Hello, Beanies!

I was on vacation last week so I haven't watched very many dramas. We went to Myrtle Beach and Pawley's Island (which is SUCH a cute place!) and then stopped at the Great Smoky Mountains and then Mammoth Cave on our way back to Chicago. Both places are so beautiful in totally different ways. I've been to the Smokies before and enjoyed it just as much as when I was in elementary school, haha. Back then I saw a bear cub but this time I didn't see any bears, boo!

Anyway, on to dramas...

Who Are You-School 2015: I actually just started this one, I'm only 4 episodes in. I know some of the stuff that happens already but I'm enjoying it. I know many were disappointed by the ending but I'm going in with an open mind.

The Producers: Still enjoying it and I just love all four main characters so much. I can't believe we only have two episodes left. I don't think this will go down as one of my absolute favorites but I'm enjoying it while I watch it and that's what is important to me. I did like it a bit more in the beginning, though. It was more unique.

Let's see how much of School I can watch before next week!

Happy OT beanies.. :-)

-CRIME SCENE S2: It's interesting that there is another murder case inside this week case. But for me, that almost like a prove that Hani is not the criminal. For someone who had to go through all that trouble for the past 15 years, it's just incomprehensible if she was about to do that all over again. And it's a nice twist to have the body missing, since the missing body and his belonging is a big clue for this case.

-PUNCH: Already on the 10th eps and what a great drama this one is. I was a little taken aback by Junghwan's characterization in the early eps. Surely they won't depict their hero as a ruthless and cunning person, right? But as story unfold, it's amazing that I still care enough (and eventually root) for him, a character that I usually hate at the very first sight. But now that I can see him as a better person, I just want him to get his happy ending. Please show, let him take down all the baddies. Because when a realistic drama like Punch tell you their lead man has terminal illness, you just know they won't pull miracle as a life-saving at the eleventh hour.

-EX GIRLFRIEND CLUB: I love it that what matters in this drama is all the characters and their relationships with each other. Because while the plot itself is somewhat bizarre, they are just person who wanted to be loved, whom we might met once in our life. And how much I love their BGM. It is so good and definitely in tune with this drama's quirkiness. A nice, fun, breezy, and easy-to-watch drama that really end well.

-MASK: This is the Mask that I love. The humor and some of the craziness is back, we get to see Jisook being smart and brave again, and look at all that blossoming love. I was just a little dissappointed that Minwoo is still in the dark about his wife identity. It would be much more fun to see Minwoo and Jisook being ally after he knows everything.

Hello! Is anyone watching Mask? or The Producers?

and who's excited for Oh My Ghostess! ?? HAHAHA
I'm so excited for PBY!!!!

Hello! Long time lurker, first time posting on Open Thread.

The Producers - Skipped last episode and just read recap. Depending on episode 11's recap, may do the same! Cindy is the only character I'm not frustrated with at this point. Sad that this show has been reduced to primarily a love triangle/square, I really liked the earlier episodes focusing on the variety world.

Warm & Cozy - I'm probably one of the few who really still likes and looks forward to this show. This week's episodes were good, yay for Gun Woo getting his head out of his rear for the most part. The actors are really selling it and have great chemistry.

High Society - I'm not sure why, but I'm strangely drawn to this one. The second lead couple is super cute comic relief, and I actually don't mind UEE's character falling so fast. It makes sense as she's pretty naive and has had so little affection. On a completely shallow level, I just really like looking at Sung Joon. That water fight scene was adorable.

Moon Embracing the Sun - An oldie but I just started watching it. Love the kid actors! Heard it goes a bit downhill with the adults, but I'm enjoying it so far :)

Happy Friday everyone!!

School's over finally. No seriously: Thank you very much, DB team, for your collective effort of writing fantastic recaps about a less than fantastic show. I sincerely enjoyed that (much more than watching the drama).

High Society: Like "School", the show struggled a little bit with the setup (and like so many tvN shows, it also suffers from Disney marketing). I think the actual drama will start next week, and I'm kind of looking forward to it.

Mask I picked that up after so many positive comments all over the place. The pilot two episodes were a great example of dishonest story-telling and how that might work to create a hook for a show. I'm a bit surprised after the first 6 episodes though: The writer not only managed to avoid any original ideas so far -- which is quite a feat, but not unheard of; even more impressively, the story is assembled from the most obvious choices almost all the time.
Unfortunately that creates a lot of boredom, because there is exactly zero excitement left for me. It's made worse by the very pretentious directing that reminded me of that awful "Heirs" stuff.

Hi and Happy Weekend Everyone,
It's been a busy week and with more than one good show to watch, time has become scarce.

Mask – This show is still the best of the lot to me. All parts of it are good and consistent. We're getting more human relationships and little reveals that help with a better understanding of some motivation(s).

[I'm writing this cryptically so that spoilers are minimal] The setup where 2 lonely people, at the mercy of those just beside them are thrown together and start to build trust in and depend on each other and reveal this to each other is going apace....so I'm extremely happy.

There is still tension and suspense but not as much as before and now they seem to come from other quarters and not just from one person. It's been interesting seeing that our main baddie has so much to contend with himself.

