While it might not seem like it, this has been a great drama year.

Coming into 2019, we had so many amazing high-quality dramas – the gripping, disturbing Children of Nobody, the dark satire of Sky Castle, the fluffy, marshmallow of My Strange Hero, and the sad but uncompromisingly original Light In Your Eyes.

Yes, we also had some huge disappointments like Encounter and some mindless generic dross as well. But the fact is that 2019 has been defined so far by originality, by bravery: by writers pushing boundaries and networks letting them.

So it may seem a strange time to take a brief hiatus. But when the current crop of dramas started, I realised that picking up shows just because they exist would lead to the same kind of burnout that last year left with me with 36 beans and barely a shred of sanity.

This is not just the Year of Dropping. It’s also a year where I want to only watch the best (or the best of the worst maybe – I’m still the Trash Lord when I’m not the Queen of Snark).

In the real world, work has gotten a bit busier lately and the next month I’ll be quite busy. So I’m taking a few weeks off from dramas, the site and rabbit.

I have stuff I want to watch that’s not Korean dramas, stuff I want to write about that’s not Korean dramas, and time I need to spend on other things for a little while.

So I’m off and I’ll see you when I’m back.

Miss you already, Beans
LT