Você É Minha Primavera (2021)

A heartwarming journey paired with a little suspense

This drama follows the journey of people who have broken pasts, but want to change for the better. Even though unpredicted, unfortunate events can happen, the process in which one heals from it is well captured in this drama.

Story: The story is really well-paced and the plot is a nice slow-burn. The balance between romance, healing, and suspense is well written, and it keeps the story moving. The dialogue is also wonderful. I could listen to Da-jeong and Young-do talk for hours! The relationships in this drama are more mature, as the characters take time to truly understand each other, and learn to take chances since life is short.
Acting: It goes without a doubt that the acting is amazing. Since the cast has so many seasoned actors/actresses, the acting is on point. The actors/actresses convey the characters so well, from the comedic moments to the more sorrowful ones. Seo Hyun-jin's crying scenes are just so heart-wrenching, I found my self tearing up along with her.
Music: The music is this drama is really good! My personal favorite is Still Wonder by Ha Hyunsang, it was stuck in my head for days! The music for the more emotional scenes are wonderful as well!
I would definitely recommend watching this if you are looking for a good slow-burn, healing drama!

Leia Mais

Wholesome and Healing Drama

General thoughts:
⋆ Wholesome & Healing drama
⋆ Great Cinematography
⋆ Well written stories with closure for all characters (main & side)
⋆ Amazing acting as the characters had an element of realness to them.

— Love isn't as easy as it seems
⋆ This drama briefly showed the difficulty of "noona" romance & the backlash one would get.
⋆ Obstacles will come in the way, this could be anything but it's how it can be faced together.

— Childhood Trauma and Healing
⋆ Realistic portrayal of how things in our childhood can still hurts us even if we're "older" but it's what we can do to heal our inner child
"Did he have anyone to lean on?"
⋆ It shows to not to be harsh on ourselves for what happened in the past.

— Cinematography
Shoutout to the crew for the beautiful cinematography. The way this was filmed and edited. The focus in the scenes & not cutting scenes quickly made this so relaxing to watch. It feels slow but it's still amazing.

— Overall
It was a beautiful drama that I didn't want to let go. I felt so moved by the story. But I felt somewhat healed. Things I normally wouldn't hear (/read) in a drama were what I saw in YAMS.

Highly Recommend! It may be slow but I just felt relaxed watching it.

Leia Mais

Great Romance Sloppy Thriller

Mixing romance and thriller/crime is very hard to execute in my opinion. To make a great drama you need a balance of elements from both sides or establish the main objective from the beginning and this drama unfortunately failed to accomplish that. The show is meant to be a healing drama and from that aspect it's amazing, I love the side characters especially Ahn Ga Young. The romance between the main leads is so pure and the interactions they have are really relaxing and easy to watch. I also love the ML's interactions with the FL's mother, and I cried during a few of those scenes. However, I did not enjoy the weird tangents this drama tried to go off on. The love "triangle" between (The Vet, The Cafe Owner, and The Boxer) was just really weird and unnecessary. I personally do not have an issue with the Cafe Owner dating the FL brother, but including the Vet & The Boxer just felt forced. Now the bad part, the whole crime segment was so half-assed and there are so many unanswered questions, but it was so boring that I didn't even care that it was left unresolved. I've seen a ton of classic thriller dramas, and I knew to not set my expectations too high, but this was so poorly executed, that I felt like the show would've been an 8/8.5 if that part was cut out. Furthermore, the romance/healing segments were abruptly cut off by scenes from the police station, and the ordering was just terribly off.

Leia Mais

A promising romance with thriller touches that ends in a bit of a disappointment

I don't usually watch dramas that are thriller or police/crime driven plots, tho I do enjoy them, but since Vincenzo and Hyena were the last dramas I watched I was looking for something that wasn't my usual romance, and I thought You Are My Spring would be that good balance between romance and thriller.

I was wrong.

The thing is, the photography, cinematography, acting and editing are delightful to see, and it takes you in from minute 1. However, the writing gets increasingly worse towards the second half and the thriller part of the plot gets completely thrown off. That storyline is, in my opinion, very badly resolved and towards the end completely removed from the main storyline, which made me wonder why even include it. It's like the writers wanted a cheesy romance with a bit of a suspense/psychological thriller touch to but they regretted the idea half way through.

