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The King: Another Trailer Featuring Kim Go Eun and LMH – updated
The second trailer for The Eternal King is out. Thanks to @smileyann and @lovebangwon on twitter for the heads-up. I don’t know what they’re saying. In that 45 second clip, I only understood two things, KGE saying, “I don’t know” and LMH saying “”Let’s go together.” Hahaha. When I see a translation, I’ll post it […]
When the Weather is Nice: Episode 4
Without further ado. 1. Book club reading There were three excerpts in this episode. First was a little poem. “A Little Love Song” by Hwang Tong Gyu I received a letter that froze our yesterday into a still frame. The path on which I used to follow you every day is now gone. And other […]
The King: On Kim Eun Sook
One of the things I want us bitches to distinguish ourselves from other forums is our ability to critique a drama without getting personal. There’s already enough “makjang” (or soap opera-ish emotions) going on in kdramas without us having to engage in histrionics of soap operatic proportions in our discussions as well. Wenchanteur had this […]
The King: More Plot Details
Table122000 posted some glad tidings for the Lee MinHo fans (self-professed or not) among us: Found this article at Soompi. I thought the drama was supposed to be about fighting supernatural forces, but I guess not from the info given here. I was also hoping for 2 separate lovelines and no sad endings. Now, not […]
When the Weather is Nice: Episode 3
My thoughts. 1. The Poem Haewon was reading again from the book “The Person I Love.” She selected the poem, “To the Daffodil,” but the first lines, “Don’t cry. To be lonely is to be human,” made her remember Eunsub reading this same poem in class back in high school. Excited, she went down to […]
When the Weather is Nice: Episode 2
Pardon me for being a slow-top lately. I finally got why these first two episodes have been excruciatingly slow for me. It’s because the slow-moving pictures imitate the tone and cadence of a melancholic poem. 1. The Poems Here are the two poems in this episode. The first one was deliberately omitted in the Viki […]
The King: Lee MinHo’s Trailer is Out
Do you know why I’m hyping up this drama? It’s so when I’m disappointed with the drama later, I know that my enthusiasm for it was all bogus anyway. Welcome to Cynical Island. Population: 1. (just me) Here’s the Youtube trailer: Here’s the instagram. View this post on Instagram A post shared by SBS (@sbsnow_insta) […]
When the Weather is Nice: Ep 1 First Impressions
Ep 1 Title: The Wind Blowing through a Willow Tree Opening scene: a young man leisurely makes coffee for himself. He looks outside the window at a tree shedding leaves. Next, a woman walks down an empty road with her rolling luggage. She receives a phone call from a “Headmaster” and disconnects it. She stops […]
My Holo Love: Eps 1 & 2 First Impressions
I avoid romcoms involving robots/artificial intelligence and humans because I consider most of their philosophical and ethical underpinnings as warped…ahem…with “I’m Not a Robot” and “Are You Human?” leading the pack of serious offenders. But this weekend, we test-drove a Tesla and I began to see how easy it is to fall in love with […]
When the Weather is Fine: Are We Watching This?
I’m leaning towards a yes. Alternative Titles: I’ll Visit You When the Weather is Nice, I’ll Find You on a Beautiful Day, I’ll Go to You When the Weather Is Nice. Start Date: Next Monday, February 24. Actors: Seo Kang-joon, Park Min-young, and Lee JaeWook (the 2nd male lead in Extra-ordinary You) To be honest, […]
Throwback Thursday: Goblin: On Appreciating EunTak
Once in a while, when a script doesn’t seem to be given due justice, I pop up to suggest an alternative interpretation. I ship scripts. There seems to be a growing controversy regarding the age difference between the bride Eun-Tak and the goblin Shin. At best, viewers feel a sense of discomfort; at worst, they […]
Crash Landing on You: By Sun and Candlelight
When Starlett asked me to write about the “presence of flames” in this kdrama, I immediately thought of the lines from Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “Sonnets from the Portuguese.” “I love thee to the level of every day’s Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.” While I’m never going to reach EBB’s level of romance (and […]
Bitch Talk: What’s up With the Rain?
Fern asked: Dear All, this is a bit of an off track query after a stormy night. What significance does rain have in K-dramas and C-dramas? It always shows up and seems to be like another character. Does it always represent tears or drama or an excuse to huddle together under an umbrella, or can […]