COMPLETED
Thirty-nine - I finished it and I didn't hate it. But it just felt like a waste - of a very talented cast and of the chance to show something more real and moving about women in their 30s.

ONGOING
Business Proposal - I hope the ending is a fake-out. The awesome foursome were very cute together and the rainy night date was really sweet - Ha-ri is a gem.

Crazy Love - I'm glad she's not dying but I'm waiting for the woman who slapped him silly with an envelope to come back. Give back as good as you get Shin-a!

Grid - As usual I have no idea what will happen next week which is possibly this show's biggest strength. But I also don't know how the writer is planning to resolve all the storylines in 3 episodes.

Forecasting Love and Weather and Twenty-five Twenty-one - I'll binge-watch the last 4 episodes of both shows this weekend. It was quite a task avoiding the spoiler mine-field that is the internet 😅.

Planning to watch Tomorrow. I hope it lives up to its promise.

C-DRAMAS
Completed The Oath of Love. Still watching Legally Romance.

It was a bit depressing weekend watch for me... first with F4 Thai and the destruction it brought - even though I knew they had to follow the main Hana Yori Dango plot, I was still frustrated that the leads didn't trust and talk to each other more.

Then I watched 4 episodes of Weather back to back... and couldn't recognise the characters anymore (what was that power fight at the Jeju centre during the typhoon?? Really, Hakyung??). I still hope the finale will bring at least something back from the early episodes I loved.

And then I watched 25-21 and it made me laugh and tear at the same time (this show is really good at this). Surprisingly the most emotional part for me wasn't the Yoorim's arc, but the news live section between Heedo and Yijin in 2009 (and now I'm oscilating between sadness of one chapter closed... and tiny whispering voice that they were just professional 😁)

Luckily Monday came and I could laugh again with Business Proposal, this show is a romcom well done (with heart shaped lamps in the background included 😁) and I loved the kiss in the restaurant, so loving and appreciating Hari's care. I also love Yeonsu, she is becoming one of my favourite characters and brings me joy whenever she appears on the screen (and Yeonsu cuddling with Mom... ❤💕).

And then Crazy Love dialed up its crazy humour and I was in stitches during that family drinking, Gojin's and Shina's synchronisation was flawless 😄 (I have to say I'm generally really enjoying Krystal here). I was looking forward to potato-speeches à la Dokko Jin... and to the contract relationship 🥳 Pity the show then regressed back to the secretary-bullying... and I couldn't enjoy the episode 8 obligatory kiss as I would like to.

Twenty Five Twenty One: I love the relationship between Yoo-rim and Hee-do. They had some great moments this week. I hope they are still in touch in the future.

Business Proposal: I liked Young-seo’s scenes with her cousin, but hated that Young-seo told her to continue pursuing someone who had rejected her multiple times. They skirted the line on this with both main pairings, and I just wish the message was that no means no. The car wreck made me roll my eyes.

Forecasting Love and Weather: This week was another slog to get through. Not even PMY could make this character or pairing work. My wish is for everyone to split but the penguin couple and maybe Myung-joo and her husband if he were to shape up. I fear the drama is going to go the route of a baby fixing Yoo-jin and Yi-jun’s dumpster fire of a marriage, and that is another terrible message.

Tomorrow: Solid first episode. Kim Hee-sun and Lee Soo-hyuk looked good, and Kim Hae-sook was perfect as the Director. She’s been getting some fun roles lately. Ro-woon’s acting was a little rough. The Afterlife was fun.

Thirty Nine: Geez, I’m annoyed on behalf of Joo-hee. She talked about feeling left out last week and then this week Chan-young said she was grateful for Mi-jo and Jin-seok but made no mention of Joo-hee and then said she worried about Mi-jo after her death but not Joo-hee. This was really the story of two friends and then there was the chick who sometimes hung out with them. Her romance even happened offscreen. I finished this drama because I like all three actresses, but I will be avoiding this writer’s projects from now on.

