QUEEN OF TEARS ep 5: Ok, the writer needs to fix this ASAP, because I absolutely did not sign up to watch a drama about rediscovering love amid terminal illness!! It’s sposed to be a romance, dammit!!
QUEEN OF TEARS ep1 and 2: Oh I cannot remember being this enamored with a kdrama opening in recent years. I am absolutely enchanted!! Kim Ji-won, already great, keeps getting better and better in eacjh thing I see her in (Arthdal doesn’t count pls); and Kim Soo-hyun is just brilliant! Also really cute when he’s drunk, so he isn’t lying at all (🤣🤣🤣). I really hope the drama continues as wonderfully as it has begun! (I can do without the slapstick crazy rich aunt though.)
QUEEN OF TEARS Writer Park Ji-eun (along with Kim Soo-hyuns’s performance) has accomplished something very, very rare in a kdrama. She wrote a drinking scene that was actually funny and not cringeworthy awful. I am kind of shocked.
You know, I saw that seen in the trailer and I was put off by it, and then I saw it in context and cannot stop laughing. You’re so right – she’s done something amazing there.
I avoided the QOT trailers so arrived almost with a blank slate of what this drama was about other than we had a married couple with the wife coming from wealth and not so for the husband.
MARRY MY HUSBAND ep 14. What a waste of my time it Has been to invest in this drama. Forget the viilains… I don’t understand how the chaebol hero manages to be so bland and uninteresting, and how the female lead has the essence of a loser. A Mary-Sue and a loser. Also, this idiotic idea of switching people’s fates….. OMG 14 hrs gone.
To be completely fair to Ji-hyuk, he is equally as bland in the webtoon… Not that I am defending him or even his female lead, I’m with you on the disappointment and frustration of the plot, so I have given up a while back (both the webtoon and the drama)!
MARRY MY HUSBAND ep 9. I’m sorry, but in her 2nd life, Kang Ji won is just a loser and Mary Sue. And Park whatever-his-name-is is just so bland. Eye roll. I’m over it
CAFE MINAMDANG, ep 5. What a stupid, cliche show. I dunno about the rest of the cast, but Seo In-gook and Oh Yeon-seo are much better than this. WHY agree to such a stupid show?!
Loool fair enough. Something for everyone. I don’t like them, but I watch all the same, hehe. I still maintain the leads could have done much better than this show.
Hi everyone.
Your resident killjoy, back in service for ALCHEMY OF SOULS ep 1. RThis is absolutely not fair, but really, my most prominent thought the whole time was: “Do these people do NOTHING but live their lives looking for revenge?”
Yeah, when a drama is about revenge I always focus on something else. So AoS, for me, is about the romance and comedy, I don’t care about the revenge or politics tbh.
There are a few revenge dramas thst are wonderful, but I find that they tend to be exceptions, rather than the rule. My favorite is NIRVANA IN FIRE, which truly, was more about serving justice and righting a grievous wrong, than about revenge itself
I feel like the revenge is just there to connect the other storylines tbh, so I never really pay attention to it.
I like revenge I’m movies, tho. Sympathy for Lady Vengeance for example.
BULGASAL up to ep 10: these men spent 600 yrs walking the face of earth, and didn’t collect nary a speck of wisdom in that time span. And all the reincarnated people too, didn’t learn ANY sense in their new lifetimes. What a waste. Mtcheeeew
Arang and the magistrate
Gu Family Book
Mirror of the Witch
The Scholar who walked the night
Honestly, cdramas seem to have more historical fantasies. They have a name for the genre; I believe it’s Xianxia.
I have only seen Ashes of Love but loved it. I personally liked it better than any of the above sageuk fantasy but that’s just my personal preference.
Bulgasal…. This female shaman irks my soul so much. What a useless entity!!!! All this exposition would been nice when he was a kid, wouldn’t it? Instead of telling everyone he needs to die. Kmt
Still on BULGASAL ep 3. The problem is that I still don’t like ANY of these people. Not Hwal, not Sang-woo (or whatever her name is)… None of them. Except Officer Suh Young-gi, who looks like a cute curmudgeonly ahjusshi in the present, but who absolutely smolders as an ancient soldier/warrior (rawr). I still don’t care for the mythology. Not quite reached hate-watch status yet, but here we are.
BULGASAL, end of ep 1: I can’t stress how poor the premise is, but story certainly appears epic in scope. Let’s hope it delivers! Also, it’s nice to see Officer Suh Young-gi again 😁. And adult Hwal (Lee Jin-wook) reminds me so much of a young Bae Soo-bin.
