Your insanely boring life is just as precious as mine.
Liberation: the action of setting someone free from imprisonment, slavery, or oppression; release.What type of liberation you want?
What's stopping you from being liberated?
Is it you, your family or the world?
What will you do with your long awaited liberation?
Like this dozens and thousands of question will arise while watching this series.
It's one of those series from film noir genre which question your life and existence. What I loved the most was how realistic each and every character was. Three siblings and Mr. Gu were showed phenomenal growth in their characters. Although it is a little slow out the gates, once this one gets going, it turns into an unstoppable juggernaut. Prepare yourself for a long ride to liberation. My favourite quote: “I think humans are only sane when they’re lonely. So I think I’m saner at night.” – Mi Jeong
My liberation notes is a warm hug to let go of your suppressed emotions and bring out the courage to be liberated. Liberating from societal expectations, emotional baggages and growing demands of materialistic world, my day to day mundane life felt comforting. As the topic itself felt heavy on my chest after finishing the drama I didn't want to watch something else. I allowed myself to be fully submerged into the juggernaut emotions of the characters. This overwhelming feeling lingered quite longer than usual.
I think whomever watched this drama had a silent cry in every episode. That's why you need to watch this at night while you're stressed, alone in a room. Then you'll realise that this series feels like a warm damp hug to yourself.
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Absolutely Wonderful.
At first I thought it would be one of those dramas that try to be overtly profound but doesn't live up to that expectation. But this was extremely relatable and very soul stirring. All of the siblings' stories were so well written and scripted that I was so engrossed in every single one, no side story was lacking. The acting was amazing for every character, you felt their pain and gripes, you begin to understand why they are the way they are, especially when looking at their family dynamic, past relationships, and current situations.One big thing I took away from this drama is that it's hard to change who you are, life is hard, but you shouldn't have to struggle alone. Also sometimes its best to accept people for who they are.
I have nothing but praise for all the actors, writers, and editors of this drama. Will watch again in the future.
If you're an introvert or socially anxious you may find the two main leads extremely relatable.
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My Liberation Notes was a super-realistic story about people making their way through life and trying to come into their own during. A conventionally poor family, where the kids are trying to become their own people and break free from the village life. Most of the plot lines were about them trying to find romance, themselves, and better their job situations. Due to pressure from society and them moving out of their "peak", they struggle and find it hard to break out of the chains. What kept me interested in the drama for the first part, was the overall backstory that everyone had going on. While everyone was doing their own thing, the stories never got too mixed and confusing. It tells realistic stories of trying to find someone perfect for you and someone who will be a perfect life partner, but sometimes things fall short for us and we're met with problems we never saw coming. If you're looking for something soft, cute and happy... this is definitely not that drama. While their are happy notes, it's mostly about finding yourself and coming into your own in life. It deals with heavy themes of crime, loss, and life in general.
The acting of everyone involved was incredible and I really fell in love with the FL and Lee El's character of her sister. I felt that they both did such a great job of capturing the feeling of being lost in life, looking at others around you as ahead, and trying to find love. I didn't see much chemistry between Gu and Mi Jeong, but was still really interested in their weird dynamic.
The downfall was the ending of the show - I wasn't expecting a totally happy ending, but it would've been nice to have at least one end of the stories tied up happily. Although it's arguable that Yeom Mi Jeong and Mr. Gu did set out what they were wanting to do... the entire ending for each of the siblings just left me wanting more. The random time jump and the last 2 episodes trying to fill in that time also added to me falling out of my interest with it.
If you want something realistic and about the societal pressures of finding love, a good job and starting a family but with a more realistic ending, then this one is definitely for you to watch.
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Changed my life perspective.
I was at my lowest point when I watched the drama. I was feeling a lot of things, lying alone on a hospital bed. I didn't know what to do with my life next, and I felt overwhelmed. But then I watched the drama, and it changed everything.The drama was about a group of people who were all struggling in their own way. Watching the drama gave me hope and comforted me in a way that made me feel seen. It showed me that my struggles were valid. It showed me that I wasn't crazy. It showed me that I wasn't alone.
I'm so grateful for the drama. It helped me to get through my darkest time. I'll never forget the impact it had on my life.
If you're feeling lost, alone, and hopeless, I encourage you to watch the drama. It might just change your life.
