Seasons Of Blossom: Ane-4 (Kickoff Impressions)
Seasons of Blossom deals with some heavy topics, merely inwards a real warm, wistful form of way that strikes just the right balance of bittersweet. Throughout these starting time four short episodes (each 1 is roughly xx minutes long), by too acquaint weave together to order i floor of dear, loss, together with eventual healing.
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EPISODES ane-4 FIRST IMPRESSIONS
The floor is ready frontward in 2 timelines alongside our heroine, HAN SO-MANG (So Joo-yeon), as the connexion bespeak betwixt them. In the acquaint 24-hour interval, she returns to her onetime high schoolhouse equally a educatee teacher, which inevitably stirs upwards memories of her starting time dearest, LEE HA-MIN (Seo Ji-hoon!), who took his ain life while they were nonetheless students.
So-mang chose to pursue those memories intentionally, just she’sec still unprepared for how overwhelming they are. She sees him everywhere, as well as nosotros follow every bit she steps into dreamlike memories of rainy summer afternoons inward the school’s fine art room where they both used to take refuge.
So-mang, a shy loner, liked to pigment during luncheon, because that was when she felt truly comfortable and gratis to limited herself. In contrast, Ha-minute was the pop, friendly form president who secretly kept everyone at arm’s length together with needed a place where he could driblet the vivacious façade and vent without fright of damaging his reputation.
In that fine art room, So-mang saw the side of Ha-min no 1 else did. Though he would smilingly take gifts from his admirers inwards course, he’d after toss the whole box in the trash without reading the accompanying bank note. To further protect his ikon, he’d made So-mang promise non to verbalize to him outside of that room, or even permit on that they knew each other. But every bit the memories slow unfold, nosotros encounter that their time together fostered genuine friendship.
The commencement fourth dimension that present-twenty-four hour period So-mang sets human foot inwards the fine art room, she’s and so overcome amongst the onslaught of memories that she faints. Then, while walking downward the hallway, she sees Ha-minute coming toward her and reaches a hand up to his face up equally her eyes fill up with tears. But of course it isn’t him — it’s his younger blood brother, LEE JAE-MIN (Kim Min-kyu), at once a student at this school.
Jae-minute had moved away with his mom later on Ha-minute’s death, and solely recently transferred dorsum to alive amongst his dad. The by isn’t talked nearly much inward his circles; inwards fact, almost of his friends think he’sec an entirely kid.
When So-mang meets Jae-minute in addition to learns who he is, she decides this must live what drew her dorsum. Ha-minute had always tried to protect Jae-minute from their overbearing mother, agreeing to be the model educatee and so Jae-minute could pursue his own dreams, and like a shot So-mang finds renewed role in watching over Jae-min for him.
On a whim, she asks Jae-min if he’d be interested inwards modeling for her at an fine art studio as Ha-min used to make. Jae-min takes his fourth dimension, merely eventually agrees to make and so inward central for her telling him everything she remembers about his brother.
Sprinkled throughout these more sentimental scenes, nosotros too come across Jae-minute’second adorable classmates, one of whom gets herself into quite the conundrum. YOON BO-MI (Kang Hye-won), class president too chronic people-pleaser, has famously been inward a “roughly” relationship with Jae-minute — they rattling plainly similar each other, simply take even so to confess in addition to make it official.
On what starts out equally Bo-mi’s perfect 24-hour interval, Jae-minute last makes his feelings known, giving her fourth dimension to intend it over before responding. She’second practically floating on air as she anticipates their dinner date that night, merely and so 2 things occur that mail her perfect solar day into a tailspin.
The outset is that So-mang arrives, as well as Jae-min calls off dinner and so he tin sort out through his newly awakened feelings of grief too confusion.
The instant is that Bo-mi agrees to accept luncheon with 2 classmates who are hoping to get friends alongside her every bit a way of getting about Jae-min. Bo-mi gives them the benefit of the doubt, simply her best friend KANG SUN-HEE (Oh Yoo-jin) sees right through them. When the other girls admit that 1 of them has a shell on Jae-minute, Sunday-hee tries to deter them past proverb she does, too.
Bo-mi tin’t convey herself to hurt her best friend, and then she makes a selection that has an unexpected ripple consequence. She claims she has no interest inwards Jae-minute — because she likes mortal else. The male child she names, CHOI JIN-YOUNG (Yoon Hyun-soo), seems an unlikely choice due to his stoic too blunt nature, just Bo-mi figures that will go far easy to order once and act on from.
Not and then. Not exclusively does Sunday-hee not believe her, just Jin-young himself overhears the conversation in addition to confronts her. Now Bo-mi has to either come up clean or double downwardly on her lie together with let it continue snowballing, and she chooses the latter. This leads her to make things similar say Jae-min she just wants to remain friends as well as partner upwards amongst Jin-young when So-mang asks for volunteers to clean the fine art room afterward schoolhouse.
Bo-mi’sec job has such a uncomplicated answer — but enjoin Sunday-hee and Jae-minute the truth! — too nonetheless, every bit a recovering people-pleaser myself, I tin can sympathize with her desire to avoid hurting the people she cares nigh nearly, together with her electric current inability to understand that this choice is leap to terminate upward hurting them far worse than the truth would accept.
But Bo-mi isn’t the solely 1 hiding her feelings to protect her friend. Lord's Day-hee’sec fib well-nigh liking Jae-minute wasn’t completely imitation later on all. She’sec known him longer than Bo-mi has — long plenty, it would look, to know near Ha-minute — and she saw how he was lastly able to grinning over again when he transferred dorsum hither and met Bo-mi. All she wants is to run into him as well as Bo-mi happy, so she offers to tell Jae-minute that Bo-mi didn’t mean it when she said she wanted to stay friends.
Bo-mi, of grade, doesn’t know the backstory. So, inward desperation to continue her lie afloat, she strikes a bargain with Jin-young: they’ll pretend to live inward a human relationship then everyone will believe that she likes him together with not Jae-minute.
I acknowledge that going inward, I was the teeniest flake worried Seasons of Blossom would veer overly sorry, only I absolutely loved the mixture of sadness together with warmth these episodes had instead. It feels real wholesome as well as comforting, in addition to perfectly suited to the changing of summertime into autumn.
Much as I await the remainder of the story to eye on Jae-min too So-mang’s journey toward healing, the parallels between Ha-minute as well as Bo-mi are what stood out about to me from this premiere. Both are (or were) grade president, good-liked, as well as outwardly most flawless. But both enshroud their existent selves too inner turmoil so as to continue that flawless icon intact. I suspect that So-mang’sec influence at the schoolhouse may stop upwards beingness every bit much near helping Bo-mi overcome what Ha-min couldn’t as it is most bringing closure to So-mang as well as Jae-minute.
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