K-drama Now, We Are Breaking Up: Song Hye-kyo returns in tawdry romantic melodrama
- The star actress plays a fashion designer with romantic scars who tries to focus on her career despite bedding and continually running into a photographer
- An abundance of coincidences, and clichés, and a guileless romance mar a series whose storyline is so farcical it might have worked better if shot as a comedy
This article contains spoilers.
Hearkening back to the kind of romantic dramas Song cut her teeth in, the new SBS show embraces the genre’s manifold clichés: there’s an abundance of fabulous costumes, Francophilia and coincidences dressing up a melodramatic script that unfortunately lacks a compelling through-line.
Song is Ha Young-eun, the lead designer at The One, who, as the show begins, explains in voice-over about the impermanence of fashion trends before fatalistically applying that remark to everything else. “The only thing that doesn’t change is the fact that nothing is forever,” she opines.
The story starts in Busan, South Korea, during a bustling “K-fashion week”, when models, designers and the rest of the fashion glitterati descend on the glitzy high-rise-studded southern seaside metropolis.
