once upon a small town was my wanted break from stressful dramas, it was short and sweet, filled with greenery and small town plots, in general, can really fill your heart up, but I can't help but think about how the plot, setting, and characters could have created something more.
the drama starts off with Choo Young Woo's character visiting a small village while joy's character is sort of like the backbone of the village, she goes around helping anyone in need then we have the second male lead played by Baek Sung Cheol, despite contrary opinions, I didn't really find him annoying, I found him rather sweet but they dragged the love triangle too long, dragged the romance and that resulted in a lot of filler and cliche episodes in between when they should have explored the leads characters emotions and situations more. The drama had a lot of possible storylines that they could have explored more and made it more interesting so I was kind of disappointed when they didn't.

I would recommend it if you're not looking for anything extraordinary, it's a cliche love triangle plot and romance between a small-town girl and a boy who comes from the city.