As I watched One Spring Night I had a familiar feeling, like I had seen it all before. But I couldn’t have because it was just released this year (2019) at the end of May. So why the feeling of familiarity? By the time I was mid-way through the third episode I had figured it … Continue reading One Spring Night
My First First Love is a two season Kdrama series that was first released on Netflix in April of this year (2019) followed by the second part three months later, which picked up right where season one left off. Both were written by Kim Ran and directed by Oh Jin-Seok so there’s a consistent creative … Continue reading My First First Love
In March of 2003 Yuu Watase’s six-volume manga series Absolute Boyfriend was published. Then, in 2008, the manga’s idea was adapted into an 11 episode Japanese drama of the same name. Four years later Taiwan jumped on the bandwagon by airing their 13 episode adaptation of the tale, calling it Absolute Darling. Now, it’s South … Continue reading My Absolute Boyfriend
When I first placed Angel’s Last Mission: Love on my watch list the only thing I knew about it was that the promotional picture looked sweetly romantic. Not wanting to go solely on sight, I read the brief synopsis and the story piqued my interest, dangling this excellent sounding bate in front of me – … Continue reading Angel’s Last Mission: Love
I Hate You Juliet is a new (2019) webdrama that caught my interest when I read the synopsis – “… a top celebrity is suddenly able to hear a scriptwriter’s thoughts.” How could I pass up such a fun story? Sadly, it turned out the mind reading thing is only a very small part of … Continue reading I Hate You Juliet
If the writer had at least been consistent One More Time (aka The Day After We Broke Up) would have been confusing at best. Unfortunately, this show is just a jumbled mess. Sadly, even though Kim Myung-Soo’s acting is really good and the soundtrack is excellent, this 2016 eight half-hour episode Netflix original just made … Continue reading One More Time
A boss with facial blindness falls in love with a rich socialite who is really his own secretary in the romance comedy with a mysterious twist, The Secret Life of My Secretary. After an accident that almost claims his life leaves Director Do Min-Ik with prosopagnosia (facial blindness), he realizes he’ll have to hide his … Continue reading The Secret Life of My Secretary
