The opening and ending of this episode are bookended by Woong and Yeon-soo meeting each other outside in the late night. Ostensibly, Yeon-soo is checking up on Woong’s progress for the art he’s agreed to draw. In actuality, she’s concerned about him personally. As usual, “Our Beloved Summer” is compelling in flashback. We find out why Yeon-soo so heartlessly dropped Woong as her boyfriend out of nowhere, and it neatly ties into what we know of her backstory.
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The short of it is, Yeon-soo’s aloofness has always been more calculated than she’s let on. Yeon-soo was raised by her grandmother Ja-kyeong (played by Cha Mi-kyung), and it’s clearly implied that Ja-kyeong did not do a very good job raising her own children, though Yeon-soo loves her very much. To disguse her shame, Yeon-soo consciously gave off an impression of being very proud and too good for other people. It’s as good a way as any to survive high school.
But as an adult this attitude has been quite damaging. Yeon-soo has exactly one friend, the pub owner. And even after five years, Yeon-soo never really opened up to Woong about just how chaotic her home life really was. Yeon-soo was afraid that Woong couldn’t have the life he wanted by staying with her. And in some truly superb irony, Woong interpreted Yeon-soo’s diffident reactions to his expresses life goals completely differently.
Woong thought that Yeon-soo thought that he was being a pathetic loser. So he decided to apply himself and take his art more seriously. So Woong thought he knew why Yeon-soo was breaking up with him, through an assumption she never intended to cultivate. The tragic results now haunt both of them. Woong and Yeon-soo still harbor feelings for one another, yet are forever hamstrung by this miscommunication, pride and prejudice alike still preventing them from correcting it.
That’s the good part of this episode. The problem with this episode, and “Our Beloved Summer” in general, is that the emotional arc of this story is contained almost entirely within flashbacks that take up only about a third of the overall runtime. Everywhere else, “Our Beloved Summer” is just about these incredibly boring dead-end plots. We hardly see anything about the whole live drawing with Noo-ah. None of the documentary stuff matters. NJ is…an idol, and that’s really about it. Woong and Yeon-soo’s relationship is compelling, but not so compelling it can carry the entire drama on its own.
Review by William Schwartz
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“Our Beloved Summer” is directed by Kim Yoon-jin-I, written by Lee Na-eun-I, and features Choi Wooshik, Kim Da-mi, Kim Sung-cheol, Roh Jeong-eui, Ahn Dong-goo, Park Won-sang. Broadcasting information in Korea: 2021/12/06~Now airing, Mon, Tue 22:00 on SBS.
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[HanCinema’s Drama Review] “Our Beloved Summer” Episode 6 (2022/01/03)
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