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 the amount of 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 reviews, click here and if you want to see a list of my Favorite Asian OTPs and Ships, click here!

KDRAMA

FINISHED Hi! School - Love On (20/20): Lee Seul Bi is an angel who is sent to Earth to look after Shin Woo Hyun, who lives with his grandmother and carries emotional scars from being abandoned by his parents. Despite his cold demeanor, Woo Hyun is popular in school because of his good looks and singing ability. When his best friend, Hwang Sung Yeol, finds out a secret that ties them together and also develops feelings for Seul Bi, who is posing as a fellow student at their school, the best friends turn into rivals.

I was in the mood for a school kdrama so I went with this one with the thought that maybe it'd be like School 2017 and Angel's Last Mission: Love put together and though that was the basic idea of this show, both of those dramas did it a lot better than this one. Now don't get me wrong I adored the first third of this drama and I loved Seul Bi and Woo Hyun to pieces but somewhere around the second third of this drama the story devolved into this mess where I couldn't understand why any of the characters were acting the way they were. Eventually it righted itself during the final third but then of course we had to go down the amnesia route as if Seul Bi and Woo Hyun's love hadn't been tested enough! Sung Yeol was such a bitch for most of this drama. Compared to Seul Bi and Woo Hyun who had literally no parents Sung Yeol went around bitching about how he had 2 biological parents and two step-parents and then claimed that Woo Hyun was stealing everything from him as if Sung Yeol's stepmom wasn't Woo Hyun's mom first and as if Woo Hyun and Seul Bi didn't know each other way before Sung Yeol knew Seul Bi. I hated that Seul Bi and Woo Hyun had to bend to every one of Sung Yeol's stupid wishes but I did love how it ended with them literally sharing each other's pain cause they loved each other so much. I also did really love a lot of the side characters and their romances but once again the group of friends didn't feel as fun or real as the group in School 2017. Overall I think I liked the idea of this show more than what we actually got so I'd give it a 8 / 10.

FINISHED It's Okay, That's Love (16/16): Jang Jae Yeol is a famous mystery novelist and popular radio DJ with a prickly personality. After meeting psychiatrist Ji Hae Soo when they both serve on a talk show panel delving into the criminal mind, they instantly rub each other the wrong way. But when Jae Yeol’s girlfriend plagiarizes his work, forcing him to lie low until the media storm blows over and he can prove his innocence, he unexpectedly becomes Hae Soo’s roommate. Jae Yeol moves into a home that he owns that is being rented by Hae Soo, Jo Dong Min; another psychiatrist and Hae Soo’s senior colleague, and Park Soo Kwang, a young man with Tourette syndrome. As Jae Yeol and Hae Soo’s personalities clash, they help each other heal from their own deep-rooted emotional scars.

There wasn't a particular reason that I decided to check this drama out other than maybe I was hoping that it would be kinda similar to Kill Me, Heal Me but I did recognize Jo In Sung from That Winter The Wind Blows and he was fine in that so I hopped into this one. Though not the gem that Kill Me, Heal Me was I did have a lot of fun watching this drama with the main couple having tons of chemistry and the supporting cast being hilarious but I was mostly enthralled with how mature this drama felt. I mean the female lead literally had a fear of relationships and yet the main couple touched more casually than a lot of other main couples in other dramas. The show didn't shy away from sex or what it meant and I loved that Jae Yeol made Hae Soo comfortable with touching and that she made him comfortable with showing all his sides. They found something that was missing in each other and isn't that what any adorable couple does? Every character in this show was so human and relatable and the mental health message delivered in this was lovely. I do admit that I did think that Hae Soo was a bit demanding in their relationship but Jae Yeol was so patient that he knew how to calm her and when she was truly serious about a problem. He never pushed her out of her comfort zone but slowly eased her into getting past her mental hurdles. The main mystery of Jae Yeol's past was heartbreaking to discover and I totally didn't see it coming cause while I had a feeling that it couldn't have been Jae Yeol who killed his stepfather (since he's a kdrama male lead and they definitely don't do that!) I didn't expect it to be the mother in the end! Talk about guilt. Overall I really enjoyed this drama for what it was and I'd give it a 8.5 / 10!

Romantic Doctor, Teacher Kim Season 2 (8/16): “Romantic Doctor Kim” is a “real doctor” story set in a small, humble hospital called Doldam Hospital. It is a story about people who meet Kim Sa Bu (Han Suk Kyu), a genius doctor, and discover “real romance.” Kim Sa Bu once gained fame as a top surgeon at a huge hospital. One day, he left the industry, and now he is a chief surgeon at Doldam Hospital in the countryside. After he conducted a successful operation on Chairman Shin, he gets to improve the hospital under reliable support. But then Chairman Shin passes away. New people appear and his students had to leave the hospital. Furthermore, his wrist, which was injured three years ago, starts to act weird. After all, he goes to a huge hospital himself to solve the manpower shortage at Doldam Hospital, where he finds two people who resemble his former students but who seem much more lacking. Seo Woo Jin would do anything for money, and Cha Eun Jae runs out every time she goes into a surgery room. Will Kim Sa Bu be able to run Doldam Hospital with these two?

We're halfway through this drama now which is low key crazy cause I feel like we just started with this drama but the romances are all definitely ramping up while I'm still not entirely sure about the overarching hospital politics part. It's hilarious that President Park is trying to act like the big man on campus but keeps getting schooled by Dr Kim. In terms of romance Woo Jin and Eun Jae kissed this week but I'm still super not on board with them so it's like whatever. Woo Jin is still struggling with his loan shark who seriously embarrassed him in the hospital but I like that everyone took his side and no one really held it against him including President Park which was the really interesting part. Also to note was the fact that Dr Bae acted strange after he read Woo Jin's file making me wonder if he's somehow related to Woo Jin's parents' death. Like maybe his father or someone he knows actually killed them and staged it as a murder/suicide? Eun Jae also stepped up this week and gained some confidence in herself which is great but again I don't particularly care for her. The best part of this week though was definitely Ah Reum and Eun Tak's growing relationship which though felt a bit like it went from like 10 to 100 was still really cute. I was surprised that Eun Tak just out-and-out confessed to being interested and then also didn't back off out of jealously after seeing Ah Reum and Woo Jin together. Maybe it's cause they're a secondary couple so there's no time for dilly-dallying but I was right there with her when she swooned after he asked her out.

The Game: Towards Zero (8/32): It tells the story of a prophet who sees the moments right before the death of someone and a homicide detective who got dragged into a series of mysterious murders and end up digging up hidden secrets. Kim Tae Pyung, a prophet who can see death, 27 years old. He has the special ability to see the moments right before the death of someone by looking into their eyes. Instead of suffering from this mysterious ability linked to the death of people, he thinks that it is a special ability of his own. He is rich, handsome and has a sexy brain. However, he cannot see the death of Joon Young and that started to scare him. Joon Young, a homicide detective who is working with Tae Pyung to solve cases. 30 years old. She has good insight and intuition. Her father who was a police officer was her hero and her whole life, however, he passed away 20 years ago. That was a huge shock for her. She was only depending on herself and no one else. However, when Tae Pyung appeared, she started to change. She wants to heal his and her wounds. Ku Do Kyung, a forensic expert, 33 years old. Tae Pyung gave him the nickname of “4 weeks left” because he gives the result 4 weeks later. He is a smart and talented employee of the National Forensic Service. He always seems relaxed. In front of Joon Young, he acts differently. He can’t stop laughing when he is with her and lets his image of a cool and cold man away.

