Happy OT and Happy Eid Mubarak or Aidil Fitri to all who celebrate!

It's been a great week for dramas with so much to think about and enjoy!
Mask - This is a 20 episode show that seems at first to have stopped suddenly at ep 16... or probably to have been planned to stop at 16, but yay... it is not ended yet and there's so much good stuff in store! (Plus more plot holes and ineffectual evil too I guess LOL)! I know we have fears that if a show that should have ended at 12-16 episodes is going for more is just stretching it too thin, however there's so much to resolve in this story that I suppose 4 more episodes with lots more skinship and sweet kisses (to make up for it's earlier dearth of the same) are quite in order. :D

I Remember You/Hello Monster - Soooo gooood!!! If I not for Mask which is compelling fun, this show would have been the number 1 for me in terms of good writing and execution. Everything still coming together and slowly making sense and we viewers are allowed to see and understand and figure things out along with our protagonists. That's the way a crime/thriller/mystery should be written. Enough reveal and enough kept hidden to tantalize us and keep us coming back. The development of the characters is also great. So many interesting actors (who look good too) to rivet us by good acting and well timed humour. A tight plot with no fillers. An uncontrived, unfolding of a romance, at first reluctantly between people who could be soulmates, very sweetly and naturally done - and they did not even have to begin as childhood first loves! What a relief!!! What a joy of a show!

Oh My Ghost(ess) - Fun and pathos!!! We are so thrilled to have our 2 girls separated from each other now so that we can see the development of both, separately and together. These 2 girls are a different kind of and in the literal sense soulmates too (like our couple in Hello Monster) who are meant to be together, in order to change for the better, to make discoveries together and to resolve the big questions including how one person died and why she's still around. And we look forward to another sweet, reluctant romance which is in the works amidst the confusion over personality shifts, which is going to be a hoot!

The Time I Loved You/The Time We Were Not In Love - Although well acted and character driven, it drags because characters have not given us enough to chew on to get us increasingly invested. I feel I do not know not much more about our characters, although we are already 6 episodes in. Unfortunately although I began with liking Won unconditionally, I now have some conditions before I'm totally on board about how he 'loves' Ha Na. It has a feel of being not quite stifling but not quite healthy and even has something obsessive about it. Ha Na cannot 'grow' much or make considered decisions with so much protecting give her and with crucial information kept from her. I feel a good long...

Hello! I am at work, so no long speech, we are having Tallinn Maritime Days till Sunday. I would like to remind everyone, that today is also a memorial day for those (dutch, malaysian, british, australian, etc.) who were killed a year ago in MH17. You can fold paper Airplanes with their names and take them to your local Russian Embassy. Search #paperboeing for more information.

As for dramas, I am yearning for some black comedy, but that genre seems to be out of focus in Korea. Some juicy, tickling black comedy. What would be a good plot for it & who could star there? And what juicy title could it have?

Meantime, Scholar & Gwi are kickin`. More Gwi + Sung Yeol scenes would be good.Their chemistry is better than they have with any of the girls. Lee Soo Hyuk was born to play Gwi. He is so deliciously theatric, yet smooth as black silk. I want a spin-off of just Gwi´s Century of Royal Boredom or something.

Hello beanies, hope everyone had a great week, mine was so so and emotionally draining dramawise
MASK, still very much in love with this drama,I was anxious waiting to see Le shit hitting the fan and it was bad in a good way,I felt horrible for min woo but I'm glad took a turn and the angst didn't last long,how sweet was the counseling session ?. As for the devil's hoobae suk hoon, death is too good for you.I hope minwoo, Ji sook and MY's wife team up and bring this nutjob down.I'm sure everyone is squealing over this weeks ending because it was goooooood?
THOUSAND DAY PROMISE , I only started this because Su Ae was on the cover,I realised halfway that the male lead was kim rae won, he looked better in Punch,I guess it's true what they say men age like fine wine.This drama drained me, I don't remember the last time I cried so much.it was so sad,I stayed in a funk for a while.
Ex GIRLFRIEND CLUB Fun and cute.
LAST SCANDAL Overall good drama, would have been in my top five if I hadn't read the recaps beforehand, that killed the thrill of not knowing but I still enjoyed it.but I made a mistake of trying to find out more about the leads,ah hours on Google and 4 suicides later,I'm still in shock and horrified. I really hope netizens can chill out on celebrities and supposed rumors and scandals. I feel sad for the children left behind.
Look what just happened this week with Kim Hyoon jung pregnancy scandal, after ruining his career it turns out it was all lies.sigh.I lack the words.
Have a great weekend beanies

TGIF another hot day here in deep south! I can't grow anything, but my back yard is covered with sesame seed leaves now. That thing just grow by itself (I am not complaining). I am eating leaves wrap instead of lettuce wrap with my meat.

