Lovely Runner: A Review

Lovely Runner is the drama that reminds you why you started watching kdramas at all.

Poster for the kdrama Lovely Runner

It is funny and cliched and tropey and unembarrassed by every bit of it. The colors run loud. The music sits right. The story knows what it wants to be and goes there without detours.

What it leaves out is what makes it sing. No maddening miscommunication. No toxic family looming in the wings. No manufactured angst stretched to fill the runtime. It trusts its leads and centers the people watching.

Byeon Wooseok and Kim Hye Yoon hold you from the first scene and refuse to let go. By the finale I had already moved it to the rewatch pile.

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