Kalo mesimeri @Packmule3! Happy 4th of July!

I am coming from a hectic May. So far, there are days, that I am enjoying JOMO.

The only shows I am watching are the following:

1. My Sweet Mobster.
I am here for the Moster boss!

2. The Double C-Drama on Viki (BTW, Netflix took its licence too.)

I totally enjoying this one! I can say that I am hooked, although I haven’t been able to move forward in Episode 25!

What I have my eyes on:

1. My Princess Royal C Drama. Since yesterday it is on Viki.

2. Sweet Home Season 3.

I don’t know if I am going to watch everything, but those shows I want to watch this month and the next…

*Sending Hugs @Packmule3! <3

I started watching My Incomplete Life. It is very slow moving and has 20 episodes, but since it is all about office life, I am interested to see that side of Korean culture. I feel much empathy for the newbies in the office.

@Cleo, I’m watching My Sweet Mobster too and like it a lot. It is so sweet and I am pleased that I guessed the twist before the reveal.

My only grouse is that I never cared for the prosecutor actor who looks as if he had plastic surgery even years ago. He’s always struck me as looking literally ‘plastic’ and stiff.

That aside, I like the ensemble and the OTP. 🙂

I finished rewatching Just Between Lovers. Currently watching Come and Hug Me and Battlestar Galactica.

@Snow Flower – Battlestar Gallectica – so good. Google the Portlandia sketch on the couple who sit down to watch just a little bit of the first episode. Two weeks later …..

@Good Twin, the Battlestar Galactica sketch is so spot on! My husband and I are having exactly the same experience, except that we paid our electric bill. Or did we? I don’t remember now. Just one more episode…

Hi BODers! Sorry for the prolonged reticence at my end. I’ve been watching mostly C-dramas these past months – watching the Legend of Heroes at the moment (it’s an adaption of the Condor Heroes if you’re familiar w the literature). Mostly watching it for Zhou Yi Wei who I watched in Judge Dee’s Mystery (also another C-drama and also based on semi-autobiographical literature).

I also have my eye on The Double and The Princess Royal!

hello packmule and BOD member!
I hope you all have a great month..

this month I will still watch My Sweet Mobster. I am officially attracted to this Um Tae Goo.. where have I been? I just know that he exists..

and I am patiently waiting for Cha Jeong Hyeop and Kim So Hyun duo in their new drama. This year 2024 drama theme somehow would be “Romance” for me. And I don’t mind. hahaha.. I am happy to see many love on screen.

I think I will watch Miss Night and Day, after all episodes completed. I want to binge watching it.. haha..

Dear @PackMule3, @GoodTwin, @OldAmericanLady, @Cleopatra, @Fern, @SnowFlower, @Table122000, @MoonStar512, @DianaGarcía and especially @GrowingBeautifully, how have you been?.

I have been writing my novel. You could say that even if the page count is still low (74 pages in the Word file so far), handwriting the general ideas and gripping with order and structure has been a delicious headache.

I am about to finish “366 Nichi” (2024) with Hirose Alice. The biggest star is her younger sister Hirose Suzu, yet it seems I am attracted to her work. Last year we had a “Shitsuren Meshi” (2022) post that was my birthday gift ^_^ (Thank you very much!!!). A little bit of a tearjerker, as Alice’s in-story boyfriend suffers an accident that keeps him comatose. Will the person she has longed for since her high school years ever wake up? Regrettably I can’t discuss more without spoiling your potential view now that I may have opened your appetite.

On the other hand I am still dealing with a Drama with a similar theme, “Unmet: Aru Nogekai no Nikki” (2024). The main character is a Neurosurgeon that had an accident that makes her memory reset every morning, so she has to rely on her diary to walk through her life. She have demoted herself from brilliant neurosurgeon to nurse, as she fears her memory impairment could kill someone in the operating room. That character is BRILLIANT and I can wholeheartedly recommend this show up to Episode 5 that is the last I have watched. The subplot about the general directors of the Hospital system (conglomerate?) she works in conspiring for her not to get her memory back dampens my enjoyment. That said I love the main character so much that in the back of my head I still scream “YAY, SHE WILL RECOVER!!!”.

Sorry for being so forlorn. I love you all and I miss you, I am just entangled into my own creative process.

