🔥For slow Sunday nights: Between Steps
If you want something loud and fast this autumn, skip this. If you want a drama for the kind of evening where you make tea and do nothing else, Between Steps (연애박사) is the one I'd point you to. It's the last drama by director Ahn Pan Seok, the man behind Something in the Rain and One Spring Night. You can feel it in every shot. Long silences, people eating together in a student cafeteria, conversations that stop halfway. Choo Young Woo plays Park Min Jae, a former swimmer who lost his right leg to illness, and Kim So Hyun plays Im Yoo Jin, a graduate student who has lost her direction. They meet in a robotics lab.
The ratings are not kind. It started at 1.8%, went up to 2.4%, and episode 3, the one right after their first kiss, dropped to 2.1%. Tenasia's headline basically said "they kissed and the ratings went down." I understand why. Nothing explodes, and Ahn's style was never built for a channel-surfing audience. But that is exactly the mood I'm recommending it for. Episode 4 is out on the 13th with the ring box scene from the new stills, and I'll be watching it slowly, the way it wants to be watched.
🔎 Ref
- 🔗Tenasia — 추영우♥김소현, 키스했는데 시청률은 하락 2.4%→2.1% ('연애박사')https://www.tenasia.co.kr/article/2026101384944
- 🔗Soompi — Kim So Hyun And Choo Young Woo Face Each Other In Awkward Silence In "Between Steps"https://www.soompi.com/article/1877626wpp/kim-so-hyun-and-choo-young-woo-face-each-other-in-awkward-silence-in-between-steps
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