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[Movie Review] Minari paints a moving, vivid portrait of rural Korean Americana
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[2019 Year in Review] Editors’ Picks
by stroopwafel
One of my favorite parts of the year in review is seeing which dramas would find champions among the Dramabeans' staff. This year's voting was tight, with some victors winning...
Tags: Be Melodramatic, Editors' Picks, Extraordinary You, featured2, Hell Is Other People, Her Private Life, Hotel del Luna, Kingdom, Melting Me Softly, My Country: The New Age, My Fellow Citizens, Nokdu Flower, Search Query: WWW, The Crowned Clown, The Light in Your Eyes, When the Camellia Blooms, year in review, year in review 2019
[PPL Round-up] Stress and tension
by missvictrix
We're busy wrapping up the year in dramas, with fun things like beans, top picks, and long-winded reviews on what 2019 was like in dramaland. It seems like a good time...
Tags: Extraordinary You, Melting Me Softly, Secret Boutique, VIP
Melting Me Softly: Episodes 15-16 Open Thread (Final)
by missvictrix
Melting Me Softly is ready to conclude its tale, but before our cryo-couple can be left in peace with a happy ending, they have to endure a final round of...
Tags: Im Won-hee, Ji Chang-wook, Lee Hong-ki, Melting Me Softly, Shim Hyung-tak, Won Jin-ah, Yoon Se-ah
Melting Me Softly: Episodes 13-14 Open Thread
by missvictrix
It's the penultimate week of Melting Me Softly, and though some of the plot lines wrapped up fast, our cryo-couple still has things like cold hard jealousy, henchman hellbent on...
Tags: Im Won-hee, Ji Chang-wook, Lee Hong-ki, Melting Me Softly, Shim Hyung-tak, Won Jin-ah, Yoon Se-ah
Melting Me Softly: Episodes 11-12 Open Thread
by missvictrix
It's an uneven week of episodes for our cryo-couple. At first, they do a lot of smiling and staring at each other — then, a sudden protein toxifies in their bodies...
Tags: Im Won-hee, Ji Chang-wook, Lee Hong-ki, Melting Me Softly, Shim Hyung-tak, Won Jin-ah, Yoon Se-ah
Melting Me Softly: Episodes 9-10 Open Thread
by missvictrix
Ladies and gentlemen, it's the moment Melting Me Softly has been priming us for, working towards, and dying to show us: two people desperately in love who can't do more...
Tags: Im Won-hee, Ji Chang-wook, Lee Hong-ki, Melting Me Softly, Shim Hyung-tak, Won Jin-ah, Yoon Se-ah
Melting Me Softly: Episodes 7-8 Open Thread
by missvictrix
Now that our cryogenic couple is working together to a) stay alive and b) create their new variety show, things start to get a bit more complicated between them. As...
Tags: Im Won-hee, Ji Chang-wook, Lee Hong-ki, Melting Me Softly, Shim Hyung-tak, Won Jin-ah, Yoon Se-ah
Melting Me Softly: Episodes 5-6 Open Thread
by missvictrix
This week in Melting Me Softly, our leads continue to acquaint themselves with the lives they used to live, and the fancy smartphones that neither of them know how to...
Tags: Im Won-hee, Ji Chang-wook, Lee Hong-ki, Melting Me Softly, Shim Hyung-tak, Won Jin-ah, Yoon Se-ah
Team Dramabeans: What we’re watching
by DB Staff
So, what are we all watching this week? What kept you reaching for more (or agonizing when there was no more), and what made you want to throw your remote...
Tags: Extraordinary You, Melting Me Softly, My Country: The New Age, What We're Watching
Melting Me Softly: Episodes 3-4 Open Thread
by missvictrix
Our cryogenic couple is alive, awake, and raring to go in 2019 — except what they find in their futures is more sobering than anything else at this point. Wait, is it...
Tags: Im Won-hee, Ji Chang-wook, Lee Hong-ki, Melting Me Softly, Shim Hyung-tak, Won Jin-ah, Yoon Se-ah