Love (ft. Marriage and Divorce): The Professor is the worst character on this show, and that is saying a lot. I laughed when he learned his ex was marrying someone taller, richer and more handsome than him. Of course he had to barge in and announce that he’ll take the kids HE abandoned if she gets married. I love Hyang-gi for always supporting her mom and setting him straight. Hye-ryung is selfish but she deserves better than being possessed by St. Song Won the Ghost.

CRICKET -

Women World Cup 2022 - ODI - Australia as usual in final and more or less England. let some other team win world cup that is what needs for the promotion of the sport.
This world cup had many competitive and last ball win matches. a few upsets too. But 8 teams world cup is just abig nonsense. Need atleast 16 teams to call it a world cup. for that Cricket needs lot of aggressive promotion.

Thailand is now in our cricket sphere - same is happening for brazil.
We need to corner more of carribbean and japan.

This is year of Bangladesh's cricket too both male and female.

Business Proposal: Such a fun and easy watch.

Thirty Nine: It committed the sin of being boring during the last two episodes.

Forecasting: The first 10 episodes were really good for me. 11 and 12 were like, what the heck happened. 13 and 14 were a little better as it tried to settle back in so we will wait and see how it ends up. Like maybe the writing room got Covid and the lead writer got sick...no, really, I totally think that could be it.

Tomorrow: I love Kim Hee Sun. This episode zipped by and easy to watch. I feel like there are a lot of grim reaper shows in the last few years but I'm sticking around.

The juxtaposition of past and present in THE KING OF PIGS continues to impress me. The flashbacks are not just expository for the viewers but also for Kyung-min and Jong-seok, whose memories play a key part in their navigation of the present crisis. I particularly like how teen Jong-seok comes to the fore as adult JS becomes more involved in the investigation, as if adult JS is reflecting on his own role in the tragedy.

I’m still a bit dubious about the events in the present. The 2011 film didn’t need revenge or cops running around to show the wider implications of the bullying, and I can see why there have been complaints about Ahn Jung-hee's gruesome fate. Then again, without the revenge plot there wouldn’t have been that superb scene between Jong-seok and Kang Min at the hospital, where the hard-boiled detective is reduced by a few words and gestures to the insecure fishmongers’ son. This isn’t just about bullying - it’s also about class differences. Although JS's family is at least a level or two below Kyung-min's, JS knows that Kyung-min and his mother regard them as their equals (as we can see in that scene where Kyung-min’s mum insists on picking up the fish she’s dropped herself). So it’s no wonder that teen JS is so loyal to his friend.

BUSINESS PROPOSAL (Ep 9-10) The comedy ship has sailed as the series turns into a more conventional show. Kim Se Jung had been doing the heavy comedic lifting now it is the secondary support cast trying to smooth over the cycle of stumbling, secret dating problems of now three couples. The second lead chemistry and story is still superior to the leads. This week’s ending of Grandpa being the stereotypical parental naysayer really puts a damper on his prior personality and fun loving attitude. I think the majority of viewers enjoyed these episodes more than I did.

THIRTY NINE (Ep 11-12): We finally see some pain and depression in CY as she plans her own funeral. Episode 11 was previewed about creating lasting memories. I don’t think anything significant happened. The title and feature song made it seem that all love is is gratitude. That is a sad life lesson if true. The finale was smothering pile of regret. The brunch was the best moment but it could have been used better to tell CY’s story on how each person really affected her life. Instead, we got her own eulogy. At least JMO got some added screen time but the episode, like the whole series, orbited around SYJ. And that was the real problem with the series. Surprisingly, there was no expanded funeral scene. Instead, a series of meandering, small time skips of MJ and JH coping with their loss and trying to move on with their lives. There were no in-depth moments, no grand romantic movements, and no closure to any of the individual character story arcs. Overall, a disappointment.

Film: THE ART OF SEDUCTION (2005): I went into viewing this movie without knowing it was a comedy. SYJ has humorous expressions and physical comedy skills. This is in stark contrast to her THIRTY NINE tear waterfalls. The movie script was quite light; not a lot of meat on the story bone for substance or depth. It seemed like more a series of skits than a cohesive story to the end but it was still was watchable but not really memorable.

