Drama producer Chen Yu Shan must be smiling all the way to the bank, what with her expensively produced period C-drama King of Lan Ling breaking ratings records and being the most talked about C-drama of the Summer in both China and Taiwan. It’s a frothy shoujo manga in the guise of a pseudo-historical take on the famed King of … Continue reading →
The drama gods must be playing a practical joke on me or else there is a conspiracy to get me to like Yoona. It might still happen, but all I know is that I’m checking out Prime Minister and I come hell or high water. First of all, the drama title has reportedly changed to Prime Minister In Love, but … Continue reading →
The ratings for Marry Him If You Dare have been a huge disappointment with this drama and not necessarily warranted due to its quality (or lack thereof), but ultimately rather explainable. The rom-com genre has been by and large a crap shoot, with most garnering low ratings and few that really spark with the viewers. Conversely a sageuk usually has … Continue reading →
The popular TW-drama Just You (Just Want to Make You Fall In Love with Me) wrapped filming last week and held its wrap party on the 16th to celebrate. This one definitely deserves the celebratory mood, with the ratings on a steady upward climb since its premiere and was the nightly leader on the normal slow Friday time slot. I … Continue reading →
There are too many characters in this drama and not enough time for all of them, so in episode 5 of Heirs/The Inheritors all of that filler material involving less important (and meaningful) story lines really begins to bog down the narrative. As previews indicated and everyone wished for, the main cast finally got back to being high school students … Continue reading →
I have good and not so good news about the upcoming MBC sageuk Empress Ki. The good news is that the first posters are out featuring leading lady Ha Ji Won as the titular Empress and she looks glorious. There is glamour and splendor in these posters, something that has been missing from MBC promotion material for its last sageuks … Continue reading →
While I am enjoying Heirs/The Inheritors with a lowered expectation and an enjoyment of the little details in there that particularly intrigue me, I wish the drama could be better. A lot better, so that the enjoyment lived up to its sprawling cast, famed screenwriter cred, and clearly big budget. It’s not a hot mess but there is a sensation … Continue reading →
I love the development of Mi Rae and Shin’s interest in each other in this time line. Apart from the initial misunderstanding antagonism, they’ve gotten past that and have become this nebulous mix of colleagues and friends with an overarching attraction to each other. Try as future Mi Rae wants, Mi Rae has no male awareness of Se Joo and … Continue reading →
Looks like not only will the beyond strange onscreen coupling of Lee Bum Soo and Yoona from SNSD be happening in the upcoming KBS drama Prime Minister and I, the production went on a casting roll today with four new additions to the cast. Playing the second male lead is the always adorable Yoon Si Yoon, who was last in … Continue reading →
Just as I thought there was literally no way the MBC sageuk Goddess of Fire could sink any lower into the cesspool of drama crap, the penultimate episode managed to actually shock and awe me. This from a drama with as much finesse as an elephant trying to change a battery. GoF is wrapping up this week and all I … Continue reading →
I haven’t been mulling over the narrative progression in the first 4 episodes of Heirs/The Inheritors between the weekly episode waits. My uptake for this drama is surprisingly in the moment, and I don’t think there is too much grist to sort through so far. It’s rather straightforward with the characters and conflicts without too much complexity at this point. … Continue reading →
Sorry chingus, I’m on a business trip this week so likely no time for full recaps complete with a zillion stills of the increasingly perfect and gorgeous Kim Shin. Episode 3 of Marry Him If You Dare was supremely awesome, ratcheting up the four way love complication as well as the time travel mystery. A new time traveler appears towards … Continue reading →
If the behemoth that is SM Entertainment produces a drama, it might not be geared towards making money and could function more as a platform to showcase its stable of young talent. That is how I always saw To the Beautiful You, but SM does have an acting arm called SM C&C (culture and content) that reps very established actors in … Continue reading →