Reading your post reminded me of Soundtrack #1. I loved Kang So-hee (is that her name? Forgot the actors’ names sometimes) so I thought this would be another good project. So looked forward to it. But I was beyond disappointed watching the first ep. The ML is also a well-known name, I think. But everything in it was so unbelievably bland I forgot how great of an actor the FL was in her previous roles. So I think it might be because of the production team who made it look like that for you if the actors were good in their previous projects.

It is good that you stoppee because it got better in second episode only to derail in the second half.

I didn’t really like this drama. They always chose to focus on a big mystery instead on the characters becoming police officers….

I had fun for like 5 episodes then everything was stupid and obvious and I there was not enough material for 16 episodes (not even for 10). To start with does anyone believe Krystal is 18 for most part of the series? Please, one thing is a flashback, and other thing is… this mess.
I had almost forgotten I actually watched some episodes, although I don’t remember anything that happened.

I couldn’t even finish ep 2, very disappointing

I completely agree! Police University is a disaster. I watched three episodes and couldn’t get enough of more. Cha Tae Hyun is usually quite good, so I think in this case it’s the director. It is his job to tell the actor what to do. I once did research papers in college about the influence of directing on the quality of acting. Then I found https://edubirdie.com/pay-for-research-papers for this. And here everything is obvious – there is no directing! Here’s the result: good actors, but impossible to watch. The script is a separate pain. It feels like it was written on my knee. Everything looks so awkward and ridiculous that it’s simply impossible to watch

I get you – KJW is not born to be cheesy LOL!!

Fight for My Way? The FL has a job as an information desk announcer at a department store.

It’s not Now we are breaking up, is it? She’s a designer but there are a lot of department store scenes.

“Mine” perhaps?

it could be about that lady whose 17 year old self travels ahead in time with her..and now she is trying to take care of her own self after getting fired from the mall and with this 17 yr old of herself around

I haven’t watched it, but could it be VIP? Your description somehow reminded me of that.

Wait, I’ve just read the synopsis. WHAT?!?
I’ve been doing this thing where I, for the lack of better terms, raw-dog dramas without knowing a single thing about it. Synopsis often either build my expectations or deter me from a drama so I’ve decided to experience dramas first hand with limited biases.

Okay, just finished the first ep and though I saw the death flag signaling, I didn’t think it’ll turn out this way. Is it a tragedy. I take back what I said about Krystal’s character. But KJW’s character? Booooo!

But HD fails as a child too..

Its IMF.. people have lost jobs, lost money.. she is a single mother in a partriachal society.. she has to raise her daughter all on her own while paying for her expensive sports interest..

compare to YR… she actually wins and yet sees her family struggle to support her sports interest..

When has HD shown even a bit of maturity compared to girls her age – gold medalist and YR .. both excel at something, both support their parents despite parents being unable to give them everything..

Is mom not to blame.. no, mom needs to be more warm towards HD.. but then some people have their personalities.. if HD gets a way out for how she behaves, mom gets a way out too.. both of them need to understand each other and come closer.. both have lost someone precious (supportive dad Vs supportive husband in a patriarchal society)

I felt the same frustration. She wasn’t even asking for her time. All Hee Do wanted to hear was “You did well. Congratulations”
Even if she had no choice but to read the news, Coach Yang already gave her an olive branch. She failed that simple task.
That’s where Yi Jin got it right. Even though he scolded her, she saw he was on her side through his actions.
Action, they say, speaks louder than words. If you don’t put your feelings into actions, it won’t reach anyone, mum.

It’s really baffling. I would think as a parent, one of the worst feelings would be finding out your child felt that they couldn’t come to you with their problems. After Hee-do said as much in the first episode I thought her mom would put at least a little effort into mending their relationship

Because she’s of the generation that doesn’t say “I love you,” or you did great or anything supportive to their children. Ask me how I know. I was raised by a mom just like that and I find myself sometimes being overly critical of my own kids.