Hello my dear @FGB! As always, I’m so glad to hear from you! What wonderful news that you are writing creatively and that you are enjoying the painstaking process. It’s so good that you are able to put ideas into words that fill many pages. It is almost like raising a child, the process of growing your tale and bringing it to fullness, sometimes with its cooperation and sometimes without.

Thank you for your succinct reviews and teasers for more Jdoramas. I will look for them when I can and try to watch, because I know your tastes in shows accord well with mine.

Until I read you again, take care and be safe!

Kalimera Unnie!

I am good, but I am practicing JOMO lately.

I am watching “The Double” and “My Sweet Mobster” but I am taking my time at the same time!

I feel that the Prosecutor is a kinda too righteous and easy to jump to conclusions. We shall see how that will go!

Are you okay? I read that you are busy!

My dear @OAL!

It is good to see your name appearing again on B.o.D!
How are you? Did you do your surgery? How is your husband?

Hi @pm3 and BODers!!
Hope everyone is doing well.

@FGB4877 hope to be able to catch your novel when it is out!! All the best with your writing. May the words flow well!

I’m only watching The Princess Royal and caught up to mid way this week until the latest episodes. It is a rebirth story but more than one person is reborn….with their memories. So it makes it pretty interesting. Love the couple banter. imagine 40yos in their 20yo body with the wisdom, jadedness and learning how to love again. We have a strong rational female character with a smart talented and heart warming male character that you will fall in love with.

I wish I can talk more about this but I’m not being really good at reading a lot lately. Only stealing the extra watch at night before I sleep.

Happy July everyone! I am currently watching NO kdramas. (I’ve put My Sweet Mobster on hold because the push-pull between the ML and FL was getting repetitive. I plan to go back to it when there are more episodes and I can zip through them.) I started to watch CLOY, as I do every couple of years, but found myself zipping through the subplots with Seo Dan and Cheol Gang—and then I realized I couldn’t watch the ending again. It’s too unsatisfying/heartbreaking. It will always have a special place in my heart since it was my first kdrama, but now I can watch it with slightly more critical/more experienced eyes.

Meanwhile I am looking at some of the British shows I’ve missed in the last couple of years and watching more movies, as I am wont to do in the summer.

Really, every show I’ve tried to watch has been a bit of a disappointment, coming down from the high of Lovely Runner! So if someone discovers a show—old or new—that they are excited about, please let me know!

Current live watches:
1) My Sweet Mobster (everyone rocks in this show)
2) Miss Night & Day (casual watch, am here for Miss Day)

Others: (Netflix drops)
1) The Double (great casual watch, brisk pacing intelligent FL)
2) Whirlwind (from my fav political thriller writer)

Blast from the Past
1) That winter, the wind blows

My favourite is of course My Sweet Mobster (which I re-watch whilst waiting for the live episodes) This may shape up to be one of my all-time favourite romcoms, not just for 2024

I have put Come and Hug Me on hold and started watching 18 Again.
Battlestar Galactica still going strong.

@HK_Lady,

The Good Doctor (Faith) was the first drama I ever watched. I had no idea who LMH was, but I thought he looked good in armor. I was hooked from Episode 1 and have been watching dramas ever since.

I forgot to mention that I stumbled upon Love Reset a k-movie of a couple that got married and who decided to get divorced. I liked that it was smartly done, had nice movie-making touches, and was able to squeeze months of story into a 2-hour movie without feeling rushed. It even had moments of humour that bowled me over. 🙂

Hi BOD group. This is not a drama but a recommendation for filling in. My husband and I watch people walking around various cities and places. For BOD I would recommend Action Kid. He started by walking around New York but has also done Miami where I think he now lives and he’s also done a stint in Asia(Taiwan mainly).He is Chinese American.if you want to do City neighborhood tours he’s great. And if you want to do food tours, try
UA Eats lHe is also Asian American and his food reviews don’t seem like he was compensated.These two ate useful if you ate considering travel to New York. As a native New Yorker who has lived in four of the five boroughs and spent considerable time in all of them I think these two young men would entertain you.

I am enjoying as beautiful as you. It is rather tropey but I am enjoying the development of the relationship and the acting. Some of the dialogue and relationship building I think is well done. The workplace part is about three d printing of medical devices , which I find interesting.

I binge watched signal for maybe the third time and still think it is one of the best korean dramas I have seen.

I would Like to start a chinese drama but i’m afraid of becoming overly immersed. My.
Choices are double, Lost you forever, And Royal princess.

