I’m back stateside, but I’m feeling under the weather. Nothing serious. Give me a couple of days, and I should be as right as rain.
Here’s what I’m watching this month. (BTW, I just signed up for Kocowa premium membership. It’s my reward to myself for working relentlessly these past few weeks.)
@GB, which show are you rewatching this week? “Imaginary Cat”? Tell me so I can open the thread. Thanks.
1. Pursuit of Jade
It’s a Chinese drama. 40 episodes long. But all out on Netflix and Iqiyi.
Cast: Zhang Ling He and Tian Xi Wei
I knew the moment I saw ZLH play the second lead in “Love Between Fairy and Devil” that he would soon give Dylan Wang a run for his money. For one, he’s just as easy on the eyes as DW, if not, kinder and gentler looking. And for another, he’s smarter. If the reports are correct, DW started out as a flight attendant while ZLH graduated with an electrical engineering degree.
Episodes: 40
Where to Watch it: Netflix and IQIYI
Is this any good, @GB? I’m on Episode 8. Who else is watching this?
2. Perfect Crown
Don’t we know the synopsis already? It seems like this has been heavily promoted since January.
Cast: IU and Byeon Woo Seok (“Lovely Runner”)
Episodes: 12
Start Date: April 10
Airs on Fridays and Saturdays
Where to Watch it: Disney+ (Boooo! It’s not on Kocowa!)
Network: MBC
I’ll open a thread for this.
3. Yumi’s Cells, Season 3
Is this the last installment? Is she meeting her last/true love?
Cast: Kim GoEun, Kim JaeWon, Choi Daniel
Episodes: 8
Start Date: Monday, April 13
Airs on Mondays
Where to Watch it: Viki
Network: TVING tvn
I’ll open a thread for this one, too.
3. Sold Out On You
No need for synopsis. Just watch the trailer.
Cast: Ahn Hyo Seop (“A Business Proposal”) and Chae WonBin
I’m watching it for him. Plus it’s on Netflix.
Episodes: 12
Start Date: April 22
Airs on Wednesdays and Thursdays
Where to Watch it: Netflix
Network: SBS
That’s it for now. What are you watching? I hope you can join in me in some of these new shows.
Moving @ibisfeather’s post here. –pm3
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Annd..its April!
Maybe @pcml3 will be home soon and start a new WAWW thread.
Until then, what are we watching?
I am watching…
1. Some funny chinese folktale shorts on viki — why its called YAO I dont know.
2. Starting to feel anime coming on –looking ahead to Dandelion.
3. Enjoying Rebirth, a cdrama sequel to Princess agents which is nothing like that show at all, as far as I can see. The actual author of Princess Agents did this script and its is a lot of young things fighting very well and riding horses a lot. I can tell the characters apart easily which is not always the case in these young cdramas.
4. Watching or rewatching earlier shows directed by Zeng Qing Jie, all good in their way: Destined to Meet You, Fall in Love (22), and A Familiar Stranger (22). Blossom and Butterflied Lover I had seen recently. Slowly working my way through a rewatch of POJ
5. I also have a current spy show attraction — like a moth circling around the light. Some not so suitable for this group (Humint!) but there is an animated Spy x Family which looks cute, and I have never gotten around to Mission Cross, so thats the plan.
Moving @birdie007’s post here. –pm3
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Have any of you been watching The Village Barber with Park Bo Gum and his friends? I’ve enjoyed all the episodes. It’s heartwarming, has humor, and gives a glimpse into village life. The village is made up of mostly peach farmers and this is their off season so they’re available even on weekdays. The halmonis, village chief, and children are like characters out of a drama. One particular client was getting his haircut before seeing his girlfriend. He tried (and failed) to keep his relationship status a secret and it couldn’t have been scripted any better. Lee Sang Yi has been a stand out for me and I hope his popularity rises even more after this.
@birdie007,
Yes, I watched the first episode. Lee Sang Yi is such a character, isn’t he? He and PBG appeared as guest members on “2 Days, 1 Night” and he was a riot.
Watch this snippet about his eyebrows.
https://youtu.be/qpq10pIZ084?si=3RTE23EghmMbXoeX
@ibisfeather, do you recommend Pursuit of Jade?
