What a view | Was it Love? Netflix K-drama is a rewarding romantic excursion into the Korean film industry
- Song Ji-hyo plays a single mother and aspiring movie producer who has never given up on her dream
- She keeps several old flames alive, each prepared to help her in her hour of need – but does she actually need them?
Love’s labours are never lost on Korean television creatives, who stand ever ready to reinterpret the entertainment world’s hardest-working four-letter word.
Was it Love? (Netflix, series one now streaming) is another rewarding excursion into the world of that slippery emotion, enjoyed and endured here by diligent single mother and movie aficionado Noh Ae-jeong (Song Ji-hyo), who, despite a succession of crushing setbacks, has never relinquished her dream of becoming a film producer.
Having scraped by with a string of dead-end jobs, indefatigable Ae-jeong edges closer to her goal by becoming a film-company book-keeper, only to find her delinquent boss has fled and left her with a seemingly unpayable debt now being called in by a gangland moneylender.
But wait! Ae-jeong, it seems, has the power to inspire devotion in a whole bunch of old flames, each prepared to help in her hour of need. So which of the four, possibly five, likely lads will she choose this time round? More pertinently, does she need any of them anyway – even those now film-world famous?
It’s a rocky road to happiness, but the point is never to abandon your dearest ambitions, because you just can’t tell where an old, scribbled movie contract, liberally stained with food, might take you.