I confess to not noticing the age gap in the OTP in Prime Minister and I. It’s not being blind to Lee Bum Soo being much older than Yoona, it just doesn’t stand out in the context of their characters or interactions. I see a closed off man with emotional baggage from a past marriage and a spirited woman falling … Continue reading →
Screw you, drama! Seriously, screw you and your nonsensical police procedural plot and your oppa-dangling fan exploitation. I kept my expectations dialed way way way down for the final two episodes of Who Are You, and even then episode 15 of WAY managed to both suck and blow. Well…..without a written or video preview for episode 16 who knows if … Continue reading →
I remember last year when two body-swap dramas were airing at the same time – the Hong Sisters Big on network TV while there was I Love Lee Tae Ri over on cable. I was completely in love with Big while ILLTR did nothing for me, but this year the same two screenwriters are at it again and its strange … Continue reading →
Oh man, what is this? Don’t be spinning me round and round, drama! The written preview for episode 15 of Who Are You is out and I’m simultaneously sniggering and sighing. This drama can re-name itself more aptly Who is In a Coma, because looks like Gun Woo is going to get a taste of the sleep medicine. Though for … Continue reading →
Episode 14 of Who Are You was overwhelmingly boring, probably purposely so to set up the great reveal at the end when puppy Gun Woo finds hot comatose oppa Hyun Joon laying in some hospice. Tossing logic out the window, this was one twist that delivered the emotional punch, and actually threw uncertainty back into the narrative mix. Why was … Continue reading →
I can’t quite wrap my mind around how much I love watching Who Are You vis-a-vis how good it is. It’s not very good but its a very easy and enjoyable watch, with the emotional threads nicely developed whether its the friendship and partnership between Si On and Gun Woo and definitely the relationship between Si On and Hyun Joon … Continue reading →
This episode 13 of Who Are You had much too little Hyun Joon, but it ended with as big of a narrative bang as it can get so that rather evens things out. From the moment I heard about some big “reversal” or “twist” coming up on WAY, I knew this was the most likely deus ex machina the production … Continue reading →
So I’ve been holding off posting the written preview for episode 13 of Who Are You until the video preview is released, but it’s literally hours away from airing and still nothing from tvN. Then the official website announced this nugget to chew on – with four episodes left, the production doesn’t want to waste it just on the love … Continue reading →
Who Are You is much like the ghosts that inhabit its world, you can see it but other aspects are ephemeral. The plot is thus far puttering on the fumes of a few sad emotional threads, namely Si On and Hyun Joon’s corporeal divide and now Gun Woo’s grief over the loss of a father figure and mentor. The true … Continue reading →
This drama is fantastic for exercising the tear ducts. It’s simple and straightforward enough not to require lots of mental gymnastics when watching, but satisfying in the emotional nuggets it buries in a relatively small-scale story. Episode 11 of Who Are You backed off a little from all that angst stemming from watching all the happy times in the past … Continue reading →
For all that makes Who Are You just a relatively small scale drama with a hodge-podge of elements from detective mystery, horror, and SciFi, it does such a wonderful job of showing unfathomable disappointment when someone dies coupled with a hope that it won’t be in vain and the living can still find happiness. I’m not a fan of the … Continue reading →
It’s a couples shirt, people! Dead Hyun Joon’s ever present blue shirt is a couple’s shirt! Ahhhhhh, the tears, they be coming like a spigot that won’t turn off. Episode 10 of Who Are You just flipped the switch for me from love to rabid insane whirlpool of emotion. The remembrance and reunion of torn apart lovers Si On and Hyun … Continue reading →
This is not a post about That Drama Which Shall Henceforth Not Be Mentioned. I would rather gouge out my own eyes than watch another minute of it, much less provide any recap or post about it. It is soul-deadening stuff, though I can reveal that the moronic heroine (who has a life long calling to make pots and cups … Continue reading →