1 Season
16 Episode
When the Weather Is Fine - Season 1 Episode 1 Totally Blowing It
I was in winter, when I met the spring-like you.
After escaping her life in Seoul, Mok Hae-won returns to her hometown. She runs into Im Eun-seop, an old classmate who now owns a bookstore.
- Year: 2020
- Country: South Korea
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: JTBC
- Keyword: poetry, bookshop, based on novel or book, winter, province, village, healing, personal diary, romantic drama, swoonworthy
- Director: Han Ji-seung, Han Ga-ram
- Cast: Seo Kang-joon, Park Min-young, Moon Jeong-hee, Lee Jae-wook, Lim Se-mi, Kim Hwan-hee
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I liked the stories involving the female lead, her mother and her aunt, they kept you anticipating for more. However, the other side plots were really not that interesting to follow and ended up being just a white noise. From reading the synopsis and watching its earlier parts, we got to know what the female was going through and why she moved away from the city. Clearly, she had issues she needed to work on, however, despite her issues with trusting people and being hurt by others, her romance went against her character. She had a very easy and quick romance with minimum communication for a drama that meant to be driven by dialogue. She started a relationship in a short period of time before scratching the surface of her issues. It would've been much better to replace the romance with the people of her town, it would have had created a much better environment to work on her issues. In fact, the resolution and progress on her issues ended up being half-hearted, not much was accomplished by the end. On another note, I didn't like that the characters past stories were based in high-school, there was a gap that couldn't be translated to their adulthood life. If they were to switch the past events and have it be based in university for example, I think that would create a better connection, relatability and meaning to their adulthood issues.