Alice is still nice!

This time around I binged "Ex Girlfriend's club" and enjoyed it immensely🌟. I posted a review on my wall, will copy paste it here too :)
It's such a great watch, with a perfect balance between romance and comedy. It's exactly the kind of romcom I have been looking for and the kind of light and cute watch I needed after the dark and gritty "Watcher". It definitely tops my romcom list, second only to weightlifting fairy.
There was so much chemistry between Song Ji Hyo and Byun Yo Han🤩. Loved how their relationship progressed.
Also love the reluctant, grudging friendship that forms between the ex girlfriends. Despite it being literally the "Ex Girlfriend's club", their friendship also passes the Bechdel test!
The ex girlfriends could have easily become annoying typical ex's but their characters were so much more!
It's a shame honestly that it got such low ratings (it definitely deserved more) but I'm glad the epsiodes were cut down to 12 because 12 was perfect for it (otherwise they probly would have dragged the love triangle with director Jo).
On the whole I would definitely recommend this to everyone (don't judge it from its premier week which I admit was a bit rocky however from there on out it only gets better). It's a very underrated show and deserves more love.

After seeing that LollyPip reviewed "You drive me crazy", I decided to watch this too and enjoyed it incredibly. It was short, sweet and simply delightful. I will definitely be watching more of these short drama specials so if you've any suggestions, fire away :D

Do You Like Brahms They sold us the FL as a girl who started to study violon late and her struggles... After 2 episodes, we barely saw her play violin and now she's working in Foundation >_< I really hope she will play more in the future and her story will be about music too. I hate when the pitch of the story doesn't hold more than one episode like Glory Jane, he was baseball player and her a nurse and they ended to work for a compagny...

When I Was the Most Beautiful I love the scenery and the instrumental music sounds so tragical but really beautiful. The story is cliché after cliché otherwise.

Alice I'm really curious about it.

Missing: The Other Side It was pretty funny for the theme. Poor ML, nobody believes him.

Forest of Secrets 2 I'm rewatching the season 1 and I think the fact Shi Mok doesn't feel emotions the same way is a good point for the ones who messed up in the past. He doesn't hold grudges.

JAPAN -

My Housekeeper Mr. Nagisa - 7 out of 10. Special episode next week. Episode 09 translated. Not so much to say about the show now. the i ntern has his own spin-off and i want that translated. that one has some potential.

low on energy so couldn't concentrate on more media.

Hanzawa Naoki Season 2 - 7 out of 10. yup meme i had to reduce te rating. 1 week delay of episode 08 because of heath concerns. Still far better business fight child style.

Nina my Love - 6.5/10. it was clear where mangaka was going with the story and it makes sense. For every action +ve or -ve there have to be a reason. No one is born good or bad. Nina shows sae tendencies which she accuse the other guy of. It shows you real life political atmosphere to where supporters and opposition both have almost same characteristics, yet opposition acts noble.

Just caught the first episode of do you like Brahms? It was a nice easy watch- just what I’m looking for. Watched till ep 12 of its okay to not be okay. I think I’m going to drop this. It’s just not sucking me in.

Men are Men: It is done. It is completed. It ended on the whimper it started with. MEH

Do you like Brahms?: It turns out that I do. I really enjoyed the first episode. I liked their awkward first meeting. I like that the male lead seems to genuinely be very kind. I enjoy the chemistry and I like the characters. I hope it continues to be good, their were some minor annoyances, but nothing too bad.

Flower of Evil: We know the our apprentice and murderer now. SIGH. It's fine. All I can say for our leads is AWWWWWWWWWWW. Also my poor Moo Jin, the best sidekick EVER. He is a real one and I would be glad for him to be my bestie.

Alice: NO. I said What?, How?. this doesn't make any sense. The entire 2nd episode. So unfortunately despite the great cast chemistry. I am out unless I laugh my way through it.

Forest of Secrets: I still love it!!!!

I fished Into the Ring and what a lovely little gem. Yes, it did loose a bit of steam towards the end... but it never lost its cuteness... (and weird camera angles 😆)... and the main couple was a pleasure to watch (and the kisses!! 💕 I even suspected that the actors had a real thing for each other 🙂)

I also managed to check Brahms and When I Was the Prettiest. I like the first one, despite a slow pace and many many many hidden and complicated feelings the main group has for each other. I like the musical setting (I played violin many years ago), I like that also people who are not geeeeniuuuus are at the centre... and I think Kim Min Jae and Park Eun Bin have a nice chemistry.

