strawgal

I prefered season two, so far. Its a bit more gritty, Season one seemed to have that hazy glow of perfect past that you seen often in historical drama, too clean and pretty,
After watching The Frog, the plot seems pretty simple to me.

Loads of disease are life limiting, but with lifestyle changes and medication you can have a longer life. Heat disease and diabetes are common but untreated can kill you, my dad died at fifty five from heart disease, they just do not get the headlines like cancer.
What I can not understand is why he gets abuse for doing his job well, a villian is what makes many dramas so watchable. A villian that is close to real life, is the best sort.

International Monetary Fund https://www.imf.org/en/About/Factsheets/IMF-at-a-Glance

If you like a hefty dose of sarcasm, the reviews are out for the new Scorsese film.
“Unspeakable dialogue that should have remained unspoken.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUMKMeYUP14

You obviously have a very specific citeria, me, I am a drama ominvore. I will just about watch anything, try and digest and appreciate the good bits, and leave on the side of plate anything that looks a bit suspect, and file it for reference. Some of most well regarded actors still alive can be in a dud, but the actual performance may be good one, or you get a great script and story, but the acting,setting and costume are a bit meh.
Stories are retold, glammed up for the audience of the day, and passed on, when you get to a certain age you have seen just about every plot twenty times.
https://www.autocrit.com/7-stories-world/
The last time I was surprised by a plot twist, The Sixth Sense, the most you can expect is did it entertain, or make you think, and if its not for you, there will be another long and be intrepretated with different ideas.
I think the last original idea I read was I Robot, basically a dective story written in 1950, because at that time AI seemed a fantasy, and the idea that a machine could be programmed with 'ethics' , the thee laws of robotics, mind bending. Nearly every SiFi story since has its roots in the ideas in these books, although the the results are often completely different.
I think I will give anything a try as long as they , 'do not lose the bunny', (Con Air 1997, not everyones taste, but it enertains)

I have watched a few J drama's and then tend to be at two ends of a spectrum of either 'cute', and completely unrealistic, or violent and gritty, and are based in some sort of reality, and yes sometimes the character development suffers because they want action rather than pages of dialogue about the angst that lead them to their actions.
TBH I am so done with the same back stories to redeem characters, some people are 'bad' just because it suits them, or their choice at that time seemed the right choice for them .
Sometimes you watch something for what it is, if you watch MU, John Wick, or the latest rom com what you are going in to, I am not expecting Ibsen's The Cherry Orchard.

Totally engrossed, I love the plot. I have just completed The Frog, and I like the idea that depending on the information we have at the time we make a choice, and we can not often see the whole outcome. The last episode explained certain things for me, the why.

Not a real dud, it was just all a bit odd, never really thought there was any connection between them until the last ep.

Not a real dud, it was just all a bit odd, never really thought there was any connection between them until the last ep.

Not terrible, just a bit boring, the same trope rehashed, but done well.

Not truely aweful, just a wasted opportunity. Good bits are the setting and the basic idea at the start, it then has a poor script where we have most of the female charecters as absolute trope loons, the irrational, the bully, failed parent and the wicked sister. I skipped all the FL story, just made no sense, thats not how you make a relationship.

I have given it a low score because it was a cringe worthy mess, to many plots or parts of plots, mashed together, they couldn't decide if it was cute rom com, thriller or work place drama and ended up being bad at all of them. Most of side charecters were actually more interesting.
I am so annoyed because MossBank both can act, and money was spent on the production.

Completed today, although it was well done production wise, goodness the ML's were boring, and the husband was probabely a more interesting charecter, the one I would want to stuck in a lift with. FL a blank page for me, just beige, and ML apart from the fight sequences , under used.
A formula plot with no edge.

Just watched this over the weekend as a couple, and its been amazing. For the most part completely believable, we live in a rural area with an unhinged close neighbour who plays the victim. The acting is amazing. The only thing I would say if you work in any sort of service industry IME you can spot and trouble maker at 50 metres before they even open their mouth.
It reminded me of 4 minutes, that your choices, which at the time and given the information you have seem reasonable, can lead to unknown consequences.
You have to use your use your brain to work out the links, but as its a short drama so its not frustrating. Its a 10 from us.

I do not think its pretty privalege, they both can act, and the dialogue is dense, and well acted. JSM is especially good at micro expression, which UK/US actors are use a lot, ie like Mathew Macfadyen in Sucession, so you can see change of thought in just a small facial expression. For Korean actors looking perfect, pale smooth skin devoid of texture faces looks unreal on close ups. I watched the Shop for Killers and Lee Dong-wook with no washed out make up made his acting look far more realistic, and his skin isn't perfect, but so what.
Lee Min Ho is doing publicity for Patchinko, and apparently he looks older, what a surprise, lets hope like most European actors he is allowed to change for his life and for roles.
So I think its more about acting and the quality of the script, its quick fire , doesn't drag, and there seems to be an actual plot, that a lot of thirty somethings can realate to.

Brilliant plot, and the fact its being revealed slowly and making you work it out, it a bit like six degrees of Kevin Bacon.

The baby of the family shielded from the realities of how his family make money? Siblings often have a very different relationship/ unbringing in the same family even living the same home.

I once spent three weeks on morphine with low oxygen levels, and your brain tries to make sense of everything and fill in the gaps with what you can understand, so when the morphine was making me paranoid and literally jumping out of my skin, it seemed normal.
Your last sense to leave you is sound, so you always talk to unconcious paients, and PTSD and MH problems are common in people who have been in ITU .
https://www.medicinenet.com/icu_psychosis/article.htm
Perhaps his 'visions' are his brain filtering out sensations so he is more able to predict what people are likely to do when he has a period of hypoxia?
The brain is weird, you can sense things even before you get symptoms, aura, like the sense before you get a migraine or fit.

And she was an emotion draining black hole. She loved herself and her idea of love than what was actually in front of her.

I think there is a reason this is made the way it is, its all down to money and viewing figures,
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/house-of-the-owl-japan-recurring-series-disney-plus-david-shin-1235974787/