Yay, the fall romances are on their way! Finally, the dramas I’ve been waiting for all summer are about to premiere, starting with SBS’s Temperature of Love this week. I haven’t been finishing a lot of dramas lately, so I’m hoping that this new crop of shows will hook me from the start and have some staying power.
Temperature of Love
Time slot: Monday & Tuesday
Broadcaster: SBS
Genre: Romance
Episode count: 40 (half-hour episodes, 20 hours in total)
Reasons to watch: Seo Hyun-jin, of course. We’ve come to expect a certain kind of drama heroine when Seo Hyun-jin is cast—relatable, flawed, and achingly real—and I expect no less from her this time around. The thoughtful contemporary romance seems tailor-made for her to be another everygirl we can all fall in love with, and I’m also looking forward to her reunion with rookie actor Yang Se-jong, who turned me into a fan after his riveting performance as a set of clones in Duel. Judging from the pre-show promo they’ve got chemistry in spades, and I plan to enjoy every moment of their on-again, off-again romance as they work their way towards being at the same relationship temperature at the same time.
I have mixed feelings about writer Ha Myung-hee, who’s adapting her own novel for this latest project; I did enjoy Doctors and High Society, but found that basically anything outside of the one or two main romances was entirely superfluous. I’ll admit that I already care more about Seo Hyun-jin’s character becoming a drama writer than Park Shin-hye being a doctor or UEE being a chaebol, so that’s something. But really, we’re here to see how this couple falls in and out of love, so let’s skip straight to the good stuff, shall we?