BULGASAL ep 1. 30 mins in, and….. Lemme just enjoy this show instead of being a killjoy, because, I’m sorry, what back story is this?! These writers need to start putting in effort. Come on!
THE RED SLEEVE CUFF ep 7 :halfway through the episode and I’m bored. How many jealous eyes and possessiveness from afar can the Crown Prince do? Can we get a move on already?!
I liked HAPPINESS ep 1 and 2 a lot ( Han Hyo-joo makes me happy and I like Park Hyung-sik), but I dunno if I can watch this. Horror/zombies/vampires (or zombified vampires) aren’t my thing at all.
JIRISAN ep 1:Giant eyeroll. I mean, I know being dramatic and sensational is what catches and holds viewers’ ateention, but can we try to at least inject a little realism sometimes? Just a teensy bit.
THE KING’S AFFECTION ep1 and 2: I don’t find any of this heartwarming at all. It is just so painful and sad (and abusive too, if we wanna keep it a 100 – forcing this girl to live like this).
ladyjaye
March 23, 2024 at 3:44 PM
QUEEN OF TEARS ep 5: Ok, the writer needs to fix this ASAP, because I absolutely did not sign up to watch a drama about rediscovering love amid terminal illness!! It’s sposed to be a romance, dammit!!
ladyjaye
March 10, 2024 at 2:42 PM
QUEEN OF TEARS ep1 and 2: Oh I cannot remember being this enamored with a kdrama opening in recent years. I am absolutely enchanted!! Kim Ji-won, already great, keeps getting better and better in eacjh thing I see her in (Arthdal doesn’t count pls); and Kim Soo-hyun is just brilliant! Also really cute when he’s drunk, so he isn’t lying at all (🤣🤣🤣). I really hope the drama continues as wonderfully as it has begun! (I can do without the slapstick crazy rich aunt though.)
bong-soo
March 10, 2024 at 8:24 PM
QUEEN OF TEARS Writer Park Ji-eun (along with Kim Soo-hyuns’s performance) has accomplished something very, very rare in a kdrama. She wrote a drinking scene that was actually funny and not cringeworthy awful. I am kind of shocked.
ladyjaye
March 11, 2024 at 3:01 AM
You know, I saw that seen in the trailer and I was put off by it, and then I saw it in context and cannot stop laughing. You’re so right – she’s done something amazing there.
bong-soo
March 11, 2024 at 7:26 AM
I avoided the QOT trailers so arrived almost with a blank slate of what this drama was about other than we had a married couple with the wife coming from wealth and not so for the husband.
ladyjaye
February 13, 2024 at 4:44 PM
MARRY MY HUSBAND ep 14. What a waste of my time it Has been to invest in this drama. Forget the viilains… I don’t understand how the chaebol hero manages to be so bland and uninteresting, and how the female lead has the essence of a loser. A Mary-Sue and a loser. Also, this idiotic idea of switching people’s fates….. OMG 14 hrs gone.
Qingdao: likes scented candles
February 13, 2024 at 5:24 PM
True, yet I am compelled to see 15-16 despite the meltdown in the writers room! Hoping its not a trainwreck!
And that Pang the orange cat survives.
🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸
February 13, 2024 at 6:29 PM
Now I’m only watching after I get Beanie feedback on episode 16. 😬
Cecee
February 14, 2024 at 4:18 AM
To be completely fair to Ji-hyuk, he is equally as bland in the webtoon… Not that I am defending him or even his female lead, I’m with you on the disappointment and frustration of the plot, so I have given up a while back (both the webtoon and the drama)!
ladyjaye
January 29, 2024 at 12:10 PM
MARRY MY HUSBAND ep 9. I’m sorry, but in her 2nd life, Kang Ji won is just a loser and Mary Sue. And Park whatever-his-name-is is just so bland. Eye roll. I’m over it
ladyjaye
July 14, 2022 at 3:33 PM
CAFE MINAMDANG, ep 5. What a stupid, cliche show. I dunno about the rest of the cast, but Seo In-gook and Oh Yeon-seo are much better than this. WHY agree to such a stupid show?!
