Mid and me
There's a Pie: Gilmore Girls
People Who Get Out of Bed Too Soon: Will & Grace
Falling in Love with Someone: The Office
It can't be helped: Community
Scary Life: Seinfeld
Someone You Can't Just Hate: We Need a Vice President Veep
Elegant Horror: Mad Men
The Shape of the World: Lost
In a Recurring Nightmare: True Detective
The Pain of Being Happy: House, MD
Wrong Choices: Ozark and Breaking Bad
Heart of Love: Twin Peaks
One Hurt, One Lesson: Angry People BEEF
men
women
The untold story

Novelist Son Bo-mi's first solo essay
His own way of embracing this incomprehensible world
Anyway, the story of Mid

The first solo essay by novelist Son Bo-mi, who has established her own unique style of writing by sweeping major domestic literary awards such as the Hankook Ilbo Literary Award, Daesan Literary Award, Yi Sang Literary Award, and Young Writer's Award.
'The world that made me, the world that I made' Anyway, this is the 68th book in the series, and it tells the story of the American drama series that he has loved for a long time, in a personal language different from the novels he has published so far.

“That’s why I fell in love with them.
How could something like that happen?”

The author's love of American dramas began with [Lost], which first aired on ABC in the United States in 2004, but his memories of American dramas go back much further.
Foreign series like "Detective Monk," "Beverly Hills, 90210," and "Kevin the Platypus" were the ones that would play on the TV on weekday evenings or weekend afternoons. In a time when platform services like OTT didn't exist, the worlds of "Sex and the City," "Queer as Folk," and "Friends," which I had to find with difficulty, were truly a new world.
“One of the things that struck me most about the show at the time was the sheer breadth of its subject matter and material.
It seemed like there were no limits.
Politics, relationships, sexual identity, pseudo-family, and more, from the very conservative to the very radical.”

As he begins to become seriously immersed in the drama, his personality, which had previously been quite shy, also begins to change.
“Because of the mid, I meet and talk to strangers,” and even participate in #middang activities on Twitter.
And these changes, big and small, later influenced his novels.
All of this happened because I loved it so much.

“[Lost] was the first American drama that I eagerly awaited the start of a new season, researched information about during the hiatus, and became passionate about the director and actors.
[Lost] actually had an impact on my life, one of the reasons I started swing dancing was because of the show.
I liked the music that appeared in an episode of [Lost], so I looked it up and found out about the genre called 'swing jazz'. I was curious about that genre, so I looked it up and found out about 'swing dance'.
Starting with the club I found that way, I danced for over six years and wrote a novel called "Lindy Hop for Them."
And that novel became the title piece of my first collection of short stories.”

Mid, a puzzle piece that completes the Son Bo-mi universe
Fourteen meads and the names that live forever within them

Among the many charms of the medium, the author focuses on the 'story' as a way to reproduce our lives, "just like a novel."
In a world of dramas that go beyond anything you can imagine, it's not the ingenious settings or the provocative events that always capture his heart.
In it, there are people who cry, laugh, fight, reconcile, hate, and love.
They are all so human, each with their own inevitable deficiencies and flaws, and they eventually become part of our reality and spread out.

"Perhaps this is precisely why people read novels or watch dramas? To make someone's time stay there forever.
Whenever I open a book or play a drama, they are always there.
Good days, sad days, wounds that can't be washed away, mistakes that can't be repaired, hearts that fall apart, hands reaching out to each other, and then again good days, sad days, wounds that can't be washed away, mistakes that can't be repaired, hearts that fall apart, hands reaching out again...
They stay in the letters, on the screen, forever like that.
Live forever.
Maybe that's why I watch certain dramas over and over again."

Everybody lies.
This is a famous line from Dr. House, the main character of [House].
Under the harsh proposition that "all humans lie," one feels that the end of this incomprehensible life cannot but be despair, but writer Son Bo-mi reads a hint of hope that must exist somewhere in the characters in the drama, each of whom is flawed for their own reasons, whether they are villains or criminals.
In that sense, 'Mid' is a piece of the puzzle that made him who he is today, and this book will be the key to entering the 'Son Bo-mi Universe'.
As we follow the fourteen stories he tells, we can glimpse the little secrets of life, such as what it means to love one's life and why we must never give up on one another.

“I was once obsessed with the idea that death was not an accident, but that survival was an accident.
After publishing 『Elegant Night and Cats』, I said this in an interview.
“If we survive purely by being good at picking, what meaning does our life have?” At the time, I said I was writing a novel because I wanted to know that, but I confess I don’t know if that’s the true answer.
Of course, many have already said this.
That's why some people write novels and why some people still read novels.
Giving meaning to an incomprehensible world.
But even then, there is still a gap that remains.
No matter how much we read or write, we cannot know the will of God or nature.
This is exactly what [Twin Peaks] shows us.
A world of empty holes that remain no matter how you name it.
“A world full of unpredictable events.”