hi beanies! hope y'all are doing well.
my drama break was partially successful? i didn't start any new shows this past week and i couldn't even watch anything of flower of evil (i'm still super behind) bc the server i was using to watch eps gave my computer a bug, so i have to wait for episodes to upload on viki. however, my days were very dull without any dramas, so i ended up watching clips of running man on youtube. this is a good compromise because i don't have to invest in hour long episodes. i was more productive with my summer assignments, but i don't know if this is bc of less dramas or because i work better under pressure.

school starts tuesday and i have really mixed feelings. i haven't really enjoyed high school as a whole, especially junior year. last year was a combination of too many AP classes, heartbreak, and failed friendships, so my academic performance and physical/mental health was really affected. because of quarantine, i got time to rest and feel better (and not see toxic people). my school is going online until thanksgiving, and i'm just nervous about how zoom classes will operate (we were just submitting stuff on google classroom earlier) and whether i'll have homework again? on the other hand, i do miss school a bit because i want to see some friends and teachers, and while i'm lucky to be with my family, i could use a break lol. i don’t have the best relationship with my parents and i’m an only child, so some days have been a bit rough. i just do not want to have a rocky start to senior year, especially because college app season has begun. i have so many ideas for my college essay, but each time i sit down to write it just sounds bad T_T. let's see what happens.

i'm also still taking the ACT in october, but it's really tiring now— i've had 2 SATS and 2 ACTs cancelled since march bc of covid, and i thought we'd be done with the pandemic by now... it's really annoying to study for weeks or months and find out 2 weeks (or days) before that the test has been cancelled. let's see what happens.

i also had a dream about coffee prince on monday. in my dream, yoon eun hye and gong yoo were making coffee in the shop and laughing, but i can't tell if i made up the dialogue in my head or if this scene is straight from the drama. do any of you dream about dramas or in korean? i've dreamed abt reply 1988, scarlet heart ryeo, running man and coffee prince now and had some of these in korean, which is slightly strange but AWESOME! (it really shows how obsessed i am with dramas lol). i think i'll see how this first week of school goes and then start watching fight for my way if i have time, but now that coffee prince dream makes me want to finish watching that show...

to anyone that's started or is starting school, good luck and fighting! and to everyone in general, hope you enjoy your weekend :)

love, 
shachi

I got a good news this week:

1. Before Start-up, Suzy got a short film by Lancome Korea:
https://www.hancinema.net/korean_movie_If_My_Things_Are_At_Your_Place_We__re_Not_Over.php

2. Carson Allen rarely appeared on K-dramas including recent Alice.

3. Do Do Sol Sol... resumed filming.

Is Seoul Orchestra joined it on Do You Like Brahms?

i just rewatching Life on Mars. when i watched it for the first time i focused on the cases and the murderer, but this time i focused more on the characters especially Han Taejoo. i feel like his character is so sad, he look so tired all the time and thinking 1988 is a world that he made to make him comfortable is so so so sad.

i watch Flower of Evil only this week. Hyunsoo's character is so sad too. i feel like Do Hyunsoo's character is sooo similiar to Do Kangwoo from Voice s2. psychopath dad, prejudice from people around him, couldnt feel his own feeling properly. i wish Do Hyunsoo wont end like Do Kangwoo tho

Hi Beanies!

It’s here!!! Our azzo-celebrating weekend! And if you didn’t know, she got married this week (the legal part, not the actual ceremony)! So, what better way to commemorate than to celebrate the warm fuzzies of romance! And how cute does she write? https://www.dramabeans.com/members/azzo1/activity/1123971/ Time to spam the Beanie fan wall with all your favorite “boy falls in love with girl first” shows, shows with scenes that remind you of azzo’s love story (I have a few), and music that has gotten you through this pandemic so we can compile a new Beanie playlist! Love songs will definitely be featured!

Please tag me to your selections. Azzo has said that she will stalk the Beanie wall, so let’s make it super active! (She doesn’t know why she’s stalking it—I just told her we’d make it entertaining for her!)

See you on the wall!