Oh yes and my sweet mobster.

Oh, and about all those rain storms I was enjoying this morning. We have been out of power for the afternoon and there is flooding in several parts of the city☺️

Yes , rainstorms are an opportunity to see how well one’s house deals with rain. Our gutters were overflowing at several points. Too many maple leaves in the eave’s troughs Even though we had them cleaned out at least twice this year!

It Was also an opportunity to read a book, Not Having any internet.

Hi all. I haven’t read BOD much due to much travel in the last month (across the pond to sing with a choir! ; and a long road trip out west). I have been immersed in the Double like many of you — I find I want to pace myself so as to not finish too early — and have been dipping in and out of other dramas I never quite finished. I will be joining the Signal rewatch today after a month long break.

@FGB so glad to hear you are writing! It is definitely an iterative process. I too have been writing, just finished the first draft of a chapbook of poetry that still needs revision but is (perhaps) nearing completion. I find myself at a bit of a loss though as to what is next. What has most struck me though is how different revision is from writing; more like my former job, it relies more heavily on logic and careful thinking and less on capturing the emotion. Anyway good luck! So good to hear from you.

@WEnchanteur thanks for the link to your lists. We have some similar tastes, but it looks like I like some shows that you’ve hated or dropped (e.g., Goblin) or have dropped some that you’ve given high ratings to (like The Glory, which I couldn’t get through. I’m not a fan of the FL’s acting and I found the bullying too brutal). However, it’s always good to get someone else’s perspective!

Is anyone planning to watch the Yumi’s Cells movie? I loved Yumi’s Cells but am not sure how the story would work if it’s entirely animation. One thing I loved about the show was to see human Yumi’s human interactions and then see the contrast with what was happening on the cell(ular) level.

I tried to watch Tale of Nokdu this month. I saw that it had a lot of posts on BOD, which I usually take as a good sign (although Little Women had 21 posts here and @pm3 ultimately gave it an “M” rating, which she said was lower than an “F”!). I found the cross-dressing in the widow’s village fun and then it took a left turn and became a series of sword fights and assassination attempts, just after one of the main characters gleefully murders a child. Perhaps I should have assumed it would be like this since the show starts with a sword fighting attack on Nokdu’s family. I grow weary of a storyline when it’s fight after fight–and the ML manages to survive multiple slashes, knock-outs, etc. (without getting an infection sans antibiotics!). So I dropped it around episode 10, read some recaps and synopses, and picked it back up around episode 30, waiting for a happy ending. I can’t believe it’s tagged as a romantic comedy on Viki!

I did go back to My Sweet Mobster since I had no other kdramas queued up. It’s cute but there really isn’t much plot. I like the Thirsty Deer guys. I also like seeing an adult (SL) couple in a kdrama who actually have had sex, like they would in the real world, instead of just chaste kisses. But there’s very little conflict or anything that would push a plot along.

I’ve also picked up a Japanese show on Prime called “Map for the Wedding.” I’m only in the first episode but it seems like it will be an easy watch. [I wonder what the percentage of Japanese shows are about arranged marriages, including marriage lotteries? It’s a high percentage of what I’ve watched (but then, I avoid violent dramas.) It makes Japan look like such a lonely place to live for single people. I’ll note here if I end up hating it or dropping it.

I hardly ever watch something for an actor, and especially if it’s a drama of a genre that does not normally entice me… however, I’m tempted to take a peak at this one for not 1 but 2 and maybe even 3 actors…. guess which 3!!!

I can’t say I don’t watch this kind of action, predator/hitman and prey-chasing dramas entirely, so I’m quite ready to try, especially since the lineup of actors gets me wanting to see them in action.

Thanks to @kfangurl who posted this (I just copy-pasted it) on the patreon platform linked to her blog.

Kdrama “No Way Out: The Roulette”
Episodes: 8
Airs: Jul 31, 2024
Airs On: Wednesday
Original Network: Disney+, U+ Mobile TV
Starring: Jo Jin Woong, Yoo Jae Myung, Yeom Jung Ah, Kim Moo Yeol, Lee Kwang Soo, Greg Hsu

@GB, the roulette looks like the kind of drama I could easely watch.

@BethB, there are good classics I didn’t watch yet, so not on my list (I think about Jumong). I watched all Glory and liked, same writer than Goblin, that (it’s a known fact) I found boring. For various reasons, it happens I don’t end a drama, so in “on-hold” you can have excellent dramas. For example Queen Seon Deok.

