[2023 Year in Review] Eight recollections over 12 months

[2023 Year in Review] Eight recollections over 12 months

by Visitor Beanie

By: @jerrykuvira

Once I look again to the dramas that aired this 12 months, it’s fraught with largely displeasure, betrayals, and disappointments. However there have been a choose few dramas that made the primary quarter of the 12 months a not-an-entirely salty expertise (i.e., Recipe for Farewell and Company). In salty 12 months I additionally discovered sweetness, I discovered reminders, and I discovered classes which I’d like to share.

1. A lesson in love and loss (Recipe for Farewell)
When Recipe for Farewell started airing, I anticipated the perfect, and it gave me extra. For a drama that’s centered across the moments earlier than the ultimate goodbye, it gave a lesson: in instances of want, we will step up and be the form of particular person folks want us to be. And that was precisely what Kang Chang-wook did. From a person who was teetering on divorce, he grew to become a person whose bond together with his spouse strengthened in her last moments. From a person who had no kitchen information, he grew to become a person who had in-depth information of nutritious and scrumptious meals. And that supplied me a lesson in love and in loss.
 
2. A reminder in enjoying company ball (Company)
Of all the company dramas I watched this 12 months, Company taught me quite a bit. One of many reminders was what reward to get for many who have all of it — similar to Go Ah-in was questioning what precisely to offer to the VC Group chairman that would depart an impression. When she went for getting him cream buns, I knew she had made the best selection – it was one thing he appreciated, however his social standing prevented him from having fun with freely. It was one thing that wouldn’t make him really feel like he needed to repay the reward, however he positively is aware of he’s going to reciprocate.

 
3. A lesson to be open with my partner (Trolley)
Keep integrity. Preserve it to the tip. It’s okay to have variations in tastes and needs or for preferences to vary. However it’s of utmost significance that I’m open about these items in order to not let my partner suppose she’s been dwelling a lie with me. It was a shock in Trolley that of all of the issues to cover from his spouse, Nam Joong-do by no means let her know that he drinks espresso. As we realized from this drama, betrayal will be birthed from seemingly mundane particulars like this, as a result of it units a present of distrust into movement.

 
4. A reminder to not deter (Alchemy of Souls 2)
Within the second at the start was about to crash and burn [SPOILER ALERT!], Park Jin’s phrases expressed one thing now we have heard in dramaland through the years: “Evil all the time does what it needs with out ever stopping. However why is it that advantage all the time must show itself over and over?” He then proceeds to sacrifice his life to cease the unhealthy guys. As Alchemy of Souls 2 confirmed within the minutes that adopted that iconic assertion, we should not maintain again from pursuing advantage despite the fact that it isn’t straightforward.

 
5. A lesson in style (Crash Course in Romance)
It takes a substantial amount of error and unhealthy decisions earlier than I’ll say “your wardrobe is whack.” Whereas it was clear to me that Lee Da-hee had probably the most mistaken wardrobe decisions this 12 months, I didn’t suppose I’d lastly agree with Beanies about Nam Haeng-sun’s coat/cardigan decisions. After placing on that specific coat that would home a billion engagement rings and a thousand Chi-yeol heads, I positively knew what not to take dwelling in Crash Course in Romance’s wardrobe classes.

 
6. A lesson in communication (Strangers Once more)
Some irreconcilable variations wouldn’t be so irreconcilable if solely the {couples} had communicated. Whereas Go Eun-beom and Oh Ha-ra had totally different tastes, I felt they’d have been extra in sync with one another if that they had voiced how a lot their decisions mattered to them as a substitute of preserving mum. If you understand your important different doesn’t like one thing which you’ll’t quit, focus on it intimately as a substitute ready for the opposite to yield or need out. Even after they each stopped being Strangers Once more, they went again to being strangers once more — as a result of this time, they solely talked about the issue, they didn’t discuss the issue by.

 
7. A reminder concerning the ripple results of decisions (Name It Love)
Our actions have an effect on different folks whether or not we prefer it or not, and the errors of the mother and father in Name It Love made a love borne out of revenge right into a forbidden tryst. The alternatives their mother and father made created a collection of unhealthy outcomes for his or her youngsters — Shim Woo-joo deliberately put herself in hurt’s manner, and Dong-jin’s mom’s actions affected his personal romantic relationship in bitter methods. Fortunately, the youngsters determined to not proceed the ripple results of their mother and father’ decisions, ending the cycle.
 
8. A reminder that life doesn’t all the time supply second probabilities (Good Marriage Revenge)
Not like the leads of Good Marriage Revenge who received their second probabilities after kissing life goodbye, it jogged my memory that actual life gained’t give that choice. Is there one thing I wish to attain? Seize it as a substitute of enjoying cover and search. Do I wish to put a hoop on her finger, however I can’t get to a hoop store by the subsequent minute? Make a makeshift ring out of flowers. Act quick since you may not get a second likelihood like Search engine optimization Do-gook did.

The teachings are over. The 12 months is over. And whereas many of the dramas this 12 months have been a supply of complications, I used to be blessed with a choose few that made the wrongs of the 12 months not as salty. Right here is to wanting ahead to a different eventful Okay-drama 12 months.

 
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