For a change, a show with no big names, no villains, no deep, dark secrets. Just lots of wonderful
Newbies Choo Young-woo and Baek Sung-chul do decent jobs of Ji-yul the vet and Sang-hyun the peach-grower. Ji-yul’s reluctance to stay in the countryside and his eventual settling in are nicely portrayed. Sang-hyun as a considerate, honest friend and as a budding farming business guy comes across refreshingly.
Among the minor male characters, Ji-yul’s Seoul boss Yun-hyung, played by Na Chul, is funny, and the policemen are also sufficiently entertaining.
Unfortunately, the ladies compare rather dismally. Joy (of Red Velvet) wouldn’t be considered a big name in acting. She is rather two-dimensional playing Ja-yeong and the other ladies are practically caricatures. The only female character who is a real person is Choi Min the jealous ex-girlfriend (played by Ha Yul-ri, also a newbie).
The picturesque scenes and the pets make the uneven acting and characterisation at least a little easier to stomach. Must have been quite a job filming with the different animals. Also, both Ji-yul and Sang-hyun have a guileless-ness and sincerity that kind of make up for the mediocre female characters.
Once again, we have the ‘childhood connection’ storyline. It was most unconvincing for Ja-yeong to hold out over the years, yearning to see again the boy she played with once upon a summer, even though he hadn’t said a word then. Must have been because of the puppy he gave her before he left! I felt sorry for Sang-hyun, who was by her the whole time but would always only be ‘friend’. At least his fruit business flourishes!
I’d have liked to see the grandpa since it does seem like he and Ji-yul are close. Why doesn’t he appear? Also, who was that man who took Ji-yul back to Seoul that summer, how did he grow up on his own, and how did he talk again?
12 episodes, kakaoTV
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