Crash Landing on You: 9.5 His and hers matching bullet scars. Who needs couple rings? Meanwhile a possible future MIL found a 3rd way besides the glass of water and the envelope full of cash! North Korea and the ducklings are a fantastic platform for viewing kdramaland from the outside.

The Cursed: 8.0 Wish the evil shaman could do her thing with less histrionics (and more lighting!). But the good (so far?) shaman can inflict pain or death on baddies with no dramatics on her end. This is a nice change from the goody-goodies in most other kdramas and I'd like to see more, especially baddies in pain. Also, if judiciously used, ability to strike with nothing but a short closeup of her face could help keep the show moving and lower production costs. Win-win :)

Diary of a Prosecutor: 8.0 Day 15 - light at the end of the bad-boss tunnel! Inspectors and auditors in kdramaland are usually mindless minions of evil, and the actor who plays the new head inspector often plays not-nice roles, so when the inspectors actually started being reasonable in their criticisms of our buddies, that was officially a Good Sign even before the reveal at the end of the ep. Day 16 - I thought the ending fell a bit flat - couldn't we have a little more well-earned good-triumphs-over-evil at the end?

Romantic Doctor Teacher Kim 2: 6.5 Compared to Diary, this show is a lesson in how NOT to do bad-bossery. Diary fed us good stuff for a few weeks and waited until late in the show to inflict almost-unwatchable bad-boss misery on us. RDTK has been shoving it down our throats since day 1.

Queen: Love And War: 7.0

Stove League: 9.1

Forest: 5.0 I'm confused. Also a week behind.

The Game: Towards Zero: 6.8

Tell Me What You Saw: 7.0 Remember Voice 1, aka the good Voice? Jang Hyuk played detective, and the FL had super hearing. After the disappointing Voice 2 and the abomination that was Voice 3, he's back in Tell Me with really good hearing while the FL has a different power. Is this show trying to remind the Voice crew how it's done before they can inflict a season 4 on us? And did they hire Jang Hyuk just to rub it in???

Hi Bye, Mama: THE DAUGHTER CAN SEE GHOSTS?!?!? Oh boy this is going to be super melodramatic.

Itaewon Class (Episode 3-4)
Is it just me or did I see Geun Won having more of a conscience than Soo Ah? His eyes flickered with guilt when Sae Ro mentioned his crimes, whereas Soo Ah’s crying appeared to be more of a frustrated outburst that she’s starting to lose control over Sae Ro. I felt like Soo Ah never really liked him but rather his first love declaration to her and that she sees him now as someone under her. I really liked the moment when Soo Ah revealed her betrayal to control the narrative: it revealed Sae Ro isn’t head over heels for her even if he doesn’t blame her. But I bet there’ll be lots to blame very soon.

Diary of a Prosecutor (Episode 15-16)
The show had a half-hearted attempt at saving itself in the finale: they pulled two deus ex machinas with the ex-wife & the special investigation team to bury the bad new boss arc, touched but failed to conclude the red heel case (which is amusing given it opened the show) and abruptly ended with a forced reorganisation to have that ‘new beginning’ end. I think it had a lot of potential with Myung Joo’s old boss in Seoul and In Joo who are foils of each other: one who looked bad but had good intentions and vice versa. And of course, the romance was nice but it added zero to the entire story.

Crash Landing on You (Episode 13-14)
What a joke that Chul-kang was able to run away having already been shot once despite Man Bok’s close proximity to him during the second shot. The show kept him alive because they wanted that cliffhanger to happen, which of course drags out Chul-kang’s death for one more week. I feel like nothing got resolved this week: the expose wasn’t enough to lock Se Hyung and his wife up, Se Ri hasn’t reconciled with her mom yet and Seung Joon is trapped on the rooftop with someone. Well, we got kisses, gratuitous undressing/undressed scenes and comedy. But NIS is involved: it’s not funny!

Romantic Doctor Kim 2: I will say this again and again, the best part of this drama is the character growth. To watch both Woo Jin and Eun Jae's growth this episode was fabulous. They have completely won me over and I am just incredibly proud of them.

Diary of a Prosecutor: It was a nice ending to a solid show. I enjoyed it for what it was.