I've been watching Samuel Hawley's Youtube "Imjin War" videos, covering the 1592/98 Japanese invasion of Korea. The vids are based on his book (which I read years ago) and both explain a lot about the event you may have seen in kdrama & kmovies. The vids are more accessible than the book, but the book has the advantage of not bugging you to like and subscribe. Recommended.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piOuF02ijdQ&list=PLJjQDCbTowpTexpfLr0YTVE_92wEV49QD&ab_channel=SamuelHawley

did anyone else feel emo on monday bc bogum oppa left for the military T_T

Sitting here quietly hoping @missvictrix will write a review of Episodes 1-2 of DO YOU LIKE BRAHMS. *gives best puppy eyes*

Hello beans.

I'm happy I got lots of Shin Sung Rok and Kairos updates this week 🥳.

Mark your calenders. 26th October 2020 is Kairos day 1!!!! Ahahaha

Exciteddddd to see SSR in a drama again. I miss actor SSR 🤩.

Little Boy - 915k September 19

Let's see

61 Hours 15 minutes - No food, no water. Complete Idiocy
From 2 September to 4 September. Thankfully Temperture was around 33 degree celcius and humidity around 75% or i was most probably done for. I'm alive. And few fickle minds claim i consider myself superior when in reality i openly write down my most idiotic life threatening acts. Narrative and agenda of facemasks.

Bad thing was i drank 1.5 ltr in 5 minutes and stomach that had no food for almost 3 days was overwhelmed and today turned out to be physically taxing and painful day.
And Heroine of Gay Chef was embarrassed about constipation and i have often seen heroines considering normal body problems as embarrassing. low on water usually leads to constipation. Natural.

Well, i wasn't born with strong body and from 2010 this kind of acts have actually become routine of summer. I was surprised when doctor gave me Iron pills for being iron deficiency anemia and low hemoglobin levels and said, rarely see guys having this sort of anemia. And funny enough this is the only trouble i've caused my mom. Heath problems. She's the protector so nothing have i to worry.
That's one crucial reason i put motherhood on pedestal.
Only if you could find such loyal outside blood too.

For those who might be interested, Chinese remake of Misaeng started airing. Be forewarned: It's 42 eps. Probability of fillers and drag is high.

Hi beanies,

Been watching lots of c-dramas lately instead of k-dramas. Here are some I recommend:

A murderous affair in Horizon Tower: a short 16 episode whodunit that was captivating since the first episode and contains a deeper underlying message than meets the eye. Don't let Angelababy's acting deter you from checking this one out. She's actually not that bad here.

Twenty Your Life On: a fun and funny show about four 20-year olds living in a dorm, supporting each other through their problems and forming strong friendships.

Cross Fire: Two video game enthusiasts from different timelines strike up a camaraderie, and help each other in achieving their dreams. Lots of action, CGI is good, fun watch.

Miss S: Considered as a Chinese remake of "Miss Fisher's murder mysteries", the cases aren't mind blowing, but the characters are likeable and I love the fashion attire of the female lead.

Bad Kids: I found out the book is significantly much darker than the drama, which makes me want to read the book.

IQIYI is killing it with their crime series dramas Burning Ice, Bad Kids, Kidnapping Game. I'm excited to check out the crime thriller Sisyphus next.

Jackson Wang did it again!!! He's such a gem! It reminds a lot of Fatboy Slim and as @sirena pointed out as well of Michael Jackson little bit. The song is a collaboration with Galantis which gave a great groove and beat to it. If you didn't get to listen to it, just type Pretty please, it's worth it.

Anyway, I would love to see him acting in some romcom, he has such a potential, just no time for that.

Have a nice weekend everyone!!!

Good morning,

On Wednesday night, instead listens to shady af school board meeting. I went to play Bunco with high school moms that my oldest son attending this year. it was so much fun. We laughed, drinking wine, and play Bunco. Best of it, no one wear masks. We did when we walk in to the hostess house. But later on, we take it off as there was tons of food and drinks. It was great. We high five each other. It was really great to feel normal and have fun. However, I have to rushed home due to my mother in law broke her shoulder bone. She is ok. She wearing sling until she see another doctor. My youngest son stay with her and my oldest with this weekend. My youngest son school got a waiver approved. Therefore, he is going back to school in person which he it is his decision. Only, preschool through 6 goes back to school. 7 and 8 are distant learning until after September 22 is going down for my County. I would hope so. Same thing, for my oldest son high school. They both decide to go back to school in person. Foe my daughter, I have decide to do distant learning for half of the year and go from there. She does need services. However, she can’t wear mask for sensory issues.

