I have high hopes for tvN‘s next Mon-Tues drama, the sageuk Our Blooming Youth, simply with the soon to end The Interest of Love I’ll need another weekday drama to follow along with. The routine is comforting for me as it marks the passage of time with a story that develops in a way I want to find out how … Continue reading →
I remember the rise of the fusion youth sageuk in the early 2010’s, I would probably pin it around The Moon Embraces the Sun and perhaps foreshadowed by Dong Yi. The latter had a male lead king in his thirties but the female lead was very young and played young onscreen while the former had a super young male lead … Continue reading →
Time is rounding the corner into the end of January (first lunar new year yay!) which means new sageuk Our Blooming Youth premiering on February 6th will be here before you know it. The new posters give me throwback vibes to both Moonlight Drawn by Clouds and The King’s Affection, the soft and colorful hues and the leaning hard into … Continue reading →
The upcoming tvN sageuk Our Blooming Youth remains one of my more anticipated early 2023 K-dramas, a combination of the leads and the story being adapted/inspired from the C-novel The Golden Hairpin. You have a brilliantly smart female lead cross-dressing to run away from a falsely accused murder of her entire family and needing to both clear her name and … Continue reading →
Since the C-drama version of The Golden Hairpin will never see the light of day, all hopes to see the story adapted are on tvN drama Our Blooming Youth premiering in February 2023. The group poster is strangely like a youth sageuk, a high school drama-esque poster but set in Joseon era. I can see the blooming youth aspect for … Continue reading →
The collateral damage of the Wu Yi Fan (Kris Wu) criminal allegations and scandal last year was that the highly anticipated C-drama adaptation of The Golden Hairpin was likely never to see the light of day despite being fully filmed. But then came the news that K-drama was adapting it either in full or inspired by with the upcoming tvN … Continue reading →
