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Our Beloved Summer korean drama review
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Our Beloved Summer
6 people found this review helpful
by Humorix
Feb 1, 2022
16 of 16 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 6.5
Story 7.0
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 7.5
Rewatch Value 2.0

A SERIES WITH A GREAT START & PROMISE BUT SEEMS TO RUN OUT ON STEAM

I can't tell you how delightful the start of the series is. It's like a 'Vantage Point' treatment which onion skins the story. Everything which you saw in the last episode seems to take on a completely new context and hue in the next episode on the basis of what is revealed. Given that it shows no great thrill or disaster or violence or any of the trope high drama, the almost soft grip the story gets on you as the viewer is hard to describe. Well that is at least till the 8th-9th episode. Each week I'd be immersed in the characters hoping, wanting to know more about what happens to them. All this goes on until the 11th episode. When suddenly, the story, which seemed like some smooth champagne till now, loses ALL fizz and then almost becomes long forgotten soda water. I am left wondering, did they change script writers midstream? Or did the script writer suddenly feel lost? But there seems to be a qualitative gulf between how the story started and how it ends. It could have been brilliant, but it isn't. The actors though put up a commendable performance. One leaves the series with. lament of all the potential lost.
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