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Record of Youth korean drama review
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Record of Youth
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by kiho
Jan 20, 2024
16 of 16 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 8.0
Story 8.0
Acting/Cast 6.0
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 9.0
This review may contain spoilers

Better than its rating suggests

Cursory watch.

There is a lot of meat on this despite it having a lot of flaws. The two leads are great, the many dysfunctional family dynamics are intriguing, although some of the actors are underwhelming or seem to be acting in a different, comedy script while this is clearly a drama. I like how both lead characters never resort to screaming and try to stay calm, collected, kind and thoughtful while navigating job and personal troubles that are infuriating. I like how these infuriating issues are thrown at the viewer in a manner that deems them mature enough to work through it and never give them an easy out.

The treatment of the lgbt storyline is despicable, it seems this writer is so sexuality/gender illiterate that they can not even make the distinction between workplace harassment and merely being gay, one is bad, the other is not. There are not enough characters with an explicitly lgbt friendly stance. This is just not good enough in 2020.

On the whole there is a lot of good, some bad, but this drama gets an unfairly bad rep.
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