◾◾ K-shows
◾ 1st week w/o Infinite challenge & I live alone, next week no more 1n2d??? , maybe it’s time for me to watch 1n2d S1 ?. Fighting to strike members ?, hope things will change !
◾ 1n2d Ep192: Another funny ep with 3G vs LTE team. When a mere flying bottle cap game became so intense and oh so funny : Dong Gu still got the beginner’s luck and Jong Min’s first prayer worked ㅋㅋㅋ. Dong Gu is now following Jun Ho steps: him teasing Jun Ho is so so funny, poor eldest have now to deal with Jong Min, Joon Yung & Dong Gu ?. After 3G lost the game, Jong Min said in the bus “ the moment the team was formed we had lost” indeed it was just history repeating itself ? . Tae Hyun managed to ask Jun Ho to buy dakgalbi for him before leaving : ? but we’ll never know if he bought it or not ?. Jun Ho’s bad luck is so strong that in top of doing the marathon, he had to push the staff car which couldn’t go up the hill ?.
◾ It’s Dangerous Beyond The Blankets ep3 and the END ? : I started this show after seeing it by chance, I didn’t know it was a pilot with only 3 eps ? ? . My favorite moments of ep3 : Xiumin losing at Jenga and Daniel being shy while Xiumin was watching his 5 best perf. in front of him ?. It’s a nice show, it was awkward to relate to some introvert moments ?, but I had fun watching it. I hope they will do more eps in the future, hoping that all guests arrive and leave at the same time.
◾ Knowing Brother E92 : I don’t know many of Hyuna songs, so I’ve watched the ep for the Night Goblin members : it was nice to see Park Sung Kwang, Lee Su Geun and even Hee Chul taking care of goblin baby Kim Jong Hyun ?. Park Sung Kwang’s stories esp. his 6 proposals received were very funny ?.
◾ Night goblin ep6&7 : Two eps for a Busan special and they had three missions. Lee Hong Gi & Park Sung Kwang competing for the main MC title was funny, but they have to face the fact that Jung Hyung Don and Lee Su Geun are the main MCs ?. Kim Jong Hyun losing his mind and trying different answers while lying on the ground was so funny, he surprised the other members. That’s why this show is funny : they’re so tired that they don’t know what they’re doing : true material for K-show ?. They faced their 1st crisis : people were waiting before them for the tickets, BUT all they had to do was being the 1st to take the cable car. BGM 2pm Again & again when the staff explained they have to try each week until they succeed was so funny ?.
◾ HyoRi’s homestay ep11 & 12: Lovely, funny, healing, it’s a show that I’m going to miss ?, just 2 eps left. Many good moments as usual, I’ll just quote Lee Sang Soon “Life is a dumpling” ? .

◾◾ K-shows : Produce 101 S2 & Wanna One special post ?
◾ Wanna One go ep1-2 : Many hilarious moments, my favorite couple : Saranghae couple ? (Kim Jae Hwan’s laugh in the Viking boat + him teasing Hwang Min Hyun and enjoying the string getting reduced ?, and Hwang Min Hyun being the only one to enjoy the punishment of being in charge of the cleaning ?) , and no.2 couple is OngNiel is science ‘cause it’s for science ?.
◾ While watching Produce 101 S2, I was wondering how they were going to manage a group with trainees from different agencies ? but I didn’t take time to find out more information about that. Then in Wanna One go ep1 the members talked about staying in the dorm together for a year and a half. I found it strange that it was a specific period of time, so after consulting Google friend ?…. I found out (so late?‍♀️) that from the beginning Wanna One was bound to disband at the end of 2018 ?. Had I known that before, I wouldn’t have watched and reacted to the show the same way ?. FYI I had written my following post for Produce 101 S2 before watching Wanne One Go and finding out the disbandment already planned.
◾ Produce 101 S2 E6-11 : Trainee to follow (per ep) ?: Lai Guan Lin (ep6), Kim Jae Hwan & Ha Seung Woon (ep7), Yoo Hwi Seung (ep8, can’t believe how much he gained confidence !), Yoo Seon Ho & Jung Se Woon (ep9). It was funny I checked my “trainees to follow” list twice or three times because I wanted to add Park Woo Jin, but each time I was like “Oh no, I forgot I already had 11 members” ?, so Park Woo Jin is my joker trainee to follow ?. Last week, Ong Seung Woo left a strong impression on me in ep1, then in ep2 it was Daniel, I couldn’t decide so there were both no.1 ?, BUT in ep8 I finally found out why Ong Seung Woo was called the king of embarrassment, and guess what : after that there was no doubt left : Ong Seung Woo for the win of no.1 ? (congrats you’re the center for me?) ! After that, his charms kept getting better : slate guy & his “really really daebak real heol thank you” killed me ?.
Icing on the cake from ep 9 : can we talk about Lai Guan Lin & Yoo Seon Ho Troublemaker dance : this is hilarious, their gazes, the choreo , omo omo I’m dying of laughter ?

