The return of the on Olympic hiatus weekend K-dramas slowed the ratings increase for the two new arrivals Forecasting Love and Weather and Twenty Five, Twenty One but now two weekends in it’s clear these two will be set as hit and bigger hit under its belt. Twenty Five, Twenty One broke the 10% ratings mark this Sunday with episode … Continue reading →
Holy hot cakes this is absolutely the wildest casting of 2022, and maybe of the last few years. When have I ever seen a male lead reunite with his female lead but then as the second male lead. Like, whut? K-ent is reporting that Jung Hae In will be joining the cast of K-drama Tree Dies on Their Feet, but … Continue reading →
Clearly the Lee Jun Ki drama suffering streak will continue onwards with his next drama Again My Life. The observation is that Lee Jun Ki portrays angst and suffering so beautifully onscreen that he’s ALWAYS being made to fall into pits of despair in whatever drama plot or genre he’s in. In Again My Life, he’s a prosecutor who gets … Continue reading →
Everyone has a different amount of appetite in a meal and I’ve decided my weekends are only able to juggle one drama. I can do more than one drama per week but for a given time slot right now I’m maxed out mentally. So that means putting Twenty Five, Twenty One on wait to binge (I was planning to start … Continue reading →
I’ve never liked actor Yoon Park, but more accurately I’ve never liked any character he’s played and that’s influenced how I associate with him, e.g. smarmy asshole types. But then he’s doing such a great job of being exactly that in Forecasting Love and Weather, but with more vulnerability and weakness and also great subtle comedic timing. He’s definitely a … Continue reading →
Two decades of K-drama watching and a still keen memory tells me that a hot mess drama casting/production isn’t always indicative of a bad drama to come, buuuuuuut it does tend to turn out that way with only a handful able to overcome a messy start. The upcoming Hong Sisters new drama Return (Returning Soul) had a leading lady switch … Continue reading →
Another drama related shut down in K-ent related to its still swarming spread of COVID-19 in South Korea. Lee Se Hee of KBS hit weekend drama Young Lady and Gentlemen just tested positive and is in self-quarantine. Filming has been paused and no news on whether this will impact episode airing dates but the drama is on the back end … Continue reading →
The last five years has seen C-dramas turn BL novels (danmei) into adaptations (dangai) that soften the same-sex romance into bromance for mainstream television airing, with a few streaming C-dramas that hew to the original BL storyline directly. That was halted late last year as part of the government crackdown on cultural excess and deviation which was hard for what … Continue reading →
So I haven’t started on jTBC Wed-Thurs drama Thirty Nine yet still, not because I don’t want to watch just have too much on my plate between Forecasting Love and Weather, Twenty Five, Twenty One, and now A Business Proposal. I also still need to binge All of Us are Dead and Juvenile Justice. But back to Thirty Nine, it … Continue reading →
At this rate I think the majority of K-ent stars are going to get COVID-19, I barely even cover the stars who have gotten it in the last few months since the Omicron spike starting in November but it’s just nonstop the news about testing positive. Today it’s K-actress Kim Tae Ri, who is reportedly doing fine and just in … Continue reading →
The new Mon-Tues SBS drama A Business Proposal (Office Blind Date) arrived this week and its reception was as expected the same degree as the drama hewed close to the webtoon its adapted from. The first episode got 4.9% AGB nationwide ratings and the second episode went up to 6.5%. Since this is airing on SBS the ratings are not … Continue reading →
There has been so many new K-dramas recently but the big Netflix hit has been school yard zombie drama All of Us are Dead. It premiered a month ago and according to Flixpatrol data as of the end of February 28, 2022 it’s still in the worldwide top 10 at number 4. A surprise is seeing tvN drama Twenty Five, … Continue reading →
The Netflix experiment has not done a straight up legal drama until now and it’s getting great reviews if not as much buzz as some other recent Netflix offerings like All of Us are Dead, Hellbound, and Squid Game. This weekend saw the drop of 10-episode legal drama Juvenile Justice on Netflix, starring a veritable four-some of heavy hitting critically … Continue reading →
