This is another one of my “I’m bored and looking through Netflix right now” watches. It was pretty satisfying, I ended up watching the entire drama of the course of a couple of days, since the pacing wasn’t too bad and I felt compelled to watch through the episodes. There were a couple of points in which I did start pressing on the fast-forward button because some scenes I was getting a little bored with, but there weren’t too many.
I will say first that I think that Jang Seung-jo as the character of Lee Joon was the best performance and the best character arc in the drama. If this was just Lee Joon’s drama, I would not have been mad at all. In fact, I would rejoice. But more on that later.
And suddenly Teo Yoo was in everything that I was looking up to watch. And then the first drama I watched after that movie? He’s in it. I thought this was so funny in the moment, but he’s not in the complete drama (avoiding spoilers here).
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The most interesting aspect of this drama to me was that the female lead, Moon Cha-young, was a professional chef who was trained in a Parisian culinary school. She was inspired to have this dream by her childhood love, Lee Kang, whose mother owned the lovely Bada Sikdang (Sea Restaurant) on the water. They live on the seaside, but, one day, Lee Kang and his mother disappear and move to Seoul, much to Cha-young’s chagrin. Why you may ask? Apparently, he’s the son of a dead chaebol and now his rich grandmother has come to collect him in order to train him to be the surgeon to inherit the family hospital.
Cha-young never forgets him and years later, they cross paths again. When she’s dating his best friend. And then she runs away to Greece, they meet again, and then they meet again in Korea after she starts working at a hospice and he is transferred there.
There are quite a few themes throughout this drama. One of which is the thought of enjoying life while you’re alive; our main characters work at a hospice where everyone is slowly dying one by one. And it is through their stories and simple joys that we learn the importance of the minor things in life; often, these characters ask for one little thing before they’re dying that they can’t get, like jjajangmyeon or raspberries rice cakes. They are denied these pleasures, and then they die. I think this really humanizes the dying and gives them more personality outside of the fact of “oh I’m dying, ” when in the world we reduce people to mere concepts or how they died.
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We also touch upon the sensation of brotherhood and competition, as Lee Kang and Lee Joon are constantly beating each other and absolutely hate each other. Lee Joon’s mother is also more competent than her husband, but because she married into the chaebol family, she is seen as inferior and is thus not treated as well.
I feel like there’s so much more to these stories, and the romance just isn’t the true story. We have the hospice world, the chaebol world, and then even the trauma Moon Cha-young faces. Her time in Greece is cut short. This drama doesn’t cover enough for me, and the story that is focuses on isn’t the real gem for me. For some, it might be great about how it’s a romance and two traumatized people come together, but the hospice and struggles everyone else is going through combined with their trauma is what interests me.
Lee Joon was the most interesting character to me. The main two leads, the main couple, don’t really grow as much as people as he does throughout the drama. I also absolutely despised the acting of Moon Cha-young; she often felt wooden and hollow as a person because the actress felt unemotive. Lee Joon, however, goes through all the emotions. He completely turns a new leaf over by the end of the drama, but then we don’t really know what happens to him or anyone else at the end. It just ends. Which I found to be quite jarring. Also what happened to the girl he loved? He just suddenly decides she’s unworthy to be in his existence after she tries to kill herself, which I honestly thought was pretty fucked up that he calls her worthless after she tries to die. That’s gaslighting.
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I honestly would have preferred if there was no romance in this drama at all. Lee Kang only seems to decide to love Moon Cha-young after he realizes he’s the girl from his childhood, and suddenly, then, he has a crush on her? Just no. The entire first half to 3/4 of the drama just comes across as unrequited love from Moon Cha-young, and then there are all these situations where they’re forced to come across each other. At the end of the day, the romance feels strained more than natural because then it just plummets back into the romance aspect in the final arc of the drama.
It’s an okay drama at the end of the day. There’s a lot of sad moments, but also at the same time, they’re bittersweet. It’s a hospice, so, naturally, there’s going to be some deaths. There are hospital scenes, hospice scenes, Greek scenes, everything under the sun. But, at the same time, if you love food, then you’re going to be seeing a lot of great eats throughout this show. I’ve been inspired to cook since watching it! All in all, just an okay drama.
I honestly would have preferred if there was no romance in this drama at all. Lee Kang only seems to decide to love Moon Cha-young after he realizes he’s the girl from his childhood, and suddenly, then, he has a crush on her? Just no. The entire first half to 3/4 of the drama just comes across as unrequited love from Moon Cha-young, and then there are all these situations where they’re forced to come across each other. At the end of the day, the romance feels strained more than natural because then it just plummets back into the romance aspect in the final arc of the drama.
It’s an okay drama at the end of the day. There’s a lot of sad moments, but also at the same time, they’re bittersweet. It’s a hospice, so, naturally, there’s going to be some deaths. There are hospital scenes, hospice scenes, Greek scenes, everything under the sun. But, at the same time, if you love food, then you’re going to be seeing a lot of great eats throughout this show. I’ve been inspired to cook since watching it! All in all, just an okay drama.
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