What Shows Am I Watching This Week?

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Poldark Season 5 Episode 2

There's a chill in the air of this show and I'm low key finding myself terrified for our main cast members in a way I haven't been before. It's most likely because Ross and Dwight and their wives are playing around in the political sphere now and unlike the small politics of Cornwall when they were fighting George, in London the King and his supporters as well as people like Hanson have no problem murdering and killing. I was terrified for Demelza all episode with that weird man following her around London and it's like of all the people to stalk, Demelza would have been the last person I'd suspect should be followed. I'm not sure if Bannantine was killed and washed up on shore in Cornwall or London but I can't imagine what our enemies can gain by killing him cause it wouldn't ruin Ned's reputation again unless they somehow pin the murder on him. Perhaps it's as simple as with another witness dead there's no one to point to their wrongdoings? I do like that an ace in our pocket is having Ross kind of working with the King's spy network so it could help keep the government from believing Hanson and co about Ross being a rebel but again it doesn't help that Ross refused to spy on Ned and Kitty and instead fled London. I'm afraid the government spies will just decide that Ross is too hard of a weapon to mold and toss him aside. George is also still slowly falling into madness and part of me is like yes George yes cause with him down and out for a bit, he can't be the thorn in Ross's side as usual but the rest of me is saddened for him and the utter grief he feels. On another note, I'm still liking the cute romance between Cecily and Geoffrey Charles but I'm so terrified of Cecily's father that I can't fully enjoy it. I also still don't understand what Tess wants. It feels like she wants to be mistress of Nampara but like does that mean she wants to seduce Ross or murder Demelza? Either way she's an idiot if she thinks that she can turn Ross's head.

Oh wow looks like a whole bunch of murder is happening next week. I do not think that Bannantine washed up in Cornwall but if we were missing anything in this season so far it's mine drama and how much do we want to bet Tess and co did something to make more commonfolk turn against Ross and Demelza? George also looks like he's closer to losing his mind and it's possible he'll end up shooting his uncle by next week.

Young Justice Season 3 Episode 19

This episode went from one thing to a completely different thing in the course of 30 minutes and I'm honestly shocked because I did not see this coming. Lex had a fantastic plan at the top of the episode in order to discredit the Outsiders and keep his agenda going with pretending like he was worried about a bunch of teen heroes but it was all ruined for him by the end which was a surprise to me cause I thought that the second crisis of the episode was also a plot by Lex. As it turned out it was a plot but not one made by Lex. I don't entirely understand what Batman and co are secretly trying to accomplish but I can't entirely assume it's just to discredit the Light from the shadows. It was fascinating to see that Batman was basically Lex this week and I loved that Diana called him out. I do miss some of the older members (like where has Black Canary been) and I still don't understand why Diana and Clark are out in space when we don't even check in with them. Last we saw of space, the Light was selling metahumans so are we to assume that's what the League is fighting in space? We also got another shoutout to Wally and I will die if he doesn't come back at some point this season. Violet also came out with the truth about Gabrielle and what she did to Brion and Tera which of course horrified them but once again Violet isn't Gabrielle so she's not exactly to blame! I also thought I would be annoyed with how the Outsiders's parents were against them being Outsiders but I loved the way the episode ended with them publicly offering their support including savage Jay Garrick who made a social media account just to mess with Lex.

The 100 Season 6 Episode 11

Turnabouts fair play no? Josephine spent an episode pretending to be Clarke and now Clarke will spend an episode pretending to be Josephine and seriously it's just props to Eliza Taylor who is slaying. I really enjoyed pretty much everything that happened this week other than probably what was happening with Echo in her backstory. It was a weird moment to bring it up and I don't know what it accomplished if I'm being honest but I suppose it might have been leftover from when Bellamy told her to open up mixed in with her needing to stall. It was super badass when she murdered Ryker though cause as much as he was hemming and hawing, she's still the assassin she was. It was also strange that we didn't see Raven or Abby or Emori tonight but I guess there was no need for them cause we know what they were up to. It does suck that Murphy is on the Primes side again but like obviously everyone on our side is like whatever dude at this point and besides when push comes to shove, he usually picks us. I was hoping that maybe they'd be able to get the evil Commander out of Madi before making more Nightbloods but then again there is literally only Russell, and Priya left of the Primes so like all our crew have to do is kill them and destroy the drives and there's no need for Nightbloods anymore. Octavia and Bellamy also seemed to make up and though Bellamy is still being an asshole to Octavia's face, he was struggling to keep tears at bay and I have a feeling that he'll be fine by the end of this season probs through an Octavia death scare if I'm being honest. I can't wait to see Clarke pretend to be Josephine some more cause she's been killing it so far tbh. I also don't entirely know why Clarke can't just kill Russell and Priya cause she's already infiltrated their inner circle and they would never see it coming. This way they can take out who they need to, save our people and protect the innocent.

Ha I have no idea what was happening in the trailer. It looks like Gabriel's big plan is to turn the Nulls against the Primes by explaining the truth behind the drives but again part of me is like why not just kill the two Primes left and destroy the drives? Same difference no?

Astra Lost In Space Episode 4

Well I asked for a sick episode and that's kind of what we got though it was mixed together with a planet with little to no resources story which is interesting cause technically it could have been spread over two. The weirdest moment all episode was Kanata taking his helmet off to breath in the poison cause for some reason he thought he'd find the medicinal mushrooms only when he was panicking. I was sitting here like you moron that's not going to help cause you're more useful unhurt. It also brought up a question I had about why the crew would take their helmets off after they land on each planet cause though they might be able to account for oxygen in the atmosphere, there's no way of knowing if there's something unbreathable in the air anyway unless they have some sort of air tester but since we haven't seen one yet, I think we're supposed to assume that we don't. I'm curious to know if the next episode will also take place on this planet cause we never did manage to solve the low resources on this planet problem and the next planet isn't close enough that the crew can make it on what little they have. I also know we've like technically made friends with the Gruppies on this planet but like when push comes to shove, they are meat and a bunch of them are dead already so why not just steal a few? We also got to get to know Yunha a bit more and I suppose it was meant to show us why she wasn't the spy afterall but who knows. I did feel bad for her when we got to know just how abusive her mother was and for like no reason cause it isn't like Yunha can't do anything but she's so scared that she refuses to try. 

Krypton Season 2 Episode 7

Hmmm I don't know what I'm feeling right now cause a lot of the episode was fairly boring but then there was also so much that happened that matters and at this point I have a feeling that we no longer care about future canon cause it's like Adam came back to make sure that Superman lives but he hasn't mentioned it at all this season and the fact that the future was all messed up anyway makes me feel like we're just going to play it by ear now. Last week I went on and on about the House of El and for a second I was all warm and fuzzy inside when Nyssa and Seg renamed Cor Vex to Jor El cause not only was it a super sweet moment for our characters but we were obviously setting up the future family line since Jor El is Kal El's father but now with Brainiac having taken him away, things are left up in the air. I wonder if we'll end up teaming up with Zod to get Jor back cause there's no way that either Seg or Nyssa are like oops oh well especially after Seg just lost Lyta and though Zod is a dictator, he really does love Krypton in his own way and with him having built spaceships and the threat of Brainiac still out there, the enemy of my enemy is my friend? Every time our characters think they've defeated Brainiac I'm always sitting here like that was too easy and what made them think that putting nanites into the Fortress's system was a good idea? Anyway we also learned a bit more about Doomsday and how he was tortured into being this monster by the El and the Zod who created him and as it turns out Zod wants to use him as a weapon. We also did some stuff up with the rebellion but mostly it was to show that Kem is now a great leader in his own right.

Well I take back everything I said about a team-up with Zod and Seg cause it looks like Seg will be trying to destroy Zod first before going out to get Jor back. I'm a little worried that the show might end up aging Jor up to an adult and have him be loyal to Brainiac in order to bring drama to our cast but hopefully we are able to focus on Zod for now and maybe the hunt for Jor El will be the focus next season.