My Wanna One dream team ? (joker included ?, or let’s say I prefer even numbers ㅋㅋㅋ) + my ranking :
1. Ong Seung Woo (jeongmal jeongmal jinjia real daebak heol wanjeon ??) so talented ?, funny, charismatic and more let’s end with constellation moles : killing part ? , it reminds me of Seo In Guk ?
2. Kim Jae Hwan : he has to be the main vocal of my Wanna One dream team ?. If I may add : an independent trainee who changed so much & made a comeback from ~70th rank ? + his laugh in ep10 ? and he might have a 4D personality : I love this guy ?!
3. Kang Daniel : so talented, cute and lovely ?. I was skeptical about why everyone talked about him, now I know why ?
4. Jung Se Woon : talented, witty,nice guy and… I didn’t see it at first, but after the moment I saw the resemblance with Lee Seung Gi , I was constantly thinking : they look alike but so do their voices and personalities !
5. Yoo Seon Ho : chick trainee ??, when we saw him doing too much skinship and making Hwang Min Hyun uncomfortable : that killed me, cuteness overload !
6. Lai Guan Lin he changed so much, he can be so cute and also he has that charismatic vibe
7. Yoo Hwi Seong to see him changed and gained confidence : you’ve got the talent, fighting ?
8. Park Ji Hoon : another very talented guy, secret weapon ? ㅋㅋㅋ
9. Yoon Ji Sung : the happy pill in Produce 101 , but then with his 7 years as a trainee, I couldn’t help thinking “tears of a clown” ?: I was so glad that he was one of the Wanna One members I remember : I was able to watch the show w/o stressing for him because I knew that against all odds he had won ?
10. Hwang Min Hyun : soft voice and so handsome, no.1 for the visual ? in my dream team ?
11. Ha Sung Woon : my 2nd main vocal ?!
12. Park Woo Jin : talented and I’m not into rap but wow just wow ? ? ?, my joker ㅋㅋㅋ

◾◾ Produce 101 S2 Global review :
◾Back to a month ago : I was watching School 2017 and suffering from a severe Tae Fever ??, so while waiting for the subs I tried to fool my brain, that’s how I started to watch Happy Together ep with Wanna One, I thought “they’re the hot topic right now and they’re handsome so that’ll be enough to fool my brain and kill time while waiting for the subs” ?. I watched the 1st ep and laughed a lot, so the two weeks after I watched the other two eps. I also watched some videos of their boyfriend segment from SNL Korea.
◾Now back to the Produce 101 S2 review ?: I’m glad that a month after my weakness : low capacity to remember names and faces helped me while watching Produce 101 S2, here’s why : I didn’t remember all the members, just some names and the faces of : Kang Daniel, Ong Seung Woo, Park Ji Hoon, Hwang Min Hyun, Yoon Ji Sung, Dae Hwi & Jin Young. When I picked my “trainee to follow” for ep1 to 5 , I was influenced by that BUT for the other 7 “trainees to follow” I picked, I didn’t remember if they had won or not. So after finishing each ep, I googled the name to see if the “trainee to follow” made it or not : I was so happy finding out that Lai Guan Lin, Kim Jae Hwan, Ha Sung Woon & Park Woo Jin made it ! But I was also sad to find out that these 3 didn’t make it through :
1. Yoo Seon Ho (but consolation ? : I can watch “10cm -Pet” MV whenever I want to see him and a puppy : cuteness overload ?)
2. Yoo Hwi Seong ? (but consolation ? : he’s going to debut joining a band : N.flying)
3. Jung Se Woon? (argh no.12 ?, but consolation ? : he has debuted….solo ! I’m so happy because solo suits him better ?, and being in a band wasn’t the end game for him but more a step to reach his dream of being a music company CEO ? , that was his answer in ep2 ? to “do you want to be an idol or a singer?” from BoA) His album is very good ? and he reminds me of Yoo Seung Woo ?
◾ Knowing some Wanna One members (and having the possibility to check my “trainee to follow” after each ep) allowed me to watch the show w/o too much stress, but I was still stressing for them. Even if I knew or could check who made it or not, I didn’t know their rank, there are two plot twists that made me so so so happy ?: Ha Sung Woon getting the no.3 rank in the penultimate rank evaluation ? and Kim Jae Hwan getting the no.4 rank in ep11 ???!!!

