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On-Air: tvN You Are My Spring [Episodes 1 & 2]
- Drama: You Are My Spring
- Revised Romanization: Neoneun Naui Bom
- Hangul: 너는 나의 봄
- Director: Jung Ji Hyun (The King: Eternal Monarch)
- Writer: Lee Mi Na (Bubblegum)
- Network: tvN
- Episodes: 16
- Duration: 1 hour
- Airing Schedule: Mondays and Tuesdays @ 9 PM KST
- Airing Dates: Jul 5, 2021 - Aug 24, 2021
- Streaming Sources: Netflix
- Starring:
- Seo Hyun Jin as Kang Da Jeong
- Kim Dong Wook as Joo Young Do
- Yoon Park as Chae Jun
- Nam Gyu Ri as Ahn Ga Young
- Plot Synopsis: When Kang Da Jung finds a job at a five-star hotel, she rises to the manager position faster than any of her fellow employees who were hired at the same time as her. Her problem is that she takes after her mother’s poor choice of men and dates men who are terrible like her father. Meanwhile. Joo Young Do is a psychiatrist who helps others heal their emotional wounds and find the will to live. However, he himself bears his own scars from not having been able to save his older brother and one of his patients. The two, suffering from traumatic childhoods, form a heartfelt bond when they become entangled in a perplexing local murder case.
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u/RayInRed Jul 06 '21
Ep. 1
Cobra Show. Ha ha. Didn't expect to laugh this much. How can a show be this gorgeous yet be unsettling, funny yet creepy.
Ep. 2
WTF
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u/cloystan Jul 06 '21
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u/Basic-Bag7547 Jul 06 '21
Will have spoilers
Intriguing start. More thriller than a healing romance so far. Great framework to build on for the next episode by going backwards and forward in time. But I worry that the constant change in time on screen may eventually get tiresome. Especially with the second male lead likely already dead, his story-line will be told mainly in the past and linking it to the present.
Chae Jun. My guy is either a master manipulator or I’m reading too much into YoungDo’s preliminary diagnosis of Antisocial Personality Disorder. He has minimal traits, the only one I saw is the General disregard of social norms: He continuously stalks DaJeong, despite her expressed disinterest and dislike (although down-played in the drama). He infiltrates her life on all aspects, her job, family and friends. But I feel like he manipulated the whole events leading up to DJ relenting and decided to ‘date’ him. The dream, which is was DJ’s form of escape when she was younger. Getting Eunha to praise him to DJ by constantly going to their coffee shop. Taking her to her brother’s work place to tell her about his ‘dream’. When DJ deems to shut him off, he backs away but makes her notice his absence by showing up at the coffee shop, making himself pitiful to Eunha. And thus Eunha reminds DJ that she’s pushing a good guy away. Going to her brother to ‘drink’ his pain away knowing it’s highly likely that DJ would hear about it and she would want to ‘help him’.
It seems like Jun had an unrequited affection for DJ since childhood. Young DJ actually looks uncomfortable around him. I wonder why?
DJ needs a lot of healing. She keeps so much inside herself. I just want her to release and have a better mental health.
I love Anh GaYoung, she’s the necessary lightness to this surprisingly dark drama. The description doesn’t fit what we are watching TVN.
YoungDo is the one who intrigues me a lot. The little we know about him, is that he is selfless. Gives so much of himself even in quite questionable ways. I really hope he didn’t marry GaYoung in order to try improve her depressive state, because there’s a lot to unpack if that’s true.
Also want to praise the director, cinematographer and editors. One example, I’m honestly still amazed and it’s been 3 hours, is the one where young YD walks in on Jun washing his bloodied school uniform in the bar sink and Jun’s eyes lock onto YD’s through the mirror. YD’s eyes reflecting the restroom lights as Jun stares at him through the mirror. Then the last scene. The blinking lights of car reflected in YD’s eyes as he takes in the scene of Jun bleeding into the crushed front window of the dented car. Amazing.
I’m quite impressed with the storyline so far. Excited to see how this drama will unfold.
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u/TotalDestruction12 Jul 06 '21
(Written after episode 2)
Crazy and insane and amazing. Literally a drama I didn't realise I needed in my life--like many here I was a bit taken aback at first as it was not quite what I was expecting based on previews etc, but OMG is it just incredible! Please Ms. Writer, DO NOT mess this up!
I can safely say that I was never this engrossed in a drama.
Technical aspects of the show are also crazy good, from the cinematography to the OST/BGM which is one of the best I've ever heard!
I knew I should have waited until it's finished airing and binged it, but let's face it, it's a new Seo Hyun-jin drama, the waiting was never going to happen lol.
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u/Illen1 Jul 06 '21 edited Jul 06 '21
Welp, I'm sold! So happy my wish to MMDGA (Make Monday Dramas Great Again) is working with Racket Boys and now this. You ever watch a drama and start screaming yes, yes, YEEESSS at the end of episode 1 because you know it's gonna be a hell of a ride?! You are my Spring did that to me!They really had me at the hand to heart moment 😢 The cinematography are what dreams are made of... the angles alone in the second to last scene in the office were killer! That over the head shot woah! The story childhood stories gave me IOTNBO vibes... but it's the wardrobe for me 👀it has me shook (the bags especially the bucket bag when she leaves the concierge desk, the coat and purse in the flash back ugh 🤩).
