an anaesthesiologist at a big hospital, on track to be a professor - if she can please her superiors. Ha-neul is dedicated and skilled at work, but not at playing the game of organizational politics. Her male seniors have been taking credit for her research, and blaming their mistakes on her. The combination of burnout and the hospital director being a total dick to her drives her to walk out of her job.
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Meanwhile Jeong-woo is involved with a horrific medical accident, which we will re-experience through flashbacks of throughout the series. Jeong-woo is doing routing cosmetic surgery on a Macau casino heiress, when she suddenly starts to lose blood at inexplicable rate and suddenly dies. The blame falls on Jeong-woo. It is clear that he's been set up. A vial of anticoagulant is found with his prints in the OR.
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Suddendly his life comes crashing down, he's forced to sell his clinics, there is a trial against him, and he owes billions of won to his creditors. Jeong-woo has to leave his fancy apartment, and rents a rooftop apartment in a humble Seoul neighborhood. Do you want to guess who's family it belongs to??? That's right, none other than our Ha-neul, who comes back from quitting her job to find Jeong-woo brooding on her rooftop.
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And to layer on even more tropes, we have learned that Jeong-woo and Ha-neul attended the same high school, where they were the top two students and fierce rivals. I think you can fill in the rest of blanks from here, but we have an extremely charming rivals to lovers story. Where Jeong-woo is playful and outgoing, Ha-neul has been intensely focused on her studies and her career, to the exclusion of all else.
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We get lots of flashbacks to how they were in high school, Jeong-woo the popular kid, good at sports and academics, while Ha-neul methodically eliminates anything that distracts from her studies (to a completely comic degree). Whereas he is very much a pretty boy, Ha-neul's beauty is a more understated, wholesome type.
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The examination of the medical world that both characters inhabit give the story more weight than many romances. Whether through scenes in the OR, or other high stakes interactions between doctors, medical staff, patients and their families, there are a lot of highly charged interactions. And there is a lot of intrigue with Jeong-woo's trial, as new evidence comes to light and an expanding web of conspiracy that involves more and more of the characters.
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Another theme that I appreciated was the exploration of mental illness, and the normalization of seeking professional care for depression. We see the fiercely independent Ha-neul reach the point where she is willing to seek psychiatric care and take medications to help her through her challenges.
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Like dramas previously reviewed in this thread that highlighted autism spectrum disorder or mysophobia, I think this was a nice public service to show Ha-neul seek help when she needs it to get back on her feet. Overall I was fully entertained by Doctor Slump, and was enthusiastically rooting for our two leads. Needless to say the supporting characters are well done, and the 2TP between the main characters' two best friends is adorable. Recommended 5/5.
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The next drama my wife and I watched was When the Weather is Fine, a 2020 romance starring Park Min-young and Seo Kang-joon. This is partially thanks to someone on this site commenting how much they love Park Min-young. I have so many thoughts about this drama and I'm finding it hard to boil them down into 500 character chunks. If you like slow-moving and visually satisfying dramas you will probably enjoy When the Weather is Fine.
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However there is a lot more going on here, and I can't decide whether I think it's a bold, artistic masterpiece or a confused mish mosh of ideas. This drama is on the one hand a very dreamy tale set in the fictional village of Hyecheon over the course of one winter. The cinematography is stunning, and there is a very art-house feel to this drama. The camera pans slowly across the stark, wintry fields and bare trees.
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Our two main characters are achingly beautiful. The dialog is very spare, and we get long shots of Eun-seop and Hae-won gazing at each other wistfully, questioningly and ultimately, of course, lovingly as they cradle steaming cups of coffee in their gloved hands. Many of the interior scenes occur in Eun-seop's improbable bookstore, the Goodnight Bookstore.
