Beanie level: Loan shark with a heart of gold

So, I’m watching Jealousy Incarnate with my friend and I forgot how much this drama makes me laugh. And I LOVE the ost. This ost got me through grad school. It’s just so dang fun. I can’t believe it’s been almost 10 years (2016) and oh my gosh Kim Jung-Hyun and Ko Kyoung-Pyo are gosh dang babies! Teeny, tiny little babies! And I forgot about jinjoo she used to pop up in seriously every drama I watched her or Kang Ki-Young. For a time every drama I watched one or the other would be there. I feel like I’ve not seen them in ages.

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Soooooo…..this drama is depressing af. Do I just not pick good dramas? I swear I’m so dang easy. Pretty people. Skinship. Some chuckles. Legit ALL I WANT.

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It’s election day and I was on my way to work and my manager called to say I could stay home if I wanted as my life remains in shambles so I start episode 9 of Love Next Door. We have a confession. We have heart pounding. I NEED cute.
Instead we have cancer.
I told myself I’d go vote after something cute happens. At this rate the election is going to pass me on by.

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    Why is she saying this crap to him?

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    I’m just going to say it. This episode is boring. And did mom have an affair with her boss or not? Because this is the 3rd time they’ve done an adultery fake out. 1. With Seok-Ryu 2. With Seong-hyus parents and 3. Seok-Ryus parents. At this point I’m not sure I care.

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      It’s interesting to see the way the other characters are effected by Seok-Ryus diagnosis. From her family members crying alone to the lavender sisters to the goofy brother reading up about cancer .

      I loved the mom calling out her arrogance in not telling them. At some point she’s not “doing it for them” she’s being selfish. She could have died. She could have died and she robbed them of comforting her, of comforting each other.

      Even now she’s being selfish. She knows how Seonh-Hyu feels about her and first she tells him that he really doesn’t and then after breaking his heart (telling him that she thought it wasn’t too late to get back with her ex) she’s whining why didn’t he call her? She HURT HIM! That’s why! And she’s just acting like it doesn’t matter.

      And I get that she’s trying to lighten things up by literally making light of the situation but she legit pissed me off every time she mentioned her parents putting the spoons in their eyes.

      Two things that I like about this drama: people muttering out loud to themselves and immediately getting called out. And 2. Mo-eums fish kiss. I feel like I haven’t seen a fish kiss in years!

      And finally. She JUST had a cancer scare and she didn’t tell ANYONE! Even now she didn’t tell anyone. She’s selfish and I want to kick her.

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    The ex seemed like a really good guy. Being a caregiver is hard as heck and as a person with depression I can see that caring for someone with depression would be frustrating but it seems like he snapped once and she went ah! The excuse I’ve been waiting for! I don’t know what she should have done since she didn’t want to encourage him but he flew over from the US. She could have been kinder.

    As for his parents she’s so prideful that she’s not even going to fight for her marriage? I feel badly for the dad he CLEARLY loves her even though he thinks she’s been cheating on him for 20 years.

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    I watch dramas to run away from my problems not cheerfully engage with them.
    There has been absolutely 0 happening with either couple. Cool teapot lady is gone and now we have a dementia storyline. Awesome

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I’m on ep 4 and it’s possible I’m obsessed. Yall. Is this drama gonna hurt me because I am super nice and just don’t deserve it.

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    I am OBSESSED with his little trembly sigh as he rereads his letter to himself. Oh you sweet potato. Trying so hard to talk himself out of his current day crush. Every time he looks at her my head hears The Little Mermaids Kiss the Girl.
    Because he totally wants to.

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      I’m a little in love with both of the leads.
      Also. It is INCREDIBLY weird for Mo-Eum to run up on some random kid she sees playing in the park alone talking about let’s be friends!
      I have candy and ice cream! Also, why was that kid alone in the park? And finally she’s totally the creepy reporters kid, right? Why did he dodge the question about where he grew up? Because he’s been stalking them for years? Took a break to kidnap a kid and now he’s back at it.

