It is! But I may be biased, cause I really like K-hiphop/rap and it’s got Lil Boy from Geeks, Mino, Zico, Tablo being hilarious and lots of other stuff hehe. But no matter what, I’d say it’s worth it for Mino! It’s really interesting to see a different side to him than what we normally get in variety, while at the same time he’s still very much the same guy who’s always fun to watch. His rapping is so good and it”s fascinating to see how the other rappers both know that and are kind of afraid to go up against him, but also don’t like idol rappers so he’s up against that prejudice as well. Also him and Zico together is the best!

The whole idol-rapper thing was a big issue for a lot of hip-hop fans for ayges, because they weren’t seen as ‘true’ rappers. Till you had Zico kinda work both the underground scene and the ‘idol’ scene, followed by Bobby and Mino and others.
There’s probably still some salty khiphop fans out there but it seems to have died down a bit.
Oh and we don’t talk about Vernon’s SMTM4 shhhhh (I haven’t even seen it I’ve just heard it’s bad and that we don’t talk about it lmao)

Just beware that it’s a bit of a mess by the end lol. But Mino <3 kkk ^^

@obsessedmuch Yeah he was in SMTM4. I think he did fine on there, but his rapping wasn’t really memorable. I’m really glad they decided against putting him in winner, 3 rappers in a 5 member group where only one of them is a strong vocal seems a bit much. Maybe I should check out their group – was it 1Punch?

I checked them out and you’re right, it was pretty bad lol. Not like they as people did bad, but the song/choreo and such just was off and they seemed way too young. I think they can both do really well in the industry, they just needed a few years.

8 years!?!? Wow. That’s too big an age difference when they’re the only ones in the group lol. Also, I’ll never get why some agencies debut kids whose voice haven’t broken (is that right word?) yet. Especially since some guys don’t sing quite as well afterwards.

His voice is just… delicious LOL. I actually found out most of my favorite actors have really good voice tones that draw you in when they speak. The voice can be such a big part of someone’s charisma and charm.

Good to know I’m not completely off-base with it hehe! ^^ Ikr and a very fun one! I love it when I’m watching something raw and then suddenly realize that I understood what’s going on anyway. It’s such a mindblowing experience since it’s not a language I’ve ever studied, but only just picked up a few words and phrases here and there. And sometimes the words I understand are really random ones like onion or something lol.

Lol I didn’t know that but yup, I wouldn’t put much faith in it either! 😛 He is good for a non-singer. And he covers everything up with his adorable smile so everything is forgotten! 😀

When I first heard that KSH was going for professional bowling, I was almost afraid that with that we might never get his TV comeback. And then I heard that Hongki is with him. And I just couldn’t connect them! Till then, Hongki for me was ‘that’ guy from You Are Beautiful and I was left wondering at the odd way in which relationships work in k-world. Now that I have gotten to know Hongki more, I feel like they fit perfectly well and anyway, I feel like no one can NOT be Hongki’s friend if they meet him once. He is adorable!

Dream High was cute. And also a bit heartbreaking. I mean, it’s got Suzy and Taecyeon as leads, but KSH balances out their bad acting kkkk 😛

Haha.. exactly what kaybee said.
It somehow worked despite having pretty mediocre actors- Suzy, Taec and that other guy from 2PM. IU was okay but quite green. On top of that there was JYP himself! Now that i think of it, HOW did it work!!!! 😛
KSH was awesome and so was the storyline. Plus there is just something about underdogs winning that works everytime!

Variety is always what saves me when I’m in a dramaslump lol.

Ahhhh same here -.- I’m loving The Best Hit and Lookout (despite its flaws), but other than that none of the currently airing shows are doing it for me. I really don’t know how I’ll be able to finish watching SP. Haven’t even gotten around to this week’s eps yet, the whole her-dad-probably-didn’t-kill-his-parents-but-he-thinks-he-did subplot that popped up last week, made me not want to keep watching. Been there done that (drama-watching-wise that is lol, not irl! 😛 ). I’m not really up for so much noble idiocy and misunderstandings and manipulations right now.

It definitely has a lot of flaws – Key’s acting isn’t as good as in Drinking Solo (understandable as it’s a much more demanding character, but a bit disappointing nonetheless), Lee Si Young is a pretty terrible actress, the logic fails are sometimes many and WHY OH WHY does people keep talking about very secretive things in places where they could be walked in on at any moment?? That said, I still love it. I think Kwan Woo is what keeps me interested. I just love that nothing is simple when it comes to him. His moral compass is both perfect and completely malfunctioning at the same time, which is really fascinating to see in a male lead. There’s no romance between the main leads which I love so so much. Si Wan is also a really intriguing villain. So I guess the good still outweighs the bad for me, by a lot.

