>he won't watch the highest rated narrative miniseries of 2025 because he hates his mother or something idk
>>218209136I ignore people who don't speak English.
I hate your mother cause she gave me Chlamydia.
>>218209136how big are these tangerines
>>218209166Enough to last a lifetime.
I avoid Kslop as a matter of principle
>>218209263What principle? Midwittery?
Why "When Life Gives You Tangerines" Is a Masterpiece of Traditional Values the Mainstream Media Won't Tell You AboutIn a cultural landscape saturated with nihilistic messaging, the new Netflix K-drama When Life Gives You Tangerines (2025) arrives like a bracing gust of sea air from Jeju Island. While the coastal elites are busy pushing narratives that tear apart the fabric of society, this series, spanning six decades from the 1950s to the present, dares to suggest that the old ways are the good ways. It is a sweeping epic of family, nation, and the natural order that should be required viewing for anyone who still believes in tradition.
1. The Sanctity of the HomelandThe show is unapologetically rooted in the soil and sea of Jeju Island. This isn't some sterile, globalist metropolis. The cinematography celebrates the specific geography of Korea, the volcanic rock, the tangerine orchards, the fierce sea. In an era that demands we be "citizens of the world," Tangerines reminds us that identity is local. It honors the Haenyeo, the female divers of Jeju, a millennia-old tradition of matriarchal labor and communal strength that stands as a monument to cultural continuity. It is a quiet rebuke to the rootless cosmopolitanism that dominates modern entertainment.2. The Architecture of the FamilyForget the modern tropes of broken homes and chosen families. This drama is about blood and sacrifice. It traces three generations of women, showing that the duty of parents is to suffer so their children may prosper. The protagonist, Gwan-sik, is the man the modern world forgot how to build: a stoic provider whose love is demonstrated through action and loyalty, not grand speeches. He sits with his wife at the same table, defying the toxic traditions of the past not by burning down his culture, but by elevating his family within it. This is a portrait of ordered love, husband and wife, parent and child, where duty and affection are one and the same.
3. The Virtue of Resilience Over VictimhoodThe protagonist Ae-sun faces unimaginable hardships: poverty, the loss of a child, the grinding labor of survival. But the show does not wallow in her victimhood. It celebrates her grit. The title itself, a play on "when life gives you lemons", is a philosophy of stoic endurance. Life in Jeju is hard, and the show argues that this hardship is what forges character. It is a much-needed antidote to the soft, therapeutic culture that teaches us to see ourselves as fragile and oppressed. Here, women are not damsels in distress; they are divers plunging into the freezing sea to feed their families. Men are not caricatures of toxic masculinity; they are rocks upon which homes are built.
4. A Stand Against Historical AmnesiaSet against the backdrop of post-war Korea, the series implicitly honors the struggle of a nation that lifted itself from poverty through sheer will. It depicts a time before the cultural decay, when courting was earnest, marriage was permanent, and a community grieved together as one. In a world that tells us to despise our history, When Life Gives You Tangerines venerates it. It understands that the past is not a prison to be escaped, but a foundation to be built upon.The mainstream critics will likely praise its cinematography or the acting of IU and Park Bo-gum. But dig deeper. This show is a Trojan horse of traditionalism. It tells us that the answer to life's struggles is not to rage against the system, but to cling tighter to your family, your nation, and your duty.
>>218209136I love my mother, and it's been on my watchlist but I removed it because of the constant inorganic shilling on >>>/tv/
>>218210235How is one person in a sea of detractors inorganic? If it were inorganic there would be other people shilling it as well.
>>218210319inorganic because of how it's inserted everywhere by 1 anon. I've seen some /kdg/ chads recommend it organically there, or in the occasional organic kdrama thread.
>>218210382Oh so you just don't know what organic/inorganic means, got it.
>>218210433I am a chemist so I reckon I know it pretty well. It's not actually off my watchlist, it's just the spamming that is annoying.
>>218210481It's the only way to get things done around here, the barrier to entry is simply too high given most posters here preconceived notions about kdramas. Don't mind me, just watch it.
the sperg that makes these threads refused to watch this show for months after it released and everyone in the kdrama general was talking about it, because it's a fake kdrama made by netflix, seeing him aggressively seethe that everyone isn't receptive to his threads nearly a year after it aired is something else.
>>218210630link me to the posts where I claimed such things about Tangerins, you can't. you're always spinning stories.
soon
Find you a guy like Gwang-sik
This is real? like it's critically acclaimed? I thought this was just one guy shitposting about an obscure netflix kdrama he liked to fap to. I have one too, I actually have 4 or 5, I don't watch the shows though, they suck.
>>2182122508th highest rated entry on Letterboxd and Time Magazines #1 kdrama of 2025.
>>218209136K-drama troons ruined the Korean film industry
>>218214508Other way around, thrillerslop and violencesloppers of the Korean film industry are ruining kdramas.
>>218209136Mogged by Japanese TV.
>>218209136When I was in Burma
>>218209136I watched the first two eps and it was a bunch of nothing.
>>218215033Sorry there wasn't enough violence and pornography for your brain broken sensibilities.
>>218215057My fave show is My Brilliant Friend, much better than this shit.
>>218209136I swear to God I'll watch this chink shit and it'll just be generic mid tier drama with bad acting. I've seen like 3 kdramas and they were all meh. Then I come to threads like these and the gooklovers will tell me I didn't watch one of the good ones. They suggest something and the cycle repeats.
>>218209136>>he won't watch the highest rated narrative miniseries of 2025 because he hates his mother or something idkI dont like the television. It rots brain.You give bad advice. You are bad.
>>218214853Why do they all look the same?
>>218215215What 3 kdramas?
>>218209136>>218210571how about you slit your wrists gookspammer tranny
>>218215638You should watch some healing kdramas maybe you won't be so angry all of the time.
>>218215719my test levels are too high for that stuff, unfortunately.
>>218216316Toxic masculinity
>>218215094Great show but the last season really fell off. Adult Elena is such a selfish awful person and so is her husband, all the focus on them being children pretending at adulthood is vile. It's only any good once lilu shows up again. Seasons prior are top tier though.
you are mentally ill
>>218216518
batman begin
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>>218217691tangerine
>>218217947Yes, When Life Gives You Tangerines.
>>218209136Not racist. Just don't like them.Same reason I don't want toads in me country.
stick to your shitty gook general so i can filter your terrible asian fetish shit off this already terrible board.
>>218219668
But I don't like tangerines
>>218220207Good, because they're actually persimmons.
kim won-suk long time
>>218217082holy kinooooooooooooooooooodertoten great map what round you get to?
>>218210235This. Nagging doesn't make me want to do something more.
