When the Weather is Fine (2020) [/]
Jun 12 2024
When the Weather is Fine is a Korean drama/romance in the standard 16 1-hour episodes format.
Cellist Mok Hae-won (Park Min-young) returns to her small hometown for the winter and falls for the quiet and enigmatic Im Eun-seob (Seo Kang-joon) who has secretly liked her since high school.
This is the winter that her former best friend Kim Bo-young (Im Se-mi) tries to patch up their differences though their rift is much deeper than either thinks and it takes on and off through most of the series to resolve to a truce.
Then there's Hae-won's aunt Sim Myeong-yeo (Moon Jeong-hee) and mom Myeong-joo (Jin Hee-kyung). Mom murdered dad, who had been abusing mom. But the truth is worse and aunt has been self-destructing for a decade.
For Eun-seob there is also family drama -- his father was a vagrant living on the mountain and raised Eun-seob there until dad disappeared leaving Eun-seob to be adopted by a kind family but always seen as the "mountain boy" by the other kids. Eun-seob is very much a loner but has depth -- he runs a book store, holds book club meetings, and is quite literate.
Anyway, there are a lot of issues for the main characters to work out which kind of drags down the romance part. It seems like our two protagonists finally get together for two or three episodes before more drama breaks them up as Hae-won returns to Seoul leaving Eun-seob behind and then they come back together in the last bit of the last episode.
Park Min-young is fairly good. Saw her in Her Private Life (2019) where she plays an energetic fan girl. Here the character is quite reserved though unlike Eun-seob she holds all her emotions inside rather than being kind of indifferently emotionless. I also love Eun-seob's younger step-sister Im Hwi (Kim Hwan-hee), a high-schooler who talks a mile a minute and crushes hard on the top student of the school.
Overall a bit too much drama and the last couple of episodes are bit muddled. At the end of watching it's not like I was satisfied but there was 10 episodes in the middle when it was good.
Cellist Mok Hae-won (Park Min-young) returns to her small hometown for the winter and falls for the quiet and enigmatic Im Eun-seob (Seo Kang-joon) who has secretly liked her since high school.
This is the winter that her former best friend Kim Bo-young (Im Se-mi) tries to patch up their differences though their rift is much deeper than either thinks and it takes on and off through most of the series to resolve to a truce.
Then there's Hae-won's aunt Sim Myeong-yeo (Moon Jeong-hee) and mom Myeong-joo (Jin Hee-kyung). Mom murdered dad, who had been abusing mom. But the truth is worse and aunt has been self-destructing for a decade.
For Eun-seob there is also family drama -- his father was a vagrant living on the mountain and raised Eun-seob there until dad disappeared leaving Eun-seob to be adopted by a kind family but always seen as the "mountain boy" by the other kids. Eun-seob is very much a loner but has depth -- he runs a book store, holds book club meetings, and is quite literate.
Anyway, there are a lot of issues for the main characters to work out which kind of drags down the romance part. It seems like our two protagonists finally get together for two or three episodes before more drama breaks them up as Hae-won returns to Seoul leaving Eun-seob behind and then they come back together in the last bit of the last episode.
Park Min-young is fairly good. Saw her in Her Private Life (2019) where she plays an energetic fan girl. Here the character is quite reserved though unlike Eun-seob she holds all her emotions inside rather than being kind of indifferently emotionless. I also love Eun-seob's younger step-sister Im Hwi (Kim Hwan-hee), a high-schooler who talks a mile a minute and crushes hard on the top student of the school.
Overall a bit too much drama and the last couple of episodes are bit muddled. At the end of watching it's not like I was satisfied but there was 10 episodes in the middle when it was good.