burhaa aadmi

I spent 2000-2013 building my collection of Indian (mostly Hindi) films. I still have the 300 or so I collected back then on DVDs, even some VCDs - hence my username (more polite than ullu da pattha at any rate😁 )

A very useful article, thank you! I haven't started all of the Dramas in this list, but have started most, and have have dropped efery single one I started. So thanks tou your article I now know that if either or both of these writers are involved in a C Drama it almost certainly will not fit my taste. Much obliged!

Agreed! JDramas fit my tastes much more than most K Dramas. I drop fewer of them and they have much higher average score for me - 7.25 versus 6.52 for KDramas

I have only just started this Drama, and don't know if I'll finish it, but one piece of your review did leave me almost literally laughing out loud. You said "the acting was also overly dramatic." - Coming from someone who's written glowing praise of makjang Dramas, in which overacting is an absolute must, I found that very amusing. Shades of Walt Whitman's famous line about containing multitudes.

I suspect that my views on this particular Drama may very well end up quite similar to yours, but seeing the number of Dramas you've praised and raved about (and for which your reviews are generally MUCH shorter than those you diss) and that I've dropped, means I've found a fairly reliable barometer: If you REALLY like a Drama, it's very likely I really won't. So, thank you!

The sad thing about this is both how common and persistent the problem is AND how articles like this focus on the actors only. The production crews work MUCH longer hours in much more difficult conditions and they haven't been paid either. But because they're not actors, their plight only merits one line.

Just adding my voice to the "Under the Gun" already out chorus. It was VERY sweet, and Zuho did well. I had no idea who he was.

Thanks, bookmarked

Great News! She was the best thing about that dire show, she deserves a reqard after labouring through EAW.

An interesting take. I had serious issues with QoT, and really enjoyed CLOY, but I don't see QoT as any kind of CLOY wannabe/clone, which appears to be the fixation driving your piece. You seem to have decided that it was an attempt to replicate CLOY, and built your entire article as an attempt to make that point. I see no evidence of that, but do agree with several of your criticisms of the show.

One criticism I cannot agree with is your rather whiny complaint about the lack of skinship between the leads. To use skinship as a measure of romance is simplistic and unnecessarily limiting. There have been many great romance Dramas from Korea and Japan with little or no skinship. and the romance in this one was the one part of the Drama that DID work, imo. Since you apparently MUST HAVE skinship in a romance Drama, I strongly advise you to avoid the excellent "History of a Salaryman", a romance in which the leads never kiss.

The other problem I have with your review is that you repeatedly insist the story never explains why they drifted apart, when in fact it referred to the trigger point often and quite explictly, albeint not in words. There were many, many scenes that made it clear that the critical fracture point was the miscarriage. Perhaps you missed it because there was no line of dialogue that said "we drifted apart because of the miscarriage", but the point (one firmly grounded in real life) was made repeatedly.

I only found out about this from Google Tanslate's amusing job on Zhou Yu Tong's Mandarin wikipedia page. It said she was in a drama called "half-cooked men and women" and so of course I copied and pasted the hanzi name here. VERY happy to have found another of hers, and having Tian Xi Wei as lead is nice bonus

Interesting network. I've only watched a handful from TV Chosun, going all the way back to Operation Proposal. Thios one has the potential to be a win for them, from my pov

Fantastic news!

Definitely agree! says at one point "the most important thing in a long-distance relationship is trust. Let's not ever keep secrets" and then repeatedly tells the FL NOTHING about stuff going on his life, like when he loses his brother or nearly gets injured in the blast and yet AfTER that he's thumping his fist on a door demanding to know why she didn't tell him the company she's running is in trouble. VERY disappointing after a promising start.

Does anyone know if the english subtitles are available for download anywhere now that subscene has gone?

I'm disappointed she's not back for the whole Drama, she was surprisingly good in season 1

I've just dragged my way to the end of this and LOVE YOUR review. It's 1000% on point. The first half was deliberate, contemplative, the scond half just SLOW, and pointlessly so. I was thinking it might have been a solid 7.5/8 after the first half, but ended up giving it just 6, for the reasons you outlined so very well

Is this a remake of the TW Drama of the same name?

Although I dropped this Drama, I was a little tempted to watch it precisely BECAUSE of your description of the super-capable good at everything FEMALE lead. If I had a single yuan for every C Drama I've watched where the MALE lead waltzes in and outshines the FL at her specialised and skilled career, I could film my my dream Drama with my dream cast. So the idea of a VERY, VERY rare inversion of that trope was tempting. I hope you're as scathing about the trope when it IS the male lead is super-talented at everything

A lot of very good actors migrate to weekenders. Many weekenders are imo qualitatively better than primetime drivel in terms of script, but because of their length the one thing most weekender leads have in common is age - over 30. This is epcially true of female actors, but since he is in that age group, the move makes sense. Especially as midweek prime time dramas are drying up, and Netflix is only interested in a small handful of recognised 'names'

Hmm, You're hoping for at least a shred of realism and credibility in a K Drama - ARE YOU NEW? 😂🤣