Tales of Nokdu: Nothing great, still not bad. First part is lot of comedy, and second part is dramatic where love story and emotions stands better than what I expected. I mostly forgot the drama now. It’s too light for a historical.

@SF HKL Ijust finished a rewatch of Legend of the Blue Sea. Your comments above about The Great Doctor promptd me to rewatch the first EPISODE. It was even funnier than I remember with details I did not catch at the time.

Thr stakes are high-the existence of Korea. The characters are efficienly given back stories. Interesting historical points like her fortune being read in Hanja rather than Hangul.

Of course the scenes at the convention hall are ridiculously funny.

How he carries her caveman style mixed with sort of asking her permission and promising on his honour that he will return her.

How the ex bf tries to console her by saying the woman he is marrying is not as pretty and has a terrible temper but she does have real estate in Gagnam.

Details like we see her taking one of the pills for a headache that becomes a talisman between them.

I know this show has lovers and haters. I have always fallen in the unsure camp despite multipe watches. I may be headed for another rewatch!

Maybe it is not only the armour but a before face LMH that makes him seem more manly.

@monmor,

I have not rewatched Faith, but your comments make me want to do it sometime. This was my introduction to kdramas, so everything felt fresh and new and exciting. I have watched many better dramas since, but I still have a soft spot for Faith.
I remember wondering about what was Goryeo. It took me several episodes to figure out! But I also remember looking up King Gongmin and Lee Seung Gye, my first step into the rabbit hole of Korean history.

@HKL

Did you watch the taiwanese version of boys over flower?That’s the one I want to watch. I just have not been able to find a good quality version anywhere.

I also enjoyed strong girl bong soon. And have rewatched Like you with a Focus on the couple scenes. Although kim hae won Is fun to watch in this show too.

@Monmor –
Yea, LMH before has a more manly face with a strong jaw line. ♥💗💙 it. haha.
ooh, you made me listen to FAITH ost, need to add the music to my iphone.
Have not checked out other versions of BOF – just C and K. I was interested in checking out the Japanese version though. idk.

Meteor garden is the name of the taiwan version of boys over flowers. I want to watch It for Jerry Yan.And vaness wu. I enjoyed the music their group performed as well.

I have heard that the japanese version is perhaps the best though I have not watched it. I watched just the first few minutes and it looked Appealing. I tried to watch the korean version but did not get very far.

Just some random thoughts. There are so many shows to watch but if I knew where to find the taiwan version I might try watching it.

@HKL @sf

I have a love, hate relationship with faith.The great doctor and a love hate relationship with lee minho.

I think I have watched almost everything.He has been in except for patchinko and one or two very early shows. When I was watching.
Legend of the blue sea Recently There were times when he did not look like himself. I had not really processed that he has had plastic surgery done.

I think That actors lose the individuality Of their appearance when they do that. There are times in Faith Where I find his facial expressions more interesting.

I’m not against plastic surgery in all cases but if it’s just to look A certain way that is popular then I am not a fan.

@mommor –
oh yes it’s “Meteor Garden” – haha. I tried watching the original (via youtube-not very good coz it’s all over the place- wish they would show it in viki) and the more current version with Dylan Wang on NEtflix and loved it so much-i was re-watching it a few times haha. it hits different now, a few years later. but still will remember how it’s my first dip in Dramaworld. 💛

i love LMH – orig and new face 💗 i don’t care haha. just sad coz i love his orig face, but love him nonetheless.

Other recent dramas.

I finished “Falling for Innocence” mostly for Jung kyung Ho. I want to watch more of his dramas.

I have yet to finish the last several episodes of “As beautiful as You”. I am afraid the drama will not do a good job with the dynamics between the OTP and the show will join my pile of unsatisfying Chinese workplace dramas. So far I have been enjoying this drama.

I rewatched both “Faith” and “Legend of the Blue Sea”. I feel badly for anything negative I have ever said about Lee Minho. I thoroughly enjoyed watching both these dramas.

I surprised myself by how much I enjoyed “Faith”. All the negatives I had seen in the show before dissolved in my enjoyment.

Hello, my BoD friends! I’ve missed participating in this community. I haven’t been watching dramas because I’ve had enough stress in my life lately and didn’t want to add more, even fictional.

