What’s Wrong With Secretary Kim - I had high hopes for the bed scene and it didn’t let me down. Having read webtoon, I knew exactly what this light-hearted romantic-comedy is about. So no complaints about plot and writing. It’s a very faithful adaptation and that’s mostly the reason to it’s hype, the cast is like a heaping spoon of whip cream and Park Seo Joon’s abs is the cherry on top.

Life on Mars - My fluff balancing don’t-breathe-too-loud-this-is-way-too-interesting drama is killing me with everything cliffhanger, longer-than-reality wait and then opening smash of KyungHo. 😩

Let’s Eat 3 Really missed DY. So far I like girlfriend #3. The college flashbacks are hilarious 😂. But please give more food porn!

Solomon’s Perjury Gave this 2016 high school murder mystery a try because Netflix keeps insisting I’d be interested (seriously over a year). And now I can’t stop. Binged 10 episodes this week while waiting for Life On Mars.

To.jenny: TIRAMISU CAKE, TIRAMISU CAKE. Cute cute. Short cute "movie" feel. I need more of these drama types... maybe a 16 episode drama of this style? Jeabal.

House helper: it crept up in my heart. Gives me AOY feels. It relaxes you after a long day. Do watch it!

Ayht: i think i watched the latest episode twice? The cute scenes are to die for. Ugh the twists are so good. They know how to keep me hooked. Decidedly, i loved INAR better, but this couple is still golden. And sobongie is wicked cool.

LOM: excited for this week. The pacing for ep9 was laching but 10 put it back on track... THAT CLIFFHANGER.

mr sunshine: dropped. I guess ill look into it from to time for the ost.

CAHM: i fell asleep during the finale. But that final scene with the leads hugging their younger selves was touching. Everything came round. This drama could have been golden if it werent for writing and pacing. But the acting was great.

Undateables: tried to hold out for the last week but couldnt. Dropped.

I finished three dramas this week and will finish one next week which is good considering I only finished four dramas in 2017. This was the end of a round of dramas that were likable but had so much missed potential.

Wok of Love: Overall a disappointment. The first half was a mess; I never got into the OTP so the second was kind of boring. Still, I loved Chil Sung and liked Poong and it had some good moments.

Miss Hammurabi: It could be preachy at times, but I appreciated how it tackled social issues and presented all sides. Judge Han was my favorite so I wasn't thrilled with the ending.

Come and Hug Me: There were things I liked about this drama and things I disliked (mostly the pacing) but the writer shows potential and Jang Ki Yong is someone I'll look out for in the future. I thought Hyun Moo and Moo Won ended up being the most interesting characters.

What's Wrong With Secretary Kim: No, I don't this is the greatest rom-com of all time, but I need an easy and sometimes cheesy watch and this hits the spot. The abs this week were nice too.

Let's Eat 3: I watched a couple episodes of the first series but dropped it because I just can't with food porn/foodgasm stuff. I still hate that part but gave this a try because the college years looked fun. I liked it enough to give it another week although there will be fast-forwarding.

None of the dramas coming up interest me except Familiar Wife but hopefully there will be something that grabs my interest.

So my days were spent with watching Thailand drama The Crown Princess. I don't remember exactly how I get into this drama, but I did and the drama has been occupying my thoughts since then.

The Crown Princess is actually my first Thailand drama I watched, with no background on the casts, the production style and even the language. It takes me quite sometime to get used to the style of Thailand production (I am still trying), and what makes me stay is the chemistry of the two main leads. The drama is about a heartbreaking romance between a bodyguard and a crown princess. Both of them love each other but they are very dutiful people so they chose duty over their hearts. For me the drama is beautiful as they managed to convey the longing, the yearning, the sadness, and the love they have towards each other, and the credit definitely goes towards the two main leads, Nadech (the bodyguard) and Yaya Urassaya (the crown princess).

Because of them I am having a hard time to move on with the drama because the feelings still remain in my heart....yeah, I am definitely is experincing a withdrawal syndrome. So I need to fill the void with their clips I found in youtube, and I was thoroughly suprised and delighted to know that these two leads are actually very close in real life! That explains the chemistry shown on the characters. When I said very close, I finally understand why people ship Song Joongki and Song Hyekyo after Descendent of the Sun, because that is how I see it and that is what I am feeling right now. Moreover they are quite popular couple in Thailand and has been going strong for years already! They haven't admit or deny anything but like they said in some interviews (I can't remember which one), it is up to our interpretation. Oh well...I am so going to see them more than just best friend. I love that they are sweet with each other, but at the same time loves teasing and prank each other. That's why people love them!

Okay I think I ramble quite a bit about shipping a couple. I can't stop myself, because I really love their chemistry on and off cam.

