As the adage goes, with friends like these, who needs enemies? This certainly applies to the female protagonists of You and Everything Else. In the new limited K-drama series on Netflix, Kim Go-eun (Little Women) and Park Ji-hyun (Flex X Cop) play childhood friends whose love-hate relationship suffers through all manner of challenges and rivalries over the course of several decades.

Written by Song Hye-jin (The Smile Has Left Your Eyes) and directed by Jo Young-min (Do You Like Brahms?), this unabashedly melodramatic roller coaster chronicles their lives as they are repeatedly torn apart and thrown back together through a series of life’s challenges – some unavoidable, others very much of their own making.

Read my South China Morning Post review