You and Everything Else

You and Everything Else is a South Korean Netflix drama released on September 12, 2025. Its Korean title, Eun-jung and Sang-yeon, identifies the pair at the center of the story: Ryu Eun-jung and Cheon Sang-yeon. The series stars Kim Go-eun as Eun-jung and Park Ji-hyun as Sang-yeon, friends whose bond is repeatedly reshaped by affection, comparison, resentment, and separation. Rather than treating their reunion as a simple nostalgic event, the drama follows the women across several periods of life, returning to the emotional competition that began when they were young. Their opposing circumstances and ambitions make the friendship both sustaining and painful. Song Hye-jin wrote the series and Jo Young-min directed it. Their production places the plot's present-day crisis alongside memories that explain why the two protagonists cannot meet on equal terms. Eun-jung becomes a television writer, while Sang-yeon works as a successful film producer; that professional distance intensifies a rivalry that has never entirely disappeared. The show does not reduce Sang-yeon's return to a career update. She approaches Eun-jung with an extraordinary request: accompany her to Switzerland as she plans to end her life through assisted dying. The request forces them to revisit old wounds and confront what their friendship has meant. The central performances bring together two actors known to Korean audiences for markedly different recent work. Kim Go-eun previously led Netflix's Little Women and the television adaptation of Yumi's Cells, while Park Ji-hyun appeared in Reborn Rich and played the formidable rival in Celebrity. In You and Everything Else, neither performer is merely a supporting reflection of the other: Eun-jung's viewpoint and Sang-yeon's decisions drive the narrative's changing balance. Kim Gun-woo, known internationally from The Glory, is also part of the cast as Kim Sang-hak. The series uses the women's long shared history, rather than a new romance or a workplace mystery, as its organizing dramatic question. Released worldwide by Netflix, the drama is structured around the uneasy meaning of "everything else" in its English title: the accumulated experiences beyond any single argument or reconciliation. Its specific premise gives the series unusual stakes. A friendship that has survived childhood envy, adult achievement, estrangement, and renewed contact must now absorb Sang-yeon's final decision. Eun-jung's choice about the journey to Switzerland turns a private history into an immediate moral and emotional test, making the reunion the beginning of the story's hardest conversation between friends who once understood each other.