I was furious watching this week's episodes cause of just how stupid Joon Young was for telling Do Kyung literally everything about Tae Pyung and the murder case. I mean she's supposed to be a smart detective right so why would she think that this guy asking her so many leading questions is okay? I mean you've literally never met this guy before and you had no evidence that he was trustworthy but you decided to spill all your secrets? Wasn't she embarrassed to be like yeah some guy had a superpower that could tell me where she was buried like that's totally normal. Her boss at least reacted in a normal way with thinking that Tae Pyung might be an accomplice or a witness and then still distrusted his intel even if it was annoying to watch cause that's a normal reaction to this situation. I hope she blames herself cause she was truly idiotic but I also hope her boss blames himself too cause if he had let Tae Pyung sketch Do Kyung then they could have looked out for him at the hospital. Speaking of I hate when in dramas a police officer who's supposed to be guarding a victim step away to help someone else cause it's like your job isn't to be a nice guy, it's to keep everyone out of this room! I'm also low key worried that with the death of his daughter the reporter is going to double down on dragging Joon Young through the mud when it isn't her fault. He should have learned his lesson about ignoring his wife's phone calls after the first time! I'm really curious not only about where Do Kyung will go from here but also if there will be an overarching villain to chase down or if we'll do more weekly murders. It's possible the real serial killer from back in the day might be the one we're hunting after we found out that Do Kyung's father wasn't the killer.

Touch (8/16): A popular make-up artist, known for his never-ending quest for perfection, Cha Jung Hyeok was at the top of his game. But destiny, it seemed, wouldn’t let him stay there for long. Now unemployed and drowning in debt, Jung Hyeok is desperate to find a way out of this most miserable of slumps; but he’s not the only one. An idol trainee for the past ten years, Han Soo Yeon is desperate to finally get her big break. Deciding it’s now or never, she agrees to participate in an idol audition program, but fails to make the cut. Booted from the program, Soo Yeon finds herself wondering if this is really the path she’s meant to take in life. Desperation and destiny come together in unexpected ways when Jung Hyeok and Soo Yeon cross paths. After finally landing a much-needed job as a make-up artist, Jung Hyeok agrees to take Soo Yeon under his wing. Noticing that his new assistant shows an incredible aptitude for the art, Jung Hyeok is happy to teach her everything he knows. As the two grow closer, they slowly learn to let go of the broken dreams of the past as they steadily walk towards a future full of bright new dreams, together.

You know the twist that happened this week with Jung Hyeok loosing everything really would have hit harder if the synopsis for this show didn't spoil the whole thing! Why put the fact that Jung Hyeok goes bankrupt in the synopsis when it didn't even happen until halfway through the show? As I expected it was Min who caused Cha Beauty to go bankrupt by teaming up with Oh and launching Jung Hyeok's makeup line before Jung Hyeok could therefore not only ruining his name in the press but also preventing him from selling his makeup line and being unable to pay back all the loans he took out of launch the line. It's interesting cause I don't exactly feel pity for Min when we found out that he became the way he was because Ji Yoon never liked him for anything more than money but it definitely added to my dislike of her. I still super don't ship the main couple which super sucks cause instead of feeling butterflies when the couple interact I find myself rolling my eyes but at the same time I don't want him with Ji Yoon either cause she's the worst. I'm also curious about this new turn Do Jin's story is getting with him wanting to leave Window Entertainment cause duh the CEO is the worst but at the same time I'm worried that the CEO is going to destroy Do Jin's career out of spite. The only reason I'm like maybe that won't happen is cause we've already seen Soo Yeon and Jung Hyeok be destroyed and adding Do Jin to the mix might be too much.

XX (2/10): It tells the story of the best bartender of the industry who is working in a speakeasy bar. She solves the problems of the couples and is overcoming her past love wounds.

I originally wasn't going to check this show out cause I tend to feel like dramas that have less than the normal 16 to 20 episode count don't usually have much substance to them but something about this one just called to me. Maybe it was the fact that it was about bartenders which I don't think I've actually ever seen in a drama before or maybe it was just how gorgeous the posters looked but I jumped in and so far I'm having fun. I like all of our leads and I'm pretty curious about the backstory between Na Na and Roo Mi cause though it looks like we were told the whole story this week, I have a feeling that there's more in an unreliable narrator sort of way. The first time we saw the flashback Na Na's ex was on his knees begging for forgiveness but the second time we saw the flashback it was Roo Mi. I also don't understand why Roo Mi would call Na Na walking away from both of them as "running away" cause it's like if my best friend and boyfriend slept together I sure as hell wouldn't be sticking around. It feels like karma that Roo Mi's current boyfriend also feels like he's cheating but I'm sure that the main story in this show will be to bring Roo Mi and Na Na back together as friends so I guess I can't be too thrilled by that karma. Dan Hee is also precious and he's clearly into Na Na though she doesn't know it and at first I low key shipped Na Na with Jung Deun her roommate but I have a feeling that he might end up being gay so I'd be down with her getting with Dan Hee.

CDRAMA

Eternal Love Of Dream/Three Lives, Three Worlds, The Pillow Book (6/56): Two thousand years of enduring love and obsession between the female monarch of Qing Qiu and the ancient god of the Heavenly Kingdom. When Feng Jiu was practicing immortal cultivation alone in the wilderness, she was attacked by a beast and rescued by Dong Hua Di Jun of the Heavenly Kingdom. The encounter becomes deeply ingrained in Feng Jiu's heart and to repay her debts, she decides to follow Dong Hua into battle. She soon realizes that her good feelings towards him have evolved into love, but Dong Hua is a god who has forgotten what love means. In order to protect Feng Jiu, Dong Hua sends her to the human realm which results in the death of a friend. Feng Jiu enters the Winged Tribe Princess Ah Lan Ruo's dream sequence in search of a sacred fruit that can bring the dead back to life but gets trapped to relive Ah Lan Ruo's life for eternity. Dong Hua finds a way to save Feng Jiu and realizes that he already reciprocates her love for him, but another hurdle crosses their path.

I was really excited when I heard about this drama coming out for so many reasons starting with how much I adore Dilraba all the way to the fact that Feng Jiu and Dong Hua's romance in Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms was the only part of that show that I liked. I had heard that this was going to be a different story than the one we got there cause at the time Ten Miles aired the rights to this story weren't given to the show but I figured that at the very least it'd be like watching an alternative universe version of their story and I hoped in the back of my mind that maybe they'd get the happily ever after they deserved in this one. So far I'm having fun with this show cause Dilraba is killing it at being the absolute cutest and Vengo is definitely playing strong and stoic. I know a lot of people are upset with how naive Jiu is right now but I don't mind cause Dilraba is one of the only actresses I think can pull it off but also I know that we've only just began this show so of course Jiu is going to grow! I love that we're supposed to assume that this show is running parallel to Ten Miles and that we didn't really get introductions to any of the main characters cause the show is going off of the assumption that you've already seen Ten Miles and know everything. I am a little worried about the future reincarnation storylines that the synopsis and the title of this show is teasing cause you know my thoughts about all that but that's a problem for later and I'm just going to enjoy what I'm currently watching!

