It’s Always the Quiet Ones: When the Weather is Fine and A Piece of Your Mind

This transition from winter to spring isn’t all sunshine and cherry blossoms, it can bring anxiety alongside with anticipation. The Spring of 2020 (one that will likely go down as one of the hardest for the entire world in recent memory) brought the release of two quiet and meditative dramas. Keeping viewer interest is sometimes a challenge with slower plots but the payoff can be quite exceptional if the story is accessible and the writers credit their audience’s intelligence. It is a delicate balance. I have decided to review these dramas together because one is an exceedingly well-done quiet drama and the other has garnered some well-earned contempt (from me in particular but also from kdrama fans!).