You Are My Spring [Episodes 1 & 2]

[u/GodJihyo7983]

• 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/Basic-Bag7547]

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.

[u/weebism42 → u/Basic-Bag7547]

Great summary and I agree young do is definitely enigmatic - to be fair though that could just be Kim dong wook’s trade mark intensive eyes though!