![]() It’s all hyper-entertaining and enchantingly weird. ![]() So far I’ve watched a Freaky Friday-type body swap drama, another where a publicist falls in love with an AI hologram, and one featuring a circus ringmaster and a guy who spends half his time in a fugue state believing he’s a heroic cartoonist. Oh, and I’ve learned that in the world of Korean melodramas, Crash Landing on You’s storyline ranks as positively plausible. ![]() Other tropes I’m noticing: forgotten chance meetings, dramatic piggyback rides, and at least one scene per show where the heroine gets totally juiced on beer. Having now crammed myself full of Korean melodramas during isolation, I can see this is a feature of the genre. When I first binged Crash Landing, I was new to K-drama and took this just as a neat plot point. We also wind up with a secondary set of lovers (this time a Northern girl and Southern boy) whose fates are entwined with our main couple. But it is brave and optimistic in its portrayal of the North. And the chorus of village women who jostle for status and eventually accept Se-ri into their girl gang, even though they think she’s probably a spy.Ĭrash Landing is hardly an outlier. There’s Captain Ri’s troop of loyal, loveable soldiers, who bravely follow him all the way into the heart of evil capitalism (Seoul). A big part of the fun comes from the supporting characters, offering comedy and pathos and the occasional comforting bowl of ramen to our star-crossed lovers. But Crash Landing is much richer and weirder than that. But will fate and geopolitics allow them to live happily ever after? They’re torn apart and put back together and fall into an impossible love. They discover each other’s tragic histories. They suffer through increasingly dangerous scrapes. As is the way of these things, they are first irritated by each other, then fascinated. Photograph: tvN/AFP via Getty ImagesĬaptain Ri is a self-sufficient, military Mr Darcy to Se-ri’s spunky and blithe corporate princess. Son Ye-jin as Yoon Se-ri in Crash Landing On You. ![]()
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