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Title: Daily Dose of Sunshine / Morning Comes to Psychiatric Wards Too
Episodes: 12
Genre: Slice of life, Mental health, Medical, Romance
Director: Lee Jae Kyu
Writer: Lee Ra Ha, Lee Nam Kyu, Oh Bo Hyun, Kim Da Hee
Network: Netflix
Adaptation from: webcomic of the same title by Lee Ra Ha
Casts: Park Bo Young, Yeon Woo Jin, Jang Dong Yoon, Lee Jung Eun, Lee E Dam, Lee Sang Hee, Park Ji Yeon, Jeon Bae Su
Plot (credited to AsianWiki):
Jung Da-Eun works as a nurse. She is transferred to neuropsychiatry from the internal medicine department. This is her first time working in neuropsychiatry, so everything is difficult and awkward for her. Nevertheless, Jung Da-Eun tries her best to deal with the patients and she grows as a nurse with the help of Chief Nurse Song Hyo-Jin. Dong Go-Yun works as a doctor and specializes in proctology. Watching Nurse Jung Da-Eun and her pure ways, Dong Go-Yun realizes that he smiles when seeing her and is even healed by her.
Meanwhile Jung Da-Eun is friends with Song Yu-Chan. He looks like a very bright person, but he holds pain inside that nobody knows about.
**THIS REVIEW MIGHT CONTAIN SPOILERS**
As the story takes place in the psychiatric wards, this drama deals with heavy topics of mental health. Some people might be uncomfortable dealing with such a topic and some drama content might be triggering.
The drama revolves around Jung Da Eun, a nurse who changed her program from internal medicine ward to psychiatric wards for an unknown reason. As every ward had their own procedures, Da Eun had to learn everything again with the help of her fellow co-workers and best friend, Yu Chan. Along the way, she learnt more about the patients in the ward.
As mentioned earlier, this story can be triggering for some and I have to say, the overall story is not as sunshiny as the title. For the first half of the drama, the sunshine is there. I love how the drama portrayed the mental health situation of the patients from their perspective. It made me understand their situation more and learn more about them. In the second half of the drama, the sun was not shining at all. It was dark as Da Eun herself was dealing with grief and loss to the point she had to be admitted to the psychiatric ward.
Park Bo Young did a great job as Da Eun. I have always loved her work and this one is definitely one of my favorites. The lifelessness she portrayed when dealing with depression was hard to watch. And the strengths she mustered after being discharged from the ward were admirable. The romance of the drama was dull for me. The pairing (Da Eun and Dr. Dong) doesn't showcase any chemistry but they kinda make sense as both of them could support each other.
The drama gets as close as it can get to the reality. The reaction of the people after finding out she was a patient herself was infuriating but then that is how the way it is in this real world. People still stigmatise mental health survivors, no matter how many awareness campaigns there are. But then, I love how the drama ended on a good note.
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-thes
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