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That was a hard week at work. And outside of work. My older niece has Covid. She’s vaccinated and she doesn’t need to hospitalized thankfully, but still not a great news. And my mom has heart problems lately, and she had a heart attack in the past, so we have to be careful.
Even weather depresses me lately. It’s the middle of March, why there is still minus eight at night, why? I want spring to come right now. Grrr...
*deep breath* Ok, let’s talk about dramas right now.
I’m not sorry that I started watching Through the Darkness, but in a way I am a little bit. It is a fantastic drama, one of the best Kdramas I’ve ever seen. And I will never re-watch it. I watched episode 10 on Monday evening, since I had to wait for English subtitles, and it was amazing, the best episode of the drama IMO. And I had nightmares afterwards. This drama is just so bleak and depressing.
More below (no spoilers)
It shows police work in a depressingly realistic way. Catching a serial killer takes a lot of hard work, it takes months, sometimes even years, and a killer keeps killing. And sometimes it takes so much time because policemen are incompetent or lazy, or don’t care about victims, because who cares if for instance a few call girls went missing.
And our profiler Song Ha Young is an intuitive and very intelligent person, but also in a realistic way. There is no flash of genius that helps him identify a killer, there is a lot of grueling work and a lot of interviews with despicable criminals.
Kim Nam Gil is seriously perfect as Song Ha Young. He does most of his acting with subtle gestures and with his eyes. And you can still see how much he’s burning up in this work, how much it’s eating him inside, how much he suffers. He feels everything so deeply but he hides his emotions, and he always says “I’m fine” when asked how he feels. Even when you clearly see that he is not fine.
I still have the last episode to watch and thankfully there are subtitles on VIKI already, so I can watch it during the day today and then cheer myself up with watching something fluffy and sweet.
Semantic Error was fluffy and sweet. And the last two episodes again made go awww a lot. It has only 8 short episodes, but this time I would gladly watch another 8 of these cuties being lovey-dovey with each other. And it has a few really lovely and passionate kisses, which doesn’t happen often in Kdramas.
You can see for yourself on youtube here and here and here.
And since we’re talking about BL dramas here’s the official trailer for a new Thai BL drama KinnPorsche.
It’s about a mafia boss who hires a waiter with great martial arts skills as his bodyguard. And since it’s not about students or high schoolers I want to try it out. :) It starts airing in April and from what I’ve heard it won’t be available on youtube, only on iQiyi.
Coming back to Kdramas - I dropped The Best Hit after 22nd episode (there are 32 half-hour long episodes instead of 16 hour long ones), because they started to devote more and more time to a stupid love triangle, which I knew was coming, but I still hoped it wouldn’t become such a central part of the drama.
But after I dropped it I needed another fluffy drama to watch in the evenings, so I started Racket Boys on Netflix.
It’s a story of a boys' badminton team at a middle school in Haenam and its new coach, who was once a top badminton player, and who’s now in a dire financial situation, which forces him to accept the offer to coach a middle school team in the country.
It’s optimistic, heart-warming and funny drama of the “people are generally good and kindhearted and want to help other people” kind. I really need a drama like that right now.
I watched 4 and a half episodes for now and it already made me weep with emotion twice. And it made me laugh many times. The young actors are all very good and I already care so much and I don’t want anything bad to happen to them ever. :)
And they break the fourth wall with product placement, which is hilarious. In the beginning of episode 5 there is this scene when they eat and tease each other about dating, and then the boys suddenly start to praise tteokbokki they are eating in an exaggerated way. Their friend Han Sol (a member of the girls’ badminton team at a girl's middle school in Haenam) asks them “Who are you guys talking to, though?” and in response they stare straight at the cameras. LOL
And I will end this post with a rec for Shanghai Rainbow Chamber Singers. It’s a chamber choir group. I discovered them this week and I’ve been listening to a lot of their songs while working. This one is my favorite - A Mei (Almost Lover).
Even weather depresses me lately. It’s the middle of March, why there is still minus eight at night, why? I want spring to come right now. Grrr...
*deep breath* Ok, let’s talk about dramas right now.
I’m not sorry that I started watching Through the Darkness, but in a way I am a little bit. It is a fantastic drama, one of the best Kdramas I’ve ever seen. And I will never re-watch it. I watched episode 10 on Monday evening, since I had to wait for English subtitles, and it was amazing, the best episode of the drama IMO. And I had nightmares afterwards. This drama is just so bleak and depressing.
More below (no spoilers)
It shows police work in a depressingly realistic way. Catching a serial killer takes a lot of hard work, it takes months, sometimes even years, and a killer keeps killing. And sometimes it takes so much time because policemen are incompetent or lazy, or don’t care about victims, because who cares if for instance a few call girls went missing.
And our profiler Song Ha Young is an intuitive and very intelligent person, but also in a realistic way. There is no flash of genius that helps him identify a killer, there is a lot of grueling work and a lot of interviews with despicable criminals.
Kim Nam Gil is seriously perfect as Song Ha Young. He does most of his acting with subtle gestures and with his eyes. And you can still see how much he’s burning up in this work, how much it’s eating him inside, how much he suffers. He feels everything so deeply but he hides his emotions, and he always says “I’m fine” when asked how he feels. Even when you clearly see that he is not fine.
I still have the last episode to watch and thankfully there are subtitles on VIKI already, so I can watch it during the day today and then cheer myself up with watching something fluffy and sweet.
Semantic Error was fluffy and sweet. And the last two episodes again made go awww a lot. It has only 8 short episodes, but this time I would gladly watch another 8 of these cuties being lovey-dovey with each other. And it has a few really lovely and passionate kisses, which doesn’t happen often in Kdramas.
You can see for yourself on youtube here and here and here.
And since we’re talking about BL dramas here’s the official trailer for a new Thai BL drama KinnPorsche.
It’s about a mafia boss who hires a waiter with great martial arts skills as his bodyguard. And since it’s not about students or high schoolers I want to try it out. :) It starts airing in April and from what I’ve heard it won’t be available on youtube, only on iQiyi.
Coming back to Kdramas - I dropped The Best Hit after 22nd episode (there are 32 half-hour long episodes instead of 16 hour long ones), because they started to devote more and more time to a stupid love triangle, which I knew was coming, but I still hoped it wouldn’t become such a central part of the drama.
But after I dropped it I needed another fluffy drama to watch in the evenings, so I started Racket Boys on Netflix.
It’s a story of a boys' badminton team at a middle school in Haenam and its new coach, who was once a top badminton player, and who’s now in a dire financial situation, which forces him to accept the offer to coach a middle school team in the country.
It’s optimistic, heart-warming and funny drama of the “people are generally good and kindhearted and want to help other people” kind. I really need a drama like that right now.
I watched 4 and a half episodes for now and it already made me weep with emotion twice. And it made me laugh many times. The young actors are all very good and I already care so much and I don’t want anything bad to happen to them ever. :)
And they break the fourth wall with product placement, which is hilarious. In the beginning of episode 5 there is this scene when they eat and tease each other about dating, and then the boys suddenly start to praise tteokbokki they are eating in an exaggerated way. Their friend Han Sol (a member of the girls’ badminton team at a girl's middle school in Haenam) asks them “Who are you guys talking to, though?” and in response they stare straight at the cameras. LOL
And I will end this post with a rec for Shanghai Rainbow Chamber Singers. It’s a chamber choir group. I discovered them this week and I’ve been listening to a lot of their songs while working. This one is my favorite - A Mei (Almost Lover).
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