Ok, when the k-drama I am Not A Robot first aired, I gave it a pretty brutal review saying that it objectified women and treated them like dogs (because literally it does do that for the first few episodes) and even if it's cute (I acknowledged that) it really didn't need to exist, you know...because it's a d*ck move against feminism.
So for some clown car reason I started a rewatch thinking it could be a fun hate watch and can I just say...
I LOVE I AM NOT A ROBOT. Like, something happened to my brain and I literally do not care about the robot-as-sexy-object-cringe-fest I LOVE THE R O M A N C E. SO. MUCH.
The leads are SO good. Being in love looks amazing on them...you HAVE to see the emotion in their eyes! Also there are so many cozy fluffy sweater looks on Yoo Seung Ho why can't he be in more rom coms?
Anyways, I'm behind on all of my airing dramas cause I'm rewatching I Am Not A Robot.
No regrets.
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I haven’t done a major tv watching update since last June. It almost feels overwhelming at this point but I really love writing down my thoughts. So I’ve decided to break it up into two posts. This post will be all of the shows I watched from June through December 2022.
finished:
The Uncanny Counter - A misfit teen is randomly chosen to join a group of demon hunters. A supernatural, found family, action adventure with heart.
Age of Youth (Hello My Twenties!) - An off-campus house for female college students as they navigate school, work, love, friendship and potential murder. Interesting characters but the plot is as messy as some of their rooms.
Link: Eat, Kill, Love - A chef develops a mysterious psychic connection with a young woman who enters his life causing him to feel all her turbulent emotions as he searches for his long lost twin sister. Another show that mixes love and murder. I love the main couple and all the food porn as the chef preps to open a new restaurant. Less happy about the murder plotline.
Abyss - I hate watched this for Ahn Hyo Seop. I’m a completionist. lol This is my lowest-rated kdrama so far.
Hotel Del Luna - A woman with a tragic past is magically tied to hotel for ghost on their way to the afterlife until a young man is summoned to fulfill his father’s debt to help her run the hotel and possibly set her free. A gender-swapped Beauty and the Beast retelling with ghosts.
I’m Not a Robot - A young chaebol with an allergy to humans is interested in financing a humanoid robot but, after a malfunction with the prototype, the scientist in charge recruits his ex-girlfriend to pose as the robot until it’s fixed. Enemies to lovers and star-crossed lovers as their fates align to heal their wounds and let their love blossom. I’ve watched it twice so far.
Extraordinary Attorney Woo - An autistic attorney fresh out of school joins her first law firm as she struggles to pursue her career and unexpectedly falls in love. Cute and heartwarming.
Café Minamdang - A former profiler becomes a shaman to investigate his friend’s death and runs into his friend’s sister who is searching for the truth herself. Even Seo In Guk couldn’t save this mess.
Alchemy of Souls - An assassin magically swaps bodies to stay alive and is secretly recruited to train a young mage and unlock his powers. This show is a Top 3 Kdrama for me. I LOVE IT. Fantasy, Romance, Humor, Action, Symbolism. A great ensemble cast but Lee Jae Wook really carries this drama. The ride or die main ship is everything.
While You Were Sleeping - Three people’s fates are tied together as they try to stop the bad premonitions they have from happening. It got a little cumbersome every time a new bad potential thing was revealed but I love the cast: Lee Jong Suk, Bae Suzy, Jung Hae In.
Never Have I Ever (S3) - This show is still firing on all cylinders and I’m here for the ride. Can’t wait for the finale season.
Pinocchio - A boy who lost his family in a tragedy gets adopted into a family that has a girl his own age who can’t lie. They grow up to be reporters to uncover the truth of everyday events and their simmering feelings for each other. I really enjoyed the found family, mystery and romance here.
Reacher - A lone wolf stumbles into a small town murder that hits closer to home that he could expect. A fun mystery and action jaunt through the countryside.
Dali and the Cocky Prince - A boisterous uncultured business man with alot of bravado crosses paths with a reserved art gallery director looking for investors. A sweet romance blossoms and the meaning of real family is explored. There was a lot of great comedy and romance but also some gut wrenching drama.
Little Women - Three sisters get entangled in a web of conspiracy surrounding a secret organization. There were some interesting things here but I was mostly bored.
Flower of Evil - A man who may be a serial killer and his wife who’s investigating the decades old murders as the truth slowly unravels their relationship. Sadly, this wasn’t for me. There were a few things that were interesting but again mostly bored. Also, when we got to the end I had the epiphany that I’ve seen this story before and I have: Fringe Season 3 Episode 2 is basically the whole main plot in one episode.
The Law Cafe - Two longtime but estranged friends end up using their law degrees to help everyday folks and go up against a big corporation together as they finally allow the sparks between them to ignite. A really cute romance with a few good cases but the overall show is a bit lacking.
W: Two Worlds - Fiction and reality begin to blend as the daughter of a comic book author is sucked into her father’s popular comic and is thrust into the life of the main character, a handsome adventurous CEO. An interesting premise with excellent chemistry between the leads, but gets repetitive in the second half and stunts the growth of our leads.
Love Between Fairy and Devil - My first cdrama and already one of my favorite shows ever! It’s literally a fairy tale with amazing bickering enemy to lovers leads, gorgeous costumes, sets and vfx, and a fantastic story with great foreshadowing, parallels and symbolism that pays off. I’m currently on my 5th rewatch. I regret nothing.
