Netflix’s latest K-drama, When Life Gives You Tangerines, is a 16-episode series releasing four episodes every week, so we can wait in agony to find out what’s happening next. The first volume of the show is divided into two timelines, basically Ae-Sun’s childhood and then, later, her talking to her daughter in retrospect about her life back in the day. The show begins with a 70-year-old Ae-Sun having to write a poem in what looks like an old-age home or possibly a senior citizens’ retreat. At this point, we don’t know this, but all Ae-Sun ever dreamt of was to become a poet in the 1950s on a tiny island called Jeju. But at the moment, she can’t seem to write anything; instead, she colors her canvas blue, like the ocean she so hated as a child. Soon, we are transported to the 1950s, where...