Love is for suckers
Waiting two weeks for this show was so stressful, watching the show added more stress. I just need some calm and for the hurt to stop. So many hurting people putting on a brave face.

Three bold siblings
Will watch the weekend’s episodes on Monday. I am enjoying it but I wonder if I am not built for watching weekenders, I hate pantomime, it was the worst part of my job having to go with the children for work. I thought it was an English tradition but I have noticed a trend for certain dramas to portray female characters in a way that would be great on the stage during the Christmas season but it feels ridiculous to see it on a modern tv shows. I end up hating the character for letting women down rather than whatever their role is meant to be in the show.

Cheer up
Still only in it for the bean. Hoping the mystery plot is cleared up next week and we can see the romances play out.

Behind every star
Started this one it was ok. I liked that it raised some important issues re the difficulties for female actors of a certain age but I don’t recognise the cameo actors so any in jokes are lost on me. Apart from the mystery around the intern and the threats to stay away from the sweet rookie actor I didn’t engage with any of the team.

Curtain call
Started to watch this week’s episodes however the tension did not make it a relaxing watch so I am putting this one on hold so I can binge watch later for the bean.

Good manager
Episode 13 with seven more to go 🥺 We are finding out more about Yul being on a train he doesn’t know how to get off and learn that he is resigned to staying for the duration and enjoying the ride. Also good to see how the cleaner became involved. The intern is never seen doing any work for either her TQ team she is assigned to or the prosecution service who installed her in the company yet no one is suspicious or pulls her up on it, instead we see she gone full on native doing the surveillance for the accounting team.

100 days my prince
Put on hold as too much politics and hard to fast forward through it I am hoping to finish over the weekend.

Completed

Gaus electronics
Enjoyed it to the end.

Love in Contract
I barely made it to the finish line. It was a hard earned bean.

One dollar lawyer
Glad they managed to tie up the loose ends. Overall it was good but it was not a smooth process watching towards the end.

Gaus Electronics (Episode 11-12) - Mood progression: C / C- / C+ / C+ / C+ / B-
Not gonna lie, it was slightly anti-climatic that Moo Myung was the culprit behind all the random incidents because the show’s poster had him inside and I was expecting the reveal. While the show definitely made me laugh, I was expecting a lot more for a show having Kwak Dong Yeon as the lead. Regardless, I remain a satisfied viewer of this show.

Love in Contract (Episode 15-16) - Mood progression: C- / C- / C- / D+ / D+ / D+ / D+ / D+
I was worried about when I’ll watch Go Kyung Pyo again since I’m too squeamish to watch his upcoming show, but it turns out he might be working alongside Kang Hanna?! That’s a dream pairing for me! Bonus points if we could also get Kang Hyung Suk casted in that as well: he was definitely a scene stealer throughout this drama.

Blind (Episode 15-16) - Mood progression: C- / C- / D+ / D+ / D+ / D / D / D
Did Charles even do anything significant besides killing himself? It’s so convenient that In Sung and Mad Dog, arguably the psychopaths of their sides, took care of each other, or that Sung Hoon survived past the suicide to tell the truth (I’ll say it’s main lead privilege). Interestingly there wasn’t any plot twist with Sung Joon’s team: I had expected something.

Behind Every Star (Episode 1-2) - Mood: C-
What a disappointment: I was hoping so much for this to be an improved version of Shooting Stars but instead this show just throws us a potentially incestuous love line? And worse of all the pairing is between two actors which I’ve a lot of affection for! The cameos were fine but I don’t know if the show will’ve enough meta material for the entire run?

Love is for Suckers (Episode 9-10) - Mood: D+
Oh, I’m kinda digging the chef and webtoon writer together after that meal? Well, she’s still too good for him but he did treat her with sincerity and even comforted Jae Hoon. I still think the rest of the drama is a bore from the IVF arc to the potential addition of Chae Ri into the Jae Hoon harem to the predictable makjang trauma to the boring haunted house.

The Golden Spoon (Episode 13-14) - Mood: D
It’s kinda amusing how the writer just did a speed run for the webtoon artist: he learned the truth, got angry, reconciled with his feelings, indirectly confronted Seung Cheon and got stabbed for him for the cliffhanger. I’m surprised the show even bothered resolving Jang Gun’s arc when Mun Ki’s loveline went nada: a pity that both actors were terribly wasted.

Cheer Up (Episode 9) - Mood: D-
At least the mystery hasn’t been dragged out into the third-quarter stage, I guess? But the show’s already struggling in giving everyone their due spotlight in the narrative because there’s just so! many! random! romances and family issues and suspicious red herrings. And the writer even shot the cheerleading arc by adding in such an egregious plot...

