Hi beanies! Quarantine is extended, and it looks like it will be like this for a while. Hope everyone’s safe!

Who else was surprised with the appearance of javabeans and girlfriday on The Swoon youtube channel? (THEY HAVE REAL NAMES?????) I am seriously considering to watch The King: Eternal Monarch because of that video. And I am kinda hoping and wishing that they start a drunk kdrama podcast on Spotify. I’d tune in every week.

Anyway, the last episode I watched of I’ll Find You on a Beautiful Day was episode 4, and I haven’t watched since. I am also watching A Piece of Your Mind but I don’t feel the urge to watch the latest episode. I also haven’t checked out the latest two episodes of A Couple’s World, mainly because I don’t want to get stressed. I am watching Hospital Playlist and am loving it. I have Hyena (🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰) for binge-watching, and Prison Playbook in the background when doing chores for rewatch. Hi Bye, Mama! ended last week and I realized I have nothing to look forward to this weekend.

What currently airing dramas (or recently-ended ones) are you enjoying? What upcoming dramas are you eagerly waiting for? And which dramas do you think have high rewatch value? :)

Slightly concerned that my drama slump has been ended by The King: Eternal Monarch, but when you have three close friends and family members watching, you have no choice but admire Woo Do Hwan in a dual role.

Also, I always forget how tall Lee Min Ho is.

Reactions videos are always trash and viewer of such videos are seeking validation to confirm their own narrow views. I've few words specifically drawn for such media and audience but that's for May.

175k-215k May 1st week. What if some gambling sites start to have number of no-more contests? Anything can be opportunity for business.

Stock Market - Active in it since 2008 - Lost good in 2008-2010 got back later and fighting hard in 2020 circumstances.
Forex never did - but have active account as real time entertainment.
I always say those who can do good in Stock Market can do good in politics because the main concept of both is same - read people.

Its never was and never will be about money. its all about your analysis being right. Money just define the level of your being right.
Money isn't everything but money does open paths to a lot of new things.
Money can't buy everything but money does help you to move ahead confidently.

This week:
All of my friends at my old library system were presented with Furlough letters
My dad called and told me to tell everyone he loves them when he dies. He's fairly sure that he's going to survive corona now, but when it comes back in the Fall--he's going to die. Thanks for the warning, old man.
My library director announced yesterday that she's having an emergency meeting on Monday with the board. Everyone is now convinced that we're all getting Furloughed on Monday.
And I'm the only person who does not love A Piece of Your Mind. Thats fine. This cheese will stand alone. I love the quiet moments between CSB and JHI everyone else can go quietly jump in a lake. No splashing! And this is what I've chosen to fill my mind with because Im finding it impossible to work with a possible furlough hanging over my head. Again.
Also, JB has bias wrecked me. Ive had close calls but none close enough to officially call it.
I need more oranges.

Hi Everyone and Happy OT
This may be old news to many of you, but it was a happy discovery for me. JB and GF got onto Swoon on YouTube a couple of days ago and it was hilarious watching them, watching Lee Min Ho. It is great seeing them again (as Sarah and Jen) and listening to them talk about The King. Reminds me how much we miss them!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAKPrvxRk2g&t=107s

I've been trying to catch up with the last few episodes of I'll Find You on a Beautiful Day. It's such a very different kind of show, because for once it does not revolve around just one person or a couple of protagonists, it's not largely just about one main romance, and it does not sidetrack side characters. In the end we get a more in-depth view of the microcosm of a little village town, with its myriad inhabitants finding their ways to healing.

I like the vlog entry of Ep 14 - "There was a time when I thought life was the process of finding one’s place. A place where it’s okay for me to exist without bothering anyone or being bothered. Finding a place where no one would refuse me. That’s what I thought life was. But now, I’ve changed my mind. Wherever it may be, the place where I am right now is my place. As long as I live as my true self, I believe it will be okay for me to exist in this place..."