Anime: FLCL PROGRESSIVE (2018): Adult Swim has announced that it will air two more sequel series to the cult classic anime Fooly Cooly (FLCL). The original FLCL was a great but bizarre, weird sci-fi ride. I recall watching FLCL 2 and 3 in 2018. As with most sequels, they are never as good as the original. FLCL 2 is basically a remake of the original series. It tells the same story with a few different characters. But what it does the most is to put its world in crystal clear clarity of what it is all about: A Girl in Love. Through all the allegory, metaphors and symbolism, it is about the explosive hormonal battles of a girl chasing her unrequited love.

I’m finally up-to-date with 25/21! I kept last week’s episodes so I could watch them all this weekend without a wait… WEDDING?! WTH?!

The Cursed: I had a couple of days off and decided to give this a whirl and then promptly binge watched the entire drama on netflix. Absolutely loved it- - the curses were gruesome, a shamaness you loved to hate, strangely funny despite the overall mood and everyone acted their parts to a T!

Crazy Love: Honestly this show was such a slow burn for me, I was barely interested the first couple of episodes, almost dropped it by the 4th and now it's somehow the show I look forward to the most every week. I hope it keeps up the zaniness from the past couple of weeks now that it looks we're moving into the romantic segment of our viewing.

Tomorrow: First episode done! Only have good things to say so far, I'm interested in the characters and looking forward to exploring our reapers backstories and motivations a little further - the world building so far has been pretty tight also.

Business Proposal: Will it ever cease to be delightful? Very doubtful. Every episode feels like a shot of pure endorphins :)

𝗧𝘄𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘆 𝗙𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗧𝘄𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘆 𝗢𝗻𝗲: Despite my previous rant about a happy ending, I do love this show. But I’m not ready for it to end. I’ll be watching the ending with trepidation. 🫣
𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗟𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗪𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿: This show is like the flying cow in the movie 𝘛𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳. You don’t know where it’s going to land. I’m glad it’s almost over. The one ray of sunshine among the clouds is our Penguin Couple.
𝗔 𝗕𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗮𝗹: Speaking of a ray of sunshine, this show continues to make me smile. Although I suspect we’re in for a bit of angst in our next episode, I’m confident we’ll get our happy ending. Let’s work on getting grandpa his great grandchildren!! 👶🏻👶🏻
𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘆 𝗡𝗶𝗻𝗲: I finished it. I thought it was ironic how they talked about Mi-jo tossing the bouquet at her wedding to her friend who’s dating a younger guy. I read that’s what happened in real life at the Jinbin wedding.
𝗣𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗼: I have not read the book, so I don’t know if it’s staying true to the story. I’ve decided I don’t like the opening.
I’m ready to move on and looking forward to the premier of several April dramas including Our Blues.

We started this week on a detour: Binge-watching season 2 of BRIDGERTON. This one is Anthony’s story. Then we got back to FORECASTING LOVE & WEATHER which is still good.

But we also got to enjoy the penultimate episodes of BUSINESS PROPOSAL, The groundwork has been laid for the final act of this wonderful comedy. It has been our very favorite show and I hope that the writers and executives in the Korean entertainment industry have taken full note of this show’s success. Do we get two weddings in the final week?

More mis-judgments and mistakes as KING OF TEARS continues. This sageuk is remarkable in the absolute rejection of the idea of fate in history- our faults are indeed in ourselves rather than in our stars and tragedies are always caused by bad decisions coming from character flaws. I remain convinced that the writer of this drama is consciously emulating Shakespeare in everything except that there is no use of blank verse. Of course because it is Korean and I am reading subtitles I could be wrong about that last part.

My wife continued to watch the currently airing C-drama THE OATH OF LOVE and finished it as soon as the final subtitles were available. Not a costume drama but she loved it anyway. We are both watching LEGALLY ROMANCE as well.

My wife loves Chinese Costume dramas and particularly the fantasy ones (known as Xianxia). This week she decided to re-watch the classic LOVE AND REDEMPTION which is certainly worth it. It is beautifully done- one of the very best of these shows.

