It sounds absurd but I can confirm it. US Netflix account on a JP VPN gives ep. 10 with subs in English. Also Thai, Korean, Malay, Indonesian, Chinese (trad.) if that's what you're waiting for.
I seriously think that someone's simply forgotten to flip the switch. This is consistent with the incredibly sloppy rollout of new Japanese content.
MDL always follows the original broadcaster's schedule.Netflix is a week behind on-air for this drama.Netflix…
No argument there but I won't blame the translators. I've worked in writing and translation. I understand the pain of gritting your teeth and asking your ancestors for forgiveness while you comply with manifestly moronic standards. I also meant standardizing as a consistent presentation and release of the content despite working with different Japanese vendors.
English, paint it anyway you like, is a bitch to work with on certain levels. You can't even reduce Italian or German honorifics, which don't have the same degrees of nuance that Korean or Japanese do, without compromising something. While I don't envy Netflix for having to find a working common denominator for the different levels of cultural literacy in the anglophone audience I still believe that they should do better.
As long as my listening skills aren't up to it, I'll keep watching the "unauthorized" fansubbed versions of dramas that I could legally stream on Netflix and Amazon.
Any recommendations of dramas where the main couple is like the second couple from this drama?
I was surprised by how few I could think of. Maybe that's because this is a second couple so they don't get involved in nearly as much, well, drama that's crucial to the plot. Here are a few things that I thought came with an "I like you, let's be together" vibe.
Strong Girl Nam-soon Eye Love You Tell Me That You Love Me Once Upon a Small Town
I also think that several of the relationship threads in Hospital Playlist fit the pattern even though it's not centered on romance.
Our dear lawyer is a JK delinquent with uncertain employment prospects, the social temperament of a disturbed badger, and the situational awareness of a possum on a highway. And she probably belongs somewhere on the spectrum.
Her sidekick is Muro Tsuyoshi. I'd like to say that it can only get weirder from here but I really don't like him in this role.
Cell phones with retracting antennas. Computer monitors that fill the desk. Smoking in the office. Cinematography, lighting, and special effects by second-year students of the AV Club. Character interactions that bridge the gap between manga and film noir. And the sequence of standard episodic police plots was abruptly interrupted and replaced by a four-episode arc of mind-bending weirdness.
It was indeed the 90s. For better or for worse. I think the only thing ahead of its time was Shibata, where the focus stayed on her being a sloppy savant without lazily attributing her failings to gender.
Sometimes it's the description that makes me want to watch something. I simply must see how the lead character "incurs odium" instead of, say, inviting a hearty dislike.
That having been said, the FL is a reckless, self-righteous nutjob with the skill of Kim Sabu and the arrogance of Gregory House MD. Marching to the beat of your own drum is fine but does that drum always have to be big enough for an American college football stadium? In some episodes I can barely contain the odium.
Thought at the end of month 6 of trying to finish this drama: I see that this is the screenwriter's only solo credit. It should stay that way. You can only go so far writing your female characters so utterly determined to walk into mortal danger at every opportunity and thoughtlessly undermining their own and everyone else's safety.
I really liked the first half but felt my interest fading around episode 7 and am struggling to find the motivation to start 9.
I'm starting to feel like the writers tried to cram an absurd amount of green flags into this one character and have crossed the line from drama into hagiography.
It's a pretty lame borderline dystopian romance set up on shaky ground. Neither the tech nor the backstory are credible and the post-Asimov treatment of the AI debate is shallow.
The first four episodes drag on so much that I dropped it for several months. It then settles into a very conventional story that not even K-drama producers could stretch to 16 episodes.
Things to watch instead: Unlock My Boss Sisyphus I Am Not a Robot
I seriously think that someone's simply forgotten to flip the switch. This is consistent with the incredibly sloppy rollout of new Japanese content.
English, paint it anyway you like, is a bitch to work with on certain levels. You can't even reduce Italian or German honorifics, which don't have the same degrees of nuance that Korean or Japanese do, without compromising something. While I don't envy Netflix for having to find a working common denominator for the different levels of cultural literacy in the anglophone audience I still believe that they should do better.
As long as my listening skills aren't up to it, I'll keep watching the "unauthorized" fansubbed versions of dramas that I could legally stream on Netflix and Amazon.
Strong Girl Nam-soon
Eye Love You
Tell Me That You Love Me
Once Upon a Small Town
I also think that several of the relationship threads in Hospital Playlist fit the pattern even though it's not centered on romance.
Her sidekick is Muro Tsuyoshi. I'd like to say that it can only get weirder from here but I really don't like him in this role.
It was indeed the 90s. For better or for worse. I think the only thing ahead of its time was Shibata, where the focus stayed on her being a sloppy savant without lazily attributing her failings to gender.
That having been said, the FL is a reckless, self-righteous nutjob with the skill of Kim Sabu and the arrogance of Gregory House MD. Marching to the beat of your own drum is fine but does that drum always have to be big enough for an American college football stadium? In some episodes I can barely contain the odium.
Bring tissues. You'll need them.
I'm starting to feel like the writers tried to cram an absurd amount of green flags into this one character and have crossed the line from drama into hagiography.
The first four episodes drag on so much that I dropped it for several months. It then settles into a very conventional story that not even K-drama producers could stretch to 16 episodes.
Things to watch instead:
Unlock My Boss
Sisyphus
I Am Not a Robot
My opinion is "why are you so nosy and why is this rubbish taking up space on the MDL front page?" Not my bedroom, not my business.
Episode 9 is still pending.