Shin Hye Sun, Lee Jin Wook, and Kang Hoon Confirmed for Healing Mental Illness K-drama To My Harry

So this drama casting is a done deal so I won’t pooh pooh it beyond saying I also wish the male lead was another actor. The main casting is done for K-drama To My Harry (To My Hye Ri) which will star Shin Hye Sun, Lee Jin Wook, and Kang Hoon. It’s about a female broadcast announcer with DID (dissociative identity disorder) and her healing romance after suffering the loss of her brother and being dumped by her boyfriend. To do a K-drama about DID absolutely puts it up against the perfect and wildly ambitious epic cult hit Kill Me, Heal Me but that was a decade ago so it’s probably enough distance to work on the same subject matter in a different story and take. Oh I almost forgot Hyde, Jekyll, Me also did DID but that was heaping hot mess of a drama so anything is an upgrade to that take.

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Penultimate Episode 11 of See You in My 19th Life Reveals the Real Life/Death Conflict in the 1st Life Setting the Stage for a Cathartic Ending

So there is a Chinese saying that to untie a bell one needs the person who tied the bell (解鈴還須繫鈴人) which means that to resolve a problem one needs the person who caused it in the first person to do … Continue reading

tvN Fantasy Romance See You in My 19th Life Averaging 5% Ratings Through Episode 6 as the Story Continues to be Carried by Shin Hye Sun’s Stellar Acting

I wanted See You in My 19th Life to be better than it is but what it is remains worth watching. The Sat-Sun drama is now through episode 6 and the ratings are high 4% on Saturdays and low 5% … Continue reading