It's funny to watch Hospital Playlist because they are a lot of cameos. But today I had an illumination! At the beginning of the drama, I remembered Jung Moon Sung who plays Jun Wan's resident (cardiology), was the big brother of Jung Hae In in Prison Playbook but he was Jung Kyoung-Ho's subordinate in Heartless City too! They already acted together . Choi Moo-Sung playing the husband of IJ's patient in the last episode was in the Prison Playbook and Heartless City :D

Kdrama's world is small !

Hi Hi Hi!
Happy Friday, hope everyone is safe and not injecting himself with insecticides to cure COVID like a certain president suggested 🤣.
So how about The Eternal Monarch you guys?
First episode hooked me right to the edge of my couch and everything, annnd then the second episode turned into a sappy romance deal.
is this just me?
I feel as if the second episode didn't live up to the promise of the first and I'm left staggering from the abrupt transition.
Stay safe and have a nice weekend 😘

Hi Everyone! ..... I hope all of you are doing well today and staying safe and healthy.

What a great surprise it was to see javabeans and girlfriday this week! I hope we get to see them more frequently in the future!

This week:

I'll Find You on a Beautiful Day - Myeong-seo's pain is just so, so sad. I'm hopeful that as things ended, she'll finally be able to find some peace.

365: Repeat the Year - Exciting!

Welcome - Week in and week out, little kitty showing everyone how things are done.

A Couple's World - Like a bad accident, you just can't look away with this one!

Born Again - Gave it a try but couldn't finish the first episode unfortunately.

The King: Eternal Monarch - Had to try this one, because, well, you just have to! *laughing* A little confusing with the whole time switching situation in episode 1 ..... or maybe I was getting a little distracted with, you know, that guy from the royal security detail. Heh!

That's all for now. Everyone take care and have a good weekend.

Hi everybody! I'm happy to announce that lockdown in Spain is starting to easen up due to the hoped for flatenning of the curve. This means that after 7 weeks of strict lockdown, from monday on we can at least exercise outside, and the over 8 million children in the country will finally be allowed to go outside. We're quite excited just anticipating the runs and rollerblading outings for next week... Baby steps!

On the drama front, have the last 2 episodes of When the weather is fine on hold... I know what's going to happen and just don't feel like going through episode 15 to get to the happy ending. I'll get to it soon, though! A piece of your mind will finish next week too, I'll miss that pair of cute bunnies and their banbogi meetings...
But the drama wheel never stops, and I'm on board of The King and don't mind if it turns into a trainwreck, because that crack is just what my numbed brain needs right now!

Besides these dramas on air, I've been watching Memories of the Alhambra. Don't know why did it take me so long to start watching this, Netflix has been peddling it to me for months on end. The algorithm knows me better than myself, I'm loving it! Characters aren't great, but the plot is twisty and keeps me thinking of different explanations for what the hell is going on, well done!
Also, this week watched US series The Boys. It's wickedly fun: unvoluntary and very intended horrifying murders, strong european accents, ridiculous superhero uniforms, flying dolphins, weird sex and a very evil corporation...

Happy weekend Beanies! Keep Beaning On!

Sooo…life is getting back to normal here despite the lockdown. My niece is back in our care until the kindergarten reopens again, which keeps me busy from now on. From May onwards I might be able to go back to my temp job or start looking for a new one again, which would keep me even more occupied from that moment onwards. I have basically one week or so left to finish up stuff and to cut down on my watching time…

The perfect moment to start a new K-drama, is it not?😂

And I was doing so well Beanies!🤭 Watching two Sassy Go Go! episodes with my friend every weekend and only some movies on weekdays whenever I did have an extra hour or two to spare. There were certainly never enough hours to binge watch a K-drama before, but here I am, anticipating Choi Ma-Dol’s arrival for his epic love rivalry with Top Star Yoo Baek.😂 I still do not know what possessed me to press play last night and watch the first two episodes, but the damage is done and I am enjoying myself and despairing at the same time.😂

When this crazy situation began (I’m talking about quarantine), I didn’t have a proper place at home to work. I had to use the kitchen table as my desk and I had to eat seating in my coach because I didn’t have another table. Notice the “didn’t” because this lockdown has bought to this beanie’s house:
- a desk.
- an office chair.
- a paper bin.
- a footrest.
- a laptop stand.