Because of that, the second half becomes more and more boring and what honestly felt more intriguing, what i was truly looking forward too, was something on the thriller side of the plot. But it never came, the way that ends is very unsatisfying.

Meanwhile the romance side becomes increasingly dull, there's nothing to look forward to anymore. Maybe a sex scene (the Korean way but a subtle, elegant, sex scene nonetheless), but they fail to deliver there too.

I feel like I might be being too harsh because I'm salty after having just finished it, but I was truly disappointed, I expected much more from this!!!!

Anyways, I still think it deserves a 7 just because the camera work is wonderful, the acting is quite good too and the storytelling through their editing is one of the most enjoyable I've seen. Sadly, the writing doesn't come through despite all these good in the drama.

I will say, though, that I think their discourse on mental health is very nice and refreshing to see, so the writing did a good job at not portraying psychiatry in a bad light but the opposite, sending a positive and encouraging message instead.

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It's like a beautiful warm Spring arrived after a long harsh and dry Winter

Appreciate how they try to fuse romance and mystery thriller genres. Though the thriller aspect is not perfect / lacking, the first and root reason why the main characters got close is caused by the mystery of the villain.

Both of the main characters sufferings in their childhood and how they are trying to heal from all those dark past is so heartwarming though the process is pretty draggy.

Psychologically, it also reminds us that it's okay to be weak and fragile. Not everyone is able to be as strong and hard as rock. Embrace it and always find a way on how to talk about all of what you feel cause bottling up all those ain't good for your mental.

Leia Mais

Healing drama with a side of murder

You Are My Spring (2021)

Likes
1. I thought the title is deceiving. I was expecting a romcom but this was a healing drama about the leads with lots of traumatic experiences and a side of murder. But in the end i understood why.
2. I loved the leads, both actors were perfectly casted. I laughed at the funny antics, swooned at the romantic scenes and cried at the heartbreaking moments. That rooftop scene when they broke up, that night they cosplayed, when Youngdo finally realized his first love, getting Dr Hallow and Blackfields from the machine, Youngdo in his embarrassingly slick hairstyle and outfit.
3. Also loved their group of friends and how we also got to know their story too. Except Cheoldo and the vet, i wished they explored their story more than Ian Chase one. Ji Seung Hyun was wasted here!!
4. One of the better mother-daughter storylines where the mother was supportive and listened to her daughter.
5. Ahn Gayoung's HELLO catchphrase and her cute romance with Patrick. And Princess of Forever drama.

Dislikes
The whole murder storyline. Up the end I was still confused what really happened to Jeongmin and Ian Chase and who was who in the flashbacks. (Maybe because I wasn't paying attention to the story)

Rating: 8.25/10 (8.5 less 0.25 for the murder storyline)

Leia Mais

I put off watching this one for awhile because of the dumb name. I always tell myself to stop judging dramas by their titles and posters, but I keep doing it.

This is one of the best dramas I’ve seen. Despite having potential for jealousy, petty spite, etc. it avoids all of that and tells a different story of understanding, clarity, and empathy. It also tells multiple stories of personal trauma and healing.
I laughed a lot. I cried a few times. I found all the characters extremely likeable, each had their own personality and were extremely well-written. (Unlike Doom at Your Service where the main lead's story was addictive, but the second lead’s romance was the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen- like watching a different show.) It was really balanced.

It’s a murder mystery/romance/comedy all wrapped up in one. Like other dramas, it takes a couple episodes to set the stage before showing its true quality.

The ending was very fluffy and maybe a little anticlimatic for me, personally, but it wraps up the story well and I didn’t feel like there were any unaddressed plot holes. The one flaw that really threw me off was in the beginning. There’s this stalker guy and while it explains why he does it later on… and why she is susceptible to being lured in by creeps. I don’t think it ever addresses that that shit is creepy and bad no matter what reason. Thankfully, it’s not a big part of the show.

One thing I found unique is that it uses foreshadowing really well to lead the viewer through the story. It doesn’t try to shock you, instead it leads you through this story. Obviously with a few hokey tropes- but uses them adorably. It also breaks some conventions and overused stereotypes.

The whole show is just so cute, and funny, and heartwarming. It’s like snuggling a big fluffy pillow. I want to rewatch it right now!

