Young Actors retreat Finale 🥺
They worked hard serving 100 meals, I bet they were hot and tired. I like that they got a group of Sunbaes in from each of the shows such a nice touch. It was really great to see the fans of all ages being so overwhelmed to be in such close proximity. It must have been amazing. That super fan of 11 years who came by herself to see her actor and didn’t even ask for his photo, just talking with him was enough of an event for her to be satisfied. I am so glad one of the Sunbaes sorted a picture for her, as that momentous event needed to be captured.

Great idea for a show and I enjoyed every moment. My only other actors in ‘real life’ show will be the next instalment of In the Soop. The Kingdom of love antics is why I usually steer clear of reality tv.

Seasons of Blossom
🥺 Hamin and Somang’s relationship went from golden to broken too quickly.

Love is for suckers
I spent a lot of time being very loud either shouting at Inwoo the loser to go away or feeling outraged by Kang PD’s moves. Loving the reality tv bts and the contrast between the two PDs styles. The chef is beyond annoying he tried to humiliate Yeoreum but now is acting the role usually given to the second female lead; catty game playing. I don’t get why he would even be on a show like that mixing with normal people when he clearly thinks he is so great.

Mental coach Jegal
🤞 they tie up the ambiguity about the Gil/Gaeul relationship.

Gaus electronics
So many laugh out loud moments. Waiting to see Jang Byung’s power play, as the experienced gamer he will know some moves.

Love in Contract
🥰 the Yumi cells 2 car kiss was a classic.

Now they face the fall out from the public exposure I am wondering whether they will switch things up and rather than do noble idiocy have the three leads work together. They could come up with a plausible plan that will have minimal impact on any of them and avoid lawyer woman being any more annoying than she already is. I am concerned we will otherwise have a return to the randomness of the earlier episodes playing it out for 6 more episodes. We do have the helmet person lurking so I am sure they will come back in to the mix soon.

Love is For Suckers: I am absolutely loving this show. Yeo-reum’s relationship with her parents is lovely. Jae-hoon was kind of swoony this week. I watch too many reality dating shows so the Kingdom of Love setting is fun for me. I like both the behind-the-scenes stuff and cringey onscreen scenes. Ji-yeon has some game, but I still like her. Hopefully, she and the webtoon writer become good friends.

20th Century Girl: Geez, I’m not watching things set in the 90’s anymore. Why do they have to break our hearts.

Gaus Electronics: Aziz is the best. He’s such a scene stealer. I’m liking the idea of Na-rae and Sang-sik more than I thought I would. Having Na-rae fall for him first makes it work.

Under the Queen’s Umbrella: I liked the first two episodes while also having issues with the casting. I didn’t like Kim Hye-soo’s acting in either Signal or Juvenile Justice, and I don’t particularly care for her here. I’m also having a hard time telling the prince’s apart. I’m loving Kim Hae-sook’s villain era, however. The storyline is nothing new, but I like that the women are the main players. Things in Joseon would have run much smoother if the Kings didn’t have so many kids with different concubines.

Love in Contract: Ji-ho was swoony. Hae-jin was annoying. The kiss was pretty good. Both PMY and GKP are good kissers. Ji-ho should have dumped the ex back when she made the comment about him not knowing how to love because he was never loved.

May It Please the Court: The things I liked about this drama were Chak-hee and Si-baek’s bickering and Chak-hee’s cases as a public defender, and we are getting further away from both.

The Empire: Nan-hee’s backstory doesn’t make me the least bit sympathetic to her. What Hye-ryul’s dad ordered done to her dad was horrible but Nan-hee should take it up with him instead of hurting the most innocent members of the family, like Kang Baek. I can get behind great grandpa's wife’s revenge a lot more since she’s not hurting anyone but him and mostly herself.

Also watching:
- Seasons of Blossom (Episode 11-12) - Mood: D+
- Cheer Up (Episode 5-6) - Mood: D-

Love is for Suckers (Episode 5-6) - Mood: D
At this point in Song Jong Ho’s career, I do feel for him for continuously getting typecast as a jerk: his acting is pretty limited in range and I think that reflects in his performances, but it must hurt your psyche knowing that you don’t really deserve better roles and yet you need to hustle in order to pay the bills. (Of course, there’re more pitiful stories in the acting industry) The dating show unfortunately doesn’t grab my attention one bit: what’s the point of emulating the crudeness of actual reality show contestants when it’s actually much worse out there? Ji Yeon’s arc looks rather bleak.

May I Help You (Episode 1-2) - Mood: D+
The setup is pretty much your usual cliche bad first impressions + squabbling + forced reliance and the show even had Butler Kim have burn marks so that Dong Joo would have the perfect misunderstanding. And already we’ve drama with him paying respects to the small boy who was her 1st ghost sighting. I have a hunch there’s going to be a love triangle.