I think I am blessed as a drama fan so far this year - Dramas I enjoy have been keep coming (currently enjoying I remember you, Mask, My beautiful bride, My love Eundong, Oh My Ghostess the most), and many actor/actresses you usually don't get to see were/are/will be in small screen - Yeah So JiSup!

On dramas:
Good news on HwaJung: Gwanghae (Cha Seong-won) was planned to make his exit in ep 28, but now they say that it has not been decided when he will leave (because they are still writing/live-shoot, and rating is good partially due to Gwanhae character) but he will stay until ep 30 at least. Yay, I think best character in HJ is Gwanghae (I always had soft spot on this poor guy. My fav GwangHae character in dramas? That crazy adorable old man GwangHae in Tamra the island).

Orange Marmalade: I love the message this show is giving. They are telling the story of vampire, but it can be anything with social discrimination issue.

I remember you: 'There is a monster in all of us. It’s just a matter of feeding that monster.' (from last ep recap). I just love these dramas which has messages for the viewers, not just s-o-s-o plot.

Acting-wise, I am impressed with Park BoYoung from Oh my ghostess. I read she is the highest paid actress in TVN's history, but we know she deserves it.

For actor, I love Kim MuYeol/KDY from My beautiful bride. I feel his desperation and my heart ache. I need him to be happy- fast. The character that I feel sorry for next is Shi-hoo from Orange Marmalade. I am impressed with his acting, and He even looks so fitting for a vampire role (Then again, nobody can beat Lee SooHyuk).

As for my favorite character, Yi Jiyi from High society takes the cake. She is so different from a typical female character in K-dramaland. She can make anyone shut up- amazing. Next fav? MinWoo in Mask. No need to say further there.

How about you- do you have a favorite character in currently airing dramas?
Anyway happy Friday again!

Hi Everyone!

I hope you are all doing well today. ..... Expecting hot and humid weather this weekend. Absolutely not looking forward to it.

Watched this week:

Mask - Ok, so I can't stop laughing every time Mi-yeon appears in a scene with her wineglass and she's sipping her wine through A STRAW! ...... Certain details in this drama are just too funny.

I Remember You - I figured it would be kind of entertaining ...... but I didn't expect this drama to be this interesting! It's quite good with enough to keep us guessing ---- or not.

Divorce Lawyer In Love - Finally finished this. ....... I may be in the minority, but I really liked the way things ended for the main couple. It was no frills, understated, asking the right questions, and it worked.

That's it for now. ....... Take care everyone and have a great Friday!

*SPOILERS AHEAD*

The Genius - A moment of silence for the fallen king. T.T. I have a love-hate relationship with spoilers. But TG is special since I die a little inside after every DM. And so my jaw dropped when I checked the wiki page for Ep 3 results. T.T. I was so confused. I was like "What's this guy doin' on the other end of the spectrum". I'm still in denial. I've got faith but I'd rather go with To see is to believe rn. Lol. I still can't watch ep 3. And so. YooHyun/YeonSeung/Hyunmin/Kyungran all the way. I adore Kong and Dongmin(the CS fan in me is rooting for 'em) but they've already won and all. I know. I know. Kyungran is pretty much above average in everything but not esp good at something. A jack of all trades and a master of none, I guess? I can't see her winning. Far, maybe? But winning the crown? Err, no. But that makes me root for her more. :) I also have love-hate relationship with Kyunghoon. I think my jaw will drop if he becomes a King slayer. Hah.

Reply 1994 - I loved 1997 but I had a glimpse of the shipping war and I sure wasn't ready for that(Song Jongho was perfect and stuff but I never thought that it'd be anyone but SIG). Here's to hoping that I'd root for trash oppa. My heart can't handle another Taekwang(and another unwatched last episode. Lol)

Healer - Haha. It's never too late, right? Well, I didn't love the first 4 eps which I watched about 3 months ago. But I liked them. And it was exam week at that time. So after some time, I forgot about it. But I'm giving it another try! ;)

Halt: Masked Prosecutor, High Society, The Lover, My Love Eundong

I want to try TTILY because I like the leads and hyung. But it reminds me too much of INR 2012 without Mr. Perfect 2nd lead. So I'm sticking to recaps.

And I can finally say HAPPY WEEKEND!

Hi all:
This week, badly-executed suspense with easy plotting annoyed me.

