What a view | Netflix K-drama Do Do Sol Sol La La Sol: a riches-to-rags romantic comedy

If music be the food of love, declared William Shakespeare … then we should all be watching Do Do Sol Sol La La Sol (Netflix).

Series one will be available to binge in its 16-episode entirety from November 26, by which time we’ll know if reluctant piano prodigy Gu Ra-ra has found the real thing and chosen wisely between her two devoted suitors.

The Bard’s observation wasn’t, in fact, made wholly in support of romance and its contradictory emotions. Nor is the route to happiness a straightforward one for Ra-ra (played by Go A-ra), paved as it is, from her childhood to her mid-20s, by family tragedy, recital catastrophe, nuptial humiliation and yet more family tragedy.

After that lot, things will be sure to pick up. But our heroine is left reeling when she discovers that her wealthy father has gone broke. She then finds herself royally swindled out of a hefty down payment on a flat.

Leaving the swanky Gangnam district of Seoul and heading to the coast – the better to avoid some uncompromising creditors – she crashes her car and suffers injuries that imperil her keyboard career. Could one existence be any more discordant? Have the series’ writers front-loaded Ra-ra’s setback catalogue to make any future redemption taste that much sweeter? Anything goes in a romantic drama-comedy with disaster characteristics.