Agents Of SHIELD Season 6 Episode 11

This episode was pretty much a setup for the future battles to come which is why nothing really happened even though there were some fun moments. I still don't know why Izel wants to leave her world and have all of her people join this one when she clearly missed her home a few episodes ago and we know that ultimately people always want to return to their home worlds regardless of how much they travel around so like there has to be more. Is her world dying? Do they need a new world? Or for some reason has Izel decided that it's so much more fun to take over a new one? She's managed to find the doorway to her world through Benson's help and she wants Mack and Yoyo to rebuild the Monoliths from their memory through her usage of the remaining monolith energy which seems like a real fast and loose plan but since we're nearing the end of the season, I'm sure it'll work. We also learned a little more about how her powers work and it was super awesome that it ended up being Deke who figured it out cause I adore this version of Deke trying everything in his power to impress Fitz and like we all knew he had the Fitzsimmons brain on him and it was only a matter of channeling it! The Sarge stuff was fun too and one of my favorite moments all episode was the quiet one where Daisy finally read the letter Coulson left her and properly grieved though we also learned that Sarge is regaining Coulson's memories and I feel like by the end of the season into next season we might end up getting our Coulson back. Maybe the belt that Fitzsimmons and Deke build will be able to get the thing out of Sarge. The Chronicom button we got at the end is still really confusing and I keep wondering why we keep popping back to see what the Chronicoms are doing and the only thing I can think of is that they'll be the Big Bads for next season and the show wants us to remember them.

It looks like SHIELD will be airing it's penultimate and finale back to back so it'll be more of a two-hour season finale and I'm pumped. I can't wait to see how our crew wins or whether they even win cause next season is the last one SHIELD will have based on what we heard at Comic Con.

Fruits Basket (2019) Season 1 Episode 17

This was the second part of Uo's backstory as I predicted last week and I already went through the whole kinda feel bad but kinda feel like her story is filler thing last time so let's just jump into this episode. I really liked that though it was Kyoko who lent Uo the strength to leave her old life behind, it was ultimately Tohru and her gentle heart that made Uo want to change. I think that's truly Tohru's best weapon and what makes everyone love her cause she doesn't go out to change people or to force them to do what they don't want to. She just accepts people the way they are and that's what makes people want to be the best version of themselves around her. I loved that Uo was so touched that Tohru baked something for her and that Kyoko and Tohru became a safe haven for her enough so that she was able to change her own home life as well. I do wonder if the friend in the gang who tried to help Uo leave the gang will end up coming back in the show cause she's a dangling thread and I feel like shows don't usually leave a lot of them out there cause it's great drama to bring them back. I also love the idea of passing on the torch to other young delinquents cause Kyoko saved Uo and now Uo is saving those three girls who were following them around. It was super sweet that they started to idolize her the way Uo did to Kyoko.

I assume that we'll be getting back to the zodiacs next week and it should be Kisa who's next followed by Hiro and Ritsu and then Kyo's backstory if we follow the 2001 version's sequence of events. I think there's also two more zodiac members that we never met originally but I have a feeling that they might be pushed back to next season.

xoxo Allie

What Dramas Am I Watching This Week?

So here's what I'm watching this week! Of course the list is split by country and episodes I've seen so far are written below! There will be spoilers from now on so if you aren't caught to the episode number on list, you might want to go watch that episode and then come back! If you're interested in previous lists, click here and if you want to see a list of my favorite asian OTPs and ships, click here!

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Doctor John (4/32): In a refreshing take on the genre, “Doctor John” will portray the doctors’ search for the cause of their patients’ mysterious pain as a thrilling chase, almost like a detective hunting down the perpetrator behind an unsolved crime. Cha Yo Han is a genius anesthesiologist, who is also the youngest professor at his medical school. The brilliant doctor goes by the nickname “10 Seconds,” referring to his ability to figure out his patients in the 10 seconds that it takes for them to enter an examination room and walk to their seat. Kang Shi Young is a legendary anesthesiologist, who was always at the top of her class throughout medical school. The talented doctor inherited her skills from her cool-headed, rational mother, while she inherited her empathy, listening skills, and warm bedside manner from her father.

Even though I have a soft spot for medical dramas, I actually wanted to check this drama out mostly cause of Ji Sung who I fell in love with in Entertainer and so far I'm mostly down with this show cause though there's nothing that's like got me hooked from the start, there's also nothing terrible either. Tbh I may or may not just be watching this for Ji Sung anyway. He's just so handsome and charismatic that he makes literally anything look good and I'm always stunned that his female leads don't just melt into puddles looking at him cause his stares cause butterflies in me and I'm not the one three inches from his beautiful face. But okay enough about that, let's talk about the show. I'm interested in how this show is focusing on euthanasia with both of our main leads having done it though with different mindsets afterwards especially since it's still such a hotly debated topic to this day. I do wonder if it's too much of a coincidence that Yo Han and Shi Young are both anesthesiologists on top of that as well but I suppose it just gives them a better reason to spend a lot of time together. They obviously see a lot of themselves in each other and I'm interested to learn more about both of their backstories and what led them to make the decisions they did. I do think that whoever Yo Han treated (possibly that young child we saw from the funeral home) led to his parents being furious with him and wanting a revenge where sending him to jail wasn't enough but it's also possible that those people are targeting Shi Young instead with how someone was following her and taking photos. I also wonder if that county hospital doctor will end up switching to the big city hospital everyone else is at cause he feels like a second male lead but like with him being in another hospital, it'll be harder for him to interact with the rest of the cast.

FINISHED Hospital Ship (40/40): Army doctors board a hospital ship, which is a floating hospital that serves people who live on remote islands. But were these doctors interested in helping underprivileged people for free? Not at all. There is the non-army doctor Eun Jae, a cold perfectionist surgeon whose fast-track career was derailed. Kwak Hyun who practices internal medicine is the first army doctor to volunteer for duty on the hospital ship. Then there is the irritating Jae Geol, an oriental medicine doctor who drew the short straw and now has to serve on the hospital ship. A bunch of doctors with different backgrounds finds themselves afloat at sea. They are too old to be called youthful doctors as they are all in their thirties. Though they have skills obtained through long years of studying in medical school, their hearts and souls are barren. This is a coming-of-age story about doctors who have experienced setbacks in life that they are trying to bounce back from while they learn how to be a compassionate doctor and pursue fulfilling lives.

Yep I know. Another medical drama right? Well I actually started this one cause I thought the premise was a little more unique than most other dramas and I'm so tired of watching medical dramas where there's politics happening cause it's like dude I watch medical dramas for over-exaggerated medical scenarios not more politics like every other drama out there! I ended up having a ton of fun cause it was exactly what I wanted and expected. We had a fun crew of doctors and nurses working hard to treat patients in poor and rural areas that don't get a lot of medical attention and I loved it. We had some fantastic scenarios (cliche may they be) and a great cast. I fell head over heels for Hyun who was pretty much the reason I stuck around at the start when I was mostly meh about Eun Jae cause he was the kind of doctor people live for. He was kind and gentle and cared about his patients more than anything else. I loved his relationship with Eun Jae and I loved how much of a team they were around patients and when they were alone. I loved that they knew all of each others secrets and worked so hard to help the other even when they didn't want the other to know what they did. I did think the love triangles were a little too much and both the final random fight with Doosung Group and Eun Jae's sudden cancer diagnosis was not needed but overall I really enjoyed myself. I'd give this show a 9 / 10!

Hotel de Luna (4/16): Jang Man Wol is the CEO of Hotel del Luna. The hotel is situated in downtown in Seoul and has a very old appearance. She made a big error many years ago and, because of this, she has been stuck at Hotel del Luna. She is beautiful, but she is fickle, suspicious and greedy. Goo Chan Sung worked as the youngest assistant manager ever at a multinational hotel corporation. He is a sincere perfectionist. He looks level-headed, but he actually has a soft disposition. Due to an unexpected case, he begins to work as a manager at Hotel del Luna. The hotel's clientele consists of ghosts.