I have, however, looked up from the self-help book I’ve been reading to watch some coverage of the Paris Olympics. Several times I’ve been reminded of Asian dramas. During the Opening Ceremony, the parkour moves of a dramatized torch carrier reminded me of Healer. His hooded, faceless appearance were reminiscent of the nameless protagonist in W. Because of W, I watched highlights of the 10m Air Pistol Women’s Final, in which South Koreans won Gold and Silver; my congratulations to Oh Ye Jin and Kim Yeji. May your lives be free of the evil plot twists visited on Kang Cheol. I watched highlights of a badminton match between men’s teams from China and the USA, and thought of the Kdrama Racket Boys and the Cdrama Nothing but You. I’m stunned by the speed at which badminton is played. I haven’t yet watched fencing highlights, but I plan to because of the Kdrama Twenty-five Twenty-one.

One thing I’ve noticed watching Olympic coverage is how different athletes look from the stars who portray them in dramas, especially the women. The preferred body type of a FL in an Asian drama is small and stick thin. The Asian athletes I’ve seen so far in Olympic coverage are a wide variety of heights and sizes. I wish drama producers were brave enough to cast actors that reflect that reality.

Hello dear Friends, how are you?

Finished “Blue Moment” (Japan – 2024). A little bit too intense drama about disaster relief. It has its good points about the creation of an organization not so handicapped by command chains yet its intensity makes it cartoony.

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It is unusual, but pray for us Venezuelans. It seems like the regime will cut electricity after 7 pm to show its power to us citizens. Widespread protests as Nicolás Maduro stole the elections by using an officialist-packed national electoral commitee to communicate whatever numbers he wanted.

Had an Internet service hiccup a moment ago. I guess it will cease in a while.

We are living through strange times indeed, and for the longest time.

And yes dear Friends, all these things fuel my writing 😉

@Welmaris I have been watching surfing and rooting for the Japanese surfers 🏄 on the male side (I won’t spoil the results.) For the women there is a phenomenal 15 year old from China up against much more experienced surfers and on one of the toughest surf breaks in the world. She is fearless. She comes from the countryside far away from the ocean. She is a product of China’s system for finding and cultivating talent. Super fun to watch her and she has delighted everyone! She will be competing tomorrow in the first heat. I am not a surfer but am now an expert after watching 5 hours of competition. 🙄

As for dramas, still watching My Sweet Mobster which picked up after a couple of slow episodes in the middle. Same with Miss Day and Night. I finished As Beautiful As You. It had a promising start but ended up kind of a dud. I spent most of my time focused on Xu Kai’s hairline until I googled to confirm that he had hair implants. It looks like someone took a magic marker to his hairline.

@GT I stopped watching As Beautiful as You around episode 30. Might watch now with lowered expectations.

I thought this show was at least attempting to explore the dynamics of their relationship. I am concerned now that the character development
and exploration of their relationship may never be satisfying. It looks to me like the plot might resort to cliche.

I welcomed spoilers , if you are so inclined.

I did not notice the hairline. I was more focused slightly lower down. Link to follow.

@Welmaris 😂 quote Am I supposed to avert my eyes?

I think I will start watching The men’s Swimming Events.

@Good Twin, I amused myself last night while trying to fall asleep by imagining a Cdrama done in the wuxia style but as a modern surfing story.

Master: My child, why do you want to depart our clan after a lifetime of martial arts training to learn how to stand within waves on a board? You are able to run across the surface of water.
Surfer Girl Wannabe: The waves inspire awe in me and I want to dance with them.

Surfer Girl journeys long from her clan’s mountain retreat to the coast of China, having adventures along the way.

Surfer Girl takes surfing lessons and appears to be gifted. Her surfing teacher is astounded. But as Surfer Girl learns the rules of surfing competition, she determines to suppress her supernatural abilities gained from long years of cultivation. She wants to fit into the surfing community, yet others are jealous of this young upstart. She has to endure pettiness and foil evil plots to continue competing.

Surfer Girl travels to her first major surfing competition. Turns out nefarious forces emerge at the competition site, and she must surf by day and secretly fight evil by night. Rumors surface of an amazing martial artist doing amazing deeds. No one suspects Surfer Girl newbie. Everyone still looks down on her because she’s young and inexperienced as a surfing competitor.

