Island Part 2: Episodes 7 & 8: The Past Shapes the Future
It's terrific to have Kim Nam Gil (Van) on my screen again. I hadn't realized how much I missed him until I saw him. It is also good to...
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Drama Banter
Jan 6, 20233 min read
Island - Episodes 3 & 4: The Priest, the Savior and the Anti-Hero
Fighting evil with evil in the multiverse of madness is an intriguing concept that works beautifully for Island. Many say there are no...
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Drama Banter
Jan 3, 20233 min read
Island – Episodes 1 & 2: Lustful Demons
Okay, I am a complete sucker for anything Sci-fi and/or fantasy, and those two genres combined in a series featuring Kim Nam Gil in any...
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Drama Banter
Jun 13, 20224 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20223 min read
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 16, 20223 min read
Tomorrow -- Episodes 5 & 6: The deeper the love, the deeper the pain
Tomorrow gets better, by the week, the fantastical forces, and editing, directing are superbly done. The Lee Soo Hyuk and Yun Ji On fight...
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Drama Banter
Apr 11, 20223 min read
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, 20223 min read
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
Apr 11, 20223 min read
Tomorrow -- Episodes 3 & 4: Saving Souls
I read somewhere that the business of saving souls has no ethics, and I found myself agreeing with that statement as I watched Goo Ryun...
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Drama Banter
Apr 1, 20223 min read
Tomorrow -- Episodes 1 & 2: Suicide Is Not a Choice but a Desperate Cry For Help
Tomorrow, the drama is finally here, and it has everything I like. From the beautifully talented Kim Hee Sun to the pleasing Rowoon, to...
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Drama Banter
Mar 26, 20223 min read
Pachinko: A Limited Series -- Episodes 1 - 4: A Generational Saga
I'm finally out of my drama slump. Pachinko is here, and it doesn't disappoint one bit. The different synopsizes I read don't do it much...
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Drama Banter
Mar 14, 20224 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20212 min read
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, 20215 min read
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 14, 20214 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20214 min read
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, 20214 min read
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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