So, I was at work and chatting with a coworker when I looked down at my phone. GOT7 is making a comeback in January (I think the article said) and I gasped out loud in the middle of the conversation. My coworker was like, “WHAT?!” and I was like GOT7 IS MAKING A COMEBACK!!! And I waved my button at him( I have a plethora of GOT7 buttons on my lanyard). He immediately pulled up a GOT7 video “Not by the Moon” and we started watching. And as we were watching Jackson Wang popped up and he gasped out loud, “Who tf is THAT?” to which I said “JACKSON WANG!” And we chatted and talked about GOT7 for another 20 or so minutes. Marveling at their beauty and their talent. I left to go and do actual work things and he messages me on teams an hour or so later, “I LOVE THEM!” and I laughed and laughed uproariously .
One of us
One of us
One of us
2024 has been a mess for me personally but I’ve found immense joy in Drake spiraling but I’m ready for a 2025 filled with my favorite kpop group and joy in something fun instead a rap artist losing his mind publicly. Although. That’s been hilarious.
Isa, you have to watch Jinyoung spilling the beans when he got out of service. It was hilarious! Bam already had given spoilers, but Jinyoung straight up said “well, now I have to get ready for the got7 comeback” 🤣🤣🤣
Jaebeom went to Youngjae’s radio and complained about everyone giving spoilers and how him giving none made him look like the only one who didn’t want a comeback. 😂
I’m so happy they’ll be back all together to celebrate the anniversary. 💚
I truly hope this is true, even if only for Jackson—since he’s the only GOT7 member I follow the career of—and I will say that it saddens and scares me how much of a mess (potentially drunk & on drugs) he is when he’s solo in China. It could have been a Schtick/ an act, but when he was first announced as spokesperson for the luxury cognac brand, Hennessy, he was literally drinking it by the bottle backstage at every show and performance he ever did. He truly needs more attention towards his mental health and a healthier group of people who will help him and advocate for him for his solo career DX
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.
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.
I dropped it after episode 8. I’m not sure I can finish it. But in fairness, there are beanies who watched it all the way through and really enjoyed it. Apparently it gets happier around episode 11…
Oh I feel you, Isa… I just wanted a sweet rom-com between adults. And on a day like today, when all I want is a story with hope and good laughter, but all I get is a nightmare before Christmas (for the next 4 years?!)… I’m in tears … I swear, happy endings are the hardest…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Well now, I clearly didn’t read the synopsis before starting this so I have no idea what’s afoot but this drama is giving me FMW vibes. But instead of failing to meet their dreams and having to adjust they either gave up on their dreams or this is the combustion when you “make it” but your dream isn’t what you thought?
It also feels like it’s about choices. We’ll see. I’m enjoying the ride but I’m not on tinterhooks looking for spoilers.
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.
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.
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.
Blue cardigan mother if you don’t get the f away from my girl. OK. I’ve been in a fire. I know how much it hurts. I would pour the gas, strike the match and laugh hysterically as they died screaming (a frequent nightmare. YAY PTSD!)
OK. This is a cute. I guess I’ll make it to the end with this cuteness. His little note and her shyly showing it to what’s her face—the one who seemed sketchy as heck in the beginning but is turning out to be adorable and has a thing going on with male leads bestie. His name doesn’t want to be in my head today. And I super want to go karaokeing with her.
Oh no. He’s full on snot crying. Um. Um. OK. Can the solution be…beating up two old ladies? Where is the lawyer bestie? Because if we can’t physically beat up two old ladies (and we should totally keep that as a backup option) maybe she can sue them. Or some fancy lawyering and put them under a prison with the rats.
She better not freaking noble idiocy this.
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.
Yo. I dont even drink coffee but every time Louis got all swoony, smacked his lips and said, “Ah! So Delicious!” I was like …do I need to try this crack? Will I love it? Is it delicious?
And it goes so well with Louie’s character of a rich boy tasting stuff of the “people”, that it feels more natural and it makes one more curious about it.
Oh! We did it! Things are about to get real bad for the cuties what with everyone turning on them but! I’m ready to hang in there without a nerves taking over because! we’re in love now.
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!
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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Oh my gosh. His quiet congratulations to himself for acting like a gentleman when she was super drunk is basically the cutest thing that’s ever happened.