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We don't get an explanation for how this bookstore exists in a town of what appears to be a few hundred residents, where our main characters spend hours preparing and drinking coffee, exchanging deep glances, and occasionally arranging some books. (Okay Eun-seop at one moment says 'I do a lot of online business'). The drama essentially begins when Hae-won takes a job in the open, airy and well-lit bookstore after returning from Seoul to spend the winter.
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The central theme of the drama is the ever-so-slowly blossoming love between people who have suffered deep trauma. Through flashbacks we learn that Hae-won's mother has been in jail for the murder of her father. The father was physically abusive to the Mom, though he was always loving to Hae-won. The teenage Hae-won is sent to live with her aunt in Hyecheon, where the other high-schoolers don't know the dark family secret.
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Jo Rhodes@girlbandgeek I absolutely loved this. I run a community project and often end up dealing with a lot of chaos and people in crisis and I'm sure calm, slow, beautiful dramas like this are one of the things that helps keep me sane. Also it is one where people deal with their trauma which sadly happens less than I'd like with the people I work with. On a similar vein.. you might like Would You Like A Cup of Coffee? Similarly slow and simple with short episodes revolving around coffee and the people frequenting a coffee shop.
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Sounds perfect! It's been added to my queue. Another excellent drama about healing was #ADailyDoseOfSunshine, although some episodes are quite intense. It's based on a journal of a mental health nurse who underwent her own mental health crisis.
Sounds perfect! It's been added to my queue. Another excellent drama about healing was #ADailyDoseOfSunshine, although some episodes are quite intense. It's based on a journal of a mental health nurse who underwent her own mental health crisis.
@EllenInEdmonton @stuffjolikes Thank you for commenting, and the suggestions! I’ll check out “Would you like a cup of coffee” and “A daily dose of sunshine” ☕️☕️☕️🌞🌞🌞
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Our fediverse #kdrama community is extremely helpful when it comes to adding more shows to a list!!
Our fediverse #kdrama community is extremely helpful when it comes to adding more shows to a list!!
WhooshIt's a beautifully done show. Another with a similar slow-pace & great life lessons is "The Third Charm" https://techhub.social/@whoosh/111695419222889374
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Attached: 1 image #kDrama The Third Charm (2018 - Netflix, 16 1:15 eps) Wow! It has a 6.7 rating on MDL, so I had been putting off watching, even though I enjoy Seo Kang Joon's acting. After I saw Esom in another drama, I thought I'd try. Around eps. 4 I was going to drop it, which I rarely do. I hated the main characters. But I kept going: 1) I had seen the leads' work before & couldn't believe they would have accepted parts like this. I was right. The characters improve so much. 2) Part of this drama is set in Portugal. I am visiting in a few months & I wanted to see it through a kDrama lens. Totally worth it - so beautiful! The FL has a lot of tragic things happen in her life, one of which hit close to home for me & caused a lot of crying - therapeutic. See comment for more about the show. https://mydramalist.com/29421-third-charm Part 1/2 #TheThirdCharm #제3의매력 #SeoKangJoon #서강준 #Esom #이솜 #MinWooHyuk #민우혁 #WhooshReview
Mel@girlbandgeek Thank you for this tip; I'm not even at the end of ep 1 and hooked! I did not read your other thoughts yet bc of spoilers, but will enjoy this one, I'm sure!
@EllenInEdmonton @girlbandgeek Ah, I'm not there yet but sounds good📚
Ronsboy67@girlbandgeek THIS! There is nothing intrinsically wrong with a formulaic Drama, it's how the ingredients of the formula are put together and cooked that matters. Some of my faves are VERY formulaic, but prepared and presented with real skill and flair
@girlbandgeek @girlbandgeek I quite liked it, scored it 7.75/10 when I watched it just after it aired. The overall reaction was not favourable, not sure why. I'm currently watching the #cDrama version - not a remake of the #kDrama but a Chinese adaptation of the source webtoon. It stars Shen Yue and (Jasper) Liu Yi Hao, and they're SMASHING IT! I'm halfway and it's on track for at least 8.5