I’ve missed you Queen 🙇🏻♀️ Glad to have you back.
I’m busy with my 103 year old Grandma at the hospital these days. We’re hoping to take her home so she can be more comfortable. She’s ok but I guess everything now is related to her age. 🙏🏼
There’s a few of us, @Fern , @Cleopatra , @Welmaris and @Kate watched/watching Pursuit Of Jade. We love it. 🥰 I’m only on episode 33. Just too busy to finish it. But I can say that this is ZLH’s best drama for me. I’ve put him up second to my YangYang. 😉
Dear Friends, how have you been? I have finished my second Asadora, “Hiyokko (2017)”. Watching the four episodes of “Hiyokko 2 (2018)” to fianlly let it rest.
Sweet characters, maybe a little bit edulcorated.
Will write more later, it is 1:12 AM here and should really rest!
I’m glad to be back too, @agdr03. I missed you, @Fern, @Cleopatra, @Welmaris, @GB, and @Kate and our light-hearted moments. Where are they? 😂
Wow! 103 years old! She’s been blessed. I hope you’re recording everything down, her words of wisdom, her gossips of family members, her thoughts and memories of the last century’s historical events. She’s lived through quite a lot of milestones.
Hi there, @FG4877.
It’s 1:40am here and sleep evades me too. Glad to know that you’re up. 🙂
Maybe I should melatonin….
I’m deleting the kdramas and cdramas I downloaded on Netflix, thinking that I’d have time to watch them. But there’s this dorama on Viki that’s caught my eye. Ameku Takao’s Detective Karte. She’s a genius medical diagnostician like Dr House (American series popular in the late 2000s) with problematic social skills.
But I’m also trying to finish Season 1 of “Elementary”, an adaptation of Sherlock Holmes and Watson. I seem to gravitate towards misfits nowadays. 😂😂
Hello my dear @pkml3! Thanks for the Imaginary Cat thread.
Pursuit of Jade was very good. Good storytelling, relatable characters, realistic.
I’ll watch ‘Perfect Crown’ and ‘Yumi’s Cells 3’. I’ve had a bit of a break from new kdramas. Only rewatched old ones.
I have tried 3 episodes of cdrama ‘Rebirth’ and it gives me pause. A lot of sound and fury, battles and blood, slo-mo and ‘atmosphere’… both ice and fire. But somehow it does not engage my heart.
I’ll look for another cdrama. 🙂
@pcml3
Yes I do heartily recommend Pursuit of Jade.
If you remember I was worried you wouldnt like it because the two leads are not big talkers; they are both military brats.
And because the method of narration is more complicated than kdrama rom-com, it feels new to me…..visual symbols just casually blasted in the face, magic mixed with realism and palace intrigue…some events are compressed into a simple allusion, some which you must guess have already happened are only clearly described sometime later. Many people complain about the close-ups here and in other newer shows, but I find they give me some breather space.
It is a beautifully shot show, where all the plot motivations are about love and human desire. While not anti-war it is very exercised about the effects of war on those left behind, and this creates a stronger narrative than that associated with the 3 or 4 genres the genius director and scriptwriter have knitted together and turned inside out at their pleasure.
I hate all these terms but this would be the list:
1. Slice-of-life: in a village where everyone has lost someone in the war, a hidden daughter of a military commander recently murdered along with his wife, finds an unearthly and beautiful man in the snow, nearly dead of his wounds. He hides out, she gives him shelter, they do not have complicated conversations but they fall in love in a most difficult and satisfactory fashion. Political elements twine through the story like sneaky little reptiles. Water and wind symbolism and a magic blue hair ribbon tell a lot of the story.
2. Laozhai kinky-horror and basic rom-com combine for the ‘war’ part of the narrative. All expectations of something uplifting, like Blossom were thoroughly smashed by a series of desultory encounters of which we only see bits — like an anti-war film, this is shot from the POV of the FL and her little crew of infantrymen. If we didnt know by now, the promised political intrigue is all about love in its varied forms.
