So, @db-staff, I really want to have my only suggestion is to click and hit "favorite" for the future Kdramas (whether terrestrial non-cable and cable TV stations or weekly streaming K-dramas) after airing because I knew that after Kdramas finishing its airing, some people would whether love/like this or hate/unlike this Kdrama after you watching this entire Kdrama.

I'm behind everything live and when I don't have large trunks of free time, I often return to rewatching my favourites for comfort. I've just finished Forest of Secrets 1 another time, and still think it's the best Kdrama of all time!! I already knew the ending, I knew how things unfolded, but it was still so fascinating and addictive. The writer is genius, and the performance of the ensemble cast is stellar. For a long time I couldn't bring myself to rewatch FoS because of what happened to Shin Hyesun's character. But after finishing Mr Queen recently, my love for her, which has always been very strong, encouraged me to touch FoS once again, and I still love it as ever, and my heart still hurt for Eunsoo like the first time.

This time I watched Lee Junhyuk more closely and found his character very amusing. So I think I'll finally watch Dongjae The Good or The Bastard. But of course after I finish FoS2 once again.

OMG, I can't believe that there's Mido and Falasol (Hospital Playlist band) song on Resident Playbook OST which was coming on Easter Sunday/April 20, so I'm hoping for Mido and Falasol on-screen Resident Playbook appearance.

I'm watching Crushology 101 but surprisingly (being a drama about crushes) it doesn't make me squee. I find it very entertaining, but I don't love the characters yet and the chemistry is so-so.

So my weekly squee is thanks to Way Back Love and the main couple, who are absolutely lovely in the flashbacks.

This week has been sadly squee-free in life and k-drama. So I turned to my personal squee-crack, King the Land. Why? I don't know. They're just so sweet and funny together. Yeah, they're not real, but the world is so full of selfish evil people being selfish and evil lately, and they both just seem so decent and well-meaning. And crazy about each other. And there's that episode 8 kiss you mentioned in the intro...

Okay, since the Weekly Squee is now up, I’m re-posting this onto here:

Xiao Zhan’s next drama—from YOUKU, which makes it so he’s now officially worked with all 3 of China’s Big 3 networks— Zang Hai Zhuan, has a premiere date!!!! 🥳

MAY 18th, 2025

Now let’s not get too excited, but at the same time, hope that this date sticks and actually pulls through, because we never know with C-Ent. 😅🤣

I'm currently watching web Cdrama DIFFERENT PRINCESS and am squeeing so hard over the villain-turned softball hero that is the male lead. The direction has alllowed him to be as awkwardly cute as someone his age having his first real crush is supposed to be and his shyness is soooo cute. 🤭

I also started watching 2020 Kdrama CHEAT ON ME, IF YOU CAN and I'm squeeing very hard over the FL's candidness and subtle threats towards her notoriously cheating husband who's acted, equally squee worthy in his own right, by Go Jun.

I am on episode 10 of my first watch of MOONLOVERS SHR. And I have to say that I am hooked. There have been many Lee Jong Gi squee scenes! I am not very familiar with him - just because I haven't watched any of his dramas- hard to believe as he is so popular. (I tried to watch Flower of Evil, but it just didn't work for me, but I feel I will revisit it now!) Kang Ha Neul is amazing as always. IU is growing on me. Fun to see Jin Ki Joo who I didn't know until Undercover High School.
I am thankful, as always, for the Dramabeans recaps and fun to wade through the hundreds of comments! I am not a fan of the very over used close ups of the actors faces. So distracting and unnecessary! And, I have realized that there are many scenes that have been cut which is frustrating to read about them in the recaps and not see them! I also do not care for the OST, the "modern" music is very jarring and out of place.
But, overall, it is keeping me hooked and I know I will join the thousands of viewers that are unhappy with the end!

My weekly squee goes to the latest "rented" member of Running Man, Choi Daniel.

It’s easy to see why he’s so well-received -- he seems positioned as a kind of stand-in for Lee Kwang Soo (they even used LKS’s theme music for him, a detail no one missed). But while LKS often leaned into playing a character -- clueless, petty, and larger-than-life -- Choi Daniel feels more like a real person.