◾ Random thoughts (after this already very long post) : I watched this show just after School 2017 end, so I couldn’t help noticing that this is a real youth drama and make some comparisons :
- ◾ if in School 2017 ranks were important for lunch time, here’s ranks meant so much for a trainee : it decides if they could debut now or not ?
- ◾ dreams : Eun Ho dream with her webtoon was similar to a trainee dream to debut with his rank directly linked to the votes received
- ◾ bad guy : after Principal, vice principal and director as main bad guys in School 2017 (along with Bit Na and Hee Chan), here’s I couldn’t help noticing how biased the editing was, I only read some comments regarding that but it seems that Mnet is known for their evil editing . It’s such a pity because that means from the beginning it was biased. Example I loved Kang Daniel & baby Lee Woo Jin BUT there was an ep in which whenever we saw LWJ in his performance, they only showed Kang Daniel reaction : ok to show him once or twice but not the entire time, other trainees were happy and reacted to the perf too. Then there were some behavior from trainees which were disrespectful for their fellow trainees but I knew they were inevitable : they have been trainees for many years and have had their own hardships, that doesn’t justify anything but it makes a lot more sense than Hee Chan desire to show Eun Ho she’s “weak” just for the sake of doing it ?
- ◾ youth, failure & hope : before watching Produce 101 I knew this show wasn’t the best one in term of morals (the concept itself, then add too much focus on sexy moves (dance, lips, expression)), but it represented so much for the trainees : there were many heartbreaking moments : one trying their best but still couldn’t achieve the choreo/sing, trainees having higher ranks because of their popularity even with wrong behavior while some hardworking trainees got lower ranks, elimination time with Pick me piano version ?. There were also heartwarming moments : family support, making new friends, improving oneself and growing up. Hilarious moments between young people : strength contest, quiz, boys fangirling whenever they saw BoA or Hyuna ?. Hope : 11 trainees joined Wanna One but all trainees changed and gained from this experience, for my 3 “trainee to follow” who didn’t make it : 2 are going to debut and for one little chick trainee ? I think it’s just a matter of time. I’ll also see Kim Jong Hyun differently in Night Goblin now that I know more about him. Ultimately being a Wanna One member isn’t the end game, trainees pursuing their dreams and keeping moving on are ?.
◾ Had to mention these two awesome perf. : Sorry sorry by team 2 & Shape of you ?? ? ?

I wait for u queen of vshow, I manage to watxh a lot of shows but seeing ur list?? I lose! Haha

Currently obsessed :

Drama : None

Variety Show :
•Abnormal Summit :
One word, JTBC ruined this masterpiece!
I never watched / heard this show before, but lately I keep hearing awesome things About it and yess it live up to its rave! G11 is super hilarious ! The chemistry between original G11 will be irreplaceable.

I love all of them, Squeky Duck Julian & soft hearted Robin, Flirty Alberto, Gullible innocent Zhang Yuan, Book warm Tyler, Cute Daniel, Fashion Rejected Illa, Flower boy Takuya & Blair♥️

I dont understand why JTBC needs to remove the firs G5 ?? They are the heart of the show?

