What Dramas Am I Watching This Week?

I hope you all had a lovely holiday season and 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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Awaken (8/16): About a series of mysterious incidents that are connected to an incident that took place in a village 28 years ago. Do Jung Woo is a capable and legendary team leader of a special task force at the National Police Agency. He has messy hair, a constant slouch, and sucks on a lollipop all day like a kid, but he has a mysterious secret behind his sly exterior. Gong Hye Won is a passionate police officer who does not let anything get in her way. Behind her pretty face is a hot temper that won’t cool down unless she says what she needs to say. She is one of the strongest and best fighters on her team, and can drink the others under the table, but she also has a surprisingly clumsy side. Jamie is a detective on loan from the FBI. She was adopted as a child with almost no memories of her life before, but she returns to Korea to solve the serial killer case that is related to those lost memories from 28 years ago.

We're officially halfway through this drama now and I'm starting to feel a little iffy about this show which sucks cause even as far back as last week I was so into this show. Honestly I still think the writing for the mystery aspect of this show is super tight and everything that Jung Woo does is super interesting but I'm starting to get disappointed in the other characters and I can't help but lose interest every time we cut away from Jung Woo. Jamie is like an emotionless robot who can only follow rules and sees things in black and white. She's straight up more interested in Hye Won's love life than figuring out her connection to White Night and it's especially weird that the other cops are like not shocked at all to find that out about her. Hye Won on the other hand is the kind of female lead I usually don't like cause she's all emotion and all violence and no brains. I'm also really disappointed in the fact that the show drew us a line to the endgame couple this week and it's Hye Won and Jung Woo because I wanted him with Jamie. They even have the whole childhood connection trope that dramas love so why not?? In other more important news it turns out that Jae Woong is actually the one behind the lucid dreams though I think he's got DID so it's actually another personality that's doing it while Jae Woong is unconscious or asleep. Jung Woo was somehow figuring out who Jae Woong's targets were and sending clues to the reporter but he clearly is uninterested in stopping the deaths cause he's busy trying to hunt out White Night and stop more experiments.

Hush (4/16): “Hush” is an office drama about newspaper reporters and their everyday struggles, problems, and ethical dilemmas. Han Jun Hyeok is a veteran reporter for a newspaper. He first became a reporter to pursue justice, but he is now conflicted between idealism and pragmatism. Han Jun Hyeok must also deal with personal issues as a husband and father. Lee Ji Soo is a bold intern reporter who isn’t afraid to say what needs to be said, even during a job interview. When she meets Han Jun Hyeok as her mentor, she begins to dream of becoming a true journalist.

Last week I was seriously impressed with the premiere for this show but now that we're done with week 2, I'm a little torn. The show still gives off the vibe that it's something special but I'm starting to see the cracks. We did see that what happened 6 years ago was that Jun Hyeok wrote a good article about Ji Soo's father and his protests but the current Chief who was the Desk Editor at the time edited it before it was uploaded and so that's why it was changed into being a negative article and why Ji Soo blames Jun Hyeok for her father's death. Jun Hyeok and his fellow reporters have now decided to take a stand but the thing is I'm not entirely sure what they've decided to fight for. Is it solving the case that the junior reporter brought in or is it Soo Yeon's death? Or even further is it just a belief that from now on they'll become the bright eyed bushy tail reporters they were when they first started out? Either way I'm super down. The one other thing that's bothering me about this show is Ji Soo herself. She's honestly so passive aggressive that it's hard to watch her. Like what does she want? We found out that a correction to the article that killed her dad was reported 2 years ago so exposing Jun Hyeok as a liar isn't an option and like it should be clear to her even having been an intern for like 3 months that Daily Korea is corrupt to the core and that junior/senior reporters don't really have a say with what's going on. I also don't know why she doesn't just tell Jun Hyeok that she's the daughter of the man he looked up to but I wonder if the show is going to eventually show her growing into being a reporter like in Pinocchio.

Handmade Love (4/8): A romance fantasy that deals with Woven who has come down to the human world to heal human sorrows with clothes.

