Drama watching

[maggie33]

I won’t talk about RL because it’s too depressing. So let’s talk about dramas instead.


Kdramas

Through the Darkness is finally back and it’s still wonderful. I watched episode 7 yesterday. Episode 8 will be watched today.


I also wanted something entertaining and uncomplicated to watch so a week ago I started The Best Hit.

I chose it mainly because of time travel aspect. In this drama Yoo Hyun Jae, a popular but problematic member of a famous '90s idol group accidentally travels through time to the year 2017 from the year 1993. In 2017 he meets two students, who are childhood friends, and due to plot shenanigans he ends up living with them in a cramped rooftop apartment, pretending to have amnesia (because he doesn’t want to tell them that he’s a time traveler from 1993, understandably :)) and trying to solve a mystery from his past.

It’s funny and doesn’t require deep engagement on my part, and that makes it a perfect watch in the evenings when I need to unwind.


I’m also in the middle of re-watch of my favorite scenes from Queen Seondeok. And I have almost 1000 words written with more of my random thoughts and squee about Biadam and Mishil. But it’s too incoherent to post now, so maybe next time. :)


BL dramas

Two BL dramas I started watching lately also fit into “entertaining and uncomplicated” type.

First I tried Kissable Lips, but it was bad. I managed, again, 5 episodes, and then dropped it. It was too boring.


So I decided to just choose a BL drama at random at VIKI and I started the Kdrama Semantic Error. And this one I really like. It’s a cute and simple enemies-to-lovers story about two students at the university. One is a serious and strict person, who prizes logic and reason above all else, and doesn’t like to interact with other people much. The second is easy going, stylish, fun-loving and popular. They hate each other at first, and then they are forced to work together for an assignment, and start to realize that the other person isn’t that bad.

I watched 4 episodes available for now and I enjoyed it a lot. Both actors are good and extremely pretty and they have very nice chemistry.


I also started the Thai drama Cutie Pie and watched two available episodes. It’s ok, nothing special for now. But it’s very tropey (there is arranged marriage, secret identity, and pining) and I really like one of the main leads – Zee Pruk Panich as Lian Kilen. He’s very handsome and sexy. So I will be watching for now. :)

It’s here on Youtube with English subtitles.


Cdramas

I don’t watch any right now. But I’ve found out today that Hu Yitian and Zhang Yunlong from My Roommate is a Detective got reunited in another drama that currently is waiting to air. It’s called Checkmate and it’s again a detective drama, which takes place in Republican China, about a young lawyer who becomes a detective and a forthright and wealthy police officer, who helps him to solve cases. So basically the same as their characters from MRIAD. They were very shippy in MRIAD, so I hope for a repeat of that here. :)

It’s based on Agatha Christie’s books and apparently the first season will be based on the following eight cases:

Murder on the Orient Express
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Cat Among the Pigeons
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
Five Little Pigs
The Kidnapped Prime Minister from Poirot Investigates
Three Act Tragedy
Curtain

I hope it will be available with English subs somewhere, preferably on VIKI.