Itaewon Class: So I just realized watching last night's episode that Hyun Yi was supposed to be a boy, I kept wondering why the subs said he, lol. It was very confusing, I now understand what is happening and the confusion is gone. I really wish they had been clearer, because it was not obvious at all. Anywho, the drama is setting up interesting roadblocks and I am loving Soo Ah as a character.

Stove League: I am so sad this wonderful gem of a show is ending. The machinations of the inner workings of a last place baseball team is truly fascinating. This is no part thanks to the writer and the stellar acting by the cast. Excellent, excellent show.

Crash Landing on You: We are at the end, I can't wait to see how this ends and is wrapped up.

Tell Me What you saw: Serial killers, what's not to like. 😊😜👀

I still haven't gotten back to Dr.Kim, because it means hospital and people at risk... and perhaps dying. I need more time for that.

I also couldn't start Itaewon as it seems to be too dark / heavy for my current mood.

And so... I finally finished Nagi's Long Vacation, a Japanese series about an office girl who leaves everything and tries to find her true self (dreams and boyfriends included). I have to say that for me personally You and Me on a G String worked better. I found it more honest and to the real core than Nagi. I generally did like Nagi (and appreciated the humour 🙂), but I often found it a bit too simple and predictive... and sometimes even a bit preachy (if that's the right word). What was very well done though was the suffocating environment of the leads... and especially Nagi's manipulative mother was scary (I got goosebumps when she managed to crash Nagi's dream). I was also impressed by the actor who played the boyfriend of Nagi, Takahashi Issei, and I'm even tempted to try his other works.

And then I watched Twenty, a Korean movie from 2015 about three high school friends who enter their 20s with all their dreams, naivety... and hormones. Mainly hormones 😆😆 I laughed a lot... especially when one of the boys presents his "brilliant" script idea for a movie 😂😂 (just warning, it's very young boy's hormonal driven 😆). Kang Haneul, Kim Woo Bin, Lee Junho, Jung So Min, Lee Yoobi (and many others). A joy to watch if you are in the mood for a comedy (there are also darker topics and some difficult situations in the background... but never overshadowing the comedy).

Still following Crash Landing and Never Twice.

Crash Landing On You: It's okay. One of the things that gets me about this drama are the overlong episodes. The live shoot system is bad enough but basically they are doing two 90 minutes movies a week. It's insane and I blame the writer and PD. It is larded down with a lot of unnecessary stuff though I will admit some of it is charming. Wouldn't it have been better to just do 20 episodes and make things easier for all involved? Okay, that's my rant. Probably the most I have liked this actress in any drama though I think Hyun Bin's character is kind of rote....that's the writing, not his acting.

Forest: I saw someone say exactly what I was thinking: The sad thing is there is the foundation of a good story here. Yeah, I'm a few behind and am already skipping. Ever watch a drama and you find yourself re-writing it in your head? Yep, this is the one.

Congrats to the Parasite success; however, I was happy to see RZ win best actress. Five minutes ago everyone in Hollywood was writing her off and dissing her plastic surgery (which is pot calling kettle black). She just seems very fragile much like the lady she just played.

Romantic Doctor Teacher Kim 2 Master Kim putting the villains in their place is the best.

Money Game I love all the characters both good and bad. Yoo Teo is an interesting actor. He grew up in Germany, studied acting in London and NY. He was so nice in Chocolate and so charismatic in this drama.

Beautiful Love, Wonderful Life They could have told the same story in 50 episodes...

No Second Chances I was so happy at the end of the last episode then I watched the teaser of the next episode...

Stove League The end was kinda flat. I liked the story but it was too much about baseball and not enough about the main characters. We had more background story about baseball players than Lee Se Young. Park Eun Bin is a great actress, she can do so much than this. So at the end, I was happy for the team and felt empty for the characters.

Itaewon Class I would like the 2 girls stop to think they know better or own Sae-ro-yi.

Crash Landing on You I'm curious about the end!

My Holo Love I liked the beginning and the end but I didn't like the middle. I mean why the women always look so desperate that they fall in love with a robot/AI? It's kinda frustrating to see.