3. Palace intrigue. Back to the capital where the story of the war disaster 17 years ago turns out to be all about tragic love. Several very important people in this section and in some previous arcs get heartily slapped. In a very satisfactory manner all who deserve it are executed or exiled and everyone else lives HEA or at least we must guess that they do.
The audience has so many favorite bits and so many disliked parts that it appears this will be one of those imperfect masterpieces that evryone will see from a personal point of view.
You, dear pcml, will love the acting of the main leads and of everybody else except for possibly the lunatic hidden heir to the throne who is obsessed with the first woman he ever made love to, and keeps chasing her down and tying her up…
But truly, Zhang LingHe’s portrayal of a man in love will simply slowly completely take your breath away. I do not think I have seen the like. He is not an expressive or versatile actor, but this is more like the old Method acting. From within.
And Tian XiWei is a revelation. She is a really good actress who finally got a chance to show how very good she can be. She is the person who thinks before you on the screen. She is the one who struggles with all the big questions of duty to self and others. She is practically illiterate, so the usual China tropes of refinement are totally missing. It is all very interesting.
I think you will dislike some parts heartily and really love others. It is really worth the watch though.
I slipped a bit in that last — Fan ChangYU, Tian XiWei’s role is the one who is practicallt illiterate.
Lee SangYi is the cat’s meow. He has a very energetic Brazilian fan club who do a lot of miaoing on instagram. He can sing like nobody’s business and keeps food on the table by working in musical theatre. He is so handsome. It is beyond me that he never gets the girl in kdrama.
I always vote for him on the mdl lists for favorite actor, but it doesnt move the needle. Youth of May, Hometown ChaChaCha, Bloodhounds, GoodBoy all great shows where he was one of the mains.
I am having trouble with Bloodhounds 2 though, it is not so much about boxing as about bare-knuckle fighting, very icky and squelchy. I hung in there to see the sequence where Rain, who deliberately bulked up for it, is a terrifying speed-monster of bare-knuckle evil. But that was it for me. Very icky.
There are a lot of people who watch that sort of fighting in RL, so I suppose the show will tap into a new market for kdrama.
One more thought about POJ’s tone.
I am being a bit spammy, I know, but I am really stuck on writing a review for POJ. Too much to say and not feeling everything shifting into organized levels of meaning.
I just read an Atlantic review, by David Sims, of Stephen Soderbergh’s latest little movie, which I have not seen, latest in a series of little movies (which I have not seen either) made since he came back from retirement.
Sims overall uses the adverb “airily” to describe the director’s handling of lots of fun genres since 2013. That sense of freedom felt in great pieces of work, found by a director inside the happy place of genre.
POJ’s director, Zeng Qing Jie, has done a similiar set of medium-form genre dramas, and when I watch POJ I think that he controls the tone of all the generic moves he makes with such freedom that “airily” isnt a bad word for it.
There is some way in which the director fundamentally offended the novel-readers, even though grudgingly most came around to approbation of the adaptation. I think it is because the novel sounds as if it emphatically is not about freedom although it is definitely about desire.
Just write away, @ibisfeather. Will open a thread for PoJ this evening and transfer your posts. Am sprucing up our garden this morning and hosting a book club meeting this afternoon. 😅 Haven’t finished the book yet, too….
Me, what grabbed my interests in Ep 1 was the artistic camera shots, e.g., when the girl disappeared in the mist after slaughtering the pig in the opening act, then when she came for him in the pig sty in the final scene. I thought those two scenes made a great connection because for me, that’s the fitting way he should have apperceived her when he opened his eyes for the first time: his protectoress coming out of thin air.
Anyway, talk to you later.
For sure I will watch Yumi Cells 3.
I can’t say if it will be on-air or binge watch later.
Wow, that is cool about the mist. It was clear that the way he looked at her, from in the pigsty while she uncovered him, parting the brush bundles, was important. I dont remember how many shots there were, but at least the aerial ones were repeated and the close-up of his light-brown irises and thick eyelashes. He looks at her — is that when he falls in love? Without Knowing that he has? I think so.
GB also said something clever around a parallel, about carrying him home like a pig to the slaughter, I think. (that doesnt sound quite right..)