I really enjoyed this week's episodes a lot more than last week as I figured I would now that Chan Sung has accepted his role in this hotel and now that he's stopped being so scared of ghosts. It also turns out this show is so much more romantic than I thought it was before too. Man Wol has been stuck in limbo for all these years cause she's waiting for the man she loved to come through the hotel which kind of contradicts what we learned last week about this being a punishment for all the murders she committed but then again she can probs do both. I'm sure that she was only meant to stay for a short while but do to her stubbornness she stuck around for this long. I'm not entirely sure what the rules for this world are cause we see that souls can go to heaven or be turned to dust for bad deeds but does this mean that there is reincarnation once you get to heaven or do the souls live there forever? I ask this cause Man Wol is still waiting on the man she loved but like he should have died and his soul passed on way back before Man Wol even took over the hotel so I think she might be waiting for his reincarnated soul to pass through a second time otherwise wouldn't she want to try everything possible to pass on so she can meet him in heaven? I totally thought for a while that Chan Sung was the reincarnation of that guy but I wonder if maybe he's the other friend instead cause the memories he's seeing don't seem to be from first person POV. It's also possible that he's just such a pure soul that he's reminding Chan Sung what love is again. Dramas don't always go the route you expect.

Justice (8/32): Lee Tae Kyung is a star lawyer with the best win rate. He is able to win cases by using his sharp logic and intelligent speeches. He amasses power and wealth by dealing with clients who are part of the elite class. His cases are usually referred from Song Woo Yong who is the owner of a construction company. Lee Tae Kyung gets these high class criminals acquitted or at minimum receive probation. He first became a lawyer to get revenge for his younger sister, but has since become focused on money. He changes when he deals with a series of cases involving missing actresses. Meanwhile, Song Woo Yong has grown his construction company by funneling criminal cases involving wealthy people to Lee Tae Kyung. For his family, he desires even more power. He comes into conflict with Lee Tae Kyung over the cases involving missing actresses.

These kinds of revenge shows are always so damn confusing on so many levels that I start out trying to predict and understand what's happening only to end up watching along with my brow furrowed in confusion cause I need to understand who's who and who's doing what but I can't. I thought Woo Yong was the true Big Bad of this show and that he probs was behind everything only for a new character to appear out of nowhere and suddenly take the role from him. I want to support Tae Kyung's decisions but I truly don't know if they're right or wrong! I am impressed though with his ability to bullshit cause he's convinced Woo Yong that he's on his side even after everything that happened with Young Chul but at the same time he's working on his own thing on the down low. I also wish I knew what Woo Yong's game is. He already controls practically everything except for Yeon Ah's dad and he's clearly a little protective of Tae Kyung but like what else does he want? How is any of this connected to the murdered actresses? Why is he so against Vice Chairman Tak? I thought for like a hot second if he was the guy Tae Kyung should follow cause Yeon Ah's dad was on his side only to be like maybe not cause he seems sociopathic with his devil-may-care attitude and strange monotone voice. It feels as though he knows how he should act and that's the way he does without a sincerity. I also mentioned last week how much I love that it feels like we've jumped into the middle of someone's life rather than the beginning like most shows with Yeon Ah and Tae Kyung clearly having history but I love the way the show doesn't spell it out for us and instead let's us read context clues and figure out what happened between the two. As I figured, they did date at some point and they're still kind of still into each other at least to the degree where they're a little protective of one another and I'd like to believe that Woo Yong should be careful cause if he touches Yeon Ah, Tae Kyung won't stay still anymore but then again he's doing nothing when there are clues that Woo Yong was involved in his own brother's death.

Partners For Justice Season 2 (30/32): In crime and in life, all contact leaves a trace. There is no perfect crime and our hero and heroine have the ultimate cooperation. This drama continues the tale of a forensic scientist and a prosecutor who make the best of teams.

The finale for this show was supposed to air this week but two of the airing episode got preempted so they were pushed back which makes this review weird cause we only got two episodes to talk about. I debated pushing this whole review to next week since I was worried that I would have nothing to say but I figured let's try anyway cause I did end up watching the two airing episodes and I low key regret it cause it ended on such a cliffhanger and I wish I had the next two episodes to watch! It was soooo satisfying to see Ji Han and Eun Sol and the NFS kick ass and take names cause they outsmarted and outwitted their opponents on every stage. Ji Han got away from Dr K and found proof that Jang Cheol and Prosecutor Gal were connected as well as finding out that someone destroyed all the evidence in the police station. Eun Sol got the warrant pushed through despite Gal and Noh being on the side of the criminal and managed to find a fish that probs died from GHB proving that the guy had GHB in his house and could have used it to rape. Even the NFS proved that Ji Han's friend's death wasn't accidental therefore destroying all evidence of Ji Han needing a disciplinary committee. It was all super badass and I can't wait for them to simultaneously destroy everyone next week. I was a little surprised though that Dr K didn't kill Ji Han and I'm low key still upset that they keep saying that Dr K and Jang Cheol are the same person when they're not and poor Jang Cheol didn't do anything other than get abused by his mother to the point where he developed a second personality.

FINISHED Search: WWW (16/16): Bae Ta Mi works as a director for a big web portal company. She is in her late 30's and is quite competitive. With her competitiveness, Ta Mi enjoys success. The methods she uses to win has her wondering if she is doing the right thing with her life. Has she sacrificed too much of her personal life for success? Park Mo Geon is a man in his 20's and is a gifted composer. He creates music for video games. Mo Geon meets Ta Mi at an arcade. He falls in love with her due to her competitive spirit.

The finale for this show aired this week and as per usual what this show does well it does well and what it lacks, it still struggled with. I loved the focus of these episodes being government oversight cause it was so much fun seeing Unicon and Barro team up to do something cause you know things are bad when they do after all the fighting they did before. Don't get me wrong, I'm still happy as a clam that Barro became number 1 cause man oh man did they deserve it but it was fun seeing our ain characters team up too. I don't know what the government expected trying to threaten them like there was so many ways that could go wrong! I was super shocked though to see that Ga Gyeong ended up retiring at CEO but also it kind of makes sense cause she's wanted to disappear for a while and CEO Jang literally tried to threaten her into compliance one too many times and I was thrilled that she basically threw up a giant middle finger before vanishing though it was heartbreaking that she couldn't end up with Jin Woo. Speaking of couples, I still thought that Scarlett and Ji Hwan's weird breakup thing was way too dramatic cause like it wasn't like Ji Hwan was dying or something! He was going away for less than two years and then he'd be back and their reunion was super precious I have to admit. What I didn't like was the way that Ta Mi and Mo Geon ended up getting back together at the end of the show cause like they resolved absolutely nothing on the marriage issue and it seems ridiculous that they would be like I don't care let's date anyway. Overall though I did enjoy this show a lot and I'd give it a 9.5 / 10!

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FINISHED Deep In My Heart (28/28): A story about unraveling mysteries and healing follows a man with special abilities and a woman with a dual personality. Kong Yi Fei has many identities. He is a music teacher at a liberal arts school and a criminal psychologist with a talent to see the past through the sense of touch. Han Bing is a hot-blooded female reporter whose other self is a soul that is raging wild. The two meet after being accidentally pulled into a serial murder case. Together with their detective friend Xu Gao Sheng, they work together to capture the real culprit.

It was kind of a struggle to finish this drama this week even though I had only four episodes to go cause though I know that Han Bing and Han Xue are two separate people, I was just so exasperated by what had happened last week that I really didn't want to watch any more of this show. I also really didn't love that Han Bing ran away even though it was to get better through therapy cause honestly when stuff like this happens I think redemption means staying and facing what you did every day so that not only can you show the person you wronged how you're changing but you can't avoid it by being somewhere else. Han Xue hurt Yi Fei but Han Bing should have stayed to make things right. Li ended up in jail after he tried to do a murder suicide with Yi Fei but luckily for everyone they made it out okay. Even Yi Fei's father was okay cause they said that him operating on a living person was a lie and I'd believe it cause other than one doctor saying a finger twitched, everything else pointed towards brain death. Gao Sheng and Xiao Zhen got back together which was great and Yi Fei and Han Bing did as well. Overall I wish this show had more emphasis on the psychometry than it did and less on the multiple personalities of Han Bing but I enjoyed the murder mystery aspect of the drama even though I had a feeling early on who the bad guy was. I might be kinda biased and unfair cause I did expect something closer to He Is Psychometric so it's possible I didn't give this drama a fair shake but I do know that I enjoyed the first half much more than the second half so there's that. I'd give this drama a 7 / 10.