My goal for next week is to binge-watch My HOLO LOVE and catch up on ITAEWON CLASS.

Currently Airing

CRASH LANDING ON YOU: Super fun and emotional. (Does that even make sense with this drama!?) I finally gave the last episode a 9/10 rating from me. Here’s to hoping the finale week doesn’t disappoint! I’m planning on start episode 15 in a moment. (ep. 8-14)

Finished Airing

MY HOLO LOVE: This one’s super fun. And the special effects for the AI are pretty phenomenal. I was hoping to binge-watch the rest of the episodes this past week but didn’t get a chance to do so. (ep. 1-3)

WOOHOO WAIKIKI: This one’s always pretty fun. (ep. 8)

Currently Watching:
Some Day or One Day: Time travel done right. I am up to episode 11 and I have not found single fail in logic. Maybe it is actors and their chemistry that do not allow me to spare single brain cell for finding out failure in logic. (I am looking at you My HOLO Love) This show has got its recipe right – acting, writing and the epic romance.

Find yourself: I do like most of parts of the show. In early episode I was not fond of FML, but now I find her more real. Her life has changed. The job she worked for 10 years is no longer fulfilling. Her pillar of strength, her father is going through tough time. Her friends are facing life altering challenges. She needed to step up.
She is making her choices – right or wrong does not matter. She is not afraid of anything right now and facing things head on. I do respect that.
Unfortunately, student teacher relationship part is not working for me. These parts I could do without.

Dr. Kim 2: Baddies are baddies and team Dr Kim is white as snow. The show does not present any challenges to Dr. Kim which will allow him to introspect. He is the ultimate good guy and he is going to save the day.
There was character development for Dr Cha when she stood up to her one note character mother.

It’s complicated:
Forest: I am not sure if I am watching this show or not. I am stuck on episode 8 and I do not wish to continue. It is my perfect sleeping pill. With the rate I am going I think It will take me whole year to watch this show. Upside I will not suffer sleepless nights for whole year. All it takes 15 minutes of the show to fall into deep sleep.

Completed:
My HOLO love: Show where even a computer program gets amnesia.
The show has
1. child hood connection
2. jerk CEO
3. damsel in distress
4. face blindness
5. the reason for MLs suffering –mother
6. a bad to the bone baddie
7. twin brother falling for the same girl (I do consider HOLO twin to ML- he is mothers’ creation and looks exactly as ML)
What kept me going:
1. HOLO – He is pretty endearing.
2. The chemistry between ML and FML
3. Conflict of SML
4. The relationship between adopted siblings

CRICKET - Earlier it was Kiwis vs. india exciting matches and now its England vs. SA.

2020 - Exciting start of t20 cricket in 2020 - the t20 world cup year.

JAPAN -

This Guy is Biggest Mistake in my Life - 6/10 - Just 24min for entertainment. The best part still is OP of the show+SFX. funny time pass. I'm enjoying this.

Shiranakute Li Koto - No Need to know - 8 out of 10 . The real competitor of Kotaki Brothers for the title of Show of the season and probable in top 10 shows list. Yoshitaka Yuriko has good IQ. She's wise enough to pick such scripts where she's not the main female lead, but more than that the Central force around which the story revolves. (aka i said several weeks ago - Japan has the guts to spend money on female characters/actors.)

Keenu reeve's daughter - within 1st 5minutes. That's how you attract attention of audience. Such an apt title for the story.
Chirldren inheriting traits of their parents. genes forwarding not only +ve attributes but also -ve. Diseases too.
And then we casually see in Japanese media characters looking for the blood type of the one they are interested in as blood = specific personality traits. Discrimination and all.

Yuru Camp - 7/10 manga to anime to live-action. Easy fun watch. short episodes. This is what you call acting

Love Lasts Forever - 6/10 - for a fluff i can't give more rating than 6. Getting more spicy though. Fangirl mode activated.

The original comment stuck because of a gif. ohh.