A real, serious spoiler follows — ONLY for those who have already reached the end. Or like to have an idea beforehand.
I like the psych-social allegories of the show. The way that the innards of the main characters were transformed into patient profound love, which essentially in the second half became enacted almost always in private.
Once the couple reach the capital with their interestingly parallel triumphal entries, she waits. He has promised that when the problem of his family is solved, that they will return to her territory, while he holds down an administrative job in the Northwest.
The much awaited scene of 108 lashes, long-awaited by the kinky-novel readers, reads very well as the permission structure for the Marquis to present his wife before the family altars.
Many commented that they felt unease during the 3 chapters of the ending. While more fantasy oriented viewers could follow the tropes and signals of the village love story, the true romance fans went crazy both positively and negatively over the war section. The signals were strong about how to follow the story but people resisted them.
In the third section I think that the signals for how to follow a classic palace intrigue werent familiar enough to new watchers of cdrama. I personally spent sometime mulling over what the Eastern Palace was, until I realized it was (duh!) a building in the capital palace complex. Dumb stuff, but for a regular viewer a solid set of trope instincts would have kept them upright in the wash of what happens.
I thought interesting things were happening around Wei Yan and the burning of the (Easter Palace plus?) palaces with women inside. Besides the various rescues needed, and that especially confused the experience…
The most special rescue being CY and YZ; after she dunked him into a palace pool to keep him under control until they got home, the audience was so obsessed with the visions of them working off the aphrodisiac in the bath, that, I think, no one could keep their attention on anything else more serious!
Speaking of allegories. The way that Uncle Wei Yan committed the original crime in order to stabilize the regime. Well, then. And yet his motives were tragic passionate love in the gilded cage..,.
and this which follows below
is one of my last notes on the first watch.
I forgot to talk about Li Huai An’s lot, but I wasnt as interested in his lot as others were.
“Ep40
Super-interestingly, separate wrap-ups of various strands in the story were extremely distinct — differences in lighting, sound and structure.
I really liked this effect because it tickles my ‘THIS IS NEW’ instincts. It also showcased the director’s skill in handling all the different tonal structures which he has shown such masterful control of in this production. Comedy, tragedy, irony, fairytale, shadings of horror and heroic fantasy.
The various wrap-ups, not in any particular order.
1. The simplest and clearest was the main couple. What is in fact a visit back to Xigu Alley for the main couple does not preclude their plans to settle in the northwest and rebuild Lin’An (haha, miles to the south, but oops, the Marquis reclaimed the lost 16 prefectures before the show began, didnt he?).
Since POJ was POV CHangYu all the way through the show, here as she makes her mini triumphal entry, all the dead revive for a few seconds in a rosy haze and Yan Zhang is waiting for her dismount. She promises the dear Zhaos that she will always be with them. No details on how, but if the viewer hasnt learned how to swing with the ZQJ way, whine on. All of their planning has gone well so far, so even the Marquis’ planned military posting in the northwest is included — she wont let him go out alone, so she continues as the not-really-official fighter alongside him in a fairytale way.
In the alternate ending for ChangYu, we see that no matter what, the fairytale love would still have happened. The lack of a role for the hairpin demands an extra scene to be aired later, its absence is so loud I kept shrieking, show the gift, show the gift!
2. WEi Yan. Oh Wei Yan. Deep in the dungeon he awaits death. He narrates the heart of the imperial events which created this story over a game of Go with Grand Tutor Tao. Our couple overhear this, which could make the scene their memory, but just like their overlook inside the palace after the coups (intentional plural) their presence seems more like the act of the stories narrators. The blue ribbon of storytelling.
Wei Yan’s love affair and the doom of Prince Chengde have already been emotionally dealt with in the previous episode. In ep40 his personal tragedy is felt. The question of whether he deserves reincarnation is a live issue for me. I think that the show’s message is that justice demands he not return as a human. But somehow the viewers in this style have the right to love WEi Yan anyway, despite his crimes. Makes you think, hmm?
The alternate ending for WeiYan is wrapped within the main couple strand. Since he is really, justly, and very very dead in the show’s main narrative, his resurrection only makes sense as a fantasy redo of family ties.
