Our Blues is one star-studded drama. If you're an avid K-drama viewer, you will notice that most of the casts in this drama are already well-known or big names in the industry. Despite this, I was not too excited to watch this one for the story/plot is not so clear to me but I'm glad that I did! Our Blues actually turned out to be one of my favorite slice-of-life Korean dramas up to date. 

This drama is mainly about the residents of Jeju Island, whose lives are almost connected with everyone, since they've lived there most of their lives. It's considered a life drama for in every episode, they tackle the life story of each one of the drama characters. The different stories shows us relatable scenarios that most of us may have encountered in our own lives. I think it was a good idea to start off the drama with the return of Eun Hee's first love. This episode made me reminisce also the good times of experiencing your first crush or first love. They also showed us the immeasurable love and desire of a father to give the best he could for his daughter despite hardships and sacrifices. That lesson that it's okay to aim higher but you should also know when it's time to give up or at least accept when your current circumstances shows you the limitations of what you could provide. They also showed us the tendency of people to judge someone based on hearsay without knowing first the whole story. You see this is what made this drama into the list of my favorites, it's about the lessons and takeaways that we can get from each story/episode. The drama gives off a feeling of nostalgia and the great acting performances from each of the actors adds more to this. 

I actually enjoyed all different stories and episodes but I'll just share some of my favorite ones. One is the story about In kwon and Ho sik, the close friends who strangely turned into enemies. The back story showed us how simple miscommunication and wrong timings may ruin a really great friendship. Also the story of Young ok and her twin sister with down syndrome. I'm glad that most Korean dramas now also shows awareness about people with special needs and disabilities. My most favorite is the story about the grandmother Do shim and her grand daughter. Her story and how painful it must be for a mother to lose most of her children during their young age. How the two had to adapt with each other when circumstances made Do shim need to temporarily care for her grand daughter, when her only remaining alive son even got into an accident and was currently fighting for his life. This is a spoiler but the scene about them showing the 100 moons to the granddaughter made me cry buckets. Their story also made me miss my own grandmother.

Our Blues is definitely one of the best dramas the industry offered us this year. They way they told each life stories made us feel as if we're actually living them ourselves. Each actors made us immersed and able relate to each of the characters in the local neighborhood of Jeju Island. The sceneries of course is also a great addition to each of their heartwarming stories. Just be prepared to tear up at some of the episodes but all tears dropped is definitely worth it. Hope you all won't miss out watching this drama.