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don't bother with the subtitles on kissasian

Exactly what it says on the can: drowsy, nearly plotless picture of a life in a little town of subtropical province. The focus wanders from person to person and something funny is going on with the timeline. Camerawork is positively nauseating, lots of riding on the roads and walking on the streets, but colours are coherent and harmonious despite general poverty and disarray. Soothing.

Speaking of which, how is Bride of Habaek consistently staying on top of the Hub when its so hard to find a positive comment on its page? I don't think this feature is reliable, as it resets weekly, so Mon-Tues shows have an advantage from the start.

is it anywhere to be found?

I really liked that one. It subtly weaves in a fantasy element and explores its consequences in a realistic way (how people would face a strange situation, how it would change them, is it possible to process it in the ordinary world). Great concept and execution. Two things I wasn't particularly fond of was overused green filter and too prominent music shouting at you HEY YOU, YES, THAT'S YOU I'M TALKING TO, THAT'S AN EMOTIONAL MOMENT, OK?, YOU'D BETTER FEEL SAD OR ELSE... But overall it's highly recommendable.

The award for the photography is certainly well-deserved (although I take it more as a 'lifetime achievement' than a distinguishment for this movie in particular), but I honestly don't know what was a point of this movie. Without reading a synopsis beforehand I'd be completely lost. It had something to do with faith and chinese poetry, but perhaps too vague and deep for me. I take the vagueness and plotlessness as something deliberate though and didn't hate it. I feel bad rating it low because I didn't understand it, I feel bad rating it high for the same reason. Any input welcomed.

Thanks for replies @Randz and @Fab. That's helpful. I'll put it on my list.
(Comparing anything with FOS won't do us any good anyway. That set a bar high.)

wasn't she a concubine only though?
/but is that relevant anyway? If the son of that woman was a CP instead, it wouldn't be because of his merits but by birth too. And that issue was even addressed within a drama, when San called two 'trainees' for not earning their positions but getting it because they came from an influential families.

Could someone provide more details on the plot? I'm finding the same twoliner everywhere I look. I don't mind spoilers. Does it stand out among other law/corruption dramas (btw, do they have a rule to always have at least one airing?)? I know it's early to ask, but how do you guys like the first two (four) episodes so far?
And how is NGM persona in this one? Is he a goofy NGM or a psychotic NGM?

I'm already loosing interest in the political bits. I realised now we don't have that many parties but many episodes to fill and the intrigue so far is borderline frustrating. The king will go down soon for the title to make any sense, won't he? The interactions between main three are still interesting though and looks like things are escalating quickly from the next week's preview.
Don't scroll comments on myasiantv. I spoiled myself with the book's ending (but it may end differently anyway).

/Forgot to add: 2nd female lead appeared this week and she's likeable so far. Both she and Rin are so cute and pitiful together.

close to zero. Unless they will pull something weird in the final week (don't think they would), there's mostly a mutual understanding of sorts. Maaybe something loosely reminding a 2nd female lead too, but there's so much more going on than this.

Oh, that person certainly know his/hers job well and never fails to match coats with curtains etc. But I was referring to a pattern HYJ roughly follows. She owns things of similar colour in two lenghts and alternates between them. So Wachowskis coat > leather jacket > long brown coat > brown jacket > white windbreaker thingie > light blazer. Once a new long piece appears, for 90% a similar one but shorter will come soon. It's so soothing among all that's happening.
Shi-mok looks so good too, especially in a latter part of the last episode. I wonder did they make Bae Doo Na and Shin Hye Soon wear flats all the time to not accentuate his hight? But it fits their work style anyway.

anyone else started to hope for an ACCA 10 second season when Shi-mok was offered a promotion and a new assingment?
I can't believe it'll be over in less than a week.

I saw a version without the introductory Nick Cave-ian grim rippers song translated so maybe it's obvious from the lyrics, but doesn't the synopsis give everything away?

I need a gif of a natto kiss in my life.

Because they're legally obliged not to interrupt programs in a public TV. But a little sophistry and we have two completely separate episodes than can have a commercial block between them. Genius!
I wonder how it's received in SK.

Skins meets fancy editorial. Way darker than I expected. Not really sure how to feel about it.

That was a challenge for modern Western mentality, but I appreciate how true it stays towards the original story. Treatment of women in that times was repulsive and the movie shows it not only in occasional outbursts of violence, but in its very essence. Chunhyang never exists for herself, even her virtues only count by relation with men. I only came through this because my calculation went wrong (I hoped for a time skip and Jo Seung Woo coming as an adult version, but turns out he was just unrecognisably young, duh) and the use of pansori voice-over was fascinating.
Proceed with caution.

Precisely.

No, there's one timeline, just warped. With two HJs in it (and two watches, two notebooks). Refer to a diagram drew by HJ and hidden beneath the bed. Adding alternative timelines complicates things for no reason, and going this way you'd need more alternative lines for every jump.
HJ doesn't change the past. He doesn't change the future (consequences of the past) neither. In 2017 he handles consequences of the original HJ acts. All in one timeline.
In other words - it's not another timeline without HJ taken out of 1993, it's another HJ. There was never any mention of 1993 without him.