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the calm i needed this summer
I find myself immersed and drawn to slow-paced dramas, not ones that go nowhere of course, but ones that make you sit back and reflect on life. I enjoyed how realistic and raw the feelings portrayed in this series were. I didn't feel bittersweet or touched most of the time, in fact, I was kind of dreading the relationship timelines since I thought something was going to fall apart any moment. But this is oftentimes the reality, you are intrigued by somebody and yet you're not sure why, you seek validation yet you desire to be loved.I loved how there were multiple mains and multiple storylines, each situation was so different but so relatable. As the drama progressed I found myself adoring the characters (esp. Gu)
OST 10/10
Casting 10/10 (love how everyone portrayed the characters)
Ending was not the happy ever after that most people would expect but definitely fulfilling and calming. (overall a great closing)
Highly recommend this series :)
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Not a fluffy kdrama.
Even though I've been in many dark places in life, watching this drama made me uncomfortable. It delivers row emotions and situations that can drown you. Not easy content if you are NOT familiar with such emotions, so therefore I don't suggest that someone under 20s should watch this, or even older ... it can cause depression and for that reason someone can underrate it. However it's exceptional on its kind. Not many dramas can show the darkness of the soul that make you strangle you every day, the desperation, the loss, the fight with self to remain alive. The loneliness...Was this review helpful to you?
Best of The Bests in Silce OF Life Dramas
Such a relatable kdrama I've watched so far. It feels like you belong to them and being with their thoughts. Every story has some weight which makes you connect to them personally and cheer for them.I just want to describe this drama with a lot of fancy words as it deserves but I couldn't find coz it is beyond my word knowledge and liking.
This drama mostly shows about the relationships and conflicts in it .Casting is brilliant they just made this show alive . Special mention to direction of cinematography and strong writing .
A dramas like this will make us feel less worse , its okay to be like this and think that we're not only ones who thinks that way.
"influences you, thought provoking, you find something in it"
Must watch kdrama //slice of life
a therapy dnt need. Dot
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Introvert heaven
This drama is not only about introverts and highly sensitive people, it also feels like it is directly made to calm the exhausted nerves and overwhelmed minds of those. Liberation Notes is about acceptance of yourself just the way you are in a world that isn't always too kind to people straying from the herd. It is healing and soothing, inspiring and encouraging.One thing I got from almost all of the storylines: to find someone you can talk to about your deepest feelings and thoughts and they don't run screaming is all you actually need. Whether you are that person for yourself or someone else is.
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The perfect drama for Introverts out there. So relatable.
This story is so different from all the stories out there. I had this in my watchlist ever since it aired, wondering whether to watch it or not . But it turned out well. I liked it .The way this story unviels the inner state of individuals, people in general, just amazing.
Relationships, friendships ; we see contrasts of everything in this story ( introverts-extroverts, the rich‐ poor , good mother- bad mother, good people- bad people) literally everything. Its like a mashup of everything, life is about .
It is about a process of healing, loving oneself no matter what. No matter how hard the circumstances become, no matter how hard it gets, one must not stop loving oneself.
This story teaches us that love and hatred, happiness & sadness, loneliness, are all subjective. Our stat of mind has a huge impact on things we go through in daily life. It all depend upon how you choose to see it. Its all about the outlook .
The comedy is at another level. Mi jeong 's sibilings are hilarious at times.
Ki Jung talking about his diarrhea with Mr Gu, Gi Jung's plot about losing her memory & the "Pick up girl" story were so funny that i literally couldnt stop laughing out loud for minutes. 😆
I find the line "Na Gu ssi" just amazing. It is one of my favourite lines from the show. I dont know why. Maybe because it brought a ray of hope, and opened the door to happiness in Mi Jeong's life.
As far as acting is concerned, it was amazing. I'm in love with Kim Ji Won's acting, she's too good. (God, i love her voice). Mr Gu, OMG, given his serious alcoholism , i still found him great, somehow. Probably because Suk ku looks just too good in this. All the other actors have done a great job, thats why it turned out to be so great.
Liked it a lot.
