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Monday, March 9, 2020

Kdrama to Miss: Warm and Cozy (2015)


Warm and Cozy (2015)

Grade: C+
16 Episodes, 1 hr each
Viewing Platform: Viki

Lee Jung-joo drew the short end of the stick when it came to relationships and jobs. When Jung-joo flies to Jeju to check on the property her brother was supposed to purchase with her life savings, she discovers her boyfriend cheating on her. Then Jung-joo is fired from her job and has nothing left but a ramshackle, dirt floor house that is literally falling apart. She finds work at a small restaurant nearby, named “Warm and Cozy,” and soon makes friends with the renowned diver women of the island. What happens when she starts to have feelings for the restaurant owner? Will the reappearance of her mother cut off the budding romance? How will the villagers' efforts to match her up with their mayor go? And what happens when a secret is revealed about who took the life of the head diver's husband 30 years ago?

*This drama has a slow pace from the get-go, but it seemed to fit the slower paced island lifestyle. The lead actors are attractive, but the script did not give their characters many opportunities for romance. The script also relied heavily on drinking as a way to get anyone to admit anything; I understand that as a device to use once in a drama, maybe twice – but any more often than that reflects poor character development and lazy writing. There are a few cute comedic moments, but that's about the only good point. There was too much push and pull between two immature characters, to the point I lost interest in whether or not they'd ever end up together. I would not watch this drama again.*

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