Gaus Electronics (Episode 5-6) - Mood: C+
Surprisingly, my favourite character so far after half the show is not from the company itself but Aziz who has the most epic punchline that always gets me laughing. Though it’s nice to see some solid arcs for the supporting characters, I’m holding back my enthusiasm a bit since there’re signs of cliche office drama hitting Marketing Team 3. And Hae Young.

The Golden Spoon (Episode 7-8) - Mood: D
Maybe it’s my own fault for watching the preview showed in Episode 6 that spoiled both cliffhangers of Episodes 7/8? It was mind numbing to watch knowing where the plot was leading up to, particularly so when the writing doesn’t hold up at all. We wouldn’t have had this awful time skip without the murder nonsense, which sadly isn’t finished in the 1st half.

Love in Contract (Episode 9-10) - Mood: D+
It’s standard drama fare for the whole world to block the OTP from having their first real date but it’s super annoying to see a narcissistic and delusional ex come into the plot like a wrecking ball. Gwang Nam’s potential romance does seem to be progressing fine but I dare the writer to develop it all on screen. Well, at least we had the serotonin from the kiss?

Blind (Episode 9-10) - Mood: D+
With the appearance of a new child actor as younger Sung Joon, we now know why he was framed earlier on: he didn’t help to rescue the kids when he stumbled upon them. And I suppose he got Yoon Jae’s necklace during the playground incident? But what about his nightmares and the split personality moments earlier? Those don’t seem to be fabricated.

Dropped Duel after 8 episodes. This show was the definition of Murphy's Law: Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. It became exhausting by ep 8 and I finished it by reading the recaps.

Dropped Never Give Up after 6 episodes. I just can't watch shows with so much lying and backstabbing and gossiping and secrecy going around. It also became exhausting.

Currently at episode 5 of Your Honour. Apart from the hilarious fact that it is my 4th recent show with one male lead acting as 2 or more characters (2 of the shows even share the same actor lol), it is not at all what I expected, and maybe it is a good thing. It started much darker, but has become quite light and even ridiculous that nobody has yet discovered the truth. I needed something light.

Waiting impatiently for Gaus Electronics and Love is for Suckers to finish airing.

Gaus Electronics - no, you didn't... you didn't use the Korean toilet humour as a romantic gesture... oh, you did. 😆🙈😂 I was laughing so much!... and yet, the gesture WAS touching! This show... 😆 All unexpectedly works for me, being it Maknae Matan and his military training or (with sad undertones) the AI story and I still have so much fun. (I also love Aziz!). It is also the first time I don't want to hear that Go Sunhgee is getting married, because the kiss was hot and I need some time for my shipping. (And the post-preview explanation of the slap was just the cherry on the top 😄)

Having mixed feelings about Love in Contract, that WRONG kiss didn't sit well with me (though other times I just want to hug Haejin). And I usually don't comment on the wardrobe as we all have different tastes in what we find beautiful (and appropriate), but I have to admit that the dresses of Sangeun make me pause lately.

I think they are packing too many things in Cheer Up. I would be content if they sticked to the campus life and family situations (and moms!) and focused on the individual members of the cheering squad (Chohee was a good step!). The thriller part and possible embezzlement of club money (and bullying of Brother?) makes the drama a strange unbalanced patchwork.

Suckers - loving it more and more. I was proud of Yeoreum, she stayed firm... and clearly named the problem. Jaehoon, you are the actual Sucker. I also fully understand that Yeoreum now needs a friend and not a man. Though I hope they WILL eventually turn into lovers, they are both kind people and already love each other so much.

Seasons of Blossom
Webtoon - the translated Winter Season is being published!
Drama - we entered the painful times 😢

Young Actors Retreat (6eps) - my happy pill 😊

Planning to check 100 Won Butler.

Back from my travels and there is so much to catch up on 😭.

ONGOING
The Law Café - Have missed too many episodes. Will just catch up with this with the finale.

May It Please the Court - The fake-outs were as pointless as the fake confession. Everyone knows he didn't do it except our super-smart FL 🙄.

Love in Contract - Caught up but wondering why. The SML annoys me to death. Watching for Ji-ho and Gwang-nam only.

One Dollar Lawyer - Watched till Ep. 6 and I'm glad we'll get some history on Ji-hoon but I'm confused about the episode changes?

WATCHLIST
Bad Prosecutor, The Queen's Umbrella, and May I Help You are all on the list but I'm not sure which ones I'll actually get to.

C-DRAMAS
Planning to try Light Chaser Rescue because I'm a sucker for Janice Wu.