So remember back when I said that I don't normally like web dramas cause they always leave me wanting more? Well guess who kept seeing images of this show that made it look mystical and magical and now has egg on her face cause she'll never learn?? This girl!! I'm serious. I've always low key had a thing for Lee Soo Hyuk and his fairy-like features and then to my surprise I found out that Lee Soo Ji was the female lead in this show who I adored in Idolm@ster KR and so the deal was sealed. I do wonder if this show was passed from being a full drama to a web drama cause the concept is one that we've seen in Hotel de Luna and Mystic Pop Up Bar. The Woven was a God but was sent to the human world to repent by working in a tailor shop and healing human hearts. The first case we see is Sa Rang's and after it was solved, she ended up working in the shop and I think eventually she and the Woven will end up together cause they've got chemistry! The thing is I don't actually know if there will be romance between our main leads cause that would mean a lot of plot has to be moved through in a 2 hour session but then again that's the normal pace of a movie and I'd like to stay positive cause the synopsis for this show does say it's a romantic fantasy. 

Homemade Love Story (56/100): Three families live under one roof at a boarding house called Samgwang Villa. Sun Jeong's family lives a pure and simple life and doesn't have a lot of money. Jung Hoo's family is rich but is far from peaceful. Jung Won's family looks perfect from the outside but is actually quite rocky. Others join these families at Samgwang Villa, each with their own stories. What is the meaning of family in this day and age, with so many single-person households and people choosing not to get married? Let's meet the people who open their hearts to one another to live and love as a family in Homemade Love Story.

Are you proud of my binging ability?? I'm officially caught up to the currently airing episodes and it's going to be totally sucky to have to wait for 4 episodes a week cause it's not enough!! Why oh why did I do this to myself??? Okay but seriously I have a lot of thoughts about this week and they're a mixed bag. Let's start with my favorite part of this show and that's Chae Woon and Jae Hee as a couple. I adore that not only are they super relaxed when touching each other but they're also so open about their worries and their feelings. I'm constantly looking for misunderstandings to pop up cause that's the way I've been conditioned to react but instead they literally tell each other everything whether it's good bad or ugly. I do wish that they weren't so fumbly about trying to get the answers Chae Woon seeks and I think a big problem is that they're just too empathetic. Chae Woon constantly feels guilty about stealing Jae Hee away from Seo Ah but it's seriously all in Seo Ah's head and I hate that everyone keeps trying to guilt trip Jae Hee about how he made Seo Ah cry. He never once led her on and so it's her own problem if she fell in love! I do have a feeling that soon enough we'll see Chae Woon do the noble idiot thing and break up with him so he's no longer in the middle and I can't wait for that angst. I just hope it doesn't last too long cause I like my babies together! I also wish that people would stop lying to one another. Like Seo Jung should have exposed Chae Woon's grandma ages ago cause that woman isn't all the way in America but literally right here all the time so that the others know to look out. Chae Woon and Jae Hee also should have told the family that Na Ro was playing games cause he's super sketchy too!

FINISHED Kairos (16/16): Living a precarious life as a part-timer at a convenience store, Ae Ri strives to support her mother who is on a waiting list for a heart transplant. Unfortunately, her mother’s worsened physical condition leads her to forgo the long-awaited opportunity for the transplant, and just like that her mother disappears. Things were already chaotic enough for Ae Ri when she receives a phone call from a strange man claiming to be from the same world but 31 days in the future. Ironically, he desperately asks Ae Ri for help. Seo Jin, a father and a husband of a close-knit family, has been living a successful life as the youngest person to become a director at a construction company. One day, it all crumbles down with the kidnapping of his daughter and his wife’s suicide. On the verge of breaking down, he is given an opportunity to restore everything that was lost under one condition, help from a strange woman. To bring his daughter and wife back to life, he makes a phone call as the clock strikes 10:33.