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I just started ep 2 of Love Next Door. I’m watching because I love these actors but I have a feeling it’s another GOTCHA! drama. 1 because both of these actors are more than capable of more than a basic romcom and 2. the rest of the cast—is that the cast you get for a casual romcom? 3. Dramas REALLY like throwing in a bit of murder and drama these days when all I signed up for was some banter and skinship 4. There’s a moment in this ep when MLs mom is listening to her classical music and sipping her tea and the dad is leaving and the score SCREAMED “pay attention!”
Buy they also gave us shirtless pretty men in the first few mins of this ep and I’m shallow af so….here we are.

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I’m awfully glad that I rage and squee and such on the wall. My viki app kicked me back to the beginning of ep 14 and I was like….I swear. I’ve seen this. I swear I have and viki is all nuh uh! And I’m watching thinking I refuse to sit through this heart break that I SWEAR I’ve seen already and then I come to dB and dB tells me i watched, I raged, I threw things, and then I walked away for 2 months. So let’s hop on in to ep 15. At least Jealousy Incarnate is finally on viki. I swear I check for that drama a few times a year and it’s never in my region. I’ve not seen it since it first came out. I probably don’t even love it as much as I remember. It was in that first clump of dramas I live watched. The first dramas I watched here. I remember the broad strokes of it. I’ll probably rewatch and hate it. On to ep 15!
This is my optimistic font. It’s full of lies.

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    I’m finallynon ep 16. The angst of these last eps dang well better be made better by frolicking. All. The. Frolicking. Dangit!

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      There was no frolicking. Not a but of frolick was had. What was had was irritation at the ending of a mid drama that started so much better.
      I loved the romance. I didn’t think they had the most sizzling chemistry but they were warm. What wasn’t warm the whole back half of this drama. I did NOT care about the war of the old women. And most importantly it seems like the drama didn’t care about it either since (spoiler) it all ends with a 2 second slap fight and a secretary investing in the school until everything blows over so that her son can get married.
      This could have been 2 hour movie.
      If it had to be a drama it certainly could have been scaled back into a 6-8 hour mini drama.
      Boo.
      On to the next, I guess.

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OK, I’m actually midway through ep 14 now and director is pleading with Assistant director (she really puts the ass all up in through that word). Sure. Sure, wench. Win. Let the academy close. And while you’re doing your lil victory lap let the truth about you come out and be shunned. Be shunned until the end of your days. And while you’re wallowing in your misery you, gray witch and no name team leader who is really nothing more than a punk ass bitch who was too much of a punk ass bitch to Seo Jun that he liked her and is now smugly smirking at her as everyone talks about her (hey! maybe she never liked you because she knew you were a punk ass bitch! Mystery solved) and that jerk who tried to get in a fight with our boy can just… take each other out. Violently. With lots of pain and blood. And honestly, the way women–especially mothers–in kdramas is just about always fucked up but. . .OK. I remember (kinda) back in the 90s a group of people ticketing Snoops album. They bought a massive bunch of his albums and ran them over with a tractor or something. Right now, every single character that absolutely pisses me off I happily imagine them on the pyre. I need some people to stop sucking or how the heck am I going to make it to the end?
And really whathisbucket male lead should have gotten to pop that jerk in the meeting.
I
Am
Upset.
Oh. So. Sad. An asshole quit! Ki was watching a youtuber and she pulled out a tiny violin and started playing it. That’s me. Right now. I hope he’s single until he kicks the bucket (violently as described above). And he never finds another job and he just wanders the streets listlessly until all of his hair and teeth fall out.
I’ve mentioned the rage, right? All the rage. Coursing through me. Right alongside my blood and stuff.

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I’m currently rewatching Shopping King Louis with my friend. She’s never seen it before and I’ve only watched once when it first came out. I had forgotten how prevalent the Maxim Gold ppl was in this drama.

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Oh my lands why won’t she just tell that man she loves him? He’s practically BEGGING her to!