One more thing I like about the drama is because I love strong and fierce female lead. She is constantly being subjected to numbers of assassinations, and most of them almost gonna cost her her life (it is to the point I have to suspend my beliefs....huhuhu) but that is not my point here. She fights well, and she is smart with the politics and strategies, and also headstrong but has a soft heart. Although she needs constant saving, but she is not a weakling. I am really loving the characterisation, and her development throughout the drama. And her scenes with the bodyguard, that is like an icing on the cake! I am definitely gonna put this drama onto my rewatch list.

Of course, I have a few criticisms with the drama, but I'd rather dwell on the good than the bad. So now....I am off to watch more interactions between Nadech x Yaya on Youtube 😍

Are You Human Too: I never knew I could be scared of a person fresh out of coma. The guy makes me sweat. This is a show I am most invested in. I know everyone is trying to protect Roboshin in their own way but I am still scared.
Secretary Kim: The whole week felt sort of pointless. While their evolution as a couple is important, It seemed like things were not going in any particular direction.
Meteor Garden: I fully agree with @javabeans that this version of the girls character is the best so far. Daoming Si is definitely sweeter but still seems borderline abusive and volatile. Darren Chen at the Wimbledon was such a cute surprise. I guess I am watching this show for the cliches. And Daoming Si's hairstyle cause I think of a pineapple whenever I look at it.

Life On Mars: ❤️
Are You Human Too?: HumanShin needs to be hit by another TOD because apparently one hit is not enough for him to learn life lessons, he is still arrogant and a jerk.
Goodbye To Goodbye: Few week’s behind on this but I’m still enjoying it.
Come Here And Hug Me: Have yet to see the finale. Hyun-moo is Love.
About Time, Wok of Love (sorry JunHo) & Snail (sorry Wang Kai): Dropped.

Good Doctor (Japanese): Yamazaki Kento continues to impress me with his acting.

Ten Miles of Peach Blosssoms: I love this drama! I did skip some parts (bitchy second lead & ghost people storylines) but I enjoyed Yangmi & Mark Chao love story.
Meet Me at 1006: Stuck at episode 6.
The King’s Woman: Makjang but so addictive. Leads chemistry is off the chart, and Zhang VinVin is love.
Meteor Garden 2018: Cringe-worthy & cliche but I love it.

The Princess and The Matchmaker: Korean movie. I was left scratching my head after watching. Forced romance and no backstory for the villain. Worth watching for Lee Seungi and the lead girl (can’t recall her name).

The only thing I'm watching: AYHT.
Seeing the Original constantly baffled by his bodyguard and his replica is uber-entertaining. Started with the "I can't believe she completely ignored me and ran off to find that robot" to the '"Great! now they're both ignoring me" is-this-how-jealousy-feels-like? ending. Fun, fun.

Did not manage to survive watching any of the many iterations of BoF, but I did watch some snippets of the latest Meteor Garden; the scene where they're both on his bed laughing as he's drawing piggies on her face is adorable.

Your House Helper has surprisingly become the crack drama for me. I'm watching it both raw and then subbed and stalking Instagram and Soompi even for extra tidbits. Cathartic cleaning, food porn, no love triangle, golden retriever, klutzy lawyer prince, beautiful friendship... it has everything a girl could want!

So MG 2018 has 48 epis. Does it mean they're going to combine MG 1& 2? Oh my gosh.. please no. MG 2 was super bad..

A Chinese drama on a Korean drama site?!? But, it’s true, even I tried Meteor Garden for all of 5 minutes. And not because of the DB hype—hubby found it for me. But once we figured out it was a BOF remake, I was out. I really didn’t care for the first. However, maybe it’ll be a good binge watch when there is nothing else that piques my interest.

Otherwise, I saw 6 (I know! That’s crazy!) dramas this week. And I like all of them. But as I mentioned on the OT, I’m pretty easy to please in the summer. Everything has its charms:

1. Mr. Sunshine: gorgeous leads, pretty colors, great camera work, everything is framed perfectly, the quality is just exceptional.
2. Prison Playbook: quirky characters, bromances to last a lifetime, and Jung Kyung-ho.
3. Legend of Fuyao: Yang Mi and Ethan Ruan (I really feel like a broken record with these two, but they’re just that good, I promise).
4. To. Jenny: I get upset that music is so much out in the periphery of my life when I see shows like this one. Kim Sung-chul makes this drama watchable, he’s adorable and such a sweet voice.
5. WWWSK: Park Seo-jun’s, errr, acting, and the peripheral characters are what I’m the most invested in this week.
6. Let’s Eat 3: Yoon Doo-joon is Dae-young and that’s all there is to that. And I quite like that he has to deal with the death of his love; it’s realistic and adds emotional weight and a plot line. And the second episode hit home for me with Ji-Woo’s mother having dementia. Two hurt souls needing each other. Love the set up.

