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Got me out of my kdrama slump

Book Hangover - the feeling when a reader finishes a book—usually fiction—and they can't stop thinking about the fictional world that has run out of pages. Never had this feeling for a drama before, and I'm still reeling from the effect this drama has had on me.
Call it love, is a show I didn't know I was looking for the past year. I've been in a kdrama slump and have dropped multiple shows this year, Call it love was one of them. I watched the first episode and everything about the show just felt very depressing (the sad faces of the ML and FL, the colour effects). But something made me pick it back up recently and I'm so glad I did.

This show is what I felt was missing from the recent kdrama world, the reason I fell in love with kdramas - passionate, undying love stories; just stories about two people and how they fall in love. A love that in this current world that almost seems impossible to have.

Call it love was heartfelt and intense. All the emotions felt by two people just expressed through their eyes. I felt their love and their pain. They way their relationship progressed was so seamless and natural.
The ML and FL did a great job show casing their flawed characters. At times they felt like the most boring people in the world but you are still rooting for them. The FL did a great acting job showing her attraction to the ML at the same time the pain of being attracted to him and not being able to tell him who she is. My first show of the the ML and now i'm going to watch more of his shows.

On a lighter note, I just wish the ML put his hair up :), annoyed me a lot.

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A Variety Show That Felt Like a Healing Retreat

I went into watching Jae Suk's B&B Rules expecting a lighthearted variety show, but it ended up being something far more emotional and memorable. The concept itself is simple, around 20 non-celebrity guests from completely different walks of life spend 2 nights and 3 days with the celebrity hosts — Yoo Jae-suk, Ji Ye-eun, Byeon Woo-seok, and Lee Kwang-soo — playing games, talking, and simply spending time together.

One of my favorite parts of the show was the rule that nobody reveals their age or profession on the first day. Watching everyone try to guess each other’s jobs based on their personalities and behavior was funny. The profession reveal became the highlight for me, so many of the guests had fascinating careers , and it was interesting seeing them first as ordinary people rather than what they do for work.

What really made the show special was how emotionally sincere it felt. I laughed a lot, but I also found myself tearing up. Every guest arrived with their own story and the atmosphere of the show allowed those emotions to surface naturally.

Another aspect I loved was the way the hosts and guests expressed their feelings toward one another. The messages they shared about their time together and their hopes for each other’s futures were written and spoken so beautifully that it was almost poetic. I will definitely go back to watch the show to note down these words.

I binged the entire show in one day, and when it ended, I was left with that strange emotional emptiness usually reserved for finishing a great book or an unforgettable drama. Very few shows leave me sitting in that kind of emotional limbo afterward, but this one definitely did.

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