Under The Power (22/55): In the final years of the reign of Jiajing Emperor during the Ming Dynasty, Lu Yi of the Jing Yi Wei is commissioned to investigate the disappearance of funds that have been set aside for river repairs in Yangzhou. He is assisted by Yuan Jin Xia of the Liushanmen. The two accidentally become involved in a conspiracy. The talented female constable Yuan Jin Xia gets into a disagreement with the hot-tempered Jin Yi Wei Lu Yi over a case that they are both involved in. Jin Xia thought that she'd never encounter Lu Yi again in this lifetime, yet fate has its way of bringing two people back together. Government funds have been stolen and Jin Xia receives orders to assist Lu Yi in his investigation. They are unable to get along at first but learn to work together through the hardships. Eventually, they develop feelings for each other to become lovers. However, things go awry when the truth about the past comes to light. Jin Xia is the orphan of the Xia Yan case from many years ago and she bears the burdens of the bloodshed that destroyed her family. 

Jin Xia and Lu Yi are getting closer to realizing their feelings for each other but in a subconscious sort of way cause neither will admit it aloud but at the same time they would do anything to save one another. Lu Yi took the poisonous dart meant for Jin Xia and Jin Xia decided to become a living poison antidote for him and yet Jin Xia is still thinking about how she hasn't fallen in love yet while everyone and their mother can see the two are practically one step from love. Well everyone but Xie Xiao who's purposefully playing dumb cause he refuses to care about anyone or anything other than his own feelings. It sucks for Shangguan Xi who has to deal with Xie Xiao running around declaring his love but also it's like girl Xie Xiao is an idiot and you've got Yang Yue, a man who's devoted to you and so much smarter! The new doctor we met is definitely Jin Xia's relative but she seems too young to be her mother but I really wonder if the poison maker uncle knows what's going on cause he seemed a little too adamant that the doctor not use Jin Xia in her antidote and I'm like is it all because she saved you or cause you know that they might be related?

xoxo Allie

What Shows Am I Watching This Week?

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

FINISHED The Witcher Season 1

So I know I'm like a month late to the party but better late than never right?? I had been wanting to check this show out for a while mostly cause of Henry Cavill and how smoking hot he looked in all the promo material but I was hesitant cause I kept hearing negative things about this show so when I finally bit the bullet I was surprised to find that pretty much from the second scene of episode 1, I was 100% on board! Having watched this first season, I don't know what people could possibly complain about cause this show is incredible from it's world to it's characters! I loved that we were thrown straight into the world without any exposition so we could slowly figure out everything and that we spent all season with our three main characters separated so we could know them as people before we brought them together. It was so creative to have all three living in different timelines before merging to one cause we got to see the characters (especially Geralt and Yennefer) at different points in their lives. Speaking of, I absolutely adored Geralt and Yennefer together and I will be utterly heartbroken if they don't end up together by the end! I love that while they have people around them that can see through these thick walls they've built around themselves, it's only when they're together that those walls actually come down. I don't have too many feelings about Ciri yet but I'm really hoping that the whole destiny thing is leading her to becoming a daughter for Geralt and Yennefer and not a future love interest for Geralt! I also understand that the Nilfgaardians want to rule the whole continent but I'm not entirely sure what that has to do with Ciri or why Fringilla was more powerful than all of the mages combined cause it was ridiculous seeing that final fight.

I'm high key heartbroken that we'll have to wait a year before the next season but rest assured that whenever it comes I will be back here to watch it!

Welcome To Demon School Iruma-Kun Episode 16

I was so annoyed with Iruma for being as naive as he was this week cause like on one hand I get wanting to trust in the upperclassman you like but it feels closer to Iruma projecting himself onto Kiriwo than anything else and it was low key ridiculous that he completely forgot about Kiriwo's secret room when they were searching for him. I suppose with the invisible walls going up, the Battler Party fireworks show isn't all that important anymore but still! It's interesting that this all feels like Kiriwo's plan more than Baal's or at the least Baal is just amused by chaos so he's like do whatever you want kid but he really should learn to act better cause the dude was practically shouting out I made up Sullivan's charges to keep him away from his school in that interrogation room. I also wonder if the worse part of Sullivan's arrest is the secretly going to the human world or the kidnapping a human child cause Ameri's dad seemed to emphasize holding a human against his will so I feel like as soon as he realizes that Iruma likes Sullivan, will the charges no longer matter? I do have a feeling that cause this show is a lighthearted one, Iruma will suddenly remember Kiriwo's secret room and then talk him out of his craziness but I really want a huge fight like the opening shows! 

ID: Invaded Episode 4

This show is just so fascinating! I'm always in this fun place of confusion and awe after each episode cause the techno-lingo is just so intense but I think as the show goes on I'm starting to understand a little more each time. Beyond the world I'm just fascinated with our male lead. I had said last week that I didn't understand why he was in this prison with all these serial killers when I thought he had only killed one person but this week we learn that he's been driving other serial killers to suicide and that it's been 5 so far. Sakaido is just so relatable cause I mean who else hasn't wanted to kill serial killers with how smug and arrogant they are but at the same time he's not physically doing anything to harm another person so how much of a killer would you count him to be? Yes he knows how to poke at their softest parts but like the saying goes you can lead a horse to water but you can't force him to drink. The case this week had such a sad ending with the police figuring out where the victim was only to find out later that the live video feed was actually a recording and that was straight heartbreaking especially once we saw Sakaido's face. He clearly is superimposing his daughter onto every victim that they lose and if that doesn't make you tear up, I don't know what will. I keep watching Hondoumachi carefully cause in the back of my mind I keep feeling as though she's supposed to be a young Sakaido and we're watching her descent into madness but she did run into one of Fukuda's missing victims at the end who I'm pretty sure is the Gravedigger we're looking for.

Batwoman Season 1 Episode 10

I was really curious to see if anything would really change this week after returning from Crisis but at the same time I was fairly certain that no big changes would occur cause like Black Lightning, Batwoman didn't seem to bring any storylines into Crisis and while at first I seemed to be right with a throwaway line about Oliver dying (that made my blood boil all over again), the episode ended and suddenly there was another Beth! The Arrowverse hasn't actually told us what happened when the Earths merged especially in terms of the same people across Earths but I had been going off of the assumption that they basically became one person so the fact that Beth stayed separate from Alice makes me wonder what's going on. Part of me wants to go back to the theory that Alice is actually someone who was locked up with Beth and that Beth told her everything so then Alice took over her identity but with Beth looking like Alice I'm not sure anymore. I also really loved that so much of this episode was about Kate struggling to figure out how much of herself she should expose to the world especially after the whole city was shipping her with a cop and like part of me thinks that she should have just listened to Luke cause the less people know anything about her the safer her secret but another part of me thinks that it's so uplifting that she came out in public so she could be a better role model. I loved that Kara was the one to do the interview cause of course who else would Kate trust to write this interview and not change things to lie?? I felt really bad for Mary all episode though and I was really glad that she and Kate eventually reconciled at the end though I still feel like this show treats her like an afterthought and you would think that being a girl power show the writers would write the sister dynamic a little better! 

Next week's promo showed us that Kate will be going to Mary and Luke about Beth appearing out of nowhere and I'm so glad cause I want Mary to have a bigger role in this show and I'm excited to find out what Beth is!

