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meus pais
Assisti esse numa maratona diária (ou quase isso) com a minha querida bel, onde a gente resolveu tirar do 'dropped' e que iniciativa boa, serio.Agora falando do drama, o que realmente me chamou a atenção foi as personagens, o quanto cada um era carismático, importante, genuinamente real na história. Me identifiquei tanto com a yeonsu que parece que me vigiaram e resolveram fazer uma personagem. O ung um querido, que me fez ver o mundo e as pessoas por um novo viés.
o final foi maravilhoso, e toda a construção deles foi excepcional.
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Food for the heart, food for the soul
"Our Beloved Summer" is HOW a slow-burn, romance drama should be done. It sunk its emotional hooks into my heart and never let go – and remains my bar for a good drama of this genre. The writing is thoughtful and witty, the acting is nuanced, the language of love is conveyed through beautiful cinematography instead of endless prattle, but the best part is what's under the hood.
Using the reality documentary as a narrative tool, the story of Choi Woong (Choi Woo-shik) and Kook Yeon-soo (Kim Da-mi) comes to life through this unique lens. It grounds this love story squarely in the age of digital and connects it to a young demographic.
It's roughly divided into 3 phases: the puppy love of teenagers, the tumultuous and tortured relationship of twenty somethings, and the hard realities of professionals dealing with career and adulthood. But there's another invisible division to the storyline: on-cam and off-cam. The docu cam follows them all throughout capturing the milestones of the couples' lives. Off cam, the storytelling becomes more eloquent, telling us what REALLY happens BTS.
In an age when most K-dramas are mindless time-sucks, "Our Beloved Summer" is a worthy investment in time. It offers so much more to deconstruct than just relationships. its about growing up. It's about the dumb luck of success and failure that happens despite your laziness or hard work. It's about vulnerability and art. It's about the futility of ambition in a career-obsessed society. It's about how loving adopted parents trump a biological father who chickens out.
The documentary narrative tool also gives viewers the BEST ending I've seen in a while in a K-drama with that garden scene where it's stated that they've gotten married (thank God no marching-down-the-aisle scene) and it's time for the next installment of their reality show.
Here are the other things I love about this series:
• Best acting by far by a male and female lead – and at this point, I've watched a lot. Choi Woo-shik IS Woong – his subtle acting makes a loser character lovable and multi-dimensional, while Kim Da-mi pulls off the hard feat of making an obnoxious character like Yeon-soo relatable, even sympathy-worthy. In the end, I understood her, even though she is the most flawed character in the series and the main source of heartache. I am also surprised that I didn’t hate the dominant-woman/weak-man dynamic of the lovers – while I love strong women leads, I hate irrational ones – and Yeon-soo can be irrational. And until Woong, I have never empathized with a weak, spoiled male lead, let alone stay with him on his journey to finding his passion. I guess that’s a testament to Woo-shik’s superb acting.
• In terms of pacing, I wasn’t bored by this – the dialogue was mostly fast-paced with only a few lags. But it still cements my view that romances, no matter how well directed or scripted, are stretched at 16 episodes at 1 hour each. Even this gem of a script lags a little in the middle like that forced vacation in a secluded mountain resort. Still, that episode redeemed itself with the bicycle scene and that heart-wrenching kiss-in-the-rain hilltop shot that is simply gorgeous.
• The love triangle is so well-crafted and so well-interwoven my heart bleeds for the other Woong (Kim Ji-woong). Despite the fact that he’s hot and the physical opposite of Woo-shik's character, it’s clear why the female lead fell for Choi Woong – he oozes brooding charm and vulnerability, and complements her like water to fire.
• The sub-plot of Ji-woong’s mom is the only unsatisfactory storyline for me, but that’s a minor complaint.
• Kudos to the scriptwriter that the subplot of the second love triangle featuring the girl idol doesn't deteriorate into hackneyed. (Her story even manages to make a statement on cancel culture.) Even the "confrontation" scenes between this character and the female lead are sad but not sappy and circumvents the cliche of fighting females.
• I am thankful the showrunners did not belabor the LDR – no tired drama there, just mature people dealing with distance.
• The adoptive parents and grandmother are so well-scripted and cast: folksy-smart, angelic, loud or sharp-tongued at times, and never one-dimensional the way peripheral characters go. Even the subplot of Woong's biological father hanging around him skirted the usual melodrama.
Over-all, "Our Beloved Summer" is epic in its ambition to tell an intelligent urban love story through nearly three decades. And it succeeds in delivering the swoons (because in the end that's why we watch romances, right?) without the guilt of saccharine trope.