What this show continues to do well is to interject humor and human-ness in a story of desperation and inhumane machinations, so that I find myself giggling one moment and worried in the next.

With interesting cliff hangers this show has taken a good grip on me and I find myself even prepared to watch the raw, while waiting for the subs.

High Society - A very interesting watch. I don't really know how to describe how I feel about this story, but interest is the least of descriptions I could use. I've been repeatedly saying that I'm intrigued. The characters are both over the top in some ways, yet completely plausible and human, complex and contradictory, hypocrites yet not evil or mean, arrogant yet lovable. The plot is coming along and still has room to manoeuvre so that it can go in more than one direction.

Masked Prosecutor - Since this show is not subbed all that soon, I have yet to watch the last 2 episodes, but it's coming along OK and rewarding my trust in it. The story is pulling together well so we know where each person is coming from. The interest lies now in how the bad guys are to be taken down, how our Masked one keeps his secret identity or reveals it, how he reconciles his belief in justice with his 'family' and how our couple properly get together. It's been taking quite a time happening, but at least it's not been a frustrating push and pull.

Warm and Cozy - I stopped watching this until the last recap made it sound safe to try one Episode. When I say safe, I mean, when it will not frustrate me too much. I've gone past the time when I can sit through romances where no progress is made over episodes and the coupling is frustrated for no good reason. All I can say about Episode 12 is that it was not bad but still did not go far enough in the couple warmth and coziness for me. :)

My Love Eun Dong - I'm beginning to worry that this going to be a very long haul of not much progress in the romance and lots of tears and guilt. I'm still on the fence about whether to continue or not. I may give it another episode or two to see how it...

so I started watching Three Meals-Jongsun, well, I watched the Ji Sung episode. Ha, the KMHM music when he arrives! Perfect, and my favorite tune from it - was it Freak? I miss Yo Na and Se Gi... and I was grinning like an idiot. it made me so happy to watch that.

then I got into trouble at work cause someone complained about a joke or few I made on Facebook so I had to take them down and apologize, familiar business much (though even my boss was laughing, but she said best to avoid any fuss ) oh well. 70 people understand humor, 1 doesn´t what can I do. sounds familiar?
(but at least a movie critic, a famous writer and Folklore Archives manager liked my jokes. Enough for me. not like I will stop making jokes because of one person.)

then I got punished for my jokes by going to the dentist. ask nothing.

and I got this idea when someone mentioned how many places there are that inspire different stories. I remembered how mysterious Viljandi has always been and put down some eerie stories from childhood, about ghosts, cemetary, drowned man, monsters, Moon Man, a ball of lightning, leeches, dreams, shadows that chase you when you chase them etc. not TOO scary, but pleasently creepy I think.

I watched a little of Mask, but all the mistakes annoy me so. there are some that are just sloppy production and camera angle and directing, some logic fails, some nonsensical reactions by supporting actors etc. there is like a gap between intention and execution, and it becomes bothersome. But I do love Park Jung Geum in this drama, she is still an evil mom, but maybe a bit different - there is frustration, boredom, anxiety. but at long last they dress her like a woman, not a circus poodle. now was it that hard? that black dress when she was at the bar with that boring b****, I wish I looked like that at my older age.

then, many people praised My Love Eun Dong. I loved the first bit, hated the Viki comments how it is so creepy to like someone so much younger oh cmon. Never been a kid? 17 is still a kid. pretty much all people need to reach at least the age of 24 to stop being kids but for some it never happens. that Jr guy did a really great job!

then they switched the actor, you get almost used to him, they switch again. I thought I wouldn´t get used to it, but then, Joo Jin-Mo shows that very same cuteness about him, that was present in the youngest version, more than in the 20ies version, the way he plays the character. he may look way different, but through his mannerisms you suddenly see that same young boy, his tantrums and smiles! And you can also see some of the 20ies version in it, the hopefulness, the desperation. amazing skills, I say. how can he incorporate 2 actors performances into his own? Kim Sa -Rang is a bit stiff compared to him, but I keep calling her another Sa Rang cause all the pages are so flooded with news on a certain variety show.

but I am annoyed here, as well. in the recent years quite a few people went to...

I just wanted to say...
out of all the websites I use daily, I think only dramabeans is not blocked in China, so when my VPN fails (again and again) you guys are what keeps me sane...
thanks dramabeans!

I've started watching My Love Eun-dong recently and I love it. It may very well be my second most favorite drama this year, after Healer.

