Happy New Year!

Happy 2024! Here’s to a new year filled with… kdramas by screenwriters and actors we like, cdramas with less than 24 episodes, doramas with leavening content, understanding friends, caring family members, loving spouses, good health, good fortune, gpod times, memorable trips, happy reunions, spiritual renaissance, sunlight and moonlight, chocolate and seafood, our favorite things, peace […]

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The Matchmakers: Ep 15 & 16 Open Thread

The thread is open. Here you go, @BethB. Two things: This is the first drama by Rowoon that I completed after “ExtraOrdinary You” (2019). That’s saying something. And I like the female lead. She wasn’t stupid, codependent, impulsive (like the silly female lead in “The Story of Park’s Marriage Contract), abrasive (like the female lead […]

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Merry Christmas!

Have a blessed Christmas, everyone! The Birth of Jesus. In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole world should be enrolled. This was the first enrollment, when Quirinius was governor of Syria. So all went to be enrolled, each to his own town. And Joseph too went up from Galilee […]

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My Demon: Eps 9 & 10 Open Thread

The thread is open. I’ll have to catch up. You know, after working in Washington DC, I find the backstabbing (whoops. it was a heart-stabbing, right?) in this drama rather unimaginative, and the villains a bit gormless. But I guess, we’re supposed to see the DoHee and GuWon’s sufferings scale up in these next few […]

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Death’s Game: Ep 1 to 4 Open Thread

The thread is open. The first four episodes are on Amazon Prime videos here in the US. Cast: Our favorite actor, Seo In Guk (“Doom At Your Service”) and Park So Dam (“Parasite” and “Cinderella and the Four Knights”). It’s a star-studded show. Lee Jae Wook (“Alchemy of Souls”), Go Yoon Jung (Naksu in “Alchemy […]

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Moon in the Day: Ep 14 Quick Takes

Happily-ever-after? No. Closure: Yes. Satisfactory closure? Yes. To me, if you have to end it in death, this is the way to end it so the one you leave behind — your survivor — can go on living. Will I rewatch it? Yes. Probably this weekend. So I can jot down his last words to […]

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