"What is a healing drama?" Someone asked me this a while ago, and it wasn't difficult to give the obvious, glib answer: A healing drama is a drama that makes...
It sure is hard to be Jin-ah. In trying to avoid conflict and please everyone, she sets herself up as the ultimate martyr to every cause and desire but her...
You Who Forgot Poetry has offered a slightly uneven ride, but I find myself content with the journey and satisfied by its end.
I love that the show made us...
It's all about boundaries today, and what happens when they're overstepped. Whether it's between lovers or friends, siblings or parents, colleagues or seniors, lines are crossed and crossed again.
Jin-ah...
With so few episodes remaining, I don't think I want the wind to change. But I do want our characters to go away with some real growth for their pains...
Although there are so many people in on our couple's secret, the hardest revelations are yet to come. But you can never put crisis off for long, and the time...
Sometimes a show gives you every single thing that you want. But I can't decide if this show is that show. I mean, it is, but also... I want... more?...
Now we're settling into our second half trajectory, Min-ho's far from being the only character to turn a corner (and what a welcome turn it is). This week brought a...
JTBC's current Friday-Saturday romance Pretty Noona Who Buys Me Food is so everything right now that Laica and I just couldn't let this one go by. Unfortunately, the international release...
I started this show partly on a whim, and my interest in young actors Jang Dong-yoon and Shin Jae-ha persuaded me to try it out even though I wasn't sure...
[2018 Year in Review] Thrill me, heal me
by Saya
"What is a healing drama?" Someone asked me this a while ago, and it wasn't difficult to give the obvious, glib answer: A healing drama is a drama that makes...
Tags: Theme of the Month, year in review 2018
Pretty Noona Who Buys Me Food: Episodes 15-16 (Final)
by Saya
It sure is hard to be Jin-ah. In trying to avoid conflict and please everyone, she sets herself up as the ultimate martyr to every cause and desire but her...
Tags: Jung Hae-in, Pretty Noona Who Buys Me Food, Sohn Ye-jin
You Who Forgot Poetry: Episodes 15-16 (Final)
by Saya
You Who Forgot Poetry has offered a slightly uneven ride, but I find myself content with the journey and satisfied by its end. I love that the show made us...
Tags: Jang Dong-yoon, Lee Jun-hyuk, Lee Yubi, Shin Jae-ha, You Who Forgot Poetry
Pretty Noona Who Buys Me Food: Episodes 11-12
by Saya
It's all about boundaries today, and what happens when they're overstepped. Whether it's between lovers or friends, siblings or parents, colleagues or seniors, lines are crossed and crossed again. Jin-ah...
Tags: Jung Hae-in, Pretty Noona Who Buys Me Food, Sohn Ye-jin
You Who Forgot Poetry: Episodes 13-14
by Saya
With so few episodes remaining, I don't think I want the wind to change. But I do want our characters to go away with some real growth for their pains...
Tags: Jang Dong-yoon, Lee Jun-hyuk, Lee Yubi, Shin Jae-ha, You Who Forgot Poetry
Pretty Noona Who Buys Me Food: Episodes 9-10
by Saya
Although there are so many people in on our couple's secret, the hardest revelations are yet to come. But you can never put crisis off for long, and the time...
Tags: Jung Hae-in, Pretty Noona Who Buys Me Food, Sohn Ye-jin
You Who Forgot Poetry: Episodes 11-12
by Saya
Sometimes a show gives you every single thing that you want. But I can't decide if this show is that show. I mean, it is, but also... I want... more?...
Tags: Jang Dong-yoon, Lee Jun-hyuk, Lee Yubi, Shin Jae-ha, You Who Forgot Poetry
You Who Forgot Poetry: Episodes 9-10
by Saya
Now we're settling into our second half trajectory, Min-ho's far from being the only character to turn a corner (and what a welcome turn it is). This week brought a...
Tags: Jang Dong-yoon, Lee Jun-hyuk, Lee Yubi, Shin Jae-ha, You Who Forgot Poetry
Pretty Noona Who Buys Me Food: Episodes 1-6
by Saya
JTBC's current Friday-Saturday romance Pretty Noona Who Buys Me Food is so everything right now that Laica and I just couldn't let this one go by. Unfortunately, the international release...
Tags: Jung Hae-in, Pretty Noona Who Buys Me Food, Sohn Ye-jin
You Who Forgot Poetry: Episodes 1-8
by Saya
I started this show partly on a whim, and my interest in young actors Jang Dong-yoon and Shin Jae-ha persuaded me to try it out even though I wasn't sure...
Tags: Jang Dong-yoon, Lee Jun-hyuk, Lee Yubi, Shin Jae-ha, You Who Forgot Poetry