Gaus Electronics Ep 4 - I don't know if I should be laughing or feel sorry alongside Sang-sik's clearly prophecied rejection. Its a comedy right? That should give some leeway. I felt for him real bad even with the bunny situation and the rainfall scene was perfect to show it all.
I was glad to know he knows it's not his fault she doesn't want to take a glance at him, and that he has validated himself long before this 10th rejection. I do love his loyalty.
Team 3 are a bunch of drama. And the drama Ma-tan x Geon-mi brings is a laughfest. Who else would think the word Power will put you in sore straits :)

Love in Contract : I'm going to pretend next week's impending sad note isn't here yet so I'm just going to fawn over my sweet couple.
And I love Gwang-nam and Mi-ho's scenes. I look forward to them more than that agenda Mi-ho has going on.
And, Hae-jin us driving me nuts.

Love is for Suckers : Take a backseat In-woo. Be a man and take a backseat.
It was comforting seeing Jae-hoon walk Yoo-reum through her grief just as she helped him through his.
And for locking Chef Jang in an arm lock, you get many points, Jae-hoon.
The calmness in Jae-hoon's voice when he confessed his feelings...wow.

Yonder Ep 3: My first Lee Joon-ik experience and well, the praise is true. I like the world building here. The dialogue is really great too. They ask some very good questions.
I'm was drawn into this Shin Ha-kyun in a romantic capacity even though it was just a few minutes and I'm digging it. I hope dramaland gives him another romantic line. And that moustache... perfeción.
I'll take my time to savor episodes 4-6.
On the side, Lee Jung-eun being named Seiren reminded me of Lady Seiren in Naruto. I wonder how it spelt Si-ren on some forums though. The subs for mine says Seiren.

I should pick up Three Siblings Bravery, One Dollar Lawyer, The Empire from where I stopped.

CRICKET - https://twitter.com/TheCricketerMag/status/1583771517938454528

WHAT a start of the world cup - upsets and more upsets.

And today kiwis won in Australia after 11 years. a big moment.

Time to dance and have some tears of joy.

2nd math going on and already so many good catches. Fielding is awesome.

The Law Cafe Just for the bean at this point.

Cheer Up Why Her was so disapointing for Baek In-Hyuk, at least his role is better, a better drama could have been nice too.

Mental Coach Jegal I'm kinda scared by the turn the story can take at this point. Mu-Gyeol forgot his own trauma, he saved Ga-Eul but since he didn't swim...

Love is for Suckers The male actors blew up the one shower scene clause in their contract.

May I Help You I hesit to test this one.

Gaus Electronics It's still hilarious.

The Golden Spoon At this point, I think we understood that rich people are bad...

One Dollar Lawyer I don't mind the only 12 episodes thing but I'm against a second season !

Under the Queen's Umbrella I really liked the first 2 episodes and I'm already rooting for the 4 Princes.

May It Please the Court The writting is really weird. The story is lacking a backbone.

Seasons of Blossom Watching this drama is like watching a truck of doom in slow motion, we can't do anything to change things.

Silen It's a Japanese drama and I really like the main actress. The first 2 episodes were pretty sad.
Young Actors Retreat It was a great idea to reunite them in a TV show! I really liked to see them together again, especially MDBC casting. They have a strong bond even if they didn't really see each other since.

House on Wheels The rivalry between these 2 ahjussis for fishing is so funny! They're so competitive over webfoot octopuses. I like this show because we can see actresses who don't really see on media anymore. Kim Ah-joong was a great guest, she looks funny and caring. I'm very excited to see Kim Ha-neul in the next episode. I laughed a lot watching Rowoon being scared by webfoot octopus eyes 😂 He's a big eater, he made everyone happy just by eating their food.

20th Century Girl I was scared they did like Our Time by changing the actors when they're adult... They actually did worse. But otherwise, the movie was cute. Kim Yoo-Jung was perfect in this role. They forced a little too much on the 90' filters.

HAEUNDAE LOVERS (2012) (Ep 8-10): What I like about this drama is that the story line moves along with plausible (mis)directions of characters not learning all the facts. The viewers and one character, Joo-Hee played by a very young (22) Kang Min-Kyung, know all the information being hidden from our leads. With information comes power as Joo-Hee steers grieving widow Se-Na out of the fake wedding and later out of the hotel to possibly claim Tae Jung as her own. Meanwhile, Tae-Sung becomes heir apparent to hotel gang which jeopardizes his relationship with So-Ra. Old k-dramas emphasized “family” and Tae-Sung is caught between three of them: his adopted family and wife; So-Ra’s family; and his birth father’s family. Amnesia aside, all three groups have the right to be betrayed by him as the set up is his final choice, legality and morals notwithstanding. At this halfway point, there are three groups hoping to keep/take control of the hotel; each circling like vultures around a wounded animal.

Variety:
THE ZONE, SURVIVAL MISSION: This Disney + 8 part variety show had the star power of Yoo Jae Suk, Lee Kwang Soo and Kwon Yu Ri. But industry reports stated that viewership was bad (less than half the expected views). I can see why: the premise of the show’s star was to “endure” a situation. This led to more inaction than “action” (the lone exception was the last episode, a paintball shoot-out with trained marksmen). It also led to less comedy elements most Korean variety shows are known for. Despite the network disappointment, there appears to be a second season in the works.