*been

Hey! Watch Twenty Five Twenty One!

Happy new year, Pilgrim!

Happy New Year and welcome back!

Welcome back and Happy New Year! I was unaware of such a practice, but I find the concept lovely and wholesome. It just makes logical sense.

I’ll second what mindy above said and also recommend Twenty Five Twenty One. I struggled with Song Kang (among other things) in Forecasting Love and Weather as well and that drama turned out to be the perfect cure. I’d say at least give it a try.

Happy New Year!

For SSK her voice emotes but her face doesn’t that well. I feel she has improved with every project and was serviceable in Rookie Historian but it’s always the face which emotes a tad bit less than it should that I end up dropping her dramas.

I’m watching her for the first time in Run On. She seems okay. She definitely doesn’t have the most expressive face, but it doesn’t seem bad by any means, at least so far. She has a very expressive voice.

Birthcare Center dramatises the postnatal care period that pregnant moms go through after giving brith and provides different perspectives on motherhood.

18 Again is a body-swap drama that has the husband, already on the verge of a divorce from his wife, reverted into his 18-year old physical form through divine intervention.

Missing: The Other Side has the leading character stumble upon a village inhabited by dead spirits whose corpses have not been found.

I’m loving The Spies who loved me. Unique story, no slump in the story as of ep 14 (the show ends tomorrow btw). Amazing gray charcters, basically the most ideal female lead I’ve ever come across, not sterotypically badass, neither the damsel basically a woman we all have met in real life.
So yes I’m loving Spies 😅
Also it got better with each episode and if you don’t like any of the leads, I didn’t either before Spies but they are acing it here.

Memorials/Into the Ring if you want a quirky heroine, love interest (no triangle!), family and don’t mind politics (all handled in a light and often slapstick way).

Kairos~~~ it will end next week 😆

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Haha! Me too! I am really digging the chemistry of Kim Seon Ho and Halmeoni! The familyissue, I just had to ignore. Haha!

I’m with you 100% – KSH-KHS are fantastically good together! I wasn’t super impressed with Nam Da Reum, though. I’d sign up for the spinoff too! Even though this chemistry is what has me interested the most, the show has been getting its comedy right too – ep 3 being a GOLD case in point. When you get there, you’ll know!

The real unlucky ones get killed. There has been NUMEROUS cases. Some young people were gunned down. Some were engulfed in a car chase that eventually led to a car crash. Some were assaulted to death. They’re a menace! And a lot of Nigerians have had experiences of being frisked by these tyrants. My brother has on many occasions but he’s been really lucky to have had either an outranking police officer on his side, or something to distract them. I, personally, know people who have lost their siblings to them.
So why are these authorized tyrants running amok? Nigerians have been protesting for years after every killing that makes it to the news. Early this year, there was a public outrage for a young 16-year old girl that was murdered by a trigger-happy officer. But we got angry, trended #ENDSARS and then the government said they’ll reform it but nothing changes. We’ve been dancing to the same tunes for at least 3 years now. Why is this different? Because, for the first time since I can remember, young Nigerians are fed up and not just complaining on twitter but have gone to the streets to protest. For the first time in a long time, there’s a momentum and they’re not going to back down. Nigerian youths have been on streets protesting for three days straight. It started in Lagos state and has sparked other protests all through out the country. Nigerians outside the country are starting to rally to go protest in front the embassies in their respective countries. But the government has been fighting back. They tried to silence the media, so we took to twitter to trend it, hoping international press picks it up. The otherwise peaceful protest in some cities have been met with teargas, police attacks and intimidation. Still, the Nigerian youths won’t relent because they have started a revolution and they’re desperate to have something to come out of it. If nothing changes, SARS is going to continue to prowl but with more confidence knowing they have the government backing them.
So how can you help? You can read more about SARS on the internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_SARS, https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/10/9/endsars-nigerians-protest-over-police-brutality,
Mostly, you can help by retweeting #EndSARS to help raise awareness and keep it trending. I know this isn’t the platform and I apologize because a lot of people come here to escape the outside world but I’m just trying to raise awareness.

