Leading up to the premiere of “Family by Choice” I kept reading people’s fears that it would never match up to the 2020 Chinese original, “Go Ahead,” but also that so many people were excited to finally have actor Hwang In Youp back on their TV screens after a two…
I’m going to start this write-up by saying that never before has a kdrama gripped me to the point where I would wake up each Saturday and Sunday with ONLY one thought on my mind: what is going to happen in the next episode. And yet for part of 2023…
Sometimes all I want to watch is a story about childhood friends who fall in love as adults. It’s such a simple trope in storytelling, and one I always enjoy. It’s also a very popular trope in kdramas – in fact many, many times while watching a kdrama it will…
It took me a while to give in to watching a historical kdrama (also called a “sageuk” drama) because I thought the costumes and hair looked so ridiculous. But when I finally gave in, one of the first ones I watched was 2016’s “Hwarang: The Poet Warrior Youth.” I’ll admit…
If you take a peek at my complete list of watched kdramas, you’ll very quickly discover that I almost never consider a show to be perfect. Even Crash Landing On You, which I love, “only” received 4 stars from me. I’m very picky about what deserves a perfect score. In…
So while Crash Landing on You made me decide to pursue Korean programming more regularly beginning in 2022, the one that I actually started with was “Love Alarm” in 2020. Premiering on Netflix, this high school romance stars Kim So-hyun as JoJo, a hardworking but bubbly student with a painful…
It makes sense given the name of this site that I review 2020’s “Crash Landing On You” right out of the gate, even if it was not the first kdrama I watched. Airing on Netflix in 2020, this romance stars Son Ye Jin as Yoon Se-Ri, an executive and heiress…