TV Series2024 · 1 season · 8 episodes · Ended

Love In The Big City

Name: Love In The Big City
Genre: Drama
Cast: Nam Yoon-su

Taste attributes: dramacomedygay/lesbianromancefresh & originalwholesomerealisticlinearenclosedemotive & stirringcomplex relationshiplove conquers all

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Boxlist takeExpect a moving, contained drama series, grounded rather than fantastical. Best if you like close-up stories over spectacle.

Taste details

Pace: balanced · Originality: fresh · Tone: wholesome · Weight: balanced · Realism: true to life · Story: balanced · Structure: linear · Look: balanced · Scale: confined · Emotional punch: very stirringHow we score

Quality rating

9.0 /10

TMDB · 30 votes

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Season

Season 1

· 2024 · 8 episodes

Go Young, a gay Korean man, lives with Choi Mi-ae, a straight woman. Through Mi-ae's eyes, Go Young embarks on a journey of personal growth. He struggles with his relationship with his mother, who's in denial about his sexual orientation, and is forced to part ways with his lover Gyu-ho due to societal pressure. Recovering from his breakup, Go Young takes a trip to Thailand with a stranger, and manages to learn more about himself in the process.

Episodes (8)

1Mi-ae (1)21 Oct 2024
Go Young meets his cohabitation mate, Choi Mi-ae at the age of twenty, along with photographer Kim Nam-gyu. After experiencing clumsy relationships and loss, he finally comes to realize a precious lesson.
2Mi-ae (2)21 Oct 2024
Go Young meets his cohabitation mate, Choi Mi-ae at the age of twenty, along with photographer Kim Nam-kyu. After experiencing clumsy relationships and loss, he finally comes to realize a precious lesson.
3On the Tip of Your Tongue Is the Taste of the Universe (1)21 Oct 2024
The two people who deny the existence of Go Young are his mother, Eun-suk, who is battling cancer, and his lover, Yeong-su, whom he met in a philosophy class, with whom he shares an age gap. The love he feels from them is a...
4On the Tip of Your Tongue Is the Taste of the Universe (2)21 Oct 2024
The two people who deny the existence of Go Young are his mother, Eun-suk, who is battling cancer, and his lover, Yeong-su, whom he met in a philosophy class, with whom he shares an age gap. The love he feels from them is a...
5Love in the Big City (1)21 Oct 2024
A once-in-a-lifetime, ordinary yet complete love between Go Young and bartender Gyu-ho.
6Love in the Big City (2)21 Oct 2024
A once-in-a-lifetime, ordinary yet complete love between Go Young and bartender Gyu-ho.
7Late Rainy Season (1)21 Oct 2024
Go Young, while following a foreigner named 'Habibi' whom he met through an app in Bangkok, suddenly remembers the past with Gyu-ho, who is no longer by his side. It’s impossible to turn back...
8Late Rainy Season (2)21 Oct 2024
Go Young, while following a foreigner named 'Habibi' whom he met through an app in Bangkok, suddenly remembers the past with Gyu-ho, who is no longer by his side. It’s impossible to turn back...

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Originality: Fresh / original, just how this profile likes it
Setting / scale: Small / confined, just how this profile likes it

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Synopsis

An audacious tale of two roommates, one a gay man and another a straight woman. A decade-spanning self-discovery journey, stories of laughter, tears, and wounds between a mother in denial of her son's sexuality and his being unable to escape societal judgment.

Synopsis: TMDB