Spent all my free time catching up on dramas and I'm finally all caught up! What I watched over the last two weeks -

COMPLETED
The Law Café - Binge-watched most of it and enjoyed it more than most. Lee Se-young was great.

May It Please the Court - Not a good thriller nor a good legal show.

Love in Contract - Watching this became a chore once I realised I actively disliked the FL and the SML. Finished for Gwang-nam, who really deserves a better family.

One Dollar Lawyer - Been a while since I've seen a drama implode due to behind-the-scenes drama. Sad that it had to be this one but it wrapped up well enough.

ONGOING
The Queen's Umbrella - Loving this. Easily binged all 8 episodes this week - always a good sign. Rooting for the Grand Princes o(*￣▽￣*)ブ.

Curtain Call/i> - Though it looks and feels a bit dated (Kwon Sang-woo's character is straight out of a 2000s drama), I still like it. What a relief to watch a show where the characters are likeable.

May I Help You - Another drama where the characters are likeable. The FL's dad and ML have the most adorable friendship. I hope we're not headed for a serial killer storyline with the creep who was following Dong-joo.

PLANNING TO WATCH
The First Responders - purely because it focuses on professions we don't see much of in k-dramas.

C-DRAMAS
Binged The Sleuth of Ming Dynasty. The ML was a bit too different from the book for my liking but it's a good enough adaptation overall.

Light Chaser Rescue was, sadly, yet another quick drop.

Under the Queen’s Umbrella: While this drama has typical palace politics and scheming, it feels exciting and different. I love how much trust the Queen has in her kids. The taekhyeon finally begins and is quite fun aside from the scheming and murder attempts. Prince Hodong was adorable; He just wants to eat yummy food. How can I not root for Seung-nam when he jumps off a cliff to prove a point.

Love Is For Suckers: I may remain frustrated with our OTP, but I am unexpectedly rooting for the chef and webtoon writer. After this week’s episodes, my favorite characters may just be Dae-sik and Hye-jin. They are not only great friends but a lovely couple. Reality shows love to exploit people’s trauma; the writer got that right, but it kind of made me dislike Yeo-reum.

Behind Every Star: Most adaptations bare little resemblance to the original, but this was pretty much a scene-by-scene adaptation. The only real differences was Jae-in being straight, the guest actors in Episode 2 being two men instead of two older women, and everything being more PG. It’s no surprise a Korean adaptation wouldn’t make a lead bisexual or have someone accidentally make out with their brother. It’s been a couple years since I watched S1 of Call My Agent, so I was entertained despite knowing the story. Cho Yeo-jung was great in her guest starting role. I thought all the actors were well cast though the actor playing Jin-hyuk could tone it down.

Gaus Electronics: I miss this drama already. The finale was as funny as the other episodes. Kwak Dong-yeon needs another lead role because he is adorable.

Curtain Call: This drama fills me with dread about what is to come, but I’m liking it. Jae-hoon and Yoon-hee are both very smart playing their roles and very dumb.

Love In Contract: Of course they had to throw some noble idiocy in at the last minute, but at least it was resolved quickly. This was not a good drama, but Ji-ho was adorable and had me seeing Go Kyung-pyo in a new light.

Revenge Of Others: This completely flew under my radar until I saw the recap for Episode 1. Does Disney+ even want their kdramas to be a success? It’s weird how all the dramas it makes or licenses don’t seem very Disney. This is very dark, but I really like Shin Ye-eun in this role, and it’s nice to see Lomon again after All Of Us Are Dead. I’m not quite sure what I think of it or know where it is going, but I will tune in next week.

Shadow Detective: I like this drama, but these were not my favorite episodes. I knew it would lose any humor and go the predictable route. The end of Episode 6 is either a misdirect or Friend has a partner.

The Empire: I was surprised at the reveal that Kang Baek is gay. There was really no foreshadowing about that at all that I remember.

Gaus has finished... and I miss it. I loved all characters (it really was a nice ensemble drama and not just few main leads) ... and the show made me laugh till the very end - if I should pick up one laughing-out-loud moment from the finale, it would be the 2 chairmen passing each other, one on the wheel chair and one on the emergency bed. As a seasoned kdrama watcher, I was in stitches 😂😂 The introduction of Aziz as the office maknae at the end was the oh-but-of-course! aha moment for me and I loved it. Season 2, please!

Love in Contract - the only positive thing in episode 15 was Go Kyungpyo in blue sweater (in that final scene). Esthetically awesome.
The best thing in the whole show was Jiho (and Go Kyungpyo as Jiho)... and Gwangnam. For those two the show was worth watching. (And sometimes for Haejin... and his smexy voice 😁).