Go Go Squid (29/41): It is late evening when Han Shang Yan walks into an internet cafe. While helping her cousin watch the shop, Tong Nian catches a glimpse of Han Shang Yan and immediately falls for him. She is usually brave, outgoing and has tens of thousands of followers from singing covers online, but she fumbles whenever she encounters him. She is used to interviews, but can't even utter a word when speaking to him. He is cold, hard to reach and not the type of guy to be interested in girls, but Tong Nian's unique personality and her persistent ways to get close to him begin to catch his attention.

I take back everything I said last week about Nian not feeling comfortable around Shangyan! As we saw this week, she can handle Gun's crazed fans perfectly and not feel insecure about it! This week's episodes were a mixed bag cause I really loved the episodes at the start of the week which were all focused on Nian and Shangyan's growing relationship but the second half was all about their breakup which was such a struggle to get through for multiple reasons. It was sweet to see that despite the age difference, they were both amateurs at love and that both are each other's first loves. Shangyan for all his coolness is nothing more than a dork around Nian and for all her genius, she can barely speak around him. Their breakup on the other hand was mostly Nian's mom's fault but I also blame Shangyan a little. She knows literally nothing about Shangyan's career and has the gall to go around saying he plays with computers and is poor as dirt! K&K is huge in their circle and clearly from what I've seen, they make bank but like I said I feel like part of the problem is Shangyan and his inability to explain what he does cause all he says is that I don't need outsiders to understand but it's like why won't you if that's what's keeping you from getting blessings from your girlfriend's mom? He explained it perfectly fine to Demo's mom! It also made me feel sad for Nian cause WE know why he's acting this way but to the poor girl she's doing everything for him to make him happy and he's over here acting like a complete ass. That's why when they kinda got back together at the end I wasn't exactly thrilled since not only did they not talk through their problems which I'm telling you will come up again but he never even apologized for the terrible things he said and did. I also wasn't the biggest fan of Yaya at the start but her romance with Little Mi is just so precious that I've grown to like her.

Love And Destiny (7/60): Ten thousand years ago, Jiu Chen, known as the god of war, fell into a deep slumber after sealing away the demon lord. Ling Xi accidentally wakes him from his sleep and they fall in love. It is discovered that Ling Xi was born with an evil miasma that can help the demon lord break free and allow the demon tribe to rise to power. Jiu Chen refuses to kill an innocent and tries to change Ling Xi's fate. Through the encouragement of Jiu Chen, Ling Xi who was once innocent and naive transforms into a brave leader in a fight against evil.

There really wasn't a reason I wanted to check this drama out other than the fact that it popped up when I nothing else to watch and so I dived in and so far I'm having fun with it. It's more serious than a drama like Love Better Than Immortality but still not as serious as something like Noble Aspirations and so I find it's a fun watch. I adored Ling Xi as a character from the start cause she was naive but still intelligent and kind so she wasn't the kind of annoying female lead who refuses to follow the rules or just doesn't understand them. Jiu Chen is a bit too close to a cold male lead than I usually like but so far it's a lot of fun watching him be completed dumbfounded by Ling Xi's happiness and light. It's obvious why he's going to fall for her cause no one else in his life treats him the way Ling Xi does with all that pure joy and adoration. I also like that since there's like a billion characters in this show that we're slowly getting to know all of them rather than jumping into a big plot so it feels a bit like a slice-of-life drama so far. I have a feeling that Ling Xi is definitely not the daughter of the medicine god like he's been saying but maybe in fact the daughter of the Black Mountain Tribe leader. I doubt she's a demon like Jiu Chen and the others think but she's probs not a simple fairy either but then again are the leads in dramas ever exactly who they say they are? I also want to give a shout out to Little White who is the absolute cutest little puppy ever and though I have no idea why he's in this show, I love him anyway.

Love Better Than Immortality (9/40): A woman from the future arrives at a fantasy-like universe to experience love for the first time. She goes by the name Chun Hua and falls into a complicated romance with two young men who are opposites like black and white.

Oddly enough I find myself surprised that the truth has come out not only to Chun Hua but to us the audience too even though it was really needed otherwise we'd be too confused about what's happening. As I thought last week, though Xiaolei was betrothed to Xiao Bai, she was in love with Qiu Yue but he was using her love for him to get her to steal Xiao family's kungfu but the Hua family found out about Xiaolei and Qiu Yue and because of that they tried to kill her. I'm assuming she did end up dying but was fed the longevity nut (probs by Qiu Yue) and after she "lost her memory," Qiu Yue decided that convincing Chun Hua that he was her brother was probs the easier way to get her to do what he wanted. The only thing he didn't plan for was falling in love with her but he either doesn't know it or doesn't want it so he's pretending that all these feelings are just brotherly and that he wants Chun Hua to be his sister. I'm glad this all came out because not only is it good to know what happened for the future but now Chun Hua also knows that Qiu Yue isn't her actual brother so she will be able to be more open to falling for him cause we know that he's the actual Mr Right that she was programmed to love. I still don't know if Chun Hua was sent back in time or if this whole thing is a VR experience because I wonder what will happen if she dies in this cause the program told her that she would lose her immortality so like if she dies will she actually die or just wake up? I also don't entirely understand why Xiao Bai and his friend are so suspicious of Xiaolei anyway cause from their point of view, what's so strange about what they've been told? His fiancee was in a fire and managed to escape only to lose her memory.

FINISHED Noble Aspirations Season 1 (55/55): One night, when Zhang Xiao Fan was eleven years old, everyone in his village was killed, leaving only his childhood friend Lin Jin Yu and a villager Uncle Wang survived. They were later adopted by the Qing Yun faction, the leader of the righteous and good. Lu Xue Qi is from the same faction as Zhang Xiao Fan, the Qing Yun. She is said to be a “fairy from nine skies” for her beauty that can enchant the entire country. Bi Yao is the daughter of the arch lord of Gui Wang faction. Very energetic and arrogant, she loves Zhang Xiao Fan.

I've been burned by so many wuxia cdramas lately that I really struggled to start this drama even though the love of my life Zanilia Zhao was the female lead but eventually I decided to jump in and I mostly didn't regret it. As per most cdramas with this many episodes my interest waxed and waned during different moments and different arcs but I think what kept me around was pretty much that nothing ever happened that I hated and this show never fell back onto cliches that I hate. Though the overarching storyline had to do with the righteous sects fighting the evil sects there was never a huge focus on any politics other than the very basic so we could enjoy what we were watching on a surface level. Though there were a few misunderstandings at the start between Bi Yao and Xiao Fan, it was never enough to bother me and I actually really enjoyed the short amnesia plot for Bi Yao cause again I emphasize that it was short and I thought the whole getting Bi Yao to fall for Xiao Fan all over again was sweet. I adored the main romance though I did wish that it was a bit more overt and I don't exactly mean that I needed them to make out but I would have loved maybe a few more confessions or hugs! I also loved the entire side cast and the badass squad that Xiao Fan built with Xue Qi, Shu Shu and Jing Yu. I especially loved that Jing Yu never turned evil as per most dramas do where the brother that the main character grew up with eventually gets jealous of the main lead and switches sides but instead literally did everything to love and protect Xiao Fan. I even loved the members of the Ghost Sect and how much they loved Bi Yao! The ending was fine for me but I guess it will all depend on how the next season sticks the landing. Overall I'd give this season a 8 / 10!