So the finale for this show aired this week and it was actually really amazing. This show from start to finish was so tightly written and that always makes me happy even if I didn't end up connecting to this drama like I did to something like Awaken or 365: Repeat The Year which are two other dramas with extremely tight writing. I was wrong last week in guessing that present Seo Jin got all his memories the day of cause as it turns out he only got the memories of that day from the future which was important cause the same thing happened to Do Gyun and Ae Ri's mom. Do Gyun used his time to kill Hyun Chae's biological dad while the others worked on getting rid of Chairman Yoo once at for all. They managed to trick Yoo into confessing which was a nice parallel to when his father first recorded Chairman Yoo confessing. In the end we were able to able to catch Chairman Yoo and put him in jail but at the cost of future Seo Jin who died sending the recording to Ae Ri. I do have to say that their plan was absolutely killer and I loved watching the pieces fall into place one by one. Yoo was such a psychopath honestly especially when he tried to defend his reasoning for blowing the building up making it worse than if he had just said I wanted more money. I actually liked the way the show ended with Seo Jin getting custody of Da Bin and becoming a family alongside Ae Ri and her crew. Overall I think this show deserves a 7 / 10.

Live On (6/8): Baek Ho Rang is the most popular girl in high school. Everybody wants to be her friend, and all of the boys dream of winning her heart. Although she is famously aloof, she is also a star on social media – with the whole school seemingly following her every post. But when a mysterious individual arrives online, she is caught off-guard.This person seems to know all of Baek Ho Rang’s deepest secrets, and is seemingly armed with all sorts of information about her that she’d rather was kept a secret forever! Desperate for answers, she seeks out the help of Go Eun Taek, the meticulous, right-minded head of the school’s broadcasting club. However, in order to gain his assistance, she discovers that she will have to become a regular club member – a fact that eventually brings her together with a group of students she never thought she’d consider friends. Can she solve the mystery of the online poster? And could joining the club eventually lead to romance?

This week I'm starting to wonder if the disconnect between the way Ho Rang is feeling and the way I feel about her bullying is a cultural thing cause I'm sitting here so confused as to why people would give a single shit about her having been bullied in middle school. Would people really suddenly be like Ho Rang is too relatable now so I no longer can look up to her as an influencer? Aren't celebrities and idols and the like more popular when they're more human?? Soo Hyun was the first to figure out who Ho Rang's bully was cause she saw Jin Hui mess with Ho Rang's USB so she confronted her and we finally got Jin Hui's motives for this. It connects back to my cultural disconnect cause she apparently was pissed as all hell that Ho Rang who was bullied and on the same social level as her is now popular and on the top of the social chain. Yeah seriously guys Jin Hui needs some mental help cause the girl is not sane. What kind of nonsense motive is that?? Ho Rang eventually figured it out too and when she tried to confront Jin Hui about it, Soo Hyun showed up so things got a little derailed and one of the saddest moments of this series occurred when Ho Rang was embarrassed and angry that Soo Hyun found out and Soo Hyun was just crying about how she loves Ho Rang and why can't the two be friends again. In terms of romance Jae Yi and Woo Jae got back together and though I actually thought their breakup made sense, I though their kiss this week was super cute too so I'm back on the ship!

Lovestruck In The City (1/17): Lovestruck in the City is a realistic portrayal of young people who pursue romance and happiness while struggling to get by in a busy, competitive urban environment. Park Jae Won is an honest man, a passionate architect and a lover of city alleyways. His hobby is collecting more hobbies. A romantic at heart, he cannot forget a certain woman. This thief of his heart and his camera had disappeared like a fleeting midsummer night’s dream. Lee Eun Oh is an ordinary woman who temporarily reinvents herself as the spontaneous and free spirited Yun Seon Ah. She takes off to a remote place on an impulse and falls in love with Jae-won under this new identity.