Arrow Season 8 Episode 9

I do have to admit that I was biased against this episode at first cause I wanted to see the impact of Crisis on Arrow and what happened to Oliver more than a backdoor pilot to the Green Arrow & The Canaries show that was going to replace Arrow especially with how little I cared about the flash forwards last season but honestly this backdoor pilot was a lot better than I expected it to be! We're no longer in that terrible future we had seen before and I love the idea of giving some people alternative memories alongside their current memories cause it gives us so much delicious angst to play with cause I mean can you imagine gaining memories of a world that never happened?? Would you believe in the people you know now or who they were before? Are you who you are now or who you were? I don't entirely know where Felicity is supposed to be in this future but William and Mia grew up as Queens in the Queen Mansion with William currently running Smoak Tech while Mia and JJ were engaged and Connor is a bit of a mess (though Sara Diggle is MIA.) Zoey is also alive and Mia's best friend and Rene is mayor and I'm so fascinated with everything cause it's the future I wanted from Arrow originally! After everything Oliver sacrificed, he deserved more than his city going to shit after he was gone. I loved that giving Mia her memories back didn't bring her back to the angsty stubborn girl from before cause I'm really into this new calmer version of her who had a happy childhood and I hope that JJ struggles more with who he is than just automatically becoming the old evil JJ. The reason that Dinah is in this future is a little sketch but I can let it slide cause it's all very Birds Of Prey and I'm so so down. It's interesting cause before this episode I was almost entirely sure that I wouldn't check Green Arrow & The Canaries but now I might actually be into what this show will be.

Next week is the series finale for Arrow and I already know that I'm going to cry and cry and cry. Emily Bett Rickards is back for one final appearance as Felicity and I'm really curious to see all the changes Crisis brought about beyond the small ones we saw in this future. Based on this backdoor pilot it does look like Oliver might be dead dead after all but a girl can hope anyway right??

Legends Of Tomorrow Season 5 Episode 2

We're finally back and man oh man have I been missing this show! I cannot explain to you the excitement and joy I get from watching the craziness that occurs on this show and we returned this season with an awesome premiere! The balance that this episode struck between wanting to be totally off the walls insane and Crisis aftermath was almost perfect and it's only cause I personally love Oliver and Arrow more than anything in the Arrowverse that I found the jokes about Oliver's death a little bitter but if I'm more objective I can say that it makes sense for everyone to be super chill about Oliver dying except for Sara since she was the only one who knew and loved him. I loved that she spent all episode processing her emotions and her pain cause it would have felt like a total copout if she went from Crisis straight back to comedy. I was also super thankful that the reason the whole cast felt like caricatures of themselves was actually cause of the documentary and not a new writing style for the show cause though the humor in this show is the best part, if the characters don't feel real it pulls you right out! The whole Legends being famous thing being rewritten at the end was awesome as well cause once again it felt too meta for my taste. I do want to give a shoutout to Behrad who's appeared for the first time this week and I love him already. He's such a hippie and seems to be baked all the time but he seems oddly competent too alongside the fact that he was the only one to reach out to Sara and ask her how she was doing. I expected to be low key upset with the show for Zari being replaced by him cause I loved Zari but instead now I just want Zari to join up alongside him. I also really liked that Nate almost immediately felt like something was missing from his life after they reset the timeline last season and I'm really curious to see how different Zari will be now that she and Behrad didn't live through that horrible future. I loved the ending where he was the only one to see Zari and that searching for her will be his mission this season! 

Next week looks interesting but I was most intrigued by the fact that Constantine was still around cause I thought the whole going to hell at the end of the episode thing might mean that like Nora and Mona the show was trying to shrink it's main cast a little.

Riverdale Season 4 Episode 10

Riverdale has returned for the second half of season 4 and though the episode was interesting, as a midseason premiere it was a bit of a let down. I do have to admit that I will never for the life of me understand what in the hell is happening with Jughead and his supposed death but as time goes on I'm more and more worried that Jughead might be dead for real cause I keep seeing how Cole Sprouse is booking other things but part of me keeps thinking that he must want to stay on the show so he can be with his real life girlfriend Lili right?? What really stings is how Jughead is living his best life right now so I hate the thought that he might lose it! I mean not only is he writing for his favorite children's mystery series but he just got into Yale undergrad and he and Betty seem to be going strong despite my worry that she is not okay with Jughead getting into Yale. Speaking of, Betty seems to have this thing for taking down Bret all of a sudden so she spends the episode trying to find proof of his misdeeds and fails only to gain a second chance through a quiz bowl which will be taking place next week. I'm still casually over here waiting to hear what her backup college plan is which might be silly cause this is Riverdale after all but it's not my fault that the show keeps bringing up college! Veronica and Cheryl decide to team up to make a new rum recipe that's one part Veronica's family rum and one part Cheryl's family maple syrup and that has to be one of the best ideas this show has come up with tbh. It's much better than the mess Cheryl went through in which she spent the episode fighting for control of the cheerleading squad from the new captain in the most ridiculous of storylines. Archie got to know his uncle who I can already tell is going to be trouble but poor dumb Archie's going to need half a season to figure out what I could tell in five minutes.

The promo for next week is showing us the quiz bowl that Stonewall will be having against Riverdale and it feels ridiculous but what can I say? I wonder if we won't get any more Jughead stuff cause supposedly his death happens in like a month so does that mean that we'll finally get to see the whole kit and kaboodle in four weeks?

The Magicians Season 5 Episode 2

I still don't understand what losing Quentin added to this show but here I am so I guess I'm still on board with where this show is going. Alice spent the episode with a golem of Quentin that she thought she made to decipher a letter that she found in Quentin's stuff but she actually brought a 12-year old Quentin back cause what she really wanted was to say goodbye to him and dudes I cried and cried all over again. Julia when she found out was furious but I was actually surprised she was surprised cause she should have known that like Quentin, Alice wouldn't stay still in the face of death. Margo and Eliot tried to bring Fen and Josh back to life through a series of hilarious hijinks while Eliot tried to ignore his feelings once again and was high key really mean to Margo about Josh but eventually they solved the problem by instead of going back 300 years, bringing all our main Fillory cast forward 300 years which is super creative cause I would have missed everyone! I'm also super looking forward to the episode where Eliot finally breaks and has the meltdown he needs to have in order to move on cause he's not dealing with Quentin's death in a healthy way. Also I low key need the show to stop calling Quentin and Eliot best friends cause though I preferred Quentin with Alice, Quentin and Eliot were clearly more than friends and it feels too close to queer baiting for the show. I did like that despite everything Eliot told Margo about moving on that he ended up trying to send a letter to Quentin despite it all though he hasn't sent it yet. Kady got her memories of the library depository she was interested in erased and with Penny's help she found out how but I'm curious to know who she pissed off now that the Library isn't a thing anymore. I'm also still waiting to find out what this supposed big world ending apocalypse is cause I thought it would have to do with turning the clock of Fillory back but since that didn't happen what will cause the apocalypse?

Next week we see Fen and Margo having to fight over what I'm assuming is a Fillorian way of determining who will become High King though it's possible that they also fight the Dark King whoever that is. Eliot will go to Alice with the possible letter and I really hope they send it but with how far the writers have dug their heels in about Quentin's death, I doubt it'll do anything.