YOUNG LADY AND GENTLEMAN started very well and did well dramatically until the writer ran out of steam. And I can point to exactly when that happened: It was when our titular Gentleman inexplicably collapsed to the street with a second bout of amnesia- for which we were never given a medically plausible reason. One result was the near sideling of one side romance and the sad death of another. Yet this shows ratings continued to climb, despite the awful writing. Why? Because of the great performances by the two leads. At the KBS drama awards Ji Hyun-woo, who played the Gentleman received the Daesang while Lee Se-hee, who played the Young Lady, received the Best New Actress award. Both of them deserved it for continuing to make this mess watchable.

Loved 39 but why is it too short? Oh, well, at least Chan-young was able to say a proper goodbye to the people she loved. Unlike Lee Shin-a of Crazy Love who caused chaos because she was 'dying' only to learn she wasn't and now has to pay the price! Really loving Business Proposal and Twenty-Five, Twenty-one. I can't understand why Ha-kyung and Shi-woo of Forecasting Love and Weather need to break up but, okay, am gonna hold on till the end. Starting with Rowoon's Tomorrow tomorrow. :)

Business Proposal The story has nothing original and lot of scenes remind me other Kdramas. But it's a fun watch. Hearing the Archeopteryx making the swan dive's "scream" was really fun. I like the archeopteryx!

Military Prosecutor Doberman I finally catch up. I wonder how the story will be able to hold for 8 episodes.

Thirty-Nine It's over and I won't miss it.

Tomorrow The first episode was fun. I'm ready to hear more about the people they will have to save.

Twenty Five Twenty One I never was invested in the present situation, so I have no expectation : death, divorce, marriage... I don't care. I just want the end to be true to the characters.

Forecasting Love and Weather I wonder how the ratings can be so high. The characters get more disapointing at each episode.

Pachinko I liked the new character of the Pastor, the actor was great. It made me realize that I don't like how LMH and KMH are playing their characters, their scenes are the most boring.

F4 Thai The noble idiocy is the worst cliché, I hate when a main character hurts his/her lover purposely thinking it's for the best. It's never! This show is short, so I'm kinda disapointed that Gorya and Thyme had so few moments together. It gives me second lead syndrom because Ren and Gorya's scenes always are lovely.

King of Pigs - Dark, disturbing. Nice storytelling about trauma and abuse, and the long term effects, and as I'll always praise, Hwang Kyung Min's meticulousness. Kim Dong Wook is really selling his character.

Love ft Marriage and Divorce - Give Lee Si-eun a reward.

FLAW - The two second leads actually communicate what bugs them when with their exes. I really wish that mood to communicate that they exhibit with each ex comes into play in their current relationship. If only Yu-jin heard Ki-juns conversation with Ha-kyung, she'd know the scared yet loving bubbling baby and husband she married. The perfect combo of reaction for someone expecting. And to the Penguin Couple, more accidental bangs. It'll be hard bidding good bye to this one.

King of Tears, Lee Bang Won - If there's any movie I'm watching with a clear bias for a character, it's this. SFD I blame you for this laying this background bias. It's really hard to root for the King.

Soundtrack - Cool.

Kill Heel - Week in week out Woo Hyun keeps popping the champagne before the victory. And this side of Bae Ok-sun, it's really disturbing. This is supposed to be about three women navigating the cutthroatness of a workplace, but it seems like they are the ones after each other's throats.

Crazy Love - Si-na back to cowering in fear isn't it at all. Both giving clap backs would have been more Crazy than she just being at the receiving end now.

Business Proposal - Saying goodbye to this next week wouldn't be a easy deal. I'll save the comments till then.

Twenty-Five, Twenty-One: 8.0 Even if the show needed to have someone change nationalities and leave Korea, it's a bit awkward now to go to that particular country. I don't know how far in advance they filmed what, but I *suppose* they were committed before the news broke. And I've heard of that country bringing in real-life foreign athletes to join their teams.