I pretty much just wanted to check this drama out cause of Kim Ji Won after Ji Chang Wook really fell off of my list of actors I adore after his last two horrible drama picks so cause of that I really didn't know what I was going to get with this show but a documentary style of story wasn't it! Now don't get me wrong, I'm not at all upset about this cause it feels like a totally creative way of telling a story but I am a little worried that by doing so, we won't be as omnipresent as we usually are in a drama. I do think it helps that the show is also adding in scenes that show what the characters are describing like when we spent this whole first episode seeing how Eun Oh and Jae Won first met rather than just hearing it from them. It does look like we'll be following 3 different relationships: Eun Oh and Jae Won, Rin Yi and Gyung Joon, and by process of elimination Sun Young and Kang Gun. Jae Won met Eun Oh on vacation and they fell in love but then something happened to break them up. Meanwhile Jae Won's cousin Gyung Joon has been dating Seo Rin for a while but I really hope the story they are meant to show us isn't one of falling out of love or cheating. The reason I think this is cause I wonder if this show is trying to show us three different couples at three different stages of love: Sun Young and Kang Gun would be in the fresh new throes of love, Eun Oh and Jae Won would be in the reconnecting phase, and Seo Rin and Gyung Joon would be drifting apart. 

Mr Queen/Queen Cheorin (4/20): A male chef has risen up the ranks to find a job cooking for the country’s top politicians in the South Korean presidential residences, the Blue House. He is something of a dreamer – but one day finds himself in the body of a young queen from Korea’s past, Kim So Yong. Kim So Yong’s husband is the reigning monarch, King Cheol Jong. However, he is only king in name – the late King Sunjo’s Queen, Sun Won, has taken advantage of Cheol Jong’s better nature, and is ruling the realm in his name. Queen Sun Won’s brother Kim Jwa Guen also has designs on power. However, Kim So Yong soon discovers that King Cheol Jong harbors secrets, and is not as gentle and meek as he seems…

I still don't know what's going on but I'm still having a blast. My favorite thing about this show is how So Yong literally has no idea about anything that's going on in terms of politics and yet everyone and their mother is trying to put him inside a box. He's out here to cook yummy food, get drunk, look at pretty women, and try to get back home. I do highly doubt that jumping back into the lake will send him back but I guess we can only drop this storyline when he tries. I do wonder if the original So Yong will ever come back like in Eternal Love where the two souls switch back and forth at odd times but I have a feeling that Bong Hwan will stay until the end. I have to say though that Cheol Jong must really be an idiot to look at what So Yong is doing all day every day and be like she's scheming to hurt me when it's like he's the one who's trying to hurt her. Does he really think that she has this much power in the Kim clan? It's obvious to me that just like he's a puppet king, so is she but then again maybe the original So Yong was more diabolical and that's what Cheol Jong is thinking of. I do wonder if So Yong really did try to kill herself back then cause all the hints seem to point towards her being depressed and she told Byung In that she was scared which is probs cause she found out that Cheol Jong loves Hwa Jin. I'm not really worried about So Yong stepping in since she could always lie to the Queen Dowager and be like I'm trying to get in on Cheol Jong's affections by saving Hwa Jin while telling Cheol Jong that she's not a monster trying to frame innocents.

Please Don't Date Him (6/10): Seo Ji-Sung is a programmer on the A.I. Development Team at Smart Home Appliances. While working on a refrigerator, she accidentally inserts a chip belonging to the National Intelligence Service. Instead of a program that will rate the freshness of vegetables, it will root out the undesirables from a dating pool, potentially saving people heartache. Ji-Sung herself wants to fall in love, but with the right man. Despair sets in when her program determines that her oh-so-perfect fiancé, Jung-Han, is not her Prince Charming after all! Jung Gook-Hee is a firefighter who spends little time on social media, leaving Ji-Sung with little data to analyze. She meets firefighter Gook-Hee, who has no social media presence. This leaves Ji-Sung without a shred of data for her program to analyze. She can't help but be skeptical, not knowing a thing about Gook-Hee's past. Should Ji-Sung take a leap of faith with him, even if it could mean another heartbreak for her?