3. As for the toxic and doomed lovers, Yu QianQian and QiMin, the show gives them the best weeper ending, since the warm ending(s) for ChangYu and Yan Zheng is a sentimentally satisfying one.
In the alternate ending these two get the funniest roles. They deserve it. I loved them.
4. The Empire and its problems. Yu QianQian makes the difficult decision to accept her fate, which technically sets up the final solution of the ruling crisis. She becomes the empress regent along with the main couple, even though they logically must live only part-time in the capital. Bao-er and NingNing happily have a normal childhood running around the palace. Let us hope the falcon, now Ning’s instead of Gongsun Yin’s does not get too fat to fly.
4. Qi Shu, the previous Grand Princess, visits her now completely insane brother, Qi Sheng. Cdrama watchers worried that his food was poisoned, but no, a refraction of QiMin occurs, but a cheerful one. Qi Sheng now satisfactorily plays the role of a mad but now harmless (ex-)emperor.
We do not see Qi Shu’s marriage and life with Gongsun. Their last love scene (2 or 3episodes before) will have to do, and it was a very nice scene. AS a plotline outside of the novel’s dramas, they had planned to go live in obscurity in the north as soon as the crisis was over, so this, along with the hairpin and the falcon’s descendants will have to wait for NingNing and Bao-er’s sequel..”
well, that’s it.
Hi All,
This is an Open Invitation to join us for the Rewatch Party of Imaginary Cat… we’ve just watched Ep 1, and will watch Ep 2 on 18 April. The time for the rewatch parties are below, however please adjust for your Daylight Savings time based on which part of the world you are.
The watch time:
6.00am PST
9.00am EST/parts of Canada
10.00am Caracas
2.00pm in London
3.00pm in Paris
4.00pm in Athens
10.00pm in Singapore
🙂
Well..I dropped both Veil of Shadows and Rebirth, but I never regret watching a show with a lot of young actors to learn about and a halfway decent plot, dialogue and casting.
My feeling is that I am not part of the intended audience, for VoS as for Bloodhounds2 and Dandelion. For Rebirth, everyone else was right, sort of, the casting matched up some uneven talents. After a couple of ruined scenes, I moved on.
Instead I am watching a nice little elderly rom-com cdrama called Warm On A Cold Night. Li Yi Tong and Bi Wen Jun.
We Are All Trying Here.
Just a note — any show that stars that beauty Go Jun Young and the film star Koo Kyo Hwan, but starts off with Oh Jung Se, a brilliant actor, is truly bold. I have a good feeling about it.
Although this is a romance group, not kdrama modern fans, I just thought I would mention it. There may be a romance there, after all.
I am interested in We Are All Trying Here.
Hello everyone!! It’s been a while, dropping in a lil bit to read what BOD has to say of Perfect Crown. Watching it and finding it soo good.
Dramas watching now:
1. Pursuit of Jade:
Finished it last week and loved it for the cinematography, the picturesque scenes. And tortoise pace rewatching it for the language. Sometimes I use the cdramas to learn Mandarin because they use so many good phrases and idioms in historical dramas. The OSTs were nice though it didn’t totally stand out for me.
Of course ZLH is best looking here among all his dramas (he was great in The Best Thing too). I love Tian Xiwei for her character strength, physically and mentally.
My only issue with the drama is that the story is confusing, with so many people and names I had to watch someone’s explanation to understand who is who and their relationships. Some of the character’s loyalties to each other & potential for change can be quite grey but I find that nuance quite interesting in that it is not a clear bad or good guy.
2. Perfect Crown
is perfect! I was watching on my own and after episode 4, I told my husband, he’s got to watch it with me! excuse for me to rewatch it
3. Yumi’s Cells
Watching it for the fun cells, not sure what to expect…also realizing I’m forgetting the details of what happened in the earlier seasons.
4. Sold Out on You
I saw the Netflix notification and I may be curious.
Just finished the cdrama Love Between the Lines which was ok nice nice, beginning was better. And watching Dream of Golden Years which is okok, I listen to it as I cook when I can’t find something to listen to.