And planning on squeezing in Life this week. That’s one I’m really looking forward to! May need to start waking up early and working out again so I have more “time” to watch dramas!

Miss Hammurabi: I'm so sad that it has ended. It was such a warm drama even though the injustices often made my blood boil. I think it was jumped the shark a little to have the victim from the sexual harassment case expose Condescending Chaebol and the Date Rapist connection to the botched surgery. But I loved how we get to see the line "throwing an egg against a rock" come around again, this time with protester lady egging Condescending Chaebol.

I enjoyed the improbable high school connection! Han Se Sang was being such an ass about the seat, it goaded OR into speaking up.

I also enjoyed how all the young judges rallied together, even the Urinal Assholes. The drama showed the contradictions within people. Chaebol was corrupt and classist, but he sincerely cared about the foundation he runs to helps disadvantaged people. Misogynist Drunk Juror #1, whom I had dismissed with disgust, made an impassioned defense for the domestic abuse defendant. While it's true and sad that many people can't find it in themselves to feel sympathy unless they've personally experienced a similar situation, it doesn't take away from those miracles that happen because someone found a shred of sympathy within themselves and acted on it.

What's Wrong with Secretary Kim (up to ep 13): After a few dramatic weeks, it was awkward switching gears back to the everyday. Guess it sort of matches OTP's awkwardness with each other as they try to navigate this first ever romantic relationship in their lives complicated by their professional relationship and them being in their 30s. For the first time, I need one of those cliche separations and time jumps.

The Big Boss (done, and already rewatching) I think I am able to better appreciate the meandering stories the second time around and just relish the little moments, details, and expressions that make this drama such a fun and hilarious watch. I can't believe they did an entire episode about the kids playing the Werewolf game (there was a time in my 20s when my friends and I were really into a similar game. so. much. screaming.). Loved it!

Legend of Fuyao (up to ep 23) There are a lot characters and details packed into this drama. Thank goodness for wikipedia. Some of the acrobatics are over-the-top, but damn if the drama and all the action moves aren't a feast for the eyes! I'm a little impatient to have Fuyao move out of her consort role and meet up with Lanshu and Zhan Beiye again.

Pineapple/hedgehog head and Mr. Aura are all that I need at the moment.

Short YouTube drama's (too many to list): There hasnt been alot of shows that kept my interest, & because of that I randomly got into YouTube drama shows. I like them, they're short (10 minutes at the most) and the stories are realistic. For example couples in a few of them will break up for actual real reasons and they might not get back together at the end of the series.

To. Jenny: I had no interest in this, and kind of just randomly watched it, & I'm happy I did. Really a great two part musical drama. The acting and story is cute, it has great funny moments, and the main characters sister one of the best kid characters I've seen anywhere. Also, who knew a song about tiramisu cake would be something I will spend all week listening to.

Real life was a bit all consuming this week. (How very dare it.) So, I'm a bit behind in my dramas. I will definitely need to be very selective when the next batch of shows begin.

Are You Human Too
As far as I'm concerned this is the most compelling and most reliable show week-on-week. It has raised a lot of questions about personhood that I thought it would avoid, as well as challenging a lot of the conventional labels we might attach to relationships. (What's the relationship between desire and romance? Does there need to be one? Can it be romantic at all if one person isn't capable of emotion? Where do you put that? How much of an A.I.'s behaviour is pre-determined and how much is of its own volition?) I don't know whether it will deus ex machina its way out of answering those questions, but right now it's definitely trying to ask the difficult questions. I definitely have quibbles, which I've rambled about on my fanwall, but as it's also given me fodder for discussion I forgive all.

Plus it's so much fun to watch, and SKJ and GSY have a lovely rapport that 100% deserves our support. Cheese in the Trap is now on my to-watch list because of SKJ. He is so gooooood. Nam Shin is a much better Big Bad than the gurning Jong-gil and the Machiavellian Gramps. Despite all the understandable reasons why he's an emotional and psychological dumpster fire of a human, I don't think I'll be rooting for his redemption in this show. Unless he and Young-hoon admit their true feelings for one another. Otherwise ... meh. Happy for a chaebol to bite the dust.

Wok of Love
My show. My lovely uneven show. I don't think any other show I've watched recently has had episodes that inspired my adoration followed swiftly by the purest feelings of apathy. The core trio kept me on the hook until the final episode, and Sae-woo and Poong's romance was nearly everything I hoped it would be. The parental opposition trope was a monumental waste of storytelling time, and I wished for more substantial relationship building between characters outside of the trio, but this was a fundamentally kind show about trust, hope, hard work, big dreams, and love. I will miss the Hungry Wok gang a lot.