For some reason we've randomly gone from a rom com to a spy thriller and I'm not entirely sure if I'm mad about it yet! The weird woman in Ji Sung's office ended up being a member of the Counterterrorism group that was disbanded due to a JSS chip being abused. The chip then somehow made its way into the smart fridge that Ji Sung was working on so now Hwang thinks that Ji Sung is a spy too but more importantly as it turns out Gi Hyun's husband was a part of the counterterrorism group too. Meanwhile back in our regularly scheduled program, Ji Sung and Gook Hee were all ready to go out on a date but Ji Sung started to worry that Gook Hee might be a player based on how close he was to one of the girls that worked in Ji Sung's office. Eventually she found out that Ha Ri already had a boyfriend so she let it go but I still think she should casually ask Gook Hee how he knows her cause who knows maybe she's a family friend or a relative based on how awkwardly Ha Ri explained why his bike was at her house. We also got a little more about Gook Hee's past and it looks like that reporter wrote an article about how Gook Hee was the reason for someone dying which makes me think that he accidentally started the fire but that's so ridiculous cause Gook Hee was a child! Also apparently the reason that Yoo Jin said that he was trash was cause he disappears anytime something doesn't go his way and I'm just sitting here like Ye Seul run. It's okay to date a weirdo like that but once things get serious, it would be obnoxious.

Run On (4/16): Ki Sun Gyeom is a sports agent who was once a popular sprinter on the national team but was forced to quit due to legal issues. Oh Mi Joo writes translated subtitles for movies. She was thrilled to see her name listed among the credits when she first started. Ki Sun Gyeom had just quit sprinting when he encountered Oh Mi Joo, who felt that destiny most certainly brought them together. Seo Dan Ah is the CEO of a sports agency and rightful successor to the Seomyung Group. Despite this, she is held back from advancing in the company due to her gender. She fiercely wishes to reclaim what is rightfully hers and lives her life accordingly. Lee Young Hwa is a university art major who enjoys movies and drawing will soon enter his life. Could romance be in the cards for these two couples?

So I actually straight up might be the only person who isn't in love with Mi Joo and Sun Gyeom which sucks cause they're the main characters and so like 80% of the episode is spent on them! I knew this was going to happen though cause from almost episode 1 I was like Dan Ah is my spirit animal and I want to be her so I'm pretty much spending these episodes counting down to when she appears. I also know this is a romance but I was so much more interested in seeing what happened to Woo Shik and the reporters after Sun Gyeom confessed to assaulting someone rather than watching Mi Joo and Sun Gyeom flirt. I really expected Woo Shik to be used by the track and field team to screw Sun Gyeom but my girl Dan Ah was too smart for them and grabbed Woo Shik before the others could. I am intersted in the fact that no articles about Woo Shik confessing the truth came out cause I can't imagine that anyone would have the power to make those articles disappear when the negative ones about Sun Gyeom being a monster are still around but there's gotta be a reason that they haven't been uploaded. Maybe the foreign papers are like who cares about some random Korean track and field runner? In other news I was totally fascinated in the fact that we saw more of Young Hwa this week and he's honestly a perfect match for Dan Ah cause he's an ass too. As a sidebar I'm high key into Dan Ah's brother as a character too cause he's so all about Dan Ah and I'm fascinated with what's his deal too.

The Goddess Of Revenge (9/16): In the world of the rich and powerful, one wrong move can destroy everything; a sad lesson Kang Hae Ra soon learns. Once a reporter working hard to support the family she had been forced to care for at a very young age, Hae Ra found her way into the limelight after marrying one of the country’s most famous celebrities. Now the center of everyone’s attention, Hae Ra has become one of the nation’s hottest influencers. But when she finds herself wrapped up in an unfounded scandal, Hae Ra’s reputation plummets. Hitting rock bottom, Hae Ra wants revenge, but she’s not the only one desperately searching for a way to bring down those who have hurt her. A talented lawyer with a one hundred percent success rate and a heart of ice, Cha Min Joon is not a man to be trifled with. But when those who wish to bring him low throw his family into ruin, he turns his full attention towards exacting his revenge. While Hae Ra and Min Joon focus on revenge, the sole heir to the FB Group, Kim Tae On, is on a mission of her own, to secure her position as the company’s new head. But going up against her father isn’t easy, as one simple mistake could ruin everything. Meanwhile, the tenacious detective Ku Eun Hye takes on a case that could either make or break her. As each individual begins their respective journey towards success and revenge, their paths soon cross. Realizing there’s much more going on than any of them first believed, each delves deeper but what they find shakes them to their core. Now on a mission to fight against those who seek to destroy them, Hae Ra and Min Joon will stop at nothing to have their revenge. But can they succeed against such powerful foes?

