Reply 1988

For several years now, if I could pick a celebrity to have dinner with, it would be screenwriter Woo-jeong Lee and director Won-ho Shin. The last of the three seasons of Reply 1988 is maybe even more elaborate than the previous two, and I can't even begin to imagine how much work it must have taken to put this all together. Those two have an absolutely uncanny eye for detail and capturing emotion. Friendships at every age, relationships between siblings, relationships between children and parents, and even relationships between a man and a woman... I doubt all of this could ever be captured any better or more realistically than these filmmakers have managed to do. Here we see all the pains and joys that this era could bring. Not to mention the numerous allusions to taboo subjects. I probably won't slap on the full number of stars because the plot didn't draw me in as much as, say, the first season or their other shows, but I appreciate to the maximum the work that was done on this series. My rating is therefore subjective and greatly influenced by the fact that some people’s stories didn't turn out quite as I wanted. The acting, however, is excellent, as it should be. (22/05/2022)