Beanie level: Rooftop room dweller

for crying out loud… i was having brainthings watching 3 makjang dramas w/cheating husbands. and now i just started Atypical Family and there’s elements of time leap that’s going to mess with my head while also watching Lovely Runner….

i hope trying to stay focussed on which drama has who doing what to whom will help prevent early onset of alzheimer’s, or it’s contributing to my expected age-related onset of dementia.

*harumph*

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    Same same but different⁉️

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    I’ve come to realize that so many Kdramas are the same things but just different delivery, e.g. When Kdramaland had that phase of random unnecessary serial killer trope in a handful of dramas previously.
    It’s a part of the reason why I have pulled back from Kdramas so much— I watch only 1 a year, maybe even less. The last one I watched was “Extraordinary Attorney Woo” and before that, I don’t even know what Kdrama I had watched or when it was

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    Kdrama . . . It’s not for sissies! 🤯

    Seriously, good luck keeping it all straight 🤦🏼‍♀️ I feel you!

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is this meta?
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LR ep 8… on my second rewatch I noticed he\’s winding the clock counter- clockwise…
*rolls eyes*

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Lovely Runner – much happened in the early eps, i wondered what else could fill the rest. this drama is surprising me with all the new elements… LOVE this drama so much – 8 more eps, YAY!

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QoT ep15 LOVED the community celebration with the PPLs placed as raffle prizes!!! wish all dramas can create such an OFFLOAD opportunity….

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while everyone notices plot holes and such, i tend to notice inconsistencies like this… you’d think they could use a good word processor for english text – word breaks instead of hyphens!!
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    this is from Blood Free, ep 5…

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      She was adorable hiding under her covers reading, tho.

      But the huge plot holes! But also an entire scene in English where subtitles for the English were absolutely critical to understanding, um, the English!!!

      Loved this week’s episodes overall, but sheesh.

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Lovely Runner, ep 5 omo omo, i thought Park Tae Hwan looked familiar in the first episode… whatta cool cameo!

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did i dream that everyone said there will be a PART TWO for Moving?? if so, where is it, when is it going to happen — reminds me of Pachinko Pt2… was supposed to air in late 2023…

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    author is working on the script.. will take time.. the webtoon didn’t have a sequel

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    I know Pachinko needed a maximum 3 months gap because they had the confusing parallel time line set up. I think they will need to do the dog show style recap so people can get back up to speed when it is finally released.

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have to RANT… have been LOVING Shogun, textiles, interior sets, authenticity… but then, i see they scrimped on this detail – foundation wall…
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LOVE the respect for tatami (notice shoe covers) during filming of Shogun…
watch these youtube “making of…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EkbeLiFkEs
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i am watching Hide, Wonderful World and Nothing Uncovered and i\’m confused which husband did what with whom or is dead or not or in hiding and had/having an affair with whom.😵‍💫

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    😂😂 Same same but different⁉️

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    LOL. A professional hazard for dedicated beanies every time a wave of similar plots takes over dramaland. Just recently, I couldn’t remember who was the illegitimate chaebol heir in which drama, or who was the reincarnated lover of whom.

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    This is funny, in a way, but not. I’ve found it a little sad, as a very happily married man for nearly 40 years, that in this current crop of kdramas, all husbands are bad. Even in Wedding Impossible, where its just a secondary element of the plot, the killer of the mother is the husband. While the cheating husband is a staple of melodramas, dating back to the 19th century, still this current crop of kdramas suggests that something is very wrong with marriage, at least in kdrama writers eyes!

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      yeah, they all have secret lovers — usually someone super close to their wives, hellooo… but ya know, it actually happens alot, especiallly in japan i’m told… they say the wives expect it and don’t care? cuz they are taken care of, and just focus on the kids? is this true??

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        “they say the wives expect it and don’t care”.

        This actually makes sense to me.
        Tbh, I never found this trope weird since I grew up hearing things like that all the time.

        At first, the wives reactions in kdramas were the most interesting part to me, since they “should’ve seen it coming”.

        It took me a while to understand other kind of perspectives.

