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!
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
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