I almost forgot!! 
Thanks to all who shared this blog with me. You made bitchin’ over dramas so fun and easy.
Cheers!!!
Those weird scribbles on the cake were meant to be an elegant calligraphy of the initial “B” for bitches but they came out looking like a psychedelic B instead. Sorry!
And confession time.
1. Who’s been reading my old posts? And why?
2. Who’s from American Samoa?
3. Who’s from South Korea?
4. Who’s from Bahrain?
Happy Birthday to you and all of us!! !
1.i have been reading your posts on Hwayugi but noticed you did not complete the review for it.😉 I liked the series because it allowed me to reflect about life and God.
ohhhh I see.
Someone’s been reading my other posts too on The Great Seducer, Poem a Day, Radio Romance, etc. 😀
Hwayugi? That finished in March, right? I was traveling. I traveled a lot last year.
Happy Birthday to you and everyone here! 🎉🎂🎈Many more bitchin to come! 😂
From the bottom of my heart kumawo! 🙇♀️😘❤️
So what are you watching now? I only have two but both are “simple” watches, nothing to obsess about.
I’m only on episode 4 of Memories of Alhambra and episode 3 of My Strange Hero. I’ll catch up soon on the episodes 😄
Are you not going to watch My Strange Hero? 😊
Is it good?
Happy Birthday to your blog, @packmule3! Now that I’m on winter break, I’m trying to catch up with RL: parenting, books, cooking, cleaning. I return to work after New Year’s day but there’s no homework until the semester starts!
Dramawise, I’m four weeks into enjoying Fates and Furies, my first live melo. (It actually started five weeks ago but was recently pre-empted by a soccer game.) I chose the show because I so enjoyed Joo Sang Wook and Lee Ming Jung in Cunning Single Lady (2014). It broadcasts 2 hours each Saturday in the format of 40 30-minute episodes, for a total of 10 weeks. It’s available on Viki and Kocowa, with the latter providing subs many hours earlier.
When I first started watching Korean and Chinese dramas, I despised any hint of melodrama. I soon realized what I hated was a mix of incompatible genres, particularly when the melodrama spoiled a fun rom-com like a turd in the middle of birthday cake.
I eventually tried a couple melos—long after broadcast, which gave me the flexibility to fast-forward and binge. Having finished Money Flower (2017-8) and I Have A Lover (2014), I find melos suit me if they have high production values and at least a couple relatable protagonists who are compelling, flawed and rational—even when those rational choices are awful. And I need sizzling chemistry, which is just as dependent on the viewer as it is on the actors, script and direction.
Fate and Fury/Fates and Furies meets all my criteria. It’s deliciously languid as we watch the key protagonists connect or reconnect with one another. Even though the show takes its time building relationships and revealing past histories, time flies by while watching.
The basic premise involves a talented but struggling show designer Goo Hye Ra (Lee Min Jung) being hired by Jin Tae Oh (Lee Ki Woo) to lure Tae In Joon (Joo Sang Wook) away from his contract-fiancée, Tae Jung Min (Park Soo Ah), who was Tae In Joon’s ex.
In Joon is the second-born of a conglomerate. He’s desperate to redevelop his dead mother’s shoe business and generally wants to punish his loathsome father and cruel older half-brother. He’s made a contract engagement for a stronger financial footing—at the cost of being with someone he doesn’t love.
The storyline is simple but the emotions and motivations are complex. Is something less true when you’ve made your fate instead of leaving it to the gods? In keeping with kdrama law, Hye Ra and Tae Oh really do have a “fated” relationship—whether it ends up giving them a “happy ending” is unknowable at this point. All four protagonists are interesting and complex—but I’m shook by In Joon’s inevitable falling into Hye Ra’s ocean. Joo Sang Wook’s eye acting is aces.
One visual motif I’m tracking is when Hye Ra is barefoot. She’s a shoe designer and generally wears sky high heels. So far, her barefoot moments mark moments of vulnerability in front of In Joon. Looking forward to see if this motif is carried through the show.
Correction: Goo Hye Ra is a shoe designer, not a “show” designer.
Happy birthday!!! 😘🎉
I like it because I think YSH looks good with JBoa ☺️ The premise has bullying and the incident where the school owners son was pushed over the rooftop by YSH’s character supposedly.
I didn’t mind the first 2 episodes so I’ll finish it. It’s sad though to see those bullying scenes but good at the same time because YSH’s character stands up to them.
I’m interested in the new drama coming with Lee Dong Wok and Yoo Inna? Second leads of Goblin. I want to watch that because I thought they had good chemistry too.
I agree with you on Hyun Bin and Park Shin He not connecting in MOA. I’m not feeling it.
Oh Happy New Year! May 2019 be all that we hope for and more! 🎉🎉🎉
Happy Birthday and Congratulations! I stumbled on this blog last year while looking for a place to discuss The Great Seducer and I had a really fun time reading all of the posts and discussing that drama with everyone here. Wishing you many more years of great blogging and discussion.