Harley Quinn Season 1 Episode 9

This was a really fun episode and though it didn't actually follow what I thought had been Joker's evil plan to get Harley back last week it still led to the same outcome of separating her from her crew and Ivy. The second Joker had the chance, he dropped Harley and it was only cause the people in her life cared about her that they were furious about her life choices and it's interesting cause I get why they were upset but at the same time it feels like a terrible idea to give up on a friend in an abusive situation cause if they don't even have you to come to then they'll only stay in that terrible situation. Having said that Harley's not exactly a damsel and I definitely think this was the last straw for her cause it's only human nature to want to return to an ex after you think they've changed only to realize that no they are actually the same person they were before. I mean even Batman was disappointed! I still find the Bane is the worst villain in the DC universe the most hilarious thing ever but I am really worried for Ivy who probs should not have attacked that factory alone. I low key assumed that Harley might follow her anyway but now I think she'll end up saving her next week or maybe the week after when she realizes that Ivy is missing.

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 the amount of 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 reviews, click here and if you want to see a list of my Favorite Asian OTPs and Ships, click here!

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Romantic Doctor, Teacher Kim Season 2 (6/16): “Romantic Doctor Kim” is a “real doctor” story set in a small, humble hospital called Doldam Hospital. It is a story about people who meet Kim Sa Bu (Han Suk Kyu), a genius doctor, and discover “real romance.” Kim Sa Bu once gained fame as a top surgeon at a huge hospital. One day, he left the industry, and now he is a chief surgeon at Doldam Hospital in the countryside. After he conducted a successful operation on Chairman Shin, he gets to improve the hospital under reliable support. But then Chairman Shin passes away. New people appear and his students had to leave the hospital. Furthermore, his wrist, which was injured three years ago, starts to act weird. After all, he goes to a huge hospital himself to solve the manpower shortage at Doldam Hospital, where he finds two people who resemble his former students but who seem much more lacking. Seo Woo Jin would do anything for money, and Cha Eun Jae runs out every time she goes into a surgery room. Will Kim Sa Bu be able to run Doldam Hospital with these two?

I want to start by saying that I really and truly despise Woo Jin's storyline with the loan sharks cause they're the damn worst in every iteration and I'm tired of seeing their stupid faces. I don't know why Woo Jin won't call the cops on them but I suppose he probs has tried before and it really didn't do anything. It also sucks that he clearly never got a note at the start that lists how much he owes and the interest rate cause without it there's no way to fight the loan sharks who claim that he owes them 70,000 instead of the 40,000 he should. I wonder if the other gangsters that Eun Jae saved might be able to help cause at the very least if they don't want to beat up Woo Jin's loan sharks then maybe they can say the Hospital is their territory and to stay away. I'm still curious about why Woo Jin went to them at all but I assume it has to do with med school. I was super glad when Eun Jae finally was able to step up and do surgery and I have a feeling that the pills that Kim gave her were nothing but placebos. I still adore Ah Reum and I totally ship her with Eun Tak but I never saw the first season so I don't know if what that nurse told Ah Reum was true or not about Eun Tak being into some other woman or if she was just being low key jealous/petty. I'm curious about how Park is going to change things up as the President though obviously for the worse and I don't understand why he brought his whole damn team with him when they spent all episode just skulking around and refusing to help. I really do hate all the hospital politics and I'm not lying when I say I skip all of it.

Stove League (11/16): Baek Seung Soo is the newly appointed general manager of professional baseball team Dreams. The team ranks bottom of the league. Lee Se Young is the operations manager of the team and also a big fan of the baseball team. She has so much love for Dreams and she never gives up on the team. Han Jae Hee, an energetic man, who is the grandson of a furniture maker. Kim Young Chae, who is a softball player turned sports announcer. Yoo Min Ho, a pitcher, who is crazy about baseball.

It's hilarious to me just how much I love watching this show when it's a sports drama that's not even really all that much about sports! We're 11 episodes in and we're literally just now about to experience a game. Despite it all the show never makes you feel bored or like you're not watching something with intense stakes and I'm just so fascinated with the world. This week we focused on more changes that would hopefully help our players and Jaesung cracked down even more which should have been annoying but this week I ended up watching Kwon try to be powerful and just low key laughed in his face. It's going to be such an uplifting story end when we finally get to see Dreams win when their club has been the shittiest it could be! I mean we couldn't even go abroad for spring training though I love the small ways that Seung Soo tries to provide the team with all that he can. If he can't get them to a warm place, he'll get them the best trainers and an awesome team to practice against. It's interesting cause like Jae Hee I had the thought about whether or not all these behind the scenes changes would even make a difference but what Seung Soo said was true too. Small things can lead to big changes so here's hoping that we kick ass next week in the practice but I have a feeling that we'll lose the first though whether it'll be a close one or a horrible crash-and-burn will be seen but then we'll train our asses off with these new changes and win the second practice game.

The Game: Towards Zero (4/32): It tells the story of a prophet who sees the moments right before the death of someone and a homicide detective who got dragged into a series of mysterious murders and end up digging up hidden secrets. Kim Tae Pyung, a prophet who can see death, 27 years old. He has the special ability to see the moments right before the death of someone by looking into their eyes. Instead of suffering from this mysterious ability linked to the death of people, he thinks that it is a special ability of his own. He is rich, handsome and has a sexy brain. However, he cannot see the death of Joon Young and that started to scare him. Joon Young, a homicide detective who is working with Tae Pyung to solve cases. 30 years old. She has good insight and intuition. Her father who was a police officer was her hero and her whole life, however, he passed away 20 years ago. That was a huge shock for her. She was only depending on herself and no one else. However, when Tae Pyung appeared, she started to change. She wants to heal his and her wounds. Ku Do Kyung, a forensic expert, 33 years old. Tae Pyung gave him the nickname of “4 weeks left” because he gives the result 4 weeks later. He is a smart and talented employee of the National Forensic Service. He always seems relaxed. In front of Joon Young, he acts differently. He can’t stop laughing when he is with her and lets his image of a cool and cold man away.

I love love love investigation dramas so you better believe that I was jumping right up to check this drama out especially since it had a supernatural twist to it as well Ok Taec Yeon as the male lead! I mean yeah is it cliche that Tae Pyung has this special power that only can't be used on the female lead? Yes. Do I low key wish it had been more in terms of him seeing her dying and him screaming over her and that making him curious as to who she is? Absolutely. But I'm still here for this show no matter how cut-and-paste it feels so far. It is creative to have Tae Pyung have a mentor and a lawyer by his side to help him with his abilities and for him to be super rich cause he's been exploiting it but it was also super interesting of the show to have Joon Young give Tae Pyung's abilities the benefit of the doubt cause usually the lead that doesn't have the powers is more hesitant to trust the other lead. I like both the main characters already and I'll be curious to know what Tae Pyung's sad backstory is cause obviously he has to have one especially after telling her that he's tried to change his fated visions before. I hope that now that Joon Young saved his daughter's life that the reporter will join Joon Young and Tae Pyung in their investigations making it even more like While You Were Sleeping than it already is. It's interesting that we barely met the second male lead Do Kyung who I'm already fairly certain will end up being the son of the serial killer that killed Joon Young's dad cause that's just how these dramas work.