Leia Mais

loved it

mdl users are giving this drama a lot of bad reviews but for me this was one of the best dramas ive ever watched.
yes, the thriller part of the story is messy and can get quite confusing, it definitely could have been formatted or blended in better with the romance side. but i viewed it as something that kept you on your toes while still enjoying watching the leads fall in love.
the two lead actors did an amazing job in this drama, and their characters' loveline was so cute. their romance was just so beautiful, and both characters helped each other heal. seo hyunjin's acting was on another level.

also none of the side characters bothered me, because usually in every kdrama there's 1 or 2 side characters that i dont like. in this one, each had their own story so i was never annoyed when a character appeared on screen. almost each character learns new ways to heal and deal with their obstacles.

many have said here that this drama was mediocre. but for me, i loved almost every second of it. i loved the interactions between characters, i love the small lessons you learn. i loved watching the healing of these damaged people.

Leia Mais

Big Plans, Poor Execution

I have to admit I was a bit disappointed in this one. I watched several romantic dramas prior to this and felt like I needed something new. Romance and murder without it looking too gloomy? Hell yeah, sign me up!

And to be fair the first episodes actually got me hooked up. I was sceptical at first but it seemed to incorporate the two genres very well...until it didn't. I have no idea what happened but somehow along the way the one drama suddenly became two and running in way too many directions. They desperately tried to make you believe the murder mystery and the romance plot line was still connected but it was just not enough. The creators started focusing on the main couple and the murder solving was pushed aside. Almost as if they got bored of it. Sometimes it went so long without any updates I almost forgot where we left off. It was clear the writers simply bitten more than they could chew.

Introducing so many characters probably wasn't a good idea either. Most of them were interesting but when you put twice as many characters into a regular length drama and try to give each of them some kind of back story, it's bound to be messy. Some story lines were just teased but didn't really happen, some were rushed and some even felt entirely pointless in the end. There were also characters that appeared out of nowhere to serve some purpose and then just disappeared without giving them a second thought. I guess they were needed to drive the story forward but it felt a bit awkward.

That all being sad the cast did a great job (I even cried twice) and as romantic healing drama it delivered. They should have probably just stuck with that. Trying to do something different but not really committing to the "different" part of it definitely wasn't a good choice. It just ended up being all over the place. What a shame...

Leia Mais

Lost interest in the lead characters

A hotel concierge (Kang Da Jeong) and a psychiatrist (Ju Young Do) fall for each other after moving into the same building. First let me start off by saying this show had a great start then fizzled out and I LOVE the Kim Min-Seok - A Butterfly Flew Away song it is so beautiful. The first two episodes draw you in with a murder and a death. The main Character actress Kang Da Jeong is introduce as a woman looking for a new start after a series of failed relationships and we see her traumatic childhood . We then meet Ju Young Do the psychiatrist who works in the building that Kang Da Jeong moves into and works with the police who is investigating the murder that occurred in the building that main characters move in to live and work. I almost felt like it could have been split my Spring into two shows with all the supporting characters' storylines. I was really was more invested in the Actress- Ahn Ga Yeong and The Doctor Ian Chase story lines. There were way way way too many supporting characters for this story and it really distracted me and did not give the main characters time to develop , their connect is just instant. Besides that I thought the show was beautifully shot and it did bring closure to the murder/suicide. I do wish they gave us closure to some of the supporting characters story lines since they introduced us to them; they do hint at the direction some of them go.

Leia Mais

A nice drama to watch when you're just looking for a feel good but not silly drama

A heartwarming and feel good drama for us who don't dig much suspense or zombies. There are huge plot holes in this drama but it is still very likeable.

The best things are the intelligent dialogue, discussions about psychology, movies and books. The main leads are very likeable, and slowly overcoming their painful experiences as their relationship develops.

The murder plot is in key place in the beginning, but somehow mysteriously drops to the background in the second half. We are introduced to new characters in the latter half constantly, and their stories don't add anything to the drama. So many unnecessary characters that only have about 15 mins of screen time. And they key character played by Yoon Park doesn't get enough time so we're left guessing what he really was made of. Villains are brought to the picture, who have not been introduced to the viewer at all.

So, very lacking in plot development but you'll be won over by the MLs beautiful smile! So sympathetic. FL is a good actress without much chemistry (in this or other dramas).

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