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Isso aqui muda vidas
Our Beloved Summer além de um dorama, na minha vida, foi como um guia e uma direção. Tão importante pra mim como Pessoa que me sinto filha dos protagonistas. Sou completamente apaixonada sobre como as coisas foram pensadas com um carinho tão grande que chega a me emocionar só de pensar. É um dorama cheio de detalhes, recheado mesmo, nas cenas do passado e nas cenas do presente. Já assisti e assisti 5 vezes, porque Ung e Yeonsu são completamente humanos e fáceis de se relacionar. Eu sou deles.Vond je deze recentie nuttig?
A gentle touch to your heart
I strongly believe that showing true emotions should be the main concern of any love story. Can you tell if someone is in love if they don't say a word? If they just stood there looking at each other, would you tell if that was true love?Luckily, this was the main goal of this show: to bring you into the perspective of someone who is in love with their complete opposite. As cliché as it may sound, opposites do attract each other in most cases.
Of course, there were things that could have been fixed in order to make this truly masterful piece of a love story. For example, the secondary characters are not really relatable, and sometimes you may even feel bored by them. But when the two main characters were put together in the same frame, you immediately forgot about everything else, and you were driven into a wonderful place, and you wish with all your heart that this kind of love happened to you at least once.
The soundtrack of this show is now in my top 10. So I can't really praise it that much without looking like a fan, but I do have to say that it was perfectly matched with some scenes, which resulted in them being engraved in my memory.
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Incredibly Well Done - But Not a RomCom
I don’t have a lot to add beyond what other reviewers have already said. But I’d thought I’d make a few points to perhaps make it easier for folks to make a decision to watch, or not.This series is not a RomCom. While there are comedic moments, most of the time this is more of a drama. There is lot of sadness as things don’t go well for the main couple. The picture on the movie's page makes the couple look super happy. This was not the case for many episodes.
Having said that, there are quite a few positives aspects to the story. For example the ML’s family is a very positive storyline (with some backstory, or course).
The storyline is intricate and well crafted. The different threads weave seamlessly together and come together well at the end.
The acting is really good. I think this was a tough assignment for the actors, but they pulled it off so well. I’d also call out the casting as superb.
I think I could point out a few things I would like to have seen come together a bit differently, but that does not at affect my recommendation. Despite the fact I thought this might not be my cup of tea:
If you OK with a story that some might consider a bit “slow” and that is not very happy a lot of time, then by all means watch this series. It is well done, well acted, and quite touching. I give it a 9/10 rating.
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Continuación del webtoon
Cuando terminé de leer el webtoon de Aquel año nuestro quise ver de inmediato el k-krama. Me sorprendió gratamente que el mismo fuera una continuación de la historia del webtoon diez años después de donde nos quedamos.Eso hizo que cada capítulo no supiera de qué iba a tratar, en el dorama nos enteramos que ellos cortan, pero vamos a ver si pueden darle una segunda oportunidad al amor ahora que son mas maduros y aprendieron mucho de sus vidas. Me encantó la historia, la música (aunque a veces demasiado repetitiva) y la manera en que profundizaron en los personajes cosa que el webtoon no hubo tanto detalle. Aquí sí, hace que los entiendas mejor, por qué actuaron y actúan de tal modo.
Muy bello, lo recomiendo 💜.
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A warm hug of a drama to provide comfort this winter
Initially I wasn't planning to write a review but GOD this is so good.Ep 6 had me crying, screaming, throwing up so let's get into it.
Storyline:
It sets such a different tone to the drama as a whole. The whole idea of ex-lovers uniting after 10 years to reshoot a documentary is so fresh but it had me questioning how it would realistically be possible to convince them to do it. The drama explains it perfectly and additionally makes it entertaining. There are a lot of tropes (it's a romcom what else would you expect) but it's used so perfectly, that it doesn't make you cringe or make it seem 'ordinary'. The main characters are beautifully written, making you sympathize with them for their circumstances and decisions. Yeonsoo is your cold, logical female protagonist who makes small gestures to her loved ones, completely opposite when you compare her with Ung who is laid-back, impulsive and sensitive (in the best way possible). It's so so enjoyable to watch them banter. Kim sungcheol's Jiung is a wonderful character who's personality falls in the middle of both Yeonsoo's and Ung's with his story. There are additional side characters who you love and hate. I HAVE to mention Ung's parents who are literal angels. Something about how welcoming and warmhearted they are makes me tear up.
Cinematography:
It's so aesthetic. The sites where the scenes occur are all beautiful. The yellow filtering adds a beautiful nostalgic, film-like texture to it. The art work is brilliant and the transitions are pretty as well.
Soundtrack:
It's so beautiful and melodic. It just suits the drama perfectly. I love how V's track is the one that always plays during Ung's art scenes. My personal favorite has to be 10cm's 'Drawer'. That track is PERFECT. The little heartbeats before the instrumental starts? BEAUTIFUL.