Ghost of Tim (eccentric observations from a male perspective)
July 14, 2022 at 3:58 PM
Honestly, I couldn’t make it past the first 10 minutes of E1.
ladyjaye
July 14, 2022 at 4:29 PM
Unbelievably (because that first episode was bad), it gets infinitely worse.
mmmmm
July 15, 2022 at 8:16 AM
Same. It was plain boring despite all the vibrant colors used.
korfan
July 16, 2022 at 7:51 AM
I also gave this show a try (episode 1 only), but unfortunately things didn’t work out.
tabong loves when haraboji says 너 몇 살이야!🍉
July 14, 2022 at 5:40 PM
I like stupid, cliche shows tbh. Maybe that’s why they make them, for people like me 🤣
ladyjaye
July 14, 2022 at 6:57 PM
Loool fair enough. Something for everyone. I don’t like them, but I watch all the same, hehe. I still maintain the leads could have done much better than this show.
larelle79
July 15, 2022 at 7:50 AM
Is Seo In gook better than this though? I have not made it through one of his series due to him just not being good.
beffels
July 15, 2022 at 3:16 PM
He’s good in Hello Monster. That’s the only thing I’ve seen of his that I was not tempted to fast forward.
ladyjaye
July 16, 2022 at 9:17 AM
OMG I spit out my water, loool. Well, this show certainly doesn’t prove you wrong
ladyjaye
June 21, 2022 at 12:32 PM
Hi everyone.
Your resident killjoy, back in service for ALCHEMY OF SOULS ep 1. RThis is absolutely not fair, but really, my most prominent thought the whole time was: “Do these people do NOTHING but live their lives looking for revenge?”
Ally
June 22, 2022 at 11:57 AM
When there’s nothing to watch on tv, I guess. lol.
tabong loves when haraboji says 너 몇 살이야!🍉
June 23, 2022 at 10:01 AM
Yeah, when a drama is about revenge I always focus on something else. So AoS, for me, is about the romance and comedy, I don’t care about the revenge or politics tbh.
ladyjaye
June 24, 2022 at 3:27 AM
There are a few revenge dramas thst are wonderful, but I find that they tend to be exceptions, rather than the rule. My favorite is NIRVANA IN FIRE, which truly, was more about serving justice and righting a grievous wrong, than about revenge itself
tabong loves when haraboji says 너 몇 살이야!🍉
June 24, 2022 at 11:27 AM
I feel like the revenge is just there to connect the other storylines tbh, so I never really pay attention to it.
I like revenge I’m movies, tho. Sympathy for Lady Vengeance for example.
I’m gonna add Nirvana yo my watchlist. Thanks! ^^
ladyjaye
January 17, 2022 at 3:06 PM
BULGASAL up to ep 10: these men spent 600 yrs walking the face of earth, and didn’t collect nary a speck of wisdom in that time span. And all the reincarnated people too, didn’t learn ANY sense in their new lifetimes. What a waste. Mtcheeeew
ladyjaye
December 28, 2021 at 2:10 PM
BULGASAL end of ep 4. But of course. Caveats have been introduced : a real big bad (eyeroll). And now , we set the stage for the love story.
ladyjaye
December 28, 2021 at 1:34 PM
Hmmm, come to think of it, are there any fantasy sageuks anyone can think of? I’d like to watch one.
ladyjaye
December 28, 2021 at 2:12 PM
Mirror of the Witch it is
am1993
December 28, 2021 at 2:12 PM
Those are the only ones I have watched (I think).
Arang and the magistrate
Gu Family Book
Mirror of the Witch
The Scholar who walked the night
Honestly, cdramas seem to have more historical fantasies. They have a name for the genre; I believe it’s Xianxia.
I have only seen Ashes of Love but loved it. I personally liked it better than any of the above sageuk fantasy but that’s just my personal preference.
ladyjaye
December 28, 2021 at 2:17 PM
I’ve seen and enjoyed both Mirror of the Witch and Arang and the Magistrate. I haven’t seen the other too.
I too, really like Xianxia dramas 🤗🤗🤗
tabong loves when haraboji says 너 몇 살이야!🍉
December 28, 2021 at 4:48 PM
Queen In Hyun’s man (is like half saguk, tbh)
Faith
Mr Queen
Lord Cobol (Kdramas, like water, flow downhill)
December 29, 2021 at 12:39 AM
Those 3 are all worth watching, esp Queen In-hyun’s Man.
