(Tone: Honest) As always- a supreme review; thank you for sharing!! 🙏 I must admit 응답하라 1988 (Reply ⬅️) is the only one that truly stuck with me and the only one I have watched more than once. (Tone: Reflective) I’d say that, for me it would fall into the BEST trilogy category because it doesn’t follow the same characters (subjective on my part); if it did the time gaps between the dramas could have created dissatisfaction like if you’re planning to meet a friend for coffee and their younger sibling shows up in their stead unplanned. If the “Reply Series” were released these days there are so many things that wouldn’t fly and social media/public opinion/ the backdrop of the times we’re living would have made the series unbearable; so it is also the BEST in that it can stand the test of time without creating too much outrage– just my two cents!
(Tone: Grateful) Thanks again for writing and for indulging my words! 💜🖤✌🏼
Reply 1988 is one of my most favourite series ever. I know a lot of people who found the pace a little slow and the series a little boring, but I think it embodies what a slice-of-life drama should be.
I do have a question—is there an order to watching this? Should you watch it by year or does it even matter? (I haven't seen 1997 or 1994, so I'm wondering.)
To this date, Reply 1994 remains to be the only installment I've completed in the series hence my sentimental attachment to it. I might revisit the other two one of these days but 1988 was a hard watch for me for the first 4 episodes because I found Deok-sun really loud and annoying (apparently a common trait of the Reply FLs).
I've only watched 1988 (even with that hair isn't Park BoGum just a doll? And I also love Choi MooSung in every thing I've seen him in), but just finished Trot Lovers with Jung EunJi and liked it a lot, so I'll definitely put the other two on my Plan to Watch list. I graduated high school in 1986, so that's why I chose to watch 88. While circumstances were different than growing up in the US, the little things made it so similar to my life at the time. Event TV, rotary phones, just walking into your neighbor's house, VCRs…
i’ve only watched Reply 1988 so not reading all this yet due to the spoilers but i’m excited to learn that Reply 1997 was actually the first one of them!! i know what one i’ll start next now!!
(Tone: Honest) As always- a supreme review; thank you for sharing!! 🙏 I must admit 응답하라 1988 (Reply ⬅️) is the only one that truly stuck with me and the only one I have watched more than once. (Tone: Reflective) I’d say that, for me it would fall into the BEST trilogy category because it doesn’t follow the same characters (subjective on my part); if it did the time gaps between the dramas could have created dissatisfaction like if you’re planning to meet a friend for coffee and their younger sibling shows up in their stead unplanned. If the “Reply Series” were released these days there are so many things that wouldn’t fly and social media/public opinion/ the backdrop of the times we’re living would have made the series unbearable; so it is also the BEST in that it can stand the test of time without creating too much outrage– just my two cents!
(Tone: Grateful) Thanks again for writing and for indulging my words! 💜🖤✌🏼
Reply 1988 is one of my most favourite series ever. I know a lot of people who found the pace a little slow and the series a little boring, but I think it embodies what a slice-of-life drama should be.
I do have a question—is there an order to watching this? Should you watch it by year or does it even matter? (I haven't seen 1997 or 1994, so I'm wondering.)
To this date, Reply 1994 remains to be the only installment I've completed in the series hence my sentimental attachment to it. I might revisit the other two one of these days but 1988 was a hard watch for me for the first 4 episodes because I found Deok-sun really loud and annoying (apparently a common trait of the Reply FLs).
I've only watched 1988 (even with that hair isn't Park BoGum just a doll? And I also love Choi MooSung in every thing I've seen him in), but just finished Trot Lovers with Jung EunJi and liked it a lot, so I'll definitely put the other two on my Plan to Watch list. I graduated high school in 1986, so that's why I chose to watch 88. While circumstances were different than growing up in the US, the little things made it so similar to my life at the time. Event TV, rotary phones, just walking into your neighbor's house, VCRs…
i’ve only watched Reply 1988 so not reading all this yet due to the spoilers but i’m excited to learn that Reply 1997 was actually the first one of them!! i know what one i’ll start next now!!