Touch (6/16): A popular make-up artist, known for his never-ending quest for perfection, Cha Jung Hyeok was at the top of his game. But destiny, it seemed, wouldn’t let him stay there for long. Now unemployed and drowning in debt, Jung Hyeok is desperate to find a way out of this most miserable of slumps; but he’s not the only one. An idol trainee for the past ten years, Han Soo Yeon is desperate to finally get her big break. Deciding it’s now or never, she agrees to participate in an idol audition program, but fails to make the cut. Booted from the program, Soo Yeon finds herself wondering if this is really the path she’s meant to take in life. Desperation and destiny come together in unexpected ways when Jung Hyeok and Soo Yeon cross paths. After finally landing a much-needed job as a make-up artist, Jung Hyeok agrees to take Soo Yeon under his wing. Noticing that his new assistant shows an incredible aptitude for the art, Jung Hyeok is happy to teach her everything he knows. As the two grow closer, they slowly learn to let go of the broken dreams of the past as they steadily walk towards a future full of bright new dreams, together.

I truly don't understand Jung Hyeok's ex who we spent so much time with this week. I totally sympathize with her and her horribly abusive husband but it doesn't make sense that she's running around trying to control Jung Hyeok's life or acting as if they're still dating! I mean seriously she keeps telling Jung Hyeok to leave Soo Yeon and telling Soo Yeon that she's not part of their relationship and I'm over here like well maybe you should divorce your husband first before acting this way. She clearly wants her cake and to eat it too cause she wants to be with Jung Hyeok but doesn't want the bad press of a divorce right before she returns to acting. Part of me feels like I should be more annoyed with her behavior but the rest of me really doesn't ship Soo Yeon with Jung Hyeok that much so I'm like that's fine Soo Yeon should be with Do Jin anyway. I just can't see Jung Hyeok as anything other than a father figure for Soo Yeon and I also need the show to stop baiting me with them cause the promo for next week showed Soo Yeon giving Do Jin the heart eyes and like I need them to not do that cause my heart stops. On the plus side it doesn't look like Kang Ho is planning on destroying Jung Hyeok through destroying his product but by launching his makeup line first which is fine cause that's just really normal business politics. I'll be more worried when he starts threatening people away from Cha Beauty or sending gangsters or something. I still think that the fact that Jung Hyeok put so much into the new launch is really going to screw him over.

CDRAMA

Under The Power (18/55): In the final years of the reign of Jiajing Emperor during the Ming Dynasty, Lu Yi of the Jing Yi Wei is commissioned to investigate the disappearance of funds that have been set aside for river repairs in Yangzhou. He is assisted by Yuan Jin Xia of the Liushanmen. The two accidentally become involved in a conspiracy. The talented female constable Yuan Jin Xia gets into a disagreement with the hot-tempered Jin Yi Wei Lu Yi over a case that they are both involved in. Jin Xia thought that she'd never encounter Lu Yi again in this lifetime, yet fate has its way of bringing two people back together. Government funds have been stolen and Jin Xia receives orders to assist Lu Yi in his investigation. They are unable to get along at first but learn to work together through the hardships. Eventually, they develop feelings for each other to become lovers. However, things go awry when the truth about the past comes to light. Jin Xia is the orphan of the Xia Yan case from many years ago and she bears the burdens of the bloodshed that destroyed her family. 

I was high key excited for this drama cause my girl Seven Tan was the female lead and I missed her so much since she took her 2-year drama hiatus but I was worried at the same time cause I've tried and dropped so many cdramas lately since I just couldn't get past the terrible tropes. To my pleasure this drama worked perfectly for me and it's actually exactly want I wanted An Oriental Odyssey to be (until it devolved into a supernatural time travel mess) with a main couple who are going on criminal investigations while falling in love. Jinxia is adorable as the female lead and I love that though she's usually not one for bowing and scraping that she can read a room and know who would let her jokes slide and who she needs to be serious around. She's amazing at tracking but also pretty good at fighting. Luyi is so much more handsome than I expected him to be (I die for his half smiles!) but also fascinating cause though he's the usual tsundere type of cdrama male lead, pretty early on he showed his warmth and I love that he's a no nonsense type unless he's around Jinxia. I ship them so hard but based on the synopsis I worry that this ship might end tragically like so many others in cdramas. I really enjoy all the side characters as well and I low key love that though there are love triangles that there aren't any evil second leads. Truth be told I'm not all that interested in the political maneuvering which I tend to tune out but I'm super into the main couple being detectives and hunting down criminals.

xoxo Allie

What Shows Am I Watching This Week?

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

FINISHED Fairy Tail Season 8

I don't know if I ever mentioned Fairy Tail on this blog but in case I haven't I guess I should start with saying that this is quite possibly one of my most beloved animes of all time. For many their shounen anime is Naruto or Dragon Ball Z or One Piece but mine has always been Fairy Tail. I've spent countless years loving this show which is funny cause I'm usually not a shounen girl and of course there were highs and lows in watching this and sometimes I wanted to stop but the second the Fairy Tail theme started to swell I was screaming alongside the whole cast which is why it makes it both heartbreaking and heartwarming that this is supposed to be the final season of Fairy Tail. I loved that it felt so compact with little to no filler or wasted time though a part of me does thing is sucks that Acnalogia was our final boss rather than Zeref cause he was just so much more fascinating but in the end I don't entirely mind because both villains' ends came about perfectly. I loved Zeref and Mavis's tragic love story and that in the end the thing to bring an end to Zeref's suffering was true love while Acnalogia was defeated through all of the magic of the kingdom coming together to destroy him proving that humans are stronger than he ever believed. I loved the lookbacks to all the previous strong moments of Fairy Tail and that almost everyone had a happy ending and paired off romantically like Gajeel & Levy and Gray & Juvia and Jellal & Ersa though Lucy & Natsu were left up in the air. Overall it was a lovely conclusion to this lovely show that made me love almost every single character in the ensemble cast. Fairy Tail will forever have a place in my heart.

Welcome To Demon School Iruma-Kun Episode 15

I really thought that the Battler Party was going to take place in this episode cause I assumed that since Iruma and co build the fireworks machine last week that we had nothing else to do and tbh that was still true this week which made this episode feel like it was just trying to kill time until next week. We still don't really know anything new about Kiriwo or why he wants to destroy Babyls but it obviously has to do with how he doesn't like the demon ranking system but why he thinks destroying the school will stop that is super strange. We did see a glimpse of something that makes me think that maybe someone he loved died or left him cause of the ranking system which if were true would help with his motivations but even more unclear is what Baal gets out of it cause he's already one of the highest ranked demons so like why destroy a school? Sullivan is still in jail but he seems to be doing fine and I low key loved the button we got at the end about how Sullivan's interrogator ended up being a fan of his so he was replaced. I'm a bit worried that he'll end up missing Iruma's Battler Party stuff cause he's arrested and Iruma will be crushed cause he still doesn't know that Sullivan is in jail basically because of him.

ID: Invaded Episode 3

It's totally fascinating how much faster and easier it feels when the mystery is only limited to one episode rather than two but I get why the show did that cause now that we know how these wells work there's no need to drag out the mysteries. We did get a little character development alongside the mystery of the week with us learning that Hondoumachi though mostly still the same as she was before the drilling attack it seems now that having lost a little bit of her frontal lobe has made her a little more cold and emotionless when it comes to cases and death. Her partner claimed that it made her closer to what kind of person Sakaido was but I'm not sure why he seemed so bitter about the whole thing cause it feels horrible to be like Sakaido was an idiot for falling apart after his family's death. Speaking of Sakaido's family we learned a lot more about who he was was back then and how his family died. Though he was a homicide detective it sounded like he wasn't really all that interested in it despite spending all his time at work and barely being home but I wonder if this is just his regret and guilt talking cause I doubt with how fast his mind works and how easily he can solve cases that he wasn't into it at all. It was also interesting to see that he's being housed in the same jail as a lot of the other serial killers and honestly that feels a little too harsh! I mean we don't exactly know what he did after his family died but I can't imagine he went on a killing spree!