FINISHED Noble Aspirations Season 2 (18/18): The is the sequel to the Legend of Chusen. This will conclude what was started off in season 1. We will find out the fates of main leads; Zhang Xiao Fan, Bi Yao and Lu Xue Qi.

What an incredible second season! It was leagues better than the first and honestly it was 100% because of the smaller episode count. I loved that Xiao Fan left Qing Yun cause like there were complete assholes to him in the first season and the one thing I never understood was why Xiao Fan couldn't just leave with Bi Yao. It's also the same problem I have with good v evil in wuxia shows cause to me there's no good or evil cultivation or sects. Evil comes from human hearts and the greed and despair they go through. Xiao Fan spent 12 years with the most evil weapon in the world, practiced good and evil cultivation, joined both Qing Yun and Ghost Sect and yet through it all he remained the same person he always was. I really didn't expect the season to go the way it did after the first cause I never thought that Bi Yao's death would destroy Xiao Fan the way he did but there was something so romantic about how he felt like the world could go to hell but he just wanted his love back. I loved watching him throw aside his "good" morals and be free to be whoever he wanted and as much as I loved the squad from Qing Yun, I also loved his squad from the evil sects and how once again they weren't as bad as they were thought to be. It only really felt like it was the Ghost King himself who lost himself to power and it was him that destroyed everything. I was super sad though that pretty much everyone on the Ghost Sect's side died by the end from Wu Yan to Ping'er. It also really sucked that the season ended just as Bi Yao was resurrected but supposedly there's a season 3 coming but even if there wasn't I'd like to imagine that Bi Yao and Xiao Fan end up living in Yudu with Shu Shu and Xiao Huan away from all the good and evil sects. Overall I'd give this season a 9 / 10!

xoxo Allie

What Shows Am I Watching This Week?

Hello everyone and welcome back! Let's dive right in shall we?

FINISHED Jessica Jones Season 3

I know I know. I took my sweet time watching this show and maybe that means that everyone has talked this season to death and I'm just over here casually beating a dead horse but here I am anyway. Overall I did enjoy this season and I'd definitely put it above season 2 but below season 1 in my favorites. Jessica Jones hasn't always been my favorite of the Netflix shows (that's Daredevil) cause personally I never really loved her version of being a reluctant hero cause I prefer my heroes to want to do good rather than stumble into it like Jessica usually does. This season though she took the hero thing pretty seriously and though there were things I didn't love, there was plenty I did. I really liked the villain of the season cause it was really fun that he wasn't a powered person like before. The best villains tend to be ones that outsmart the hero and make the hero look like the bad guy in public and I loved that Sallinger was literally using the law in his favor. I also really loved the new addition of Erik and he actually straight up might have been my favorite part of this season even though I was heartbroken that he replaced Oscar as Jessica's love interest. That by the way was one of my negatives cause I really liked Oscar and Vido last season and the way the show wrote them off sucked. It also kind of sucked that Erik and Jessica ended up breaking up at the end of the season though I loved that he's basically working with the police now. Malcolm also got a great arc and I loved that he is now back at Alias and though Jessica isn't leaving the city as we first thought, they make an awesome team and I love the idea that they will work together in the future. Of course one of my favorite things was also Trish and her descent into villainy cause it was just so well written! You could see all the puzzle pieces leading up to her full on mental break and you followed her every step of the way so it never came out of nowhere. I will never not be bitter about Netflix cancelling all these incredible shows but at least this one and Daredevil got semi-happy endings in that they concluded their story without too many dangling plots unlike Luke Cage and Iron Fist which felt like starts to new and exciting stories that were in the future.

Poldark Season 5 Episode 1

We're back with a new and what seems to be the final season of Poldark! I've had tough time with this show cause though I adored Ross and Demelza's love for one another, I consistently feel as though this show portrays the two falling in and out of love which is hard for me to watch. I'm hoping that with this being the last season our main couple will continue to be a team. I'm not sure yet what the overarching story will be in London but in Cornwall it's definitely Tess who's pissed at the Poldarks for some reason instead of George. It never ceases to infuriate me that the commonfolk will be punished by George and then attack the Poldarks for being uncaring. Is it that they see that Ross and Demelza care more for the commonfolk which makes them easier to torment? I'm so relieved that Demelza is going to London to be with Ross rather than staying back in Cornwall cause there was a lot of talk of death tonight and I was so scared that Demelza might be next on the list to die. Back in London Ross has been tapped to work as a spy of sorts for the crown and I have a terrible feeling about it tbh but since Ross is the main character of this show I doubt anything bad would happen to him so I'm like why not go for it cause the more power you've got, the more good he can do. George is slowly descending into madness in his grief about Elizabeth's death and I should feel sorry for him but honestly I'm a little glad cause George hasn't always been a good guy and this way he's less of a thorn in Ross's side. Geoffrey Charles is like an adult now with his very own romantic storyline which is kinda hilarious cause Ross and Demelza's kids have been toddlers for seasons and they're like not supposed to be that much apart in age.

Next week it looks like Ross will be getting into some trouble possibly with how close he is to Ned who the crown doesn't trust and then back in Cornwall, Tess is apparently dreaming of becoming the lady of the house which makes no sense whatsoever for many reasons. Just cause the Poldarks are out of town doesn't mean that she can rule over the house and let's be honest even if she does try, the second Ross comes home, he'll stop her.

Young Justice Season 3 Episode 18

This episode was actually pretty fun cause I'm still loving that we're following the Outsiders (even though I'm still bitter that they're not the Teen Titans) but part of me is still missing the big picture. We've got 8 episodes left in this season and we still don't know what the Light's plan is outside of kidnapping children and making an army. Once again maybe it's because I'm not binging this show all at once so I can't entirely remember what happened 6 months ago but I keep feeling like this season is disjointed. Don't get me wrong, I'm loving every episode that airs and man oh man is this season darker than those that came before but I keep feeling like we're trying to juggle too many plates all at once. The Terra story could be one all it's own but instead we're shoving it in with Cyborg and his father box, meta-human trafficking, Vandal Savage and Darkseid and the Light putting restrictions on the League. It's all so much but I still have hope that the finale will be able to tie it all together in one nice bow and if it sticks the landing maybe I'll look back on this season more favorably. I enjoyed seeing everyone fight Clarion in Cuba this week and it was so helpful that Zatanna showed up cause without her the team might have lost given how can you beat magic without magic? I do wonder if Dr Fate's supposed disappearance will mean anything or if it was just a way to get Zatanna to take center stage. I also like that Ed is joining the Outsiders and I'm curious if that meta with gills will become important cause she definitely seemed to get more of a highlight than the other Cuban metahumans.

The 100 Season 6 Episode 10

Yess! We're back bitches! Clarke's mind is back in her body and Josephine is officially out and I'm a little shocked cause I totally expected her to stick around to be annoying for at least the rest of the season. For a while I thought it was happening with Josephine moving her mind from the mind drive to the neural mesh that Clarke was using but I think Clarke killed her for real and Josephine might be dead cause if she moved her mind from the mind drive and then was killed, she's gone gone based on what she told Clarke earlier. I'm a tiny bit confused about why The Flame can hold so many minds of so many commanders but like the mind drives can't hold more than one. They're both based on the same technology but clearly Becca is way superior. I was a little worried that Clarke wouldn't get to Gabriel and Octavia until the final minutes of the episode making the whole removal thing a problem for next week but thankfully that didn't happen and we fixed things this week. I can't wait for everyone to get back to Sanctum and kick some ass. It'll be interesting though cause Clarke is on the kill everyone train while Octavia is now trying to save lives. I do hope Bellamy gets over himself next week cause I'm tired of seeing him hate Octavia. I also love how Abby was all pissed at Murphy for what happened to Clarke but it's like Abby you're no better anyway. The Primes really messed up after everything cause they knew that the people from Earth are all savages so why mess with them at all? All they got was death and more death. There's only three Primes left now and Riker is like half-in and half-out so like who knows which side he'll take.