What does this men? Amazon loves me. IKEA also thinks I’m cool (I will tell you about my kitchen improvements another day 😂🤓🙋🏼‍♀️🧐)

So after all the The King stuff that went down in the recaps mean I couldn't watch any other drama. Yes it did affect me that much. And yet I refuse to not watch this just because of all that. I plan thoroughly enjoying it and watching it and commenting/criticising it. No matter what someone else 'thinks' I think about the actors/writer/drama. If anyone doesn't like it is welcome to skip my comments.

The World of the Married (Couples) - Some shows are just too addicting, this is one of them. Note that all future episodes are being rated as MA19.

My still current hate watch - Fatal Promise - Never have so many stupid people been inserted into one horribly written drama populated by actors that cannot act (or choose not to).

Chef Moon - despite it's many flaws, still liking it. I dunno why.
Rugal - Kind of given up on this, too predictable.

In one recent episode of a popular drama eating and/or food was mentioned about 350 times. And then of course everyone proceeded to not eat the food on the tables.

I will watch the final episode of I’ll Find You on a Beautiful Day tonight. For me it became an unfolding of relationships as the truth was slowly revealed. In a way, the pain of truth for Hye Won was spread out, and as Eun Seob explained, the aunt and mother keeping the truth hidden was one way of delaying the pain. Luckily the aunt reaffirmed this, which salvaged her relationship with Hye Won. Though Hye Won said she needed time and space first. And that’s where we are...how will the mom, aunt, Hye Won, and Eun Seob end up?
The King Eternal Monarch is typical Lee Min Ho fun. I’m in. He and Kim Go Eun was interviewed this week on E News Exclusive.

Hi beanies
Been a while, hope everyone is fine in this new world. I don't know if it's because of the pandemic but am watching a lot whole of dramas right now that its become a bit difficult to comment on the recaps i read. Anyway, stay safe everyone.

Close friends are occasional Kdrama watchers so when the quarantine/stay at home/lockdown started, a close friend started watching.

She watched DOTS first then CLOY, so I recommended Goblin (she liked it and found Gong Yoo cute!). She watched Hi Bye Mama on her own (progress! she finished it first while I'm stuck at ep14)! And I recommended I’ll Find You on a Beautiful Day , I was a little worried that it might have been a little slower for her. But thankfully, she's enjoying the drama.

I'm happy that I have someone in real life to discuss dramas with.

Hi Beanies! Our efforts are not in vain! My area has done a great job #flatteningthecurve that our hospital is opening back up again, doing elective procedures, seeing more patients, and most importantly, doing more COVID19 testing. I'm so humbled to have been a part of all this. And, yes, I'm sleeping better.

Otherwise, been making it through Hi! Bye! Mama and on episode 14 (midway point) now. It's just so heavy to watch all at once I've found. Still behind on Hospital Playlist--but I'm looking forward to getting it back on the rotation. Did manage to watch both episodes of The King Eternal Monarch, and I kinda like it? At least I like it enough to laugh at the jokes an into it enough to see the bromance between LMH and WDH. And love my girl Kim Go Eun--like love, love love.

Otherwise, something funny happened--

I subscribed to Eric Nam's phone number a few weeks ago. I get texts from it--probably not his real number--although he says it is--more to notify fans about stuff he's doing.

Well he texts almost daily-- and I got a notification the other day.

Then, my husband has the audacity to borrow my phone.

And sees Eric's name on my text list.

"Who's Eric?" he asks?

"Oh--someone I sent the dog's birthday pics to to see if they would help out the rescue we got them from..."

"Oh, ok."

Totally NOT some random kpop star that I don't even know one of his songs but thought it was interesting he would share is number on Twitter so I wanted to see if he would answer me if I sent some cute pictures of the dogs.

Moral of the story--I should of put "Rescue benefactor" as the name
2nd Moral-- We're going to win this COVID19 war.
3rd Moral-- Stay safe and healthy, Beanies!