Hello beanies! This is my first time writing on an Open Thread so i'm a bit excited. I just finished 11th grade and today was our school's ending ceremony. I ended up in third place in my class so I got as a prize "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte which surprisingly I have not read before. Is it good?
As for kdramas here's what I'm watching:
School 2015: Oh I didn't like the ending. At all. I found it disturbing that even though everyone now knows that Eunbi is Eunbi she is still just living EunByul's life with her friends, her mom, her school and Yiahn. But show gave me Taekwang and two great songs (Reset and Return) so I'm not gonna be THAT mad
High Society: Contrary to most people I have very little interest in ChangSoo and Jiyi. Their romance is cute but I just don't care about it. I find Jiyi a biiit annoying but she's also really cute and a great friend. I'm just more interested in her and Yoonha's friendship than her love line with ChangSoo who's just a tipical chaebol (so far) blah. I find Yoonha and Joonki(was that his name?)'s characters more fascinating.
Mask: love love love this. It's totally my style. And besides that one time when Jisook went back to her house and her mother ran after her and collapsed (like why were you there again??) I have really loved our female lead. (i'm saying this cause I saw a lot of comments on viki saying she's stupid and so but I don't see that). Seokhoon is so crazy and hot that I'm not sure whether I love him or hate him. Probably both.
Producers: I only started watching this because I'm translating in on viki (to Romanian) and I haven't actually watched it besides the parts I was given to translate but I read all the recaps on dramabeans and I'm totally rooting for YeJin and SeungChan, I hope it ends that way though I feel it won't.

That's all so far ^^. I should get back to studying now cause I'm taking my CAE exam tommorrow and I'm reeeally nervous about it.
Have a nice weekend everyone!

Hello al:

Dramaland:

Producers: Still liking it a lot. Wondering if the drama wil just end with no romances...cause ya know..REALISM (mock realism?)

Mask: Am glad phobic hero has taken the lead in discovering stuff. The humor in this drama is over-the-top cool, as is the villain. I shouldn't be so in love with the villain, should I?

High Society: Ah, Joong-ki! I so hope you're in love and not ya know... totally out to win an empire by bedding smitten wounded girl. We all know older brother's not dead, right? Awaiting empire shake-up and power struggles.

Masked Prosecutor: Watching this...sorta kinda.. waiting for bromance between brothers to begin and or evil mom to get come-uppance. Ah, these separated half-sibs.

Hidden Identity: Darn..the angst! Yep, am hooked.

Awaiting Scholar who walks the night and I remember you.

Have a great weekend, all.

Hey! I'm actually here in time to join the conversation! :)

This is a laundry weekend, so no exciting plans for me, alas.

I have a fantasy question, though - if you could magically appear in any k-drama in a supporting role, which would you choose? (Despite my love of crime dramas, I'd have to choose Marriage, not Dating - I loved virtually hanging out w/those characters - or Misaeng, because I'd be less likely to be killed off in some creative way.)

What I've been watching:

Missing Noir M: Finally finished it. :sad face: That was really a downer of an ending, wasn't it?

Hidden Identity (which I'm calling "Undercover" in my head): Wow, Kim Beom really transformed himself for this role, didn't he? I liked it, though there were some cliche problems. Took me forever to figure out where I'd seen the female officer (she was in 2009's "Hero" with Lee Joon Ki.)

The Lover: I'm starting to really dislike the two older couples. But I'm still blown away by Jae Joon's acting chops.

K-drama Moment:

Talked the orderer into getting Misaeng for the library - I'm trying to get them to also add The Con Artists (aka 'The Technicians'). Can't wait to introduce patrons to the beauty that is Chief Oh. :)

Hello Beanies !!!!
My exams are finally over !!!!!!!
I can finally start to bing watch Hwajung and Empress Ki !!! I hope your week went well, and to those of you who have exams and other stuff of that nature coming up, Best of luck, you can do it !! FIGHTING !!!

Hi Beanies,

I'm not entirely sure how this goes, but after reading the comments I can see that everybody is writing about the dramas they love and so I will write mine too.

Ex-Girlfriend Club: it was a huge surprise that this became my favorite drama of the year, because the ratings were low and the episodes were cut down. But EGC had its own charm to deliver goodies and make us choke with sweetness.... I'm pretty sure I have diabetes after watching this! Song Ji Hyo and Byun Yo Han were perfect as the best friends who grew to become lovers and I loved seeing them in the screen together so much. I would lie if I said that these two were the only good things in the show because I believe every character delivered their own story arc and made it believable and so freaking amazing. Bang Myung Soo (Yo Han) and Kim Soo Jin (Ji Hyo) are best friends. But when they meet after quite a long time, its for Kim PD to write the movie of Writer Bang's comic novel featuring his three ex-girlfriends. Where is she???! Oopsie.. He never thought of her as a girl he dated... Commence angry/drunk beating session. I really love EGC because all characters had so much chemistry. Soo Jin, Myung Soo, Jo Psycho- I mean, Director Jo Geun, Ji Ah (gf 1), Hwa Young (gf 2) and breakout star (IMO) Ra Ra (gf 3) who starts to have a crush on the director. Lols. I've never laughed so hard like this before. I would keep recommending it to anybody who will listen. Because it. Is. Amazing! A must see!!!! And I promise you, you cannot undo the love you might have for Byun Yo Han... Its a cross you have to bear...

Masked Prosecutor: I haven't finished watching it, but I love Joo Sang Wook too much to ignore it. And Kim! Sun! Ah! Is back in dramaland, girls!!!! The prosecutor in a wrestling mask who wreaks havoc yet becomes gutless in front of the girl he loves is EPIC! Reminds me that I have to check out the latest episodes...

That's all for now.. I also love Divorce Lawyer In Love and High Society but I'll write abou5 it sometime later..

Toodles, girls!!!