Forecasting Love and Weather

Forecasting Love and Weather (2022) - one of the dramas that I really like at first since it talks about weather and the life of the people behind the weather reports. I think what this drama is lacking is that the focus is mainly unto the weather and not in the character development of the characters in the drama itself. I find it rather odd as well between the relationship of the “exes” in the drama, it doesn’t sit well with me that is why I cannot fully appreciate the whole drama. Overall I felt the romance somehow but the feels is really not the same comparing it to other dramas that I have been watching together with this one.

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✒We Make Our Own Hail ⛈ Frustration, Love, & Workplace Interference °6.8° °good°

Here's a lite mist to refresh between the storms of heavier dramas. It's often as bland as the smile on Park Min-young's face throughout. For a show about st🌀rms, h🔥t, c☃ld, & tempest⚡this show is surprisingly uneventful. Can they make forecasting the weather exciting? Interesting?

It is interesting to see the decision-paradigm utilized to forecast a heavy rain warning issued in ep1 & the controversy fallout. They cut from a high tech, nearly sterile appearing office to people in the mud sandbagging the riverbanks, a rushing dam release & more ripple effect entailing effort & 💰. A heavy rain advisory ain't just hot air. May I presume that most of us were thoroughly unaware of the contentious nature between fishermen & the weather administration?

As for the characters, their minds are always on the skies. JHK (Jin Ha Kyung) is a ⭐ on the rise at the MA. Her pressure's rising, too. It's hard to stay 🌞 when she wants to rain hellfire on her fiance. "Sometimes I feel like she can't take what she's owed in life from anyone," her mother says. Miss Hospital Corners is so uptight that her inflexible walk is difficult to watch w/o eclipse glasses. She's about to marry her longtime BF/coworker, but she gets ghosted right before the wedding & BF briskly marries someone else who works in the same building. Let the gossip & gawking start pouring down on our humiliated FL. She's played by Park Min Young who generates electric chemistry w/ every male lead. In FL&W's early scenes, either botox or filler washed away her facial expressions. It's distracting. FL&W doesn't utilize her well.

She isn't the only underutilized talent. Song Kang plays ML Lee Shi Woob, a geek. It's kind of a waste of his abilities, the primary one being a walking pheromone. He is downright pathetic in ep1, which strains the eyes more than JHK's over-stiff gate. Yoon Park, who plays ex-fiance Han Ki Joon, had a similar role in My Shy Boss(6.5) in which he retrogrades from Mr. Cool into Mr. Slight-Chance after turbulence, while adjusting his body language from confident to defeated marvelously. We see his pressure building from the past to the present in FL&W. Frustration & feelings of isolation became an arctic chill over time, because his fiance was married to her job. He slings sandbags - of sleaze - sometimes we don't notice a person in our life is sleazy because we see what we want to see & fail to be as attentive as we should be.

Then there's the ubiquitous mother: Kim Mi-kyung. She gets to have a temper tantrum in this one. It must have felt good. Lee Sung Wook plays Eom Dong Han from Team 2. He's a weather geek who chose to marry & have a child. Opting to work remotely, he continued to provide 💰, but denied them his presence for years, so his wife is bitter. She's using their daughter to vent her justified anger. That's a toxic, selfish act, & it's never okay. Jang So Yeon plays his wife, Lee Hyang Rae. She has to play someone who gets hit w/ extremely painful things in 'Something in the Rain'(8.6), & she handled it convincingly. She has gravitas. Jung Woon Sun as Jin Tae Kyung, & Moon Tae Yu, as Shin Seok Ho, round out the main cast. She's our FL's sister & a bit of a mess. He's an anal-retentive (capitalize that) meteorologist. They are the cold front that's blasted by a heatwave; their 2ndary 💓 is one of the best things in the show. As for the primary romance, it is usually cloudless skies. In FL&W we flow w/ the protags through daily life w/ constant changes in currents & humidity. Puffs of clouds will form, 💧 will fall, sometimes they get wet. At work there is virtually no protection from the hail of gossip. There's no dramatic typhoons or blizzards, just everyday existence.

