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[Movie Review] Minari paints a moving, vivid portrait of rural Korean Americana
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2011 Editors’ Picks [Year in Review, Part 5]
by javabeans
Part 5 is here! As in past years, we here at Dramabeans owe huge thanks to guest bloggers — thank you, kaedejun and Dahee Fanel! — for participating in the review series, as...
Tags: 1 show to rule them all, Athena: Goddess of War, Best Love, City Hunter, Editors' Picks, featured, Flower Boy Ramyun Shop, Girl K, Lie To Me, Me Too Flower, Miss Ripley, Paradise Ranch, Scent of a Woman, The Princess's Man, Thousand Day Promise, Warrior Baek Dong-soo, year in review, year in review 2011
The DramaMeter: highly scientific and foolproof [Year in Review, Part 4]
by girlfriday
Wow, another year of dramas, come and gone. Where does the sanity go? I decided that for this year's review, I would learn to be impartial and precise, and...
Tags: 1 show to rule them all, Best Love, Can't Lose, City Hunter, Dream High, featured, Flower Boy Ramyun Shop, Girl K, High Kick: Counterattack of the Short Legs, I Need Romance, Lie To Me, Man of Honor, Miss Ripley, My Princess, Myung-wol the Spy, Scent of a Woman, Thousand Day Promise, Vampire Prosecutor, Warrior Baek Dong-soo, year in review, year in review 2011, You've Fallen For Me
Thousand Day Promise: Episode 20 (Final)
by javabeans
[email protected]*&#()$%_)^#*%. I'm pretty sure this finale broke me. I mean, I knew going in what kind of show it was, but there's a difference between having the detached knowledge that...
Tags: featured, Jung Yumi (2), Kim Rae-won, Lee Sang-woo, Park Yoo-hwan, Su Ae, Thousand Day Promise
Thousand Day Promise: Episode 19
by girlfriday
What do you mean you didn't want your heart broken into a million pieces? There's no backing out now, not this close to the end. As we prepare for the...
Tags: featured, Jung Yumi (2), Kim Rae-won, Lee Sang-woo, Park Yoo-hwan, Su Ae, Thousand Day Promise
Thousand Day Promise: Episode 18
by javabeans
There are several celebrations in this episode, and yet they feel like mournful last goodbyes as Seo-yeon comes a few steps closer to motherhood, and also retreats a few steps...
Tags: featured, Jung Yumi (2), Kim Rae-won, Lee Sang-woo, Park Yoo-hwan, Su Ae, Thousand Day Promise
Measuring 2011 on the Sticky Scale [Year in Review, Part 1]
by javabeans
Time for another Year In Review series! How did a year pass by so quickly? I guess when you're busy watching dramas, time flies. This is my fifth year (eek)...
Tags: 1 show to rule them all, 49 Days, Baby-Faced Beauty, Best Love, Can't Lose, City Hunter, Dream High, featured, Flower Boy Ramyun Shop, Girl K, High Kick: Counterattack of the Short Legs, Lie To Me, Manny, Me Too Flower, Miss Ripley, My Princess, Myung-wol the Spy, Poseidon, Scent of a Woman, The Princess's Man, Thousand Day Promise, Tree With Deep Roots, Vampire Prosecutor, year in review, year in review 2011
Thousand Day Promise: Episode 17
by girlfriday
Just when you think you're all out of tears… Today's episode is all about motherhood – the mother that Seo-yeon is to her brother, the mother who abandoned them, the mother...
Tags: featured, Jung Yumi (2), Kim Rae-won, Lee Sang-woo, Park Yoo-hwan, Su Ae, Thousand Day Promise
Thousand Day Promise: Episode 16
by javabeans
Oof. Hold on to your hats, folks, this one's a doozy. But a good kind of doozy, especially for a show where not a lot changes from episode to episode,...
Tags: featured, Jung Yumi (2), Kim Rae-won, Lee Sang-woo, Park Yoo-hwan, Su Ae, Thousand Day Promise
Thousand Day Promise: Episode 15
by girlfriday
A mostly contemplative episode, as the dust settles in each household. A cameo from another member of the Kim Soo-hyun family brings Song Chang-eui by, and it looks like he'll...
Tags: featured, Jung Yumi (2), Kim Rae-won, Lee Sang-woo, Park Yoo-hwan, Su Ae, Thousand Day Promise
Thousand Day Promise: Episode 14
by javabeans
Just when you think this couple has finally achieved a measure of peace and reconciliation, new developments arise and rock their world, just a little further. As if they could...
Tags: featured, Jung Yumi (2), Kim Rae-won, Lee Sang-woo, Park Yoo-hwan, Su Ae, Thousand Day Promise