Next week I'm assuming that Madi's Flame will be edited so that the evil Commander's code is removed and I'm curious to know if Russell or any of the Sanctum people will find out about the Flame and wonder what it is. I also hope that Clarke, Bellamy and Octavia will come up with a plan cause their trade Josephine for their people isn't going to work anymore though I suppose Russell doesn't know that his daughter isn't on her mind drive so the trade might work. I have a feeling though that they won't get back to Sanctum next week just to stretch things out.

Astra Lost In Space Episode 3

Wow this episode just turned everything onto it's head! I thought this might just be a fun show about kids being lost in space but suddenly it's turned into a murder mystery show which is totally exciting. We found out that not only did someone on the crew disable communications on the Astra but that they're actually here to kill everyone which feels totally insane cause there have been so many opportunities to kill everyone but so far everyone seems to be wanting to help. I bet the weird sphere thing wasn't actually meant to happen and that they were all supposed to die on the original planet but because the sphere sent them out to the middle of nowhere they've had to change plans. I can't decide who I think it is that is the mole but the only one who seems to do nothing is Yunha and it seems like she's struggling with depression so she would be my number 1 guess for the murderer. The show definitely wants us to think it's Ulgar with his connection to the vice-principal and his gun but I have a feeling that by making it so obvious he'll be a red herring. I do wonder what the connection is between all of our cast and I really think they need to sit down and work it out at some point cause if they figure out why someone would want to kill them, they might be able to figure out who the mole is. I wonder if all these people accidentally stumbled onto something they shouldn't have cause otherwise I can't imagine what a bunch of kids have done to deserve death. All we know for sure is that it isn't Kanata or Aires and I'd throw Zack and Funicia on that list too cause he could have kept the communicator a secret and not only is she too young but she also could have kept the orphanage secret.

Krypton Season 2 Episode 6

Well color me completely shocked! Lyta is dead and that makes everything I'd been saying last week null and void cause while I was jumping through hoops to explain why Lyta could not possibly be dead, the show writers were snickering in their corner. I do wonder if there will be a way to bring her back to life maybe through the use of the Cortex? The hardest part of all this is that we're told this show is pre-Superman canon but comics wise there isn't a lot on Kal-El's Kryptonian family and what is present I don't know if we'll follow to a tee. We know that Jor El is his father, Lara Lor-Van was his mother and Seg El is his grandfather (though in Silver Age comics he's known as Jor El I) but the only real record of a grandmother is someone called Nimda An-Dor but she was erased from continuity after the Silver Age (the same time Jor El I became Seg El) so I don't know who I'm supposed to think is important in this show in terms of who Seg ends up with and I feel like Adam should care a little more about the woman in Seg's life if he's so interested in protecting Superman's legacy. I do suppose with the whole Cortex creates a baby using DNA thing that it's a little less important but also I don't really know any version where Dru Zod is an uncle of Superman's so the canon might be fast and loose. All this aside the episode was pretty good. Seg, Jaina and Dev were all fighting with the idea that Lyta died and with Nyssa joining them, they're off to kill Dru. I do think there's something weird going on with Jaina and Dev and I just really hope it doesn't become romantic cause ew he was supposed to be Lyta's mate. Seg also told Nyssa everything about Brainiac still being in him and it seems like Brainiac wants to make a deal that he'll help Seg get rid of Dru and leave Krypton in peace as long as Seg gets Brianiac back into his ship. Over in the rebellion, Jax-Ur was kicked out of the rebellion for becoming a tyrant but not before seemingly turned Val-El to the dark side as well after he killed all those innocent people in the elevator. Dru also has a new weapon that he's going to test on Doomsday and I have no idea what it could be.

It looks like next week will the origin of Doomsday which tbh I'm not all that interested in but since I've enjoyed what this show did with all it's villains so far maybe this episode will turn me! It also seems like the weapon Dru made is just like any other that shoots beams and I will die of laughter if it's just like another assault rifle and not something more mystical like Jax-Ur's plan for a Codex weapon.

Agents Of SHIELD Season 6 Episode 10

Can we take a moment to talk about how completely adorable Fitz and Deke's current relationship is?? I loved the comedy of Fitz hating Deke last season but I didn't know how much I would love protective Fitz this time around! Deke is like jumping through hoops and being so careful with what he says so that Fitz would like him this time around and it's the sweetest but I do think that Fitz likes him a lot more because the original Fitz probably associated Deke with the future last time around and with this Fitz not having all those negative thoughts in his mind, he just sees a grandson who's desperate for his grandfather to like him. As I said last week Izel is totally alive and she was inside Davis and Sarge is just like her! We learned a ton this week about Izel and Sarge and what they want and I love how it connected back to last season with the 100th episode which we all thought was nothing more than fanservice. Sarge was a body that the Monoliths created and sent to Izel's dimension (where the Monoliths originated from) and an entity from that world entered Sarge's body to follow Izel but he got lost in Coulson's strong memories and forgot who he was. Izel's goal is to get everyone from her dimension into bodies but like we didn't learn what the goal is afterwards. Do they want to rule the universe? Or just live on a planet in peace once they've got bodies? The shoutout to Ghost Rider made me more excited than I probs should have been but like this would be the perfect season for him to come back especially since I know Marvel is planning a Ghost Rider spinoff show with the same actor who played him in this show so like can't Robbie just pop by really quick??? I love how scary Izel is but like straight up I'm starting to wonder how we can defeat her since she can move bodies like that so quickly and even YoYo can't stop her.

Hmmm so maybe the entity inside Sarge will end up being the thing that stops Izel but I can't imagine that waking him up will work out for us cause according to Izel the entity is in love with her so if he wakes, he'd be more likely to join Izel than fight her unless Coulson's memories are stronger which tbh I could see happening.

Fruits Basket (2019) Season 1 Episode 16

I'm kinda in the middle about this episode cause though I love that it's a Uo centric episode and that we're getting to know characters we didn't in the original anime, part of me is looking at the episode count and being like well season 1 is almost over and I'm still waiting for the big reveals. I also low key hate that we still haven't got a release schedule for the next season or whether there will be 2 or 3 in total which is why I end up feeling like this is a filler episode when in fact it's probs just as important as meeting any of the other zodiacs since Uo is a main character. I liked that we got to see Uo back before she became who she is now and seeing how much emptiness she always felt before Tohru and Kyoko filled her life in with joy. Her mother left her, her father was an alcoholic, she rarely went to school and spent all her time breaking laws but I loved that Kyoko left such a deep impression on Uo just from one meeting. It was peak Kyoko saying that she wouldn't judge Uo for who she was or the way she acted cause everyone's different and that relaxing just a little allowed her to realize that she wasn't the badass she wanted to pretend to be. I also really loved how embarrassed Kyo was about buying swimsuits for Tohru and once again I think this is another example as to why Kyo's thinking of Tohru romantically cause he got embarrassed while Yuki was just more curious. The button at the end of the episode was super weird and I'm not sure what the point of Uo's ex-gang mates were but I assume that they'll pop up next week.

Next week we should be getting the second half of Uo's backstory.

xoxo Allie

What Dramas Am I Watching This Week?

So here's what I'm watching this week! Of course the list is split by country and episodes I've seen so far are written below! There will be spoilers from now on so if you aren't caught to the episode number on list, you might want to go watch that episode and then come back! If you're interested in previous lists, click here and if you want to see a list of my favorite asian OTPs and ships, click here!

KDRAMA

Hotel de Luna (2/16): Jang Man Wol is the CEO of Hotel del Luna. The hotel is situated in downtown in Seoul and has a very old appearance. She made a big error many years ago and, because of this, she has been stuck at Hotel del Luna. She is beautiful, but she is fickle, suspicious and greedy. Goo Chan Sung worked as the youngest assistant manager ever at a multinational hotel corporation. He is a sincere perfectionist. He looks level-headed, but he actually has a soft disposition. Due to an unexpected case, he begins to work as a manager at Hotel del Luna. The hotel's clientele consists of ghosts.