I have not watched much lately due to being busy. The only kdrama I am watching is Forest of Secrets 2 and Go Ahead and Love and Redemption. I am already caught except Go Ahead.

To be honest, I want this pandemic nightmare to be over. It has been really stressful for me especially for my daughter. I have not seen my family for couple of months. I miss them terribly. Luckily, we do see my mil but not my sil and her hubby. I hope we have a vaccine soon and it would work for everyone. Until then, I keep chugging along to make my kids and hubby happy and smiling every day. Stay healthy and safe!!!Have a three day everyone. Those who serve in our country and front line. thank you for your services!!!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Hi Beanies! I hope you had a wonderful week! I took today off (for the most part) so I have a 4 day weekend THANK GOD! I am still pending one answer to a work question and once I get that I am DONE with work for the weekend. It's supposed to be ridiculously hot Saturday and Sunday (over 100 degrees) so my plan is to get as much accomplished today so I can chill those two days and resume productivity on Monday. My only plans are to read, watch movies, finally start a puzzle my parents sent me and catch up on dramas.

I'm dropping WAS IT LOVE as I was skimming the recaps and it seems like I would get incredibly frustrated by the drama. I'm gonna continue with FOREST OF SECRETS (Season One) and I think I may check out FLOWER OF EVIL. I'm trying to figure out a rom-com drama to watch since i need some light-heartedness in my life.

I hope you all have a good weekend!

Wait... why there's no Lies of Lies listed on Prime-Time Shows This Week? :(

I hoped if @missvictrix will weecap for premiere week only then it will watch by yourself by recapping off-Dramabeans/outside Dramabeans from episode three to the very final episodes like When I Was the Most Beautiful did.

Where do I begin... It's been a rough few months, and I've been re-watching some favorites. High-End Crush is one of them. I wish it had been longer, but it's just fine the way it is. The show was my intro to Jung Il-Woo. After the re-watch I totally binged on JIW because I was waiting for Sweet Munchies to gain some translated eps so I could watch several eps at a time (and that is another convo for another day. So mad!!). Finally watched Haechi. Wow! So good. The episode count had put me off for awhile, but I came to my senses. A fun ride that is unbelievably close to its actual history. Cinderella and the Four Knights... meh. The one thing I will say about it, the struggling family dynamic was kinda interesting and antagonistic but it descended into cliche. JIW graced the screen with his adorably angry rebel wearing amazing Chesterfield-length jackets. So pretty.

For newer dramas, I finished watching It's Okay to Not Be Okay. I really like it! With Seo Ye Ji and Kim Soo Hyun burning up my screen with their chemistry, it's kinda hard to see the other actors. Oh Jung Se is great as Sang Tae, the autistic older brother. I like his portrayal, and I think the show is trying to shed some light on different types of mental illness through the patients, something that's glossed over more often than not. In other news, I want all of Ko Mun Yeong’s dresses. All of them. I'll take her brand new Volvos, too. Will also take Kim Soo Hyun prettily crying over everything.

Finally, I watched Train. I found it nicely noir-ish, and slightly creepy, like a darker version of Welcome 2 Life. To be honest, Train 8210 was the most compelling character in the series, wanting to keep running, doing what it does best. The last episode (because so many shows lose it on the last episode!) seemed a little rushed; 16 episodes would've been okay instead of 12. Thankfully, it had no filler episodes and barrelled through like 8210, uncaring of the carnage (weird ending) it left in its wake.

She Knows Everything... what a nice, tight noir procedural. The not-so-good guys and the not-so-bad guys coming together to solve a ‘Who killed Laura Palmer?’ type plot.

So many other shows that I've been watching, but not enough room!

i just logged into DB to rave about the C drama 'Go ahead" I went through the comments and haven't seen anyone mention this gem of a drama...I wonder why?.....the actors are wonderful ,the story touching and poignant relationships very believable and full of heart, and how do i put this .... the negative characters are quite believable in their reason to be negative.
I love Steven Zhang,he aced the character of Zi qui in this.Very surprised to know that he's one of the producer of the series.Seven Tan again aces in her role and our boy Song Wei Long is improved a lot from'Find yourself'Days
Beanies give this series a chance ...

Happy weekend Beanies and keep Beaning On!

