Beanie level: Noble idiot

I haven’t finished a drama since March…

Somebody help…

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    Ironically that your dp is Ji-won sunbae in a superhero costume and you’re asking for help, BUT YES, I’m here! How can I help??? May I suggest the currently airing, Reunited Worlds? It’s fantastic.

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      I’ll gladly second this^
      I love it!!

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      I’ve been flirting with starting Reunited Worlds, but couldn’t muster up the motivation to actually do it. I think my drama slump has scared me into thinking everything will end up disappointing. BUT OKAY, I’m gonna start it NOW.

      Jin Goo-yah, HERE I COME!

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        Go! Go to him! I went into it w/ little to no expectations, and was thoroughly entertained throughout the first ep. First ep was SOLID! 👌🏼 I hope you’ll feel the same way when you watch it. I’m now all caught up w/ it, and it’s still VERY GOOD. 👍🏼 The latest ep had me laughing so much!

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Even if people dislike the changes, I hope people will at least give AOY2 a shot.

Do it for the sunbaeeees

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Age of Youth 2’s new teaser is 💕💕💕💕💕

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What are your guys\’ dream drama pairings? Like two actors that have never worked together, but you\’d kill for it to happen?

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    Yeo Jingoo and Park Boyoung~~ T_T Both have already said they’d like to work with each other.

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    Jo Jung-seok and Seo Hyun-jin. They would make for a very lethal romcom pairing. Drama Gods, please make it happen someday…

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      This is my dream pairing too! Both of them just fully inhabit every role they take on.

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      oh my i’d love too look forward 😘😘😘
      i want seo hyun jin and yeon woo jin to be paired too 😍😍

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    Park Shin Hye and Kim Soo Hyun… PSH has worked with the 3 other Hallyu wave stars except him! And I dunno, I think they would look good together..

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    It’s a dream of mine to see Park Shin-hye, Kim So-eun, and Jung So-min in a drama. Maybe something like Charlie’s Angels. Oh, I’d love to see Ha Ji-won and Lee Soo-hyuk in a drama. She’s hot, he’s hot. She’s an amazing actress, he’s workable. They’ll smoulder together, it’ll be perfect.

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Did down votes really get removed? I know I complained about them at first, but I was kinda getting used to them.

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    I’m glad they are gone, there were some crazy fans & anti fans out there ready to (serial)downvote if there’s even a slightly diff POV.

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      Yeah, it’s probably for the best. It’s better to not enable negativity. I just hope it doesn’t lead to more verbal fights in the comments.

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I don’t particularly love this song, but it’s been stuck in my head for last goddamn week so I’m sharing it here because I’ll be damned if I suffer alone.

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Dramaland is actually doing a lot of sequels lately…

Not sure how I feel about it.

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    There’s been a lot of open ended endings of shows lately too, leaving just enough to dangle for a sequel if necessary.

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      Those open ending have felt unfinished, rather than ambiguous, lately…

      Writers forget you still have to finish the season you’re writing now.

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    i don’t like it so much, with certain series i don’t mind (Age of youth) because the format lends it to a second season, but overall, the reason i love watching kdrama’s is cause of the one-season format a opposed to the multiple seasons with english-spoken series

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      Yeah, I feel it lends itself more to shows like AOY which are very character driven. All these crime shows getting s2’s though… I feel they don’t have the lasting power.

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        next thing we know, we’ll have spinoffs from spinoffs and lots of seasons (CSI franchise), oh dear, please no, agreed, crime and romcom shows shouldnt last more than a season unless there is a subplot that could be interesting and even then,

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          So many dramas lose steam at the end of 16 or 20 episodes anyway… I think we’d get some real crazy sh*t if writers have to stretch things over multiple seasons suddenly.

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            true! i tend to lose interest like 3/4 in of most series, sometimes i force myself to finish but more often than not i just drop them and read recaps to know how it ended

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Me, reacting to downvotes 8 weeks ago: 😢😲😢😲

Me, now: [drags cigarette] \”Pull the trigger you cowards.\”

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    I know which thread you’re referring to, and I was *this close* to putting a disclaimer on my comment of “I know the downvotes are coming, so bring them on” 😉 Your comments were very well said, though 😉

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Me: \”I should check out some of the drama premieres from this week…\”

Me: *watches variety shows instead*

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    This is me, too!! lol

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    Recommend an episode of a show pleaaase. I’m in need of a good laugh. 😀

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    God this is so me! Variety shows are suddenly the only shows I look forward to now! #dramaslump

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      2017 has been such a slump year 🙁

      Variety is the only thing bringing me joy right now

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        It has been Running Man, New Journey to the West, weekly Idol and knowing brothers for me… I am surviving on them!😃

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Sigh. I was slightly interested in Man Who Dies to Live when it was first announced. But the way they\’ve gone on to portray Arabs and Muslims is just disrespectful.

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    What happened? I don’t plan on picking up that drama but might read its recap.

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      Just a lot of ignorance and stereotypes. It’s obvious very little actual research about either went into the show. The PD/Writer’s preconceptions of them seem to be informed by a mix of Aladdin and post 9-11 stereotypes.

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    I’m glad it wasn’t just me who was a little put off (and that was just from the teasers)…

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    Haven’t watched yet, but I was really looking forward to it. Is the racism that bad? I kind of expected that tbh, but I was hoping that any jokes/stereotypes about Arabs and Muslims would be dropped quickly once the guy goes back to Korea. Or does it continue even after that?

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      Its so bad…a number of Beanies & I were talking about it in 1 post of @hannaehh screen caps alone annoyed me.