Everything else is on pause, because not only did I continue with Lighter and Princess, but I started Shining For One Thing as well. I'm about 8 episodes in of each drama and while in the beginning I preferred Lighter, the more I watch, the more is my love shifting from Lighter to Shining. Perhaps I more need some high-school sweetness 🙂 (Zhang Wansen is soooo cuuute 😍) than a bunch of college students who are not always likeable (I especially dislike the selfish dorm friend of the heroine).

Waiting with 1$ Lawyer for Beanies' feedback as I heard the disappointment over the later episodes... and noticed the dispute between the writer and the production team.

CRICKET - only cricket today - too busy with antics

T20 international world cup final tomorrow -

England vs. Pak - ahha - @jayton i assume for now you as a England supporter - happy - Rain didn't do much.

Pak being pak - almost out of the tournament - had to win 2 matches and hope that other team lose their own match - and wow - it happened and they are in semi-final facing New Zealand whom they usually beat in World tournaments and wow they are now in Final.

Pak - almost at airport to now playing final tomorrow.

South Africa - needed to win match and they would have been in Semi-final - but South africa being typical in world tournaments - lost the match and Pak went into semifinal

Rain - South africa needed 1 point and that 1 point was taken from them - who - rain did it.

In tests rain and weather is extra spice but in ODI and T20 rain does much damage but this whole awesome tournament actually became exciting because of rain - TILL 5th match no team had reached semi-final - awesome tournament for awesome competitive matches - but bad bad scheduling - bad bad advertising and promotion.

Tomorrow let's see who wins it -

CURTAIN CALL (Ep. 3-4): It still has a weekender vibe with many orbiting story lines. But the heart and soul of the premise, Grandma's long awaited "reunion" has gotten set to the side. Moon-seong has being detoured by Se-yeon and the vacation holiday was very odd if the whole reason for the deception was for Grandma to reunite with her lost grandson. They spend too little time together. I think people are still bothered by the deception and how it will unravel to unnecessarily hurt people.

BEHIND EVERY STAR (Ep. 1-2): Jo Yeo Jeong took on risky cameo role which could publicly stigmatize herself (as being " too old or not pretty enough" to be a film lead over 40) even though I think she looks great (10 + years younger than her age.) Her cameo had a full story arc completed in one episode. Her presence and performance out-shined the regular cast members. She was great. At the end of episode 1, I wondered if all the cameo guests will do the same. But episode 2 was not as good as the first one. The cameos were weaker and the main cast story lines not very interesting.

First time I see my comment is awaiting moderation.... wondering why...

I ended up with too many dramas on my plate. Hope there aren’t More premieres.

Curtain Call I am quite enjoying this drama. Not sure how long before he gets caught!!!

Behind Every Star It was a good premiere. Haven’t seen the original. Will continue.

Cheer up I am losing interest. The cheer squad is cute and I like them together. Was nice to see them on stage. But the thriller angle and love triangle is making me lose interest. I see myself dropping this after next week if nothing happens.

Love is for suckers It’s just getting messier and frustrating.

Winter Night (cdrama) well, that twist was expected. But I still don’t know what’s the point of all this. I will probably finish it. It’s been a FF watch anyway.

Thank you Doctor (cdrama) I see Bai Yu, I click play. Right now he is this annoying egoistic doctor. Hoping to see his growth. Not a big fan of Yang Mi. I don’t know, her delivery just doesn’t work for me. It falls flat. But her character is good and rides a bike! I don’t see much chemistry between them so far. will see a few more episodes. It’s going to be a slow burn romance. But, 40 episodes is a lot 😅

Waking Love up (cdrama 2011) Roy Chiu 🥰. Made it to episode 16!

In the pipeline - Silent (jdrama). Hopefully I will catch up during the holidays.

Cheer Up: Talk about an exhaustingly tedious love "triangle," even though it really isn't. The best part of this episode was watching the parents watch their kids with pride. It is really sweet.

Behind Every Star: I enjoyed the set up. I am slowly removing the French version from my mind so I can enjoy this as it is and not compare it to the French one.

Love is for Suckers: The ending was so random. It was sweet that he did that, but it was weird and all I could think at the end was at least she doesn't get the squishy squish in her shoes. It just kind of came out of no where. Anyway, I love the webtoon artist, I don't like the chef. I also really hate that they just barely mentioned the one woman's eating disorder and that the mic people weren't sympathetic. It was really sad.