Gaus Electronics: 8.5 It took me a while to adjust to the idea of Go Sung-hee being good -- she's never impressed me before. Her character here is completely opposite to what she had in Mother, and it looks like she's found her niche.

One Dollar Lawyer: 7.5 (day 8)

Cheer Up: 6.0 Could we please have more cheering and less stalking / bullying / attempted murdering / drinking? If I wanted those there are so many other kdramas I could watch instead.
Tip of the Day: when you have something even a bit interesting and almost sort-of slightly semi-unique, run with it instead of turning yourself into a boring clone of 800,000 other shows.

Law Cafe: 5.5 Bean watch.
May It Please the Court: 6.5 Jung Ryeo-won watch.
Love in Contract: 6.0 Why watch?

Love Is For Suckers: 7.5 Mixed results on the lesson from Cheer Up. They failed to run with dirty jokes this week, but might do ok running with the contest / mating game instead (?)

May I Help You: 7.5 The first few minutes reminded me of the beginning of Master's Sun even more than I expected from the show description. There are many, many worse things to say. Sadly, one of them is "Hyeri", but you can't have everything. I tuned in mostly for everybody's favorite WTf cousin from Business Proposal / imposter girl in Alchemy, but she hasn't had much screen time yet.

Three Times: 8.0 (2005 Taiwan movie) I watched it on cable years ago, and am rewatching due to nostalgia attack - the 1966 segment reminds me a lot of my time in Taiwan in the 1970s. I've been in some of the places. The bicycle, road signs and even envelopes remind me of those days.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Times

Started several current dramas but nothing has really captured my brain. Finding Love in Contract to be tolerable but mostly annoying. Watched the first two eps of Queen's Umbrella and it has potential despite the FL's over-emoting. Keeping an eye on Beanie comments regarding but wasn't engaged enough to finish ep 1.
On the bright side, I was able to see Broker yesterday at a film festival which made me dance with joy. It was everything I expected from one of my favorite filmmakers (Koreeda) and featured a full slate of some of the best Korean actors around. Even the infant was terrific. IU drew on some of her performance in My Ajusshi but created a distinctly different character. Due to be released in the US on 12/26; I'll be there in line to watch and re-watch.

—Gaus Electronics: Aziz was like "I called it" lol he's so happy for the couple.
I love how seriously Sang Shik took the whole thing. He didn't get scared of his feelings or ran away.
—Season of Blossom: Ha Min 😭 😭 So Mang... 😭😭
—The Love in Your Eyes: bring me the romance, ome.
—Three Bold Siblings: this is a loop. How many time are they going to say "Let's not see each other again"? We'll literally see them together two scenes later.
—Love is for Suckers: Yeo Reum and her mom 🥺💚
—May I Help You: So everyone knows everyone and everyone is connected to everyone? And this is all about fate and karma? I'm lost.
—May It Please Be Court (EP7): Tell me the ship sails!!
—On the Verge of Insanity (EP13): I've never seen a show with a title this accurate. This drama stresses me out. 😂 I love it but dang, give me a break.
—Roomies Poongduk 304: the toxic "friend" gotta go.
—Innocent Man (hate-rewatch that I enjoyed).

I pretty much didn't watch any dramas last weekend, because I felt conflicted about what to watch after I finished Glitch. Should I finish Little Women? Should I start Under the Queen's Umbrella? I was feeling so meh about these options, and when I finally asked my heart what it wanted, it instantly answered that it wanted an unrealistically female-empowering fusion sageuk. So I started Rookie Historian Goo Hae-ryeong. And it fit the bill perfectly.

I'm having so much fun watching. I love the prince's commitment to wearing pastels, which also fit his personality perfectly. I love Hae-ryeong's principled stance on everything, and how she inspires others around her to do the right thing also. I am also liking that you can feel a larger story unfolding in the background, but we're in sort of a unique position in that neither of our leads know anything about it. So while they might encounter various people and names and situations that have to do with our undercurrent overarching story, they don't have enough information to be truly suspicious about any of it yet. I'm sure other people found this frustrating and slow, but I think it's really interesting, and maybe a little more realistic (not that that's at all why I watch these things) for how the characters would actually behave.

I also watched Rampant with my partner last night, and we had so much fun! We kept up a running commentary pretty much the whole time about who we thought was going to make it to the end, speculation on what the evil minister used to make his zombie-ness onset slow down so much (we're split between bee pollen or turmeric), and what kind of final fight scene we thought would be the most satisfying (we were not disappointed). He had the nerve to insist that dramas are too long, but then whine about how much development a couple of the characters got, but I reminded him that would leave less room for zombie fight scenes and we could always rewatch Kingdom. Much fun all around.