I just watched the first episode and it seems promising. It may end up being a hot mess but uts entertaining so far

I totally agree with you.
I was quite mad both to HyunHu and MingSu telling JoonYoung and SongAh that they were bad friends because they SECRETLY liked the person they also liked. It’s so absurd, specially when both JY and SA did nothing to show up, who hide their feelings, suffer in secret and supported their friend?
I specially hated MS, whose first thought was about herself: you’ve fooled me. How dare she? Instead of thinking… what a hard time you must have had when the two of us were dating… No, she thought (as she hadn’t been friends with SA for 10 years and knew her so well) that her friend was making her a fool and laughing at her because both of them liked the same guy. If SA had told her, she would have quitted their friendship just as she’s doing now.
The only thing both JY and SA did wrong was being friends with such selfish people.

Agree with everything you said. What I find most perplexing though, is that in both cases they were a group of friends – threesomes. So I don’t get how the friends of the main leads can be so angry at them when they all knew each other from the same time and spent time as friends before pairing off. Is it so inconceivable that the other part of the threesome also fell in love with their friend like you did? Really? And the irony of two people telling other to ‘stop loving’ when they themselves have been so incapable of it…boggles my mind.

Well said beanies! I get that MS/HH were both emotional but like you’ve said, there was no crime committed? The OTPs tried hard to ignore their own feeling for their friend and now that they’ve moved on and has to let go of those feelings, they do this?! Im still upset about this too. IRL, friendship doesnt go back to whats been before if this happens. I think JY/SA should move on from MS/HH as well. There’s JK still, who I think remained the truest? *cant believe Im saying this cuz I hated her the 1st half 🤣

I think a lot of this crummy reacting from both HH and MS is because they are hella embarrassed. It’s much easier for HH to blame JY vs JK and for MS to blame SA vs DY for what they’re feeling because the relationship is more ‘straightforward’ and their feelings for their respective exes are still complicated. No, neither JY nor SA acted on their feelings, but HH and MS still ended up rejected. Feeling like we were kept in the dark can make someone feel very foolish, and I think that’s why they are lashing out so hard as well. It’s misdirected and unfair, and honestly they should just take a time out. I think everyone would understand if they needed some time and space to lick their wounds and process everything. But taking it out on the easiest target is not unusual, and unfortunately that’s what we’re seeing here.

Maybe it’s a good thing that you don’t know what to make of him and cannot place a label on him, as it speaks of his range (like you have said above), and it doesn’t put him into a little typecast corner of your brain and will keep you open-minded when it comes to his many projects–in dramas, in movies, in variety/reality shows, etc.– he’s done in the past (whether you’ve watched them all or not) and for his future projects once he’s discharged from the army 🙂

How’s Med school or not? I remember some reservations about all this at some point. And I apologize if I’m being too nosey. But PBG, how do I love thee, let me count the ways. I also like how he morphs into characters. I think I sometimes have a hard time reconciling what he looks like to how he acts. In normal every day life, I don’t think he’s anything special. Like if I saw him on the street, I probably wouldn’t look twice at him. He’s not bad looking, but he’s not memorable either. His facial features are just pretty. Not unique. But when he acts, he’s crazy good. Like you can’t forget him. He gets under my skin, but I do luff him.

Judge vs. Judge is just meh. Not sure if it was the writing, the directing or both. All the actors were excellent.

absolutely.. on Eun bin.. for a loud character to this subtle submissive woman finding her strength.. so b’ful.. absolutely b’ful

and on PBG..lol again agree.. his real perosnality – i can’t make anything out of it..

I just want to say that I miss ‘Liar Song’😆

If we were living in a world where android robots were a thing I would have no doubt PBG was a robot. I feel nothing from him. No warmth. No thought process. No spontaniety. Well, he still might be a robot! Who knows!