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As close to tangible human drama as Korean television can get
Transcending the fabric of the “television series” and entering my reality, if only for those sixteen episodes. That is My Liberation Notes, a drama work that understands the heart of any drama—dialogue. A drama, at minimum, needs two people to slide their hearts off of each other and in the modern “K-drama” discourse, it’s often expected that the two leads will fall in love, and embrace to the ballad of a beautiful pop song. In the words of a friend, every relationship is different; and to take from Tolstoy, while every relationship is different, every happy relationship is the same. Because it’s hard to be happy in a world sublimated by texts, social media, bureaucracy, and the pangs of dispriz'd love. While many of us seem to be doing well, most of us aren’t; and so Park Hae-young takes us through a brief period within the lives of Yeom Gi-jeong, Yeom Chang-hee, and Yeom Mi-jeong.Park’s previous series, My Mister, was nothing short of a wonder and finishing it left me in a deep but empty void as I realized that I didn’t have someone whom I was willing to talk to, on a regular basis, about how hard living was. I’ve seen all but most of two episodes on the rewatch but have found it difficult to finish again. Four years later, Park brings this talk therapy to three people, or three “ones,” by placing them in a variety of sitting locations, episode after episode, simply—talking. About partway into the series I grew to miss Chang-hee’s ranting at life, at his co-worker, at not having a fancy car, at how he talks so much, and just listening. Gi-jeong I didn’t love a great amount, but she has her personality; and Mi-jeong, I will really miss—I do already—just listening. You really aren’t like many of us but watching you walk along the sidewalk at night, just talking, I heard a note. And that was the beginning of a song, a song that as we watch the birds fly above in the pink sky we hear them and see for ourselves that life is really just the same.
It's hard to be happy, and it’s really difficult to change; but life always brings moments of joy, and times when your heart thinks briefly of liberation.
Life is so hard, and that’s why I look at fiction’s great and immeasurable world for something better; for copium, essentially. I watch show after show, see movie after movie and find something to relate by as I return to my life and do I actually change? As a talking horse once said, you have to do it every day, and it’s really hard. But with these three working adult siblings who still live at home with their parents, after a time I didn’t think of it as fiction. I’m scared to look up the actors, although I will because I need more alternate universe Chang-hee and Mi-jeongs—it is a wonder to me how these real people can become others temporarily. With acting, you take on a personality and act, react, according to the situation but far more immersive, I think is how one lives out the other life, eats all those meals and drinks all those iced americanos. It’s a betrayal of that fictional curtain and almost feels tainted; that we have come to a point where fiction can feel so real and so grounded, to use a term conceived by a friend, whereby the movements and dialogue currencies of this work were just so natural, so organic that everything—and I mean everything—made sense. It’s not simple either. The series doesn’t even end on anywhere close to a satisfying “ending” because it’s not one. 16 episodes are the standard length for Korean television and so it ends there. If “change” is the primary language of fiction, how the several and many characters challenge it makes fiction its best. It’s even harder to do so in real life, but it didn’t even feel like Park did all he could to inhibit his characters from changing. He simply… wrote them as they were.
I can’t resist and have to quote one of the supporting characters at this moment:
“I once read a book to become a writer about how to be a good writer, and it said that a good drama is one where the main character tries hard to achieve something but can’t do it. So I gave up. Why would I write something that’s like life? It’s so boring.”
At its core, My Liberation Notes is about trying to be happy. Whether it comes from satisfaction with your career, finding love, or understanding your deepest issues. The best shows don’t motivate us to change. They tell us that the journey of life is hard, is harder like nothing else—but you really need to talk to those around you, and your heart just might ask every day what it means to live. You don’t have to answer it. But your heart moves all the same.
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“My Liberation Notes” is personally one of my favorite kdramas. “My Liberation Notes” truly stands out as an amazing project. You can tell that a lot of effort and love was put into it.Where do I begin with my praise? Everything is perfect… the directing, the cinematography, the acting, the script. Everything, I nearly have no complaints whatsoever.
While the ending might have been open, I think it was done well. I had expected it to be worse actually and was pleasantly surprised Mr. Gu didn’t die. I was holding my breath in the last scenes, I was so afraid he’d be killed off which would have been understandable but it would have broken my hearts into pieces.
“My Liberation Notes” was never about conclusions. I would have still loved for a couple of things to happen but if we’re experiencing a drama that mimics reality interestingly, I’d say they did a very good job and stayed true to what they have always been.
“My Liberation Notes” has been a great companion for me the past two months. Waiting for episodes weekly was very annoying, very stressful and also felt rewarding when Saturday came. Its a mix of emotions but I am glad I was there since the beginning, enjoying it, analyzing it, sometimes over-analyzing it and fangirling. It was lots of fun.
And for that, I am thankful. I honestly learned a lot. There are many quotes that struck me on a personal level, I can’t say I relate to a character purely but relate to different types of struggles different characters have, and regardless of that, I was so invested in their lives. Its been a while since I’ve been this invested in a drama, its been a while since I’ve repeated scenes from a drama so many times.
Now, I’m saying goodbye to my comfort drama and comfort characters. Thank you my worship couple, Yeom Family and Sanpo friends. Let’s continue life, trudging on Step by Step!” ♥️
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