@daebakgrits
I see it differently. Yeoreum did very well to break up with Inwoo. The reason was not the actual pregnancy or that he needed a couple of days to process the news. The reason was that he wanted to marry her FIRST and THEN (maybe) tell her. Thus basically putting her in a very very difficult situation. And it was a repeat of the situation before when Inwoo decided about them without her (assuming she would drop everything and follow him).
So basically, Yeoreum was never a partner for Inwoo... and not only in this big case, but also in the small cases (like the public marriage confession at work) little respect and big manipulation was seeping through Inwoo's acts.

Love is for Suckers This show is so good! There is a lot of mess but it all just feels real. The whole reality segment makes me cringe but thankfully all we see is BTS. we know it’s going to get ugly and I am not ready for the mess.
Cheer up This show is my little happy pill.
Love between Fairy and Devil slowly moving forward. At Ep 30!

I need to check out ‘May I help you’.

Not sure this is a smart strategy, but I’ve made a promise to myself to finish my unfinished dramas before I can start anything new. Most of these unfinished dramas were abandoned by me with only a few episodes to go.

Finished:

It’s Okay Not To Be Okay: 1.5 speed was not fast enough to get me through the last 5 episodes of this drama. I know people loved it, so perhaps I’m just missing something. I should have left this dropped but all the hype/love made me feel like I needed to give it another chance and when I gave it that second chance it just left me bored. So bored.

Itewon Class: Not sure why I paused this (around episode 12), but when I got back to it, I was entertained. Nothing groundbreaking in this drama, just decent entertainment. But, still I did leave this show and had to force myself to go back to it.

Next up:

Red Sleeve: I cued it up and realized I forgot so much I have to go back and rewatch at least episode 12. I stopped watching at 13. I’m hopeful I’ll change my mind and enjoy the final episodes.

Attorney Woo: If I get through Red Sleeve this week, this is up next. I abandoned it at episode 8. This show actually reminds me of older US TV shows. Episodic genius stories, not sure it is my cup of tea. But, I’m keeping an open mind!

I started Today's Webtoon and I don't understand why it got so little enthusiasm. For now it seems very light and pleasant. The KSJ smile makes me fall in love every time.

I remind everyone that the Cdrama to see absolutely is always The Story of Xing Fu, which in my opinion is a true masterpiece.

My wife and I now have two favorite on air shows: GAUS ELECTRONICS and LOVE IS FOR SUCKERS. They are both wonderful, each in their own separate ways.

I have a real thing for strong women, which is why I am a sucker for any romcom featuring a female bodyguard, even when they are small and cute (because that means that her strength is all that better disguised- and effective). So along comes a C-drama named CUTE BODYGUARD and of course I am watching. Is this the greatest C-drama of all time? No, not even close. But they have catered to my personal tastes, so I am watching it anyway. It is entertaining if not dramatically deep.

This week my wife watched the Chinese Costume Drama A FAMILIAR STRANGER and really liked it. She followed this with a British drama: THE CROWN which was very well done.

She also really likes the new Sageuk UNDER THE QUEEN’S UMBRELLA. She has also been enjoying CHEER UP.

Courtesy of You-tube I enjoyed the C-drama DON’T MESS WITH EX-GIRLFRIEND.

The new weekender THREE BOLD SIBLINGS is still largely devoted to the story of our oldest sibling and the FL with a further digression in having our FL being scammed by her uncle. If ratings are to rise this family story needs to become better balanced. The writer seems to be stuck in sixteen episode rom-com mode and the audience is shrinking to fit that. What happens when we get to episode seventeen? What makes weekenders unique is that they tell a story of a family or families- and the stories of that ensemble intertwine. In a weekender the ML and FL simply provide a focal point- theirs is the central story but the other stories are a fundamental part of the show. We are actually only seeing a relatively few interactions outside of our central characters- and no character development at all. This is a real shame because the setup for this show is really quite good- there is huge potential here: The problem is one of execution, not concept.

For comparison with the current weekender I have been watching OJAKYO BROTHERS, which is one of the better past family weekenders.

MAY I HELP YOU? Arrived just in time for Halloween and my wife is really enjoying it.

Law Café
A heaping dose of sugar from our main leads, I loved it! And I also appreciate how “Me Too” was explained as comforting and strengthening to people in similar situations.
Seasons of Blossom:
These episodes were wonderful, so sad but beautiful. The balance and the connections between past and present were perfectly done.
Love In Contract
A lot of the time, this looked just like finding opportunities for PPL was most important? E.g. the drinking scene and the banana seaweed… Also, flying yoga and golf… But, both MLs acting was great to watch.
Love Is For Suckers
Glad to be at the dating show stage now, that’s what I wanted to see, and it’s pretty funny! I wonder how they will fill out 16 episodes, though…
One Dollar Lawyer
The episodes about the past were so tense and sad, the whole show felt totally different. I loved Namgoong Min’s restrained acting and the way his present was explained through the past, down to wearing sunglasses in the present.
Gaus Electronics
How can this be more than halfway already! The funniest show I’ve seen since Waikiki, I love it. And romance also thrown in is a great bonus!
Blind
I still trust no-one here, and I refuse to believe that the brother is the culprit. Surely there must be a different explanation…
Glitch
Started this up to Ep.3, wasn’t really convinced I needed to go on watching, then read several people saying it does pick up at Ep.4 and watched the rest of the show in one day. It did pick up, it was fun, and I liked that it went back and forth between the different scenarios for aliens, especially in the last episode. And having female friendship as the center of the show was great!
On the train, I watched several episodes of Hwarang. Such fun!
KDrama friend project:
Golden Spoon is still great, intriguing and beautifully shot, but we were a bit confused with the story after a bigger pause.
Looking forward to The Queen’s Umbrella, May I Help You and possibly Yonder, but I need to finish some dramas first…

