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Netflix K-drama When Life Gives You Tangerines midseason recap: poignant period drama
This touching story of Jeju islanders plays out over decades as urbanisation and modernisation change their worlds
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Lead cast: IU, Park Bo-gum, Moon So-ri, Park Hae-joon
Following its rapturously received opening episodes, When Life Gives You Tangerines continues its emotional journey following the rich and complicated lives of a pair of hardy lovebirds on South Korea’s Jeju island.
They are played by IU (My Mister) and Park Bo-gum (Record of Youth) in their youth and Moon So-ri (Queenmaker) and Park Hae-joon (The World of the Married) in their later years.
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The story of Oh Ae-sun (IU/Moon) and Yang Gwan-sik (Park/Park) stretches from the 1950s to the 21st century, but despite the many ordinary events it chronicles, this is far from being a conventional tale.
That comes down in part to how the story is told. Writer Lim Sang-choon does not follow Ae-sun and Gwan-sik’s lives in a straight line.
Much like Pachinko, another big-budget, cross-generational melodrama, her series cuts between different periods of their lives, building a slice-of-life drama. Each piece has been cut at a different angle but they all belong to the same rich cake.
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