•I Live Alone : rewatch JJY, Taeyang, Zion T, Dok2 & mostly all my bias oppa eps?
•Battle Trip ep 22, 48 : I watch this for the 1st time, lately I am sucked into travelling show & show that casts foreign Korean. I am super amazed how much hard work they put into to learn Korean language. It triggered my desired for learning korean & settle down/ stay for 1year for intern job there . Any suggestion??
•Hello Counselor, 2D1N : mandatory weekend

Thats all ^^

Really? I will have to extend my viu membership again then D:

Viu in my region doesn't have argon??

Oh my God, yes! I definitely recall Han Ji Min's stint in 3MAD. The part where she was playing the water hat game with Seo Jin was hilarious, and their interaction was so full of chemistry that I really want them to be cast in something together again.

Also, good point about how quiet the three of them really are. Shows how much of a genius Na PD is - letting the variety newbies do their own thing, and yet somehow successfully bringing out the best in them in the final product.

Oh! Another beanie watching and enjoying Hospital Ship. With @rainbowunicorn that makes 3 of us! :D I find the medical bit ridiculous, but love the characters. And Kang Min Hyuk. <3

Hey where did you get to see Borg Mom?

I am also loving Dangerous Beyond The Blankets. It's nice to see people you wouldn't regularly see in varieties get their own show, not that I watch that many variety shows anyway. I hope that they get more episodes. I also hope they do an actress and female idol one after this. I related to their introversion on a fundamental and spiritual level.

Not alone. The one show I want to watch, AoY2, I can't easily access and the rest are just blah. I need some fresh blood to hopefully pull me out of this slump. At least we're not alone in this feeling.

Me too!! I seach for everything about TKL and HJH... Why am I like this?? I never like HJH before, especially in scarlet heart. I always thought that He looks like this snobbish jerk and playboy kind of guy before.. But now I am obsessed with him!! Whyyy?? ???

Sameee!! ?? That's what I'm afraid of the most! I love that Dong Chul could investigate the cult in his own way...but I'M SO TERRIFIED FOR HIM! He better not die show..?

Someone has fallen too deep ? Too bad I can't fangirl with you this time just like with Mori-tae.

Age of Youth -Ji-won was my fav in season 1, but I think Kang Yi-na probably outshone everyone not because she was the best character or Hwa-young the best actress compared to the rest but her storyline was the most interesting and viewers just love 'unusual' type of character/story.. Maybe I'm quite glad she is not around this season. In season 2, Ji-won & Eun are my favs so far. Seems like this season feel a bit different than the last season, on the last season I was easily and quickly connected with all characters but not really this time. Maybe because our girls' problems are not as intriguing as last season, except Ji-won & Eun.

Watching Wang Yo to kill your current obsession of Rin?

Absolutely brilliant! In the future when I see one of my favorites in a terrible role, instead of grieving and heartbreaks I will just think that he is just giving me an effective antidote to cure all my future uncontrollable fangirling.

Going back to Moon lovers for Wang Yo in your present state will probably just lead to a new found and surprising love of well applied guy-liner.?

For a different king of watch, I liked Hong Jong Hyun in Vampire Idol. He plays the nerdy vampire who can rattle off information but has zero skills in talking to a girl who has a crush on him. He also hangs out with Kim Woo Bin and Lee Su Hyuk, which makes for an adorable trio of handsome bumbling vampires.

I love both seasons of let's eat too though I think I like the first season more. Probably because it's the first and the I didn't connect with the second season straight away. Plus I loved Lee soo kyung character when she hated the fact that she felt people were bothering her when she was trying to watch walking dead ? though overall I found seo hyun jin weight insecurity more relatable than Lee soo kyung not being able to cook. I was a bit bummed that seo Hyun Jin didn't get a chance to know kwon yul better and see his non work side.

I feel the same with aoy as well. I've been reluctant to start it now as I hate waiting,but I'm really in the mood to watch something light and slice of life so I've watched half of episode 1 and I love it.

In Kdrama logic, undergoing a surgery with less than 10% of survival makes perfect sense because in Dramaland, the chance for the heroine to conquer all unrealistic obstacles to triumph at the end of the day is 100%. Even for a sinking ship, we viewers need our happy endings and how dare does a writer to do so otherwise?

I am also watching the SD, and rooting for all the couples.
This week, I felt both episodes were a little bit of a filler... They were kind of slow.. Different than before.
But, I could still enjoy them, so... :)

Honestly, I can't imagine anything nearly romantic happening between Sang-Hwan and Sang-Mi, in best case scenario she will forgive him for not helping her on a roof.

