Jamila Surpris

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BORING! (Read if you want a deep dive). I did feel a lot of connection with the elderly charectars, who are all famous in their own right for consistent incredible acting (especially character Gam-Ri). That's why I gave it 2 stars and the 3rd star goes for including a queer character (🚨🚨 SPOILER ALERT 🚨🚨) even though she ends up alone. This show is serially boring. Things happen because things happen. We're all waiting for the "will they won't they? Friends to lovers" cliche and when it finally hits, it leaves so much to desired. There's no real tension, fear of loss or lifelong commitment needed to convince that the ending (marriage) is realistic. All of the charectars would have been better just staying as friends, but it feels like they all just got together because they stopped looking for better (especially the friend and the cop, that was stupid AF) 😅. If Korean media wasn't so homophobic (I know they tried, but they don't want to get any strikes), the pairings would have been enormously better as Du-Sik and Seong-hyun instead of Du-Sik and Hye-Jin. Those two men had way better chemistry, similar interests, clashed in interesting ways, and more personality together than Du-Sik with Hye-Jin. She was just boring and a lifeless character development that added nothing to the town or story. The neighbors never understood her and always tried to change her. She could rarely ever just be without judgement even when the neighbors in the show deserved way more side eyes than her and rarely was able to stand up for herself. I'm still upset that they left the lesbian woman, Cho-Hee, all alone. Like dang.... Not even another potential lesbian crush, a straight girl crush? Something! And when she heard Nam-Sook and Hwa-Jung talking in the fish shop, and hopped inside to join the chatting in the last episode, and Hwa-Jung got a call from her man and just sprinted out of that dang store to meet him, that somehow-renewed-but-boring old husband, at his beckoning call like she hasn't consistently seen him for the whole lifespan of her child just sent me!! i just could NOT. i could not. They really said, no gay rights. It's not any of the actors fault for their lacking characters though, everyone sincerely acted their roles excellently, it's just the writers who completely sanitized the romantic intimacy and everything that could've been with this show (save the elderly, they were absolutely excellent). I think the trend of shows involving discussion of trauma and childhood wounds is good, but superficial. In the end of the show, Du-Sik is all better about all the stuff he went through. I mean he was wrongly blamed for 1 persons death, another's attempted su!cide and felt responsible for his parents' deaths??? And he's just okay? Is he okay? That man was on meds for the trauma, but talking about it with one woman changed him for life? Hell nah. Anyways... If you like food, cute moments, beautiful scenery, a mid soundtrack, and hate living in the city, this background-music type of show will fit the bill for you!