Somewhere in an alternate universe, drama producer Yu Zheng is still filming his massacre drama adaptation of the wuxia novel Return of the Condor Heroes. It’s been seven years since the last major remake starring now top C-movie stars Huang Xiaoming as Yang Guo and Crystal Liu as Xiaolongnu. I’d be happy if we went another seven without a remake … Continue reading →
For an episode that aired coincidentally on Thanksgiving for those in the US, it’s a holiday that evokes both warm familial reunions and fractured familial niceties. Families that get along enjoy a boisterous meal, families that loathe each other dine in barely concealed veneer of courtesy. Episode 16 of Heirs/The Inheritors finally took the main narrative conflict of dynastic inheritance … Continue reading →
There is good and bad news about the upcoming K-drama Prime Minister and I. The good news is that the concept teasers and the first drama preview all look fantastic. Zippy and snappy, there is a lot of energy and the cast is all sparking onscreen. Even better news is the just released first couple still of leads Lee Bum … Continue reading →
I’m so glad Heirs/The Inheritors is a 20-episode drama. That’s Kim Eun Sook‘s normal length but I’ve never felt so keenly that this drama couldn’t possibly be shoved into 16-episodes and right now I’m worried if there is even enough time left to resolve everything for everyone properly. I’ve come to like some of the side characters such as Bo … Continue reading →
Ooooh, me likey very much. The first teaser preview is out for the upcoming SBS alien-actress K-drama You From Another Star. Starring current It-leading man Kim Soo Hyun and movie actress Jeon Ji Hyun, the story revolves around an alien who has been living on Earth for 400 years and in the year 2013 is living the life of a … Continue reading →
Yet another satisfying episode of Heirs/The Inheritors, though not much happened and it did get bogged down in the things least interesting such as Chairman Daddy’s strong arm fully coming down on Won, Tan, and Eun Sang. He’s going to manipulate everything until his entire family fractures, and he will still think he’s doing the right thing. Frankly I don’t … Continue reading →
It’s onwards we go as Fall wraps up and so does the slew of Fall K-dramas that have run the gamut from unexpectedly interesting to shockingly terrible. MBC currently has a win lock on Mon-Tues with Empress Ki which will run into Spring of 2014. But the network must be dying to retire Medical Top Team from the Wed-Thurs timeslot … Continue reading →
Good gracious who picks Lee Min Ho‘s outfits in Heirs/The Inheritors? It’s been mostly a non-stop fail party since episode 1 with the only decent one being his school uniform. He gets the most screen time as the male lead, and so does his consistently headscratching outfits that range from down right fugly to perplexing. This one for the upcoming poignant … Continue reading →
LOL forever, what new fanservice weed is Kim Eun Sook smoking this week? Did she mistake Kim Woo Bin for his character in Friends 2 and decided to merge his currently top grossing movie with his currently highest rated Wed-Thurs drama? The new stills are out for tomorrow’s episode of Heirs/The Inheritors and looks like Young Do has magically turned … Continue reading →
Just two more episodes left of Marry Him If You Dare (Mirae’s Choice) before this drama puts everyone out of their misery and releases me from any obligation to watch and recap its mind-numbing dreariness. This is a drama for the dead of Winter, when there is nary a green speck outside and the world is cold and dry and … Continue reading →
Kim Jae Wook has always been a very low key star and sometimes I have to fairly dig for information about him. Part of the reason is that he splits time between Korea and Japan, and also between acting and his indie band gig with Walrus. He wrapped up the tvN cable drama Who Are You two months ago and … Continue reading →
What the #!@& is going on here?!?! Has Marry Him If You Dare actually gone insane? I doubt it since episode 13 was sensible albeit romance-deprived, but then why do we need to see Park Se Joo take his ridiculous and completely one-sided feelings for Mi Rae all the way to the end and propose to her and waste everyone’s … Continue reading →
This isn’t going to come as a surprise to folks who read my last post about he upcoming KBS drama Age of Feeling (Inspiring Generation) but it’s a relief to have confirmation either way. Second female lead Kim So Eun has dropped the drama due to scheduling conflicts, what with the drama pushed back almost 3 months from its initial … Continue reading →