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There's not much to say, really
I finally finished the best show on MDL at the moment and I don't know what to say. All that could be said has already been said. This show took dramaland by storm and I think it was fair. It feels like old-school kdramas like Reply 1988 but sort of more angsty. It was beautiful and frustrating, sad and funny just as life would be. The production quality and acting are immaculate. The whole cast and crew clearly put their all into making this the perfect project and there isn't anything to add besides just saying: they all did amazing. The show looks and feels cinematic.
Plot: The whole point of this show is to shed light on the lives of ordinary people in order to highlight their extraordinariness. So naturally, it had parts that frustrated as well as parts that inspired. I tried my best not to get mad at the characters for their immaturities because while other shows' immature characters feel like flaws in the narrative, the immature and petulant behavior of the characters here felt like rites of growing up. Their mistakes felt like unavoidable twists of fate, and their broken connections were...well, that's just life! I find it very hard to judge this show for any choice it made narratively because everything seemed too true to life and a part of the realism of it! So yeah! The show gets away by virtue of being too realistic!
That said, I preferred the parents' plotline to their daughter's and the later episodes, because she was just too frustrating and unfair at times. I get that she had it hard too but she just nagged way too much! It was sort of embarrassing and painful to watch her feel inferior to the entitled rich people when those rich people were so pathetic and unworthy. But again...that's true to life! The parents, on the other hand, were so pitiful, you just can't help but root for them. Also that part has romance and family drama and a historical setting...it just hit different!
Acting: I don't wanna add much here: IU was great, I always knew she was great. Yeon Hye Ran deserves ALL the awards and Park Bo Gum was so good here, he single-handedly pushed me from holding massive contempt towards him to actually enjoying his presence. So much so I was upset when he was absent from an episode. Everyone else was equally great; the whole cast was amazing, really.
Music: This show also had perfect music. The theme song (which is called Spring, btw, you're welcome!) was so beautiful and nostalgic that I couldn't bear to skip the intro. The rest, I don't really remember, but it was mostly old Korean music and IU, so it was great.
Production: I wonder what the budget was because everything production-wise was so perfect and spot-on that you don't even think about it. It all just feels real.
Rewatch value: I don't think so! I will end up crying way too much and I feel all out of tears!
Overall: It's great! Go watch it!
Plot: The whole point of this show is to shed light on the lives of ordinary people in order to highlight their extraordinariness. So naturally, it had parts that frustrated as well as parts that inspired. I tried my best not to get mad at the characters for their immaturities because while other shows' immature characters feel like flaws in the narrative, the immature and petulant behavior of the characters here felt like rites of growing up. Their mistakes felt like unavoidable twists of fate, and their broken connections were...well, that's just life! I find it very hard to judge this show for any choice it made narratively because everything seemed too true to life and a part of the realism of it! So yeah! The show gets away by virtue of being too realistic!
That said, I preferred the parents' plotline to their daughter's and the later episodes, because she was just too frustrating and unfair at times. I get that she had it hard too but she just nagged way too much! It was sort of embarrassing and painful to watch her feel inferior to the entitled rich people when those rich people were so pathetic and unworthy. But again...that's true to life! The parents, on the other hand, were so pitiful, you just can't help but root for them. Also that part has romance and family drama and a historical setting...it just hit different!
Acting: I don't wanna add much here: IU was great, I always knew she was great. Yeon Hye Ran deserves ALL the awards and Park Bo Gum was so good here, he single-handedly pushed me from holding massive contempt towards him to actually enjoying his presence. So much so I was upset when he was absent from an episode. Everyone else was equally great; the whole cast was amazing, really.
Music: This show also had perfect music. The theme song (which is called Spring, btw, you're welcome!) was so beautiful and nostalgic that I couldn't bear to skip the intro. The rest, I don't really remember, but it was mostly old Korean music and IU, so it was great.
Production: I wonder what the budget was because everything production-wise was so perfect and spot-on that you don't even think about it. It all just feels real.
Rewatch value: I don't think so! I will end up crying way too much and I feel all out of tears!
Overall: It's great! Go watch it!
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