Fifth Year of Watching KDrama

This week marks my fifth year of watching KDrama. I slowed down a little because of a tragic event earlier this year. I’ve started watching again but I’ve become more picky. I find myself falling asleep if the story is not compelling enough. I don’t feel guilty anymore dropping a drama when it becomes too

Hierarchy

Hierarchy is a high school drama that’s part The Inheritors, part Sky Castle, and part The Glory. This 7-episode mini-series takes place in an exclusive school where the rich kids bully the scholarship kids. The show is entertaining in the sense that the story is intriguing, the actors are natural, the fashion and art design

May 29, 2024

May 29, 2024 I woke up early to drop off M at the bus stop. I came back home to have breakfast. I fed the cats. I did a load of laundry. I watched a butterfly hover around the calamansi tree. I mopped the floor. I watched an episode of KDrama. I ate kimchi with

The 8 Show

This Netflix mini-series is part-Hunger Games, part-Squid Game, and part-The Platform. Eight individuals find themselves in a sealed building with 8 floors. Their assigned rooms are on each floor. A special counter flashes how much money they each earn and how much time they have left. They soon find out about hierarchy, the value of

May 19, 2024

May 19, 2024 Story time. Let’s call this the – “I’ve seen G do this before, I can probably do it myself” plus “Google: how to jumpstart a dead battery” plus “Thank you cousins for answering my texts” incident.  I use the gray car every day. The white car hasn’t been used since my cousins

Kim Soo-hyun and Na Young-hee

Kim Soo-hyun and Na Young-hee have played son-in-law and mother-in-law in at least three popular dramas. They were in The Producers with IU. They were in My Love From the Star with Jun Ji-hyun. They were in Queen of Tears with Kim Ji-won. These two actors are the most comical and heartwarming son and mother-in-law

January-April 2024 Drama List

Here are the dramas that I’ve completed so far (ranked): Here are the dramas that are on pause. I may or may not start watching them again: Here are the dramas that I’ve stopped watching. I lost interest: 

1,000 Days in a Row

1,000 days in a row! Can you believe it? I’ve already explained why I almost stopped writing after Day 888. It’s in my post yesterday, celebrating Day 999. Yet here I am, still writing, still watching KDrama. Life happens, and we just need to deal with circumstances one thing at a time, one day at

Queen of Tears

How did Queen of Tears achieve the highest viewership rating among TVN dramas, overtaking the highly popular Crash Landing On You? Well, it ticked all the right boxes in the KDrama formula.  QOT has a well-written script. It has all the elements: rich girl-poor boy, families with opposite personalities, chaebol power struggle, illness, money, amnesia,

Park Ji-Eun Umbrella

You know it’s a Park Ji-eun drama when she writes a rain scene with the lead guy holding an umbrella over the lead girl. He will be holding it in such a way that the girl will be totally protected from the rain, while his own broad shoulders get drenched. Come to think of it,