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When Life Gives You Tangerines

TV · 2025 · 1 season

A warm, nostalgic sweep through decades of a family's life that quietly builds deep feeling and leaves you tender.

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South Korean television series
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Class
TV
Year
2025
Seasons
1
Episodes
16
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How it feels

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Tone
  • warmstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • upliftingstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • love
  • coming-of-age
  • grief
  • class
Places
  • countryside
  • small town
  • home
Era
period
Audience
teen
Form
  • nonlinear
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour4
Realism8
Romance7
Tension4
Darkness4
Complexity5
Emotional weight8

Details

Genres
drama, romance, historical
Created by
Kim Won-seok
Written by
Lim Sang-chun
Starring
IU, Park Bo-gum, Moon So-ri, Park Hae-joon
Length
1 seasons, 16 episodes, 60 min each
Network
Netflix
Country
South Korea
Languages
Korean

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