Love in Contract: The pros Ji Ho, Gwang Nam, and Sang Eun. They were the best part. GKP was really fantastic as Ji Ho and I hope he plays romantic leads more often in the future. As for Gwang Nam, I want a drama for him, where he is living his best life.

The First Responders: I am really looking forward to this!!

Love in contract. It’s over. I got a bean. I don’t think I’ll ever remember this drama.

Love is for suckers. I’m holding for Kang PD. I don’t really like leads, and I specially don’t like ML almost harassing FL into make her say “I like you too”. Hope last scene is just imagination, but even so, doesn’t FL have feet?

Curtain Call. I tried. KHN is amazing as he only can be, but no matter how hard I try, I can’t connect with the characters, and specially halmoni.

Never give up. So many beanies loving this drama I gave it a try. On episode 3 and liking so far.

I slowly continue watching Happiness and Adamas. Liking both.

Curtain Call I like this drama for its old classic Kdrama vibe.

Cheer Up I wonder how they will make 16 episodes with this story...

Behind Every Star It's nice to see actors being ready to make fun of themselves.

Love is for Suckers The FL became the least interesting plot in her own drama...

May I Help You I'm dropping this one. I have no idea what this drama trying to be.

The Golden Spoon At this point, I want Taeyong to be happy with his mother and sister far from the other characters.

One Dollar Lawyer I guess they did what they could with what they had...

Under the Queen's Umbrella I hope Prince Hodong will find delicious dumplings, he deserves them!

Revenge of others The setting is a little bit too drama-esque but I'm curious about what happened to the brother.

Gaus Electronics I will miss it. It was so funny!

Shadow Detective The casting is 😍

House on Wheels It's nice to see the members getting confortable together now. Rowoon is just a giant baby for them. Kim Min-Ha is really cute. I want to try all their food, it looks so delicious.

Gaus Electronics: 9.0 I learned a new word from Ma-tan, "misunderf***ing".

One Dollar Lawyer: 6.0 Day 11 - filler episode as a side-effect of their evil sequel arrangements? If the last scene of the finale seemed like it came from left field - nope, it came from the moon. If you don't know what I'm talking about, go watch the 2009 k-movie Castaway on the Moon.

Behind Every Star: 8.5 Director of Pegasus Market & Surplus Princes comes thru again. Cho Yeo-Jeong was brilliant in a guest appearance as herself, but was her "horse" a Pegasus reference?

Cheer Up: 7.0 Disappointing show, but at least we got some cheering this week.

Love Is For Suckers: 7.0 👻👍 To me Jo Soo-hyang is the star of the show. She was one of the best baddies ever in School 2015 and now she's a good nuanced gray-ish character.

May I Help You: 6.0 Arcade PPL 👎

Love Kopiko PPL in Contract: 6.1

Revenge of Others: 6.5 It's nice to see some bullies getting what they deserve (and surprising in a Disney production - I'm grew up with Disney content that was much more family-friendly than having the ML smash a baddy's foot with a hammer) but I don't like watching bullying scenes in the first place.
Any bets on what form future Revenges take? Since they've (A) parted ways with the tame little kdrama tradition of exposing baddies and having them punished by law after a minute or two of fake tension with the lead pretending to want pulverize them and (B) made a point of having the FL be a sharpshooter, might they have her shoot somebody? It would be un-kdrama to do that but almost un-American not to. Or maybe she can shoot the tumor out of the ML's brain.

Shadow Detective: i love this week's episodes for going diving more into the mystery. I love that we're going through Taekrok's mind as he tries to guess who is the Friend, though i don't like corruption part (duh). Ep 6 cliffhanger left me😲😲😶 we all know he's not the Friend but why? I'm so looking forward to know the "why"

Through the Darkness: Shadow Detective gives me courage to watch this again from the beginning but dang i was wrong. My mental is not ready to watch something this dark, i forget just how dark this show. Maybe watching it slowly would help

Rewatched Defendant again. As always loved most of it, and then came the last 4 episodes which are rather boring because of the 2ep extension, which is a shame for such a great show.

My wife likes to look at, I mean, enjoy the acting of Ji Chang-Wook— so we’ve had to watch every one of his dramas, some a couple of times, and catching up on fall dramas, we are now watching If You Wish Upon Me. I’m a little annoyed that of all the shows we’ve missed we started with this one. After all, its not as if, earlier in the year, I made her watch a salvation drama with overly sentimental episodes and a dying dog just so I could see a few closeups of a stunningly beautiful actress playing a grim reaper with pink hair…oh…that’s right… I guess I did do this to her. So I’ll let her JCW obsession slide this time.