My warrior friend is still alive! Thank you Beanies for your support on last OT! I could only muster a like to your replies, but I have been rereading your comments to boost my morale.🥰 One of my friends volunteered to be messenger between warrior’s parents and our friend group and she was the poor soul who made that dreadful phone call last week. Last Saturday she had to deliver even more bad news, she even half-joked that the only news we would be getting on Sunday would be the ultimate bad news. Imagine how we all felt when my phone went off on Sunday….Fortunately it was good news for once, but my heart!!!😱

Warrior has to remain in intensive care for a while because they are still tracing the source of the infection. Her condition is still critical with lots of ups and downs, so her parents have decided to continue with nearly daily email updates to decrease phone calls and unnecessary heart attacks.😉 Messenger friend has been sending those daily email updates via whatsapp and after a few positive updates and no more phone calls I do notice the disappearance of the numbness and a decrease of anxiety. Definitely better than last week, when I was mentally preparing myself for a funeral.

That big concern did take the backseat this week because of my job exams. I already took one and passed, with 4-5 more to go. The circumstances reminded me of my university finals, so I dug up my diligent student persona and faced September head on. It will be a few sober weeks until September 24th without K-dramas or any other fiction form in order to focus well. As a result my fan wall and ‘what we are watching’ will remain empty for a few weeks because they rely on my K-drama musings. I also want to watch more episodes of Reply 1988 and find some time to rewind to Rebel before I review both shows. However, I cannot go without lurking on Dramabeans, so I will be around. I am NOT missing the Beanie wedding in two weeks, job exams be damned!😤😆

My father is also counting down the painfilled days until he gets his cortisone infiltration on the same date. It helps a lot that my sister and her husband are able to temporarily adapt their work schedules, enabling them to get the godsiblings to school and daycare and back home without involving my parents or me most of the time. The month September sounds a lot less scary when you view it as 24 days and are already on day 4.🥳

Take care everyone!❤️

Turtie🐢

Hi there all:
Hope everyone is well and safe.

A publishing company wants to turn my favorite published novel, The Constant Tower, into a graphic novel. They really love the book and i appreciate that but I want to finish several other books i'm kinda procrastinating on and i do not know how to write graphic novels. I want to just give it to someone who knows how to script graphic novels but everyone keeps saying it'll be a fun learning experience for me. So apparently, that's what i'll be doing. I have to figure out if i should let my husband do the art. He's well known in the comic book world and his name on the graphic novel would help sales, but --although i love the beloved-- i'm not sure his drawing style would work for Constant Tower. So i have to decide on that.
Fave dramas:

Alice -- Who knew i needed a time dislocation timey-wimey time loop drama? And who knew we would have another drama with an alexithymic character? It better end satisfyingly. Sometimes these specfic kdramas do not follow through with the logistics of the specfic worlds they create.

Flower of Evil -- Still liking this but am also somewhat disappointed that the typical plot trope kicked in with the doctor's family harboring the real accomplice. I actually felt a heaviness when i saw the hospital pic.

Missing: the other side -- This is so much fun. I just hope the human gatekeeper or whatever he is doesn't get arrested for anything. A kind of futile hope because this kinda misunderstanding thing happens all the time. But apparently, i needed a drama with a portal to the aferlife.

Stranger 2: Darnit, Show, please tell me that you didn't just knock off one of my favorite characters? Nothing more hard-hearted than a kdrama cliffhanger. But, if this isn't a misdirection, it's a whole nother level of viewer torture. I should've gotten suspicious when the writer gave us a glimpse into the tortured wounded soul of our sleazy desperate prosecutor. I should've known he wasn't long for this world. His kidnapping better be a tool to make the viewers stress out. He better be alive is all I'm saying.

cdramas:
Trying to find sometime to marathon, The Murderous Affair in Horizon Tower, since Avenue X loved it on her cdrama channel. It's on Wetv, so i have to keep remembering to go there because i generally don't go to cdrama channels.

Have a great weekend, all.

Getting down to the end of my three current, family dysfunction, Kdramas. Once Again, Brilliant Heritage, and A Little Love Never Hurts. OMG--how do Korean families survive the twists and turns of fate? I'm beginning to wonder if they really care about each other's happiness, or how they can be so selfish and stubborn. Remind me to watch only suspense dramas for awhile.