I didn't like Pretty though. Like not at all. I found it cringy... and full of (old school) cliches, badly executed. The characters are flat and I have no clue why are both brothers interested in the heroine. I speeded through the first episode and only my weaknesses for Ha Suk Jin may leave a bit of the temptation to still try the second episode.

Paused Heiress as I read some spoilers about (SPOILER ahead!) an open ending (with the couple not ending together). I need to decide whether to watch anyway... or stop.

Probably dropped Sleepless Princess, the first episode was funny, especially the ending when the heroine sort of turns to a rat 😁 But then I got bored... and also didn't like the constant lying of the main girl.

Procrastinating with Quing Quing Zi Jin, whenever I need something light and breazy (= often 😀)... and I'm having fun with the naive but physically strong heroine and the bandit poet.

Oh, how I’ve missed Shin Sung-rok and his character’s evilly evilness. *twists nail ring*

Omomo! Yes for watching Shin Sung Rok! Hahahahaha 🤣

Flower of Evil: Episode 11 is why I love melodrama. The real Hee Sung being the accomplice made me roll my eyes, but the actor is sufficiently creepy.

Do You Like Brahms: I like the slow, quiet, moody vibe. I wish the drama would ditch the Brahms-inspired love triangle and focus on 29-year olds making their way in the world of classical music.

Forest of Secrets 2: This season feels really scattered: Drowning, dead guy in car, policeman suicide/murder, Hanjo, assemblyman, missing weasel ... I guess the writer has a plan to pull all of the threads together, but I find my mind wandering.

Alice: It's a bit cheesy but I love time travel, good or bad. I find Alice intriguing because I can see a similar service being offered for money if there really was time travel, and of course, it going terribly wrong. I like that by Episode 3 Jin Gyeum has already figured out that time travelers exist.

Missing: The Other Side: It's okay. I don't care for Go Soo as an actor, but I like the village of dead souls.

Flower of Evil: The pacing is just exceptional. Hope the writer manages to complete the drama without it falling to pieces. All the actors are killing it in this show.

Stranger 2: The corporate shenanigans do little for me. I'm invested in the other story and glad to see some forward movement with the cliffhanger.

Perfume: I noticed people who stuck with this drama seemed happy with it so I jumped in and I'm liking it so far.

Do You Like Brahms: There are a lot of tropes that I'm not fond of...unrequited love, love squares or octagon or whatever. Downtrodden gal with a unsupportive family (I hated the sister though she was on the screen for 5 minutes.) However, I really like the awkwardness of the leads and they seem to have a lovely chemistry.

Do you like Brahms because of my love for classical music.

Binge-watching Secret Garden now. Haven’t seen this ever and I’m enjoying it. 🥰

Missing: The other side. I liked the premiere: we got to know all our characters and set things for whatever is coming. I don’t buy the bright “stand by” town as a happy place, and considering this is an OCN show I hope it gets darker, because I’ve already seen Ghost Whisperer and I never understood how Jennifer Love Hewitt could manage that perfect long hair while saving souls all around (I know, I know, this doesn’t make much sense but in my head it does).

Men are men. I’d love to say the agony is over, but Viki is late (again) in episode 16 subs. Had it been another show and I would have watched elsewhere, but I just can wait. Episode 15 went back to the first episodes comedy but it was not really funny and I still don’t understand why the leads are together when they haven’t had a proper conversation about anything, they’ve only mourned about how they split up in the past. I foresee redemption for crazy CEO, which I don’t get because she should be locked up forever (in prison or in an mental institution like most of the stalker characters in this show, which are almost of all them). If you plan to watch, do it, but I don’t recommend it. At all.

Do you love Brahms. I liked our awkwardly (in a good sense) couple, but I don’t get the rest of the triangles involved. I want to see more of them as I can see where they can go and I love that place. I have a terrible “Dinner Mate exes” feeling about the other members of the hexagon, like they are going to be in the middle making noise and annoying, and I don’t see this cute and sweet couple as confident as HaeKyung and DoHee. I hope I’m wrong an I’m not asking for a ToD on episode 6.

