Yippee yay, as this shortened work week heads into a long holiday weekend for me, what better way to kick start the happy time off than a piping hot just released new snippet from the upcoming episode 8 of Monstar. Part of me wants more Monstar episodes but knowing that we only have 5 more left makes me want to … Continue reading →
One barometer of how good Monstar keeps getting is that even as I’m digesting the awesome of a just aired episode seeing the preview for the next one gets me raring to hurtle forward into next week so I can keep riding this high. It’s like finishing one great chapter and you just have this urge to start the next … Continue reading →
Is that what I think it is? Jealous Se Yi? Little clueless Sheep Girl with daddy issues being jealous when she sees Seol Chan hugging Na Na? Oh heck yeah! It’s finally about time the final leg of the love triangle in Monstar starts realizing she’s got some emotional stakes in the ground as well, what with the two boys … Continue reading →
Watching a live drama has its benefits and drawbacks, and this week I worried Monstar would hit that major wall for me whereby the wait is simply too long between episodes when the actual material is darling but just not that gripping. This is a high school coming-of-age story through music, about friendships past and future, about moving past failures … Continue reading →
I profess to being an old hand at enduring the once-a-week episode grind of TW-dramas and J-doramas, but even then the unexpected and totally worth it love for Monstar is making me feel like a kid in a candy store. I want MOAR and I want it NOW. LOL, and here I am pretending to be a fully functioning adult … Continue reading →
My poor discombobulated Seol Chan! One moment he’s a Star riding high on his popularity and potential, and the next minute he’s smitten by a Sheep Girl and stuck playing the tambourines in a cobbled together ensemble reluctantly collaborating because of the mutual threat of Poop. Can his life go from bad to worse? Around Min Se Yi, it probably … Continue reading →
If ever there was a production team who seemed to take sadistic delight in tormenting its loyal viewers, then SETTV‘s King Flower (Substitute Princess) wins the award hands down. I don’t even know how to describe them anymore – brilliantly machiavellian in manipulating the viewers to dance on a string, increasingly losing their mental acuity like Flowers for Algernon so we … Continue reading →
As the haze clears on King Flower as it limps towards its finale in episode 21, at least SETTV isn’t trying to mislead the audience with which direction the ending will go. Normally I collect all the previews and post it all at once but since its the last week might as well let the good times roll. I really … Continue reading →
Those of you not watching King Flower bear with me here (LOL, I typed in King Bear first and then wondered if I was dreaming of that Grey Bear going all Ghostbusters on me), and those of you watching join in the last bit of fun discussion since it’s all ending after this week. No more swooning over Terry, no … Continue reading →
How does one even begin to critique King Flower? I definitely need to wait until it ends with episode 21, but really it’ll either be a hot mess with a satisfying ending or a hot mess with the worst ending in dramaland. Either way – hot mess that I can’t stop watching. Is that good or bad? Plenty of quality … Continue reading →
I really went back-and-forth all of last week trying to decide what to do with Jang Ok Jung, Live in Love. Continuing watching and recapping? Just watching and no recapping? Or stopping altogether. Normally when a drama tonally and narrative collapses so thoroughly and takes with it everything great I loved, the easy decision is to bid farewell. Save some … Continue reading →
In all my years of drama watching I’m having a hard time remembering feeling this level of anxiety as a drama heads towards the finale. Normally I’m worried one or both of my OTP will die, which is understandably traumatic, but King Flower is rewriting the script for how to mind-fuck its viewers and potentially give everyone a collective aneurysm. … Continue reading →
I’ve going to miss writing about King Flower. The recaps while swooning over Terry, the venting over the narrative impasse and the emotional misdirections, the preview translations that give me hope only to dash it when the episode airs. It’s been an exhilarating roller coaster ride and I sure hope I don’t barf when I get off when it pulls … Continue reading →