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 Netflix’s latest K-drama, When Life Gives You Tangerines, is a 16-episode series that releases four episodes every week, so we can wait in agony to find out what happens next. The first volume of the show is split into two timelines, basically Ae-Sun’s childhood and then later on, her conversation with her daughter in retrospect about her life back then.  The show begins with 70-year-old Ae-Sun having to write a poem in what looks like a nursing home or possibly a senior retreat. At this point, we don’t know, but all Ae-Sun ever dreamed of was becoming a poet in the 1950s on a small island called Jeju. But right now, she can’t seem to write anything; instead, she colors her canvas blue, like the ocean she hated so much as a child. Soon, we are transported to the 1950s, where 10-year-old Ae-Sun calls her mother, who is out diving for abalones. This is where the story begins, and it seems like this is where it will end, but I don't want to cry about it just yet. But with that b...