KOREA - Those 3 plastic faces can learn much from Yuriko.
Choose better agency, competent manager and learn to pic scripts than all day dong forplay with their own body

Hot Stove League - 7/10 Overall rating. Good romance of Manager and Ceo. For every Hero to shine needs a equally good opposing force aka villain. A good hero is noting without a good villain. They complement each other. Ceo did exactly that. He made people look at Hero's appeal. for a kdrama show did good.Simply put, the bar is set so low that an average piece full of nonsense starts to look decent.
The show is quiet enjoyable and ran a huge soap opera. In romance dramas we see things can be solved with just few minutes talk that are dragged for weeks/month and even years. The same goes for this show - Writer through characters contradicted points of story so many times that story itself became a big joke. manufactured conflicts without an ounce of substance.

Crass Clash - 6/10 If you want something original and new then you should look at some of the characters and their actions at specific cliche events. If you show disappointment then keep some of it for most other kdramas too. 6 is a good score.

Trash Land - 4/10 obvious trash.

Lame Game - by 4th week it had shed the subject and now its fully in kdrama tropes mode. And now it is getting more comments heh. Let's see that's reflected in ratings. This is the time you start to ask few questions to the audience itself. Business is...

Coffee Prince: (5/18) This is such a good, fun K-drama and it feels like the episodes only are ten minutes long instead of one hour. What a breeze! Hilarious to see Kim Dong-Wook and Kim Jae-Wook when they were still munchkins. I understand that Gong Yoo became Oppa during this drama, but I personally am massively girl crushing on Eun-Chan and I want to steal her outfits, especially the tuxedos. Mr. Voice is a pleasure for my ears and my eyes, as usual. I am glad that I decided to only watch classics like this one with my friend. We never know how many episodes we’ll be able to watch until the weekend is upon us, so we can just enjoy the episodes, no matter when and how many we watch. The shows are completed, so I do not need to worry about catching up in time.

No Second Chances: (27/28) Just kiss and raise Yeol-Mu already, so that I can enjoy the happy family dynamics for the remaining episodes. I cannot drop shows ever, especially not my first (and probably last) makjang drama. We are three quarters into this, I can finish this, but my patience is running out.

Itaewon Class: In Park Seo-Joon I trust, but I keep reading mixed reviews and it looks like it needs its first four episodes to establish itself. Come on Beanies, convince me to watch! ;)

RDTK2:
Romantic aspect aside, Woo-jin’s character is almost as well written as Kim Sabu’s. I might need to count Nurse Oh’s proud mama bear moment. So far all the supporting characters (even Eun-jae’s mother) have been great, aside for the actor playing Hyun Joon. His fight/crying scene with Woo-jin felt kind of flat while Ahn Hyo-seop nailed it. Glad to see the late Chairman Shin’s secretary is back, hopefully with the hidden card, whatever it is.

Stove League:
The ending is satisfying. What happened to GM Baek is nothing new and for once we got a character so strong we know nothing bad will happen to him. And as he said, protecting his team for the first time feels so rewarding, he’s okay. If they do make season 2 of it with the same casts it will be great.

The Game:
Ep 13-16 are boring. Why are we circling around? Im Joo-hwan alone cannot anchor this show.

The Lies Within:
Finished marathoning in 3 days. Lee Min-ki is so great when playing a character that could smile, laugh, shout, curse freely. And he is more swoon worthy than when he was loaded with money and branded clothes (yes the Beauty Inside left quite a big scar). The story is quite easy to follow, I just don’t understand why some characters went to that length to reach their goal. It’s kind of stupid a sacrifice.

I’ve been away on a vacation and now I am finally able to catch up. Yeayyy.

Finally able to finish watching all glorious 50 episodes of The Untamed. I admitted to skipping and fast forwarding quite a lot of scenes especially if the 2 main cast were not in them, but I did watch enough to understand all the main points. After it ended, I found myself browsing youtube for lots of BTS and the cast interview. Haha. I 💓 them.

Crash Landing On You - I love their fish out of water happening in Seoul. Hahaha. So funny. Love the North Koreans soldiers. They’re adorable. I wonder how the writers are gonna end this series. It doesn’t seem possible for the two leads to be together. But I still want a happy ending. Please let them all have a happy ending.