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      Strangely enough, as much as those shows throw every marriage under the bus, they are weirdly close minded of its end. As in, the husband might literally be a murderer, but you know what else he is? A CHEATER. If the former is needed for the plot, the latter is somehow what warrantees divorce.

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    An intense and untimely case of “same plot, different delivery” 😬

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    I just finished ep 6 Hide. Really, it’s so wild messy psycho. Killing people is just a side note to everyone’s personal agendas. The husband Cha Sung Jae and the creepy neighbor lady Ha Yeon Joo deserve each other. As do Cha Sung Jae’s parents . And the cliff hanger – sheesh! I don’t see any real redeeming qualities, past or present, of anyone at this point except maybe Jin Woo .

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      in WW and Hide, they are intentionally running people over like it’s going out of Truck of Doom style!!!!!!
      : O

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    i should’ve learned from when i was watching 3 sageuks, and there were actors/actresses in two or even all three – daegumama, right ministers, left ministers, guards, etc… i didn’t know who was King in which, etc.

    wasn’t there the same “mother” in It Happened in the Rain and One Spring NIght, but one was evil/awful and her role in the other was sweet?

    i am too old to keep track anymore… i need to just watch ONE DRAMA at a time, omg….

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      Rhat has been a happening so nce I negan drama viewing about a decade ago – the same actor in dramas I watched simultaneously- and yes it’s super confusing and sometimes funny to realize you’ve mixed them up unawares!

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ouch! I still remember her in her very early days… alas, they do grow up. she’s still so adorable!



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give this dog an Oscar!
QoT ep 3
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daughter and husband scored IU tickets for Rosemont in the Chicago area – i dare not ask how much it cost, they had to get 2nd market tickets…

happily, my sister, brother-in-law and their married with children kids live over there so i will be busy with my sister while my two people are squeeing at the concert.

question: where is the Ktown area in Chicago? is there one? regardless, is there a favorite korean restaurant anyone can recommend? bbq place? good naengmyun place?

thanks, in advance!

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    So jealous because I did NOT get tickets 😭

    Re: K-town, the OG Koreatown was in Albany Park. There are still Korean businesses there, restaurants, cafes, noraebangs, but most Koreans in the Chicago area live in the northern/northwestern suburbs now. Chinatown also has quite a lot of Korean businesses now. I would do some research on what sort of Korean stuff you actually want to do. For example, if you wanna do a jjimjilbang there is King Spa in Niles. Niles, Arlington Heights, Schaumburg areas have a good amount of Korean businesses in general.

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      thanks, this is helpful!! i am not really looking forward to going to the midwest in july tho… seattle is much more pleasant in summer than chicago…. *sweats just thinking about it*

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      when they first were in the queue, they were in the 20,000+ places. so they checked back in the past couple days because immediately after it sold out, there were $2000 seats immediately resposted as 2nd market – a bunch of 6 tickets together which was the max allowed to purchase. so they were all bought up by BOTS!! why is this allowed???

      in japan, there’s a lottery, and one must have a japan address and one needs to show ID to verify their tickets upon entering, and they can’t sit together or is it they won’t know where they are sitting until later?… but they get to purchase the tickets at the original prices!

      ticketmaster is a total ripoff, and our country should regulate the scalper markets, it’s totally ridiculous!

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just watched the first 2 eps of Shogun – very good. but seeing Anna Sawai made me wonder what happened to Pachinko pt2????

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@amfalulawatching
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    Thanks for the pro tip Chingu. 🙇‍♀️👏

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      Also though consider subscribing so that the site can stay active. You can turn off the “bean” by your name if you don’t want it seen.

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just went to see Godzilla Minus One — it was good! go see it!
; )

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Orange Days, the J dorama from 2004 is coming to Netflix??? it is VVG, in bridget jones\’ speak. please watch… sweet & endearing.

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    What? Older J-dramas might be legally available? What Christmas magic is this?

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just watched As Long as We Both Shall Live / My Happy Marriage – a J movie based upon a fantasy historical novel. very sweet! can find on d*c…
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i\’m on ep 4 of At the Moment a taiwanese series of separate stories of love during the pandemic. thus far, the stories are very relatable… worth a watch on Netflix.

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