The thread is now open for spoilers and discussions. Gifs from liveasbutterflies’ tumblr source: liveasbutterflies’ tumblr Let’s enjoy the show!
You Are My Glory: Compendium of Kiss Scenes 😍
Thanks for listing all the kisses complete with notations, @Janey! This is purely for quantitative and qualitative research purposes, of course. My comment is at the end. 🙂 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸 Hi All, here are my notes on the episodes and kisses. It’s hard to do actual count so I just noted if it’s a series of […]
Lovers of the Red Sky: Ep 1 On the Second Prince
Before I start writing on Episode 2, here’s an addendum for Episode 1. link: Lovers of the Red Sky: Ep 1 First Impressions 4. The 2nd Prince During the water ritual, the two younger princes (or the “spares”) went off to investigate the painting of the old King. Mawang succeeded in tempting the 2nd Prince to […]
Lovers of the Red Sky: Ep 1 First Impressions
Move over, HP2. This is the kdrama that captured my interest. Here are the things I like about Episode 1. 1. The world-building I appreciate the drama giving us the creation myth because I’m not well-versed in Korean mythology. A creation myth is important because it reveals how the characters perceive cause and effect in […]
Bitch Talk: What Are We Watching Sept 2021?
On top of my list is “Lovers of the Red Sky” (LotRS or Red Sky, for short). Next is Yang Yang’s “You Are My Glory” (which is completely subbed by now), followed by “Hometown Cha Cha Cha.” “Hospital Playlist 2” has been moved to the backburner. I would have thrown it in the rubbish pile […]
Hometown Cha Cha Cha: Eps 3 & 4 Open Thread
The thread is now open for spoilers and discussions. lol. Here’s the obligatory gif set of the actor’s shower scene. I guess he hasn’t reached the star level where he could opt out of full/partial nude scenes like Hyun Bin (“Crash Landing on You”) and Lee Min Ho (“The King: Eternal Monarch”). source: yesdramas’ tumblr […]
Hometown Cha Cha Cha: Eps 1 & 2 First Impressions
Sigh. As I expected, this drama is a healing drama… for the fangirls of the leading actor Kim SeonHo who were crushed that he didn’t get the girl in “Start-Up.” Instead of Hong Doo Shik, the screenwriter should have named his character Jjang Dae Bak since he can do nothing wrong in this drama. Jjang […]
Hometown Cha Cha Cha: Eps 1 & 2 Open Thread
The thread is now open for spoilers and discussions. (I know this post is early but my schedule will be tough this week.) Shin Minah plays a dentist down on her luck so she moves her practice to a small village by the sea. There may be a mystery or two involving the real identity of […]
Lovers of the Red Sky: Eps 1 & 2 Open Thread
Oh dear. Not another love triangle! This is written by the screenwriter of “The Moon Embracing the Sun,” and “Sungkyunkwan Scandal” so we know that the OTP (or “One True Pairing” in kdrama lingo) is already established. Hong Chun Gi (played by Kim YooJun) is a Joseon Era painter. Her leading man is Ha Ram […]
Hospital Playlist 2: Ep 10 On Jang’s Rehabilitation
We knew this was coming, right? ShinLee were going to rehabilitate Jang’s character, give her a dramatic arc that not even the female lead, Songhwa, received, and portray her with such a pitiful backstory that, in the end, she’d be made “worthy” of our sympathies. Hey, ShinLee, nice try but you can’t gaslight us! This […]
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Protected: Hospital Playlist 2: Ep 10 Alfresco Thread
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Hospital Playlist 2: Ep 9 On Binary Opposition
I didn’t coin this term “binary opposition.” The French anthropologist, Claude Levi-Strauss, did. He observed that in many stories told in books and films, the plot is driven by characters, values and/or concepts that are directly polar opposites. Think of Batman vs. Joker, hero vs. villain, rich vs poor, religious vs secular, engineering vs. feng […]
Hospital Playlist 2: Ep 9 On Reading Between the Lines
When lurkers complain that this blog presents a wholly different perspective on “Hospital Playlist” from other sites, it’s because we like to read between the lines. 🙂 Based on my limited experience on ShinLee’s dramas, I expect them to present the story in two ways: the surface level, and the deeper level that go further […]