Crisis On Infinite Earths Part 4

We're finally back after a month off and honestly guys I'm just as low key disappointed as I was with the first three parts. Maybe these crossovers are just not for me cause you all know that Oliver is the love of my life and Arrow is my show so I'll never not be low key bitter about how he's used in them. I could give less of a shit about Kara or Barry so the fact that we had to watch Oliver die for the second time this crossover was heartbreaking. Why is his family and his life so much less important that Kara and Barry's? I do love that it is Oliver that is the glue that holds everyone together and that without him not only couldn't the Paragons have left the Vanishing Point but the universe couldn't have been reset. Having said that Oliver's treatment isn't the only thing that bugs me about this crossover but also the fact that there's pretty much no story in this. I mean we did learn a bit more about the Monitor and the Anti-Monitor's backstories in this episode but all-in-all we barely know why the Anti-Monitor does what he does. These four parts were basically being held together by cameo after cameo as evidenced by how little we even see our heroes fighting and though the fangirl in me doesn't mind, when I look at it more analytically I'm not content. I also could not give less of a shit about anything Lex and Kara did on the Monitor's planet so I pretty much zoned out for that. On the more positive side it was nice seeing old moments in Oliver's life (cause this was the Arrow part of the crossover) though it low key sucked that Emily Bett Rickards couldn't come back cause an Arrow lookback felt so empty without Felicity and I really screamed over the Ezra Miller appearance cause he was the one cameo I never expected to happen and low key he saves me from hating this episode! Props to Ezra Miller for agreeing to it and props to the Arrowverse for managing to do it!

Crisis On Infinite Earths Part 5

With this episode the Crisis On Infinite Earths crossover came to an end and though part of me wants to say it fumbled it's way there, this episode was leagues better than Part 4 and honestly everything that I had a problem with in the previous episode was fixed here and part of me wonders if I liked it so much cause I watched them back to back. This episode did pretty well with tying up the story and any loose ends. I loved that the Anti-Monitor wasn't defeated with Oliver's death cause it would have felt too easy despite wanting Oliver's sacrifice to have the most meaning and I loved how much time was given to Sara and Barry and even Team Arrow to mourn Oliver cause I would have been bitter if they didn't. The comedy was on point especially with the Beebo appearance and it was nice to even get a second of Nate and Ava cause it's the first we're seeing of them since May last year! I also really love how though the multiverse still exists, it's changed enough to make Kara be on the same Earth as Barry and Oliver and the Legends though I guess it means now that Supergirl cannot do the world changing storylines like they did before. I'm also pretty sure though Black Lightning popped in, his Earth will probs still be fine when he returns to it. The final fight with the Anti-Monitor was great as was the way they science-d their way into getting rid of the Anti-Monitor despite being unable to permanently destroy anti-matter. Of all the parts I think Part 2 had the best extended cameos while Part 5 had the best story. Seeing the beginnings of the Justice League was also pretty awesome in the Hall of Justice to be and I loved all the tributes to Oliver but I have a feeling that until the final episode of Arrow airs I don't think I'll truly think that Oliver is dead dead. Overall I think if I turn my brain off this crossover was fun enough and it was worth the price alone to see all the cameos we did.

The Magicians Season 5 Episode 1

I'm not exactly proud of how much I cried this week. Part of it might have been cause I watched the premiere for this season right after watching The Vikings where a funeral for my favorite character Lagertha took place so I might have been in my feels when starting this episode or maybe it's cause I always find that the episode after a major death is the one that kills you emotionally. Quentin was actually one of my favorite characters and though I'm just as bitter as most of The Magicians audience out there about it, I love so much about this show that I decided to continue watching it though I really do feel the Quentin-sized hole in it. Alice was in mourning and I think it's actually super in character for her cause even back in Season 2 when our Quentin met an Alice from another timeline she never stopped searching for a way to bring him back and tbh that's the thing that bugs me about Quentin's death. No one in this show stays dead whether it's through resurrection or another version of the character so it really bugs me that Quentin was the one that the showrunners decided had to permanently be gone. Julia struggled to figure out what to do with her magic while Penny was sort of forced into being a Brakebills's teacher and Kady was still trying to be a hedge witch leader. Meanwhile over in Fillory we still haven't learned what happened over those 300 years or who the new leader is but supposedly Fen and Josh died and I have a feeling that Margo and Eliot will somehow do what the Clockwork Dwarf told them not to and travel back cause duh we can't lose Josh and Fen which will lead to the Apocalypse that Julia was warned about and the quest for the season. 

The promo for next week wasn't exactly a promo for next week but the whole season and we really just gets glimpses of what we're in store for. Alice makes a Golem of Quentin making me wonder if Jason Ralph will actually be back cause we know that Golems look like the humans they are modeled after. Fen and Josh also seem fine so the time travel must work and we're told again that the Apocalypse is happening.

Harley Quinn Season 1 Episode 8

This was a really fun episode but more than what happened this week it's opening up a lot of questions for the future and that's what really interests me. Harley finally got an invitation to the Legion Of Doom but what she didn't know was that the Legion only invited her cause they actually wanted Ivy as a member and were hoping they could sort of blackmail/threaten Ivy into joining cause they know that Ivy would do anything for Harley. In the end though Harley was let into the Legion even though Lex convinced her that when Ivy said no Harley wouldn't be in and this leads me to wonder if maybe this whole thing was planned out on purpose. Maybe Joker wanted Harley back and so he decided that the only way to do that was to separate her from Ivy so he and Lex planned this whole thing. It'd definitely make sense and I'd be so into it! It was also interesting that though Ivy no longer seems afraid to be with Kiteman in public she still hasn't exactly told Harley that they're dating. The stuff with Psycho and the tentacle monster was meh but the comedy was still on point. We also saw Aquaman though he was the original DC version and I'll never be tired of the Aquaman is lame jokes despite personally not actually believing any version of Aquaman is lame.

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 the amount of 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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FINISHED Love With Flaws (32/32):A romantic comedy about a woman who has an aversion for flower boys and a man who has an obsession with appearance as they overcome the prejudices against people with flaws. Joo Seo Yeon is a hot-blooded physical education high school teacher with a strong personality. 365 days and 24 hours, she is wearing her training uniform or jeans and sneakers. Because she suffered hardships due to her handsome older and younger brothers, she hates flower boys. Her ideal type is a “not handsome guy”. She will enter into conflicts with handsome Lee Kang Woo in everything. Lee Kang Woo is the chairman of boards of the high school. He is a man who is incredibly arrogant and is obsessed with appearance. He likes the attention of others and loves his looks. He spends 12 hours of his day to improve his looks. He has a flawless and handsome appearance. However, he has a secret that no one knows: he is suffering from past trauma. 15 years ago, he was overweight and ugly. This was when he got rejected by Seo Yeon. He had to change school after he had acute enteritis in the school bus. While meeting with a well-known psychologist, he realized that his irritable bowel syndrome disorder is connected to that girl of 15 years ago. He became the chairman of the school she is working at. She has changed so much, in the past, she hated ugly men and now hates handsome men.

