News bites: September 3, 2022

5 September 3, 2022September 3, 2022

by tccolb

Netflix’s original series Glitch has put out their first poster, also announcing a release date of October 7. Starring Jeon Yeo-bin (Vincenzo) and Nana (Oh! Master), the sci-fi is written by Jin Han-hae (Extracurricular) with director Noh Deok (SF8: Manxin) as the talent behind the camera. [MBC]

Speaking of Netflix, Narco-Saints is just a week away from its premiere and a new poster has come out in the last round of promos. Starring Ha Jung-woo (Hit), Hwang Jung-min (Hush), Park Hae-soo (Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area), Jo Woo-jin (Happiness), and Yoo Yeon-seok (Hospital Playlist 2) as well as Taiwanese actor Chang Chen (Dune), the crime-action releases on September 9. [News1]

It’s been a busy year for Lee Kyu-hyung (May It Please the Court), who has been cast in SBS’s new travel variety show, Real Friends Journey: If You Only Go Once (roughly translated). Launching this coming October with PD Lee Ji-won (Law of the Jungle: Panama) at the helm, the cast lineup includes Lee Sang-yi (Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha), Lee Yoo-young (Insider), Im Ji-yeon (Rose Mansion), Cha Seo-won (Miss Lee), and EXO’s Suho (Rich Man). [SBS]
In more variety news, Park Jin-ju (If You Wish Upon Me) and Lee Yi-kyung (Critical X) have now become regular members on MBC’s Hangout with Yoo. Not including prior guest appearances, their first official episode airs today, September 3. [SBS]

Our denim clad leads are ready to face the day in the newest poster for KBS’s Three Brave Siblings. Premiering next month on September 24, the weekender stars Lee Hana (Voice 4), Im Joo-hwan (The Spies Who Loved Me), Kim So-eun (Lonely Enough to Love), and Lee Yoo-jin (Unicorn) among a large ensemble cast. The first teaser came out this week as well and can be found here. [KBS]
New character posters have dropped for wavve’s youth drama Seasons of Blossoms, featuring leads Seo Ji-hoon (Men Are Men) and So Joo-yeon (A Love So Beautiful). The webtoon adaptation will be coming to our screens on September 21. [Osen (1), (2)]

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1 miss h

September 3, 2022 at 3:43 PM

I'm looking forward to Glitch!

I'm ready for a new weekender so hopefully Three Brave Siblings is a good one.

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2 💜🍍☠ Sicarius The Queen of Melonia ☠🍍💜

September 3, 2022 at 5:32 PM

GLITCH! Finalement!

Alright, listen up Mr. Extracurricular Writernim-
in the last 9 months I have watched the secondary offerings of
The Kingdom Writer, the Sky Castle Team, the My Ahjussi Writer, the Mystic Pop Up Bar Writer, and the Forest of Secrets Writer, all of which were the following projects of the work that made them renown in some way, and by which they are listed above, and the reason for which I watched all of these shows.
And do you know what happened Mr. Extracurricular Writernim?
They were all bad! Or, to avoid getting into arguments with anybody right now, I didn't like any of them. Like, quite substantially didn't like any of them. Loathed, some, actually.

Jirisan was like having your brains sucked out by an assassin snail.
Snowdrop worked on paper but in execution was like watching paint dry.
MLN was insufferable.
Showtime's strongest episode was episode 1.
And Grid well... Grid was Grid. And Sic is allergic to Time Travel.

For all this, I could actually see the strengths, and weaknesses, of these writers and teams through these shows, and see their mark on them.

All this is to say, Glitch, you have a great cast, and a writer I really, really want to be better for more shows than just his debut show (because I LOVED Extracurricular and I still think about it all the time, even if I've never been able to put that into words), but a premise, and a past year of dramawatching specifically, that does NOT make me confident. Sci Fi and kdramas are just so hard to get right.
*screams*

Obviously. I will be watching, but I'm so nervous about this show, you have no idea.

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3 Doppelganger

September 3, 2022 at 7:18 PM

So excited to see Jeon Yeobeen again! Glitch, please be good, please be good, please be good. I don't think Glitch is scifi. Sounds more like some cuckoo conspiracy thriller to me.

How'd they get Chang Chen to star in Narcos-Saints?