The only thing that made me watch SP is the writer. I don’t much care about the story or JCW and NJH is just okay for me, not enough to make me watch an entire show. But in the beginning I had slight hopes for something as good as IRY, which were quickly tanked and then I just kept watching because now I had already begun and other people seemed to love it, so I thought maybe I’d learn to too. Did not happen 😛
It is?? I actually saw Hyun’s house in another show, where it looked exactly the same inside. Can’t remember which one though, hmmm…

He’s the one who also played the chaebol in Chief Kim right? He’s really good! I think it was PBG’s innocent flower boy looks that shot him to fame much more than his acting though. NOT that he can’t act, but as in, there are plenty of really good actors who never make it to fame because they don’t have the trendy look. Just look at how much bigger PBG is than SIG, despite them doing a drama together (it didn’t do that well ratings-wise btw, it was R88 that made PBG really famous, though IRY was his stepping stone I think) and SIG nailing his character there.

Seulgi’s adorable and cute and I like her, but her acting is just “okay” for me. Splash Splash Love made no longlasting impression, but didn’t watch OMG (haha!), so can’t really say too much about her acting in general. I really like her pairing with Key in this drama, but I 100% do not buy that he’s older than her. And they’re mostly just being cute. She did okay when she was holed up in the apartment, but since then her scenes haven’t left much impact.

SIG is just so freaking charismatic that no matter how he looks he’s good-looking lol. Charisma and personality is everything to me when it comes to being attractive. But I do see that he’s not classically handsome to Koreans. I can’t compare looks though, cause someone like KSH is also really attractive, but in a completely different way. On a sidenote, I never did get the LMH or KWB craze tbh, despite having seen them in several dramas.

Actually, IRY is the only show where PBG caught my attention. The rest of his performances were a bit bland to me, but I know I’m pretty much alone in that opinion hehe 😛

D-Day isn’t really my type of drama, but will try out the other one at some point, thanks! ^^

I feel like his expressions capture the intense of emotions of such traumatic experiences really well. Like when he were laugh-crying in the car. I’ve been there and it struck me right in the heart. Normally I’d prefer more subtle expressions too, but I love how he uses it to express his character in a way that makes me understand him more and feel for him. It makes him seem less of a cold creep and more of a disturbed, lonely guy who doesn’t know anything about ordinary life.

Have not watched SFD but I really loved BYH in Misaeng! Especially with his hair parted in the middle! I started watching Ex-Boyfriend’s club because of him and it was just too funny! I even got my sister hooked on watching it, too!

So glad I have someone to share my love for BYH here!

Aww, that’s a shame!

Exactly! I even sometimes get curious about the really infamous ones like Hyde, Jekyll and Me lol. And I keep watching till the end, cause you never know if you might end up liking it (tbh I actually liked that show more than most, even if not by much lol). I also loved and completely binged Gu Family Book, which everyone here keep saying is a bad show. I’ve also felt “meh” about more beloved dramas than I can count, so it seems maybe I just like being in the minority on these things haha.

HJM definitely had its issues and sometimes made me feel like banging my head against the wall, regretting I ever started it. The love-triangle with self was particularly off-putting. But it also did some things right, which it seems most people just brush over.

I actually really like MLFAS, but yesssss, finally someone who agrees with me on Healer!!! I had to try twice before I was able to finish it and despite it having some moments in the middle where I was feeling like I could finally love it, it ultimately disappointed me. So many potentially interesting things left in the dust and the bromance never really took off, despite how heartwrenching it could have been *sigh* Wouldn’t call it bad either, but it’s just one of those shows that are simply there and not much else.

Other confessions (that you don’t actually have to read lol, just in case you’re curious and also because I’m curious myself to see how far this trend of mine reaches haha!):

Didn’t live up to the hype for me: Chicago Typewriter, Marriage Not Dating, Goblin, High School King of Savvy, I Need Romance 3, King2Hearts, Let’s Eat, MDBC, Oh My Venus, My Lovely Kim Sam Soon, SUFBB, Signal, Something About 1 Percent (2016), Splash Splash Love, W

Liked or just didn’t find that horrible, but it has a bad rep here: Dream High 2, Entertainer, Cheese in the Trap (loved it, ending and all!), Lucky Romance, Moorim School and Madame Antoine (though these last two may be because they were the first shows I live-watched lol).

And then there are the tons of shows that just never get mentioned here, like You’re All Surrounded, Heart to Heart, Pied Piper and The Lover.