Hope you are better @pm3! Hope you manage to catch more sleep.
@GB you are still as active! Glad to see you around!
@ibisfeather I’ll take some time to read your post on PoJ! I’m reading the translated novel now. Not fast at all only Chapter 40 of 182 :O I’m not sure I will ever finish! But I like catching some of the things not shown in the drama and I understood some scenes better after reading it, like the feet washing scene.
Hello @Grace! Long time no see. It’s good to know that you’re enjoying Pursuit of Jade and Perfect Crown. Same here. It would be great if you can come and join us sometimes on our Saturday night rewatch parties. We’re watching Imaginary Cat at the moment.
Keep in touch!! 🙂
Hi @grace! Yes the foot-washing scene was one of the times I was glad I was hanging in there with the main page comments. Someone mentioned it early on before that episode actually aired.
Of course I cant forget TWX’s toes curling. A woman whose feet got pulled into her acting (in this show). It didnt hit me as comically as I had expected though.
Remember how she suddenly pulled her knees together in ep1-2 when she realized — he was an imposing person in some way? Or that she wanted to behave around him with better manners? I thought the first time I watched it that it was because she realized she liked him/wanted to impress him…second time that she realized he had good manners…
By the by my first hopeful 3 posts on POJ were in March, on that WAWW thread.
@Snowflower,
I watched about 15 minutes of “We Are All Trying Here” and knew immediately that this kdrama will require more processing than I’ve time for right now. The writer wrote “My Liberation Notes,” didn’t she? She’s a deep thinker, that one.
I also remembered the actor Koo Kyo Hwan from “One Day Off.” I particularly remember the episode he was in.
One Day Off: Ep 3 On Meta-Romance
He’s definitely a cerebral actor/writer/director/producer so I know I just can’t watch this kdrama on the fly.
Maybe I’ll wait till everything is out and then binge-watching everything. As the title says, we’re all trying to do our best here….
@ibisfeather,
I haven’t forgotten my promise to open a thread for “Pursuit of Jade.” I just haven’t the time to write anything for the cdrama and I’m still on Episode 11 (no, wait 12!)
@pm3,
I am trying to catch up on drama watching.Besides We Are All Trying Here, I have Undercover Miss Hong and In Your Radiant Season on my list. Looks like Perfect Crown is getting positive attention too, so I might add it to the list. So many choices, I don’t know where to start.
@Grace: you can watch Yumi Cells s3, even if you forgot previous seasons, and apart some key scenes, I forgot too season 2.
I found that s3-ep1-first-part was a bit slow, because it recaps a bit the situation and introduces again few characters we already know.
Friday I am going to do 2 things I hate — watch another teenage high school show and watch a horror show.
However I am feeling a little short on kdrama and this is another of those up-and-coming-young actor/tresses-casts. I watch these because it makes it easier to choose shows later.
SO
IF WISHES COULD KILL — netflix
@WEnchanteur, yeah I thought so too, about the slowness. Waking up with the sleepy cells. Heh. I’m enjoying it tho I want to strangle some of the silly cells for being so love brained.
@ibisfeather, are you rewatching PoJ? Or have already done so? I’m got so many dramas I couldn’t finish my ep1 rewatch.
The 184 chapter story is impossible to fit inside this 40 episode but….*spoiler*
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Not so spoiler, but main leads eventually went on to have twins. Which explains when they went out for battle again, he said something to the effect of her not losing her skill for fighting or something.
Also…more spoiler…
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Did you know there was a character in there who transmigrated? Explains the CPR. Like it wasn’t invented till the 1900s
@ibisfeather, hope you survive though the shows! How did it go?
Oh my @grace, I think i need several hours of meditation to rinse out the images of hypnotized children killing themselves with box-cutters — and that isnt even a spoiler except for the first 5 minutes.
I was only able to watch 1 ep. But cinematically it is so good (not in pretty way) that I keep wondering what happens to the characters, if there is a rational explanation…
Looking at the comments on the other eps (all 8 have dropt), I guess that also for those hardy souls who enjoy the physiological effects of horror, it is really an excellent piece.