Star Trek: Picard (S1 & S2) - While I’m happy to see the og characters back on my screen and get to know a few new ones, I had major but differing issues for both of these seasons of Picard.
Bad Prosecutor - While I really like Do Kyung Soo and Lee Se Hee, the story was rather flat. Even the action couldn’t save it.
What’s Wrong With Secretary Kim - I now understand the hype for Park Seo Joon and Park Min Young. They are fantastic in their roles of chaebol and his assistant falling in love. I really enjoyed it but there was something I couldn’t put my finger on that held me back from loving it.
Kiss Goblin - I wanted to watch Bae In Hyuk in something while I was waiting for new episodes of Cheer Up. This cute web series was the perfect little show to get my fix.
Do You Like Brahms? - Park Eun Bin and Kim Min Jae star as a pair of introverted classical musicians with their own set of problems that find light in each other to grow in confidence as their relationship progresses. This is a very low-key show but it kept my attention throughout.
Fanletter, Please - A cute romcom mini-series about a widower, his ailing daughter, and the actress the daughter adores, who comes to visit the hospital where she’s being treated.
Cheer Up - If Bring It On was slightly more realistic and set in college but upped the spirit stick curse to a “someone will die” slasher movie prophecy. I loved the team spirit and the romance between the plucky yet reluctant new recruit and the practical dreamer Team Captain. There were a few things I wasn’t crazy about but I had a fun time.
May I Help You - If Lee Junyoung is in it, I will eventually watch it. lol This is about a young woman who gets the power to talk with the dead in the funeral parlor she works in to help them fix something they didn’t accomplish in their life. She keeps crossing path with a young man who works for an errand service company. As they fall in love, past secrets and present heartbreaks unfold putting their relationship to the test. I had a really good time until the last few episodes but it did end well.
Summer Strike - Another love story for introverts. A depressed city dweller decides to sell all her possessions that don’t fit in her backpack and travel the country. She lands in a small town, where she begins to heal as she’s slowly creates a new family for herself and falls in love with the local reclusive librarian who is a former math wiz, played by Im Siwan. This one was tough at times but very sweet too. Plus a great soundtrack. I had ‘Color’ by Sunnie on repeat.
Love is for Suckers - A variety show producer convinces her longtime friend to be a contestant on the dating show she’s producing right as they start to realize they are in deeply in love with each other. This had so much potential and started off strong but quickly became a mess when the dating show began filming. The romance between chef and the cartoonist kinda ended up stealing the show.
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Kdrama couple moments in photoshoots 💕📸
Park Jinyoung & Kim Go Eun- Yumi's Cells 2
Jo Bo Ah & Lee Dong Wook- Tale Of The Nine Tailed
Shin Min Ah & Kim Seon Ho- Hometown Cha Cha Cha
Jisoo & Jung Hae In- Snowdrop
Jang Ki Yong & Lee Hyeri- My Roommate Is a Gumiho
Jung Hae In & Kim Go Eun- Tune In For Love
Kim Soo Hyun & Seo Yea Ji- It's Okay Not To Be Okay
Park Bo Young & Park Hyun Shik- Strong Woman Do Bong Soon
Yoo Seung Ho & Chae Soo Bin- I Am Not a Robot
Park Jinyoung & Ji Sung-The Devil Judge
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I love that you used her speech in 'Restless' for this character study video. I know a lot of people don't really understand what she's saying in that scene. But the way I interpret it is that it is an identification and declaration of her humanity (or her queerness, if you want to involve the gay allegory. I don't but I know some Buffyverse meta writers/analysts that do).
"I walk, I talk, I shop, I sneeze." = I may possess animal instinct like any other animal does but I am not a barbarian.
"I'm going to be a fireman when the floods roll back." = I am a hero when it is most needed and when I am under pressure.
"There's trees in the desert since you moved out" = everything moves, has it's place in time and nothing is permanent.
"And I don't sleep on a bed of bones" = not everything I do amounts to destruction and decay because this is not all I am.
In other words: she's answering Sineya's question in an affirmation of her own personhood. Something Sineya doesn't and never had.
She's saying "I am not a killer. I am a human being that has to do what they have to do when they have to do it and though I may not have fully accepted my calling yet, I at least acknowledge that it is part of me without letting it define my entire nature and identity like you did. "
It's an incredibly powerful and insightful speech when you can decode the visual and experiential symbolism of it. The profound poetry. She is not alone in a desert of her own making like Sineya is. See the whole point is that the SLAYER has no choice. Slaying is chosen for them. But Buffy creates the choice. And Sineya is jealous of that. It's quite horrific actually because it is abject racism. But then that's just the honesty of it really. Of course it would be racist to depict an African tribal woman as nothing but a mute murderer in a time and place where powerful sharmanic men made the FIRST SLAYER out of a literal demon and a white American woman has her psyche intact enough to socialise with other people - can even be like other people. None of this insight hits you until you have seen the ENTIRE BUFFYVERSE. All of it informs 'Restless" and showcases just how, probably unintentionally, significant and exceptional of an episode of TV art/entertainment it actually is and why I get so disappointed when YouTube reactors have such a negative reaction to it. I mean I get it, I get that they don't quite understand it. I mean you really can't on a first watch, I'll admit. But it still bruises the ego a little bit. I'm only human after all. Just like Buffy. 😆
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