Episode 5 of Beautiful Bride was way laughable but I still love it. Seriously? The bad guys drove away after knocking down Do Hyung with their car? Why not a second attempt since he was on the floor? I know..silly me..asking for reality in a superhero story. Then there was the “the bad guy who is behind it is…is..is..” then death stops his mouth.

Mask: Ah, woman, why don’t you tell Min Woo that Big Bad Bro-in-law is threatening you? I hate badly-executed suspense.

Then there was Scholar. “The secret to killing Gwi is”…then Death stops his mouth. Death is awfully good at stopping people’s mouth at the dramatic moment.

Really liking Oh My Ghostess. It’s quite a mystery. Am wondering if Wheel-chair-bound Sis or Sweet cop is somehow responsible for ghostess’ death.

Bluebird’s house. YES!!!! Big Bad is finally found out.

Gonna try for Assembly. Trying to catch up on I Remember You. Saw the cast on Getting Together. My love for Seo Inguk keeps growing by leaps and bounds.

This cracked me up on Gag Concert. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu9F95i29ws

Have a great weekend.

I remember you
It's not my cup of tea, but it's just really, really well done.
It's very difficult to integrate and balance character development, overall plot (especially mystery), crime procedural and romance side plot. Most shows wont even try to tackle that, and many shows fall at this hurdle (Joss Whedon's "Dollhouse" might be a paradigmatic example).
Good job, writer and team!

Oh My Ghostess
In terms of commitment from the female lead actress, this reminds me of "Marriage not Dating". TVN once in a while doesn't shy away from very edgy characters who are completely at the mercy of their actors (or, more often: actresses). Park Bo-young is just so great that I cannot bring myself to hate the character accordingly.

High Society
It's really unfortunate. Conceptionally, this could be really great, but because of the screwed up setup and character introduction and major flaws in the story-telling, it's just not working.

Mask
I can finally drop it after episode 15. Before, it's been so bad it was funny, but now it lost even its unintentional humour and is just plain bad.

Beautiful Bride
Oh well ...
I love the flashback approach here.
But the main plot is starting to irritate me. A female lead character who is kidnapped 4 times within 15 minutes of the show is a turn-off for me. MacGuffin much?

mask Min woo' s character puzzles me. Obviously he and the women he loves are in mortal danger, he is told told that he lives with the doppelganger of his wife, and instead of finding out what the hell is happening, who killed so eun ha and put ji sook in her place, why daddy suddenly wants to make him the inheritor and why he is now prone to deadly accidents, he or prefers to stay ignorant or he just goes around asking 'wife, tell me what's happening? ' 'sis, do you know something, care to tell me? ' bro-in-law, are you behind all this?' Like a big baby. if he keeps on like this, his relationship with his wife will be of mother-son type. is he really gonna play I-am-too-good-for-this-world to be protected by mom (and big sis)? It's Goong all over again 'bad people are trying to hurt the clueless, sensitive prince, while all he wants is play with the princess and his teddy bear'.
It's painful to watch...

I am crazy about I Remember You, can't wait for monday. The story is well written, keep me wondering what will be happen next. I basically love this genre of drama, and I think the police here works better than other drama (err, if you see girl who see smells and you're all surrounded, I think you know what I mean). But it's sad knowing that Min is a bad guy, and I just stop imagining what could be happened to Min and Hyun regarding that fact. I feel bad for Hyun though.
And because of this drama (Seo In gook actually), I end up rewatching Master's Sun and Answer Me 1997. He looks better haha.

Hello Beanies~ Had a busy weekend last week hence I had to miss the open thread but I'm back, yay

The Time I Loved You - What a prick Cha Seo Hoo is, right? I'm so irritated at his entitled, let-me-talk-only-about-what-I-want attitude. You left her at the altar and unless you were on your deathbed, there's no acceptable reason why you can go claim you didn't leave your bride. So Eun is veering towards inappropriate territory with her "naive" meddling in Hana's affairs but so far, her single-mindedness of pursuing Won is still tolerable. Choi Won, my dear, have you finally made up your mind in taking risks with your relationship with Hana more than the micromanagement strictly as a guy friend? Hmmm, we'll see where this resolve takes you both.

What happened with Mi Hyang unni and Mir, though? I hope this isn't some kind of metaphor for the writers change again but yeah, I'm really curious since she's the fanclub president, if I'm not mistaken.