I was excited to check this show out cause not only do I adore Yeo Jin Goo but this show was written by the Hong Sisters who wrote A Korean Odyssey which is one of my favorite kdramas of all time so I knew they were really good with writing romance set in a supernatural world. So far I do think it's a bit too early to say how I feel about this show cause if I remember correctly I didn't love A Korean Odyssey until it's third episode as the first two were more set-up and that's the case here as well. It took these two episodes to introduce us to this magical world and to get Chan Sung to accept not only his circumstances but the job as well. I do have to admit that I'm not in love with Chan Sung's character yet cause though he's kind, he's a little too cowardly for me but hopefully he grows into it. Man Wol however is everything and I've got such envy for the fantastic outfits she rocks every episode. I have a feeling that Chan Sung will end up being a reincarnation of someone Man Wol loved when she was human aka the reason she went on her killing spree and needed to repent by running this hotel so with his return he'll get Man Wol to become human again. I do hope that we don't go the tragic route and be like well all her years will come back in the next two weeks but that she becomes human and ages normally. I'm also not really into any of the side characters yet like I was in A Korean Odyssey where all the side characters made up the cutest family but like I said we have time for that. I do have to admit that I totally cried when Mr No died which was expected cause we just met him two episodes previous!

Justice (4/32): Lee Tae Kyung is a star lawyer with the best win rate. He is able to win cases by using his sharp logic and intelligent speeches. He amasses power and wealth by dealing with clients who are part of the elite class. His cases are usually referred from Song Woo Yong who is the owner of a construction company. Lee Tae Kyung gets these high class criminals acquitted or at minimum receive probation. He first became a lawyer to get revenge for his younger brother, but has since become focused on money. He changes when he deals with a series of cases involving missing actresses. Meanwhile, Song Woo Yong has grown his construction company by funneling criminal cases involving wealthy people to Lee Tae Kyung. For his family, he desires even more power. He comes into conflict with Lee Tae Kyung over the cases involving missing actresses.

I'm not usually into these types of shows and I really was about to skip it but then I found out that Choi Jin Hyuk was the lead and I was slightly more interested cause I've adored him in pretty much everything I've watched regardless of whether I liked the actual drama or not. So far it seems to be exactly what I expected and Tae Kyung is pretty much the most garbage human but I'm fascinated by his relationship with both Woo Yong and also Yeon Ah. It seems like Tae Kyung's brother died and Woo Yong and Tae Kyung killed the guys who killed him under the influence making Tae Kyung become Woo Yong's metaphorical slave but now we're learning that maybe it was someone else who ordered the hit out in the first place because the brother showed up at the wrong place at the wrong time. Based on what I'm seeing it seems as though it was Woo Yong who ordered the hit cause he seems to be trying everything to keep it under wraps. More than that I'm curious to know who Woo Yong is and what he wants. Is it as simple as wanting power? If he really did order the hit on the brother, why go to Tae Kyung and pretend to help? He seems to have his hand in everything power-wise but at the same time seems to really care for Tae Kyung and I'll be interested to know that when Tae Kyung switches sides whether Woo Yong will have no problem getting rid of him or if he'll be more hesitant. I'm also interested in knowing why Yeon Ah and Tae Kyung have this weird vibe between them like they dated in the past and broke up cause he seemed really awkward and sheepish around her while she seemed to be much gentler towards him than I expected knowing that she's a prosecutor that believes in justice and he's pretty dirty. She also talked a lot about him having changed and wondering why he never mentioned having a brother and it just adds to the idea of them being exes though I'd also believe that they were friends at law school.

FINISHED My Absolute Boyfriend (40/40): Da Da, is a woman who works as a special effects make-up artist but has a very cold-heart. She then, unexpectedly, falls in love with Yeong Goo, a humanoid robot programmed to be a perfect boyfriend. Yeong Goo begins to develop human emotions, and they end up in a love triangle with her famous actor childhood friend, Ma Wang Joon, who also falls for her.

You know how I've been complaining for a while now about how all these recent dramas have tried to tell us that one of main leads is going to die or whatever before they magically come back in the final moments? Well this is probs the one show I could have believed in Young Goo magically coming back but ironically this is the one show that didn't bring a dead character back. Young Goo is literally a robot so his data could be saved onto a drive and then placed into a new robot with a better cooling system but instead we end the show being like whelp this is as far as technology can go and sucks because damn we built a fantastic robot but we can't figure out a single way to prevent it from overheating when laptops have the same problem and there's plenty of ways to fix it. You could even keep placing his mind into new robots when one body breaks down! I totally expected Diana to end up coming in clutch at some point in a moment of redemption with like a new heart coolant or being like I'll keep buying you new robots to replace the old one when they break down but nope. Instead we got a weird half-ass apology which was only given to Young Goo and he didn't care for it. I totally cried though multiple times this week from when Young Goo made snow and cherry blossom petals fall for Da Da and then again when she begged him not to leave her at the end of episode 38. I liked the time skip at the end too and where everyone ended up. Overall I'd give this show a 9 / 10 and mostly just cause I thought the chemistry between Da Da and Young Goo was out of this world.

Partners For Justice Season 2 (28/32): In crime and in life, all contact leaves a trace. There is no perfect crime and our hero and heroine have the ultimate cooperation. This drama continues the tale of a forensic scientist and a prosecutor who make the best of teams.

NO! Not Ji Han! This was actually a pretty hard week to watch cause the poor guy was so distraught with finding his friend dead but I was also living for how tenacious he was with trying to find the truth. What the villains didn't understand was that Ji Han has been reading them for filth for a while now but where they really screwed up was with Dr K and not realizing how much Baek Beom and him were having a fight. If Dr K didn't send Baek Beom that email in order to brag, he would never have looked at this case so thoroughly and they would have gotten away with it but unfortunately Baek Beom stroked his ego and Dr K wanted to prove a point so here we are with a perfect crime being found out! It's also kind of hilarious just how much Assistant Prosector Noh and Chief Prosecutor Kal are all but screaming that they're up to no good by consistently trying to stop Ji Han and the NFS from doing their jobs. I don't know what that weird dig at Director Park was about other than maybe Kal trying to confuse Park or show him that the NFS isn't always perfect? Either way I'm thrilled that all the evidence is right there and Noh and Kal are this close to being caught. I am a little worried for Ji Han after being caught by Dr K but I'm sure that Investigator Yang will show up and save him cause there's no way that he's going to let Ji Han go on his own. I do wonder at how Eun Sol has been relegated to a background character this season cause it seems like she doesn't do much and I wonder if maybe Kal's threat towards her will end up meaning something though with only 4 episodes remaining, I doubt it.

Search: WWW (14/16): Bae Ta Mi works as a director for a big web portal company. She is in her late 30's and is quite competitive. With her competitiveness, Ta Mi enjoys success. The methods she uses to win has her wondering if she is doing the right thing with her life. Has she sacrificed too much of her personal life for success? Park Mo Geon is a man in his 20's and is a gifted composer. He creates music for video games. Mo Geon meets Ta Mi at an arcade. He falls in love with her due to her competitive spirit.

I've been trying so hard to stay positive about the main romance between Ta Mi and Mo Geon but honestly after this week I don't think I can anymore. I've figured out the problem I have with Ta Mi as a character and it's her indecisiveness. Mo Geon was 100% right this week when he told her that he's holding onto their relationship with both hands while it's Ta Mi who's always ready to let go. It's exhausting to watch so I can only imagine how tired Mo Geon is. I still don't understand her hatred towards marriage and it's driving me mad cause it's not a real problem in my brain! If she loves him and is dying without him, why not marry him?? On top of that her jealously was beyond annoying cause instead of making her want to keep Mo Geon more, she tends to want to back off and it's like if it bothers her so much that he was the first love of her friend who's thinking about marrying Mo Geon she should have talked to him like the adult she claims she is. Ga Gyeong almost made me cry this week with how upset she was that Jin Woon and her were getting a divorce and I love how much they love each other despite all the obstacles they face. She's an interesting character cause Ga Gyeong is definitely not a good person but despite everything I was happy for her when she became CEO. Scarlett and Ji Hwan finally got together too and it was everything though once again I didn't get the hold up. They both liked each other, were single, had no weird family members or philosophical problems so I was sitting here like why the hold up? And this whole thing with Ji Hwan's deployment is weird cause it's only for a year right so can't they wait for each other? I doubt feelings can move on that quickly! The best thing though that happened all week was when Brian came back as CEO of Barro like a complete badass and then we find out that Barro became number 1!