I have to say I'm a little upset that we only got one episode this week just when things actually started happening! Min Joon found out that Hae Ra's son Ga On was actually the son of his sister and Chairman Kim but I don't actually know if that will warm him or harden him further towards Hae Ra. You would think that this would push him to liking Hae Ra more than he does already cause dude she took care of his nephew for years but I have a feeling he'll assume that she kidnapped him out of insanity after losing her actual child. On that same note I'm starting to feel embarrassed on his behalf cause he thinks he's winning this game that he's playing with the FB Group but in fact he's actually being played hardcore by Tae On. She's the one who forced his sister to run and she's the one who caused this car accident in order to target Hae Ra and force Min Joon to double down on his attack against Chairman Kim. I'm hoping that now that Hae Ra saw that Min Joon went and brought her son (the one person she didn't want dragged into everything) into the game that she'll realize that Min Joon's not who she thought he was and maybe if she starts yelling at him then he'll be able to actually learn what happened back then. It's ridiculous that he won't come out and ask her cause I bet she knows if not the whole story then at least 90%! 

The Uncanny Counter (8/16): Tells the story of demon hunters called Counters who come to earth under the guise of being employees at a noodle restaurant in order to capture evil spirits that have returned to earth in pursuit of eternal life. So Mun is the youngest of the Counters. After suffering from a mysterious car accident as a child, he eventually becomes a central figure among the Counters. Do Ha Na has the ability to sense the locations of evil spirits, even those that are hundreds of kilometers away. She can also read memories of others through touch and works with So Mun to do away with evil spirits. Ga Mo Tak is a Counter with incredible strength. He’s a former police officer who lost his memory seven years ago after an accident and is unable to stand idle in the face of injustice. Ga Mo Tak is also So Mun’s mentor. Chu Mae Ok is a Counter with healing abilities. Outwardly, she’s the chef of the noodle restaurant, but among the Counters, she is the emotional pillar of the group. Choi Jang Mool is the oldest Counter. He’s in charge of all of the Counters’ expenses, and he is a living legend among the Counters in Korea.

We're halfway through this drama now and this is definitely my favorite thing airing right now! Our Counters have put together the puzzle pieces and the story was pretty much what I guessed last week. The only difference was that originally Mun's dad was actually looking into a groundwater contamination case and he just so happened to find a video of the car that Mo Tak was looking for and that's when the investigation became one. As if the humans weren't bad enough we also find out that they've been contaminating the water supply of the city and that's another reason why so many evil spirits are attracted to the area but it also explains why all our bad guys are so tightly knit. If one screws up, they all get exposed. I should be more upset at the fact that Mo Tak being alive was exposed to the bad guys but I can't even gather an ounce of worry since the real enemy of our Counters is Chung Shin who's getting more and more powerful though now he's also on the police radar though I'm sure that they'll just be killed like flies. Maybe what we need to do is push Chung Shin towards our bad guys cause the Counters can't kill but he sure can wink wink nudge nudge. No but seriously I'm sure that at some point in this season the Counters will lose their abilities cause they're too involved in the human world and it'll be the one moment that we're screwed by the bad guys. I do have to say that Mun's entire memorial scene had me on the edge of my seat cause I was so worried that Chung Shin would show up and murder either his grandparents or his best friends.

True Beauty (6/16): True Beauty is a romantic comedy about a high school girl Lim Joo Gyung, who rises to pretty girl fame after she masters the art of make-up from YouTube. She turns into a goddess because of her makeup skills, but would rather die than reveal her bare face to anyone. It tells her love story with the only boy that saw her without makeup, Lee Su Ho. Lee is an attractive and handsome boy who appears cold because of his dark past but is actually very caring. They grow when they meet each other sharing their secrets and finding love with each other, but can Su Ho make Joo Gyung find her true beauty?