Still have to catch up on Hwajung and Hidden Identity

Mask - Jisook sure knows how to smartly utilize her Seo Eun Ha powers, even though for the life of me, I cannnot figure out what's so wrong with just telling it's all Sukhoon's doing in the first place. Writernim, there's a bigger plan at play here, yes? I really thought she would just be heroically saving Minwoo from the lights and the incident in the hunting grounds but the reversal in the first was welcome. And Minwoo, you dorky chaebol heir, I fully support you not letting her go the noble idiot route and divorce. Instead, face the problems as husband and wife. And make us swoon with those quite public show of love. Thanks.

Oh My Ghostess - I was lucky to catch the stream earlier and it's so good to have both Seul Gi and Bo Young acting on the same screen. I do want this not just to be solely about Shinae, at the cost of shelving Bongsun's side of the story and the show's on the same page. Jo Jungseok must continue with the infinitely adorable scenes with the corgi, I'm melting from all the cute. Mr. Police gets more sinister with each episode though, no wonder I can't get into him, despite his sunny outside persona.

Today's drama news is literally Oh My God. Dammit, that's smooth, KBS~ (Please don't ruin the pairing, I still cherish the daydreams I have because of their billboard in EDSA.) Also, if they succeed getting Sungjae on Murim School, I expect it would be much harder to say, "No," unrealistic promises aside.

I'm watching My Love, Eundong and Hidden Identity concurrently now.

Hidden Identity has a few plot flaws (I posted one that made me double take on the last recap) but overall, I'm enjoying the chase and of course, Nam Inho both intrigues and chills me at the same time. ;w;

As for My Love Eundong, I'm an unapologetic apologist for Jaeho and to be fair, he needs help, not people dogpiling him all over for attempting suicide. The biggest victim is still the son, that's caught in this entire fiasco. It's ending soon, so I'm just...hoping things don't go the way I heard it was going ;;;

Watching weekend shows for the most part.

I don't think I'm going to follow The Time I've Loved You . I like HJW, but the show is lacking.

Still watching In Time With You.

Need to catch up on Scholar

Looking forward to this week's My Beautiful Bride and Oh My Ghostess.

Watched British TV, Tess of the d'Urbervillesand a couple episodes of Rumpole of the Bailey

Also two episodes of a J food centered show,Ramen Loving Girl

Is anyone watching Late Night Restaurant? (Y'know, the one with Kim Seung Woo as a chef who makes anything you want but is only open from 12am-7am) Just watched the first 2 episodes the other day and was pleasantly surprised! I know nothing about the original so it was very refreshing and heartwarming. Kind of sad each episode is only 30 minutes but I guess they're like mini stories so any longer would be draggy.

Waiting for OMG.

Faithfully watching MBB. I'm a tad nervous it might lose its grip. I'll be forgiving for Do-hyung's sake, for now.

I know I'm late, but I just discovered Mr. Robot, am all caught up, and in love. Any fans of the show here? Elliot is really endearing for an invasive neurotic junkie. That, or k-dramas' Oppa!~conditioning is working...

I'm fascinated by My Beautiful Bride.
So exciting and thrilling to watch compared to some of the ho-hum dramas of the summer.
I was surprised by Kim Mu Yeol. Doing and excellent job especially the martial arts scenes.
Didn't recognized him, but I saw him in Eun Gyo, War of Arrows, and the Scam movies too.
Heard he's a musical actor too.
He does an outstanding job.. Someone to watch out for!

Hello Beanies! Happy Eid!

I can't believe that I prioritizedWarm and Cozy over Mask. Now I'm marathoning it! I pause once in a while to look at the recap and too bad there's no one to discuss about it. I love the twisted way of how they are falling in love, just like in Secret.

OMG is so much fun! PBY is awesome. I'm tempted to watch it raw right now.

The Scholar. This is my first sageuk after several months of shying away from this genre. I don't know why vampire stories doesn't appeal to me anymore and that's coming from someone who watches and read novels about vampire. Still I'm all for LJK who is always compelling on his acting. And Gwi.. I mean LHS I think is a real vampire! hahaha! I want to see the rest of the vampire from Vampirutus to cameo. hehe

Considering others talking about I Remember You makes me want to consider that drama too! But I'm planning to see old Soo Ae dramas... so..

So actually I don't know if I'll have time because of a new job which will let me watch a few dramas. But Joo-won's drama is coming up too...

It's starting to drag for The Time We Were Not In Love... I'm not liking LJW's hair, good thing that HJW stopped raking her hair with her hand. I love HJW outfits but I can't understand why she is always carrying 2 bags/purse, unless its a trend now.

Three Meals a Day! The epic episode with MingKi and babies and Choi JiWoo smacking Lee SeoJin's legs!

Will DB be covering this? Haha.