I feel like a lot of the hyped shows are a bit overrated and some with a bad rep actually do have a few redeeming qualities that just gets ignored or bogged down by the faults. And some shows are just bad, but you enjoy them anyway 😛

That was way too long. You don’t have to read it! *hides* I tend to ramble, in case you hadn’t already noticed 😉

LotBS took me aaages to finish. It was so dull and the OTP pairing was odd. MLFAS has something highly binge/squee-worthy for me, but if I were to objectively judge the story, I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t like it haha. It has a lot of cliches and logic fails, but the cast and the humor makes this show for me.

Well it at least feels like every beanie and their mother recommended CT haha 😛 I loved the first two eps with a passion, just not the rest. But it had Go Kyung Pyo in it, which is always a plus. Guess I just wanted more literature/writing focus and less ghost hijinks and reincarnations, which I honestly feel like has been done many times before. It was visually stunning though! So stunning. Whoever did the scenography (or is that word only for the theater and film just uses ‘sets’ instead? Eh, who knows lol) on this is genius.

I don’t think I’ll ever get why people didn’t like the CITT ending. Maybe because I didn’t live-watch, so it didn’t give that sometimes warped perspective of how much time/eps has passed. When you’re not live-watching, it’s only about ep 14-15 that seem odd and a tad exasperating. Or is it the very last ep?
I agree, acting, cinematography, everything was just so well done in CITT!

Agreed, the soundtrack for CT is really good!

Ahh I see. I don’t read webtoons, so didn’t have that in my head while watching. I actually liked the subtle portrayal of Sunbae. It was pretty clear from early on that he’s mentally ill, but to the people around him his actions would probably be confusing, so I think it worked well. Especially since he didn’t understand himself that it was him that had an issue and not always everyone else. Maybe that’s also why I liked the end scenes – I’d been hoping all along for them not to be romantically involved until he’d gotten better (and less dangerous) and he needed to define himself away from Seol and everyone else he knew.

Even with the odd focus on In Ho in a few eps at the end, I still felt like Jung was the main focus. His character is such a presence and in a sense the main focus of the entire story, that I didn’t feel like we were missing any scenes with him in those eps. I was mostly just annoyed by the whole “oh no my hand doesn’t work again”-cliche, not so much the lack of Jung-screentime.

Thankfully this is a digital-to-read list full of book-titles rather than actual books (goodreads), otherwise I wouldn’t be able to bring myself to it! I could never throw out a book (although I did once have to do it with a box of old paperbacks because they’d gotten so damp there was a seriously weird smell to them. It’s been 10 years and I’m still moarning the loss lol.).

I’ve been used to hauling moving boxes of books since I was a teen, so I don’t mind lol. I have no idea how many books I own. But I do tend to be pickier these days when it comes to choosing what to buy (or even just what to put on a list of wishes), probably because I spend so much time studying really good literature in-depth that I don’t want to waste any time on bad ones in my spare time. Also being a poor student without too much space is a bit of an obstacle to book hoarding 😛

Apparently I posted an inappropriate word? *sigh*

Short version: forgot to say I agree with e-books, physical books are so much more charming! And I have more hardbacks than before too, love them, but hard to move, not just cause of weight, but because they’re delicate and need to be wrapped in something first.

There was a third message in between those two lol, where I had a “PS I agree with ebooks” in longer form 😛

I think I may have finished CT purely to be able to keep looking at those bookshelves.
TWO ROOMS WITH BUILT IN BOOKCASES???? *green with envy* I’ve always wished for built-in bookcases. It’s one of the only reasons I sometimes think it would be nice to be loaded lol. I’d instantly buy a Victorian house with built in shelves, except we don’t have Victorians here, so there’s that hurdle to get over as well 😛

Denmark. We have lots and lots of old, beautiful buildings, but Victorians are something particularly British/American, I think?

Except for the no bookcases part, that sounds dreamy! Lol at having to move your books, it must have been so weird living in a house with no books until it was sold! Like the quote goes: “A room without books, is like a body without a soul”. Or something like that 😛

And there’d definitely be people mad about it if he didn’t mention Winner. Probably the same people even. Because they’re not being rational, they’re just looking for some excuse to hate and thereby vent their own inner frustrations.

Tbh I don’t even care. It was so sad to hear that NTH left, because I was used to them being five and they sounded good together. But they’re just people and most people don’t work the same job for all eternity. Why should musicians be any different? Maybe I’m just so used to it, because I knew a lot of guys who would form bands and break them up again in a million different constellations over the years, but I don’t get what the fuzz is about. The most important thing is that Winner and NTH are happy with their lives and making good music, while hopefully being succesful.

Tbh even if it’s a group I like, I still get annoyed at the “vote for XX at XX” and the streaming on loop. But the Korean music industry is so based on popularity and, if not for hallyu, has a more limited audience and buyer-base, so I get why the fans do that. I just wish it didn’t make them feel so entitled at least and that it didn’t mean they often tear down other artists in an attempt to promote their own faves.

