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Family by Choice 조립식 가족 (2024)

Decision to Leave (2022)

I'm not the review writing type. After watching a show I just go to Tumblr to reblog posts that have moments from the show that touched my heart, made me laugh and then I move onto the next show. But I think 'Never Twice' tag deserves to fill so much more than it already is.

Never twice, I came upon the show freshly after completing 'Its Okay to not be Okay' after being impressed by Kwak Do Yeons amazing acting in the show. It was either this or completing 'Vincenzo' which I forget why I had put on hold. Something about the Kdrama poster of 'Never Twice' and it's description felt so nostalgic to me, i decided to watch it.

Before I say anything more, I think the formal description deserves its place here:-

An old stately inn stands in the heart of Seoul. It may be old, discolored, and weathered, but Nakwon Inn exudes old-world charms. As the typical cold uneventful winter comes to an end at the inn, guests start to arrive one by one as if each had promised to be present. Strangely and coincidentally, each one of them repeats Never Twice as they enter. The truth is, they all have a fateful reason to be there. What could have brought these individuals together? And what do they all have in common considering their long-term stay, assigned room numbers, gender, age, and hometown? The real reason for coming to Nakwon Inn unfolds.

Despite having smart phones in the show and being set in recent years it still does not fail to give 90s sitcom vibes the familiarity of which I felt was very comforting to me. The plot follows stories of lots of different people but the pacing was very well done and nothing felt rushed, all loose ends were tied in the end and the ending gave a neat little bow of completion of which you see pictures of, above.

Recently I've been going through a bad time and the comfort of watching the show felt like being sick in bed being nursed with warm soup. Its not a grand show where amazing things happen, it's a slice of life where you end up caring for each of the characters and their flaws. No one is perfect and at the start of the show all of them are at the lowest of their lives but they get to meet in Nakwon Inn and in their misery they work together to raise each other up. It's a show that makes you hopeful, gives you the message of keep holding on, tell you good things happen and the bad guys will never win, But it also makes the bad guys human. No one is truly evil at the core.

It's a simple show, nothing fancy, a very stereotypical plot where the good win and the bad suffer but sometimes you don't need something too complex. Sometimes all you want is to be feel comforted. And when you need comfort I hope you will turn your eye to this show.

Family by Choice 조립식 가족 (2024) | Episode 13