I don’t want to offend anyone, but in my opinion, with the sole exception of Healer, shows starring Ji Chang Wook have, like this one, been, well, just okay. They all have really interesting premises, and I give him credit for trying to play different types of characters. But they all fail to live up to the initial set up, usually because of weak writing, sometimes because of his co-stars, but also (don’t tell my wife I said this) sometimes because of JCW himself.

We haven’t finished If You Wish Upon Me yet—we have a few episodes to go, but I have an uneasy feeling that its going to get violent, and the theme of redemption is going to get awfully muddled. I hope I’m wrong. Maybe the nuns and volunteers will come through with some movingly persuasive arguments that lead the violent gangster who beats up people with his golf club to employ his golf skills for good, providing a lesson to dying patients, so they can hit the green as their last wish!

No Kdrama on my plate right now. I’ve been rewatching Love between Fairy and Devil (Cdrama) and also watching a cartoon on Netflix (The Dragon Prince). I enjoy both a lot.

I hope Kdrama crops next year will be more interesting for me. My preference is pretty simple- simple, well-executed and acted romances or good rom coms with likable leads and characters. And please don’t add any unnecessary things to complicate this (i.e., a murder subplot). Just do it well. *chaebal*

CURTAIN CALL: This is the one I wish I had the willpower to wait and binge because I think it's designed to be watched that way. But it's also the drama I'm enjoying most right now, so I can't wait! KHN is so good in this, and the tone is both wistful and suspenseful, which I love. I'm not sure how a romance will form out of this initial betrayal, especially since it would seem only possible if that betrayal is revealed quickly. But then the ML has no reason to be in the FL's orbit at all. I'm wondering if she'll end up hiring him to play her boyfriend to fend off the ex?

BEHIND EVERY STAR: I watched one episode of the French show, but don't really remember it, so I came at this with no expectations. It's fine, but not quite as funny as I thought it would be. I did not expect the (faux?) incest storyline to be the only one I care about.

MAY I HELP YOU? There's something about this one that I find addictive. I love the friendship between the FL's dad and the ML, for one. And I like how the FL and ML take turns being weary of one another. I'm not quite sure why the ML had a change of heart and believed that the FL can see ghosts, but it's better than the two of them constantly misunderstanding each other.

LOVE IS FOR SUCKERS: I'd like a little more romantic comedy in this romantic comedy, please. And it doesn't have to come from the leads: the burgeoning connection between the webtoon artist and the Chef would work, but there are some potential landmines there that I'm not sure the writers have the sensitivity to handle well.

I'm slowing making my way through the back-end of THE LAW CAFE. I just like the leads so much, even if the story surrounding them is often flat. I also said a loving goodbye to GAUS this week--such a fun, genuinely funny show! And finally, I must admit that in general, I don't care for C-dramas (I didn't even make it through NIRVANA IN FIRE). I find them slow, overly long, and packed with filler. But I'm liking LOVE BETWEEN FAIRY AND DEVIL. I get a little bored here and there, but it mostly holds my interest. I do keep imagining a better Korean remake in my head, though!

New Life Begins: Such a wholesome little romance! The kind that makes your cheeks hurt from squeeing! Bai Jingting is radiating all his golden-retriever energy, and I'm a complete sucker for it! Combines all my favorite tropes of arranged marriages, quirky-but-smart FL, hilarious misunderstandings and possibly monogamous men! ^^

Animals: Another saccharine sweet little j-dorama. Vibes similar to NLB, except it's modern day. No villains, no drama. Conflicts are resolved a tad too easily. Shirasu Jin's dimples are too hard to resist. Bonus find, Finn Wolfhard's fabulously Japanese lookalike. The hair is identical!

Seishun Cinderella: Starring Finn Wolfhard's Japanese Cousin and the j-actress with the 1000-watt smile. Nicely spent 30mins!

Silent: I like how 'relationships' in this drama are not the conventional kind. The lead actor is settling well into his hearing-impaired role. The sign-language scenes are getting less hammy, and more poignant. The FL is a little miscast (was hoping for Komatsu Nana) but the soundtrack is earwormy and I find myself humming along!

Lighter & Princess: Chen Feiyu with blond hair is the shoujo-manga ML from my dreams. Plot is cliched, the college scenes aren't even well done. Sticking for the pretty!

Love is for suckers: Exasperating. I wish Yeo-Reum can redeem herself. She's been an awful friend. I kept waiting for her to comfort Jae-Hoon, telling him he made the right choice and that his Dad still loves him no matter what. Dashed expectations!

