When life gives you 🍋🍋, Hmm..What should one really do?
When life gives you 🍋🍋, Hmm..What should one really do?
Where to begin? Where indeed?
This post is my heartfelt and sincere adoration and appreciation for a K-drama. Yes, you read that right. A K-drama.
The show which made me, a person who wouldn't normally react to fictional visuals on TV, who would downplay intense scenes as a mere show to attract viewers, experience such highs and lows with the actors that I truly forgot it was acting.
Honestly, I experienced emotions I didn’t know I was capable of. It all felt so real, I might as well have been living it with them. I understood. I felt. I knew what it was like to go through the things they did.
Did I pique your interest with all this high praise?
Curious about the name of this epic masterpiece?
Drumroll…
It’s called "When Life Gives You Tangerines."
This is my small way of showing deep respect and gratitude to everyone who made this possible: the writers, the cast, the crew, and the people behind the scenes. Every single person who brought this story to life with such perfection. I consider myself lucky for having watched it and for somehow getting my parents to watch some of the crucial moments with me. It felt so much nicer when all of us were deeply engrossed in the storytelling and the plot.
Honestly, no movie or show I’ve seen in any language or format has ever come close to making me feel what this drama did.
And most unexpectedly, it made me feel something deeply personal.
It made me feel connected to my parents and family in a way I didn’t see coming.
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| They're a kind of family too, in my opinion |
I love this drama so much. There’s absolutely no other way for me to express how I feel about it.
In a time when people lead such isolated, self-absorbed lives, it made me feel warm and reminded me just how beautiful life can be.
It made me laugh, it made me cry, and it made me feel a range of emotions I never even knew I had in me.
This multi-generational story was touching in ways that felt heartfully endearing. In a world where crime and horror are so often glorified, this felt like a gift to humanity. A story that doesn’t just entertain but inspires. It reminds us of what we should be striving for.
This is what families should be like. This is what humanity should be like.
Geum Myeong’s parents reminded me so much of my own, especially in how they still see her as their little girl, and how the environment they created helped her grow into such a compassionate, kind, and thoughtful person.
The boat scene with her dad during the sunrise in Episode 12, and the moment where they step out and walk holding hands and Bu Sang Gil feels so jealous of them…
That moment with her mom when she was a child, when Ae-Sun says she’s her best friend in the whole wide world…Those moments hit me so hard. They mirrored memories from my own childhood in a way I never expected. I've truly never felt so personally connected to fictional characters before.
Parents do really struggle and sacrifice so much, don't they? And it's amazing to see their children realize the affection and love they've showered on them and try to reciprocate that towards the end in this show. It's definitely made me smile realizing how connected I am with mine.
And the last few episodes had me crying ugly. And that has never happened before.
This is coming from someone who’s watched so many shows and films across languages and genres.
But this one? This one was different.
I felt like I was on that journey with them...through the years, through the heartbreaks and milestones, through everything life threw their way. And somehow, they still managed to carry on with grace, love, and dignity. Somehow, they found those moments that made everything worthwhile. The ones which made the tangerines taste sweeter as time flew by and memories were in the making.
There’s no doubt in my mind: this series will stay close to my heart forever.
It was so raw. So beautiful and so real that I wish it didn't end and I could hold onto the warmth it gave me.
And if there’s one thing it’s taught me, it’s that life becomes all the more bearable. No, wonderful and so much more interesting when you’re surrounded by kind, good-natured, kindred souls.
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