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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Seni Seni
Feb 26, 20223 min read
Juvenile Justice (Drama Review) -- The Effects of Juvenile Delinquency and the Role Society
Per the synopsis of this drama Juvenile Justice follows the story of Shim Eun-Seok (Kim Hye Soo), an elite judge with a cold and distant...
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Drama Banter
Feb 16, 20223 min read
Thirty-Nine -- Episode 1 & 2: Long-time Friends are Family that We Choose -- First Week Review
Within the first five minutes of Thirty-Nine, I was already hooked, not just because it features Son Ye Jin, Jeon Mi Do (how I've missed...
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Drama Banter
Feb 15, 20223 min read
Love and Leashes (Movie Review) -- What is a Pervert?
I loved what this movie addressed, how it addressed, and why it addressed. It is bold and to the point, without being vulgar. More...
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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 19, 20224 min read
Live: A More Humane Side of Policing -- Series Review
I've been meaning to write a review of this series for a while, but never got the chance until now. Like every Korean drama I randomly...
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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 28, 20214 min read
The Silent Sea -- Moral Simplicity: Series Review
When I read The Silent Sea's drama plot, I was intrigued. And then I found out the cast and immediately knew it was a drama worth...
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Drama Banter
Dec 28, 20212 min read
The One and Only -- Episodes 3 & 4: Coping with Death in all its Forms
This drama is quickly becoming one of my favorites. I love how the drama beautifully balances the darkness in it with some fun moments,...
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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 24, 20214 min read
The One and Only -- Episodes 1 & 2: When You Know Death is Coming for You
Everything about The One and Only is emotionally hard to watch, from the terminally ill to the violence and abuse, but most of all the...
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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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Drama Banter
Dec 7, 20213 min read
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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