How to write a review for your favorite drama? And the reason I feel challenged is not because I feel I will write biased commentary, but because I wonder how to be truthful and accurate about such quality material? I just highly recommend this drama. Just go for it. Don’t read any more reviews or spoilers, just dive in a beautiful and tender love-story. It’s just... intense.

Crash Landing on You main leads are Hyun Bin and Son Ye-jin. That’s a perfectly heart-throbbing choice for itself, but their looks and acting look the best here. Both their characters - Captain Ri and Yoon Se-ri - are unforgettable, interesting and leading people in their fields, while also sharing a soft and very funny side underneath. They are so protective of each other, it’s just too touching. Actually, most characters and their human connections in this drama are very richly developed and the second main leads - Kim Jung-hyun and Seo Hi-jye - are a great example of that. Their character development in the second half of the story were surprisingly moving and heart-warming, which almost made me fell like the writing on the main leads was getting behind it.

About the writing - it’s the most skilled drama writing I’ve watched so far. There are so many profound moments, the humor is spontaneously funny - get ready to have lots of laughs with so many characters, specially the ducklings, the love details are so gently created. I did felt there was an overuse of the flashbacks and a sort of artificial insistence on some fate lines though.

I chose to let the political aspects as only background as I believe it was intended, but it took me some time to get used to the way North Korea was portrayed. We are mostly uninformed about the country’s situation and people’s lives there, so I felt the storyline had hints of propaganda at times - NK as a land of oppression, starvation and corruption, with its citizens sometimes being portrayed as clueless and behind schedule. Opposed to that, we see the freedom and wealth in SK. I was surprised to hear it was accused of romanticizing life in NK - I wasn’t surprised when I read who said it though. On the other hand, we also see such a sensible portrayal of the human relationships there, carefully researched aesthetics and life blossoming in a very human way - the opposite of everything I mentioned before.

That being said, I can tell you that this drama is just a basket of special fond memories you will delight yourself gaining if you watch. The music, the landscapes, the characters, the plot. I know I will rewrite this one day, by now, I just want to endorse the love so everyone is aware of how amazing this drama is ❤️