Beanie level: Chaebol’s poor doppelganger

Finished YOU ARE MY GLORY. One of the few dramas that did not become boring after the two main characters became a couple. In fact, I liked the dynamics of them as a couple even better than during their flirting phase.

@mayhemf Thanks for the short nights and lack of sleep 😉

Would love to hear any other recommendations. Ideally with a mature couple, a little angst is okay too.

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    😂😂😂
    I am so glad you enjoyed this drama!! yeah, their relationship felt real even after they got together.

    Recently many of us loved ‘Fake it till you make it’. It’s a mature romance and handles some serious topics too. It is beautifully directed, acted and OST is top notch. It is not a light drama because the work life in the initial two episodes is intense and feels too real. But it settles down and things get much better. The leads have explosive chemistry.

    For a lighter drama I recommend – The Day of becoming you. Leads are mature and the plot is fun. Just skip the last 15 min of the drama (it was done to pass censorship).

    Find Yourself – Another drama I loved. It’s on Netflix US. It’s not by any means great. But overall it worked for me. It explores the complexities in dating someone younger than you. It goes by swiftly too.

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After three previous attempts, I have now for the first time found a Chinese drama that I did not drop after the first episodes, but watched to the end.

The plot of FIREWORKS OF MY HEART reminds me a bit of Jane Austen’s Persuasion.
I skipped some scenes, especially at the beginning and end (a lot of pathos in the firefighters’ missions), but I liked how comprehensibly the struggle and development of the two main characters was portrayed. Some might call FL weak at the beginning, but like Anne Elliot, she outgrows herself over time.

I was surprised at how steamy the drama was compared to many Korean series.

Yang Yang may not be the best actor, but he looks damn good.

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    Yay! Welcome.
    My first cdrama was also Yang Yang’s!! Lol. He does look damn fine.
    I liked FOMH and had similar opinion as yours. The show did great in showing the leads work on their own problems and make an effort to be better for each other. The chemistry was great. By the end I was convinced they were good for each other and truly will make themselves be happy.

    If you want another YY romcom reco I suggest ‘You are my glory’. He and Dilreba were great. Towards the end you might have to FF a bit when there is too much of space mission stuff.

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      I ‘second’ that recommendation to watch YAMG and I’ll also suggest The Day of Becoming You – I’ve rewatched both dramas twice.

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      Thanks, I’ve put it on my watchlist.

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    Welcome to C-Dramalandia!!! 😁
    I’m glad you’re finally able to find a Cdrama that has grasped you.

    I’m terms of Yang Yang, I always like wha to see of him in variety shows, but it’s been a struggle for me to find a drama of his that I stick to. Maybe I should try this one 🤔

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MY DEAREST, Part 1, deleted scene

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    👀 WHY wasn’t that in the show?!? It’s marvelous – so much exposition of relationships, feelings, and reconsideration of both in a few glances. Maybe it will appear as a flashback in Part 2.

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    That brief scene showed so much! Why did this tiny ~1 min part get cut. Argh.

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    So unfortunate that this was deleted!

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“My Dearest” production team confirmed that there would be “My Dearest – Rewind Film” (8th September) and “My Dearest – TV Movie” (15th + 16th September) with 1-2 parts in addition to episode 10.

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My Dearest, episode 1 (dream) vs. episode 7

Gil-chae still has a long way to go.
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My Dearest, BTS, Episodes 5+6

This video answers my question about how exhausting it was for Namkoong Min to carry the women across the river.

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Hong-jo’s biggest competition for Shin-yu might not be his girlfriend, but the creature with the red hand, hehe.
(I need to get my mind out of the gutter)
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    Yeah, but the hand might be hers from her past life! The shaman mentioned that he had killed her, so it seems like one of the more likely explanations for the curse taking this form. And also the level of intimacy there makes more sense if it is/was someone he was close with in a past life.

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Startet watching Psychopath Diary for more Park Sung-hoon.
Now I’m drooling over a serial killer.



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    It’s been ‘next’ on my list for a while for both him and Yoon Shi-yoon, but with 6 current dramas I don’t know when I’ll ever get to it. 😂 I’d love to hear what you think of it.

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      I’m glad you’re enjoying it, @nefret! I watched this recently (within the last couple of months), and I LOVED it. This is all the more surprising for me, because dark, murdery plots, are just not for me. Yoon Shi Yoon was fabulous, as was Park Sung Hoon. As other Beanies warned me, and which I found to be true, the first 2-3 episodes are not the same tone as the rest of the drama. From episodes 3-4, each episode gets progressively better. It’s one of the most well-written dramas I’ve ever seen. I even wrote a reflective review on my fanwall because I liked it so much!! Do give it a try sometime, @elinor!! (*Caveat: as is my style, I used FF through the violence. It was less violent than Moving, though*)

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        “Each episode gets progressively better”.

        So so true.
        And that’s not something common in Dramaland.
        And they nailed the ending.

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        Yes, I’m having fun so far.
        I like to watch series with dark murder plots (Dexter, Hannibal, …), so this one is absolutely harmless in comparison.
        That’s why I always have to grin when Yook Dong-sik quotes notorious murderers from films and thus cements his reputation as a psychopath.

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      FWIW, I not only truly disliked it, I dropped it after trying to like it for 10-12 hours. Really distasteful characters to me—and I do NOT mean Park Sung-hoon. That’s right. The psychopath was the clearest character.

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      I just finished episode 5. So far it’s ideal to watch when you’re sick on the sofa: entertaining, sometimes wacky and you don’t have to think too much.

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That’s me, who can hardly wait to be the next to be carried across the river.



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Grumpy bear’s first laugh



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    Looking at the turtle speed of this couple, I don’t expect much. Still I enjoy their relationship.

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      I know!! Crying!!!
      It’s been a tease. Sigh. I am prepared for no kiss till the end.

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      As long as I see small progress, I am satisfied. And I love slow burn.
      The preview for next week looks promising.

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Now I know why the snow was always cleared before shooting the previous scenes (seen in the BTS videos). So that Jin-hee and Jae-won can see the first snow together in episode 10.



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Baby steps, but I take anything I can get
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NOT OTHERS, episode 8.
The end of a scene was cut short. I feel robbed.

https://www.hancinema.net/korean_Not_Others-picture_1699218.html

And why am I too stupid to upload and post a photo?

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    Oh, @nefret. Please, let’s not give into negative self-talk. We are Beanies, we are strong!!!

    When the image is already on the internet, you’ll just need a link to the image file itself. In this case, you can right-click (or long-press) on the image, open it in a new window or tab, copy that new url and put it in the following code (replacing all the square brackets with equivalent angle brackets).

    [img src=“ https://photos.hancinema.net/photos/fullsizephoto1699218.jpg” /]

    I’ll do it here below with the angle brackets, to show it works…then once you try and have done it once, you’ll be able to do it again and again.

    Here’s a place to test out your HTML before posting to a comment to make sure that you’ve typed everything OK. Just put what you want to test on the left (Between the “body” tags) and press “run” to see if it worked!

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      Two errors:

      1. The actual link to the HTML testing site would have been nice: w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_basic

      2. There should be no spaces between the quotation marks and the image url.

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Overall I enjoyed KTL, though I liked the first half better, a little tension can\’t hurt.
But if I had drunk a tequila shot for every PPL in the last episode, I would be in a coma now.

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