The fact that it’s so different is simultaneously what fascinates me and annoys me about the Korean music industry lol. It’s hard to not think of these things with my own culture as comparison, but at the same time I do get and respect that it works very differently. When it generates hateful comments etc however, I tend to end up on the annoyed side of things.

I waited almost a month for these too, it’s one of the reasons I like oral exams so much more lol – no waiting 😛

I saw it and laughed from start to finish haha! 😀 It really is even funnier! I think it helps that the newbies are all acquainted now, especially Mino seems more comfortable and Kyuhyun’s making more jokes. When he swore I just cracked up, the others really didn’t expect that from a serious SM-balladeer-idol LOL 😛 Also, pretty sure Mino didn’t whisper “I love you” to Ho Dong, probably just him being a good hyung and salvaging the idol’s image kkkkk. He was an underground rapper after all, I’d be surprised if he didn’t know quite a lot of swearwords HD doesn’t! 😉

F i r s t is an inappropriate word???? But… why???? *suddenly understands why several of my posts got sentenced to the void* That’s such a weird word to make inappropriate!

Oooohhhh wait… NOW I get it. It’s so that there’ll be no annyoing “f i r s t !”-comments on recaps etc.

Well, Kyuhyun is the original “evil maknae” lol, so I’m not surprised at all! It just seems pretty fifty-fifty whether he’ll be talkative or not and it seems like the more he knows people the funnier/talkative he is on shows.

LOL I haven’t tried it yet, but I’ll have to at some point, I want to know just how hard it is! I love that they managed to hit the “porsche” and “lamborghini” haha. If I was Na PD I’d have just bought them model-cars, cause it’s still a lamb and a porsche, just not a real-size, functioning one 😛

That’s true, I noticed someone using the word on a recap not too long ago. So guess there’s something glitchy with the system!

Haha I’m proud that you’re proud of me ^^

Deal! If you give me five baskets and a cucumber, I’ll get you… erhhh…. a reorganization of your closet? An amateurish drawing? An analysis of the book you’re reading? 😛

Oooh, have yet to read anything by her, but have heard lots of good things. How is it? I’m guessing good since you’re re-reading hehe.

Sounds intriguing!

Tbh I can’t remember the last time I re-read a book when it wasn’t for uni. So little time, so many books!

*the poor student immediately grabs your hand* I can definitely use all the help I can get too LOL 😛

I wish he wasn’t part of the lovelines. It’d be much more interesting if there was a career-subplot for the female lead.

How did the flight go??

Yeah, me too, I love how honest she is, like when she said that she wanted Myung Soo to be happy with someone.. once she herself had gotten married and had a kid haha 😛

:O Glad you still managed to arrive in one piece!

I just don’t tend to be good at shows that mostly work because of the main couple/romance. I tend to end up bored.

LOL I actually tried, but quit after two eps cause of the creepy villain. Then I saw the later comments about it and realized it’d been a wise decision 😛 (Also quit because I just can’t root for a heroine who won’t use her powers when a man is being beaten up, but will do it when they break her phone. Like no.)

Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Joo, is also one I’ve tentatively put on my to-watch lol, cause all everyone talks about is the chemistry/relationship.

Okey dokey guys, you’ve got me convinced, it stays on the to-watch, don’t worry! 😛
It might take me a little while to get to (or not), but I’ll get around to it one day then ^^

Oooh I’d love that for next month’s theme!

Haha before you know it’ll be 4am and you’re still not asleep 😛

Hahaha I knew it! And yes he looked adorable. I was really happy to see Seunghyun getting just as much screentime as him almost, I need the two of them in a variety show together, or just SH alone would be fine lol, his reactions and stuff are perfect for variety!

I laughed so hard at all the things they got wrong, they were SO certain about everything and ended up with an epic fail haha 😀

“and we deserve their screen time!”
Haha so true! 😛

I may be weird, but whenever I see games like banana-snapping, it always makes me wonder what they do with them afterwards? I know on 1N2D they give these things to the huge staff, but when there isn’t one I’m kind of worried they’re just throwing it away, which makes me sad because there are so many people who don’t have anything to eat :/ Like, don’t play with food lol!

LOL let’s hope so! 😛

Yep can definitely see that too. Even though they were actually doing something, it ended up more boring than FTI’s V-live which consists mostly of them simply talking alone to the camera one by one hahah 😛 Let’s hope Winner’s recent activities will make people see how fun and funny they can be!

Yes I’m really loving it so far, tvn really knows how to make good dramas 😀