A Business Proposal: 8.0 I've gotten tired of goofy-hair coworker. He's supposed to be comic relief, but he stands out as the least comic thing in the show.

Crazy Love: 7.5

Grid: 7.0 The realist in me insists that in alt-world where there was no grid and the sun was so harmful, plants and animals would have been hit too, food supplies would have collapsed, and things would have been much worse.

A Superior Day: 6.5

Tomorrow: 8.5 Elite suicide-prevention team? A look at S.K's high suicide rate indicates that whatever they are doing they're not doing enough.

Pachinko: 8.0

I have of course saved my screen shots of BP's (not British Petroleum) wonderful WTf scene for future use, but I'm impressed by how much informal English kdramas expect Korean audiences to know. I'm pretty sure wtf isn't on the college entrance exam and people aren't memorizing it in late-night cram schools.

Twenty Five Twenty one: What happened with Yoorim was sad and the flashback to 2001..which is 1 year after Yoorim left..seems to indicate Heedo and Yoorim are no longer close. Steeling myself for more heartbreak next week. I love these characters and their friendship that it hurts to think that they all become a distant memory to each other over the years. I'm like mostly sure that Yijin and Heedo aren't together anymore in 2022, but I'm holding out slim hope.

Business Proposal I need a Hari in my life - the one who will run over in the early morning to kill a cockroach for me. This is my weekly LOL and as much as I love it, I'm glad for its shorter length because the pacing is just awesome and things are firing on all cylinders. The actors are killing it in the comedy and romance department. The resolution of Young-seo's beef against Tae-mu was the best. And I love the screencap chosen for this week's WWW.

Forecasting Love and Weather: Past week was better than the drag of the week before, but I'm definitely feeling that the show would have been better off as a 12-episoder. I get the need for nuanced characters, but do side-eye the show trying too much to redeem or even whitewash all these people who do terrible things...looks like they may try to redeem Si-woo's dad.

Crazy Love Fun to watch, but with the "i don't have amnesia" confession, I feel like we haven't progressed much. Not that all characters need to progress in a drama, but I think when we you have a ML whose terrible and inappropriate workplace bullying causes the FL to suffer like this, then I think more change is needed.

Legally Romance C-drama- up to ep 15. Was looking for some cracky, nonsense especially with the whole boss-subordinate romance, but was pleasantly surprised with a heartfelt drama. We're getting the warm school/campus romance that cdramas typically excel in.

Tomorrow Caught the first episode. The pacing was slow in the first half hour with the worldbuilding, but then sped up with their first case. The depiction of our leads running through the minefield of the bullied girl's memories looked amazing and movie-quality.

So this week had me laughing and sad.

Started with Legally Romance. This C-drama is the only one I am watching right now and I am enjoying every bit of it. Episode 27-28 had me laughing. The ML and the FL has a great chemistry and I see they are enjoying themselves and I am enjoying them.

2521 was wonderful as usual until I heard congratulations on your wedding. I was like what happened? But with what Yijin did to Yurim and HeeDo, well, it was heartbreaking and I was sad.

Business Proposal another wonderful drama I am enjoying. Grandpa, please let HaRim date and marry our President. Pleaseeeee

Awaiting the conclusion 25-21 and A Business Proposal, I was fully planning to check out a Chinese rom-com kindly recommended by @ally-le, @wapzy, and @beffels, but the Netflix algorithm worked its evil spell so I got sucked in by Bridgerton. I know that Bridgerton’s intent, at least, is similar to A Business Proposal, that is, presenting a romance while also making fun of conventions of the genre. Yet A Business Proposal is so much more appealing and successful, in my opinion! First, A Business Proposal makes its jokes about the genre within the show; Bridgerton depends for its humor on an annoyingly arch narrator. Julie Andrews is a great actress, but I am not her “dear reader” Second, the writing and plot of ABP are a lot more clever, even in translation. To capture the supposed flavor of the period, Bridgerton characters use contorted elocutions over and over again. A word to the wise: don’t take a shot of soju every time someone uses phrases like “that is happiness indeed” or “it is beautiful, is it not”
The best parts of Bridgerton are plot devices lifted from Jane Austin and the worst are just terrible. In Bridgerton 1, the last 4 episodes were centered on whether the duke would impregnate the duchess. I like a lust filled drama as much as the next carnal man, but focusing on the technical details of another couple’s sexual congress is pretty much a buzz-kill for me. And in Bridgerton 2, the plot hinges on the male lead’s obtuse reaction to a fatal bee-sting allergy. A timely dose of benadryl would have rendered the whole show moot! In A Business Proposal, the male trauma is a purposeful cliche, but is also used as a way to show the love and consideration of the heroine.