Despite her years of martial arts training, Surfer Girl is physically exhausted from lack of sleep, and using only natural skills has her performing below her usual standard. She’s mocked by others as a flash in the pan. But then a situation develops during competition when waves suddenly become massive and unruly. Nefarious supernatural forces are attacking the humans. Competitors and support personnel in the water are in grave danger. It is up to Surfer Girl to save the day, which she does in a spectacular fight scene, unveiling her supernatural martial arts abilities for all to see.

The International Surfing Association must decide if Surfer Girl will be banned from competing because of her supernatural abilities. They don’t understand, or trust, her well developed commitment to honor and morality. In the eyes of the surfing world, Surfer Girl has gone from being not good enough to too good for fair competition. Surfer Girl is now in a battle of principle.

Videos of Surfer Girl in her epic efforts to save the endangered surfing competitors explode on social media. Surfer Girl becomes an internet darling. Marketers contact her to promote their products. Surfing competition promoters feel compelled to include Surfer Girl because she brings in spectators and money; other competitors don’t want her around because they think she hogs the limelight. Surfer Girl becomes frustrated that she’s being exploited.

Surfer Girl retreats back to her mountain top martial arts clan. She finds she doesn’t feel at home there anymore. Other acolytes now see her as an outsider, too focused on the natural world. Her master encourages her to go on a quest to purify her heart and find her unique place in the world.

Somewhere in this story Surfer Girl has to meet her true love. Is it a boy she met as a child who sparked her interest in surfing? Has he been by her side, keeping his identity hidden, through her surfing competition travails? Is he further along in his cultivation than her, so able to use his supernatural abilities without flamboyance? Will she and he discover that together they can happily bridge the natural and supernatural worlds? Most importantly, will they kiss often and well?

Brava, @Welmaris. How about including a great underwater kiss scene between the leads?

@Welmaris – Brilliant! I love this! I love the movie Blue Crush and have been imagining a G rated Cdrama or Kdrama surfer version with themes of filial piety, first love, fated connections and childhood trauma!

The women’s heat was postponed due to dangerous conditions, so I’ll be watching hopefully tomorrow to see if this Chinese phenom Yang Siqi can make it to the quarter-finals. The fact that she even qualified for the Olympics is a remarkable achievement!

@Monmor – SPOILERS ahead on As Beautiful As You. These aren’t really spoilers since the opening credits show her in a wedding dress. They break up due to different communication styles and he withheld information from her about a merger with another medical device company. They make up after FL is kidnapped and ML saves her. ML is injured and has to have a medical device implanted. The evil cousin comes to her senses and decides that family is most important. She welcomes FL into the family and becomes a strong supporter of ML. Evil woman who had designs on ML never gets over it and says mean things to FL until the very end. FL tells her she is pitiable and that she used to respect her but no longer. Evil dude is in love with evil woman and tells her as much. FL and ML get married and go to Germany to honeymoon. Last episode is a fast forward showing their future together until they are old and one of them dies (I didn’t finish Queen of Tears but it sounds similar.) Frankly I was super bored by the end and it just seemed to lurch from plot to plot. The kidnapping was a big snooze!

I don’t know if it is getting through censors or what – but quality modern Cdramas are in very short supply lately.

@grace: it is toooo binge-able! I’m trying to pace myself with The Princess Royal to make up for the lack of sleep owing to The Double. 🥲

@welmaris: thank you for the utterly funny wuxia surfing flick. Swatches of different wuxia films appeared in my head as I read it. I think the FL needs a wingwoman somewhere (maybe someone the who couldn’t stand the FL first until the FL saves/stands up for her and they become besties) who defeats/fends off the arrogant rival and also ends up falling in love with him. Then there’s a crisis of friendship or we have two couples (?!)

@Welmaris I am up for watching 40 episodes of that drama! And you have enough plot to fill it!

@monmor: if you want to catch Xu Kai in a non-modern workplace drama, the very best of the best I have to recommend is AMA — arsenal military academy. His absolute best role EVER.

Currently watching:
1. My Sweet Mobster — this week is finale. Love this show, will probably end up in my all-time favourite list of romcoms. Really the show to watch for your Happy Place

2. Miss Night & Day — this week is finale. Casual watching not emotionally vested / more keen to see how they resolve the serial murders since I am a fan of serial murders

3. Finished The Double — very watchable, logical, beautiful and intelligent. I enjoyed it. But this is really a subjective opinion, I somehow didn’t feel emotionally engaged. It’s all head to me.