Also, girl you admitted to the feels drunk, told the bestie and now tell the boy!
Ok. OK. Hooooo boy, I felt the chemistry this time! What a lovely kiss! Swoon.
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
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.
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.
My lands SeoJun just got a demotion! Because of one bad marketing strategy when they know Gray Witch is trying to sabotage her AND the call is coming from inside the house as well. I may drop too. I dont think I have the stomach for this.
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.
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! 👏🏽
This is the same director as Pretty Noona, right? Does he spend his entire budget on chapstick and hair products and then has to use the rest of it on one song to beat viewers over the head with?
What did music ever do to him?
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.
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.
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!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
But my lands the tiny microexpression on Jun-Huis face when Jin-a tells her parents that she doesn’t like him. It breaks the heart. It’s so fleeting. He’s only *just* admitted to himself how he feels just for her to shut him down.
Ove tried more than once to watch OSN and the actress is just a no for me. And then the cheating storyline and I think my final straw was when she said to the ml that she didn’t care what happened to him, his son, or anyone else. I didn’t even listen to what came next, just clicked off and watched something else.
Oh wow, I’ve watched every single one of these! Buy I haven’t seen My Lovely Sam Soon in YEARS! And it has a baby Hyun Bin! That’s what’s I’ll watch this chilly sick day! Thanks so much!
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.
One of the things that this drama has done right—and there are MANY things this drama has done right— is how it kept the angsty painful parts pretty concise and not dragged out, giving it all an actual purpose and then getting to the resolution… At least, that’s how I remember it
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
December 1, 2024 at 10:51 AM
So, I was at work and chatting with a coworker when I looked down at my phone. GOT7 is making a comeback in January (I think the article said) and I gasped out loud in the middle of the conversation. My coworker was like, “WHAT?!” and I was like GOT7 IS MAKING A COMEBACK!!! And I waved my button at him( I have a plethora of GOT7 buttons on my lanyard). He immediately pulled up a GOT7 video “Not by the Moon” and we started watching. And as we were watching Jackson Wang popped up and he gasped out loud, “Who tf is THAT?” to which I said “JACKSON WANG!” And we chatted and talked about GOT7 for another 20 or so minutes. Marveling at their beauty and their talent. I left to go and do actual work things and he messages me on teams an hour or so later, “I LOVE THEM!” and I laughed and laughed uproariously .
One of us
One of us
One of us
2024 has been a mess for me personally but I’ve found immense joy in Drake spiraling but I’m ready for a 2025 filled with my favorite kpop group and joy in something fun instead a rap artist losing his mind publicly. Although. That’s been hilarious.
HopefulRomantic 🦋 Tigermoth 🦞
December 1, 2024 at 11:09 AM
Yay for another Kpop convert!!! 🥳 Also; very cool that GOT7 will be making a comeback!
tabong is ironing the crosswalk
December 1, 2024 at 11:20 AM
Isa, you have to watch Jinyoung spilling the beans when he got out of service. It was hilarious! Bam already had given spoilers, but Jinyoung straight up said “well, now I have to get ready for the got7 comeback” 🤣🤣🤣
Jaebeom went to Youngjae’s radio and complained about everyone giving spoilers and how him giving none made him look like the only one who didn’t want a comeback. 😂
I’m so happy they’ll be back all together to celebrate the anniversary. 💚
For a wonderful 2025, Isa. ^^ Fighting!
bbstl 🧹
December 1, 2024 at 2:21 PM
How fun that you now have a coworker in the club! Conga to you both for finding each other!
bbstl 🧹
December 1, 2024 at 2:24 PM
Oh for crying out loud,
Congratulations.