What's Wrong with Secretary Kim
Watched 13 and 14. Show is now dead to me.

Ichirei Shite
Came across this movie and thought "Archery club! Teen romance! Fun!" Got as far as initial rapey scene between leads. Decided to call it a day.

Still have to catch this week's Miss Hammurabi, have yet to watch last week's Mr Sunshine, and want to watch the end of Come and Hug Me. Beanies' love of to.Jenny has sparked my curiosity, so I might have a look-see.

Still loving AYHT to bits, despite plot holes. More of Sobong and Roboshin’s cute moments pleasseeee!!! SKJ definitely doing good job in here. I liked him in CITT, but AYHT made me a fan of him. Having said that, i cant wait to see more of him in his 2 upcoming dramas. Hope its good.

Hi guys!!!

Finally got the time to set up an account and join the party, after years of lurking haha. Hope everyone had a fabulous drama-watching time this week! I’m glad to see DB being merry.

I watched quite a lot of stuff this week (yay break from work!) so on to the rant:

Are You Human Too:
Started this drama out of curiosity and boredom and the sci-fi premise and goddamn, 12 episodes and I am fully invested. The awakening of human Nam Shin really do a lot in upping the drama stakes, and he is such an interestingly gripping character. I feel like he is such a foil for our robot Nam Shin-III, and I cannot wait to see both of them in their journey of obtaining their agency.

And I live for the (seemingly absolutely) doomed human-robot OTP. Also for Secretary Ji’s not-so-secret longing glances towards human NS. (Show, I know you would NOT go there, but let me wallow in my thinking that there is something.)

Let’s Eat 3:
Oh my, my. All the food porn. Yoon Doo-joon, I missed you.

I know this drama would follow the same formula as the previous two seasons, so I was not expecting much. But the series is still super enjoyable as it is, and our new lead female scores my attention for being so earnest and endearingly funny. The 2004 storyline seems fun, and I hope it continues on to cement this one as a memorable entry in the franchise.

Your House Helper:
WWWSK, contrary to it’s hype, did not attract me in any way at all, despite having PMY and all that BTIOFL cameo. I just didn’t connect, and with my mid-week schedule empty I tried this one, and yay. It worked!

This drama brought me elements of a story-done-before, sprinkled in various nook and cranny, surprisingly resulting in a nice package. I found it akin to eating pretty homemade bento - It’s such an easy, breezy watch.

Our lead couple is sweet, but what got me hooked was Lee Ji-hoon’s adorable bumbling lawyer and him being embarassing but sweet in every attempt on getting closer to Go Won-hee’s designer character. They’re shaping up to be one of my fave second lead romances, and trajectory seems gooooood.

(TLDR; go watch. I agree this show is one underrated gem, and I hope the rating picks up.)

Mr.Sunshine:
No, no, no, no, no. I had such high hopes, and being visually rich (aka oozing with money in every frame) this drama sure is enticing, and yet thoroughly empty on the emotion front. It’s just... a lot of things feels disjointed, and it kept me from being thoroughly engaged. I’ll keep watching for Yoo Yeon-seok, but the dreaded feeling of sitting a drama for just one interesting character is starting to creep in and it reminds me a lot of my last-year experience going through Saimdang just for tiny minutes of Yang Se-jong. God, it felt like a chore.

To.Jenny:
Call this the sweet, short K-Drama version of La La Land. Our boy sure can sing, his voice reminds me a lot of the late Jonghyun. What I love most is him being clueless and his little...

I am currently watching:

Come And Hug Me: I really like this drama A LOT! For me, its my top 3 drama of the year alongside My Ajusshi and Eulachacha Waikiki. And now I still having hard time to move on from the drama and I still haven't watched the latest episodes of other dramas that I follow.

WWWSK: Love to watch this drama only for its humor. Actually I don't really feel the chemistry between PSJ and PMY, I like their chemistry with Choi Aera and Lee Yeok more :/

House Helper: So far I enjoyed watching this drama. Loving Ha Seok Jin calm character. I can relate with the main girl (forget her name) when its come to cleaning. And looking forward to more interaction of the 2nd lead, they are adorable!

The Undateables: I might watch the last 4 episodes later but
theres nothing more to see for the plot, they will get married and that all lol..

Are You Human Too: Actually I'm more curious with how they will end the drama. Just like So Bong, I really hope Nam Shin 3 will not die/disappear at the end. Now that human Nam Shin awake, I hope he will not suddenly fall in love with So Bong and become third wheel..

Mainly enjoying Master in the House (All The Butlers) this week. It is my first K-variety show and I love it.