tvN Fri-Sat Night Drama Happiness Ends its Underrated Run But with Plenty of Cult Fan Love and Laments for How Poorly it was Promoted.
Very disappointed that Miss Koala hasn’t even watched the drama but give a rating based on viewers’ ratings and comments. So I don’t mind being shown what kind of happiness we can get if we unsubscribe to the unrealistic expectations we set for ourselves. It’s almost tragic how the final episode looks like paradise to those of us who grew up afraid of letting go. Besides, there was nothing fully over-the-top happy about each family’s ending: learning dance moves from your rebellious daughter, quitting a prestigious job and neighborhood, letting your son “find himself” in another country, or allowing your kid to skip night classes every now and then–if you think about it, they’re all simple joys. But I think SKY Castle wanted to paint how absurdly obsessed most of us are with credentials and achievements then show us what’s possible if we step out of that high-pressure bubble. It’s almost tonal whiplash compared to the Drama with a capital D throughout the whole show. “At first it felt too wholesome to have all families find their happiness. Just to share this very perceptive take of Sky Castle’s finale from another drama website: Anyone who hasn’t watched Sky Castle yet needs to change that, highly recommended! It’s truly been an excellent drama, best drama of 2018 together with My Mister! Of Memories of Alhambra or Korean Odyssey. Society is not kind to high school drop outs and sooner or later they all have to enter society so a break would have been more “reasonable”.īut really this ending was nowhere bad, it’s a masterpiece compared to the truly awful endings The only small complaint I have is that the last episode was a bit too idealistic, I did not agree with the last minute drop out by a certain someone even if I understand where that person was coming from. It did not work too great as a stand-alone episode. I think it was more that it disrupted the flow to air this epilogue a week after the intense episode 19, it would have been much better to air them as originally planned. It was a pretty good finale in my opinion, one that made sense and was in line with the message the drama wanted to send out from the very beginning. As it was the finale was pretty much an epilogue that was meant to give us closure. Everything was wrapped up in episode 19, maybe they expected some grand twist due to the cliffhanger at the end of ep 19 but honestly nothing else would have made sense and that would have destroyed the drama as a whole. Honestly I don’t know what ppl were expecting of the final episode.