Dropping shows left and right lol. It's still better to drop shows when you think this isn't for you, (probably what I'll be doing for TKEM, still sticking through but it really isn't for me). But when a show decides to mess up things near the end ahh I feel like dropping at the last 2 episodes is doing disservice to the show I greatly enjoyed. I was about to do that to Hi, bye mama but still made it through all 16 episodes, first completed show of the year, yay. I haven't continued Weather since ep 12 because it drains me and real life is already very draining rn. Even though I love Weather and it's a calming story but it discusses heavy topics and I need to watch sth light now. I'll get there show, I'll get back to you but I keep hearing that you disappointed some beanies a little so I'm more reluctant to press play. Need some flowers, rainbows, butterflies and some good laughs. Where are you show?

I don't think I have ever watched as many Kdramas at once, in over a decade of Kdrama watching. It's not because I have loads of time, because my work is crazy busy right now, but because I am avoiding the news for the sake of my well-being and my blood pressure. So How many shows?
- Just finished Hi Bye Mama, and I am glad it's done because I was becoming more and more annoyed with the rivers of tears, the manipulation, the dropped plot points. I am free at last!
- Just finished Mr. Sunshine, and adored it. WOW. It goes right to the top of the list of my favorite KES dramas, even surpassing City Hall and that is saying something. Unfortunately, the blazing, dramatic ending coincided with--
- the bloated yet shallow yet confusing opening of The King, which suffers greatly in comparison. LMH keeps reminding me of Gilderoy Lockhart, with the preening self-importance and the embroidered velvet coat. I fervently hope, when this thing has ended, I'll be able to say more than "well, at least it was better than Heirs..."
- Weather was fabulous, and I am going to wait a week or so and then marathon the whole thing.
- Hospital Playlist; I have resigned myself to the fact that this is not going to be another Prison Playbook, and have decided to like it on it's own rather shallow terms. That's OK, if I want deep character studies and plots to mull over for days I can always turn to--
- A Piece of Your Mind, my favorite drama right now. Love everything about it. I am also watching:
- Find Me in Your Memory but bogged down in the stalker bits,
- Kingdom but needing to work up my nerve for daylight Zombies,
- Should We Kiss First but I am dropping it because it is that rarity, Kim Sun Ah stinker.

Hi there Beanies!
Happy Friday - right, it's Friday? The only way I can tell what day it is now is looking on the calendar.
Since I got laid off almost a month ago, I've struggled to keep busy looking for remote writing jobs and working in the garden. Then the weather turned cloudy and rainy here. But that's good for my allergies.
On the upside - it cost me less than $20 to fill my car with gas - but on the downside - I had nowhere to go but home. Then on the upside - I probably won't have to fill my tank for another month!
Oh - and rest assured I won't be injecting myself with Lysol or Clorox. This American beanie is so very embarrassed at the current leadership that she can't hardly watch the news anymore...

So after I do my requisite job search, I've been watching I"ll Find You in My Memory and LOVE it. I'll miss this show.
Also loving Memorist - this show has more twists and turns and has left me quite confused. But it's good.
Watching and enjoying Welcome Meow Boy and appreciate the fluff that it is.
Watched Tiger King on Netflix - what a hoot Joe Exotic is definitely presidential material! *wink wink*
In the process of watching One child Nation on Amazon. This is a documentary about the one-child rule the Chinese nation implemented for many years. It's well done, but hard to watch listening to what the doctors were forced to do to women. I still haven't finished it.
Without Hyena this weekend I'll stick with Married Couple as my crack show.
Will also try the next two episodes of The King to see how it goes.

Overall I am bored and lonely and struggling with being even remotely productive at home. Thank goodness for all you Beanies around the world!
Stay home, and if you have to work outside please stay safe. To those of you who are out on the front lines - thank you so very much!!!
Cam-sam-me-dah!!!

Hi all:

What a great week! For dramas at least!
The finale for Nobody Knows was perfect. It's been a while since i saw a finale that i didn't quibble about. So sweet. Nothing could wipe off that grin off my face. Hyena also had a great ending too.

Born Again reminds me of a really old drama i saw back in the day. Four or five people rotating through life, always with alternating relationships and love issues, never quite getting it right. I think they went through the relationships permutation about 5 times. There was an actress in it who looked Thai (or darker) than the typical korean actress. I got bored with the same folks always messing up and constantly not working out their karma. i wish i could find the name of it. I think it was a 90's or 00 drama. My big hope is that Lee Soo Hyuk gets the girl. At least this life around.