Finally, there are the politics of the dramas. I suppose you could say that A Business Proposal was a defense of a grossly inequal male dominated chaebol system—but there’s also an underlying satirization of the way its been portrayed. Whereas I don’t know what Shonda Rimes was thinking, but Bridgerton’s blending of blacks and whites without comment denies rather than satirizes the British aristocracies involvement in slavery and the slave trade, while Part 2 has Indian women asking for the privileges of being exploited by brutal British colonialism. Meanwhile, women supposedly “stand up for themselves” even while eagerly participating in a marriage meat market.

In short, think twice about listening to Netflix—consult the experts at DramaBeans instead!

The heart beak has finally arrived in 21-25. All I liked was that the conflict for Yi-jin revolved around Yu-rim and not Hee-do, she should not have been betrayed by her mother and her boyfriend. For Yu-rim I feel particularly sorry. The price she is paying for her father's accident is too high, I do not like this plotline.

I do trust that BUSINESS PROPOSAL will keep the angst low key, as before. Grandpa has every right to be annoyed by all the lies, but I am sure his disapproval will not last long. He genuinely liked Shin Geum and he will like Shin Hari, too. The loud cousin plot felt a little bit like a filler and the cousin's acting was too much and over the top for me.

Can't wait for the next episodes of CRAZY LOVE. Shin-ah really went full out with her revenge, thinking that she would not live to suffer the consequences. Now she half wishes that she would actually die. Go-jin's payback is as bad as expected, but why does he insist that she remains his fake fiancee - he is already hooked without realising it.

KING OF PIGS is still weird (and gruesome), but somehow I am coming back for more. The best bit about SUPERIOR DAY is the villain - he is good! I will finish WEATHER FORECAST, hopefully the ending is good enough to make me forgive the last two episodes.

Enjoying PACHINKO, it is visually very impressive. I like the cultural mix very much. Have ordered the book!

First episode of TOMORROW was ok, but I am not hooked yet. I did like Jade god's shoulder pads which could cause an eye injury!! The actress is so good, too.

Search WWW i binged this the previous week. I love the show. I love the main trio's intersecting relationship/friendship. My favorite character is Scarlett. My fave couple is GaKyeong and Jin Woo. I felt that Tammy and Morgan's relationship got dragged on too much. I would've wanted to see more of the ladies friendship or GaKyeong and JinWoo's.
Mouse i am dumbfounded by how much Moo Chi and the police got so blinded with all the circumstantial evidence against YoHan. Anyone who would pause to think would not easily pin it on him since there is no direct evidence to point that he is a killer (despite allegedly being a son of a murderer). It was fishy from the start. It was still a good watch despite that big flaw.
Twenty Five Twenty One I got all caught up on this drama partly because I want to know what happens next. I get the feeling that whatever the drama throws our way, it can be satisfying ending (I hope).
Crazy Love I am really annoyed with Go Jin as he boss Shin Ah around again. While I am disappointed that Shin Ah lost her back bone, I am waiting for that time that Shin Ah will fight back. I rather want them to bicker like an old married couple on equal footing. This new contract they got into gives Go Jin the upperhand again and I am rather tired of GJ being a narcissistic jerk.
Queendom 2 I rather like these kpop competitions but I am not really a fan of any of the contestants (yet). I was pleased to see a familiar face from WJSN. Exy who played Elle in Idol: The Coup. Despite that I will continue to watch. I liked Hyolyn's first performance and looking forward to the rest of the performances next week.
Sixth Sense S3 i like the new spy concept they introduced this season. It adds a layer of challenge. Also I am still enjoying the show despite SoMin's absence. Jessi, MiJo and Nara tries to fill in her absence. There are less Sang Yeob and Jessi loveline but I still look forward to their scenes. JaeSuk is as exasperated as ever but at least got it easy this season dealing only with the three ladies.
Unexpected Business S2 I really liked the new challenge this season. I also enjoyed watching the new part timers - WooBin, KwangSoo and Im JuHwan- interact with In Sung and TaeHyun. They really are friends.

