Family relationships are complicated enough. Now imagine being the only person in your house who can hear. That’s Ha Eun-gyeol’s reality in 'Twinkling Watermelon', a K-drama that hits way deeper than your usual time-travel fantasy. On the surface, it’s got all the cool stuff: guitars, teenage chaos, emotional reunions. But dig a little deeper, and it’s a total masterclass on love, disability, and the things parents and kids never quite manage to say out loud.

Eun-gyeol is what’s known as a CODA (a Child of Deaf Adults). He’s the translator, the peacekeeper, the one constantly bridging the gap between his deaf family and the hearing world. Basically, he’s been adulting since before he even got a chance to be a kid. By day, he’s a model student; by night, he’s shredding it on guitar. Then,

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