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        my apologies but I’d rather not post the screen cap I saw. And that disturbing, annoying scene is just in Ep 1. I can’t move past it, that I’ll not watch the rest of the drama

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If you\’re watching a drama and Kim Young Ok isn\’t playing the halmoni, is it really a drama?

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I would just like to take the time to thank not only God, but Gong Yoo\’s stylist, for all the tank tops he wore in Coffee Prince. 🙌

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❤ ❤ ❤

Anyone else wasting time on this app?
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I know it\’s considered the same as like a star sign or MBTI type, but I still find it odd that k-actors and kpop stars\’ blood types are so easily accessible. I feel really weird having that information…

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If I were to compliment kdramas on just one thing, it would be that they allow their shows to be silly. I\’m getting tired of this fake gritty \”realism\” that seems to be dominating western media. Not everything has to be miserable to be \”realistic.\”

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Does anyone else go through drama mood swings? I seem to alternate from watching absurdist fluffy romcoms to nothing but murder shows for the following weeks. Like every few months.

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    I do. 🙂 Right now I’m enjoying psychopaths…

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    I’ve started doing that. I don’t want to get rid of the taste of good fluff with other fluff so I watch something heavier until I can move on.

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      Yeah. If I watch something too similar afterwards I feel like I’m cheating on the show I’ve just finished 😂

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    have it all the time, i can sometimes watch 3-4 romcoms back-to-back before just switching over to scifi or thrillers or cdrama’s or …for a while 🙂

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    Believe me, that’s normal. HAHA!

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    I always have drama mood swing. And an extreme one at that too. I switched so fast from craving one genre to another. From romcom, murder thriller, tearjerker, sometimes even to makjang.

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We\’ve gotten to the cycle where a lot of my faves are enlisting this year and it\’s making me nervous 😂

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KFC’s Goblin look-alike is probably my favorite thing currently.
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The amount of male leads who would actually be terrible boyfriends is… too much frankly.

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    Lol true enough. They look swoony on screen but only because it’s not happening to you lol
    There are a few hidden gems, but then they seem too perfect to ever be real (Twenty Again, Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-gu, Queen In-hyun’s Man, I Hear Your Voice).

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      Yeah, 2017 has been a better year in general, but then I’ll see a wrist grab or something in a currently airing show and I’m like, still?

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        I’ve never been as bothered with the wrist-grab as most people seem to be. It depends on the context. I did like the subversion of it in The Bride of the Water God, though.

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          I don’t think it has ever been addressed from a cultural point of view it this site, but I have sometimes wondered if it has sprung from the korean custom of limited touching and skinship with strangers. Like maybe taking the hand if a near stranger is frowned upon so they have gotten into the habit of taking the wrist?

          Maybe it was at first with strangers only and then they got used to doing it with everybody. 😁

          Of course this is pure conjecture. 😊

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            Yeah, I would be interested in how culture plays in it. I wonder if it’s addressed in dramabeans’ book…

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        Yeah, I’m not bothered by it if the guy doesn’t look like he yanking her around. If they’re just doing it as opposed to holding hands I don’t mind. Maybe it’s different cultural perspectives?

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          It’s the dragging her around part that bothers me. Or stopping her by force. Which is 99% of when its used. It’s also just a cliche in general…

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            I think why it doesn’t bother me is that the girl can always say no if she truly wanted to. I’ve never seen one done so forcefully that the girl couldn’t easily enough break the contact if she wanted to. I read it as a subconscious decision that she does want to be removed from the situation or stopped from leaving. Of course you could read it in a feminist perspective that the woman thinks that she can’t break the contact because she believes that the man does have ultimate control over her and she has no power, but I think that’s being too pessimistic. But, again it depends on context for me.

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            If a girl wants to leave or not go somewhere then the guy should respect it. Not get physical to prevent her from from doing so. It’s as simple as that.

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            If the wrist grab bothers people, then the situation should be seen as both of them being at fault. The guy should respect her, but she should stand up for herself. The guy always touches her spontaneously and out of desperation. He’s not thinking nefarious thoughts towards her. If she has a problem with him grabbing her, then it should be up to her to break contact. By her choosing not to, then she is letting him have control. Whether he should have that control or not can be our judgment, but you can’t blame him for her letting him have that control.

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            Sorry, but that is the definition of victim blaming. Kdrama heroines are rarely ever not written as subordinate to their male leads. There are societal pressures, and sometimes professional ones (i.e. work dramas), that DO prevent them from voicing rejection because it would negatively impact them. And we HAVE had male leads force themselves on female leads while they voice rejection anyway. So the female can’t win. She’ll be seen as secretly “wanting it” anyway. And that’s the kinda stuff that makes girls feel like they can’t say no in the first place. You can’t place the responsibility of the male’s actions on her.

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Netflix\’s subs for Age of Youth are somehow worse that Dramafever\’s. And everyone ranks on Dramafever.

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    Omg! I’m so glad you brought this up because I always wondered about the quality of the subs on Netflix. I don’t have it, but after finding out how many K-dramas are on there, I was curious about the quality of the subs–if they were accurate and specific/detailed.

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      I don’t know if the quality varies from drama to drama but for AOY, in just the first two eps there were translations that messed up key lines and jokes. Nothing that screws up anything really important, but still noticeable. I hope the other dramas might have better subs because Netflix has actually been good about getting more dramas lately, and their international content is growing. It’d be a shame if it was wasted on bad subs.

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        Oh that sucks, though. I love it when I get the little jokes and/or meta used in shows. For regulars like us, it kinda takes away from the drama-watching experience, but as long as the main idea for each scene and overall show is portrayed well, then it is what it is. That’s why we have DB for situations like that–to fill us in on the gaps that the bad subs left!

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