Our Blues review
우리들의 블루스Checked and re-read
A Jeju Island anthology where every chapter is a different couple or family and the connective tissue is the island itself. Noh Hee Kyung writes middle-aged characters with a patience the genre almost never grants them, and the ensemble, particularly Lee Byung Hun and Shin Min Ah, does career-best work. Twenty episodes is a lot, the anthology format means some chapters land harder than others, and the teen pregnancy arc is polarising. Warm, melancholic, and unconcerned with being exciting.
Romance is sweet and bitter — and life riddled with ups and downs — in multiple stories about people who live and work on bustling Jeju island.
Slow start Episode 3 closes the first chapter and sells the anthology format.
Where we recommend it
On 19 lists- Dramas like Dear My FriendsClosest
- Dramas like LiveClosest
- Dramas like Welcome to Samdal-riClosest
- Dramas like My Liberation NotesStrong thread
- Dramas like When Life Gives You TangerinesStrong thread
- Dramas like One Spring NightStrong thread
- Dramas like The Good Bad MotherStrong thread
- Dramas like It's Okay, That's LoveStrong thread
- Dramas like Reply 1988Strong thread
- Dramas like Hometown Cha-Cha-ChaStrong thread
- Dramas like Our Unwritten SeoulStrong thread
- Dramas like Hospital PlaylistSame feeling
Recommended alongside
All dramas →Taken from our own list for Our Blues, in the order we ranked it.