Although if congas are in order, please have at that as well😁
Nessa (Bebe) 🌹
December 1, 2024 at 4:57 PM
I truly hope this is true, even if only for Jackson—since he’s the only GOT7 member I follow the career of—and I will say that it saddens and scares me how much of a mess (potentially drunk & on drugs) he is when he’s solo in China. It could have been a Schtick/ an act, but when he was first announced as spokesperson for the luxury cognac brand, Hennessy, he was literally drinking it by the bottle backstage at every show and performance he ever did. He truly needs more attention towards his mental health and a healthier group of people who will help him and advocate for him for his solo career DX
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
November 20, 2024 at 8:01 PM
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.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
November 5, 2024 at 5:21 PM
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.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
November 5, 2024 at 5:38 PM
Quite frankly I’m not sure that kiss was worth the waiting.
zindigo
November 5, 2024 at 6:10 PM
I dropped it after episode 8. I’m not sure I can finish it. But in fairness, there are beanies who watched it all the way through and really enjoyed it. Apparently it gets happier around episode 11…
Procrasti-NationFirstCitizen
November 6, 2024 at 7:40 AM
Oh I feel you, Isa… I just wanted a sweet rom-com between adults. And on a day like today, when all I want is a story with hope and good laughter, but all I get is a nightmare before Christmas (for the next 4 years?!)… I’m in tears … I swear, happy endings are the hardest…
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
November 7, 2024 at 10:54 AM
I’m pretty sure everything is trash. That’s my take on this week. Hope? Happy endings? 4 more years. Sigh. Throw it away
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
November 5, 2024 at 12:54 PM
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.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
November 5, 2024 at 1:22 PM
Why is she saying this crap to him?
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
November 5, 2024 at 2:05 PM
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.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
November 5, 2024 at 3:20 PM
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.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
November 5, 2024 at 4:12 PM
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.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
November 5, 2024 at 5:14 PM
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
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
November 3, 2024 at 7:53 PM
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.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
November 3, 2024 at 7:59 PM
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.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
November 3, 2024 at 9:07 PM
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.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
November 2, 2024 at 10:23 AM
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.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
November 2, 2024 at 10:58 AM
Oh no! I love it!
How is it going to hurt me?
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
November 2, 2024 at 10:58 AM
Have I accidentally started a melodrama?
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
November 2, 2024 at 1:29 PM
Well now, I clearly didn’t read the synopsis before starting this so I have no idea what’s afoot but this drama is giving me FMW vibes. But instead of failing to meet their dreams and having to adjust they either gave up on their dreams or this is the combustion when you “make it” but your dream isn’t what you thought?
It also feels like it’s about choices. We’ll see. I’m enjoying the ride but I’m not on tinterhooks looking for spoilers.
parkchuna 🍉
November 3, 2024 at 7:58 AM
No murder but just a mum who likes to scream bloody murder? I hope you enjoy your watch!
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
October 2, 2024 at 8:09 PM
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.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
October 4, 2024 at 2:03 PM
I’m finallynon ep 16. The angst of these last eps dang well better be made better by frolicking. All. The. Frolicking. Dangit!
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
October 5, 2024 at 9:00 AM
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.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
August 10, 2024 at 9:41 PM
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.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
August 10, 2024 at 9:51 PM
Blue cardigan mother if you don’t get the f away from my girl. OK. I’ve been in a fire. I know how much it hurts. I would pour the gas, strike the match and laugh hysterically as they died screaming (a frequent nightmare. YAY PTSD!)
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
August 10, 2024 at 9:59 PM
OK. This is a cute. I guess I’ll make it to the end with this cuteness. His little note and her shyly showing it to what’s her face—the one who seemed sketchy as heck in the beginning but is turning out to be adorable and has a thing going on with male leads bestie. His name doesn’t want to be in my head today. And I super want to go karaokeing with her.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
August 10, 2024 at 10:09 PM
Oh no. He’s full on snot crying. Um. Um. OK. Can the solution be…beating up two old ladies? Where is the lawyer bestie? Because if we can’t physically beat up two old ladies (and we should totally keep that as a backup option) maybe she can sue them. Or some fancy lawyering and put them under a prison with the rats.
She better not freaking noble idiocy this.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
August 10, 2024 at 10:13 PM
She has been crying literally all day. Should they not be comforting each other? She needs to go hug that man. My gosh.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
August 7, 2024 at 7:11 PM
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.
tabong is ironing the crosswalk
August 7, 2024 at 9:29 PM
I think it was in every single episode or at least every two episodes. That coffee was a character itself.
Lord Cobol (Kdramas, like water, flow downhill)
August 7, 2024 at 11:04 PM
So, Maximum Gold?
