Pretty good! It’s a Cinderella story in which Cinderella is a preternaturally strong pig butcher (Fan Changyu, played by a winning Tian Xiwei) and the Prince, a preternaturally pretty marquis in disguise (Yan Zheng/Xie Jiuheng, played by Zhang Linghe). I really liked the reversed gender dynamic, which starts with the female lead literally carrying theContinue reading “Drama Queen: Pursuit of Jade”
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Drama Queen: The Scandal
While it’s true that I’m contractually obligated to watch anything starring Ji Chang-wook, I wasn’t looking forward to watching his latest project, Netflix’s original series, “The Scandal.” I could tell immediately it was a retelling of “Dangerous Liaisons,” a story I’ve never liked. It’s just…bad people behaving badly, and I have to have at leastContinue reading “Drama Queen: The Scandal”
Drama Queen/I Have Notes For…Bon Appetit, Your Majesty!
Really, I don’t have that many notes. It was a fun romp through Korean imperial and culinary history, and the main characters did have chemistry—but mostly when they hated each other…. Jeon Ji-young is a talented young chef who has just won a cooking competition in Paris that grants her funding to open her ownContinue reading “Drama Queen/I Have Notes For…Bon Appetit, Your Majesty!”
Making 갓 (Gat): Traditional Korean Scholar’s Hat
I’ve been watching Dear Hongrang on Netflix, and since it’s a costume drama, there are a lot of beautiful hanbok, hair pins, etc. But I swear the hats are like their own characters, they get so many close-ups in this drama. That started me wondering what they’re made of and how they’re made. And thenContinue reading “Making 갓 (Gat): Traditional Korean Scholar’s Hat”
Drama Queen/I have Notes For…Doom at Your Service
This show is better than I wanted it to be. I’m not into twoo wuv shows in general, in particular ones whose main plot driver is terminal illness. So, I honestly have no idea why I started watching Doom at Your Service several months back: I suspect it was because I really liked Seo In-gukContinue reading “Drama Queen/I have Notes For…Doom at Your Service”
Drama Queen: Story of Pearl Girl
I’ll cut right to the chase: you can skip this one. But you might not want to for reasons I have no control over. Say you’ve heard all the scuttlebutt around Zhao Lusi’s health and want to support her, or just want to ambulance-chase Pearl Girl, the last drama she filmed before she was hospitalized,Continue reading “Drama Queen: Story of Pearl Girl”
Drama Queen: Black Knight
I actually watched this one a year ago, I think, but never posted on it. But after I watched Officer Black Belt with Kim Woo Bin, which was awful, I went back and rewatched Black Knight to remind myself what he can do with a decent script and director. Black Knight is based on aContinue reading “Drama Queen: Black Knight”
Drama Queen/I Have Notes…for Black
See—this is why I keep old journals….so I can go through them and self-plagiarize for this blog. Until I found that journal, I forgot how angry the ending of Black made me when I watched it in 2018, so I couldn’t be happier about doing an “I Have Notes” post on it. This is alsoContinue reading “Drama Queen/I Have Notes…for Black”
I Have Notes…for The K2
You may be sensing a theme, and that’s Ji Chang-wook. I’ll admit it—he’s so pretty and talented that it annoys me when a show he’s in doesn’t rise to his level. But truthfully, I get annoyed whenever a story draws me in and then lets me down, whether the particular actors in it happen toContinue reading “I Have Notes…for The K2”
I Have Notes….for “Welcome to Samdal-ri” (plus bonus ending for Wuthering Heights)
I’m starting a new series on the blog today. I realized the other day that I have had a nearly lifelong habit of rewriting stories that drive me crazy—usually because I love them but they just took a wrong turn at Albuquerque, but sometimes because a particular character didn’t get what was coming to them,Continue reading “I Have Notes….for “Welcome to Samdal-ri” (plus bonus ending for Wuthering Heights)”