Marriage is considered a life success, of sorts, but the married couples are the ones that are always fighting in FL&W. Being married washes up latent expectations that are not automatically met. It's also an extra weight of responsibility in taking on, in the form of a lifetime commitment, another person's burdens & struggles, putting up w/ failures, & also creating kids (more lives + more work + more struggles). Dong Han from Team 2 loves being a dad after being absent for so long, but soon he learns the agony that can come w/ it. The payoff is supposed to be more love. Nobody does it perfectly - Not you; not me. I've always joked that parenting is all about guilt. What I didn't know before is that loss & grief also taunt us w/ regret & guilt. It's a feeling that I would spare all. In one notable scene a now split up couple, each in new relationships where some of the same issues have manifested once again, have dinner together to discuss where they went wrong. They manage to have a constructive deconstruction of their relationship & how it got off course. Each could now see things about themselves & where they might need to improve. Alot of people who think that moving on to another 💓 will fix things are often disappointed. One mother talked about how the pettiness adds up, but it was a mistake for her to break up her first marriage. In our uber individualistic & rage-prone society we get mad at every little offense, but we forgive ourselves quite easily for the same things. For example, our newlyweds have kept some things from e/o. She used to live w/ her boyfriend & she never told her husband, because she was worried he wouldn't like it. (SK is more conservative about these things than the USA). He finds out, & he doesn't like it. He /really/ doesn't like it. This is a guy who used to live w/ his GF, whom he broke up w/ right before the wedding. Does he have any right to be offended? Q: Why is he blind to his own stuff? A: Because we all are🙈. One of the main reasons marriages suffer from a dreadful >50% divorce rate is because of 2nd & 3rd marriages, which have a terrible success rate. First marriages are still more likely to succeed than not. Alittle extra effort, the knowledge that you aren't a perfect mate either, & sincerely trying to see things from the other person's perspective may part the clouds & let the 🌞 in.

That is the theme of FL&W: Hang in there, keep at it & try to stay together, because: It's going to rain; a storm is brewing. The forecast looks ominous & it's best not to face it alone. Umbrellas send signals about relationships. Our FL thinks back to when her fiance held one over her head - when things were going well. She almost smiles until she remembers that the wedding's in a month, the deposit was never paid, & her fiance is gone with the wind. Taking on a decided chill, she walks away letting the rain soak her. The 2ndary couple, just beginning to realize their interest, admit to e/o how they feel & leave the restaurant as he holds her close under his ☔. The camera pans back to the table they just vacated to show a forgotten 🌂 they left behind: They only need one 🌂 now. They will brave the elements together. It's a lovely touch. There's definitely another theme that they are whispering down the lane: Gossip hurts. Nobody can mind h/h own business at the Meteorological Administration. We make our own hell. Why do we gossip? Pride. People have an insatiable compulsion to compare ourselves to others & tell ourselves that we are doing better by comparison. Those are just the lies we tell ourselves, folks. What does comparing oneself to a person w/ different skills, backgrounds, personalities, strengths, weakness, IQ, experiences, connections, challenges & the myriad of other variants even mean? It's the most worthless, empty thinking possible. Gossips are society's ice storms that leave destruction in their wake.

FLoW & FLaW - No one expects them to get it right every time. FL&W is often formulaic & uninspiring, along w/ some downright lackluster delivery. Yet it has plenty of solid elements. There's some truly cute & amusing scenes, but not until the show is 30% over. The 🌞 pokes through to shine brightly at times: Zoom in shots from satellite height down to ground level add excitement. There's cool shots of weather phenomena including a typhoon (which looks exactly like whipped cream on top of a delicious concoction which has always distracted me). The married-ex's apt has narcissist sized wedding pictures on the LR wall; their problems quickly become bigger than those 8ft × 10fts. When the AC breaks, everybody's sweating & fanning; cut over to Mr. OCD who looks cool as a 🥒 w/ his handheld fan. His carefully controlled life will be typhooned by our FL's sister. The restaurant scenes are cute. The first time our leads run into e/o they sit apart, one being too hot & the other too cold. Soon, they're sitting together, lookin cozy. The chef's reactions to them are closely monitored & add layers of warm enjoyment to these vignettes. The director turns a one night stand into a visual weather metaphor - I felt undone - it's exceptional. There is a scene w/ 4 men, 1 woman & 1 apt in ep7 that is pretty darn funny. It's a nice touch when the screen splits w/ the heads of our leads & her mother lined up to show the same exact downturned mouth. Many of the characters are going through similar struggles & end up mirroring e/o, either in uniformity or a contrast of opposites. It's good filmmaking. So, w/ what I now know, would I choose to watch it again for the first time? There's a 60% chance that I would.