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So. My name. isa (all lower case. I feel like an all lowercase person). And then there’s the post script (I guess that’s what it’s called) I’m not a serial killer I’m just really passionate about things was given to me many years ago (I think by @egads and maybe during the IPAD days?). I’ve kept it because it’s true. And I just reminded myself of why. I was responding to a comment about my intense dislike of Gray Witch and Assistant Director Wu and all I could think was I would really love it if someone pushed them down a steep flight of stairs so that they would break their fragile old lady bones.
Ah, I said, yep. That’s me and my drama intensity all in one sentence. I’m on ep 14 now and the two women are smugly smirking as they drive along making their horrible plans and it would be really great if the truck of doom would just make an appearance right now. A good old fashioned t-bone that will push their car off the road, flip a fee times a day then BOOM beautiful explosion. Let my babies live and love you jerks!

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    I’d call it a tagline. Maybe even a motto. Or a particularly awesome “elevator speech” 😉

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    LOL!!! We will make great friends.

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    violent imaginings are no sin. I did it all the time when I worked in the museum and parents or kids were assholes deliberately breaking stuff, sinking toy ships or getting mad when other people used something. I have pages and pages of ideas how we´d catapult them through the roof or tie them to a ship propeller. I think im less likely to actually do anything when I get to imagine. less, bbut not zero.

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      Yesterday at my library I had to deal with a patron pooping on the floor and a man who hated kids moving closer to the kids just so he could complain about them. But, I’m a children’s librarian so he picked the wrong one to approach. When he realized that instead of back down he unleashed a mountain of racist and sexist misogynistic vitriol on me. There’s something absolutely beautiful about cutting down someone with your words and making them cry. Can I tell you I walked right up to that line and stared hard at that douche canoe from the other side. Sooooo all of that to say that if imagining violent ends to awful humans was a sin I might as well give up the ghost now. It’s much way very too late for me!

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    Hey, that’s me, and yes I said that. It was definitely meant as a compliment to your passion. 🙂

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OK, so I’m on ep 11 of Midnight Romance (when he Jun was comparing himself to Si Wu and then stopped and said, but I’m not your student I’m your boyfriend and stole a kiss? I swooned, hard) but I have a question that was either answered early on and I missed it, they haven’t revealed the answer, or they are glossing over it because it’s a building block for the entire drama: why the heck does the Gray Witch and the Assistant Director from D. Chase have it in for Seo? So much of this drama is based on the fact that the Gray Witch is going after Seo hard and the assistant director is out in these streets being sus af but they never showed her peeing in either woman’s rice bowl or provided any reason why they are being such a jerk to Seo! Midnight Romance is a slow but good burn. Although, Seo hiding in ML (Jun??) closet when his mom popped by for an unannounced visit was lame. They are adults. Adults who love each other and do the dance of two backs. Let them do what they do in peace!

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    The main couple us giving me Something in the Rain vibes. Just like Jun-Hee and Jin-A the Fl wants to protect the ML by solving and removing all barriers by herself. Where Jin-A constantly reminded Jun-he that she was older Seo Jin (and ML to a lesser extent) constantly reminds him (not as often as Jin-A but enough to be noticeable) that he used to be her student. ML (Jun-ho I think?) reminds her that he was her student but he makes a joke of it or says things like I USED to be your student but now I’m your boyfriend. But now that this nonsense with Mr. Pyo is heating up it feels like she’s pulling away more and trying to stand in front of him and protect him from any fallout that the battle could bring than she did in the earlier episodes. Or rather she reverting back to the earlier eps before they started dating and she was trying to prevent him from joining the academy. Really reminding me of the time after the families found out Jin-A and Jun-he were dating and they were trying to deal with the aftermath. He wanted her to runaway with him, she wanted to stay and fight. She was looking at apartments when he left for a business trip. He asked her to not make a decision until he came home and they could discuss it. But, when he came home he went to her parents house to see her and was told she had moved out a d she happily showed him her new apartment trying her best to ignore his disappointment/anger/unhappiness.

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    The way I would describe it is the Gray Witch is the type “to have it or destroy it”
    She can’t have Hye Jin, so she’s going to destroy her.
    The AD is just a really salty person. I don’t want to give spoilers, so I’m just going to say that it’s because of her past.