May It Please the Court: I look forward to this the most each week. The biggest draw to this drama is the sparkling Chak-hee and Si-baek back and forth, but this week has barely any of their interactions due to plot, and the interactions they did have were fraught with hurt and drama. Finale week is next week and looking forward to it! 12 episodes does seem the right length for this drama.

Gaus Electronics (ep 5-7): Rising up to the dramas that I really look forward to each week. So many LOL moments, though I think my fave it is the lonely coworker - Jang Byung- who became emotionally attached to the AI. He's been coming to the front as one of my fave characters. I also loved seeing how Sang-shik and Na-rae are catching feelings and Ma-tan and Kangmi's hijinx.

Three Bold Siblings: Three of the characters getting cheated on by their romantic partners is too much. Then you've got family scammers too! I'm invested in Tae-joo so I will keep watching. It's sad that she's in this situation because the uncle is the only one she thought of as her true family. She got a new loving dad, but it came with a toxic grandma and changed her dynamics with her mom.

Love in Contract (up to ep 8): I'm like a week behind. I hate how they brought back the ex-wife - the fact that they did it and in the most ham-fisted way possible. Sang-eun/PMY is all of us while watching the car kiss scene in the second season of Yumi's Cells. I'm not invested in the romance, but I am invested in the characters finding peace as individuals.

Mr.Bad (up to ep 21): I love this c-drama so much. Even when they hit the usual, expected dramatic beats for this type of story- fictional guy in real world- they don't bog down the drama. They're able to add warmth and humor to those moments. And we've got two sensible ladies matched with their less sensible (which makes for great humor) partners.

Finished Love Between Fairy and Devil and I've realized that I made a big mistake. I should've watched a few other shows first, because LBFAD has ruined me. Everything else I'm trying to watch now seems so....mediocre.

That said, I did start The Blue Whisper because I adore Dilraba. And my daughter and I have started marathoning Bones, starting aaaaallll the way back in season 1. We'll probably finish around this time next year LOL.

Love Like the Galaxy: Still loving Cheng Shaoshang as a character, although at 30-some episodes in I'd like to see the show give her more opportunities to get out into the world and do things.

Watching [b]Love in Contract[/b] for Ji Ho while being pretty strongly annoyed by everyone else and all the PPL (what’s with all the suspended-ballet exercising, anyway? not to mention pushing banana seaweed, bleah 😬)
[b]Love is for Suckers[/b] I like it. Keep wondering where all the cameras, personal vjs and microphones are as characters keep having one-on-one conversations 🤔 At least Chef Jang’s tacky comments got picked up, which he intended. Yeo Reum knows something fishy is going on when Jae Hoon picked Ji Yeong (but why wasn’t his whisper picked up by their body mics?) I don’t trust Ji Yeon for one second with her wide-eyed sweetness and lies that he should just use her. Does her game go beyond “getting” Jae Hoon to something more like revenge? 🤔 again.

So many funny, laugh-out-loud scenes in GAUSS ELECTRONICS! And Aziz has some of the best moments, pointing out that the 'cultural' kiss he received was very different from the one Sang-sik received, he, he. My favourite drama now.

Closely followed by LOVE IS FOR SUCKERS. Jae-hoon is such a fantastic friend to have. He knew what Yeo-reum needed after cancelling the wedding, having gone through difficult times himself. He never asked questions, just whisked her away to a safe place - what a star! Glad that the drama focuses much on how fake these (and cruel) the reality shows are.

I still trust the writer of COACH JEGAL to avoid the romance between and coach and athlete. I actually liked how the characters are starting to question what their real feelings are, this looks more realistic than the typical K-drama romances. The coach - athlete relationship must be complicated in the real world. It is normal to see young athletes hugged and comforted by their coaches during competitions, the emotional bonds must be very strong.

A couple of very strong episodes of MAY IT PLEASE THE COURT. I admit that I did not foresee the reveal of who Dal-jae really was. Great performance by Jung Ryeo-Won, going through such emotional turmoil. Love how the main villain is throwing tantrums when his plans don't go as well as he wants!