And that's the 🔥 & the ☃brr of it. At many moments it's a little pedestrian & at others there's a good message, the acting is good, there are laughs, & our social intelligence is challenged. For some of us, the best value is that it's a mostly pleasant brainless watch if you want to do a mental shutdown - a thing as necessary as an occasional rainstorm.

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This is insane


〰🖍 IMHO

📣6 📝7 🎭7.5 💓7 🦋5 🌞7 🎨7 🎵&🔊7.5 😅7.5 😭 🤔4 💤4 🔚8

Age 12+ pre-marital sex


Originally 〰️🖊 9/2023

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I really loved some parts of this drama

Ok I was expecting this drama to be a mess and it turned out to be a mess with some really quality moments.
1- The beginning is VERY strong, one of the best starts for any drama. The middle portion is good too, but it loses a lot of the magic on the last episodes.
. The main couple and the "secret office couple" romance is GREAT, there are some plot twist at the beginning and cute little moments that left me with a big smile, like "wow ok they got me that was so cute"
. Second couple(sister) even if only enters the plots a bit later, it is 100% the best part of the closing episodes.
.With that said , these couples have great chemistry and I believe that it's one of the stronger sides of the show.
.Another great thing about it was the setting, there's more shows with forecasting all over it, but this goes in dept and I really felt like I was learning about it and felt the pressures that come with this line of work.
2- The Exs were meh, I was hoping for it to be more of a revenge show, but I wasn't really it. which is ok but at the end of the they I really couldn't care less about them. The female ex's problems with the ML even If I understand that they could cause a relationship to end and the ex of the FL feeling down because of the lack of attention(again if I understand). It didn't really make me appreciate the characters or side with them, at least to the point of they becoming almost as much of main characters as the main couple. Especially when the male ex is stalking and doing all sort of dumb thing.
3- other than that the music is good and the acting is ok too. I wouldn't watch it again, but I think the beginning is THAT strong that you should watch it and it will probably make you continue to the end.

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[✓]: pros [❌]: cons
i've finished the series and it was a good watch overall, it's something to watch lightly when you just want to free your mind.

>In short:
What carried the show are the *main actors*, you eventually grow to love and empathize with them and their exceptional acting made up for other flaws of the show, which in my opinion lay in the *script*.

>In long:
Usually the plot flows naturally, but in certain occasions there have been things happening out of the blue or all of a sudden some events are not told in chronological order for no good reason but making you confused (mainly the jeju part tbh).
❌ Also a few episodes were just a repetition of the same scene with different characters (literally one episode was just a succession of character A goes to cafe to talk with character B).
Last problem of the script to my mind is that some characters lacked depth or were too polarised, especially the parents were made look evil/annoying all the time and we never got to know the actual reasons behind their obsessive behaviour. If they cared to add more layers to their personality they could have added to the show new interesting themes and we could have understood why the leads put up with their presence despite everything they've done.

❌ This lack of depth in characters probably affected the acting too: in fact i didn't really like the one of the FL older sister, it looked forced and out of place (not a fan of aegyo on a 40yo woman), and the one of the second leads that was a bit repetitive being made mostly of frowns mostly for the sFL and of disoriented expressions for sML.
Paradoxically the supporting roles (colleagues) had more in depth stories that explored their private lives, beliefs, worries by far more engaging and rich of themes than the story of the second leads.
This is probably the issue because of which many were dissatisfied with the couple of seconds leads: ML and FL relied so much on them for emotional and practical support, even after they had broken up with them in the worst way possible. It feels weird because we are given no reason why they still trust them sm and have a good friendship.

