With an interesting premise and a solid cast, Show starts strong out of the gate, at least in my experience.
I loved the younger days portion of our story, and the bonding of our key characters, which sucked me in right away.
Once we move to the present-day portion of our story, though, I feel like Show starts to lose focus, in terms of what it really wants to do, or be.
Show is still feel-good and warm, but because of its lack of focus (at least in my opinion), the watch experience feels kind of.. digressive, in a manner of speaking?
Some lens adjustments are likely to help, which I’ll talk about shortly.
Overall, not bad – but it could’ve been so much better, I feel.
Like what we did for the past couple of years, we’re having guest posts from the lovely folks on Patreon, to help us take stock of our drama years, yay! 🥳
We’ll be seeing about 2 guest posts per week, and this will unfold into January 2023, and that’s perfectly ok.
My annual year-in-review, which usually comes out in December, will also come out in January (or thereabouts 😅), after all the guest posts have been published.
If you missed our earlier posts, you can check them out as follows: Ele, Natalia, JJ, Sean.
Today, I’m pleased to announce that j3ffc is sharing his drama year.
Don’t be fooled by j3ffc’s trademark self-deprecating humor, you guys; the more I get to know him, the more I feel that j3ffc’s more imaginative, insightful and wise than he might want you to think.
Plus, he’s thoughtful, kind, and really funny too. Very often I find myself giggling out loud at j3ffc’s witty comments. Thank you j3ffc, for just being you. 🥰
If you missed it, I highly recommend checking out j3ffc’s dream drama post, where he took a real-life incident featured in a news article, and turned it into a kdrama for us, complete with casting picks. 🤩 You can check it out here!
Like what we did for the past couple of years, we’re having guest posts from the lovely folks on Patreon, to help us take stock of our drama years, yay! 🥳
We’ll be seeing about 2 guest posts per week, and this will unfold into January 2023, and that’s perfectly ok.
My annual year-in-review, which usually comes out in December, will also come out in January (or thereabouts 😅), after all the guest posts have been published.
If you missed our earlier posts, you can check them out as follows: Ele, Natalia, JJ.
Today, I’m pleased to announce that Sean is sharing his drama year.
The more I get to know Sean, the more amazed I am, at how Sean is a man of many – many! – interests and talents.
It’s so cool that dramas is one of his interests, because he applies his wide-ranging interests, and meshes it with his out-of-this-world ability to bend time and space, to all of his drama-watching.
You’ll see that the result is quite astounding, in terms of the number and scope of dramas he’s watched.
Which means that more than likely, he’ll mention a drama (or five) that you might’ve never heard of otherwise. 😁
Sean also writes about management and leadership on his own blog, which you can visit here.
Like what we did for the past couple of years, we’re having guest posts from the lovely folks on Patreon, to help us take stock of our drama years, yay! 🥳
We’ll be seeing about 2 guest posts per week, and this will unfold into January 2023, and that’s perfectly ok.
My annual year-in-review, which usually comes out in December, will also come out in January (or thereabouts 😅), after all the guest posts have been published.
If you missed our earlier posts, you can check them out as follows: Ele, Natalia.
Today, I’m pleased to announce that JJ is sharing her drama year.
If you’ve read JJ’s posts before, you’d know that JJ’s a bundle of positive energy. You can feel it, just by reading her, no exaggeration.
JJ’s also one of our MVPs over on Patreon, for being so forthcoming, warm and welcoming, whether you’re a newcomer just stepping foot into the space, or a longtime member who’s just found your way back after going MIA for a bit, or an everyday hanger-outer who never went anywhere.
Thanks for sharing your positive energy with us, JJ!
I got to attend Junho’s fanmeeting here in Singapore, on 8 December 2023, and I am still kinda in a daze right now, a full week later.
