The title of this drama is so apropos with the casting lol but it’s nevertheless good news to hear. K-actress Baek Jin Hee and underrated K-actor Kwak Si Yang have been cast in the next big KBS weekend drama titled The Real One Has Appeared. It will premiere in April 2023 and by then it would have been four years … Continue reading →
I love me some good whole C-ent gossip and this one fits the bill to a T! C-drama leads Bai Jing Ting and Song Yi, who just filmed the period drama Chang Feng Du (English title tentatively Destined) together are embroiled in dating rumors. A prominent C-ent gossip blogger outed them are going back home the same residence and even … Continue reading →
Now that filming has wrapped for the high profile Fox Spirit Matchmaker (the Yue Hong chapter) with Yang Mi and Gong Jun, it’s time to over/under whether this drama will air in 2023 or somehow drag until 2024 to premiere. One never knows these days with SARFT regulations and permitting black holes. The drama released new filming wrap pictures of … Continue reading →
Well the interest is definitely there for the upcoming C-drama adaptation of Tong Hua xianxia romance novel Lost You Forever. Unlike the C-drama version of the prequel Once Promised which was soooooo bad and thankfully no one watched it, this one is high profile thanks to Yang Zi as the female lead and a bevy of fast rising male leads … Continue reading →
Okay, this one I can totally chime in on! Today there is a K-news story around viewer complaints on MBC weekend drama Gold Spoon which is actually ending this week. It started off better than expected but then proceeded to tread water with a combination of swap lives/rinse-and-repeat as well as like a bajillion gold spoons all around with multiple … Continue reading →
With less than two months left in 2022 the dramas that are starting filming now will be arriving in 2023 and one of them is the jTBC romance drama Understanding of Love. Starring Yoo Yeon Seok, Moon Ga Young, Geum Sae Rok, and Jung Ga Ram, the average height of this leading cast guys and gals combined is insane haha. … Continue reading →
After the delayed surprise that was my watching Find Me in Your Memory a good two years late, I decided no more passing up on Kim Dong Wook romance dramas even if the premise doesn’t sound all that interesting off the bat. Sadly You are My Spring was meh but at least I tried to power through it, but his … Continue reading →
So I’m 10-episodes into newly arrived youth romance C-drama Lighter and Princess adapted from a popular web novel and it’s as good a time to do a first impression now that the initial Douban ratings are out. It’s got a 7.2 ratings and that feels about right to me, 10-episodes in I like the drama but don’t (yet) love it. … Continue reading →
It will be a new challenge for K-actress Kim Yoo Jung in the new year 2023 as K-ent is reporting that she’s doing her first stage performance. It’s the stage adaptation of Shakespeare in Love which I’ve not heard about being adapted for the stage but seems quite apropos because, erm, Shakespeare and all heh. This will be Kim Yoo … Continue reading →
Man, it looks like oversharing and overshowing was the cause of the abrupt backlash on upcoming romance C-drama She and Her Perfect Husband. The drama starring Yang Mi and Xu Kai was scheduled to air last month before abruptly delaying the premiere a mere two days prior to release and now C-ent is reporting that the drama has gone back … Continue reading →
The just finished filming and highly anticipated Fox Spirit Matchmaker (涂山小红娘) with Yang Mi and Gong Jun is actually the first of three Fox Spirit Matchmaker dramas. That chapter is called the Yue Hong chapter (月红篇), and was supposed to go into production second behind the Zhu Ye chapter (竹业篇). But the Zhu Ye chapter with female lead Liu Shi … Continue reading →
I don’t think skipping the casting of Seo Ye Ji for the upcoming TVing drama Island has anything impact on the audience excitement as everyone keeps getting hyped up for the return of Kim Nam Gil in a big budget action thriller like this. His last drama Through the Darkness was so highly lauded by critics and appreciated by viewers … Continue reading →
Everyone says holiday creep happens earlier and earlier this year and now it’s the Best and Worst of Lists that seem to start way before the year has even wrapped. Joynews published a poll of critics today of the Worst K-dramas of 2022 and plenty of stinkers made the list so let’s check it out now and be thankful for … Continue reading →
