These are the dramas that I finished in November:

-Unforgettable Love (Cdrama) ⭐️
-Once Upon A Small Town (Rewatch) ❤️
-My Holo Love (Rewatch) ❤️
-Forever Love (Cdrama) (Youtube) ⭐️
-My Dearest ❤️

I’m ready for our #2023 Roundup now!

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    I really struggled this month to watch anything! I started a bunch of things as it was easier to start dramas, but I wasn’t good at finishing them. I still have like 2 dramas that I need to finish, but I haven’t pressed play on them in a while. I also have some that I want to start, but it’s been tough this month so hopefully I’ll get excited to watch something when I started reading all the Beanie’s Roundup posts!

    -Unforgettable Love: So I totally forgot what this was about until I looked it on MDL, lol. It’s about this CEO who has a child that had a traumatic past and won’t talk or go to school because he is wary of people, but the boy takes to liking a physiologist who, of course, the dad falls in love with and starts a contract relationship with. Honestly, this is like the 3rd drama that has a cute kid in it and I feel that it’s cheating because who doesn’t fall for the cute “look how cute we look as a family” trap.

-Once Upon A Small Town (Rewatch): I really needed something cute in the middle of the month, so I decided to rewatch this drama and I think I liked it more the second time around. It’s short, doesn’t stray that much from the main couple, and feels cozy (and also suffocating) in the small town that I don’t mind the parts I didn’t like the first time round, which weren’t a lot, but included the mean aunties always calling her an orphan and the return of the ex.

    -My Holo Love (Rewatch): I saw on DB that someone had recently watched this or was recommending it and I remember that I liked this the first time round. I needed something familiar so I decided to rewatch it, except I forgot everything about it so it felt like the first time, lol. I really enjoyed it, but the story on how she fell for the main lead could’ve been explored a little more, imho.


    -Forever Love (Cdrama): I think I saw a reel about this drama and then forgot about it until I heard about it on a podcast. It’s like 30 episodes on YouTube around 10 mins each, so super bingeable. It is not a masterpiece or incredibly good, but you know what it was really entertaining while I did watch it.


    -My Dearest: I haven’t watched a sageuk in a while, but I saw the cast and decided to give it a try after the good reviews from Beanies on the first part. I really enjoyed it! I think towards the end, I just wanted it to be over because I needed the answers quickly, but still I enjoyed the ride. For my first sageuk in a while, I liked it a lot. The acting was so good!

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      “Unforgettable Love” is so dang cute!!! I also love and appreciate that our FL isnt’ a potted plant. She’s smart, is clever, thinks on her feet, can pick up after herself and defend herself (basically has agency) and knows exactly what she wants even if it is the “expected” choice, but her reasoning for it all is actually different than what is expected. I want to see Hu Yi Xuan (the FL actress) in more things, but I haven’t been successful 🙁 It’s like she disappeared after this drama

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        Oh yes, she was very good! I think she was also one of the main reasons that I kept watching the drama because she wasn’t just a person that things kept happening to her. She was someone that took action and made her own moves.
        Maybe check mydramalist for more of her works? I know sometimes we don’t get to see something until much later and that Cdramas are sometimes filmed months in advance.

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          Yes!! I’ll just have to keep checking back on her MDL page
          Yea, Cdramas are typically filmed years and months in advanced and having things postponed in when it’ll air has become more and more common as well DX

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