✓ Cinematography was fairly good, loved the references to weather to describe the feelings of the characters, it was really poetic.
✓ Talking about the weather, the office dynamics were represented so well, and you really get to know what it's like to work in that field. By the end of the drama i was fascinated by the art of forecasting weather, and how crucial it is for society, more than we would usually think.

✓ The plot also tackled a lot of thought provoking themes: parenting, professional relationships and growth, the importance of a team to rely on, different ways of parenting, office relationships, relationships at distance, emotional wounds and many more that are hidden throughout the series.
I appreciated that the romance wasn't exploited to add seggs scenes or excessively steamy kiss scenes, however i believe we needed to see more intimacy or affection between the FL and ML, like act of kindness, holding hands, words of affirmation ... i think sometimes their relationship lacked affection.

- Pace: regular, it flows well and easy to follow
- Ending: happy
- Trigger warnings: none ( you will find mentions of cancer, suicide, hospital, divorce tho but they're very circumscribed )

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Weather and workaholics

I refuse to believe, that there are that many dedicated news reporters assigned to the weather who attend press briefings with the rapt attention and critical eye like it was a major political scandal. I don't know if this is a correct representation of how seriously Korea takes its weather, or if there was a lot of artistic license in how they portrayed it. It's mostly people looking at whirling bits of data on screens, and just not that interesting to watch.

I didn't mean to watch back to back dramas with Song Kang, he is not my favorite of the apple cheeked young actors currently making headlines, but he did bring some 🔥🔥🔥🔥 during the romantic parts er....part. He has good shoulders. And I have no objection to how many times he would like to show those bare shoulders on screen.

It was hard to imagine the two of them together, even while watching them be together. The workplace dynamic was anxiety inducing, he's a poor pennyless guy that is homeless and Ha-Kyung offers him a place to live then tracks him down repeatedly and forces him to move in with her. She's also his boss at work who could fire him. At one point she calls him a kid and he angrily retorts that he's an adult and also her man, as he battles for respect.

They're both such workaholics that there is not a lot to them beyond some childhood trauma and the weather. He does have a lot of positive energy, he's thoughtful and helpful. But she is just her job, she's on call and even when she's not she's always thinking about the weather.

There are several discussions where she talks about how she's drawn boundaries between her work and personal life, which is just not true. she's much more severe and petty towards Si-Woo than anybody else. Which just because she's hiding her affection by being horrible to him doesn't make it a better boundary.

I know South Korea is dealing with low birth rates, and I don't feel like this series really helped that cause. For woman who did have children it was mentioned several times that having kids and taking maternity leave ended promising careers. One woman tells the female lead that she should not get married and have kids. Another debates getting an abortion because she doesn't think they can afford to raise one. While her partner fretfully looks up baby related costs to see if he can budget it in.

It was interesting to see Ha-Kyung's ex-fiance and his new wife have to deal with the repercussions and aftermath of some of their decisions. And how both main leads really learned a lot about themselves through the process of being cheated on, and what their exes found lacking in their relationships both with them and with their new partners.

I didn't connect with this drama and it makes it seem like being a forecaster is one of the worst jobs to have, which isn't that fun to watch for 16 episodes.

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I don't even know

I had such high hopes for this kdrama. The clips I had seen made it look so interesting but what even was that. I found myself dreading every episode yet hoping it'd get better. But it didn't and I didn't want to stick around for the rest.


The storyline was trying to make fetch happen (if you know what I mean). The beginning was good and I liked both ML and FL but why did they even get together? It made no sense. The only thing they had in common was that they both got cheated on. I don't think that's good for a lasting relationship. And the SML and SFL were straight up ANNOYING!!

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A slow paced drama, that starts well but becomes repetitive and boring.