Flower of Evil. Let the makjang begin! Fate. Childhood connection. Childhood trauma. Evil CEO. Amnesia. Can we have a “we are brothers?”, please. It was really disappointing to discover all the Baeks are involved in the crimes (past, present and future). But I’m still here for LJG while I roll my eyes for the next five hours.

Stranger 2. No. No. No, No. And NO. You can’t kill DongJae on episode 6, or in episode 14, or ever. Full stop. (Loving all the legal and philosophical discussion with all the beanies both in the comments and the wall).

I finished Chief Kim. What a fun show to watch. Highly recommend it to any beanie who hasn’t watched yet. My devotion to Lee Junho and Namgoong Min is eternal. It’s amazing how many rabbit holes I inhabit!!

I began Save Me. I’m liking it. The first three episodes felt a bit slow, and I know people told me it would be hard to watch, but I binged 12 episodes in three days! I like its path. I always find fascinated all these cults and how people can fall into them, but then I realize that the ones behind them are all about manipulating people, because they know how to touch the proper strings to make you fall. For a non religious person like me it’s amazing and also very scaring because I know anyone (even me) can...

The drama gods probably should have swapped titles between WAS IT LOVE and MEN ARE MEN. Or merged them together to try to find one cohesive story line (like trying to find something good at a stale buffet near closing time). In MEN ARE MEN, the open question remains “Was It Love?” I fall into the absolute NO category. The acceptance that past lives have any true bonding effect in the present is what ruined the main story line. I could never get over Ji Woo’s stalking, hiring, and brain washing Hyun Joo in order to change his past lives obsession. For me, the past lives stories derailed the series.The final two episodes were boring and flat. The couple making a public commitment of being together as independent individuals and not formally married is in direct contradiction to South Korean law that recognizes what it calls "De Facto Marriages" or common law marriages of couples who have not legally registered their marriage but who have either 1. made it publicly known that their relationship is akin to a marriage, 2. had a public wedding ceremony, or 3. have been cohabiting as though they are married. Despite all her protestations, Hyun Joo has fallen into her own marriage trap.
As for WAS IT LOVE, it constantly bounced back to “Men being Men,” inserting themselves to “solve” AJ’s problems without asking her; to the final grand noble idiocy fueled by a ridiculous scandal about a novel, A FICTIONAL story based on a writer’s experience. The slang translation for Dae-oh’s new pen name is “Dumb Ass.” Obvious point taken. The most compelling scene was Sook-hee’s backstory: she lost her child so she admires AJ. Hanee got her wisdom and maturity from living with Sook-hee as well as her common sense from her grandmother. I really hated the manager’s interruption of Sook-Hee and Pado at the premiere party - - - that moment apparently doomed any spark of a relationship (since Sook-hee was not in the front row seat as Dong Chan’s stepmother at the unexpected wedding ending.)
ONCE AGAIN: All the happy check marks were in place: eldest son successful; eldest daughter successful; younger daughters approved for marriage to brothers; Mother properly diagnosed for condition to find she will soon have two daughters she always wanted to have; the aunt having a solid but quirky relationship; and Father reuniting well with his long lost sister. But you cannot fly to the ending without some more “conflict” with Na Hee sudden mid-section pain which I presume will affect her ability to have children, which will cast some doubt on Gyn-Jin, who has been shown wanting to have children.
LIES OF LIES (Episode 1): The premiere answered my pre-show questions about Lee Yuri’s character losing her child and and a solid foundation for a revenge plot. There was no filler in the first episode so we cleanly begin for the search for her child (with the standard “fate” component.). Very good start.
Variety:
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I am gonna talk about what I am watching too, but first:

Is anyone watching or watched SF8? I watched the first episode. I dont even know where to begin with. WTF WTF WTF. Lee Yoo-Young is freaking amazing. The story is so WTF. I am not even sure if I should be watching this now in the middle of the pandemic. But I cant stop thinking about it. I was supposed to binge watch the whole thing, but after the first episode, I am gonna do one a week. It was wayyyyyyyy beyond my expectations. It was amazing but very very.... I dont even know which words I should use to explain it. I loved the conflict. the right and wrong, the expectations.