I mean. I got to see Junho in the flesh; in REAL LIFE. 😱
How very surreal, honestly. 🫠
When I’d asked on Patreon, if you guys felt it was worthwhile for me to write a post about my experience even though I don’t have great photos and videos, I got a resounding, collective ‘yes’ in response – so here I am.
For the record, I will be sharing other fans’ photos and videos, which are much better than mine, to help to make the fanmeeting come alive for you, as much as possible.
So here’s an upfront THANK YOU to all my fellow Junho fans, for taking such great pictures and videos, and being so generous to share them with all of us. ❤️
Not as dark as typical crime noir, and yet, definitely darker than your average kdrama, this show sits in a pretty niche space, in terms of its appeal, I imagine.
It’s gritty, violent, bloody and full of moral dilemmas, and at the same time, it’s also laced with a kdrama sensibility, with some very recognizable tropes in play.
Ji Chang Wook and Wi Ha Jun are two big reasons to give this one a try, and I thought they both did well, in their roles.
I personally found this much more watchable and engaging than I’d first expected, and I don’t even really gravitate towards crime noir.
I think that if this show works for you, it’ll really work for you – but if it doesn’t, you’d probably not like it very much, and the only real way to find out, is to dip a toe in. 😅
Like what we did for the past couple of years, we’re having guest posts from the lovely folks on Patreon, to help us take stock of our drama years, yay! 🥳
We’ll be seeing about 2 guest posts per week, and this will unfold into January 2023, and that’s perfectly ok.
My annual year-in-review, which usually comes out in December, will also come out in January (or thereabouts 😅), after all the guest posts have been published.
If you missed Ele’s post, you can check it out here!
Today, I’m pleased to announce that Natalia is sharing her drama year, YAY Natalia!
I feel like one of the things that I can always count on Natalia for, is forthright honesty. If she doesn’t like a drama, she’ll tell you without sugarcoating it, and that’s the kind of drama bestie you need, right – coz we need to save on drama hours whenever we can, yes? 😁
If you like Natalia’s style and want to know what she thought about dramas last year, you can check out her post here!
It’s that time of the year again, when we look back on our drama years, and decide which dramas were worthy of our love, and which dramas we ought to think about putting in that application to get our drama hours back, heh. 😁
It’s become a bit of a tradition by now, with quite a few folks on Patreon actively thinking about these year-end posts, even before I announced that we were doing this again. How cool is that? 🤩
Like last year, we’ll be taking things in a more relaxed direction this year, so that we don’t all get stressed out from this (and so that I can attempt to stay on top of my Patreon schedule, at the same time 😅).
Again, like last year, we’ll be seeing about 2 guest posts per week, and this will unfold into January 2024, and that’s perfectly ok.
AND, my annual year-in-review, which used to come out in December, will again, like last year, come out in January (or thereabouts 😅), after all the guest posts have been published.
Ele is kicking us off this year (thank you, Ele! ❤️).
Not only did Ele make time to write this post despite being a busy artist who also cares for her grandson (Ele’s a very young grandmom!), she volunteered for the first slot available on the schedule I released – talk about being feisty and dauntless! 😉
If you’d like to read more of Ele’s writing, you can check out her other brilliant post, where she talks about fangirling, Jane Austen style, here!
You might also like to visit Ele’s website, where she talks about art and writing.
It feels like not so long ago, that we celebrated the blog turning ten (here!), and yet, a whole year’s flown past in what feels like the blink of an eye, and now, I get to say that my blog’s 11 whole years old.
I hope you enjoyed my episode 1-2 notes on The Story of Park’s Marriage Contract (here). Today I thought I’d share my episode 1-2 notes on Welcome To Samdalri, because I’m enjoying it nicely, and I was wondering if you’d like to join me? 🤗
These are my episode 1-2 notes, exactly as they appear on Patreon, ie, without screenshots (I’m saving those for the actual review).
I hope you all enjoy, and I hope you’ll consider joining us over on Patreon, for the rest of the discussions! ❤️
