Jen Peterson

I write in gratitude for all who are connected to this difficult but healing story. Thank you.

I found this by accident when it was on netflix. It is a curious study - as when I watch it - it really helps me calm, regulate and have hope. The means where the drama is constructed is interesting but also strangely healing. I find it intriguing as a television form. The location is at the edge of the border between north and south korea and the means in which north korea features into the storyline is moving. But the story also fun, with some light comedic moments. The location has a lot of nature and it works in the show well. It is really used beautifully as part of the story. the village relevant is in light contrast to profit driven city of Seoul nearby. The community starts off as very alienated from one another, and how they find their way to leaving that alienation and being willing to heal and be in community is simple, and moving. I found all the characters very well cast- each has their own way of being wounded. Some do damage with their wounds that seems very recognizable as a people one encounters in life - their thawing is great to watch and sometimes I really learned from their courage. I do not want you to get the impressing that this is syrupy and sweet. It just does a good job of being present to pain and then healing that comes from the right attention to pain. It also imagines that community can happen - and in our alienated world - that is something. I am grateful for this series and rewatch at times. I honor all the actors and other members of the production crew who created something so simple, compelling and helpful to watch. Thank you.

This is an amazing story. Art. What stories are for. Beautifully well cast. I was profoundly moved by all of it. It would be well to watch it first before sharing it with children, it is a tough storyline. I was moved by each character - they lingered, returning to my thoughts well after the story was done. But most especially for me, I keep returning to Rosie. Zozo's story is so piercing.

This is somehow a thoughtful and funny response to the crazy US world we are in. I found it tremendously funny, smart and therapeutic. These characters are all caught in a corporatized world that has already imploded because of its failure to come close to utilizing almost everything their employees have to offer as humans. It so resembles the world many Americans are caught in. The breakdown that ensues speaks to the weird fundamentalism that has arisen around us as an attempt to stabilize things - but functions in a terribly corrupt form - through profound ugliness and unkindness. Ugliness is pervasive and everywhere as the series starts and frames the means whereby the character's world realigns itself-often through simple weird moments as flawed humans stop trying to rely on false bravado and chose a more simple courage and real kindness and connection. This is sometimes uncanny how it plays out and is occasionally profound. I really loved it. It is also really nice to see Melissa McCartney and Yanic Trusdale work together again and I loved him as an angel- so unexpectedly both brave and grouchy - bringing these together - as we might need to in our times to make ourselves do what is needed. I also loved the other angel who is almost always but not quite a failure due to his reoccurring re-confrontation with his obsession with action through paperwork - true to so many figures I know in the real world right now, including myself. Thanks to all who created and thought of this - I found it wonderfully fun, deliciously confusing and wacky and in the end helpful.