Exchanges and drama watching

[maggie33]

I regretfully decided that I wouldn’t sign up for Guardian 520 Day Reverse Exchange. I wanted to, I missed last year because of covid, but I’m not in the right headspace to give it the attention it deserves.

And the most important reason right now is that I have problems with my right arm again, and I don’t know how long it will last this time, and I really should limit the time I spend at the computer after work. So lately I spend my evenings mainly watching dramas, since it doesn’t require me to use my mouse a lot, and when I need to use it I’ve gotten quite good at operating it with my left hand. :)

It’s also frustrating because I finished the first draft of my new SCI fic two weeks ago, but every time I try to sit down and edit it, my right arm says “nope, sorry, not today”. *sigh*


As for drama watching:

I finished Racket Boys and it was super adorable and heart-warming. For me this is the drama along the same vein as Hospital Playlist – an optimistic story about good people doing good things. Villains appear rarely and are always punished. Add a competent script and very talented actors and that’s exactly what I want to watch these days. The guy who wrote it also wrote Prison Playbook, which I gave up after one episode, because it bored me. But maybe I will give Prison Playbook another chance now.


I watched The Man Who Defies the World of BL season 2 (it’s only three short episodes) – I didn’t find it as hilarious as season 1, but it was funny and entertaining and it made me smile.


I started a re-watch of Hot Stove League, because looking at Nam Goong Min’s beautiful face always cheers me up. And it is also a pretty optimistic and comforting drama.


With all those heart-warming dramas around I decided it’s safe to watch something a bit darker, too. :) So I started Under the Skin – a Chinese crime drama about the painter Shen Yi, who becomes a sketch artist at the Public Security Bureau, and Captain Du Cheng who hates him because he considers Shen Yi partially responsible for the death of Du Cheng’s partner and friend, who worked as an undercover agent, 7 years ago.

I watched the first episode yesterday and I liked it. It’s a crime drama but it’s not very gruesome, the leads are good and have nice chemistry (yes, I already ship them a little, enemies or antagonists to lovers is one of my favorite tropes :)), and it’s short – just 20 episodes. There is also a medical examiner, who’s prickly and strict and whom I already like a lot, too, played by Zhang Bo Jia (she was Qing Ge in The Sleuth of Ming Dynasty).


And one more thing that cheered me up this this week:

2Pm's Taeckhun speaking english to bless your ears

That’s it, that’s the vid – Taecyeon and Nichkhun speaking English. But it’s very cute. :) I love when they talk with each other and mix Korean and English - one says something in English and the other responds in Korean or vice versa.

Comments

[corvidology]

I'm sorry to hear about your arm! ♥

Under the Skin is what MG and I are planning to watch next after we're finished with Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty, 41/48.

[maggie33]

I watched another episodes and for now it's good and I'm intrigued. Here is hoping the rest of the drama is good, too. :)

[china_shop]

So sorry about your arm! I hope it gets better quickly. (And that's such a shame about 520 Day, too.) *huuugs* ♥

[maggie33]

Thanks. ♥ I plan to let my poor right arm rest this weekend, I hope it will help. :)

[trobadora]

*HUGS* I hope your arm gets better soon!

[maggie33]

Thanks you. ♥

[nnozomi]

Oh dear, I hope your arm feels better soon. Why are bodies in general so badly designed? :(
a Chinese crime drama about the painter Shen Yi, who becomes a sketch artist at the Public Security Bureau, and Captain Du Cheng who hates him because he considers Shen Yi partially responsible for the death of Du Cheng’s partner and friend, who worked as an undercover agent, 7 years ago
I don't know if I can bring myself to watch this as a drama, I'm such a timid watcher, but if it were a mystery novel I would eat it up. Keep us posted on how it turns out.

I love when they talk with each other and mix Korean and English - one says something in English and the other responds in Korean or vice versa.
I have no idea who they are but I watched snatches of the vid and it's adorable. I love this kind of code-switching. (Liu Chang, my other favorite actor, sometimes starts speaking English on his livestreams when he wants to win an argument with his best friend, who does not speak English, and it cracks me up.)

Take good care <3

[maggie33]

Thanks. And I watched three more episodes of Under the Skin and it's really not very gruesome. But maybe after Through the Darkness, which was really dark and depressing other crime dramas now seem not that bad to me. :)

[tinny]

2Pm's Taeckhun speaking english to bless your ears

Awwwww! I love him on Vincenzo and I love people code-switching. This is amazing. Thank you!

[maggie33]

Heh, I'm glad you liked it. :D