Alice - I watched the first 2 episodes and I liked it. As I said before, I am willing to forget some plot holes (episode 2, I am looking at you), for the sake of the drama. I like that they are not trying to explain how Alice works (so far), but are focusing in the mother/son son/father(?). I am loving Kim Hee Sun. She has this amazing aura, that will keep me going.

When I Was the Most Beautiful - I could not even bring myself to finish episode 3. It was so extra cringy. I am gonna stop now and come back on episode 10 or by the time they kill the older brother (I already know they are gonna kill him, because this show is so extra cringy, that I dont see how the younger brother will get the girl, unless they kill the older brother).

Do You Like Brahms? - This is exactly what I was looking for. It is so good. I like all the characters so far. The only drama I am counting the days for the next episode.

Age of Youth/Hello, My Twenties - Still havent finished, but I am liking it more now. The nail episode was so spot on. I am watching because of Han Ye-Ri and that episode really shows how amazing she is.

Alice: I'm kind of allergic of sci-fi so it was mostly the actors that inspired me to pick this one up - I liked how ambitious it was and the first episode set up the story nicely. Saying that, I didn't finish the second episode. I kind of just want this to be a movie - the second hour could have had Tae-yi meet her son, the two of them understand why she was killed, take down Alice, and tentatively wrap things up with a "we've saved the day, but where do we go from here?" kind of ending. So yes, I think I've already gotten what I wanted from this.

Do You Like Brahms: I'm enchanted! I hoped I would be, but I like it more than I expected to! It has everything I love - music, ambition, coming of age, a university setting, talented actors, a special palette, nice characters who are just lovely and polite to each other, angsty angsty angsty angst. The first episode has me hooked immediately - the whole orchestra scene was so well done, the silence used beautifully to make me feel the tension. And I just fell deeper in love from there.

Memories at 18: The structure of the plot and character types remind me soooooo much of SUFBB minus the music angle. I could make a diagram comparing the two. The cinematography though is more like JBL and When the Weather Is Nice. I'm really loving it. The ML is absolutely adorable and the FL is so relatable. I really feel like these characters are 18, straddling that line of childness and maturity while trying to discover who they are and their place in the world.
Switch: What a fun show! It gives me strong Police Squad 38 vibes but goofier. The goofiness fits in well though. And, man I forgot how much I love JGS. He does so well playing 2 characters. The show has also done well in presenting it's 2 stances on going the legal or illegal route. I didn't expect it to be so even of a view since these kinds of shows tend to always make us want to route for the underdog no matter what they do.

Do You Like Brahms?- I LOVE IT SO MUCH. I've been looking forward for Tuesday to come (so I can watch the Monday's subbed ep).

Was It Love- Disappointing til the very end. Looking forward to the casts' next drama.

Because It's The First Time- I'm catching up on Kim Min Jae and this drama is an easy watch.

Forest of Secrets 2- I MISS OUR OTP. Seeing ShiMok and YeoJin in one frame gives me joy! Also, MOKJAE FTW!

Cursed In Love (Jdrama)- Didn't expect to like this but I'm enjoying it. Shoutout to the Beanie who posted about this.

Running Man Ep518- The guests are the four leads in Do You Like Brahms and they're so funny. ❤️

Alice In Kdramaland: 8.6
1: Kim Hee-sun is timeless/ageless, so a relatively believable time-traveler.
2: She was a better lecturer in day 1 of Faith.
3: How much harder would it be to implement travel restrictions to contain a virus if people are time-jumping all over?
4: Are any of the time-customers NOT killers??

Missing: The Other Side: 8.5 Slow start, promising in a Master's Sun-ish way, then nailed the end of week 1. The last couple minutes raised the week's score by a point.

Do You Like Brahms?: 3.2 Actually, no. The only way I even made it past the 12-minute mark was by checking Asianwiki, where it seemed the jerk conductor was only for day 1. People pointlessly acting like him are a sign of a badly written show and are a sure way to make me tune out. The hope of no more of that got me past thru half-hour mark.

Flower of Evil: 7.5 Predictable, as others have said. Glad they didn't stick us with much of a cliffhanger. It could be an awfully tall cliff till the next episode.