4. Watching Whirlwind – political thriller cos the writer is a favourite. Not as emotionally engaging as Punch. It’s cerebral and taut. Great for lunch time watching

5. Gaus Electronics — very funny workplace satire and parody. Short at 12 episodes. I watch it when I need a laugh at the end of day – great pick me up

6. Lovely Runner – I stopped at Ep 6. The first 6 eps are luminous and emotionally powerful I was sobbing. Thus, have to stop. A bit drained. I had to go read recaps and reviews to make sure the ending is happy before I continue. Shall I ???

7. I need more funny and healing dramas — please recommend gals!

@Welmaris, I like the meaningful romance between the 2nd leads!

Kalimera dear @Cleo, here’s saying ‘Hi!’ back to you. I trust that you are well too, although very busy.

Dear Doensaeng Cleo, I’m pretty fine, however people around me are sick, hence I’m taking precautions to stay fine as long as possible. I’m sleepy too!!!

@Welmaris this surfing CDrama has potential! Bravo! <3

Hi @grace 😃

I really liked The Double because the story was coherent and the actors were great in their roles. Maybe towards the end it got a bit slow but I didn’t mind it. My only complaint (usually) is that there’s limited kisses. Like as in. 😂

I liked that the ML gave the FL the support that she needed. She was smart.

The ML is definitely a hypnotiser. 😂

@GrowingBeautifully, Love your wording-“juicy skinship”. T

LOL @OAL, did my enthusiasm for self-conscious hand-holding, warm back hugs and dedicated, focused kisses manifest itself juicily? 😚☺️😇

@swiss_postscripts, the afternoon Surfer Girl and Rejected Boy first met, he’d finished a couple of hours of surfing in the morning, and had come back to check the waves to decide if he wanted to fit in another session that day. He’d been feeling unsettled, and spending time in the water calmed him. As he walked toward the water’s edge, his eyes were drawn away from the surf line to a figure seated alone on the sand. This piqued his interest, because few tourists know of this beach. Only locals and surfers willing to venture off the beaten path visit this undeveloped stretch of shore. He slowed his pace as he drew closer to the stranger, not wanting to call attention to himself until he could size up the situation. A girl. The stranger was female, and looked younger than him by a couple of years or so. That was his best guess, not having been around many girls in his life. A surfer, resting? Just then he heard her mumbling to herself; he could barely pick out the words. She doesn’t know how waves form. Definitely not a surfer. Her curiosity was his opportunity to learn more about this stranger. He stepped by her side and offered a simple explanation of wave dynamics in oceans.

He settled next to her in the sand, both watching the waves, and as their conversation continued he learned that she had never seen the ocean before this visit. She’d come to this quiet, small seaside community with her father, who needed a change of environment to lift his mood. Their home was on a mountain, and she’d never traveled far from it. They temporarily settled in this location at the recommendation of her Master, the leader of their clan. There was something about this girl, the lilt of her voice, especially as she talked of her home, that unnervingly reminded him of his mother. Could they be from the same region of China? He wouldn’t know, because his mother never talked about her past.

For years, he had worn a string of jade beads, masterfully hand carved, around his ankle. It was a gift from his mother, who had re-strung it from a necklace she’d worn as long as he could remember. She had strung the remaining beads into a bracelet for herself. His jade bead anklet was his most prized possession, of the meager belongings he could call his own. Yet suddenly, he felt a strong impulse to give this girl, this stranger, his jade beads. He untied the anklet, and before she could refuse it, tied it around her wrist. Fortunately the silk cord was long enough wrap around her wrist twice, else the beads would have slipped over her hand. He felt, beyond a doubt, that the jade beads belonged with her, but couldn’t say why. She, fingering the beads around her wrist, looked pensive, not surprised.

Time both stood still and passed quickly as they talked. They were together forever, and yet suddenly it was sunset. She stood up quickly, saying she must return to her father before he worried about her. And as if she’d been a dream, she was gone. Alone on the beach in the dark, he became keenly aware of a new-felt emptiness on his ankle and in his heart.