I had really enjoyed the previous works of both main leads, so I was quite excited to start this. I watched it as it was airing, and during the first couple of episodes, I thought okay, this looks like it could be interesting. And towards the middle of the drama, things were picking up and I was genuinely invested in the characters' lives. But after that things just go downhill.

Conflicts kept arising which would usually be okay, but all the conflicts were so similar to each other. Just there to sow discord and doubt in the main couple's relationship. This caused the drama to feel draggy. At the start, I felt like the chemistry between the main leads was a little lacking, but in the next few episodes I saw their chemistry slowly start to build, and I truly enjoyed watching them go from strangers to people in love, in a realistic way. But that's about it. I feel that this honestly did not need to be as long as it was. 8 episodes would have been enough to tell a nice story that didn't make me want to skip scenes.

As for the side couples, I enjoyed watching the FL's sisters' relationship, they were actually adorable and probably my favorite couple for the series. As for the SML and SFL, I am just so surprised they even worked out. All they seemed to have done the entire series is fight, and it's always the same fight spun in different ways.

Apart from the different couples, the plot was basically non-existent. Every other episode or so there would be some drama about forecasting the weather, and if the prediction would be right or not, it was fun to watch at first, but after the first couple of times I started skipping the forecasting scenes because they all seemed the same. I really wish they had introduced a more complex plot related to their job, so it would just be us watching the home lives of a bunch of people who work in the same field, because thats exactly what it felt like.

All in all, this is definitely not a very memorable drama, and if I didn't watch it while it was airing, I probably would not have finished it. If you really like the leads or want something slow-paced that you don't need to pay a lot of attention to, then pick this up, otherwise I would say skip it.

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Development

This was one drama that I was not excited to watch; but gave it a shot anyway

Characters

The ML and FL are great actors and I think that this drama did not help to show that; the drama was more about the weather hence the title of the drama, but I would have liked the main characters to have some growth throughout the drama. I think the SML and the SFL had more growth throughout the drama than the main leads themselves

Likes

1) I liked the music; always nice to hear a good OST for a drama
2) I got to know more about the hardworking people who work to give us people regular weather reports
3) The ML has a smile that you want to drown into
4) The episodes are short and sweet so it does not drag on for too many episodes

Dislikes

1) The FL I love her; but I wish that she did not have the same expression throughout the drama and would have showed much more growth that she has an actresses I know has showed in many other dramas
2) The leading up to the romance of the ML and FL are not really shown, and I think that could somehow improve a bit
3) The people behind the weather reports are really complex, and sometimes I wasn't quite sure why throughout the whole drama the same scenarios always happened, and I think that could have been improved on.

Overall, it was a nice drama with good enough eye candy and good enough plot to let you plow through the drama; although some things could have been improved on, I would definitely recommend people to watch this; even though if your not fans of Song Kang and Park Min-Young.

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Actually one of the good K-dramas, here's why.

I just want to start of by saying how I regret not watching this when it aired because of many around me saying how bad it sucked. This drama isn't as bad as everyone claims it to be. As me being 12, I don't think I should have watched it (the first two episodes) on the Brightside, I find it a well put together drama. Their acting's were just amazing however, there was an issue I had with episodes 11-12. Of course it's only normal for K-drama's to have a break up right when the characters get to know each other and settle down but, I just feel like the writer wanted it to be dramatic when it was nothing. There was absolute no reason for them to break up in my point of view. Both main lead roles were acting purely unmatured when coming to their reasoning why they wanted a break up. I don't know much but I do know that they still had strong feelings for each other. ML wants to break up because he thinks his father burdens FL, FL wants to break up because she thinks her ex burdens ML. I honestly find it unbelievable, at the same time the breakup helped their relationship build up don't you think? They get to learn about each other's weaknesses during the time they broke up but still working together in the same place as both of their exes. Let me just say something, at least they didn't give us fish kisses. Second, the director could have shortened the beginning of their relationship. The beginning of their relationship was literally 11 episodes, then in the next they broke up. They got back together in the last episode. It just seemed like they ran out of space, worked hard on the beginning and gave up at the end. Overall the cast worked hard on this, it portrays the struggles meteorologists go through and how their job is heavily important to us. This was one of the few K-dramas that taught me things that made me realize. Weather impacts out lives more than me think. This is seriously well put together but with a few minor issues, tolerable. P.S. many of you guys probably hated FL ex-fiancé but he was the clown of this show alr, he brought all the comedy along with the team members and FL mother.