If less than stellar acting and less compelling character caused the first lead Taecyeon to lose the girl to Kim Soo-hyun in Dream High, perhaps not all hope is lost in Rescue Me for Dong-chu?

"Time away from DB has let me finish all the shows I've left on hold for so long."

I can totally relate! There are days I find myself spending more time on Dramabeans than watching actual dramas. Who knew that Dramabeans is like Weightwatchers, it helps us with portion control.

I retract my statement. Even though the recaps help me stay away from some rotten shows, Beanies' Fan Posts are absolute food porn. It only makes me hungry for more dramas that I did not know I want in my diet.

Sabu ? , I'm glad to know you had time to watch dramas ;) . Suspicious Partner was funny and interesting in the first half and then like many dramas it lost the appeal.
Regarding Bride of the water god, I watched the 1st ep when it aired, & in the 2nd ep I was already using the fastforward button which I never use because it's the sign I need to drop a drama. So I dropped it, and then seeing the comments from Beanies I don't regret my decision .
Forest of secrets is the best drama this year : it truly delivered for its genre and beyond, good writing, production and very good acting from all the actors ?. It's like Signal in 2016 for me :) .
Strongest deliveryman I have to catch up ep11-12 and this week eps, I don't watch Rescue Me (story not my type).
For Reunited Worlds I lost enough time for it, I watched it until recently mainly for HoBang and Jin Joo but I couldn't stand anymore the bad writing and bad acting : I'll just check the recaps and watch only HoBang and JinJoo scenes when it'll be over ?

Suspicious Partner would have worked out better with fewer episodes and without the dad drama. The first half was like crack for me.

BotWG: I definitely wasted too much time on it. I finally gave up around episode 12 or 13? I don't think it's the two leads' fault. The writing of the drama was really weak, which was surprising because it's the writer who wrote Misaeng and Arang and the Magistrate. Well, everyone has their flops.

Forest of Secrets was definitely an amazing experience!

I felt exactly the same as you on sp. I loved the first half of the show so much. Like you I only watched the second half for the gang and the killer - I'm a Dong ha fan if you haven't noticed ?. I ended up skipping the main couple parts cos I just didn't care. Which is sad cos I love Nam ji Hyun and I think ji Chang work is a really good actor but the writing on the romance annoyed me. I'd rather the writer went I remember you route and focused less on romance and more on bromance - it was way more satisfying. I felt like they could have done so much more for ji chang wook and choi tae joints characters.

Someone is watching Kahogo? YAY.
I love it, it's one of the best doramas I have watched. Characters are relatable or at least, remind you of your own relatives. Plus, the main theme of this show is personal growth through relationships which is something I absolutely support.
May I ask what you have heard about the ending?

Ooh.. you understand korean without subs? Argon was actually in my to-watch list. But then, it isn't getting subbed anywhere. :( Atleast age of youth 2 already has a established following, so some sites sub them a few days late.

It is because there's no Eng subs, many of us are interested to watch but not all of us can fully understand Korean. It's frustrating to watch raw and not knowing if there's sub or not. ?

Yes to Proposal Daisakusen. I wasn't a fan of Nagasawa Masumi, but Yamapi makes up for it ten fold.

For me, I just find Hospital Ship basically boring. Nothing original or new or particularly interesting. Pretty much just yet another round of recycled plot-bites and overused tropes that we have seen in 100 other kmed dramas.

Live Up to Your Name: I'm still in denial - currently, not willing to deal with HaRa's passing. I mean why show, why do u make me care about her and then just let her die?

"I just need to know the ending, that's all"... LOL!! I feel the same. I have not even watched this week´s episodes! Barely went over one of the recaps through the pictures!!! LOL... I have to say I am dissappointed...

Re Hospital Ship: I cracked up so hard at the cheating guy's predicament. How in the world did he break it? I love Ha Ji-won's character but everything else in this show is awful, awful, awful!

Same here. Not that all the current dramas are BAD, it is just that so few are actually good. Rescue Me is the only one I am really watching. (Though I do check out Unni is Alive just to see how much makjang and totally stupid they can pack into one episode, with a lot of fast forwarding).