Part of me wants to be annoyed with the bait-and-switch we got this week with Joo Gyung and Su Ho but I can't entirely be all that mad cause it would have been waaaaay too early for the two to get together cause we're not even halfway through! Part of me felt like Joo Gyung falling for Su Ho happened out of nowhere cause last week she thought he was blackmailing her but I bet that when he apologized and bandaged her leg she started to see him in a different light and when he all but confessed she got excited cause this was the first time that someone liked her. When you're young that's all it takes and I'm sure that the more she sees him, the more she'll see the good in him and a crush will become actual love. Seo Jun low key turned a corner though in my eyes cause while I still think the actor is mega hot, he crossed the line when he threatened Su Ho with telling Joo Gyung about their friend if he didn't leave Joo Gyung. I want her to find out at some point and rip him a new one cause what a complete ass. It's why I feel no pity for the fact that he's fallen hard for her now (before it was all a game to mess with Su Ho cause he liked Joo Gyung) but Joo Gyung only has eyes for Su Ho. I did like that Joo Gyung realized that Su Ho was the guy who saved her on the rooftop in the premiere but I also liked that she got some of the picture with what's tearing Su Ho up though she doesn't know that's why he won't date her. I also want to shout out the fact that we saw a little more about Soo Jin's homelife and it turns out she's living in one of those abusive homes where her dad will beat her for coming in second rather than first which is truly horrible. I know that she's the second female lead in this show and clearly has a crush on Su Ho but I kinda hope she ends up with someone cause she deserves to be happy. In other news Jun Woo and Hee Gyung are the cutest cause they basically switched the male/female gender roles and I adore it.

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FINISHED Fate (40/40): Five years ago, Xia Ran Ran was an ugly duckling futilely tailing behind Lin Xiang An whereas Su Mo was the white lotus on Lin Xiang An's heart. Five years gone, Xia Ran Ran became Shao Ming Zhe's fiancée in name, but Su Mo is the ex-girlfriend he keeps in his heart. Xia Ran Ran never expect to meet Lin Xiang An again. Time has passed, yet her memory still seems to be rooted in the past. Can she wipe him away from the bottom of her heart? Her relationship with Shao Ming Zhe is due to the alliance between their families. They've always accompanied each other, but they've never loved each other. Will his gentleness and love be a drug she cannot quit? Love is like poppy, breathtakingly beautiful yet fatal. Chen Luo is her father's right-hand man; he's tried to approach her, only for her to step away again and again. However, no matter how iron-hearted she is, will she be able to escape from the web of love he cast? Who will be the leading man in her life and her partner in this unending romance play?

So the finale for this drama aired this week and it was pretty solid in terms of how it gelled with the rest of the show. Like I said last week I was a little disappointed in the second half cause the writing was a complete mess which was just unfortunate cause of how strongly it started. Of course the only reason I even bothered to stick around is due to the chemistry between the leads cause even when I was rolling my eyes or screaming at the screen about plot point A or storyline B, whenever the leads were together, I smiled in contentment. These final chunk of episodes were high key the worst of the whole bunch. Ranran in her infinite wisdom decided to once again attack before thinking and so she basically outed her mom and Mingzhe's dad as lovers during her engagement ceremony and Mingzhe's mom overheard which made her decide that Ranran was no longer fit to marry Mingzhe. His grandfather then found out about Peng Ning and Kai so he also decided that Ranran was no longer an option for Mingzhe. Meanwhile Mingzhe was trying his damn best to keep Ranran by his side but eventually she did the noble sacrifice thing and broke up with him only for the two to end up getting married in England where they first met which was romantic and everything only all I could think about was what about their families and the mess they had back home?? I mean I've always been of the mind that they should just cut anchor and run but that's not what they wanted so.... Also I'm skipping over all the Su Mo stuff cause she was in the this show too much and I really didn't care for her redemption either. Like gag me with a spoon. I do think the second half and this finale really soured me on the rest of this show so I would have to give it a 5 / 10.

JDRAMA

Neechan no Koibito (8/9): When Momoko Adachi was in high school, her parents died in an accident. She was left with her 3 younger siblings. To support her family, Momoko Adachi gave up on going to a university and picked up a job at a hardware store. 9 years later, she is now 27-years-old. Her 3 younger siblings are 20, 17, and 14-years-old. Momoko Adachi places her sibling's happiness before anything else. One day, she meets Yoshioka-san at work. She is attracted to Yoshioka-san, who smiles all the time, but he has a secret.