I zoomed through the episode during my lunch break. I honestly think “fake”, “childish”, and “unnatural” are all suitable words for this show. It feels a lot like wish fulfillment — like watching a drama that started out as some teenager’s dream (@panshel aptly describes the feel of this drama as something out of a fanfiction). Although the show wants to be relatable, I can’t help but scratch my head and wonder whether there are real people like this. Into the Ring, which recently finished, is a nice contrast here, because ITR was really good at creating relatable characters and relationships, even though the plot itself was a bit far-fetched.

I hate being so unrelentingly negative, but the show is also sort of boring? Like it feels very bland to me. Hye-jun and Jeong-ha have zero chemistry and it’s a complete mystery to me how they’ve become so friendly so fast.

I agree. It just doesn’t feel genuine to me. Everything seems staged.

I am thinking one of the reason for this is , it is set in entertainment-modelling industry which takes out the reliability factor. I can not believe that a former super model will face difficulty in making it in entertainment industry.

Would it have been better if it’s Jang Kiyong instead of Bogum? Would it add realism?
I can’t muster a will to watch it. 😥

I spent a lot of time wondering why I cannot connect with this drama at all. (Maybe too much time). All I can come up with is the structure of the story.

For example with the first 2 episodes, why would they show the audition (pretty much the opening scene of ep 1) and the director’s response (liked him but he’s not well-known enough) before we knew what was at stake (if he doesn’t get the gig he’ll have to go to the army)? It took away all the potential suspense and therefore the emotion.

Anyway, I can’t seem to care about any of them

I haven’t watched RoY but it has the same writer as doctor and those were my sentiments on that show.

It feels like trying to fit a square key into a round hole imo. It’s all a bit forced. The scenes don’t flow well and the lines are a bit clunky and unnatural. I know what the writer is going for but the execution doesn’t make much sense.

Ugh this is exactly what I feel. I can’t place it at all. I’m gonna keep watching tho–it’s a little addicting. But something about it is not selling it to me. It’s just not coming together

I think the worst part is that she seemingly wants the best of both worlds. She wont leave Hyeon-ho but she also seemingly wants Joon-young to remain committed to her, notwithstanding the fact that she and Joon-young are not in a relationship.

She is very wishy washy….I know she has had issues to deal with but for me, that doesn’t excuse her absolutely crabby attitude towards both men.

Oh please. My beautiful, clever, funny friend is still hang up on a guy, who obviously doesn’t want anything more than a non-commited relationship. People being in toxic relationship and ignoring all the red flags is probably the most real thing in kdramas.

The short answer: convenience.

It is simply more convenient to stay with someone who loves her despite her giving nothing at all 🤷‍♀️

She looks constipated all the time, I’m already bored of it.

It’s hard for me to believe that she really likes either guy though, when all she seems to do is make both of them miserable. And what’s her reason for being so mad at Joon Young? Cause it seems as if she’s mad at him for not enabling her to cheat on the BF. Which is eye‐roll worthy.

Good heavens, why does either guy like HER? Eeeesh.

It was mentioned that they’ve been together for so long that people are just waiting for them to break up or get married. She’s a selfish character (I think she doesn’t want to lose both guys and want them to stay with her). She’s insensitive and I don’t get her charm.

In contrast, I kind of understand why Minseong and SongAh fell in love with DongYoon. Show portrayed him as a “nice” and supportive friend. On the other hand, JungKyung is nothing.

I plan to dislike her to the end.

I did not like any of those shows but I will still watch any show he is in!

I love how analog he is in rl. He has aol (or something like that?), is bad at technology in rl, and has no social media. I love actors that are mysterious tbh, him and Lee Joon Hyuk. He also seems like a nice guy in rl! Hope his next drama on JTBC happens!

I agree with this! He looks great. The haircut really works for him.

I saw a picture of him not too long ago and his biceps were so big and his shoulders so broad. It was not the Joonie I remember.

Wow. I didnt recognize him.