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High hopes ... dashed

Lots of spoilers ahead

I wanted to love this as Meteorology is facinating to me. The most exciting bits of this Drama was when the weather was being explained / discussed.

Most of the characters felt hollow or their actions werent really explained, they were just there and as viewers we're supposed to just fill in the blanks.

I absolutely love Park Min-Young but i was disappointed with her character. Despite being a boss she rarely felt like she was in control and never grew much as the show progressed. This was disappointing as there was plenty of room for growth which was filled with what i feel were "filler scenes". Far too many scenes were drawn out with one look to the point where i was getting irritated with the pace. Then suddenly things pick up and go super fast and the important things feel like they aren't looked at as much as the "just looking at someone/something scenes". Also .. how in the world is it okay for one coworker to grab and harass another okay in 2022? Not just the fact that it was a male that did it to a female but if it was any gender. How was that person not arrested and charged. Toxic toxic toxic.

Forcaster Um.... there was room for him to grow but his character just flat lined the whole way. Disappointing. Same as the other members of team 2. So many missed opportunities.

How is it that the cheaters of the show had the most growth in the whole series?? They werent even the lead characters. Blows my mind.

Si-woo felt whiny and childish. He annoyed me from the get go. But one thing i can say is that he was 100 percent correct in wanting to be rid of his father. The fact that director Jin encouraged him to forgive and forget infuriates me. Just because people are your family doesnt mean you need to allow that toxicity into your life.

Kim Mi-kyung is also a favourite actor of mine but her character felt flat. Her character also felt like she barged in and disrupted things for no good reason. This is 2022 .... we're not living in the past. Can we stop with the toxic, overbearing mothers already. We need more love and understanding to be protrayed.

There is alot more i want to say but honestly, the cast line up was fantastic and they did the best with what they had. The story started with an amazing idea and completely bombed due to poor character growth and design. The only reason the cast didnt rank as 10 was because they were unable to act to their full potential. Toxic sterotypes made this a hard watch. I can usually let it go if it was earlier in the decade but we are talking brand new 2022... some of the things portrayed in this drama are so problematic. I know it still happens, but we have to stop romanticising these troupes and start dealing with them in the proper way. If the writers were aiming for cute, light hearted etc etc then they should leave the heavier stuff iut if they cant fit it in with the theme of their show.

Love the cast and premise.... hated the pacing and where the story went.

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BLAME IT ON THE WEATHER!!

Okay, here we go… I´m sure that producers, creators, staff and talent worked hard and thought that having an A list actress and a handsome rising star was enough to secure a hot spot in our hearts, well as we know now the boat sank like the titanic.

I agree with a lot of the reviewers that stated that they had high hopes for the drama after the first couple episodes. The set up was quite promising with beautiful actresses and handsome actors playing the main couple and supporting couple, but around the fourth episode the series started to go downhill and the good looking talent wasn´t able to keep it afloat. The writing or the direction of the series just went nowhere. At some point I thought that the second couple story line was more interesting and the writers decided to explore that, and forgot about our main couple.

My theory:
Then it got me thinking that perhaps the second couple was the main couple at the start of the project, if so that would have been way more interesting, but then Park Min Young and Song Kang were casted as the other characters and the creators had to compromise by changing the story. As a result we ended up with Yoon Park overshowing everybody and even the story line. It does feel like the SML had to carry the entire show. And the funny thing is that his character isn´t supposed to be likable. He cheated on Park Min Young´s character and came out triumphant. Seriously, I have never seen that happening…

My advise:
Song Kang please choose better projects in the future or simply fire your current management and hire Park Seo Joon´s ;)

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