You must have felt like a fish out of water watching with your very highly comported friend 😅. I can imagine. Laugh out loud in peace please :)

Maybe she put it on mute as she might sound terrible when she laughs I definitely do make the weirdest sounds🤣

OMG, I will be super aware and uncomfortable. (I laughed till I wheezed while watching that show)

That must have been awkward. 😂 I'm very big on reactions when I watch a movie or a drama, and that's why I prefer to watch alone most of the time.
But there's the occasional knock at my door that my laughter/voice has transcended the realms of my room. 😀

my daughter came upstairs to see what the heck i was guffawing at - i literally had tears in my eyes.... loved Waikiki !!!

well, at least your friend liked it! it only gets sillier!!!!

The issue with the second season is the cast heard about it on the media... PEB is the main actress and they didn't even talk to her about it. They put a lot of pressure on her shoulders.

Did you mean Lee Jung Jae?

They may be able to recast a supporting actor or two, but PEB? No way would that work IMO.

i love your intelligent brain you share with us. i love the things i learn just from reading your posts and going oh that's why it is that way. thank you!

I just finished HomeCha and loved it to pieces! Those nosy neighbors grew on me, and I cried so much in the last two eps. This is actually the first time that I think about the fact that we need to be part of a community in order to be truly happy. I share this same sentiment with Twinnie @carlybisek.

I have an opinion that, to me, HomeCha seems to represent summer, whereas When the Weather is Fine winter. Now I’m looking forward to having some shows that can represent spring and autumn that share the same relaxing vibe as the two mentioned.

no rain - drought or
fast rain - cloud burst style - floods - flash floods

Never seen both -

Years back - huge flood - one of the biggest -
starting of this autumn - huge flood - same as before - but more media attention maybe. adding more media liked words.

what reforms, what policy changes, what disaster management ?

any!!? any? ever thought about it?

You get what you deserve - Your actions make for your future.

XI - CCP - drought - Well, ccp has money to make artificial rain.
XI really is in his own made troubles which he shouldn't be.
In 2018 i said Hong Kong is done for -
In 2022 - i say - small fry is also done for - This is XI's ticket to get back into game.
Doses - with least efficacy forced lockdowns over and over 0 common man is already cornered - that's why you could see voices against ccp few months back. nationalist fervour is good to fool others, not to fool yourself.
Same with whole banking system - which is way more over leveraged in real estate - and its in news since 2010 - Stock market which no one has trust in - investment schemes where scams are abundant.

As long as you keep people happy, as long as money is in their hands - they not care much about other things at all. But financial pinch strikes way more hard than anything else.

That's why inflation is biggest danger to any leader or government.

Inflation - makes things happen - the real fun indicator.

Agreed. Been pulling my hair whenever I see certains drama only available in Disney+ 😓. And yet, you do have those in your subscription but it still not watchable just bcoz you are in different region 😭🤦🏻‍♀️.

I was thinking that a resourceful young Beanie or Minion (not me!) could follow up with Disney and find out WHY they don’t stream kdrama in the US. Possibly contact the writer who covers kdrama news for Variety or another Hollywood industry publication (or even the Wall Street Journal) and find out what they know, or even plant the seed for a story about it with them. It would be a great service to Beaniedom!

I admire y'all who only watch dramas legally. People always complain about Disney+, but Netflix geo-blocks dramas too.

it's a money pit. you signed and paid up to watch the shows and you get a geo-block. not fair consumer practice. Then you get a VPN, only to be told it is illegal. One wants to stay above board, why are they making it difficult?

I think it was Healer’s last episode. It’s currently at 11,000+ comments

That’s really funny, 930 puts all the current dramas like Extraordinary and Alchemy in the shade until you hear Healer’s figures. I think it shows the traffic on the site in that era as I assume that was signed up members and the guest visitors.

I also wonder how many were critiquing the quality of the story, acting and writing and how many were just happy to share ideas with others who were loving or hating the show and trying to work out the finer details of the plot.

Healer is untouchable, but The Liar and His Lover Episode 16 has 2,833 comments.

Healer finale! 11269 currently lol

Healer recaps blew up after Episode 8 and all had consistently over 1000.
Next overall would be the Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo recaps- every second one of these had over 1000 starting at about episode 7.
The City Hunter recaps also got over a thousand at the end.
But the only other ones that got higher than 2k other than Healer I think were the TLAHL finale as mentioned ^, and the Just Between Lovers thread- but JBL wasn't recapped, so fans picked a news thread and camped there all show haha.

I used to have this in a doc somewhere but I can't find it >.<
I've always meant to make a proper list of them all, overall most commented vs single threads etc.

I found it is hard to mess up lasagna. I have made it before replacing the noodles with thin layers of sliced potato.

I make a killer veggie lasagna - even my meat for every meal brother in law went for seconds. The water bath method is critically important for custard (for flan at least). Buona Fortuna!

I think @katakwasabi liked it, too.

I saw the 6 ep version and thought the story was not bad until I read in twitter that Coupang did the director dirty by editing away many scenes, which if included would have made the story a whole lot better because those scenes were to depict Anna's repressed emotions and the reason behind her actions.

Makjangs are fun, watch them with no shame. If we think of them as some kind of comedy they're perfect 😂

I feel you, everytime I rewatch something I'm like "I'm wasting time, I should be watching something new, I'm so behind with dramas", and then I hit the play button.

You made me want to rewatch The IT Crowd, again.

I agree with @enriquequierecagar if it brings you joy why not rewatch as often as you need to. Life is short so why not do something guaranteed to bring joy. I am doing a lot of live watching but I it’s mainly for the shared experience for the conversation if I could do a watch party on oldies like The best hit I would be all over it. They are comedy gold or pure rom com & so much better than having to watch out for the Truck of doom or being on random stalker alert.

Sounds to me like you have plenty of lovely real life events to be focused on but it may be a time issues anyway.

It might be better to wait and binge watch the first four episodes of each show on your return. It is much easier to make an informed decision on which to continue and which to drop when you are a few episodes in. If you watch the first two and they are great and then go away and come back excited to see what happened only to discover it went down hill you will probably feel more disappointed than if you deal with it in one go after an epic trip.

First of all, how did YOU KNOW! I have actually done a couple of Pitch Meeting styled shitposts before for certain dramas LMAO
Second of all, I've actually though about starting one of said channels for kdramas, but like... don't like the format or YT enough for that, nor do I have the time or energy. (Dylan is in Trouble should get into kdramas instead, to save *me* the trouble.)