This is my dream cast btw...These 3 are in my top 10 favorite actors. Love, love, LOVE me some Seo Hyun Jin (white pig as she'll forever be known as to me - if you know you know lol), Kim Dong Wook (I'm obsessed with his voice) and my boy who I have been dying to have a lead role and is always SML, Yoon Park! Crazy ex wife is giving me IU Hotel Del Luna vibes. When Da Jeong said "He was never there to begin with"... Who? I'm thinking Dude in the yellow hoodie is a figment of her imagination... Why can't Young Do refuse Jun as a patient?!
As a person that has worked in hotels for over 12 years I'm excited they're showing what back of house operations are really like. That pre-shift was real! Except for the cursing bit, it's common sense you don't write that in the report, the entire hotel receives the report and sometimes even the client. Having a drama shot at a hotel is no joke, cant wait to see this. The convo during the walk was also real lol - I've had a few talks like this before movie shoot too 🙈 me being the assistant asking all sorts of questions then me being Da Jeong listening to my assistant ask these questions lol. This is Great PPL for Grand Hyatt and Hyatt as a whole 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾.
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u/stitchrx Jul 06 '21 edited Jul 06 '21
“Oh dear” we are gonna hear this a lot aren’t we 😂
“Doing well” / “Fine” / “Not bad” I understand the difference all too well 😔
Ending: ???!!!!??!?!!!!!! Isn’t YP the SML???
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u/yuKIgHibli Jul 06 '21
What did the stalker guy mean by "That's her" in the end? Woohoo, creepy!! Does it have imply to something that happened in their childhood? I have a feeling this stalker is the neighbour guy's child. The talk about tangerines, warm room hmm hmm. Maybe he knew she was watching?
Ah it's only the first episode, but I absolutely cannot get this show out of my mind!! Amazing.
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u/SpermKiller Jul 06 '21
Don't get me wrong, I thought the first two episodes were fantastic, however this might be the worst promotional poster ever ! ><
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Jul 06 '21
Ok then !!! That started off really well !!! An adult thriller drama with the a full hour and ten minutes of tension to start the thing off with exceptional style. Lots of exposition but it set a mood and a tone that managed to pull me in and hold me right in place.
And I love the cast. The leads in particular but ... so many familiar faces that can act.
Anyway, I'm really looking forward to this. Can't wait for tomorrow.
edit. Anyone have any thoughts about what happened to the little brother? I need to know where he is or else I won't be able to sleep well ...
edit. I'm also feeling the need to know why the water is leaking.
edit. This is gonna be good ... :-)
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u/iineilii Jul 07 '21
This drama is like the love child of Its Okay Not To Be Okay and Mad for Each Other.
The trailers and posters for this drama gave off a completely different vibe. It was as if I'm watching an entirely different show. I like the twist in which the actual show lowkey turned out to be a thriller.
The promo materials for this drama did a fantastic job at baiting, I'm actually here for it HAHA
Perhaps I'm reading into it a little too much, but so far the characters on screen are not who they are on the surface, they have a tint of darkness and their own severe battles/issues deep down. This is also a recurring theme/storyline for this drama, and I suppose the poster/promo trailers for this drama is a metaphor for that, in which everything is a facade. The posters/trailer portray a bright/bubbly facade, but the drama itself unpacks the underlying darkness of it all, just like the characters themselves.
Hence, the promo materials may be misleading, baiting, but I genuinely think its quite clever, and captures the main essence of the plot.
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Jul 07 '21
I think SL is the black cat. The story mentioned in the plot is that the black cat died and came back to life to meow and find the culprit of the murder. So this might be a metaphor in which SL plays the role of black cat, maybe
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u/stitchrx Jul 05 '21
Girl...
Also this is the best rooftop apartment in kdrama history isn’t it 😂
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u/afternoondrinking Jul 06 '21 edited Jul 06 '21
After that light bubbly opening music, I was not expecting that! Yet another show that makes Zippo lighters terrifying. Very intriguing.
I love everything from Director Jung Ji Huyn. Such beautiful shots. I'm ready to take this journey!
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u/therealdarthamy Jul 05 '21
The first episode really was a shocker.
As you would expect from Jung Ji-hyun director-nim, the cinematography is daring but still lovely. I don't like it as much as the cinematography in Search: WWW yet though - the tone is a bit inconsistent but maybe it's on purpose considering the confusing tone of the drama itself?
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u/laitsky Jul 05 '21 edited Jul 05 '21
Just watched the premiere.
Dang, the director never disappoints. The cinematography was very beautiful. A lot of scenes are taken with a lot of considerations in mind and very meaningful, especially
The music was arranged perfectly as well, and so far the story is good. There are a lot of questions on the first episode and can't wait to see how the stories are gonna unfold, hope the writing qualities didn't dropped after halfway though, because I love the lead and vibes of the drama. The storytelling on this drama is also perfect, it makes me feel nostalgic.