He comes across as a genuine goof, adorably scatterbrained, more open-hearted, and quietly authentic. He’s not as hysterically funny as LKS (and credit where it’s due -- LKS was consistently hilarious), but Daniel brings a softer, more generous take on the “tall-feeble-character” role, adn it's refreshing to see.

Whether that image persists, remains to be seen, but for now, it’s a lovely change of pace.

Two squees today. First, about kdrama: someone I know reqlly well watched a kdrama! Didn't see it and looked like a fool after bragging about them for a few years, but still an unexpected happy feeling.
Second one, about RL: today is a happy day, today is a just day, today is a hopefully day. Today is a good day!

Things have been kind of rough in my world lately. Just an enormous amount of stress in the past couple of weeks and I’ve barely had time to watch anything, let alone post on here. But last night I was watching an episode of Tangerines and they did a flashback to Park Bo-gum waving to his family as he left in the morning. He has such a great smile and against his Jeju-tanned-fisherman face it was extra striking. And I didn’t really squee, but I did whatever the tired version of that is. I’m loving this show but he and his smile are not in it enough! Happy that he has another show coming up soon.

LUCY comeback in a week! So excited!

Here's the new album highlight teaser. The full album will drop on 23rd of April 😎
https://youtu.be/IbQ-B4zKZMI?si=RacI2zDaNeqdIh1d

This is the time I miss the fanwall. I would have spazzed about this comeback all over my FW hahahaha.

Other than LUCY comeback spazz, I would have shared about LUCY Sangyeop and When Life Gives You Tangerines. Maybe in another post. I will compile it and share it somewhere here. My agenda to spread LUCY awareness continues and it's drama related because he talks about WLGYT quite a lot 😂

[SPOILERS] I wish to squeak madly about THE FIRST FROST. I binged to the end yesterday and was so entranced, I immediately started watching it again. It's my first c-drama so I have nothing to compare it to. Some thoughts:
* First of all, struck by how different Mandarin sounds, to Korean. The tone, the mouth feel, a new experience for my ears.
* Secondly, loved the cityscape, the hills, the cable cars that crossed the screen at the start of each episode, the counter that counted how many days since they met.
* The intensity of this romance, as the slow burn builds, is something to experience. Once they kiss, passionately, for the first time, in about episode 20, it blows the roof off. Yes, that is a long time! But it is worth the wait.
* Bai Jingting is something to behold. Extraordinary looks, but much more than that, the performance of the Epic Boyfriend -- eternal devotion initially just visible through cracks in his arrogant cool, and then unpeeling layer by layer. He could convey so much just in the tension of his face, his quick looks to the side where his cold eyes turned hurt.
* The godawful growing list of sexual assaults and harassment that she suffered, mostly damaging HER reputation. No wonder she was shutdown. Each episode a blow on a bruise.
* Although the show was sexually conservative, I found it refreshing how their powerful sexual attraction was made obvious, not ignored or downplayed.
* Although her family were dreadful, the show had three lovely families to enjoy, that were balm to the heart -- one large friendly working class family and two wealthy families who were kind and nonjudgmental. It was very interesting to me that there were no "class" issues in this show, as is so common in k-drama -- maybe a requirement of the Chinese authorities??
* The 2nd-lead romance was adorable -- so funny when a drunken bender found them in bed together with no knowledge of how, and their subsequent outraged examination of the building security tapes had me chuckling along with the security staff...
* I worried the second lead female was going to be a manic pixie dreamgirl, but I think she was firmly rooted in the reality of her family and her very practical work. Her ability to get his family to unravel their traumas was a delight.
* A fine cat. British shorthair, I believe.
* One can be cynical about romance. Impossible by the end of this show -- I believe they would have lived half-lives without each other. I loved how they were together. So many episodes where they just would not communicate, but this is made up for later as they slowly confess all their pain and secrets. Their interactions all through the show were a delight to me -- they seemed real and adult, even when they were being petty or jealous. I compare this to another epic romantic drama, say Descendants of the Sun, where the leads' interactions drove me mental, they were so annoying and immature, particularly her. This is the case in too many romantic...

Whoever captioned Resident Playbook last week wrote: "Thanks to our special guest, Ahn Eun-jin, our eternal Chu Min-ha".

It was perfect🤭🤭🤭🤭. And, they're married too... newlyweds 🎉🎉🎉🎉.