My Liberation Notes -- Episodes 10-16 (final): Life is What We Make It to Be
This drama takes me places I only imagined, and I love it for doing that. Let me just start by saying I love that Gu is a big boss. That...
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Drama Banter
- Jun 13
- 3 min
My Liberation Notes -- Episode 6, 7, 8, 9: Relationships are Hard
Week to week, I live vicariously through this drama. It says and does the things I want to say and do, and I love it. It's fascinating...
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Drama Banter
- Apr 17
- 3 min
Our Blues -- Episodes 3 & 4: Never Judge a Book by It's Cover
I love that Our Blues gives us snippets of our main characters, followed by plenty of individual time and space to get to know them, not...
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Drama Banter
- Apr 17
- 3 min
My Liberation Notes -- Episodes 3 & 4: Free Your Mind, and The Rest Will Follow
Change is hard. We hear that often, so much so that we start to believe it, yet we know that without it, nothing ever gets better....
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Drama Banter
- Apr 11
- 3 min
Our Blues -- Episodes 1 & 2: Soul Searching: Finding Oneself
I knew of Our Blues over a year before its release, and was excited by its star-studded line up. How often can one boast they watched a...
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Drama Banter
- Apr 11
- 3 min
My Liberation Notes -- Episodes 1 & 2: Dead-end Life
There is so much to say about My Liberation Notes, starring Lee El (Yeom Ki Jung), Lee Min Ki (Yeom Chang Hee), and Kim Ji Won (Yeom Mi...
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Drama Banter
- Mar 14
- 4 min
Through the Darkness -- Episodes 7-12 (Finale): Through the Darkness Comes Light
I loved that this drama focused on the profiling techniques to identify and help capture vicious criminals, and the heavy weight and...
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Drama Banter
- Jan 31
- 3 min
Uncle -- Episodes 7 - 16 (finale): Family is Where Life Begins and Love Never Ends
Just as I start to think things couldn't get worse for Ji Hoo and his family, they do -- drastically worse. I know I shouldn't be...
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Drama Banter
- Jan 31
- 3 min
Through the Darkness -- Episodes 5 & 6: Fighting Crime through the Biases
It brought me great satisfaction and relief to know that Soo Hyun's killer suffers in prison, not only because of the prison sentence,...
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Drama Banter
- Jan 22
- 3 min
Through the Darkness -- Episode 3 & 4: Through the Darkness to the Truth
Through darkness comes light, through fear comes love, and through pain comes triumph.” ― Lilly Atlas, Acer. All predators are evil, but...
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Drama Banter
- Jan 17
- 3 min
Through the Darkness -- Episode 1 & 2: Are Serial Killers Made or Born?
Where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy -- St. Francis of Assisi. Kim Nam Gil as a...
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Drama Banter
- Dec 26, 2021
- 2 min
Uncle -- Episodes 3 - 6: Family is where Life Begins and Love Never Ends
I can't stop pondering what would cause some people to think pretending to live a perfect illusion of a life makes them superior to those...
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Drama Banter
- Dec 17, 2021
- 5 min
Melancholia -- Episodes 11 - 16 (Finale) : Greed, & the Mathematics of Love
It's crazy that even four years later, everybody was still threatened and jealous of a potential relationship between Yoon Soo and Baek...
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Drama Banter
- Dec 15, 2021
- 4 min
Uncle -- Episodes 1 & 2: When the Uncle meets the Nephew
When I first heard the British sitcom Uncle was to get a South Korean (S.K.) remake with the same title, I was beyond excited, especially...
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Drama Banter
- Dec 14, 2021
- 3 min
Chimera -- Episodes 11--14: Chimera: the past and the present
I like Jae Hwan as a character a lot, and it's why I sometimes find myself frustrated by the choices the writer makes for him. For a...
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Drama Banter
- Dec 14, 2021
- 3 min
The King's Affection -- Episodes 19 & 20 (Finale) No Evil Deed Goes Unpunished
I decided to watch this drama firstly because it's a sageuk, and secondly because of Rowoon and Park Eun Bin, and the story at its...
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Drama Banter
- Dec 13, 2021
- 4 min
Happiness -- Episodes 9-12 (Finale): There is Human in Humanity
How can one resident building hold so many devious people, from the creepy lawyer to the psychotic killer, and the con artist resident...
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Drama Banter
- Dec 8, 2021
- 4 min
Melancholia -- Episodes 9 & 10: Pitless Ambition
I loved teenage Seung Yoo, but adore the adult version of him even more. The way he came flying out of the restaurant to come between...
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Drama Banter
- Dec 7, 2021
- 3 min
The King's Affection -- Episodes 17 & 18: Holding on To Grudges
For the first time, I agree with everything Commander Jung did and said this episode. Yes, he may have done it all to protect his family...
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Drama Banter
- Dec 1, 2021
- 4 min
Melancholia -- Episodes 7 & 8: Righting the Wrongs of the Past
Neither Noh Jung Ah nor Ye Rin nor her parents can escape Seung Yoo's shadow, even now four years later. It's clearly all over Ye Rin's...
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Drama Banter
- Nov 29, 2021
- 3 min
The King's Affection -- Episodes 15 & 16 : A Time for Reflection
What I've always admired about Ji-un is his courage, same as our Lady King. She rocks. Ji-un's first open and calm conversation with his...
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Drama Banter
- Nov 29, 2021
- 3 min
Chimera -- 9 & 10: Chimera of the Past Revealed
History seems to want to repeat itself. The same people who framed Lee Joong Yeop's father as the Chimera of the past are now seeking to...
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Drama Banter
- Nov 27, 2021
- 5 min
Happiness -- Episodes 5-8: The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions.
I can't say who is worse in Yi Hyun and Sae Bom's apartment building. It's truly a toss up between psycho wife killer Joo Hyung, the...
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Drama Banter
- Nov 26, 2021
- 3 min
The King's Affection -- Episodes 13 & 14: The Greed of Men
What makes The King's Affection stand out is it's more than just a love story of a wronged princess turned prince and ultimately King....
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