Planning to start: Love in Time [a well-done time-warp story, akin to Someday or Oneday] & Shards of Her [a gritty story of violence and sexual abuse starring almost all the who's who of Taiwanese-drama scene!]

Wow, I love reading what people are watching. I'm so amazed by how many dramas fans can juggle!!! So, here is my very short list:

Curtain Call: I'm entertained which is all I ask for in my dramas! I haven't hit pause much at all. Because I knew nothing about it when I hit play (except for the actors), I was really surprised by the old school, makjang feel. While it has the music and set up of a classic soap opera, I have a feeling this will take us someplace different.

High Kick: I really needed something to get me through the US elections, and this meets that need! Half hour shows of really questionable comedy---funny and cringey at the same time. But, also a very challenging watch for someone outside the culture. It feels like a sitcom from the 1970's-1990's US, yet it really isn't that old 2006/2007. I wish more shows had 1/2 hour episodes like this. I'm enjoying the watch and have a long way to go!!!

As for the non-Korean drama watches: Just started the Crown (most recent season) and continue the British Baking Show.

Love in Contract: Officially dropped after 5 episodes. I am not someone that cares that PMY does a lot of rom/coms. I have liked her last 5 or so dramas with Her Private Life being the rare romance drama where I actually get to see a couple fall in love over the episodes. These shows are not without their flaws but easy enough watches. Not this one. I'm out.

I was watching a show with Siwan involving civil service tax dept ...yeah I'm out on this one as well.

Deadwind (Netflix) Nordic Noir from Finland. It's fine but nothing new in the genre.

Nothing really interesting me these days.

I'm abruptly watching *nothing* currently. I never even made it to the halfway points of Love Is For Suckers, Love In Contract, Law Cafe, Today's Webtoon or Good Job.

@mistyisles, I am glad you are enjoying SR&J. You mentioned “that one sympathetic villain”. I think you might be referring to baddie Tae-seo (Lee Jae-kyoon) whom @sicarius gave the moniker ‘Bead Boy’. A lot of us really took to that poor guy maybe in the way folks hold on to the black sheep in the family when you know better.

O/T Recently I have been thinking of Bead Boy as I watch CURTAIN CALL. Baddie (real) grandson Moon-sung (Noh Sang-hyun) should be appearing soon and I hope he will evoke sympathy like we had for BB.

Finished Gaus Electronics
Great comedy, great romance, great script using a trope a minute, and wonderful actors – I wish it would have been twice as long!
Finished Love In Contract
So much ridiculousness, and I don’t mean that in a funny way.
The last 4 episodes really annoyed me, and I didn’t enjoy the drama very much before that. This should be a lesson to me to learn to drop dramas, especially if the leads aren’t likeable for me.
The humour and “cuteness” felt totally off for me (Mi Ho sitting in the hallway during the night so Ji Ho and Sang Eun Jin can’t meet up – really??? Buying all that stuff for the hospital room and making a huge fuss was supposed to be funny???...). Then the totally unnecessary separation, and for a reconciliation they sit across a huge table and cry? And then they sit meters apart for planning and later cancelling a wedding when they are already married? I hated the overblown proposal, doing that in public feels like a violation of your partner to me, even more so for a quiet person like Ji Ho. Worst of all: the sudden, inexplicable and complete change in character for so many people: Mi Ho is a loving mother all of a sudden who even cares about other people? The ex-wife, Hae Jin’s mother and especially his father – they all are supportive all of a sudden? The ray of light: Gwang Nam as the queer person who is the only normal one, and the office crew.
Finished Blind
What an important and underrated drama. As usual, it says at the beginning of each episode that this is a work of fiction and not related to real persons, but this is really based on true events. Since I found that out, it hit really hard. Now, the disturbing scenes of children being violated, mistreated and hunted at the beginning make so much sense, they are not there for sensational value. So this is not a thriller with twists and turns just for entertainment, but also to bring this real case to light, which makes it heartbreaking. That aside, Taecyon and Jung Eun Ji did really well and I had a great time watching the culprit being evil with his big eyes and angelic smile.
Once Upon a Small Town
I’m spending a long weekend in the Bavarian Alps, the weather is lovely and when I open the window I can hear cow bells 😊 So what better to watch in the evenings than this show. I loved the country setting and the animal stories, the characters and especially the best second male lead ever, who confesses but promises to stay a friend when he is rejected and actually is true to his word and is very supportive!
One Dollar Lawyer
What happened to this show that was so great in the beginning? Did they lose the script and had to film without one? Did they run out of money and have to cut the show short? Are they really going for a second season? I would be very surprised…
Love Is For Suckers
Complicated relationships, a painful past and the dating show itself make me watch. The horror date was really funny,...

