Thumbs up/Thumbs down 1. The Dog: Two thumbs down Nope. Royal Chinese or not, this dog has everything I dislike about dogs. It sheds; it farts; it snores; it smells; it’s stubborn. There can only be one high-maintenance bitch in my house and you betcha it’s not going to be dog. 2. JeYoon the Bastard: […]
100 Days My Prince: Chicken Soup for the Soul
I have a fever of 102 degrees Fahrenheit. 🤒 I knew I was coming down with a bug when I woke up this morning. I had no stamina for my usual hour-long morning jog. I almost nodded off during my morning briefing. I lacked pep to entertain clients. But I knew I was dying when, […]
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. […]
100 Days My Prince: The Kiss Rating
In this blog, a kiss analysis is different from a kiss rating. An analysis is technical while a kiss rating grades the subjective aspect or the aesthetic value of the kiss. My kiss ratings will be based on the following categories: nakedness (just kidding!), skills, transitions, performance, composition, and interpretation. Each category is graded on […]
The Beauty Inside: Episode 1
I wasn’t going to blog about this because I’ve been jinxing myself lately with duds. Many of the kdramas that I’ve picked to rave about eventually end up as debacles. (cough. A Poem Shit a Day. cough.) So, in my outlandish logic, if I choose NOT to write about a drama, then perhaps it will fare better. […]
100 Days My Prince: Kiss Analysis for @phikyl
My dear friend @phikyl knows that I like analyzing kisses for the sheer perversion heck of it so this one is for her. She isn’t watching the show at the moment so I’m leaving this here for her to read later. I have a rubric for what constitutes a satisfactory kiss. First, the mood. The mood […]
Where Stars Land: Episode 3
Bionic arms. The hero’s desire to live a hermit life is all because he wears prosthetics. Boohoo. Boofuckinghoo. His narration in Episode 2 deceived me into imagining that he kept a dark and monstrous secret. Like, he could kill the planet with a sneeze. His voiceover: On a daily basis, there are about two hundred […]
100 Days My Prince: Random Notes on Ep 9
Displacement. What to do when you’re guilty of crushing on your best friend’s husband? 🤩🤨 You can daydream about the next best scenario. Your daughter who’s your mini-Me can walk down the aisle with your best friend’s son who looks just like her husband. 👰🤵 KkyutNyo displaced her unacceptable and “traitorous” feelings onto a more […]
100 Days My Prince: What I Learned About Love From Episode 9
Here’s my list of things I learned about love in this episode. 😂 What’s on your list? 1. Prosopagnosia, or the inability to recognize familiar faces. Prosopagnosia exists in kdramas because love is blind. I dislike that I had to learn how to spell this long word because of kdramas so I’ve broken down the word to […]
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 […]
My ID is Gangnam Beauty: Ep 3
Thanks, @Table2000 for recommending this kdrama. I’m pressured now to finish this because you and my good friend @phikyl recommended it to me. **************** I expected this kdrama to be nothing more than a fluffy teen romance with a little bit of social commentary on plastic surgery grafted on the plot. But it’s turning out […]
100 Days My Prince: More Dubious Characters
Huh? Did I miss the memo? How come I didn’t know that this foolish guy was Minister Kim’s son? Are there any more undisclosed familial relationships among the characters? Also, there’s something about this guy JeYoon that I find dubious. @dcuu, you said that there a poll conducted by the official tvN account asking who the […]
100 Days My Prince: Who’s the Baby’s Daddy?
People think MooYeon was the father based primarily on two things: 1. the flashback in Episode 7 where 16 years ago, he held the future Crown Princess, the young SoHee hostage and threatened to slash her throat if Minister Kim didn’t call of the search for him. Minister Kim pointed out that he was his […]
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 […]