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The setting alone got me. A small island off Taipei, surfer-hippie atmosphere, a family ice cream shop, a father's airbnb — the kind of place my mind drifts to when I think about disappearing somewhere and starting over. The series understood exactly what it had in that location and used it well.
What makes it genuinely strong for me are the characters. Everyone here was given room to actually be someone — layered, contradictory, real in the way people are real — and because of that you understand the pull between them without being told to feel it. The intimate scenes landed harder than I expected, warm and familiar in a way that suggested two people who actually like each other. That's rarer than it should be.
My personal sticking point is with the wish as a narrative engine. It drew me in at the start and I appreciated what it made possible — there's a conversation between a son and his father at a fish market that I found quietly beautiful. But somewhere along the way it started to feel more like a constraint than a gift, and there were moments where my patience with it frayed. For me it would have worked better treated like a fever dream that shakes something loose rather than the central mechanism driving everything forward.
A little Groundhog Day, a little Taiwanese indie film, and a lot of genuine warmth. The heart of it is real.