Contract Marriage and Pygmalion Stories: She and Her Perfect Husband (2022) Flight to You (2023)
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It occurred to me after watching the finale of She and Her Perfect Husband what’s been wrong with so many K dramas resolutions of late. A show goes merrily along on its way — all fairytale-like complete with soap opera high jinks and then voila right in the final act/phase, the showrunners decide that a dose of realism needs to be injected right at the end to bring us all back down to earth with a thud. The show breaks immersion, the audience suffers whiplash and some of us wonder what it is we’ve been watching. It also breaks the social contract between viewer and writer about the promise of escapism and what that looks like. That famous line often attributed GK Chesterton certainly applies here. “Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.” That insight would go a long way in explaining the outrage against “bad endings”.
Contract Marriage and Pygmalion Stories: She and Her Perfect Husband (2022) Flight to You (2023)
Contract Marriage and Pygmalion Stories: She…
Contract Marriage and Pygmalion Stories: She and Her Perfect Husband (2022) Flight to You (2023)
It occurred to me after watching the finale of She and Her Perfect Husband what’s been wrong with so many K dramas resolutions of late. A show goes merrily along on its way — all fairytale-like complete with soap opera high jinks and then voila right in the final act/phase, the showrunners decide that a dose of realism needs to be injected right at the end to bring us all back down to earth with a thud. The show breaks immersion, the audience suffers whiplash and some of us wonder what it is we’ve been watching. It also breaks the social contract between viewer and writer about the promise of escapism and what that looks like. That famous line often attributed GK Chesterton certainly applies here. “Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.” That insight would go a long way in explaining the outrage against “bad endings”.