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!
KDRAMA
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
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