Off topic, but related...what has happened to koreandrama.org?

Among the other things my wife enjoyed this week was the second ENOLA HOLMES detective movie (Enola being the younger sister of Sherlock and his brilliant brother Mycroft). She also enjoyed DOWNTON ABBEY: A NEW ERA, a show which proves that you cannot keep a good franchise down. On Prime she returned to Chinese Costume Drama with the very light FAKE PRINCESS. But, best of all she finally got to watch CITY OF STREAMER, which pretty much had her transfixed once she started it. That did not stop her from getting caught up on UNDER THE QUEENS UMBRELLA, which she has been loving.

My respect for the writer of the weekender THREE BOLD SIBLINGS has gone way up. First, the mean younger sister of our ML has been left standing at the altar, earning a solid Huzzah! From me. But the writer has also now assembled some significant potential conflicts: It turns out that the young girl that So-rim’s ex-fiancé dumped her for is the daughter of the CEO that she may end up with (So-rim and said CEO are even pictured turned in towards each other on the show page) meaning that she could potentially become her ex’s mother-in-law. Of course, that means that said younger sister and her potential mate have a huge age gap as well: Automatic family conflict and controversy there, but it is the sort of stuff that weekenders are made of.

Because sometimes a weekender is just not enough, I have also been taking time to watch the daily THE LOVE IN YOUR EYES, which is a cut above the usual such fair, although not necessarily as great as last year’s BE MY DREAM FAMILY which was exceptional. I have to admit that part of the reason for starting this one was last week’s pause in many shows during the National Week of Mourning. Thank goodness we got LOVE IS FOR SUCKERS back this week- it is a good show and Chae-ri has become one of my favorite villians.

BEHIND EVERY STAR started this week. I had been waiting for this one and we watched the first two episodes. I am actually not sure about it at this point. Of course, I have to confess that I have net seen even the original CALL MY AGENT nor the Indian re-make- both are also available on Netflix- so I am not quite sure what to make of it yet, as my expectations may have been off. I will continue to watch it in any case.

I have been looking for news for the reason why the broadcast of the C-drama SHE AND HER PERFECT HUSBAND has been delayed. It was supposed to start on October 13 but then was abruptly called off. I do know that it is not a production problem as the show finished filming in June. No explanations so far but Viki still shows it as “coming soon”. So frustrating. And Netflix now shows THE FABULOUS as starting January 1. I had been under the impression that it would be sooner but may have been mistaken.

Gaus Electronics: It got even funnier and more absurd in the finale week and ended wonderfully and with a lot of warmth. I laughed out loud so much. What a gem of a drama.

Love is for Suckers My enthusiasm for the main romance is sort of dying off, but I'm sort of invested in the show within a show, especially the potential pairing between the warmhearted webtoon artist and the self-centered chef. The horror mission was interesting with the different pairings and reactions.

Three Bold Siblings: I'm in it for SJ's mom to eventually get along with TJ and TJ's mom. SJ seems like he would be frustrating to be married to - he seems like the guy who would, not in a mean way, take his girlfriend for granted.

Love in Contract — dropped. I really enjoyed this one starting out, but all the chaebol/family/second lead drama just drained it of much enjoyment. I paused to see what people thought of the end and it doesn’t sound worth it!

The Untamed - loved it. I had what I think is a pretty common progression with this show: skepticism to tolerance to enjoyment to love. So glad I stuck with it — thanks to everyone for the encouragement.

Nirvana in Fire 2 - paused halfway through months ago and just picked it up again. Really into it now, love Pingjing and Lin Xi (and Xun Feizhan!)

I miss having a kdrama I’m really into — hoping that Reborn Rich is fantastic or will try something older, maybe one of the family dramas I’m halfway through.

I'm still watching Thirty but seventeen.
And these last days I have finished The Nokdu Flower and At a distance, spring is green.
I have loved them both and they go to my Top 10.

Current:
Love in Contract:
People went back and forth on my screen.
Words came from their mouths.
There was no cat.

Love Is for Suckers: Grrr.

Glitch: This show took a huge leap with lots of flying twists and turns and stuck the landing. Very satisfying. It was impossible to look away whenever Nana and Jeon Yeo-been were onscreen but the whole cast was pitch-perfect.

Gaus Electronics: So much fun! Need more Kwak Dong-yeon soon.

One Dollar Lawyer: I’m procrastinating on the final episode both because I’m irked at the waste of potential and because I don’t want to see the last of fabulous Namgoong Min and his fabulous suits and sunglasses.

