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PMR….I’m all for not having all the bad characters get redeemed, but I wanted a happier ending for Yoo Ra’s baby.

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    You and I are on the same page, Beverly.

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      Yeah, that poor child 🙁 Too bad it couldn’t be adopted into Do-guk’s family.

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        That would of been nice.
        I wouldn’t have minded Se Hyeok choosing the child and a loving home away from his family and Yoo Ra too.
        And even having Yoo Ra somewhere else, not because she is evil and so abandons her child, but because she was raised with so much poison. For as much as I disliked her it would of been nice to see her somewhere to have tolhe space to cleanse all that from her life and sense of self.

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Watched the first ep of My Demon. A little wild and a lot of fun. The leads look like they could have some good chemistry. I’m enjoying the ML’s mix of louche & ridiculous.

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Perfect Marriage Revenge is such a satisfying watch.
It’s so nice to see the leads win the little battles.

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    It is so much fun.
    On the surface it reads like a typical chaebol makjang setup.
    It’s makjang without the screeching or cringe OTT plot.
    We’ve been treated to a slew of standard drama tropes presented in a warm, lovely fashion .
    The cast, writer and PD are putting the right touch to it.
    Special shout out to the costume/wardrobe crew , the ladies rock the wardrobes.

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    “Satisfying” indeed. Also the plot doesn’t linger on or stretch to hair pulling lengths. The “issues” and “slaps” are swiftly dealt with.

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      I like how they confront problems and deal with them and move on. With 12 episodes they can’t waste time dragging stuff out.

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        Also I love how much “story” is stuffed in the episodes. As @darkcc enlightened us the drama has covered more than the current 111 chapters in the webtoon. Wow, just wow. 👏

        Cecee cannot thank you enough for suffering on behalf of the Beanies. Really hope Swoon the Hoon can take away all your disgruntled takeaway from the webtoon.

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          the drama is helping me make peace with this atrocious piece of online garbage that doesn’t even deserve my attention.

          I didn’t know Hoon-sshi before the drama, but I have to say that between him and the script writer, they’ve definitely managed to make Do-guk more palatable. I don’t even mean from a point of physical attractiveness (I have come across traumatising posts about him in my social media feeds… kids being shocked that the actor is not ugly and decrepit even though he is 40… because apparently 40 is the new 100 now? Hello, has nobody seen the ever-growing list of gorgeous-looking Korean male and female celebs who are 40 and over? I personally would put Kim Hae-sook on this list, especially after rocking any style Nam-soon’s stylists threw at her — but this is a rant for another day and another drama). Here, I specifically mean in terms of giving depth to and having obviously fun with a poorly webtoon-written character. The criminal, offensive side eye from Do-guk to Leg of Steel in last week’s episodes was gold.
          Hoon-sshi, please, carry on leading the way. You may also change your trousers for something more fitting.

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Crash Course in Romance.
That scene between the brother and best friend made me slightly uncomfortable.
I feel like there is a better way to handle her loneliness and her wanting a partner. It actually has the potential to be a very rich storyline and much more interesting than the serial killer.

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    if they really want to make “magically appeared” boyfriend, they should just throw some cameo by a model actor or smth. And not this joke of a plot. Attorney Woo works because SHE is the one who fall in love and he reciprocates. not the otherway around.

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Crash Course in Romance. It is so hard to listen to people base the heroine’s worth on her looks.
Though, also well Plotted and paced by the writer as I’m assuming she anticipated some of the talk among viewers. Talk around the actress and her age and so on.

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    Seriously. I hate it.

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    The onscreen and offscreen responses, very unfortunately and disappointingly, mirror each other in many ways. I am not too sure if the writer had JDY in mind when writing her character to get the message across.

    I recall an older drama Oh My Lady with Chae Rim and Choi Simon – similar plot in a way but didn’t have the same response.

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      Oh My Lady was very different in that she was supposed to be a noona, and way older than him. That’s how the character and plot was different. CCiR though does not seem like it’s supposed to be a noona romance, that’s what the issue is. I haven’t seen anyone say that JDY wasn’t pretty enough for the role, only that she looks way older even though the character isn’t supposed to be.

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        I guess I’m so used to having to believe that characters are the same age that it doesn’t bother me that it isn’t addressed. I swear that I’ve seen dramas with the actress in her 20s and the actor a decade or so older but we are to assume they are both 30.
        But also, bot characters are well into adulthood. When the youngest is 40-ish, I’m not sure age differences matter ? And both the characters do not have anyone in there personal circles who would care or expect a conformation to society’s standards.

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    It’s really sad, but considering how Korean society revolves around the idea of beauty, the fact that a woman doesn’t spend all her time taking care of her looks just makes her ugly, even if she is JDY (I wish I were as ugly as she is). So the fact that she doesn’t wear fashionable clothes (although I love her looks) or that her hair is not arranged is enough to consider her ugly. Also the fact that she is a working mum in something very un glamorous like cooking for a living.

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      The actress is beautiful. And I hate that I’ve noticed, but I have, looks like she is aging with minimal intervention. Well, in that there doesn’t seem to be a filter on her and I can see her smile lines. I do not realize how rare it is now a days until I see it.