Orientedstar
December 29, 2021 at 1:07 AM
Yes to Queen Inhyun’s man. *lurking around whenever QIM is mentioned*
bong-soo
December 28, 2021 at 9:32 PM
How about the delightful SPLASH SPLASH LOVE (2015) (Kim Seul-gi, Yoon Doo-joon)? Only 2 episodes and it is available on Viki US.
ladyjaye
December 29, 2021 at 12:27 AM
Seen already
💜🍍☠ Sicarius The Queen of Melonia ☠🍍💜
December 28, 2021 at 11:39 PM
Not enough. And not enough good ones. *Sad face*
ladyjaye
December 28, 2021 at 1:23 PM
Bulgasal…. This female shaman irks my soul so much. What a useless entity!!!! All this exposition would been nice when he was a kid, wouldn’t it? Instead of telling everyone he needs to die. Kmt
ladyjaye
December 28, 2021 at 12:31 PM
Still on BULGASAL ep 3. The problem is that I still don’t like ANY of these people. Not Hwal, not Sang-woo (or whatever her name is)… None of them. Except Officer Suh Young-gi, who looks like a cute curmudgeonly ahjusshi in the present, but who absolutely smolders as an ancient soldier/warrior (rawr). I still don’t care for the mythology. Not quite reached hate-watch status yet, but here we are.
ladyjaye
December 26, 2021 at 10:05 PM
I need a sageuks to watch. Preferably one of the OG ones. None of these new-fangled ones. 😩😩
earthna
December 26, 2021 at 10:14 PM
Six Flying Dragons and Tree With Deep Roots?
ladyjaye
December 26, 2021 at 10:37 PM
I’ve watched and enjoyed both already. 😭😭😭 (thanks for the rec)
earthna
December 26, 2021 at 11:45 PM
Aw what about Seven Day Queen?
There’s also Mirror of the Witch
Or Arang and the Magistrate?
gadis
December 27, 2021 at 12:05 AM
Haechi and Nokdu Flower?
wonhwa
December 27, 2021 at 7:04 AM
Jumong, Painter of the Wind, Queen Seondeok, and The Great King Sejong are all older but awesome!
ladyjaye
December 27, 2021 at 7:27 AM
Thank you! I’ve seen Queen Seondeok, but not the other two. I will check them out!
tabong loves when haraboji says 너 몇 살이야!🍉
December 27, 2021 at 7:12 PM
The princess man.
Dae Jang Geum.
Rebel (it’s new I guess, but I thought it was really good).
Faith.
ladyjaye
December 19, 2021 at 11:50 PM
#BULGASAL ep 2: 3 minutes in, and I’m annoyed. What sollof logic is this?
ladyjaye
December 18, 2021 at 1:05 PM
BULGASAL, end of ep 1: I can’t stress how poor the premise is, but story certainly appears epic in scope. Let’s hope it delivers! Also, it’s nice to see Officer Suh Young-gi again 😁. And adult Hwal (Lee Jin-wook) reminds me so much of a young Bae Soo-bin.
ladyjaye
December 18, 2021 at 11:37 AM
BULGASAL ep 1. 30 mins in, and….. Lemme just enjoy this show instead of being a killjoy, because, I’m sorry, what back story is this?! These writers need to start putting in effort. Come on!
ladyjaye
December 8, 2021 at 12:08 PM
THE RED SLEEVE CUFF ep 7 :halfway through the episode and I’m bored. How many jealous eyes and possessiveness from afar can the Crown Prince do? Can we get a move on already?!
ladyjaye
November 22, 2021 at 12:23 PM
THE RED SLEEVE CUFF ep 2: just call me a cranky killjoy, because what is all this?
ladyjaye
November 8, 2021 at 4:10 AM
I liked HAPPINESS ep 1 and 2 a lot ( Han Hyo-joo makes me happy and I like Park Hyung-sik), but I dunno if I can watch this. Horror/zombies/vampires (or zombified vampires) aren’t my thing at all.
ladyjaye
October 25, 2021 at 1:24 PM
JIRISAN ep 1:Giant eyeroll. I mean, I know being dramatic and sensational is what catches and holds viewers’ ateention, but can we try to at least inject a little realism sometimes? Just a teensy bit.
HANI
October 25, 2021 at 7:05 PM
but dont you wish you can climb a mountain without breaking sweats? lol
ladyjaye
October 16, 2021 at 2:08 PM
THE KING’S AFFECTION ep1 and 2: I don’t find any of this heartwarming at all. It is just so painful and sad (and abusive too, if we wanna keep it a 100 – forcing this girl to live like this).