On Wednesday I unfortunately had to go back to work after my holiday, but it wasn’t that bad. I expected to have much more work to do, but it was manageable and it didn’t make me dead tired in the evenings. So, yay for that. :)
And on Tuesday I finally managed to finish and post my wishlist for![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
guardian_wishlist fest. It’s here.
The rest of my time I mostly spent watching dramas.
First I finished The Devil Judge. But the last two episodes were rather disappointing.
More with spoilers below.
The ending was very good for post-canon reunion and domestic fluff if you ship Kang Yo Han/Kim Ga On. But I couldn’t really enjoy it that much because I was very disappointed by the way the drama treated its female characters. Out of four main female characters three ended up dead. And they even used “a villain suddenly feels pangs of conscience and then shots herself in the head” twice. Seriously, you couldn’t even find some other way for Jung Sun Ah to die? That was so lazy and uninspired.
I enjoyed Kim Min Jung’s performance as Jung Sun Ah a lot. She’s a very talented actress, she’s super beautiful and I love her way of speaking in that slow, sultry voice. She was such an entertaining OTT villain. But IMO the drama didn’t sell her sudden “oh my god, what have I done” realization well. I mean, she played it well, but it was too sudden for me.
After I finished The Devil Judge I realized I haven’t watch any BL dramas lately, so I decided to remedy that this week. :)
First I watched Be Loved in House: I Do. It’s another Taiwanese drama about adult people with adult jobs, so I wanted to check it out for some time. I liked it. It’s cute and occasionally funny. And I liked how they subverted the trope of “an evil ex-boyfriend comes back to become an obstacle for the main couple”.
The actors were all good and pretty, both couples had nice chemistry, but the screenplay was IMO rather weak and unnecessarily dragged out in places, so despite the drama having only 13 short episodes, I still felt that it would be better with just 8 or at most 10 episodes. Also all the kisses were rather chaste and sometimes awkward for me. I’m used to kisses like that in Korean dramas, and from a BL drama I expected something at least a little bit more explicit. I guess I got spoiled by History 3 and Max and Tul’s dramas. :)
Then I watched the Japanese drama A Man Who Defies the World of BL. It’s a show that pokes fun, but in an affectionate way, at a lot of classic BL tropes. The main character Mob realizes that he lives in a world of a BL manga. But he’s relived that he’s just an extra, and through the whole drama he tries very hard to avoid falling in love with a boy and becoming a protagonist. The drama has only 4 episodes each 30 minutes long. I found it hilarious and I enjoyed it so much that I watched all of it in one day.
Both this drama and Be Loved in House: I Do are on VIKI.
And then I watched the beginning of the 1st episode of Together with Me: The Next Chapter. And wow, that kiss in the first scene was very hot. Max and Tul are definitely my gold standard for chemistry and quality of kisses in BL dramas. :)
I also started The Bond – Bai Yu’s latest drama.![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sakana17 mentioned it in her latest post and I’m very grateful, because I completely missed the news that he had a new drama being released right now.
I’ve watched two episodes today and it’s good and I like it a lot, and it already made me cry twice. It’s about five siblings and their unbreakable bond. It starts in the seventies when the youngest child is born and their mother dies during childbirth. Bai Yu plays the oldest son Yicheng, who, after their mother’s death, basically has to raise his younger siblings on his own, because their father is a no good gambling addict. Seriously, I wanted to smack that guy so hard every time he was on screen.
There was no Bai Yu in these first two episodes. In the 1st episode Yicheng is maybe 12 years old, and in the 2nd episode he’s an older teenager, so he was played by two different actors. And just an aside here – all child actors in this drama are very good. But I expect Bai Yu to appear in the 3rd episode, which I plan to watch this evening.
And on Tuesday I finally managed to finish and post my wishlist for
guardian_wishlist fest. It’s here. The rest of my time I mostly spent watching dramas.
First I finished The Devil Judge. But the last two episodes were rather disappointing.
More with spoilers below.
The ending was very good for post-canon reunion and domestic fluff if you ship Kang Yo Han/Kim Ga On. But I couldn’t really enjoy it that much because I was very disappointed by the way the drama treated its female characters. Out of four main female characters three ended up dead. And they even used “a villain suddenly feels pangs of conscience and then shots herself in the head” twice. Seriously, you couldn’t even find some other way for Jung Sun Ah to die? That was so lazy and uninspired.
I enjoyed Kim Min Jung’s performance as Jung Sun Ah a lot. She’s a very talented actress, she’s super beautiful and I love her way of speaking in that slow, sultry voice. She was such an entertaining OTT villain. But IMO the drama didn’t sell her sudden “oh my god, what have I done” realization well. I mean, she played it well, but it was too sudden for me.
After I finished The Devil Judge I realized I haven’t watch any BL dramas lately, so I decided to remedy that this week. :)
First I watched Be Loved in House: I Do. It’s another Taiwanese drama about adult people with adult jobs, so I wanted to check it out for some time. I liked it. It’s cute and occasionally funny. And I liked how they subverted the trope of “an evil ex-boyfriend comes back to become an obstacle for the main couple”.
The actors were all good and pretty, both couples had nice chemistry, but the screenplay was IMO rather weak and unnecessarily dragged out in places, so despite the drama having only 13 short episodes, I still felt that it would be better with just 8 or at most 10 episodes. Also all the kisses were rather chaste and sometimes awkward for me. I’m used to kisses like that in Korean dramas, and from a BL drama I expected something at least a little bit more explicit. I guess I got spoiled by History 3 and Max and Tul’s dramas. :)
Then I watched the Japanese drama A Man Who Defies the World of BL. It’s a show that pokes fun, but in an affectionate way, at a lot of classic BL tropes. The main character Mob realizes that he lives in a world of a BL manga. But he’s relived that he’s just an extra, and through the whole drama he tries very hard to avoid falling in love with a boy and becoming a protagonist. The drama has only 4 episodes each 30 minutes long. I found it hilarious and I enjoyed it so much that I watched all of it in one day.
Both this drama and Be Loved in House: I Do are on VIKI.
And then I watched the beginning of the 1st episode of Together with Me: The Next Chapter. And wow, that kiss in the first scene was very hot. Max and Tul are definitely my gold standard for chemistry and quality of kisses in BL dramas. :)
I also started The Bond – Bai Yu’s latest drama.
sakana17 mentioned it in her latest post and I’m very grateful, because I completely missed the news that he had a new drama being released right now. I’ve watched two episodes today and it’s good and I like it a lot, and it already made me cry twice. It’s about five siblings and their unbreakable bond. It starts in the seventies when the youngest child is born and their mother dies during childbirth. Bai Yu plays the oldest son Yicheng, who, after their mother’s death, basically has to raise his younger siblings on his own, because their father is a no good gambling addict. Seriously, I wanted to smack that guy so hard every time he was on screen.
There was no Bai Yu in these first two episodes. In the 1st episode Yicheng is maybe 12 years old, and in the 2nd episode he’s an older teenager, so he was played by two different actors. And just an aside here – all child actors in this drama are very good. But I expect Bai Yu to appear in the 3rd episode, which I plan to watch this evening.
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The Bond sounds interesting; I'll probably check it out at some point. I had totally forgotten that was coming out!
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A Man Who Defies the World of BL sounds so fun! I'll have to put that on my watchlist as a treat from the more serious stuff I've been watching.
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And I had so much fun watching A Man Who Defies the World of BL. I hope you'll enjoy it, too.