Our Blues · Season 1 · Episode 20 · 12 June 2022
S1E20 Episode 20
THE MOMENT The final scene on the Jeju shore - a closing image that earned its emotional register across twenty episodes of careful preparation.
The finale closes each story thread with the quiet earned completeness that characterised the series throughout. The resolution of Kim Woo-bin's arc, in particular, carried the weight of his real-life absence from television and the show's consistent interest in second chances and things worth surviving for.
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Our Blues Season 1 Episode 20 aired June 12, 2022 on tvN as the finale of a 20-episode anthology that peaked at 14.597% nationwide cable viewership and earned IMDb 8.6 and 85 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. The finale closes each story thread with the accumulated weight of the anthology's formal commitment: 20 episodes spent equally on each arc means the resolution of Kim Woo-bin's storyline, in particular, arrives having been given the full narrative distance it required. Woo-bin's return to television after a six-year absence due to a nasopharyngeal cancer diagnosis was the series' most-discussed human context, and the show's writing does not exploit it sentimentally but addresses his character's arc on terms consistent with the series' interest in second chances and things worth surviving for. The closing image on the Jeju shore is one of the most composed final frames in Korean television from 2022.