Dropped LAW CAFE and CONTRACT LOVE and started QUEEN'S UMBRELLA and MAY I HELP YOU instead. Quite like the not very typical Joseon queen and the four princes. It is surprisingly easy to tell them apart. Not yet sure about May I help You, it hasn't gripped me yet, despite Lee Jun-young, but it is early days.

Still watching Glitch (three episodes left!) and it hasn't let me down so far. May It Please The Court irritated me this week but it remains the only drama for which I will drop everything in order to binge the newest episodes. Caught the first two eps of May I Help You, and I was surprised about how much I actually ended up liking it despite the wacky-sounding premise. Will probably drop The Golden Spoon because I just don't care anymore.

On my to-watch list: Yonder, 20th Century Girl.

'Gaus Electronics' is my happy place. A workplace rom-com that knows its supposed to be funny.

I'm stalling a bit on 'Love is for Suckers', a workplace rom-com that doesn't understand its supposed to be funny.

I'm working my way slowly through 'Glitch'. I love the female leads (at first I didn't recognize Jeon Yeo-been) and am invested in the story but I need to sloooow doooown to adjust to the show's pacing. Once you reconcile yourself to one plot point per episode its fun watch.

Current/recent:
Love Is for Suckers: All the feels, including squirming at the ‘reality’ show and melting at the scenes between the leads. Lee Da-hee and Siwon are better than they have any right to be. Despite my loathing of dating shows, I'm looking forward to unpacking the real vs. fake aspects of all the characters.

Love In Contract: Just watching for the cat. It’s disappointing that she is the only remotely sympathetic female character.

Glitch: Creepy, intriguing fun, and the two lead actors are fabulous. I’m watching an episode or two at a time and have managed to remain unspoiled. The allusions to the Heaven’s Gate cult are clever and horrible and bring back vivid memories of that incident.

Older stuff:
I tried I Don't Love You Yet, the 2019 Japanese remake of In Time With You, and had to drop it in episode 2 after a severe allergic reaction to the SFL. My tolerance for grown women pretending to be adorable, wide-eyed little girls to manipulate men was never high and has diminished to near-zero.

I’ve also almost finished Are You Human Too?. I nearly gave up at the 2/3 mark when the repetitive reveals of the ‘secret’ everyone knows by now got boring, but then Seo Kang-joon was once again given the chance to show off his dual/triple role skills and that’s what I came for. He’s worth watching; the rest is getting pretty silly.

Young Actors Retreat - everyone looked really tired at the end but they did really well. Wanted to eat the fried chicken. (But please pull your hair up!)

Love is for Suckers - I think I came into this series thinking that the leads would view love a lot differently than they do and somehow can't shake it. Glad she didn't just go with the marriage to save face.

Sweet Stranger and Me - kinda gross the ML is the FL's stepdad, not the twist I was expecting. Despite many misgivings the drama managed to hook my curiosity... like why did her mom remarry and not tell her? I kinda wish I could inject that into the dramas that are just coming out because none of them are catching my attention T.T

She-Hulk - the ending was a bit of a let down. The problem she was facing felt like it just got fixed too easy. Sure it was interesting she broke the fourth wall down and KEVIN... but it not like she had to rewire KEVIN to get her way.

I only watched the first 10 minutes of MAY I HELP YOU and it seems fine and has potential to be cute. We'll see. I'm desperately hoping for a new show that will grab me but so far, only LOVE IS FOR SUCKERS makes me anxiously await the next episode. I'm someone who hasn't even seen five seconds of any dating reality show and who generally doesn't care for the genre at all, so I wasn't thrilled that we're getting a reality-show-within-a-drama situation right now. However, it makes sense that Yeo Reum needed to throw herself back into work in order to move on with her life, and it's the perfect setup for her to figure out what is exactly that she wants from Jae Hoon.

I decided this week that In Woo is not a horrible human being, and I do understand why he made the choice to not immediately share the news about the unexpected pregnancy. I think there's also a woman out there who would have accepted that and worked through it with him because their relationship was worth saving. But Yeo Reum is not that woman, and their relationship this time around was clearly not strong or healthy enough to withstand such a tremendous stress on it.

I do want to praise Yeo Reum's parents. I'm so conditioned to expect several scenes of hitting, victim blaming, and shouting when a heroine makes a decision about her romantic life that her parents don't like. What's worse, those scenes are usually played for comedy even though I find them horrific and even abusive in some cases. So it was a very welcome surprise to see Yeo Reum's parents actually support her, restrain themselves from making overt judgements, and avoid entirely blaming her for embarrassing *them.* In fact, it was clear they didn't even think that way for a moment--the mom even questioned her own role in the whole debacle because she pushed the FL to get married. This is how parents *should* act in such situations, and it was great to see.

