Dropped Midnight studio (left) and decided to read recaps instead. I actually soldiered on with Now, it's Showtime and I want my time back, even if I fast forwarded and skipped a lot of scenes 😅 Too many filler scenes, uneven story telling which didn't manage the comedy and angst well. And worse of all, boring 😅. With Midnight Studio I got bored by the 4th ep because I just knew where the story was going, and judging by the recaps I was right.
These are the #Kdramas and #Cdramas that I plan to catch up with this year. I have a feeling I may end up dropping The Legends, because I have very little patience for xianxia, but since it stars Xu Kai maybe I'll give it more of a chance :P
@liztai It is fascinating to me how dramas that become ‘special’ to me emerge. Such alchemy!
Example: I’m watching a ‘typical’ time-slip murder-mystery kdrama called My Perfect Stranger on Viki. Low budget. 16 episodes. No hype. Good acting chemistry but not spectacular. But somehow the script is very strong (same writer behind Tale of Nokdu). And I still can’t predict whodunnit and am nearly finished! Addictive!
For #KPopMonday theme #OST here is 'Give You My Heart' from the 'Crash Landing On You' soundtrack.
Here IU sings to a very lucky fan (and well-deserved) who was invited on stage during the fan concert for the very unique costume (notice how IU trying very hard not to laugh looking at the fan's costume):
Watching From now on, showtime! to balance out the heaviness of #JoyOfLife2. I would watch anything with this actor. He's that good! So far, liking it 😁
@AnnaAnthro Probably on purpose because he likes trying different things and I think also he doesn’t want to be pigeonholed. So it’s very on-brand for him to do Something Completely Different for what’s essentially a comeback role.
I think he’ll be the lead in a romantic comedy sageuk set to air later this year, which is a little more conventional, for him.
I watched Death's Game after Lee Sun-Kyun's death, and it made me really reflect about the consequences of a suicide on the survivors. A stellar story in eight episodes.
Just finished Tale of the Nine-Tailed 1938, and it was a delight for Rang to finally get that happy ending he deserved. The first Nine Tailed was bittersweet and I felt shattered for his sake, even if it was a fitting ending for him. This drama was the perfect love letter for his character.
And dangit, Lee Dong Wook needs to do more dramas with long, flowing hair. He rocks that look.
Though I have to say ... it is a tad on the nose with the nationalistic fervour, though it is perfectly understandable for that period when Korea was colonised by Japan. Now, if this was a #CDrama, I know that they'd be shouts of "I'm not watching this because it's propaganda" already lol
A woman is given the chance to relive her life and get back at the people who ruined her life.
This is a super fun makjang #KDrama that didn't take itself too seriously.
For those of you not aware, there is a whole genre of Korean historical fiction about the invention of Hangeul, the Korean alphabet, because the real-life story behind the invention of Hangeul is “an incredibly sophisticated and super-secret linguistics project carried out centuries before the field of linguistics was actually invented.”
It was also revolutionary in that it made literacy accessible to commoners who didn’t have the resources to learn Chinese.
THE KING’S LETTERS has King Sejong secretly teaming up with Buddhist monks.
In TREE WITH DEEP ROOTS his work is organized into cells of scholars who don’t know the whole scope of the project, and there is a scene involving a dissection (which would have been sacreligious in a Confucian country back then) so he can diagram the anatomy of the mouth and throat.
Stubbornly watching Sunrise on the River and I’m now at episode 11. It may not be cracktastic like In Blossom, but the cases are good and the acting is stellar.
As you can see I’m trying to stockpile episodes of In Blossoms so that I can survive the one-episode-per-day drought of next week lol.
Which is funny when you think about it. I still remember the days when I watched #Kdramas and it was two measley episodes per week. I have been horribly spoiled by #Cdramas.
I don't know why but I am still thinking of Lee Sun-kyun. I feel so sad for him still 😢
I got to know him very, very early. Through the dramas Coffee Prince (2007) and Pasta (2010). Was lovely to see his star rise over the years and was genuinely happy for him when Parasite became a big hit.