Uncoupling (2019)

Separation doesn't have to be a bad thing.

I stumbled onto this series by chance and decided to watch it since I was curious as to why there hardly any review. I wonder if this series was either horrible or just didn't get much attention. While watching the first episode, I was ready to drop it, but surprisingly, it’s a damn good drama. I watched it through to the very end.

It’s a light drama-comedy that delves into how a married couple fell out of love and how they took different approach to separation which is to ‘uncouple’ (but not officially divorce yet). Although they decided to separate as a couple, they remained in the same house in order to be good parents to their son. Despite being only about 20-30 minutes long, each episode manages to tell the story nicely of the ‘before and after’ of the uncoupling.

Aside from the plots about the husband’s girlfriend and how the family and society regard it as infidelity, the main theme of this drama is about moving on from a failed marriage or long relationship without having to lose anything but rather gain something from it.

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