DramaAjumma

I know this is based on a novel but it really reminds me of a J-K drama from a while back. Boku to Star no 99 Nichi. The male lead was an astronomer turned security guard and the female lead was also a movie star. It starred Kim Tae-hee and Nishijima Hidetoshi.

Wow. What a refreshing C drama this is! It doesn't have the female lead doing cringey embarrassing slapstick in the first few episodes and the leads behave like real people and not tropes dragged out of an overused rom com playbook.
Pigs can fly.

Of all the trashy rom coms I've seen this year, this is one that I was able to get on board with with a bit of help from the FF button. I'm a sucker for contract marriages anyway and this one was reasonably fun. While I liked the leads, the MVP award definitely goes to the kid who played Xiao Bao. Without him, there's no doubt that this would be a different show.

No one has died? Really? Might like to take another look at Episode 8.

She's a terrific actress. What's not to like?

I think it's good. One of the better time skip dramas.

365: Repeat the Year

The Good Detective?

What a fascinating show this is. The imagery, the iconography and allusions are fantastic. When the rule of law breaks down there's a kind of creeping barbarism that emerges from the dust which hides behind a veneer of respectability. The big screen of propaganda opposite of Yohan's office reminds me of Father from the Tetragrammaton Council from Equilibrium. When Sun-ah is hailed as the new chair of SFR... that entire sequence gave me fascist-nazi party heebie jeebies.

He could be lying. He might not be. So either way, it's all speculative at this point. It might not be an accident but it doesn't mean that it had to be Yo-han who started it. And even if he did start the fire, it doesn't follow that he intended for anyone to die in it. He may just wanted Isaac to not give away the family fortune. The point is that more lives could have been saved if they had evacuated properly. Besides he has been raising Elijah with a great deal of care, more than he needs to.

It's very unlikely. There's no reason for Yo-han to kill Isaac. The fire was most likely an accident. It wouldn't surprise me if Elijah is the one who started it. But who started it isn't the point. If everyone had evacuated properly without pushing and shoving the others, everyone could have got out in time.

Consistently a joy and a delight. Wonderful wholesome show about growing up, teamwork and the bonds of friendship.
Hope our Jeonnam Boys win!

"Also, the two MLs are giving me major Harvey and Mike vibes from Suits!"

That's exactly what I thought as well.

I didn't like Ling Dang much at the start either but things do get better between them after Episode 8.
The cohabitation aspect is really just for the romance. Nothing about it makes sense otherwise.

Once the leads stop the ridiculous obligatory bickering, it's a decent enough police procedural. Not great but watchable. Zhang Yujian is a fine actor and he plays up Qin Ming's eccentricities quite well. The low production values certainly don't help.

Maybe it's just me but I don't find this season boring at all. In fact, I'm enjoying every episode. Glad to have Lee Kyu-hyung a part of the franchise.

I don't object to the romance per se. I just object to how badly it's incorporated. The leads are good actors and they have decent chemistry but all the attempt to produce push and pull just don't make a whole lot of sense. Still the cases are decent enough to make the whole thing watchable and the show gets less bad as it progresses.

Ahn Chi-hong was not an intern but a resident.

Ugh... not impressed so far. Mango didn't exactly throw money at this did they? Not exactly enjoying the slapstick here. The inclusion of the rom com tropes feel so clumsy and unnecessary.

A mostly entertaining lightweight drama that borrows from Beauty and the Beast but tries too hard to sidestep the darkly fantastical aspects of the original . It's one of those dramas where the secondary pairing does a lot of the heavy lifting in the final act while the primary one flounders around waiting for the resolution.
If nothing else it's a reminder that Kang Ha-na is one of the best K actresses of her generation.