Exploring family, friendship, and love in new promos for tvN's Our Blues

17 March 24, 2022October 4, 2022

Exploring family, friendship, and love in new promos for tvN’s Our Blues

by tccolb

With each new teaser for tvN’s upcoming omnibus Our Blues, we see more of the threads that connect the individual story lines, and I like that it feels as if we’re stepping into what life is like in their small community on Jeju Island.

In a town where everyone knows each other, for better or for worse, Park Ji-hwan (Black Dog) and Choi Young-joon (Inspector Koo) are reluctant neighbors with a longstanding feud. In the teaser, we see how their pent-up resentment often leads to petty posturing and sometimes even escalates into full-on fights.

Lee Byung-heon (Mr. Sunshine) has some fun egging them on in one such scene and Kim Woo-bin (Uncontrollably Fond) soon steps in to stop them. Park and Choi’s rivalry also inadvertently causes a Romeo-Juliet situation when their teenage kids, Bae Hyun-sung (Hospital Playlist 2) and Noh Yoon-seo, fall in love. Suffice to say, the two dads are none to pleased when they find out.

In the next teaser, we move onto Lee Jung-eun (Juvenile Justice). After reuniting with her bestie Uhm Jung-hwa (You’re Too Much, Witch’s Romance), Lee has another blast from the past when she runs into her first love Cha Seung-won (One Ordinary Day).

The two happily reminisce about their past and have fun goofing off together, just like the old days. But their reunion is bittersweet and tinged with sadness from the realities of their present, which eventually close in on their relationship. Faced with the truth, Lee Jung-eun leaves Cha Seung-won with the sad question of how much of himself is a lie.

The saying “it takes a village to raise a child” has never been more true as in our third teaser, and it’s sweet to see everyone coming together when the young Ki So-yoo (Oh My Baby) comes to stay with Granny Go Du-shim (The One and Only).

It’s not easy taking care of a child, especially when Ki isn’t used to the new food and surroundings – not to mention that Granny also has to work. Starting with an awkward Lee Byung-heon, Ki gets passed through the care of different uncles, including Kim Woo-bin as well as the more experienced dads, Choi Young-joon and Park Ji-hwan. As each day passes, though, Go worries that Ki’s mother might not come back for the child. But when a crying Ki shares the same fear, Granny Go and Kim Hye-ja (The Light in Your Eyes) can’t help but laugh at how cute she is.

Although not featured in the latest teasers, we do get a peek at Shin Mina (Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha), Han Ji-min (One Spring Night), and Uhm Jung-hwa along with the rest of the cast in the newest poster that dropped this week.

Written by Noh Hee-kyung (Live, The Most Beautiful Goodbye in the World) and co-directed by PDs Kim Kyu-tae (Live, It’s Okay, It’s Love), Kim Yang-hee, and Lee Jung-mook, Our Blues premieres on April 9.

Via KBS, Newsen (1), (2), (3)

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Tags: Cha Seung-won, Go Du-shim, Han Ji-min, Kim Hye-ja, Kim Woo-bin, Lee Byung-heon, Lee Jung-eun, Our Blues, Shin Mina, Uhm Jung-hwa

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1 miss h

March 24, 2022 at 8:16 PM

I'm so looking forward to this. I'm most intrigued by Lee Jung-eun and Cha Seung-won's story. I was getting worried because the first teasers with Shin Minha and Lee Byung-heon and then Kim Woobin and Han Ji-min didn't grab me, but the rest have been good.

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DancingEmma

March 24, 2022 at 11:08 PM

@miss h. Me too! Even if it turns out to be a drivelfest, I don’t care (I will put up with it for a while before my patience deserts me).

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PYC

March 25, 2022 at 4:45 AM

Yup, that’s the pairing I look forward to the most. Cha Sheung-won has been doing either thrillers or comedies for the past 10 years or so. I really really want to see him in a character role - he’s so good in delivering the emotional punch.

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PYC

March 25, 2022 at 4:47 AM

Plus, it’s been a while since we last saw Kim Hye-ja.

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2 Wise

March 24, 2022 at 11:36 PM

I have this uneasy feeling about how popular this drama even before it airs. With A-list actors who are almost all internationally known as it casts and world star boyband group member already confirmed to sing it ost, there is no wonder people are highly anticipating this drama. No Hee Kyung's pieces has always been a hidden gem for me. Her dramas, despite rarely being buzzed globally, it always guarantee a high quality story, beautiful directing, and solid acting from the casts. Knowing her works is like having a treasure of my own. This time too, I still want it that way. It's not like I don't want to her piece to be shown to the world, it just that i’m not willing to share if people recognize her works only because how much stellar actors on it, or supporting their idol bias who lend his voice for it ost. Noo Hee Kyung's drama is more than pretty and well known actors or good osts, both are just bonuses, but the sleek yet raw way of telling stories of life, the honesty and understanding of it, how you can see the value of life can never or should not be determined by one moment but thousand of memories, and one occurence can have multiple emotions. Love in fights, laughter at funeral, understanding of betrayal, mercy for weaknesses, healing through brokenness, how joy and sorrow could coexist, the features of life itself. I do really hope, people can see and hear this, not attractive faces on the screen or beautiful osts as it bacgrounds, but the story it will told. Set that aside, writernim last medium length dramas are 3 strikes for me (IOIL, Dear My Friends, Live). These 3 are on my top 5 favorite dramas all the time and not aoutrank each other. After 4 years of waiting her new piece I wonder if I am (or maybe some of us) lucky enough to have the fourth strike. My fingers tightly crossed for this one.

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3 javinne

March 25, 2022 at 12:06 AM

With this cast, iI would watch anything!

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4 jerrykuvira

March 25, 2022 at 4:17 AM

This is a star studded cast. And Noh Hee-kyung's tight and solid writing has been praised. There's no going back on this one. Even Kim Hye-ja is here...there's little to resist.

I hope the PD knows how to handle A-list cast series.

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5 Kafiyah Bello

March 25, 2022 at 4:31 AM

Just a smorgasbord of talent. This looks fun.

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6 PYC

March 25, 2022 at 4:49 AM

To me, the biggest question - is it on Netflix?

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wapz

March 25, 2022 at 5:15 AM

Please be on Netflix. I've been thinking all along it will be there but there's no sign yet.

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halofan68

March 25, 2022 at 7:35 AM

Just resign yourself, like I do, that it's either Fruit or Rodent. You'll have already experienced the disappointment if proven true or you will be pleasantly surprised.