I don’t get the renewed interest in this old review. Was it because the kdrama was uploaded onto Netflix? Or was my review spammed? I dunno. Since the comment section is already closed and I’m disinclined to open an old thread for newcomers, I’ll simply repost it. Feel free to comment. However, please do remember […]
The Third Charm: My Take on the Finale
Shoutout to Oli. Disclosure: I didn’t want to add 10 more hours of drama to my stressful life so I read the recaps and reviews from dramabeans, dramamilk and mydramalist. Although this kdrama is definitely not my cup of tea, it’s the kind of story that my bookclub ladies would love to force on me to […]
The Third Charm: Episode 5
Now that I understand where the writer and director intend to go with this narrative (the trophy vs stuffed toy metaphor I explained earlier), it’s easier for me to focus on the good things, and to forgive the irritating things that the lead characters are doing to sabotage their relationships. We could easily catalog the […]
The Third Charm: The Metaphor
I keep on forgetting to write about this scene so I’ll post this as is. This scene from Episode 1 is a metaphor of their relationship. They were coming home from their first date at the fairgrounds. The guy JoonYoung (JY) couldn’t eat spicy food but before he could tell YoungJae (YJ), she started raving […]
The Third Charm: Episode 4
Perhaps my jerk-radar is off or I’m not in a militant-feminist mode or I’m giving the actor playing JoonYoung (JY) a pass because he’s cute, but I wasn’t ruffled by his demand from YoungJae (YJ) not to shampoo men’s hair at her hair salon. I viewed his command in the same way that YJ did. […]
The Third Charm: Episode 3
Oh lawds! If I were young again, I’d want to be reborn with Young-Jae’s bravado. Encountering an old flame and knowing what to say to him have always been my weakness. Good old Catholic guilt would rear its ugly head, and I’d lose my tongue in embarrassment and offer limp fingers in a handshake. That’s […]
The Third Charm: Episode 2
There’s nothing much to comment about on Episode 2. It was a straight-forward episode. I thought it was funny when he came home all sad and mopey, and saw cases of his beer, his prize for winning the beer-drinking contest, awaiting him in the living room. Talk about fate kicking a man when he’s already […]
Third Charm: Quick Takes on Episode 1
Every new drama is a costly investment for me: an intellectual and emotional investment as well as a time investment. To optimize my investment, I determine my next drama project by forecasting what “wisdom” I can expect to assimilate from the scriptwriter’s perspective on life. That was why I skipped the shows like “Heirs,” “Strong […]
The Third Charm: Third Time’s the Charm
I don’t know what the writer meant by the title “The Third Charm.” All I know is this is the third drama touted to have Seo Kang Joon in it so I’m going to watch this one since I skipped his other two, “Cheese in the Trap” and “Are You Human, Too?” lol. The third […]