Castaway Diva Review: A Story About Surviving, Dreaming, and Still Choosing to Try
Some K-dramas grab you from the very first episode. Castaway Diva wasn't one of them for me. In fact, when I started watching it, I wasn't particularly impressed by the opening. There were two schoolgirls asking people about their phone battery and then using one of the boys in their class to make a call. The whole fangirl-like situation and some of the opinions surrounding the girls didn't really work for me. I remember thinking that I wasn't sure I would enjoy this drama. But I kept watching. And somewhere between one episode and the next, Castaway Diva slowly pulled me in. Not with a dramatic hook, but with its characters, their stories, their wounds, and most importantly, their determination to keep living despite everything life had taken away from them. My first reason for watching: Park Eun-bin I already had a soft ...