To be watched - Itaewon Class, Diary of a prosecutor, all the Studio Ghibli animations that are now finally available on Netflix 😛

Waiting for the finales of:
HOT STOVE LEAGUE: I predicted the sale of the team (to the family of the puppy love manager who was transferred to scouting). Now, just hit a home run to win the series.
CRASH LANDING ON YOU: After erasing all the nonsensical premise, events and improbabilities, I really do not want the writer to ruin the ending with some impossible conclusion.
Grinding out the episodes:
BEAUTIFUL LOVE, BEAUTIFUL LIFE: The twist that JudgeMom is now going to "help" the young man she framed for vehicle homicide was unexpected. In the end, I really wish all the rich characters get flushed down the sewer.
HIT THE TOP: Very basic fish-out-of water story line. My weekday filler.
As for variety:
FUN RESTAURANT: I have been watching it raw because the subs are so slow. Still very enjoyable as the celebs really can cook.
PROBLEM CHILD IN THE HOUSE: This is an enjoyable quiz-trivia show that is so laid back it is as comfortable as a warm blanket in winter.

Stove League I just finished it. It was good all along & really entertaining. The ending is neither good nor bad I just wished to see more of the side characters, they really brightened the show for me. I kind of want a 2nd season.

Master in the House Kim Nam Gil ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

Romantic Doctor Teacher Kim I’m glad EunJae finally managed to stand up to her mom, it couldn’t have been easy to live with someone like that.

Crash Landing on You I’m bored. Except for the scenes when Pyo Chi Soo is out it’s annoying except for maybe So Dan & her conman. Same old. Nothing’s happening.

Traveler 1st season: I started this to get rid of sad feelings with Mr Sunshine ending. It’s fun & now I wanna go to Cuba. Lee Je Hoon’s gonna join soon 😊

Mr Sunshine So so sad. I didn’t like how they did Eugene dirty, he gave up everything, lost everything for her. I didn’t like that he gave up the military, I don’t know I just found it surprising & out of character. This is the best writing from KES so far. I can’t wait for her next one. She’s getting better.

i'm way behind on all things drama at the moment...this week only seen:
forward forever - barely one episode from the 6 episodes aired this week
tell me what you see - hoping to finish ep 4 by tonight, i'm liking this show
crash landing: currently watching ep 15...at this point i think i can just watch all the scenes for the ducklings all over again..they are just too cute!!!
there are so many other shows i want to watch...

The only episodes I watched this last week were Itaewon Class Episode 3, My Holo Love 3 and Touch 10. Goodbye to them all until later.

Seems like I'm the only one still watching Touch! :P Its just mindless fun. In Episode 10 I really enjoyed how the young adults were finding solutions to the problems at hand. They are also the only characters I like on this show. It highlighted the major gaps between Soo-yeon and the boss for me and I feel she can find someone better. I'm sure the romance has progressed now but for a while there I also thought it wouldn't happen, and it would be a mature show for once with the boss turning her down. It still appears like a one-sided crush at this point and I dont see him developing feelings for her so theres still hope.
He does a repeat of the Episode 1 plane makeover in Episode 10, if only he would stop doing that.

Off to watch the last 3 episodes of Stove League! It will be missed!

Just finished CLOY Episode 15 and cried my eyes out!

Starting Episode 4 of Itaewon Class. Getting interesting. The villain son and dad have faces you love to hate.

RDTK2 waiting for Do In Bum's cameo! Yang Se Jong, where are you? Getting bored with Woo Jin's tragic storyline. Give the guy a break for once, writer-nim! Now, a kidnapping?! Poor guy!

Waiting for Never Twice. Happy for the young burgeoning family. Kwak Dong Yeon saying honey, baby, jagiya.. should be a ringtone. I'd answer everytime... after a couple of rings that is, haha!

STOVE LEAGUE remains my wife’s favorite show- and deserves to be. It is my favorite show too. It looks like we will be getting a “bonus” seventeenth episode.

We had to pause REVOLUTIONARY LOVE while Viki finished doing subtitles. They are now done so we may binge the rest this weekend.