FINISHED Tomorrow With You (16/16): Yoo So Joon is the successful CEO of a real estate company who has the ability to time travel when he takes the subway. Going back and forth in time, he sees his future self living a life of torment and unhappiness. To try to offset his doomed future, he decides to marry Song Ma Rin, a cheery photographer, even though he does not love her. Can Ma Rin help So Joon change his unhappy future?

Having finished this show I can't decide if I loved it or if it drove me crazy. I originally started this drama cause I loved Shin Min Ah in Oh My Venus and I thought the idea of time travel in this show would be fun but I was also hesitant cause I hated Lee Je Hoon in When Stars Land. Having seen this drama I have to say I adore Min Ah even more as an actress and Je Hoon is definitely not as wooden as I thought he was as an actor so it was just his role in When Stars Land that I hated. I thought the two had incredible chemistry and their relationship was the one thing that carried this drama and kept me around every time I was beyond irritated by the time travel rules of this show. I thought it was a creative choice to have So Joon and Ma Rin marry before So Joon loved her but that just made watching him fall in love that much sweeter. This was also one of the first dramas that I've watched where the main couple got married before the final episode of the show and yet stayed in love and didn't end up drifting apart or turning to divorce. The time travel however drove me batty cause I kept wanting to tie So Joon to a damn chair if he wouldn't stop using the subway cause it literally never made anything better but the bigger problem was that every plan they concocted was extremely idiotic. So Joon's final disappearance made no damn sense cause he had already gotten Ma Rin saved by her dad and the police had evidence of Yong Jin's misdeeds so why not let the police deal with him and stay on the ground?? And let's not even get into how irritated I was that Ma Rin and Ki Doong wouldn't just explain everything to past So Joon cause if he had all the facts I'm sure he could have fixed things but instead they kept lying and distracting him from the truth! Overall I'd give this show a 9.5 / 10 cause I adored the main couple but the writing was so-so.

CDRAMA

Deep In My Heart (24/28): A story about unraveling mysteries and healing follows a man with special abilities and a woman with a dual personality. Kong Yi Fei has many identities. He is a music teacher at a liberal arts school and a criminal psychologist with a talent to see the past through the sense of touch. Han Bing is a hot-blooded female reporter whose other self is a soul that is raging wild. The two meet after being accidentally pulled into a serial murder case. Together with their detective friend Xu Gao Sheng, they work together to capture the real culprit.

Was the whole point of this double personality thing really just a means for the plot to move forward? I've been curious for a while about what it would add to this drama and I had higher hopes thinking that since Han Xue and Han Bing love each other that they wouldn't be turned against one another and go down that boring route but here we are now with Han Xue turning on Han Bing. It's so annoying cause Han Xue is pretending like her revealing Dr Wu's truth is a good deed when she either doesn't know or doesn't care that he's a serial killer himself. The second a victim hurts another they go from being the victim to the perpetrator and they lose all sympathy. We've also suddenly shoehorned this plot in where Yi Fei's father actually did the organ transplant from a live girl even though there was no hint of this when they showed us in episode 1 but in the back of my mind I assumed it would be something like this otherwise why would Yi Fei's dad be so sketch about his heart transplant whenever it came up. Next week is the finale and I'm at the point where I'm just glad that this show is ending. I was really hoping for another show like He Is Psychometric but the psychometry isn't even that big of a part in this drama as I expected. I bet you that next week Yi Fei will suddenly start dying out of nowhere and we'll have to go through the final episode thinking he died only for him to be fine in a year flash forward the way all dramas do.

Go Go Squid (16/41): It is late evening when Han Shang Yan walks into an internet cafe. While helping her cousin watch the shop, Tong Nian catches a glimpse of Han Shang Yan and immediately falls for him. She is usually brave, outgoing and has tens of thousands of followers from singing covers online, but she fumbles whenever she encounters him. She is used to interviews, but can't even utter a word when speaking to him. He is cold, hard to reach and not the type of guy to be interested in girls, but Tong Nian's unique personality and her persistent ways to get close to him begin to catch his attention.

Omg what a cute little show that I almost missed out on watching! I'm not a fan of Yang Zi's style of overly-cutesy acting cause she tends to lean more towards the naive and ditzy side and it drives me mad cause people don't act like that in real life but I liked the description for this show cause it sounded very similar to Love O2O. The first three or so episodes were actually pretty hard to get through cause the cringe was so beyond real especially with how Nian Nian was stalking Shangyan and not in a fun way but then the show mellowed a bit more and I was able to get really into it. I was worried at first that Shangyan would the asshole type of male lead that I hate but he's actually much warmer than I thought and he's never once been anything even close to mean to Nian Nian despite his cold outer appearance which really made me love him. I also like that Nian Nian's character is very smart and adorable but not idiotic like I expected her to be from the start although she does get a little loopy around her crush but I mean who doesn't? The only thing that bothers me is how scared Nian Nian is to be herself around him and like I get that she's a little insecure since he's not exactly gushing about his interest in her but at the same time if you're so uncomfortable enough to eat things you're allergic to just so you don't have to turn them down, there's something slightly wrong. I do have to say the New Years dinner was one of the best things I've ever experienced and I had to rewind a couple of times cause I was laughing so hard but I also do find it hard to connect with the age difference in the show cause the actors are like a year apart in real life so it's silly to hear Nian Nian's mom talking about how much older Shangyan is than her. I also adore the KK kids and their constant gossiping and they're the best wingmen ever tbh. We haven't learned much about the past and what happened to break up Team Solo and honestly I'm not that curious about it cause I'm more into the cute romance so the episodes that are heavy flashback focused are not my cup of tea. 

Love Better Than Immortality (6/40): A woman from the future arrives at a fantasy-like universe to experience love for the first time. She goes by the name Chun Hua and falls into a complicated romance with two young men who are opposites like black and white.

This is another one of those extremely silly not very realistic cdramas that I find myself enjoying  despite the lack of logic and it's kind of hilarious cause this must be Zhao Lu Si's preferred acting role since she's in like almost all of these types of dramas! I'm having fun so far but I do have to admit that I don't entirely understand this world cause while Chun Hua is focused on her romantic life, we keep getting politics and it's confusing as hell cause all the other characters know what's happening in their world so there's no need for exposition. From what I've gathered there is a demon sect that is broken up into two factions of which Qiu Yue is the head of one. The demon sect has been in this rivalry with Xiao Bai's sect for hundreds of years so Qiu Yue wants to steal the Xiao sect's secret kungfu but concurrently Fu, the head of the other demon faction, wants to save his dying wife by stealing some immortality fruit that we're told Hua Xiaolei ate before Chun Hua took her body. Hua Xiaolei is Xiao Bai's childhood love interest and wife-to-be but no one knows what she looks like so they don't know that Chun Hua is the same girl except Qiu Yue who seems to know everything tbh. He's convinced Chun Hua that she's his little sister and as such she should steal Xiao's kungfu for him but at the same time he's lowkey falling in love with her. The only struggle is that Qiu Yue keeps lying to Chun Hua so I can never tell what is true or not. It's possible that Xiaolei was actually into Qiu Yue and so the stuff he's saying about Chun Hua promising to help with stealing the kungfu is real and it explains why Qiu Yue's right hand woman said that Xiaolei betrayed him. It's also possible that Feng Caicai might have tried to kill Xiaolei in that fire cause she seems into Xiao Bai and jealous of Chun Hua.

xoxo Allie