Find Me in your memory. -- i know the psychiatrists mean well but dang i hate it when people get intrusive about how other folks lives with turn out. One good reason you shouldn't tell your therapist everything and shouldn't befriend them.

Repeat the year -- why do kdrama people keep secrets to such a dangerous degree? I wish our hero had told his best friend/serial killer that the reason he came back was to save him from dying. I understand that secrets are the mainstay for dramas and that he didn't want to upset his friend but even if he didn't know he was a serial killer, he should've told him that his death was coming on a particular day. It'd make the plot a bit harder to write because serial killer would have to save his friend and be more conflicted in order to save himself but...aargh, ah me.

Eternal Monarch -- i saw the gorgeous Lee min ho looking like a model and every shot like a pose and i couldn't do it. I hate it when dramas go overboard wish fulfillment escapist like that. It just feels that the writers are out to impress netflixites and aren't letting the main character breathe or be more than a pretty face. Just my rant.

Held in a lonely castle -- ah me, supposedly the book is entirely from the daughter's pov. the writers took the book and totally created a story from the king's viewpoint. Not liking that but all that said, it's a lovely and great drama.

Beautiful Day, Rugal, and Piece of your mind are sweet but aren't irresistible crack to me as Nobody knows and born again are.

Legend of Awakening -- why does my sweetie Arthur Chen have such a godawful wig?

A great weekend, all. Keep safe. Don't go injecting yourself with sunlight.

I finished:
"When the Weather is Fine," I give it an 8.5 rating.
"Nobody Knows," I give it a 10 rating.
"Splendid Politics," I give it a 9 rating.

I also finished, "Dr. Foster," and I much prefer the Kdrama version. I thoroughly dislike the trash talk in most American/BBC television series. Think that's why I gravitate to mainly Kdramas. I'm going to start "Queen In Hyun's Man," today. Stay safe and well, isolation isn't so bad if you've got lots of Kdramas on your "to watch" list.

I'm watching Once Again and am absolutely loving it. All the characters (apart from the mother-in-law) have got good and bad qualities. They are both endearing and annoying in equal measures. People get divorced, make tough choices, try to life their lives to the best of their abilities.

In fact, I like it so much that I checked out what else this screenwriter had written and it all made sense: Oh My Ghostess, Weightlifting Fairy, Familiar Wife. And now a weekend family drama.

I think I'm in for the long haul....

another week in quarantine and another weekly kdrama rundown. i hope you guys are safe and healthy. lets ger right into it :))
1. starting with '365: repeat the year' WOW WHAT A TWIST I didn't see it coming at all, and it does seem a little weird, like there were other people who were more likely to be the killer.. but okay? I mean i don't hate it but i mean... kind of a let down?
2. i'm slightly more dissapointed in 'Memorist' as we still dont know the exact killer, but we are getting closer, but now everything is just so confusing and I can't tell who is who and who's bad and who's good and what name refers to which character and the complexity is frying my brain, i'm watching cuz its still interesting but really i just want the leads to kiss already.
3. 'hospital playlist' literally has my enitre heart, it's such a wholesome drama with a beautiful display of the medical world and such honest and well written characters, and even minor characters get good stories and plot lines. 10/10
4. Of course i cant leave out 'THE KING' i mean sure, i guess it's okay, these weeks episodes at least showed some growth? I don't know, we see some more plot in the time stopping thing? and I guess since tae-eul is in this world we will see more plot development? the thing that really annoys me with this drama is just the premise of the romance though, like where is the chemistry? where is the moment and the scene where he falls for her? why are we getting cheesy lines and director cuts of them lovingly staring eachother in the eye when they barely know eachother?? It's just, not hitting all the right spots romantically, and the plot is still weak so idk
I REALLY WANT A GOOD COMEDY DRAMA RIGHT ABOUT NOW anyhow let me know what you guys thought :))

Am I the only one who doesn’t like Lee Min Ho or his acting? 🤔