I absolutely adore our leads together! They're the cutest little beans and I love how emotionally mature they are on top of everything. When Manato ran into his ex, I was expecting a bit more drama but he's honestly such a good person that he pretty much has been able to forgive when I think that I might end up having hated her for ruining my life. Momoki was with them the whole time and I was actually really surprised that she also didn't say anything even though she knew what a toll Manato's life has placed on him and even though she say the way he was wringing his hands in anxiety. I was glad though that she didn't end up seeming jealous or accusing him of overhyping their relationship to make his ex feel bad and that she just teased him for his ex being pretty as if she was like I see your type boy cause it calmed him down. The ending broke my heart a little cause it paralleled what happened to Manato back then but unlike his ex, Momoki stayed by his side and Manato rather than beating the thugs just protected his girl like the sweetheart he is. I wonder if they'll go to Manato's parole officer and tell him about it so they can catch those thugs or if they'll really just pretend nothing happened. 

Shanai Marriage Honey (4/7): A young couple got married almost immediately after meeting each other through a dating app and did not realized that they were working for the same company. They decided to keep their marriage a secret from their company and friends. At first, both parties thought it's okay to get married without love but they gradually got attracted to each other.

Ah okay so it looks like everything I was worried about last week isn't true! Miura isn't hiding some big secret and it doesn't look like he was interested in Ami before they got married though I think that it's possible that this little nugget is being saved for later. Ami was struggling this week cause she felt like Miura was keeping secrets and I was honestly so proud of her for going straight to him and asking rather than doing the passive aggressive thing and looking for the answer on her own by talking to his friends and everything. Speaking of friends I actually was surprised that the friend that Ami met in the last episode really was close with Miura cause I expected something more sinister. Honestly it's probs just cause this show doesn't have enough time to spend on something like that since we've only got 3 episodes left. I do wonder if Ami will end up meeting Miura's mom soon and I still wish that the show would have told me what's the deal with Ami's parents. On a more sexier note, I still think the chemistry between our leads is fire and I will forever be amused at how Itagaki Mizuki is one of the most mature looking jdrama leads. He's only 20 and yet he looks like he's in his late 20s and he's buff as hell rather than the usual skinny toothpick male leads that jdramas prefer!

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Wacko At Law (4/15): Mai Daqi is a genius in the legal profession, but because of his dissatisfaction with the profitism of the law firm, he shelved his lawyer's license. It wasn't until an air crash that suddenly took the lives of his parents and his fiancee four years ago. In order to get justice for his family, Daqi regained his legal profession and overthrew American Airlines' first-class lawyers.

We wrapped up the Wan Ting case this week and it was pretty interesting though not as exciting as a lot of cases I've seen in kdramas and like maybe that makes it more accurate to life but honestly of all the things to keep real to life this is where the show draws the line?? So as it turns out the CEO of the entertainment company that Wan Ting was suing was actually a victim herself and instead of standing up for herself back then she decided to take the bribe and become the CEO instead. It was also nice that the third place winner who we thought was on the CEO's side actually ended up playing the CEO in order to get evidence and it was all in line with Daqi. As I mentioned last week Daqi's arrogance is a touch irritating and I seriously wish that if this show was planning to set up a romance it would be with Xiao Ke cause he's more interesting! I'm already not liking the hints towards a love triangle between Wan Ting, Yu Xin, and Daqi (a triangle in which he probs won't be all that interested cause he's still in love with his ex) since Wan Ting and Yu Xin being sisters is the cutest part of this show! We also set up the scenario for our next case and it involves Xiao Ke. One of his biker friends who we met earlier is being looked at as a suspect for the murder of his father and the fact that we're going to be taking on this case definitely makes me feel that Xiao You will be innocent though I'm not sure who the opponent will be cause it doesn't look he was set up or framed. Maybe the sister did it and her boyfriend was there and that's why they basically pointed out Xiao You?  

xoxo Allie