MISSING: THE OTHER SIDE SEASON 1
GENRES: Mystery, Supernatural, Drama
SUMMARY: A man trying to run away from his life’s problems finds a tucked-away village full of strange, happy people with their own very unique problems.
THIS SHOW HAS EVERYTHING: Well-tailored suits, mafia cons, civil servants, pawn shops, mountain hanoks, Hawaiian cafes, blonde dye jobs, weeping children, lockets full of secrets, chaebol searching, reunions, hot air balloon rides, friendship, found families, and good old corporate greed.
HOT TAKE: 'See You in my 19th Life' still holds the award for how many tears I can shed in one season of a drama, but this show comes in at a close second.
I have a few questions about how this show deals with GPS locations and inter-personal relationships, but neither caused me so so much vexation that I was about to put a damper on my late night 'I'm not stopping until I finish this show' binge-watching.
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I'm not gonna watch and review every minute of Doberman obviously but i just gotta
First of all hello good sir looking fine there yes,
No no i digress. It's this uri imo that i gotta talk abt
Hello ma'am i know instantly I'm gonna love this drama even more because of her, she was so so cool in The Red Sleeve as Lady Hyegyeong ❤️
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Sinopsis Miraculous Brothers (2023)
Sinopsis Miraculous Brothers (2023) – Miraculous Brothers (2023) adalah serial drama Korea yang dibintangi oleh Jung Woo, Bae Hyun-sung, Park Yoo-rim, Oh Man-suk, dan Lee Ki-woo. Serial sepanjang 16 episode ditayangkan JTBC menggantikan slot drama The Good Bad Mother. Berikut sinopsis dan review drama Korea Miraculous Brothers (2023).
Plot sinopsis Miraculous Brothers (2023)
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DIVORCE ATTORNEY SHIN
GENRES: Legal Procedural, Comedy, Drama
SUMMARY: A middle aged divorce lawyer mixes professionalism, pubescent partying, and revenge.
THIS SHOW HAS EVERYTHING: Deadbeat realtors, shoes without socks, soju fridges, child custodies, framed grapes, drunken piano busking, bitter divorces, adorable nephews, legal spies, drunken live streaming, mid-life romances, macarons, prophetic turtles, and wine/ramen combo meals.
HOT TAKE: This show has some really well-crafted tonal whiplash--slapstick one minute, then deep dramatic, emotional guilt, another. I'll admit I was a bit worried since there were still a lot of plot lines hanging by episode 11, but don't worry about unsatisfying wrap-ups here: the finale is satisfying for everyone.
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3 K-drama moments (January edition)
1. Kim Hae-sook expressing her rage at a young Japanese officer in full satoori and banmal in Gyeongseong Creature. Until this point she has been a capable right hand to Park Seo-joon, restrained, deadly efficient and completely unshakeable. But long-simmering fears and frustrations are boiling over everywhere in Gyeongseong and elsewhere, resulting in this atypical, shocking conversation with a junior officer who sympathises with them but cannot bridge the colonial gap. Language is so significant in this genre, and it’s so visceral when Kim Hae-sook openly vents to this man in her own language, in her own dialect.
Gyeongseong Creature is a pretty dark take on human experimentation, the last gasp of colonial horrors in a dying empire and the endurance of community. Park Seo-joon (and Han So-hee to a lesser extent) have to be the heroes; nonetheless the story understands that liberation is won not by strong-jawed men who talk pretty, but by community, by ordinary people doing extraordinary things together.
Kdrama has a wealth of supporting actors and it's no different here, with Jo Han-cheol, Kang Mal-geum, the aforementioned Kim Hae-sook, Claudia Kim and lovely, lovely Kim Yoon-woo in an affecting subplot (you might have seen him as Ryang Eum in My Dearest). Hate that Netflix made this one a cliffhanger, but they got me. Now, please give us a grown up romance with Jo Han-cheol in it. Our man's earned it.
2. Jung Jin-young’s vividly joyous sex life with his partner played by Yang Mal-bok in LTNS. The astonishing tenderness of their meeting, their love story and the joy he has brought to her arid, parched life are all so well-done that I had a lump in my throat throughout the episode.
This show took atypical love and affair stories, the sort we tend to mock or criticise - the plain girl sleeping with the married colleague, the fiftysomethings rediscovering their zest for life in each other’s bodies, the married lipstick lesbian who keeps coming back into her ex’s life - and offered so much kindness and love in the writing and the framing of those stories. @drivingsideways remarked that it was so different from anything Kdrama has given us, and that is completely correct.
Esom and Ahn Jae-hong were beyond excellent as a troubled couple that maybe shouldn't have married all those years ago - people who were maybe always a little too different, and then papered over their differences with the routines of matrimony. I suspect this was all too real to appeal to the general audience and I don't think this is going to be nomination-heavy. But it deserves to be.
3. Hwa-rok running from the handsome Officer Jeong in the brilliantly written The Matchmakers. The youngest sister in the famously unmarried trio of Namsan, Hwa-rok is a very relatable babe who really wants to get married! Get a husband! Have SEX! - and manifests this through her popular erotica series. The bond between Hwa-rok and the shy, upright officer whose first introduction to her is all the erotica she writes is one of the most adorable plots on this incredibly cute show.
I have several feelings about The Matchmakers, namely that it is the rare romance I respect despite the minimal chemistry between the leads. The writing was top-notch and the lead acting didn't quite live up to it - this is not a criticism of Cho Yi-hyun or Rowoon, but rather a testament to the sheer wealth of talent in Kdrama and how accustomed we've become to actors elevating material. Rowoon surprisingly grew on me in this, with his physicality and his looks somehow making Gyeongwoonjae indelible despite his iPhone-knowing face. I might do a separate post on this yet, but it was absolutely worth the watch, and all of you were right, especially @haraxvati who bravely advocated for Rowoon's talents.
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