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Incredible amount of detail summarised perfectly - this must have taken a lot of time and effort to put together and I really appreciate it :)

Just got done watching the first 4 last night (4am counts as last night, right? right?) and i'm completely hooked! Thanks for the great article!

Completely agree - I have accidentally started one or two that have had English dubs and I immediately switch them back. I love listening to the Korean language, and there's something really lost in translation when you take that out - even if I don't speak the language, you get a lot from the way in which it is spoken mixed in with the bits you do understand.

No it's fine - I am delighted to watch it again haha :) Bit of a KDrama addict i'm afraid and since I loved this one so much until I lost it - if I can find a way to flip that around and make it one of my favourites I will be very happy ;)

If I still don't get it though - I'll come asking for you to shine a light on it for me :)

Ya know what - i'm just gonna *have* to watch it again then. :-)

I have two reasons to write reviews - one is to hopefully recommend something to someone, and the other is so that if i've missed or misunderstood - someone can - as you have - point it out and let me know!

I seem to have been watching a lot of Jung Hae-In lately, once more around the block won't hurt :)

Thanks Nonie, really appreciate your note :)

im much the same to be honest - in my case i pick the music to because of the dramas i enjoyed - though I have come to find a few artists that I can expect to hear great things out of consistently :) i think it's because, for me, music in drama ost's has another dimension to "just" music on its own - in listening to the music, i recall the feelings and emotions from the drama itself, not just the ones that the music conjurs on its own, so it always feels like i have a deeper connection to Drama OST's rather than any other music I listen to.

Really interesting article about one of my favourite drama stars! Thanks!

I've seen mixed opinions on Auditory Hallucination so I must admit I thought I was in a small group of people who enjoyed it - so, good to see that i'm not alone :) For me it was the contrasting styles, I don't normally like rap in any part of a song but there have been a few that i've enjoyed and this is one of them.

Really enjoying this one so far - it's a different kind of role for Chae Soo Bin and one that she's embraced and excelled at immediately. I love the idea of the AI being a siri-style until it's Response moment where it "wakes up" that's a neat concept.

Definitely looking forward to the journey on this one!

Thanks for the article :)

I was the same with Guardian myself! Loved it but ... that ending. Shin Se Kyung also did Bride of Habaek in the same year and that shares a number of key elements with Guardian - including the nature of the ending, but yet that one was pitched in a more positive manner despite ultimately being exactly the same.

Ok spoiler-hidden thoughts on the ending...

It's a bitter sweet ending because as far as I can tell, she gets to be with him for 2 weeks out of the year and that's it, and if at any point he's pulled from the Orchestra - that's the end of it with zero notice. So short moments of extreme happiness and 50 weeks of longing. Not quite the happy ending I thought it was going to get - but not terrible either.

I *thought* they might go along some lines to fake his death, have his father "disappear" him in Switzerland and then he could just take up a new identity. That would resolve the problem for his family getting into trouble for his defection and enable them to be together permanently. It might have made for a dramatic scene where you see him (in theory) in some horrific accident, which Se-ri witnesses, and then in the background there he is as he whisks her away somewhere else. Still, I wax lyrical, that's not how it ended and I need to get over that :)

I was also a bit sad about the ending for Dan as well, but then having TWO cross-border romances somehow find a way to work... well.. that was probably pushing the boundaries of even kdrama reality, so I'm not entirely surprised.

None of the above diminishes what I thought was an excellent story though, just to be clear :)

If you want to see more of Seo Ji Hye (who plays Dan) I can heartily recommend Black Knight: The Man who Guards Me - she plays a main role, character is "Sharon" and it's a fantastic character that she plays superbly.

Great article!

Cha Eun Jae is probably the character i'm most intrigued about because there's clearly something there we don't understand and I don't think it's a straight forward issue at all, Master Kim is just the right person to set her on the right track though - as to her problems being somewhat ignored, I can see that but I also wonder if Master Kim is just observing initially, learning about both the new Doctors without interfering so he gets a clear picture. Season 1 was one of my favourite dramas and I finished it coincidentally a few days before Season 2 started which was a nice surprise :)

Very happy to see so many returning characters, and having watched Season 1, stepping into Season 2 was like greeting old friends again.

I did find it amusing that they got funding to add a new operating theatre... but not to fix the "Dam" light on the front... :-P

Just recently finished Her Private Life - light, fluffy and very entertaining with a wonderful couple, no stupid breakups and a couple that talk through problems and resolve issues.

Professor Cha annoyed me a lot throughout - but I have to say that by the end I thought he had evolved, or was at least showing that he was capable and would do so, the final scene with him and Se-Ri dancing while rinsing vegetables was very warm and entirely of his own wish to do - if he was still sore about being pulled away from the boys studying a few moments earlier as he would have previously he would have been unwilling to engage and constantly trying to take the upper hand but here - he's acting like a Dad finally, and it was a nice scene to enjoy watching.

Yes, his change was forced upon him by his wife - who for me is one of the heroines of this show, I thought her character was fantastic and handled the situation beautifully, all too often in these times if we feel something is wrong with our partners people are too quick to say "thats it, divorce" and then do it, she was clearly keen to resolve it but needed to make a clear statement. It made him miserable, and we saw some genuine emotion coming out towards the end of his exile and not just because he was sick of Cup Noodle or needed clothes washing. In my opinion anyway.

I am surprised i'm taking his side, as I said, I couldn't stand any moment this character was on screen, everything coming out of his mouth was ridiculous, but I did appreciate the change, even if it was only a start and right at the end - I think that family would be on the road to good times.

For me, Seu-Jin was the character I'm still unsure of. She didn't make the "right" choice of her own volition, she only did it because her daughter was falling apart. Instead of setting the best example, having realised where right and wrong were, and working to get her daughter on board with what needed to bedone, she left it and it was only when Ye-Seu was falling apart (and probably in real danger of longer term damage) that she knew she had to do this to help her daughter. In the end, the right thing happens, and we do see in the final scenes that she's clearly evolving herself but the moral compass there came from Ye-Seu, not Seu-Jin.

My thoughts anyway. Loved your review, loved the show too!