Review | K-drama review: Yumi’s Cells – relatable romcom brings first season to surprising and emotional close
- The relationship between the leads has been the main focus of Yumi’s Cells, with the pair working through some testing times to keep their love life going
- But cracks soon begin to appear in their relationship as the series reaches its finale, and a traditional K-drama ending proves not to be on the cards
This article contains spoilers.
4/5 stars
Over the past month and a half, Yumi’s Cells has been an engaging romantic comedy putting a fresh spin on commonplace, relatable situations. But while it has featured rather low stakes, even for a romcom, something unexpected happened over its last two weeks.
Yumi (Kim Go-eun) and Woong’s (Ahn Bo-hyun) relationship reached a real crisis point and suddenly the romantic threat posed by Bobby Yoo (Got7’s Jin Young) became palpable.
Having a charming and sweet secondary lead appear before the heroine is a common trope in Korean romantic dramas. Usually, this romantic threat is mitigated by the comforting foreknowledge that in the closed-loop of a one-and-done Korean drama, this screen gentleman will merely be an obstacle to overcome, and consequently serve to strengthen the relationship between the leads.