Navillera
나빌레라Checked and re-read
A 70-year-old retired postman decides to learn ballet and the show treats the decision with complete seriousness. Song Kang and Park In Hwan play the generational friendship with a gentleness that never tips into sentimentality, and the show is smart enough to give both of them a full arc rather than making the elder a prop for the younger. It is bittersweet where it needs to be, and it is unusually honest about what a body at seventy will and will not do. An 8.9 on MDL and one of the rare times the aggregate undersells the show.
A 70-year-old with a dream and a 23-year-old with a gift lift each other out of harsh realities and rise to the challenge of becoming ballerinos.
Hooks early Episode 2, the first proper lesson. It is a two-hander from there.
Where we recommend it
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Recommended alongside
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