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      I’m on ep 13 now, so I get the salty past but take that ish out on the actual person who ruined you. Seo is literally living her life trying her best by her students and faling in love and now these two monsters are teaming up to take her down for why? They have no reasons! Other than they are gross and should be pushed down flights of stairs that are so steep it will break their fragile old lady bones.

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To quote the scores of hip hop reactionary and breakdown videos that I’ve been watching,” [she’s] tweaking, man”. Also, there’s a YouTuber Lord Cardiac who is from Toronto and has dealings with Drake and hates him and he happily spills all the tea. And he’s exceptionally pretty and has a lovely speaking voice. Also, the drama with the tweaking fl is Midnight Romance. This is clearly not how you respond to a first kiss. Oh! Was she in…..between lovers? Just between lovers? Is that what it was called? The male lead climbed through her windows and kissed her and she had a terrible cold and she was all you’ll get sick and he was like worth it and kissed her some more? Because how cute. First kiss here first reaction is you’ll get sick!

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    OK the look he gave her when she told the new teacher that nothing romancey was going on!
    I tell you, I have serious issues with the director but he is great at capturing looks. Jun-hee grinning and sticking his tongue out as he happily skipped out of a work meeting after faking being sick lives in my head rent free. I’ll be minding my own isa business and BOOM there he is poking his tongue out right at the forefront of my mind.
    Not mad at it. It was exceptionally adorable.
    Also, I’m iffy on the chemistry but this guy is hot and I thoroughly appreciate him shivering in his underpants.

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Ep 6 of Midnight Romance. Erm….when are we getting some romance, yo? I feel like this ep is going to give me a good you need to see me as a man, not a child reckoning. Put your pretty faces together

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    They put their pretty faces together and I dont know if I ship it. Maybe it’s because I’m exhausted but there was like….zero chemistry in that kiss.

    When he told her that if he told her everything he wanted or needed she’d be scared off and she scurried away (while he was asking if she read between the lines) I saw the chemistry. I swooned a lil bit. When he told her that he needed her I swooned a lil but more. When the kiss happened I was like….meh.
    Maybe I dont like confidence? He was all you knew how you felt and how I felt blah blah. I did love his saying that his feelings kept spilling all over the place because they kept growing. And I loved that she kissed him back. Well see what the next episode brings.

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I swear, yall, the competitive nature of this drama (Midnight Romance) is stressing me tf out. I’m not sure I can do this. And also, the other new teacher is super getting on my nerves. And in conclusion I do not understand their marketing strategy.

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    Oh my lands this is so stressful. I dont even care that my headphones are being shady. I can’t look. Also what is the DEAL with this woman’s feet?!

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    I had to drop it, it was way too stressful for me 😬

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    But it was really interesting for me. The new teacher will be nice.

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    Whelp I’m invested and it’s giving me a stomach ache the only option is to spam the wall so I’m not watching alone. Here we go.

    OK, is it wrong that I wanted the TA to get hit by a car? I dont want to be right.

    Also its creepy the way the gray witch is full court pressing this kid.

    And the weird teacher that Seo got in an argument with in the first episode feels like he’s in his own little drama. One that I dont care about.

    Is she going to murder him? She looks murdery. The gray witch is creepy af. Was she called the gray witch when she was young and didn’t have gray hair?
    I do love that the focus isn’t on math. Too many dramas that have an educational focus is all: numbers look good on the board! Yay math! Math can suck it.

    This is the same dude who did Prettt Noona isn’t it? I can tell by the persistent over use of this dang song.

    SUBWAY PPL!!! It’s been a dang age.

    Also….Gray Witch reminds me of a decidedly less awesome Ursula.

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      Good luck!
      After the first episode I kind of assumed the “weird teacher” would become the serial killer, since we’ve been trained to know that a kdrama romance requires a serial killer. Spoiler alert, he doesn’t.
      I made it to 10 and that was only by muting THAT SONG every time after watching 1. Thank you Viki for putting the music notes 🎶 on the subs so we can tell when it’s safe to listen again! 👏🏽

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Sooooo….a whole month+ later I got around to ep 3 of Midnight (I do like the FL) but I’ve got a question. What in the heck is up with the constant focus on the gray witch’s feet? It’s giving Dan Schneider weirdo vibes.

