katiecurrently

As both a former teenager who was obsessed with 500 Days of Summer and an adult who’s obsessed with whatever the hell Ji Chang Wook is doing, this is an easy hit for me.

It’s been a long time since I’ve consumed any media involving manic pixie dream girls, and this deconstruction of it brought me to tears. The moment Eun Oh is finally confessing everything to her closest friends and being met with their love, understanding, and affirmation healed something in me. When I watched 500DoS the first time, I was watching for a boy I liked and I was young enough to miss the point completely. It took years for me to have my own identity crisis and find myself again, and a few more years to rewatch it and realize what I’d missed. I really really love that this take on it gave us insight on her perspective and that they were both able to love each other for who they really are by the end. Bonus: the main cast is full of stars and the various relationships were fun and engaging to follow. My only real critique was the lack of closure we got because they were setting themselves up for a season 2 that never happened.

P.S. Park Jae Won is giving major “see you at Burning Man” energy and it was very funny to me