This spring, I watched When Life Gives You Tangerines, and I honestly didn’t expect to be so fully transposed. Even though my own experience is tied to French Polynesia and the series is set in South Korea (Jeju), the depiction of island life - the good and the bad - the dream of escaping to the big city (in my case, the “Métropole”; in the series’ case, the mainland), and the struggles of adapting to that big city once you get there as an “exotic” person, all felt so familiar and well done that I cried during every episode. I’m curious - have you ever experienced something like this with a movie or series?
“Mythic Quest”. It very much mirrored the work place dynamics at the creative place I worked at for a decade. It made me question whether I was too broken and far gone to function outside of it. Time will tell.
“The Studio” is another one. I actually had to stop watching the show, because of how much anxiety it was causing me. It’s really well done.