choi k

Came very late to this, watching it in 2025, just before it is removed from Netflix. I wish we'd found it before so that I could recommend it to all my friends. If I say it is all so Korean-drama in all the best ways I am sure you'll understand. As soon as I found out it was a Hng Sisters script I understood why it was so good (we LOVED 'Hotel De Luna!). We're watching it two episodes a night - not what I would normally choose to do - to beat the Netflix deadline, but it is so good the two hours feel like one. Absolutely captivated by Gong Hyo Jin's performance, so many layers to it, sometimes she seems, actually, nuts, sometimes quite clever and conniving, but most often as a kindly and good natured person trying to make the best of a difficult life. We're certainly going to try some of the tv and films she's in. And all the other cast are as good in their own ways. We've been watching K-Dramas for about five years now and I am confident to say this is one of the absoolute best, right up there with Hotel de Luna. And the music is great too - not so much the songs but the instrumental sections, all done I think by Oh Joon Sung, who also (surprise!) did the very good score for Hotel...!

K-drama, when it is this good, is so much better than most Western (I mean British and American) television; better production values, often very companionable characters, many times genuinely surprising storylines.