Dialogue:
Ok I had to make this a separate section from storyline because of how painfully beautiful it is. Episode 6's ending broke me. That one line 'It's us of all people.' You hear that sound? Yeah that's my heart breaking. The contrast in how their dialogue matures, the words that are used in arguments all of it seems so natural. It's probably my favourite element of the drama after its storyline itself.
Acting:
The performances are as expected really good. Yeonsoo's character is something that Kim Dami embodies to the T. (not a spoiler) Than scene in the bathroom was so beautifully portrayed, it refuses to leave my mind. Choi Wooshik is perfect for Ung's character. He gives the character a certain flavor that makes him seem so charming, but I can't quite exactly place what it is. It was so enchanting to see how in the one episode where there's a little flashback montage of Ung's childhood, and I don't know if it was the child actor mirroring Wooshik's mannerisms as Ung or the other way around, but the resemblance is uncanny.
Rewatch value:
I'm resisting the urge to go rewatch it right now and just wait for future episodes. That should say enough.
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Superestimado
Temos vários pontos positivos neste drama a ser ressaltados como a ótima fotografia, um bom roteiro, um enredo rasoável, personagens equilibrados sem ser chamativos e exagerados no ententanto nem tudo são flores, e não me entendam mal eu só acho que esta obra está longe ser ser essa maravilha que todos dizem.A história era arrastada na maioria do tempo fazendo que ficasse cansativo de assistir no episódio 5 já estava pensando em largar ou pular algumas partes. Senti dificuldade para me conectar com os protagonistas , principalmente a feminina que era bem chata sem vida. Tudo é muito morno sem brilho, eu não tinha expectaviva nenhuma assistinhdo isso pelo ao contrario assim que acabava um episódio meu coração apertava pensando que eu teria que enfrentar tudo de novo no episódio seguinte.
Em fim me senti entediada assistindo este drama , eu não me preocupava em dar pause para me ausentar pois toda vez que eu voltava a trama continuava a mesma parecia que nada tinha acontesido sempre era mais do mesmo.
Então para ser honesta eu com certeza não voltarei a ver, não vou te condenar se você gostar mas eu creio que apenas não foi a minha xicara de chá.
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This could have been a cult classic - but alas!
This drama made me laugh, jump for joy, applaud the entire team, cheer them loudly, slap their backs, clasp my hands......what other expressions of happiness can I use?Alas though - these feelings of exhilaration lasted only to episode 10 or 12.
After that it started rolling downhill so fast that only crashing against an iceberg could halt it and leave it broken and cracked.
Why why why do most leads in k dramas need to originate in orphanages?
Why did a cancer suffering mother come back to torture her child after destroying his childhood?
Are happy families so hard to find in this region?
Where are all the parents? Why do they all die? Is it so hard to be creative with living parents?
How come there is such finely developed romance but it never culminates in loving families?
What's the ratio of kids in orphanages? I read in the news that the country had banned foreigners from adopting their children.
This drama is so finely tuned with humor and slice of life details that I expected it to walk away with an unseen ending in the drama world.
Alas - the writer, director, screen play writer all seem to have lost their MOJO. The last few episodes are shabby, sorry and appalling in their positioning in this drama.
You had a fantastic product which could have reached the finish line with undisputed victory, yet you decided to go down the repetitive trodden path that was shabby and pathetic.
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Pretty but boring
This drama has beautiful cinematography and osts. The story in the beginning is fun and engaging. The cast is really really good. The main leads in particular are really able to deliver all their feelings. This is the best thing of this drama. You can feel all the three of them from the first scene. After a while though, I lost my curiosity as to how the story would end. It became boring. Each episode has noteworthy moments, but overall it was really challenging for me to make it all the way through the last episode.Vond je deze recentie nuttig?
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The first 7 episode are excellent!
The first 7 episodes are excellent, but then everything becomes repetitive. Unfortunately,toxic push and pull relationships are normal in real life, but unlike in real life, viewers don't want the relationship between the leads in this drama to be push and pull for most of the drama. I'm halfway through and I'm considering lowering my rating from a 9.5 to a 9. Outside of the on going push and pull relationship between the male and female lead characters, everything else is pretty great. I usually don't like male lead characters like the male lead in this drama, but the actor did so well, that I am enjoying his character.
I hope the storyline for episodes 9-16 will change a tad bit, we need a little variation.
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Too overhyped
At the beginning I had high expectations when I wanted to start this drama but everything changed when I watched this drama. The story starts with ML who hasn't been able to forget FL and FL who isn't good at expressing her feelings for ML (ML too). The story only goes round and round between ML and FL because there is no good communication between the two of them. The story is too monotonous and not very interesting in my opinion because there are many low rated dramas that have better and more exciting stories than this. I only watched this drama until episode 6 because I couldn't continue until the end because I felt bored. Overall I give this drama a 4.Vond je deze recentie nuttig?