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
August 7, 2024 at 11:43 PM
Yo. I dont even drink coffee but every time Louis got all swoony, smacked his lips and said, “Ah! So Delicious!” I was like …do I need to try this crack? Will I love it? Is it delicious?
tabong is ironing the crosswalk
August 8, 2024 at 1:39 AM
And it goes so well with Louie’s character of a rich boy tasting stuff of the “people”, that it feels more natural and it makes one more curious about it.
redfox
August 8, 2024 at 9:59 PM
cannot tell how many times I resisted ordering a 200-pack of Maxim bc of this drama
tabong is ironing the crosswalk
August 8, 2024 at 1:37 AM
If this is reference to the card game, I don’t get it. 😔
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
August 3, 2024 at 11:37 AM
Oh my lands why won’t she just tell that man she loves him? He’s practically BEGGING her to!
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
August 3, 2024 at 11:47 AM
Oh! We did it! Things are about to get real bad for the cuties what with everyone turning on them but! I’m ready to hang in there without a nerves taking over because! we’re in love now.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
August 3, 2024 at 7:47 AM
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!
zindigo
August 3, 2024 at 9:02 AM
I’d call it a tagline. Maybe even a motto. Or a particularly awesome “elevator speech” 😉
Minnie🫘👩🏻🚀Pioneer and Teacher 👩🏻🏫🌱🏹
August 3, 2024 at 8:51 PM
LOL!!! We will make great friends.
redfox
August 3, 2024 at 11:36 PM
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.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
August 4, 2024 at 10:55 AM
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!
egads
August 10, 2024 at 10:57 AM
Hey, that’s me, and yes I said that. It was definitely meant as a compliment to your passion. 🙂
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
August 10, 2024 at 9:24 PM
Hey! I just logged in to rant and saw this message. How fun to see you twice in one day
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
August 2, 2024 at 3:52 PM
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!
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
August 2, 2024 at 4:49 PM
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.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
August 2, 2024 at 4:57 PM
Wow what a great fight scene
tabong is ironing the crosswalk
August 2, 2024 at 9:40 PM
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.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
August 3, 2024 at 7:39 AM
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.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
August 1, 2024 at 8:24 AM
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!
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
August 1, 2024 at 8:40 AM
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.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
August 1, 2024 at 10:27 AM
Sir. It is not “what happened” it is CLEARLY what YOU decided to do.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
August 1, 2024 at 1:16 PM
Oh my gosh. His quiet congratulations to himself for acting like a gentleman when she was super drunk is basically the cutest thing that’s ever happened.
Also, girl you admitted to the feels drunk, told the bestie and now tell the boy!
Ok. OK. Hooooo boy, I felt the chemistry this time! What a lovely kiss! Swoon.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
July 31, 2024 at 7:46 PM
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
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
July 31, 2024 at 8:48 PM
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.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
July 31, 2024 at 8:54 PM
Also, when is this directors birthday? Or next major holiday. We can all come together and get him a subscription to Spotify or a compilation cd.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
July 31, 2024 at 12:54 PM
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.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
July 31, 2024 at 12:58 PM
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?!
bbstl 🧹
July 31, 2024 at 2:25 PM
I had to drop it, it was way too stressful for me 😬
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
July 31, 2024 at 3:26 PM
My lands SeoJun just got a demotion! Because of one bad marketing strategy when they know Gray Witch is trying to sabotage her AND the call is coming from inside the house as well. I may drop too. I dont think I have the stomach for this.
Kurama
July 31, 2024 at 4:04 PM
But it was really interesting for me. The new teacher will be nice.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
July 31, 2024 at 4:16 PM
That is helpful information!
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
July 31, 2024 at 4:15 PM
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.
bbstl 🧹
July 31, 2024 at 7:46 PM
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! 👏🏽
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
July 31, 2024 at 8:50 PM
This is the same director as Pretty Noona, right? Does he spend his entire budget on chapstick and hair products and then has to use the rest of it on one song to beat viewers over the head with?
What did music ever do to him?
bbstl 🧹
August 1, 2024 at 8:32 AM
Boy, you sure wonder 🤷♀️
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
July 30, 2024 at 6:56 PM
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.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
July 30, 2024 at 6:58 PM
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.