We are also watching FOREST and I cannot honestly say why we have not yet dropped it. Sorry to our messed up main leads but Bo-mi, our dedicated police lady, continues to be my favorite character. I think that I continue to watch this show because it gives one so many things to make fun of. ANGELS LAST MISSION suffered from serious logic problems but at least had a truly great actress to carry the show- and keep it extremely watchable despite the bad writing. The actors in FOREST are at least trying (for the most part) but simply are not up to the task of defeating bad writing. Which leaves the viewers free to make fun of this show as opposed to having to admire the magnificent performance of Shin Hye-sun in that show. FOREST is watcheable not because it is bad but because it is awful.

We are also still watching HOW IS THIS BREAD? It is a fun web drama even though it is not the best writing. But it is light and entertaining fluff- and sometimes one needs the fluffy. Koreans are not the only people who can do intense and bloody historical dramas- the week my wife binge watched THE WHITE PRINCESS, which was good but left her needing lots of light and fluffy stuff to counterbalance the nasty politics of the War of the Roses. Which is why we also continued to watch CINDERELLA AND FOUR KNIGHTS.

CLOY: Just watched 15th episode. With one more episode to go, surely nobody has died yet. Fake out I'm sure.
ITAEWON: Comments here made me tune in and I had no idea who the lead male is, but he seems to be a really good actor. Great production, I'm impressed.
DR ROMANTIC: Looking forward to Still 17 reunion.
SOME DAY ONE DAY: (Taiwan). Only one more episode and I'm now a Patrick Shih fan. Great drama. Will they answer all the questions in the last hour? I don't care.
BECAUSE OF YOU 2020: (Taiwan). short 10 minute episodes. This should have been just a movie but oh well, I like it. The lead is actually Korean, speaks Korean in the drama, and sings the lovely OST at the end.
JAPANESE: I finally added some Japanese dramas to my (Viki) list. Scum's Wish, Coffee and Vanilla, The Novelist (Pornographer), Mood Indigo. Usually only 6 to 10 short episodes so they're doable when you have limited time. And yes, I have strange tastes in dramas.
Wait a minute - for the first time in a year I don't have any C-dramas going on. What?? Actually, I still watch a few episodes of UNTAMED almost every day, still reading the novel, and want to add the donghua.
Need to finish JOY OF LIFE someday.

RDTK2. I loved the character's evolution. It's the best thing of the show. Baddies are the worst and goodies are the best. It's too simple, maybe, and I found it a bit annoying at the beginning, but now I'm embracing this path and having fun with the show.

Diary of a Prosecutor. I'm going to miss this show so much. I liked the final two episodes. I particularly loved how MyungJoo became "one of them", that moment with the rest of the team, behind the car, spying on Jo Minho and his exwife was golden.

Stove League. I can't thank enough all beanies who recommended this show. I loved it. Still can't understand anything about baseball, but I enjoyed it so much. I also liked the ending.

No Second Chances. At last! I'm glad that BaekHa accepted her feelings for HaeJoon. It must be hard for her, as she is leading with so many issues and after all it's not so long since she lost her husband, but life is like that and you have to take chances when they show. Also, I hope WonSeok is not marrying the HaeRi (and I guess from the preview that he isn't) and he breaks with her for good.
I don't really get why PoongKi is so sad and affected by InSook leaving him. He's never liked her, he's only with her for her money, so... why all the offense? And what's even more shocking... now his heart beats when EunJin is around? I know this is where the show was taking us, but still it feels not real at all.

Crash landing on you. I am going to cry buckets. I know. I only hope the show can give at least one happy ending for one or two of the characters.

My Holo Love. I marathoned it last weekend, and I liked it a lot. Has everything a drama must have (love triangle with FL, ML and ML, amnesia, childhood drama, childhood connection, a horrible baddie, a good SL couple). I liked it a lot. And yes it has an ending.

FOREST

A drama that numbs the mind.

For a drama about a forest, there are hardly any forest animals around. So far, I have sighted:

1. One live snake
2. One live lizard
3. 11 fish in a fish tank (status: may be dead). Thank you for counting, @azzo1!

Unseen:
1. An owl - a presence. Outside the window. Hoots at night.
2. Bird(s)- Flapping wings. Trees. Daytime.

My theory is that the forest animals have been scared away by an excessively LOUD female character who holds strange, inane conversations with trees, and has a fondness for screeching, shrieking fits every thirty minutes.