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Which one? There were two mothers and two daughters. Do you mean the girl who died and her mother who looked clinically depressed.

It's a wonderful thing that there are different kinds of people in the world who enjoy different things. I liked the idea of a female superhero, and indeed any strong female characters. But this one just kept doing dumb things. But I can see there are so many people here who enjoyed this drama.

The Korean drama On the Way to the Airport was refreshing to me b/c it was about two older married people who are parents, which is a contrast to most other dramas. They are both in unhappy marriages, trying to make things still work, and then gradually find real love with each other. I'm not normally into stories of affairs, but this one is about finding genuine love, not just going for the forbidden fruit, and they see things through to a sensible and satisfying conclusion.

I haven't seen it yet, but La Grande Chaumiere Violette (2016) has good reviews, and doesn't seem to have been mentioned in the comments here. It is set during the Japanese occupation of Taiwan in the 1930s and includes Alice Ke who is also in Someday or One Day. I think she's a fine actress, and because she's not classically beautiful, she's more interesting and enjoyable to look at.

Great article. Someday or One Day and The World Between Us are top class. Another favorite of mine is Candy Online, an excellent school drama. I look forward to trying your other recommendations. The best Taiwanese dramas have a maturity lacking in most Chinese dramas, thanks to Taiwan's liberal democracy.

Indeed many people love it, and that's why I gave it a try. Alas I found it so annoying I couldn't see it all the way through.

Enjoying this one now, up to 10th episode. This is a drama with a lot of heart. And I've jammed with my doctor buddies in our band. But the first and only time when I was an intern and slung a mask around my neck, I was told off roundly by the theatre nurse, and after that I NEVER saw any staff wearing a mask like that. Once a mask touches the neck it's contaminated and therefore risky. Real doctors and nurses take them off and throw them out, and NEVER re-use them.

This was a bleak short drama series about how hard it is to be a woman, but I think it should have offered some ways to confront those issues, or else there is the risk that viewers will just feel like giving up on life. Even the supposed support of the four friends wasn't enough e.g. the baker couldn't tell her friends that she was in love with her female bakery assistant, and therefore she never found the courage to make a confession. But then that was just keeping with the pessimistic tone of the series.

Stupid people doing stupid things for stupid reasons, time and again. That doesn't make me laugh. I think I watched this all the way through, but I can't remember for sure.

Thank you for taking the trouble to reply and for your friendly recommendation. The problem is I'm a doctor and I know too much. Anyway I'll keep trying since so many people recommended it.

If you're going to make a hospital drama with medical events central to the plot, GET THE FACTS RIGHT.
Emergency departments have separate entrances for the ambulances; the paramedics do not have to race through the main hospital lobby and risk crashing into the public who are milling there.
If a grown man put all of his weight like that into cardiac massage on a three-year old child, he'd crush the child's ribs and rupture his heart. Surely common sense would tell you that, even without any medical training. And by the way, if you don't know how to do cardiac massage, DO NOT LEARN IT FROM WATCHING DRAMAS. It is a lifesaving technique that every member of the public should learn, and the depictions in dramas are wildly inaccurate.
A medical team would not attempt resuscitation with the patient's relative amongst them, howling in their ears and interfering with their concentration. She would be taken to a separate room and supported by a staff member so as not to witness the distressing procedure.
Evidently the director could not trust the story and the actors to move our emotions, but repeatedly resorted to medical drama cliches, which are ridiculous and necessarily lack real emotional force because we have seen them numerous times before.
I've only watched one episode and I know I can count on every patient having an IV line whether they would need it or not, and sooner or later one patient tearing their IV line out to leave hospital early.

One wrist-drag is more than enough for me, and this drama seems to have one in every episode. And of course it's always the man who does it. It just takes a simple twist to break a grip like that, except no female in any drama I've seen ever does it. Please help me to understand this, is there something masochistic in women that makes them actually get turned on by this physical abuse? Then there's the mother who literally slaps up her grown-up son at the drop of the hat, which is simply bizarre, especially when no-one tells her she's behaving like a toddler. But when the supporting female character is best friends with the surgeon who took out her cancerous stomach, that was the last straw for me. Apparently some people love this drama and think it's a classic.
[Further; still trying to watch this through] Both the leads have poor self-esteem. She's "in love" (?why) with a man who is too gutless to admit his feelings for her and so treats her cruelly at every step. He's such a coward he can't face up to being "in love" (?doesn't that mean caring deeply for someone) with someone who apparently ticks none of the expected boxes. The strong point of this drama is that the FL is not slim, young, or very pretty (and I can't think of any other drama with such an exception), and she bravely talks straight to all the messed-up people who surround her. But this is not a love story, it's about wounded people taking out their traumas on each other.

One more reason why SOL is my favorite genre, apart from all the good reasons you gave: I study Japanese, Korean, and Mandarin, and in SoL I'm more likely to hear everyday language that I can use myself.

Outrageously over the top and completely unbelievable, this fantasy is loads of fun and I have just finished it for the third time and nowhere near had my fill of it.
Hwang Woo Seul Hye as the stupid but vivacious (and devoted to her equally stupid husband) Do Hye Ji [Se Jun's wife] is a hoot and one of the best minor character actors I have seen.

Initially Hsien-tien appears hyperactive and self-centred, despised by the strict parents of the school for her live-streaming activity, as they also look down on her mother because she is a single mother and runs a bar, but we gradually discover that Hsien-tien is a generous and loyal friend, and her mother is completely accepting and supportive of every decision of Hsien-tien's, in stark contrast to the other tyrannical and competive parents. The stoic Toad is a steadfast and never-demanding friend to Hsien-tien, and totally deserving of her kiss and her love by the end of the series. Hsien-tien's (nearly-) always cheerful and forgiving nature inspires the whole school student community to stand up for her and for themselves.

The story is average and predictable but the main actors are good and make it a worthwhile watch. The main character is a professional pansori singer and so of course is great in the many singing sequences in the story. The child actor has a fine voice and presence too and I would have enjoyed more singing from her. There's a lot of singing and music in the this movie, at times backing the traditional singing with modern music styles which I found a bit annoying, especially when it drowned out the singers' voices. I don't know the details of the Simcheong story and I think such knowledge would have helped enjoyment of the in plot which the father character invents the story of Simcheong episode by episode by mixing up the story of his own family (sort of like in Shakespeare in love). I presume this is the conceit of the movie rather than real history, but that's OK. If you're interested, some other movies about pansori:
Chunhyang (one of the pansori canonical stories)
The Sound of a Flower (the story of the first female pansori singer)
Seopyeonje and the similar movie by the same director Beyond the Years, about a family of itinerant pansori singers in modern times.

This doesn't include the movie she was in Saving Face (2004).

English subs at D-Addicts. And there is a very good documentary made by NHK Television - Jakuchu: The Divine Colors (2016) (in English) with excellent displays of some of his paintings and explanations of his technique.

A mature and satisfying Chinese drama, worlds ahead of the childish rom-coms that they churn out.

For those of you wondering what happened to the two leads, stated in Chinese but not subtitled at about 36:40, straight from Google translate (except that it got the character names wrong):

(see below in my comment)

Suffers from the exaggerated over-acting that spoils so many Japanese dramas. Not a single natural actor. The story wasn't interesting enough to keep me beyond 1 1/4 episodes.