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    Also, heeeeeey Beanies. How are yall? I’m still a sad mess but here we are. Also, I’ve become obsessed with the book The Charm Offensive. Listened to it twice in one week and may do it again.

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      Hi sweetie! I’m barely in here anymore. Watching dramas and working are my MO right now!

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        Ally! Yay!
        I’m hardly ever here these days as well. I barely watch dramas these days. I think my bean count for last year was like 2 and I didn’t even rewatch old favs. Now, I only pop in when I’m watching a drama and need a place to rant. Earlier this year I watched INAR with a friend who had never seen it before so I came here to cackle. And now I’m watching Midnight. These days I mostly watch people camp on YouTube, celebr-messy gossip channels, and deep dives into the Kendrick Lamar and drake beef.

        It’s so weird, I remember posting a handful of years ago that I popped in several times a day and even checked my notifications if I woke up in the middle of the night since beanies are world wide. Without those connections and not really any dramas holding my attention there’s been no reason to pop in. DB isn’t even my most visited site anymore, GASP!

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          I hear ya. I’m death scrolling through insta and Facebook. In other news, I’ve become a fan of Japanese volleyball and Korean archery. 😂

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            I made a library display for the Olympics (focusing on MN athletes) and I learned a handful of things that are Olympic sports that I had NO IDEA existed like sitting volleyball. It’s not Para volleyball they are just…sitting. on the floor. And break dancing!
            The world is horrifying. Focus on Korean archery. And Japanese volleyball. Watch some Chinese fencing and think of Jackson Wang.

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So, I’m on ep 2 of Midnight Romance and i think I feel bad for the female lead. I’m reading the comments on viki because I typically love the comments but this time these commenter’s aren’t unhinged they may be mean. Or I’m too sensitive? I don’t know. They HATE the fl and I have to say that I don’t get it. No, she shouldn’t have tried to get the academy guy agree to not hire the ML. No, she shouldn’t have tried to talk the ML into not taking the job but she’s doing all of this line stepping from a good place. If you have someone in your life that you fully believe with your WHOLE CHEST that this person is making a horrible mistake—of course she’s going to try and prevent it from happening.

I felt bad for her when he snapped at her. Why do I have to hear what you think? How you feel means nothing to me. And the way she was almost in tears in her car? She was trying to help! What happens next, I think, determines whether or not I like her. If she steps back and supports as a friend, acquaintance or just from the sidelines ok, if she keeps trying to prevent him from moving forward then I’ll feel away about her.
I’ve never been so close to turning the comments off. Leave my girl alone! She has a big heart!

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    Hi isa! It’s been a minute. Not watching this one, but I never watch with comments. I like it better with just me and my own thoughts. 😆

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      Exactly, I never watch with comments! I’m here to experience the show, not to be distracted.

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    Isa! So happy you’re invested in the show.

    I would say Hye Jin was embarrassed and not hurt by the whole situation. He helped her realize that the way she was acting wasn’t it.

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So, I didn’t watch a noona romance like I said I was the last time I was here. I think I was still elbows deep in hip hop beef (kendrick lamar and drake. Are there rap beefs in kpop hip hop? Because I’ve discovered I freaking love a battle. Anyway.). Today I found myself on viki and they had a whole LIST of noona romances that I have never seen before. And since noona romances are my catnip I sat myself on down and hi play on The Midnight Romance in Hagwon and I have a question.
Is the incompetent teacher a murderer? Because I’m at the scene where she meets him for dinner and he gives off strong murdery vibes. My *Rom**Coms* really gotta stop coming with a side of murder.

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    Girl shut up. He is studying!

    I’ve been watching dramas for almost a decade now (that cannot possibly be correct. But I can’t math and I have a horrible memory so. Shrug. ) and I remember not knowing any of the actors because I was brand new. Now I’m like I’ve seen you in this and you in that and there’s something about that that makes me smile.

    Is that the same umbrella from PN? Oh lands.

    I think the mains have chemistry and other than one scene towards the end of the first ep where she’s all, “you can tell your teacher anything!” it seems like there’s no awkward or weird former teacher/student dynamic.