I liked Jae Hoon's confession, but I feel like what he's not saying is what Yeo Reum mostly wants to hear--i.e. not just that he has feelings for her (which I think she knows and reciprocates) but also that he wants marriage and a family with her, too. And I'm not convinced yet that he does.

I wish MAY IT PLEASE THE COURT had focused more on the relationship between the two leads and less on the vigilante storyline.

GOLDEN SPOON really jumped the shark and it's a shame. It had so much potential, but is so dark and lacking nuance.

LOVE IN CONTRACT and LAW CAFE have some truly funny comedic scenes and the main couples have chemistry, but as whole, the shows just don't hold my interest at this point. I hate being bored watching romcoms, but that's what's happening.

SEASONS OF BLOSSOMS is lovely, but too painful at this point.

And finally, I tried QUEEN'S UMBRELLA, but surprisingly, don't like the lead actress in this role and although I do appreciate that this is very much a female-centric story, I can't get into it...

I just finished watching 20th Century Girl a moment ago, and it was really good. It has a simple plot, but with great casting, execution, it easily became one of my faves.

Thank you.. This is what I’d want the production team to know. This is a beautiful film.

Fans of jdrama DON’T CALL IT MYSTERY (2022) (Viki US) if you were in awe of Masaki Suda’s performance like me well you can catch a different look of him in his 2020 film just made available on VIki US: THREADS: OUR TAPESTRY OF LOVE. I wish more of his work was available subbed.

Love is for suckers

I am impressed about how realistic and warm and mature this drama ist, and also the main characters! Good work, Show!

One dollar lawyer
I am watching slow, because i dont like the murder topic (still stuck in chapter 4 or 5), but I am really interested in continuing watching this show, because Namkoong min is amazing.

If you wish upon me
Also watching slow (stuck in ep. 13) because it makes me suffer. But i am impressed with wookie. Good acting also from Choi Soo young. She looks so different from the role she had in Run on! Very good!

Just watched Misaeng episode 13. This series script keeps getting better. Wow.

Juggling between 5 dramas currently and really liking it all.

1. Cheer Up - loving the OTP Hae Yi & Jun Woo. I do feel sad for Jun Ho , but the leads bickering is so cute to watch.

2. Blind- The drama really keeps you edge. Havent watched latest episode 11 -12 yet. Love all the cast, but Ha Soek Jin is a treat to watch.

3. Love is for suckers - Totally sucked for this drama and I cant wait for Yoo Reum to start noticing Jae Hoon as a man than a friend.

4. One dollar lawyer- Love the trio to the max!

5. Under the Queen's Umbrella - Saeguk going well as per the firs two episodes. Gonna be more darker in later episodes I believe. Rooting for the Queen and her sons.

I wanted to watch something REALLY DUMB just for the fun of it, so I started watching the 2019 C-drama "My Girlfriend In An Alien". An alarmingly cute, apparently brainless series. I just got to the episode where the male lead's amnesia causes him to forget all the women in his life whenever it rains out.

Love between fairy and devil: I am nearing the end of this series and I am quite sad. I started this last week, thanks to beanies recommending it, and I haven't been able to stop watching. It's my second C-drama, as I am in a K-drama slump. But wow! this is such an interesting, swoon-worthy drama! The fantastic elements are easy to understand and you are automatically pulled into the world, and just don' want to get out of that world. And the costumes! Wow! Just impressive!

Love in contract: though I understand Kang Hae Jin and how hard it must be for him, his character really annoyed me this week. Also, I am not sure I understand the ex and what she is about. And, why is Ji-Ho so quiet around her?? Next week is going to be whole mess and I can't wait to see it!

Watching
K dramas Cheer Up The drinking scenes were painful to watch. Doubt if I’ll continue .

Golden Spoon. Still haven’t seen the homeless halmoni who was gifted the money. Birth secret. Will hold on bean.

Ojakgyo Brothers Eldest son finally accepts his son.
Tried May I Help You

J dramas 13 Lords of the Shogun & Seiten wo Tsuke Heartless pursuit of power in 13 Lords…

C drama City of Streamer Didn’t watch any this week.

What I did watch were hours of Lego videos. Videos of displays at conventions as well as stop action movies. Pirates, knights, cities, sailing ship battles. What a rabbit hole.

The Princess' Man rewatch - episodes 9 and 10 were super intense!
I started watching Seasons of Blossom, based on the enthusiastic beanie support of the show. 5 episodes in, my heart is aching for poor Ha Min and So Many. But my sarcastic side really appreciates the deadpan honesty of Jin Young.

Search:WWW is our commun crush drama of the moment. I love the powerful ladies. And the dialogues.
Stranger / Forest of secrets has also excellent dialogues that I'm savouring a few ep a week.
Love in contact is totally different, and much more absurd. It follows the usual tropes, but does not play with them and is much less funny than Business Proposal.
A piece of your mind fills the "drama with good music" slot. I might be more tired that I admit as there is not much going on in all of these drama.