CRAZY LOVE: This week's episodes were a missed opportunity. Having the ML reveal that he's faking his amnesia was a fantastic moment, but it went downhill from there. As many have mentioned, Shin-a's return to being the meek, put-upon secretary was disappointing, as was her boss' cruelty. There were so many other ways this could have gone, but even a few degrees of difference--seeing the ML struggle a bit more to be mean or the FL clapping back under her breath here and there--would have made these scenes so much more fun. I didn't like the kiss, either. Technically it was well done and pretty, but in the context of all that nastiness and cowering it seemed wrong.

25/21: I'm not fully caught up, and like others, am fearful that the ending will mar the perfection that the drama has been so far for me (I truly can't imagine any last minute twist that would allow for these two to be together; the show has been very clear, imo, that in the present they're not a couple or even friends), but this is such a good show. Much has been said about Kim Tae-ri's amazing ability to morph into a teenage girl and she deserves all the awards sure to come her way. But I've been very impressed with NJH in this as well. His role is less showy, but he's so good at conveying how BIJ feels in any given moment with just a quick glance. And he's a great comedic actor, too. His reaction to finding out that his professional hero is Hee-do's mom was hilarious.

BP: I'm loving Tae-mu's hair. It's a tidy metaphor for how much more relaxed and happy he is in his life. Both couples also have excellent chemistry to complement the breezy feel of the writing. Just a pleasurable drama to watch.

FLAW: I struggled with the latest two episodes. Throughout the drama I've recognized that there's not anything necessarily new or that interesting about this story, but it was executed in a way that made it easy for me to sit back and enjoy the movement in every story. But these last two felt forced and bogged down by the weight of contrived conflict. The dialogue suffered as well. Hoping the final episodes will be fun again.

After a week of playing catch up to watch as many Oscar noms as possible, I donned my PJ's and settled in. Of course I fell asleep and missed the stupid slap.
Hanging in with FLAW hoping against hope that FL will get some of her spunk back. Have avoided blatant spoilers for 25-21 but strongly suspect a realistic ending. First love is wonderful but it is usually not forever.
How much I love A Business Proposal</b) is hard to quantify. Want to echo @oldawyer in hoping that K-ent execs sit up and pay attention to its success. We need to laugh, writernims!
Watched 3 eps of Pachinko and it is okay - not fab but not shoddy. Heard the Grass Roots opening song on my local alt-music radio station and was reminded of how incongruous that dance number is at the beginning (there's no "skip intro" option).
Started <Master's Sun and dabbled in Traveler in Cuba. Enjoyed the first ep of Tomorrow with the hopes that Roowon will become slightly less goofy and the serious undertones will be handled skillfully.

Aigo, haven't checked in for a while!
Been watching 25 21 (eps 1-4) and FLAW (eps 1-2) now that they got released in my region. Loving and adoring 25 21. Kim Taeri has been my girl crush since Mr Sunshine and The Handmaiden 💚
Also watched Doberman until ep 8. I love to hate a good old unhinged villain who isn't afraid to get their hands dirty. This drama has some wild twists, and I'm here for that.

And because there's so little to watch legally, I ended up watching Secret Life of my Secretary. Squinting hard at the double identity shenanigans, it's kind of cute - and I adore Kim Youngkwan's winning smiles. Veronica Park is also a very cool character. Still, I feel kind of sorry for these secretaries whose happy ending is getting stuck with looking after their man-child CEOs for the rest of their lives 😂