A puzzling friendship
I have to say, I dont really understand what this show is trying to convey.
This isn't a story about great friendship or great love. It seems to be mostly about a woman who is gracious to the point that the word "pushover" comes to mind. With a bit of family and romantic drama sprinkled in.
Eunjung is just average in most respects, but has an innate ability to draw people to her. Sangyeon is intelligent and tenacious, but also prickly and unable to get out of her own way. This makes for a complex decades-long friendship.
There are many raw, intensely realistic moments portrayed between friends, family and loves.
But where this show really messed up, imo, is 1. not showing enough moments, particularly past childhood, of Sangyeon behaving in a way that warranted Eunjung's loyalty and kindness, & 2. continuing a blasted love triangle from college years into their 30s. Surely there are other methods to explore a complex female friendship than putting a man in the mix.
The drama ends with these women in their 40s, and gives proper closure to the friendship, but not to the life of present-day Eunjung.
Do I feel it was worth the watch? I honestly don't know.
This isn't a story about great friendship or great love. It seems to be mostly about a woman who is gracious to the point that the word "pushover" comes to mind. With a bit of family and romantic drama sprinkled in.
Eunjung is just average in most respects, but has an innate ability to draw people to her. Sangyeon is intelligent and tenacious, but also prickly and unable to get out of her own way. This makes for a complex decades-long friendship.
There are many raw, intensely realistic moments portrayed between friends, family and loves.
But where this show really messed up, imo, is 1. not showing enough moments, particularly past childhood, of Sangyeon behaving in a way that warranted Eunjung's loyalty and kindness, & 2. continuing a blasted love triangle from college years into their 30s. Surely there are other methods to explore a complex female friendship than putting a man in the mix.
The drama ends with these women in their 40s, and gives proper closure to the friendship, but not to the life of present-day Eunjung.
Do I feel it was worth the watch? I honestly don't know.
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