    Also he’s pretty with a lovely smile. Don’t you hurt me drama. This year has been freaking awful.

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    Hahaha when I watched the first ep of Hagwon, I thought that if the plot went the way of sooooo many dramas, the HS teacher would be the serial killer.

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      I had a different reaction. I thought he’d go the way of the crazy ex’s in SITR or ONS, not my favorite. But he’s turning out to be such a complex, interesting character. I wish the Teacher’s Unions had watched the whole drama before complaining.

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        I don’t think I’ve gotten past 6 so I’m not caught up on what’s happening.

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Ok, so, I obviously started watching Pretty Noona again. Who was I kidding? But it has been an actual while since the last time I watched this so this time around I’m noticing things that I don’t typically notice. Different beats.
So, I’ve always thought Joon-Hee telling Jin-a that she’s in trouble now that he knows she likes breaking taboos was his first volley. But, I don’t think it was. I think it was the drama laying the foundation for player Joon-Hee. He’s a huge flirt so he was just saying whatever. I don’t think it’s actually until the 2nd ep that he starts looking at Jin-a as a viable love interest. He tells Jin-as brother that he likes an older woman in ep 2.
But when does Jin-a start seeing Joon-hee as something other than her best friends little brother?
Right from the beginning we see them forging a relationship outside of the sister as they have their lunch together.
And we see flashes of attraction from both sides right from the beginning as well. But where Jin-a is fighting it (horrible clingy won’t go away not quite an ex, and her best friends little brother) Joon-Hee is ready and willing to fall.
I love LOVE LOVE the quick smile Joon-Hee gets when the brother asks him if there’s a girl he likes.
But then they both act jealous in the first couple of episodes. Well before either admits(even to themselves) that they are into each other.
I wish I could tolerate the actress in One Spring Night even a little but since I read that’s supposed to be the better version of this. Also, cheating is gross so I just could never get into it.
I need a new noona romance to be obsessed with.

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So, as I’m watching INAR I find that I don’t hate Tilda as much as I used to. I mean I clearly hate her but not as much as usual. By not binging I guess I see everyone’s culpability in the lie but also, even without Tilda they all would have ended up in the same place. Kim Min Kyu would have felt betrayed no matter what.
But also, my poor heartbroken little puppy. At least my favorite scene is on the horizon.
I forgot how freaking painful this part of the drama was. How did I watch this live?? Those showrunners are some punks.

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So, for the past month or so ibhave become SUPER obsessed with camping videos on YouTube. There’s a dude in New Zealand who posts 3+ hour long videos and I watch every. single. second of each one. There are campers in SK, and Turkey that I love to watch. Imagine my ding dang surprise when I went searching for a new camping video and saw that Jaebom–LIM JAEBOM from my perpetually confused GOT7 bias list has a camping video playlist! It’s not translated or even subbed like most of my other camping videos but it’s just as soothing. But while I get super annoyed at my other SK campers for how truly obnoxiously loud they slurp EVERYTHING when JayB does it I’m all…oh Hon. You’re the cutest. My only issue (and that’s putting it waaaaaaay too harshly) is that he’s camping with a couple of other people and I have no idea who they are because translations. Also, there’s at least one woman camping with them but she’s not on camera you can just hear her and I want to know who she is. Because I’m nosy.

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    I’m always impressed by the equipment. They get everything out from their little boxes, install them for one night then pack up et leave.

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    Hi it’s been a minute since I’ve been on here. Hope you’re well.
    I was shown some camping videos by my brother, the channel is The Outdoor Boys an Alaskan lawyer loves spending his free time ( sometimes with his young sons) camping, being prepared is a must considering he’s often out in the winter -eww- but it’s fascinating
    I don’t know if your watching anything new but I’m currently obsessed with Lovely Runner, so if you’re at a loss I’d give it a go

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      Katrina!! I will give those camping videos a go, my new Zealand guy just lost another dog and I can’t with him. It’s just too sad. But wilderness camping in Alaska sounds amazing!

      I’ve watched 1.5 eps of lovely runner. I have a friend who is OBSESSED with it. So I decided not to be. Because I’m contrary. He.

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