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
Find Me In Your Memory (30/32): The story revolves around a man with hyperthymesia, a condition that gives people the ability to remember an abnormally vast amount of their life experiences in vivid detail, and a woman who has forgotten the most important moments of her life. The two people with similar scars fatefully cross paths one day and come to love each other. Jung Hoon is an anchor of a news show which has the highest ratings. Jung Hoon’s handsome face and perfect body figure make him look good in a suit. Unlike his gentle appearances, he becomes a tyrant all of a sudden and starts asking aggressive questions to whoever it is. Because of hyperthymesia, he remembers every single thing happening in 365 days a year ever since his childhood. He can’t forget the memory of the woman he loved, Seo Yeon, who disappeared 8 years ago. A rising star who attracts everyone’s attention, Ha Jin, appears in front of Jung Hoon at that moment. Despite all the attention, Ha Jin doesn’t waver and keeps her confidence. However, she has a secret that her memory is fading away. The man who cannot forget and the woman whose memory is fading away. Will they be able to overcome their difficulties, understand each other, and fall in love at the end?
I'm starting to think this show made a bit of a mistake in their pacing cause everything felt rushed this week but I can't decide if it's because the show spent too long with Ha Jin's stalker or if it's because the show decided to introduce a brand new storyline too late in the game with Yoo's book on Jung Hoon. Like I have soooo many problems with this book and the fact that Yoo didn't get Jung Hoon's permission to write about him so it's a total lawsuit in the making cause he broke doctor/patient confidentiality but I really was disappointed in how little it mattered in the end. Not only did I expect public backlash from him being ill but I also wanted a bigger fallout from the betrayal. Jung Hoon mostly just ignored the book and his private life being outed and even the public mostly forgot about it and instead focused entirely on how Jung Hoon dated both Seo Yeon and Ha Jin which is not the storyline I wanted. I also really don't understand this second breakup that Ha Jin and Jung Hoon are going through. The first one made so much sense cause of course Ha Jin would need a minute in order to get her thoughts in order but this second breakup is not only too close to the first breakup we went through but also it makes Ha Jin feel so flakey cause every time the two run into a problem, she runs! I wanted to see the two support each other through this mess and really all they had to do to change public sentiment was explain that Ha Jin and Seo Yeon drifted apart after Ha Jin broke her ankle and that Ha Jin and Jung Hoon didn't meet until more recently! I also think it's annoying that we had a time skip cause you all know I think they're a symbol of lazy writing. Time skips are used as a bandaid to fix what the writers didn't want to take the time to do and it makes everything that happened before feel meaningless. Jung Hoon resigned from being the news anchor cause of the backlash only to completely reverse that a few minutes later like surprise time skip plus a new president equals Anchor Jung Hoon again! The finale is next week and I'm honestly just so sad that this show which was so incredibly written until now is becoming a mess.
Good Casting (4/16): Baek Chan Mi is a legendary agent for the National Intelligence Service. However, due to an excessive operation, one of her subordinates passes away. After this incident, she takes back all hope of returning to the field when she gets an order to go undercover. She begins working as a secretary for Ilkwang Hitech under the name, Baek Jang Mi. She is joined by a single mother, Im Ye Eun, who has the beauty of a girl group member, and Hwang Mi Soon, a housewife of 18 years whose family believes her to be an insurance salesperson. These three women begin to work together. Meanwhile, Ilkwang Hitech’s CEO, Yoon Seok Ho, knew Chan Mi as his tutor and had a crush on her. He can’t help but think that his new secretary, who looks exactly like his first love but has a different name and age, is a bit suspicious.
I'm debating whether or not I'm disappointed in this show this week and I hate that cause I was so into this show last week. The thing that drives me crazy about kdramas is that the villains are ALWAYS five steps ahead of the heroes in any and all investigation/revenge dramas and cover stories never stay hidden. I mean we literally just started this story and Director Tak already knows that Chan Mi is a NIS agent but she doesn't know he knows and we already are too late in stopping lkwang Hitech’s research from leaving the lab cause our agents are incompetent. It keeps feeling like we're barely hanging on and it always just makes me wonder why writers like to write like this cause all it does is make the NIS look like idiots. Of course Michael keeps getting away cause this team (guys included) can barely do one thing without being caught or screwing up. Honestly I shouldn't expect anything cause this show is a comedy but I can't help the way my brain works! Another interesting thing to note is the fact that this show isn't really playing the whole guessing game in terms of who's the mole. We already know that Director Myung is the rat selling tech to Michael which lkwang Hitech's lab researches and Woo Won's manager dropped off in Taiwan/China cause of Woo Woon's celeb schedule. The identity of Michael seems to be the actual guessing game we'll be playing but I low key wish that he was just some rando cause it makes no sense to do all this stuff with hiding tech in Taiwan if the guy it needs to be delivered to works in the same building! I do want to shout out the editing in this show cause it's still the best part and I was loving the way the flashbacks were done this week especially the one like a silent movie! I do hope that Gwan Soo is okay but I can't imagine he dies this early on when he's a main character.