Older stuff:
I had a Glitch-shaped hole in my viewing schedule that I’m filling with Wok of Love aka Greasy Melo. I’ve been adequately warned/spoiled about its shortcomings and virtues. I wanted something slightly surreal and goofy, and it’s delivering so far.

I finished When the Weather Is Fine, although I don’t know why. Can Seo Kang-joon please have better projects when he gets out of the army? Preferably with roles that allow him to move his facial muscles more than once per episode?

Binged Gaus from beginning to end this week, a rare finale that was as good as the rest of the series. Rolled into the end of Love in Contract on fumes, but at least I finished it which is something given my long queue of unfinished dramas.

I have a week left in my cheap Viki subscription so might try to wrap up Mr. Queen. Enjoyed the comic stylings of Shin Hye-sun but dragging toward the end. Or I might just rewatch My Ahjussi for the umpteenth time.

Haven’t visited Dramabeans in ages. I’ve missed you all!
MARRIAGE IN CONTRACT: A big letdown! Like they took What’s Wrong with Sec’y Kim and squeezed all the charm out. At first, I thought maybe I wasn’t liking it because I had just completed a much better show, QUE SERA,SERA. But it seems that many of you were equally unimpressed with MIC.

QUE SERA, SERA. This 2007 show just came on Viki. It is noir-ish, passionate, and raw. Loved it! The characters don’t always behave in logical or predictable, or acceptable ways. But they’re always human. The story is not unlike Discovery of Love, which also came on Viki this year and which also starred Eric Mun.

GAUS ELECTRONICS. Thumbs down. Not for me. Office stories have to be really exceptional to hold my interest, and this didn’t.

GOOD MANAGER. Also thumbs down. After all the hype, I had to try it, but I Just don’t find accounting to be very funny or engrossing. Maybe you have to be Korean to appreciate this one?

THE DIVORCE LAWYER IN LOVE. Like a fizzy bottle of champagne popping. An older rom-com starring the same guy who played the lead in “Marriage, Not Dating.” For a change, the office workers were substantial characters each funny in their own detailed way. I was in rom-com heaven.

ALL ABOUT MY ROMANCE. (2013). Two politicians from opposite political parties fall for each other. The story of political enemies seemed fresh and relatable in our polarized times.

LITTLE WOMEN. Okay, it had good production values. I just can’t get into anything with Kim Go Eun in the lead. She has all the charm of a hard boiled egg, in my opinion. Didn’t like her in Yumi’s Cell either.

THE WORLD OF THE MARRIED. Just wow. So glad Kdrama-land is still able to occasionally squeeze out a great one.

We just finished Love in contract, and I feel let down by this drama. Maybe I had too many expectation of light and funny ? The chaebols story, the unlikeable 2ML, the even more unlikeable 2FL... and the lack of cat appearance.
I am part of the bewtiched by JiHo gang, so the watch was enterterning.
Meanwhile, we have started Zombie detective, and it delivers on the fun.
I have not yet finished the excellent Stranger (will do tomorrow), and have made some progress on The girl who sees scents so as to be able to tell my friend that I fully watched it I suppose.
I have not been able to convince my friend to watch Love like the galaxie. She finds the beginning boring and too political...
Well, the rythm of cdrama is fine with me.
I finished Mr Bad which delivered the fun and chemistry lacking in Love in contract.
But before, I started one more... I wanted to see more of Chen Xing Xu so here comes Truth. His voice (his real one) is not at all the same as in Fall in love. Deception. It's a slow moving investigation but the episodes feel shorts. It has intelligent characters, and this is quite enjoyable. And there is a Captain Li (Zhao Ren Jie) that needs to be in more dramas!

I realise that I prefer to have very intelligent characters or very silly ones, but I am not interested by the more realistic/normal. Now where do I find a good psychopath ?

Now that Gaus Electronics is over, I feel like I need a good comedy out there. Fortunately ep 2 of Behind Every Star delivered because of the 2 cameo actors who I think are BFFs in real life. They actually did the cameos too in Vincenzo (the ones who mugged him upon his arrival in Korea). I was actually replaying the funeral singing scenes as almost all the otjljer actors had a hard time keeping a straight face, I imagine it must have taken them several takes. Hopefully the rest of the episodes pick up too too.

I already dropped LIC and LIFS, I could not stand the OTPs and the cringe in LIC and the idiocy in LIFS.

Surprisingly, May I Help You is starting to be interesting to me.

Contemplating to pause UTQU for now as the palace politics are stressing me out, I think I hate every adult character in this show except the queen and her court lady.

Took a break from kdramas and watched Emergency Declaration k-movie too and I say, Im Si Wan as a villain is creepily good.