Surfer Girl got to the lodging she shared with her father just as the night sky became fully dark. Her father frowned at her, then motioned for her to sit at the table to eat the dinner he’d prepared. She excused herself to wash her hands first. In the bathroom, she untied the silk cord around her wrist and carefully laid the jade beads on the ledge between the sink and the mirror. Over dinner she and her father chatted about how each had spent their day. Her father shared anecdotes about shopping at the village market. She spoke of the awe she felt looking at the vast ocean and gazing at the endless waves. As they finished their meal, she cleared the dishes from the table as her father went into the bathroom to wash up for the night. But instead of showering, he emerged from the bathroom shortly after he’s closed the door, face pale, and her newly gifted string of jade beads in his hand.
“Where did you get these?”
“A boy I met in the beach gave them to me.”
“What is his name? Where is he from?”
“I don’t know. I didn’t think to ask. He seemed like he was from around here.”
“How old was he?”
“I don’t know. Maybe a few years older than me.”
“Did he speak of his family?”
“He told me a little bit about his mother. He takes care of her because her health isn’t good. He didn’t mention his father.”
“His mother is alive?”
“Yes. They live together. She raised him alone. But she’s weakened now by some ailment. He didn’t tell me any details.”
“Where did he get these jade beads?”
“I think from a necklace his mother wore. He said she divided the beads from it into an anklet for him and a bracelet for herself. What’s the matter, Father? Why are you so upset? He insisted on giving me his old anklet, and I can’t return it to him because I don’t know how to find him. Besides, somehow the jade beads speak to me. They feel like they’ve always belonged to me.”
“That’s because I carved them with my own hands, and strung them into a necklace I gave to my fiancée. That woman, your mother’s best friend, disappeared shortly before we were to marry. Her brother, our clan’s Master, told me she was gone forever. Our clan even held a memorial service for my fiancée, although there was no body to bury. And now, here in my hand, are beads I carved for her as a bridal gift.”

Better and better, @Welmaris.

@GrowingBeautifully, You definitely have a way with words. When I watch K Dramas I love seeing skinship and kissing scenes. Compared to American programs where we get a lot of gratuitous sex, it’s nice to watch K dramas where we get romance.

@Fern, no indeed, with Only For Love, neither am I frustrated, nor impatient, nor at times (heaven forbid!) bored!!! LOLOL. My cup runneth over with sarcasm.

Will @welmaris script be transformed into a short film? 😬

@agdr03, sounds good. I love a good plot with smart people. I guess it is to watch for the stort. (We watched Mysterious Lotus Casebook where there’s barely any romance but the bromance or brother friendship was so good it didn’t matter, or do case solving stories tend to have minimal romance?)
oooo I better not start on my own. I will binge badly. 😅

@monmor, I watched Ancient Love Poetry which was okkkkk…my husband loved it. I’m a little over the very similar Immortal fantasy drama story lines. I also prefer XuKai in centre parting instead of the pulled back hairstyle.
I wanted to try his Dance of the Sky Empire where it is more comedic. But haven’t gotten down to it.
Liked him in She and Her Perfect Husband though…I know not many people liked it but his character there is 👌👍

@ Welmaris our real life surfer girl is out in the 3rd round. For your fictional Surfer Girl. She makes it to the 3rd round far beyond expectations winning fans due to her exuberance sportsmanship and fearlesslness. The local villages throw flower wreaths on the water to honor her and her battle against bad guys in the village. Cue a speech for the censors on how China is new to surfing and will be dominating in years to come if surfer girl is an indication. Boyfriend (lost track if it is Boy 1 or boy 2) asks her how she feels and she say GREAT! Cue OST

I saw some of you are watching Battlestar Galactica.
One of my fav US series. With 24 (on top) or other various old US series.
My fav character is Gaius Baltar.
All other characters are almost fascists, but this one is funny.
Ok, he’s a bit a scumbag, but with so many human flaws making him human.
So how is your BSG watching?
It’s one of the rare US series with a start and an End.
And when some people didn’t liked the ending, I liked it a lot.

@GB, it’s the same one. 24 half-hour episodes, or 12 hours episodes.
Watch the one you want. Target best quality first.
At home I’ve the one hour/episodes. And we have a cut in the middle.

@FGB4877, I saw your post by email, but don’t see it here when I hit reply. May God bless and protect you and your countrymen.

@FGB4877, you are in our prayers. Venezuela has been a troubled country for most of my memory.iremember when Nixon went there(I was a child who liked current events then). I have friends and family from other South American countries where there has been periodic unrest, namely Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Peru. I wish you Esper
Hope, peace and Buena suerte. OAL