Ally
August 2, 2024 at 7:24 PM
Hi sweetie! I’m barely in here anymore. Watching dramas and working are my MO right now!
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
August 3, 2024 at 7:36 AM
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!
Ally
August 5, 2024 at 8:57 PM
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. 😂
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
August 7, 2024 at 6:43 PM
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.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
June 12, 2024 at 7:14 PM
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!
Ally
June 12, 2024 at 7:36 PM
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. 😆
bbstl 🧹
June 13, 2024 at 8:25 AM
Exactly, I never watch with comments! I’m here to experience the show, not to be distracted.
tabong is ironing the crosswalk
June 12, 2024 at 8:44 PM
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.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
June 10, 2024 at 7:11 PM
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.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
June 10, 2024 at 7:25 PM
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.
bbstl 🧹
June 10, 2024 at 8:07 PM
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.
indyfan
June 10, 2024 at 8:42 PM
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.
bbstl 🧹
June 11, 2024 at 7:35 AM
I don’t think I’ve gotten past 6 so I’m not caught up on what’s happening.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
April 19, 2024 at 10:16 PM
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.
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
April 19, 2024 at 10:20 PM
But my lands the tiny microexpression on Jun-Huis face when Jin-a tells her parents that she doesn’t like him. It breaks the heart. It’s so fleeting. He’s only *just* admitted to himself how he feels just for her to shut him down.
🌸 Seeker 🌸
April 19, 2024 at 11:38 PM
The Midnight Romance in Hagwon seems promising. Also same director. 😊
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
April 20, 2024 at 6:27 AM
Oh, I’ll give it a go! I’m home sick for the 3rd day in a row. I need something to distract me!
🌸 Seeker 🌸
April 20, 2024 at 11:59 PM
Oh! Please do take care of yourself. I hope you feel better soon. Midnight Romance will air from May 11, 2024 onwards. 😅
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
June 10, 2024 at 7:07 PM
Why did I immediately forget this? I just started this drama now. But it premiered on my birthday! Is this a present for me?
🌸 Seeker 🌸
June 10, 2024 at 7:48 PM
Hope you like it! 🫰
Nessa (Bebe) 🌹
April 20, 2024 at 8:03 AM
I actually DO like OSN more than Pretty Noona heh
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
April 20, 2024 at 8:32 AM
Ove tried more than once to watch OSN and the actress is just a no for me. And then the cheating storyline and I think my final straw was when she said to the ml that she didn’t care what happened to him, his son, or anyone else. I didn’t even listen to what came next, just clicked off and watched something else.
Nessa (Bebe) 🌹
April 20, 2024 at 8:12 AM
It’s like Soompi knew you’re looking
https://www.soompi.com/article/1654115wpp/7-charming-noona-romances-to-binge-watch
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
April 20, 2024 at 8:34 AM
Oh wow, I’ve watched every single one of these! Buy I haven’t seen My Lovely Sam Soon in YEARS! And it has a baby Hyun Bin! That’s what’s I’ll watch this chilly sick day! Thanks so much!
Nessa (Bebe) 🌹
April 20, 2024 at 8:42 AM
🫰🏻🫰🏻
bbstl 🧹
April 20, 2024 at 10:32 AM
Sam Soonie 👏🏽🥰👏🏽 she’s the best!🍰🍮🥧
🌸 Seeker 🌸
April 21, 2024 at 12:00 AM
Impressive research skills!! 😍
Nessa (Bebe) 🌹
April 21, 2024 at 3:02 AM
It was already there when I went to Soompi lol
🌸 Seeker 🌸
April 21, 2024 at 5:40 AM
Sign from the Universe for Isa!
Thank you Guardian Angel! 😇
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
April 19, 2024 at 6:21 PM
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.
Nessa (Bebe) 🌹
April 19, 2024 at 9:29 PM
One of the things that this drama has done right—and there are MANY things this drama has done right— is how it kept the angsty painful parts pretty concise and not dragged out, giving it all an actual purpose and then getting to the resolution… At least, that’s how I remember it
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
April 19, 2024 at 9:51 PM
The angst has a purpose. There isn’t angst for angst sake. But, man. When it hits it HITS.
Nessa (Bebe) 🌹
April 19, 2024 at 10:15 PM
💯