Today is packed with revelations, confessions, and bends in the road, which makes it fitting for being the first episode to finally break that 20% ratings barrier (20.8% was the number). Of...
The pieces are falling into place, and while that results in happy resolutions in some instances, we're also blowing open new discoveries in others. We're starting to see close to...
It's a new year, although we haven't been hit with any brand-new shows yet. (That'll be for later this month—everybody brace yourselves for a sudden influx of material!) After...
You can always count on this show to find the romancey shenanigans in any situation, no matter how many lives and legends and fates are at stake. It's a relief,...
Yay, I'm pleased with where we're heading, and how, every time I worry about possibly dragging out a budding conflict or potential complication, the show actually moves right along and...
Ah, so cute. If only neurotic stream of consciousness were always the way to get the person you love to be direct and swoony. Forget mermaids and reincarnations; that's fantasy...
I don't think I've ever liked Lee Min-ho this much, which is a surprise because I liked him an awful lot in his Boys Before Flowers and City Hunter days,...
I like that this show tends to feel lighthearted overall, even when there are ardent storylines and heavier beats throughout. There's just a bright energy to the funny that I...
Is there such a thing as too much drama watching? Because I swear that last year around this time, I vowed to myself, with javabeans as witness, that I would...
Big episode! It's got my favorite new thing, Drunk Joon-jae, and his cousin Honest Joon-jae, both of whom are kind of inept and adorable. Also gratifying to watch, because sometimes...
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Legend of the Blue Sea: Episode 17
by javabeans
Today is packed with revelations, confessions, and bends in the road, which makes it fitting for being the first episode to finally break that 20% ratings barrier (20.8% was the number). Of...
Tags: Episode 17, featured, Jeon Ji-hyun, Lee Min-ho, Legend of the Blue Sea
Legend of the Blue Sea: Episode 16
by javabeans
The pieces are falling into place, and while that results in happy resolutions in some instances, we're also blowing open new discoveries in others. We're starting to see close to...
Tags: Episode 16, featured, Jeon Ji-hyun, Lee Min-ho, Legend of the Blue Sea
Team Dramabeans: What we’re watching
by DB Staff
It's a new year, although we haven't been hit with any brand-new shows yet. (That'll be for later this month—everybody brace yourselves for a sudden influx of material!) After...
Tags: 1 show to rule them all, Father I'll Take Care of You, Hwarang, Legend of the Blue Sea, Night Light, Oh My Geum-bi, Romantic Doctor Teacher Kim, Signal, Solomon's Perjury, The Lonely Shining Goblin, Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-ju, What We're Watching
Legend of the Blue Sea: Episode 15
by girlfriday
You can always count on this show to find the romancey shenanigans in any situation, no matter how many lives and legends and fates are at stake. It's a relief,...
Tags: Episode 15, featured, Jeon Ji-hyun, Lee Min-ho, Legend of the Blue Sea
Legend of the Blue Sea: Episode 14
by javabeans
Yay, I'm pleased with where we're heading, and how, every time I worry about possibly dragging out a budding conflict or potential complication, the show actually moves right along and...
Tags: Episode 14, featured, Jeon Ji-hyun, Lee Min-ho, Legend of the Blue Sea
Legend of the Blue Sea: Episode 13
by girlfriday
Ah, so cute. If only neurotic stream of consciousness were always the way to get the person you love to be direct and swoony. Forget mermaids and reincarnations; that's fantasy...
Tags: Episode 13, featured, Jeon Ji-hyun, Lee Min-ho, Legend of the Blue Sea
Legend of the Blue Sea: Episode 12
by javabeans
I don't think I've ever liked Lee Min-ho this much, which is a surprise because I liked him an awful lot in his Boys Before Flowers and City Hunter days,...
Tags: Episode 12, featured, Jeon Ji-hyun, Lee Min-ho, Legend of the Blue Sea
Legend of the Blue Sea: Episode 11
by girlfriday
I like that this show tends to feel lighthearted overall, even when there are ardent storylines and heavier beats throughout. There's just a bright energy to the funny that I...
Tags: Episode 11, featured, Jeon Ji-hyun, Lee Min-ho, Legend of the Blue Sea
2016 Year in Review, Part 3: A drama for every day of the year
by girlfriday
Is there such a thing as too much drama watching? Because I swear that last year around this time, I vowed to myself, with javabeans as witness, that I would...
Tags: 1 show to rule them all, Age of Youth, Bring It On Ghost, Cheese in the Trap, Dear My Friends, Descended From the Sun, Doctors, Drinking Solo, Entertainer, Fantastic, featured, Goodbye Mr. Black, Jealousy Incarnate, Legend of the Blue Sea, Lucky Romance, Marriage Contract, Mirror of the Witch, Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo, Moonlight Drawn By Clouds, Oh Hae-young Again, On the Way to the Airport, Police Unit 38, Romantic Doctor Teacher Kim, Shopping King Louis, Signal, The Good Wife, The Man Living in Our House, Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-ju, W–Two Worlds, year in review, year in review 2016
Legend of the Blue Sea: Episode 10
by javabeans
Big episode! It's got my favorite new thing, Drunk Joon-jae, and his cousin Honest Joon-jae, both of whom are kind of inept and adorable. Also gratifying to watch, because sometimes...
Tags: Episode 10, featured, Jeon Ji-hyun, Lee Min-ho, Legend of the Blue Sea