Posts Tagged ‘City Hall’

Drama Recaps
City Hall: Episode 20 (Final)
by | January 25, 2010 | 169 Comments
(written by samsooki, with mead33, 0timelost and cleown) Episode 20 – The Greatest Ending Ever. Last episode, Mayor Shin Mi Rae faced BB’s awesome threat of literally destroying Inju City and everyone in it. And so Mi Rae had no choice but to sign the MOU and Authorization, the documents that would allow the building... More »


Drama Recaps
City Hall: Episode 19
by | January 14, 2010 | 72 Comments
(written by samsooki, with 0timelost and cleown) Episode 19 – Invictus: The End of Mayor Shin. Mayor Shin Mi Rae, in a stunning move, refuses to sign the MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) contract or any authorization to begin selling the land to Dae Han Group. The landowners are beyond riled up, spitting mad at potentially... More »


Drama Recaps
City Hall: Episode 18
by | January 10, 2010 | 45 Comments
(written by samsooki, with 0timelost and cleown) Episode 18 – “It’s not your fault I am leaving.” What does it take to break Shin Mi Rae? What her enemies just don’t understand is that Shin Mi Rae is actually two separate people: the protector and the woman. To break Shin Mi Rae, you cannot just... More »


Drama Recaps
City Hall: Episode 17
by | January 5, 2010 | 38 Comments
(written by samsooki, with 0timelost and cleown) Episode 17 – Trial By Ordeal: the Judgment of Shin Mi Rae. While the concept of trial by ordeal is probably most easily associated with Medieval Europe, equally loathsome practices were institutionalized in ancient China and Korea as well, all of it based on the idea that to... More »


Drama Reactions & Reviews
2009 Editors’ Picks [Year In Review, Part 6]
by | December 31, 2009 | 112 Comments
Here we are! The last of the year-end review series. This post is something new, but I thought it would be an interesting experiment. Although each of us reviewers has our personal favorites, which we outlined in our personal reviews, it’s a different thing to move past preference and try to be objective in a... More »


Drama Reactions & Reviews
A Newbie Reviews 2009 [Year In Review, Part 3]
by | December 29, 2009 | 155 Comments
My pick for Drama of the Year: City Hall. I’ll start of with an admission.  When javabeans asked me to give my thoughts on 2009, I was pretty excited, and agreed without much thought.  After all, 2009 was the best year of k-drama watching I’ve ever had.  But then it hit me: 2009 was also the... More »


Drama Reactions & Reviews
The Good, The Bad, The Middling [Year In Review, Part 2]
by | December 28, 2009 | 147 Comments
(I’m very pleased to introduce guest review #2, which comes to you courtesy of thunderbolt. Tune back in tomorrow for more! —javabeans) Have you watched The Good, The Bad, The Weird? If you haven’t and the movie is available for rent in a store near you, pick it up and invite a few friends over.... More »


Drama Recaps
City Hall: Episode 16
by | December 24, 2009 | 41 Comments
(written by samsooki, editing, design, and a very MERRY CHRISTMAS TO JAVABEANS and all City Hall’ers by 0timelost and cleown) Episode 16 – “Love Like Your Heart Has Never Been Broken.” One of the things that I love about this drama is the fact that the characters get right back up if they are knocked... More »


Drama Recaps
City Hall: Episode 15
by | December 15, 2009 | 61 Comments
(written by samsooki, clarity of thought, dissection, boxes of Kleenex and gentle hand-squeezing provided by 0timelost and cleown) Episode 15 – “The Price of Victory.” As amazing and as fun as Episode 14 was to watch, I feel like Episode 15 is deeper, stronger, all-encompassing.  I know that many of you have wondered how I would... More »


Drama Recaps
City Hall: Episode 14
by | December 11, 2009 | 79 Comments
(written by samsooki, intelligence and wisdom provided by 0timelost and cleown) Tags: Cha Seung-won, City Hall, Kim Sun-ah... More »