And I now know the names and the faces of a half-dozen more young actors. At the moment it feels like they are burnt into my retinas but that will wear off, I imagine.
Re POJ, still rewatching it. I got stuck on episode 7. Decided it was the most perfect ever. So now I am somewhere in the teens….
I hear there are people out there who have watched the whole thing several times.
Since I watched while it was airing, I did what lots of us did, I would rewatch previous episodes each day.
I am sort of hoping that a POJ thread will arise and then I could rewatch along with that.
I opened a thread to discuss PoJ. Go for it!
Pursuit of Jade: Open Thread
Hello BOD ~ it’s been awhile. I miss this community. and this response is very late as we’re at the doorstep of May this week eeeks.
I’ve always love this thread – what are we watching?? Thank you @pm3
It seems like i’m watching everything @Pm3 mentioned except POJ. It’s in my list though. My last Cdramas were Speed and Love_ and_ Love’s ambition.
@snowflower, i also watched and loved “in your radiant season” and “undercover Miss Hong” – the ending makes me wonder if we will have Season 2. I loved her little dorm family and pirate team.
i am loving “Perfect Crown” so much!!! I wish I can binge watch it haha.
i am happy we have Yumi’s Cells back. Love cell rules!!! hihi so cute.
I am also watching “Phantom Lawyer”
I watched Ep 1 of “sold out on you” and i’m not sold yet. idk. we shall see.
Happy watching ya all!
Hi @HK_Lady! You’re busier this year. It’s still good that you managed to catch some recent shows. You’re watching more than I am!!!
I don’t have time to rewatch Pursuit of Jade, or I’d like to stew in the dreaminess of ZLH and TXW together. Heheheh!
But yes, I’m completely sold on Perfect Crown and am happily rewatching episodes while waiting for new ones to be up.
If you can, leave us a note on the Perfect Crown Open Thread!!! 🙂
@HK Lady — I am watching Phantom Lawyer too, with MonMor! I was so surprised at how good YYS is as a comic actor. My favorite ghost so far is the little scientist.
I am not sure where Light to the Night is playing on the netflix lists, but in Singapore anyway it has made it to the top10.
If you like cop shows and Dylan Wang, they are suiting up together quite nicely in this show.
Wang He Di was so funny in Guardians of the Dafeng — it is a pity it was a superhero fantasy so only a select few may have watched him rant around in a longwhite beard; he eventually wears out and defeats the villain in some sort of karmic water cannon blast of whining.
I havent finished it yet.
Re We are All Trying Here — I am still hanging in there after 4 eps. It is a show that makes me think about the characters for several days after the weekend. The mood watches form a more important part of the story than one would have expected.
We Are All Trying Here (WAATH? that is a suggestive acronym)
A scene that makes me so hopeful in so many different ways —
ep4
Hye-Jin at work (she runs a film production co.) meets with a young writer to say she would like to produce his film, but with one caveat — he must either give the woman he wrote it with co-credit, or get her permission to not do so.
The young writer blusters and tries to deny that he had help. She tells him that it is obvious to anyone that the womens’ lines were not written by him (at least that is what I would say — some men can write for women, but definitely not that guy).
What gives me hope is how firm she is with him; she is trying to avoid legal troubles. But to me it is a signal that a light is being shone on that sort of relationship and it is preventing that sort of exploitation or unconscious appropriation of a woman’s work.
I havent seen this issue dealt with so succinctly, elegantly and clearly before this.
Yay!
@GB
I am definitely on top of my drama watching – so busy I didn’t make time to comment here sorry.
Good idea on the rewatch – I should just rewatch Perfect crown and Yumi’s cells 3 over and over haha
@ibisfeather idk about that episode altho I remember a scientist one but not a small scientist hihi but ya I am have enjoyed some of his possessed moments esp the idol girl haha or everyone he gets to eat their fave food hahaha poor guy
I started watching “light in the night” but I’m not sure yet. His character is too geeky but I should watch that guardian drama. I saw it so I’ll look for it again.
Hello???
I’m still here. I’m just having trouble accessing my own site so I can’t open new threads. I think I can post comments though….