Straight up guys I didn't even realize that the finale for this show was airing this week! I feel like the story has just gotten started and we're already at the end! This is probs cause Love With Flaws decided not to follow the normal kdrama progression with the main couple getting together halfway through the drama only to break up and then get back together cause our main couple never actually got together until this week even though they both loved each other from almost the start of the show. What was fascinating about this finale though beyond that was how not everyone got a happily ever after in terms of romance which was so unexpected! Kang Woo and Seo Yeon of course are like practically engaged and I loved everything about them but because of them Kang Hee and Won Jae had to break up and like I totally expected them to get back together at some point but both put their siblings first and the weirdest part was that neither of their siblings found out that they were dating. I suppose I'm not entirely all that upset cause I don't think either of them fell in love yet so it was just a bit of a crush for them. It was also interesting that Seo Jun and Joo Hee didn't get together but I liked everything we got with Seo Jun and his ex-trainee friend. Jang Mi was super weird cause I never understood why she was in the show at all and in the end she finally stood up to her mom but she still had nothing to do with anything else in the show. My favorite part of this finale though was Ho Dol and Won Seok cause I was living for how much Won Seok was into Ho Dol and part of me gets why the two couldn't get together on screen but it sucks that their whole relationship happened off screen! Overall I had fun with this show (a lot more than I expected with the premiere which almost turned me off completely) so I'd give it a 9 / 10!

Romantic Doctor, Teacher Kim Season 2 (4/16): “Romantic Doctor Kim” is a “real doctor” story set in a small, humble hospital called Doldam Hospital. It is a story about people who meet Kim Sa Bu (Han Suk Kyu), a genius doctor, and discover “real romance.” Kim Sa Bu once gained fame as a top surgeon at a huge hospital. One day, he left the industry, and now he is a chief surgeon at Doldam Hospital in the countryside. After he conducted a successful operation on Chairman Shin, he gets to improve the hospital under reliable support. But then Chairman Shin passes away. New people appear and his students had to leave the hospital. Furthermore, his wrist, which was injured three years ago, starts to act weird. After all, he goes to a huge hospital himself to solve the manpower shortage at Doldam Hospital, where he finds two people who resemble his former students but who seem much more lacking. Seo Woo Jin would do anything for money, and Cha Eun Jae runs out every time she goes into a surgery room. Will Kim Sa Bu be able to run Doldam Hospital with these two?

I'm actually really loving this show a lot which I had really hoped for since last week cause I really wanted Ahn Hyo Seop to make up for the mess that was Abyss and luckily not only is he killing it in this show, I'm in love with his character too! Woo Jin is so competent and good at being a doctor and wants so badly to have a mentor to look up to but keeps getting disappointed left and right making him hide his soft center behind an ice cold wall. My heart totally shattered for him all over again this week when the Doldam Hospital people asked him whether he took a bribe to work against them when we know how he tried so hard to help not only Dr Kim but also the Minister and I'm so relieved that Dr Kim never doubted him and that in the end he was able to hire Woo Jin on a semi-permanent basis. I'm also so in love with Ah Reum who's just as cute as I expected her to be last week. She low key never has any idea what's really going on but tries her damned best anyway! It was hilarious when she treated the Director of Doldam like a regular patient but in the end I'm sure it's just going to endear her to him and I still really want her and Eun Tak to get together. It's clear he's fascinated by her while she's fascinated with Woo Jin and part of me wishes that Woo Jin could pick her over Eun Jae cause Eun Jae is the worst but I know that they're the main couple of this show so Eun Tak and Ah Reum works for me! Speaking of Eun Jae I wonder if Dr Kim had the same idea I had last week where he shows her that she could be better as an ER doc rather than a surgeon. She was all over the place once again but at the very least she tries to do the right thing in the end and that's enough.

Stove League (9/16): Baek Seung Soo is the newly appointed general manager of professional baseball team Dreams. The team ranks bottom of the league. Lee Se Young is the operations manager of the team and also a big fan of the baseball team. She has so much love for Dreams and she never gives up on the team. Han Jae Hee, an energetic man, who is the grandson of a furniture maker. Kim Young Chae, who is a softball player turned sports announcer. Yoo Min Ho, a pitcher, who is crazy about baseball.

I super enjoyed learning more about Seung Soo as a person this week and man oh man does his life suck! I mean he's been forced to live through tragedy from every side. First his brother loses the use of his legs then his father had a stroke and then his wife miscarries leading to a divorce and basically getting fired by the company he's working at cause he's not happy enough or whatever which is complete bullshit. It just goes to show you what a strong man Seung Soo is cause anyone lesser than him would have collapsed by now. I do hope that he's able to talk to Robert Gil about his loss next week cause not only does he need the release but I can't imagine Robert or his wife would let him leave without explaining what happened. It was also so sweet that the Dreams team all took his side and fought to get him back and I really just need the stupid Director Kwon to go away cause it's obvious now the only reason he's so hands-on with Dreams is cause he has no power in Jaesung so he tries to lord it over people who have even less than him. It sucks that Seung Soo is only around until the baseball season starts but if he's able to rearrange everything so that by the time the season starts that Dreams is set to win then it might not be so bad! I also really liked seeing Young Soo prove himself to not only Dreams but the public cause it sucked that everyone was just like he was hired cause his brother is GM.

Touch (4/16): A popular make-up artist, known for his never-ending quest for perfection, Cha Jung Hyeok was at the top of his game. But destiny, it seemed, wouldn’t let him stay there for long. Now unemployed and drowning in debt, Jung Hyeok is desperate to find a way out of this most miserable of slumps; but he’s not the only one. An idol trainee for the past ten years, Han Soo Yeon is desperate to finally get her big break. Deciding it’s now or never, she agrees to participate in an idol audition program, but fails to make the cut. Booted from the program, Soo Yeon finds herself wondering if this is really the path she’s meant to take in life. Desperation and destiny come together in unexpected ways when Jung Hyeok and Soo Yeon cross paths. After finally landing a much-needed job as a make-up artist, Jung Hyeok agrees to take Soo Yeon under his wing. Noticing that his new assistant shows an incredible aptitude for the art, Jung Hyeok is happy to teach her everything he knows. As the two grow closer, they slowly learn to let go of the broken dreams of the past as they steadily walk towards a future full of bright new dreams, together.

I'm still loving this show but I'm high key upset that we had to throw in a chaebol story alongside everything else. It really doesn't make any sense in the story other than the fact that kdramas seem to have this intense love for rich family politics in literally everything and they're only effective when they're the bad guys cause god forbid when a male or female lead is rich that they can use their power to do literally anything. I can already see where this story will devolve with Min finding out that Jung Hyeok is his wife's ex and deciding to ruin Cha Beauty by teaming up with Oh to mess with something like Jung Hyeok's upcoming makeup line. I cringed so hard when Jung Hyeok said that he should put up Cha Beauty as collateral and I'm sitting here like all the villains have to do is put something in a batch that ruins skin and then suddenly bam Cha Beauty and the makeup line are bankrupt. I guess in a way though if that does happen then it'll fit the storyline that the synopsis claims we'll be getting. I do love everything we're getting in terms of the makeup world and I'm liking how Soo Yeon and Jung Hyeok's relationship is growing and that it's not too fast though I still low key find myself with SLS cause not only is Do Jin just so precious (cause I am such a sucker for a playful lead and it makes me wish more male leads were like that) but part of me is a little freaked by the huge age gap between the actual leads. I mean seventeen years is kinda a big deal.

xoxo Allie