Hospital Playlist Season 1 (9/12): A drama depicting the stories of people going through their days that seemingly ordinary but actually special, at the hospital, a place known as the microcosm of life - where someone is being born and someone's life meets their ending. The five doctors are long time friends of 20 years who started their undergrad in 1999 in the same medical school, and now they are colleagues in the same hospital. The drama will also deal with a story of a band formed by the group of doctors.
Nothing really spoke to me this week in terms of storylines cause we hopped around from department to department and the struggle was that we didn't focus on anyone. The only thing that I connected with was the stuff with Ik Sun and how Ik Jun found out about how heartbroken she was about a year ago when her boyfriend at the time pretended like a fortuneteller was the reason that they should break up after he convinced her to get married when she didn't like the idea of marriage. It was totally sad how it dawned on Ik Jun that he barely paid attention to his sister and he didn't even know that for six months of her life she was barely functioning. I loved their scene at the end when he basically brought her to tears with his love. I'm also seriously in love with Ik Sun and Jun Wan and how chill their relationship is. It was so funny to parallel their scene where Ik Sun offered to show Jun Wan her texts with some other guy with the scene with one of the medical students and how she refused to show her phone to her boyfriend. It really shows you how different you are when you're dating in your 20s and when you're dating in your 40s. Seok Hyung's mom also finally agreed to a divorce but I'm really curious about this storyline with Cheon and his apparent marriage to a chaebol cause he's a horrible person and I didn't know what we were seeing at the end of the episode. Was it the older woman he was marrying? Or was it the young one? And speaking of the young one was she the new nurse that just joined the OBGYN? Who's the chairman that's worried about Cheon and the chaebol?
Soul Mechanic/Fix You (4/32): How do you deal with anger? Where does happiness actually come from? These questions are at the heart of Fix You, a touching drama about a quirky psychiatrist on a mission to help people heal, and a rising star whose emotional wounds run deep. Lee Si Joon is an eccentric but passionate psychiatrist working in a hospital. He cares deeply for his patients, whom he tries to help through valiant, yet often unorthodox efforts. Han Woo Joo is an up and coming musical actress. Honest and principled, her efforts on the stage seem to be paying off, but she struggles with anger issues and recurring mental breakdowns that threaten to derail her career. With compassion as his tool, can Lee Si Joon help mend her soul and let the healing begin?
I had been looking forward to this drama airing cause duh Jung So Min is my girl but I really had no idea what this show would end up being except for maybe something like It's Okay That's Love in it's look at mental health. After checking out the first four episodes of this show I have to say I'm definitely interested in this show but I'm not entirely sure how I feel yet. Woo Joo is seriously an angel despite her anger problems cause after everything she went through, she still found it in her heart to not only forgive the patient that ruined her life but also the doctor and the hospital that let the patient escape. If I was her I would have sued everyone involved cause I mean not only did she lose her job but her reputation is in the trash because of the delusional patient who arrested her for a DUI. I still think it's ridiculous that she didn't do an interview that explained everything cause even if her boyfriend was an asshole, there are other reporters out there! Instead it looks like she's basically going to give up on musical theater for now in order to work at the hospital. I do suppose in part this is a good thing cause she does need to get treatment for her anger problems first and working part-time in the hospital would be a good excuse if others asked her why she was there but at the same time I don't think she deserved losing her dream. Then again I also wouldn't be getting treatment from Si Joon even if he was the last doctor alive cause of the mess he made and how little he cared about what she went through in the aftermath but I'm also not her so I can't say much on that. What I can say though is that I just really hope that there's no romance between our leads and it's not cause of the age gap cause both actors are old enough that it doesn't matter but because I don't see romantic chemistry between the two.
xoxo Allie
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