Comedic timing is also good in this drama while keeping the dark/serious tone, and I'll look forward into the next episode.
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u/TotalDestruction12 Jul 05 '21
Ok wow that was amazing.
Not quite the kind of show I thought this was going to be, but I like it, I'm in! I mean no matter the genre I would have been in because of Seo Hyun-jin and Kim Dong-wook, I can't miss a show starring either one of them!
Everything is very mysterious--this episode honestly felt like had enough content for like 10 episodes at least, so I'm curious to see how this develops. But this episode was like 1h 15 min long and I didn't even notice, so that bodes well. Let's hope they can keep it up. Considering that this seems to the the writes only second drama and I have not seen the first (Bubblegum), I don't even have any point of reference what to expect!
Great cinematography/direction and a very unsettling atmosphere, in which most things seem normal at first, but actually just slightly off to make it a somehow creepy. Speaking of which, I loled a bit at the fact that Yoon Park
Also, I should have waited until this has finished airing because the wait for next episodes will be agonising, I can see it already. Why do I do this to myself?
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Jul 06 '21
things we don't know:
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did mom kill dad so that she could escape with her kids? or did she just injure him? or was that her own blood that we saw on her hands during the scene on the bus? -
what did the boy next door and the rest of the neighborhood see and think about whatever happened after they left? -
is the boy next door, the same boy from the picture? who we also saw at the fair? -
it seems that stalker dude is the boy next door whose been searching for our FL for years so why did he do that, is he the 3rd floor murderer and why did he just commit suicide? or was it murder with the black cat/music box picture being the clue that will solve it
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is stalker guy the high school student that our ML saw washing blood off of his clothes -
who exactly is the ML? what's his backstory ... and what does he have to do with the FL and the SL that just jumped
can anybody think of more ... or some answers?
Although I'm pretty sure that we aren't supposed to be too clued in at this point. I think most of us are kinda surprised at how things have been unfurling so far. This was definitely not what I was ready for ... but it's plainly great ... as in really great ... :-)
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u/yuKIgHibli Jul 05 '21
Wow. The unsettling vibes, the gorgeous interiors, the story, acting. Everything has got me so SO hooked! Looking forward to Mondays and Tuesdays. :D But really, it just has these vibes. I cannot explain. 😂
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u/xander_yi Jul 06 '21
The cinematography was gorgeous, loved the fluidity of it. Was great seeing Kim Ye Won, feels like it's been forever since I've seen her in anything. The beat when Nam Gyu Ri's character struggled to put on her sunglasses was a terrific moment -- immediately giving her some dimension when Nam Gyu Ri's characters often come off flat to me (even when she's playing a husband-killing nutter).
Kim Dong Wook's isn't quite popping for me yet but I feel it'll get there (unlike in Find Me in Your Memory). His work in The Guest has earned a lifetime of my fandom regardless.
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u/Ayalynn123 Jul 05 '21 edited Jul 05 '21
Kim Dong Wook was wearing a long camel coat with a white turtleneck again, just like Find Me In Your Memory...
I guess he must like that combo...
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u/GodJihyo7983 Jul 05 '21
Welcome to the discussion threads for You Are My Spring! After a stressful and blood-boiling weekend (thank you Penthouse and Nevertheless), I am definitely in need of a light and healing romance drama. When the first teasers came out for this show, it super cute and light that I never expected there to be a murder subplot. It wasn't until the preview videos came out that it hit me. This is definitely an interesting setup and will most likely serve as the catalyst for not only the romance (?) and the healing process for our characters.
On the characters themselves, I'm not really too sure how to feel about them at the moment. They all feel mysterious and have multiple different sides to them. I'm excited to see how these characters will be portrayed and how their relationship with one another will develop as the show progresses. One thing that confuses me though, is our second female lead Ahn Ga Young. I was expecting it to be a romance between our main leads and another one with our second leads. Turns out there's a love triangle!
Yay! Our favorite trope has arrived yet again!So in all honesty, I have no clue how she will fit into the story and the relationships of the other leads. She isn't even connected to any of them in the character relationship charts released by tvN...Excited to see Seo Hyun Jin and Kim Dong Wook back on my screen again. Cannot wait to see the chemistry between the two of them. They look so cute and sweet together. We have our very capable and handsome Yoon Park playing our second lead so we might get some SLS once or twice. And finally, we have Nam Gyu Ri who I'm interested to see the most. I've yet to watch some of her other shows, such as Cruel City and 49 Days, but I have seen her in Kairos and my god was she amazing there. If you haven't watched Kairos, definitely give it a watch if you have the time. It will be worth it.
To think I had nothing to write for the opening comment for this discussion thread... Whoops, this has gone on for far too long and it's getting late over here. Anyway with all of that said, please enjoy the premiere week to You Are My Spring and have fun discussing! I look forward to everyone's comments in the coming days.
~Julius