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About to start ep 6 of Strangers Again.
I honestly can’t tell if this is the slowest reconciliation or the slowest goodbye between the leads.

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    I’ve dropped it, so I have so idea what’s going on. But my hopeful endgame is between Ha-ra and Jae-gyeom 🙂
    I fast forwarded to their scenes, and yeah while Ha-ra doesn’t love Jae-gyeom she still finds him attractive and someone she can talk to. Maybe I’m too old to think that the heart ponding love is what true love is. For me love means that I’m comfortable with someone and I can rely on them. Eun-beom lied to her twice so yeah I hope they don’t don’t get back together. But that’s just my opinion

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      Jae-gyeom is definitely in it 100% but Ha-ra is at maybe 10% right now. So not sure if that ship will actually sale.
      But if it’s endgame between Ha-ra and Eun-beom then show has made surprisingly little movement in that direction. Just some mild jealousy at each other moving on. Very mild.

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        Aww that sucks my poor ship! Well I’ll wait until the end and read the final recap to see what happens. This drama has brought on a lot of interesting discussions I must say

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Started ep 3 of Strangers. I was hoping our heroine would take the high road. Understand her not wanting this situation at her job, but not making it more entangled.

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    I’m not sure I’m grasping the tone of this show. The music playing during the last scene made it seem like it was supposed to be funny? But I just felt bad for our FL. She is frustrating me because she is so reactive, but that doesn’t mean I’ll find her emotional pain funny.

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      This story makes a good melo. It’s hard to get invested in a romcom where so many feelings are thrown around from the start.
      It would have made a good romcom had she moved on and is just acting out of spite rather than lingering feelings.

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    Episode 3 made her the baddie and I disagreed with most of her actions. But to be fair, I think their two year separation wasn’t enough for Ha-ra to get over him. Seeing him at work is probably putting those emotions at the forefront again.

    This is why I disagree with perspective that your personal feelings must be seperate from your professional life, we are humans not robots and as humans we are filled with emotions.

    That said, I definitely do not condone most of her actions this episode, she has no business to ask Eun-bum about his personal life and have any say about who he can or cannot see. And as you said entangle herself further. Her foul play this episode was also awful when he tried to play fair.

    I know this is a rom com, so they have to stay close, but honestly for her mental health and sanity she should just quit her job or take a vacation at least

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Part way through ep 4 of Crash Course and have to admit to being a little disappointed that it has some of the mom’s backstabbing. I’d rather see them come together to support each other.

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    That went darker than expected. I want the happy back. I want more focus on the mother/daughter relationship and the joy they both were finding in each other’s happiness. Also, to focus on the romance and how having the ML open up a little was bringing small positive changes that were rippling outward.

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    Such a waste of cast if the drama writer/director decides to continue with education-greedy moms

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      I feel like they are going down this route, and the tone of it that I get isn’t going to go @beverly’s suggested way.

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I too am now older than all of them but Coach and it is blowing my mind. 🤣
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    The passage if time is so messed up and it fcuks with our heads. I empathise with you.

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Winner has always flown under my radar but then I watched their Killing Voice episode. I now have I Love U on rotation.
Anybody have any Winner recs I should check out?

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I like listening to podcast as I putter around the house and am just about to start this ep. Just thought it looked interesting, it\’s about consent in dramas. They start by saying it is not to shame anyone about what dramas they like, but just to take a closer look at some scenes. Anyway if anyone else like podcast eps about dramas:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7hpZznpl1buKulGEVzdFQc?si=fKPeNZgWRcOAIuESvji6LA&utm_source=copy-link

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Finishing up the 6th ep of Skate into Love and it is lovely so far. I remember some Beanies loving it when it aired. Then going to try the first ep of Attorney Woo before bed.

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We knew it was coming but I can\’t express the horror that already the right to contraceptives, same sex intimacy, and same sex marriage is on the table to be overruled.

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    Once this is in motion can they really promise that interracial marriage won’t be next?

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Ikon, Winner, and Treasure reaction video to Still Life is sweet. Love that they did it on a big screen. Really well done.

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Nice to see.



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An actual date. And sooner than I expected.
https://www.soompi.com/article/1518220wpp/bigbang-announces-comeback-date-drops-1st-teaser-for-long-awaited-return

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Listening to the Vice podcast The Story of Tablo. On ep 3 and its really good. That whole conspiracy around his degree is still so wild.

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The C drama The Oath of Love with Yang Zi and Xiao Zhan is finally available on Viki. I feel like a year at least that I\’ve been seeing on the coming soon list.

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    I watched 3 eps but didn’t feel it. I’m tired of seeing ZT in a bratty silly borderline annoying girl role and XZ is better than I expected but still not believable as a doctor. I put it on pause for now.

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A book just came in that I forgot I’d pre ordered. Just look at this beautiful cover.
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    Ohhh that’s been on my TBR list and I’m excited it’s finally out. The voveris gorgeous

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When AKMU’s Next Episode came out I had come across a twitter statement saying that in S. Korea people were saying that Chan hyuk had GD disease.
I wasn’t exactly sure what was meant by this and now all this time later DKDK TV has done a video on it. It’s kind of fun to get a glimpse of what is viral or the pop culture moments in Korea sometimes.
This is such a good album too.

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