My Liberation Notes

~ Searching for Happiness. ~

Overview:

Three siblings, exhausted by the monotony of day-to-day adulthood, seek to find fulfillment and freedom from their unremarkable lives.

Created by:

Park Hae-young & Kim Sok-yun

Status:

Ended

Language:

Korean

First air date:

4/9/2022

Last air date:

5/29/2022

Key words:

countryside
romance
slice of life
loneliness
family relationships
healing
emancipation
real life
struggling life
slow burn romance
melodrama
understated

Seasons

Season 1

16 Episodes

Cast

Lee Min-ki

~ as ~

Yeom Chang-hee

Kim Ji-won

~ as ~

Yeom Mi-jeong

Son Suk-ku

~ as ~

Mr. Gu

Lee El

~ as ~

Yeom Gi-jeong

Cheon Ho-jin

~ as ~

Yeom Je-ho

Lee Ki-woo

~ as ~

Cho Tae-hun

Jeon Hye-jin

~ as ~

Ji Hyeon-ah

Park Soo-young

~ as ~

Park Sang-min

Jeong Soo-young

~ as ~

Cho Gyeong-seon

Lee Kyung-seong

~ as ~

Kwak Hye-sook

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Reviews (1)

ParkMin
Written 1 year(s) ago
5
The cinematography and visuals were great although they went overboard with tilted shots and angles, surpassing their creative limits. The drama had a decent melodic score that blended with the shots just okay but no particular track stood out. Enough technicality, no matter how I look at it, the drama boiled down to be a cheap mix between Thirty-Nine (2022) & My Mister (2018), lacking soul and a unique identity. The self narration bits were a hit or miss, some lines were brilliant and fit the mood, while others were just nonsensical pretentious scribbles. There was a good opportunity to give these narrations to other characters as well but these were mostly done by Yeom Mi Jung. The end of episode 2 made it seem like a tacky show in a fancy wrapping, signaling that it wouldn't stay grounded and would resort to impractical moves to progress the plot forward and grab attention. This is one thing the drama constantly kept contradicting itself with. I didn't like their approach for the ending; they should've just wrapped it up instead of sneakily dancing around it for way too long. Don't excuse its shortcomings by calling it a slow show. Both the writer and director have succeeded in creating slow shows before, but this one missed the mark and sacrificed other important elements along the way. Even with a very relaxed 16 episodes, most of the characters didn't get the development they deserved, but I guess some slice of life scenes were more important. That one major transition around episode 13-14 was embarrassingly poorly done and was a real cowardly move by the writer to escape the writer's block. It left an unerasable stain for what could've been a decent show. Although there were aspects to like and appreciate, the drama didn't quite reach its potential.