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

Doom At Your Service (12/16): Tak Dong Kyung has been working hard ever since her parents passed away. Her life seemed more stable after working as an web novel editor for 6 years, but then she gets diagnosed with a brain cancer. She blames her unlucky life and wishes to curse everything to disappear, which unintentionally calls Myeol Mang, a messenger between humans and gods, to appear. He says that he can grant her wishes. As her last hope, she makes a contract with Myeol Mang for a hundred days to live how she wants, risking her everything.

Somehow I did not expect amnesia to hit in this story when I should have given that we were warned a while ago that the Deity might reset Myeol Mang but I was honestly more surprised to find out that it was Dong Kyung though it was exactly in her character to do so in order to make everyone else feel better. Her family were upset that she wouldn't get treated in the hospital and Myeol Mang was saddened with the thought of losing her so she decided that it was better for them to not have met. Unfortunately for her the two of them meeting and falling in love was part of the same fate that decided that she had to die so even after the amnesia the two met and were charmed enough by each other. I do have to say though for once a storyline like this didn't drive me crazy and I think it's cause like I said last week there's really no story in this show so the fact that something actually happened was refreshing. Meanwhile I have officially decided that Joo Ik is the one that Ji Na will end up with cause it's clear that Hyun Ku and her have nothing between them anymore other than nostalgia which is interesting cause I don't ship her with either guy since they're both shades of terrible but my heart breaks for Kang Tae Oh. 

Imitation (7/12): Lee Ma Ha is a member of the new K-pop girl group Tea Party, formed by Ji Hak, who was once the manager of the famous boy group Shax, but resigned after the sudden disappearance of member Eun Jo in the middle of a concert. Prior to joining Tea Party, Ma Ha was a member of the group Omega III, which disbanded on its debut day due to a tragic incident involving a former trainee at the group's company. This led Ma Ha to support herself by performing as an impersonator of the popular solo singer La Li Ma, gaining her public notoriety. Starting anew with Tea Party, Ma Ha finds herself repeatedly crossing paths with Kwon Ryok, the center and most popular member of Shax who is still haunted by Eun Jo's disappearance three years later. While Ryok initially dislikes Ma Ha due to her imitation of Li Ma, the two eventually begin to grow interested in one another and start a secret relationship that could put both of their careers in jeopardy. Meanwhile, Lee Yu Jin, Ma Ha's loyal friend who is the center of the rising boy group Sparkling, has been in love with Ma Ha since their idol trainee days. When he notices the budding relationship between Ma Ha and Ryok, he determines to protect her from Ryok and lead Sparkling to beat out Shax as the most popular boy group in the industry.

Ahh there's nothing better in a rom com than an accident to get our leads to confess their feelings for one another! What interests me is the fact that Ma Ha can't get within three feet of Ryok but Li Ma can go around trying to give him lap dances or visit him in the hospital and that's all fine and dandy with the FINS. Is it that they don't like Ma Ha for being a nobody rather than the fact that they just don't want their idols dating? Also seriously why do Ryok and Ma Ha need to go out out in order to date? Couldn't they just hang out inside somewhere that would be normal to see them in? I do think it's kinda early in the show for them to have been caught by the paparazzi though I wonder if it's actually one of CEO Park's men who's following Ryok. Ji Hak's reaction to the two of them was about what I expected and so were the other Tea Party girls who have continued to disappoint me with how they don't care about Ma Ha's feelings at all whereas the SHAX boys that know are adorably precious. It's also super cute that one of the other SHAX boys have a crush on Ri Ah and she's constantly and clearly shutting him down.

Mad For Each Other (12/13): About two people with their own painful stories who go through a complicated process of hurting and healing while falling in love with each other. No Hwi Oh is a detective in the violent crimes division of the Gangnam Police Station. He thinks that he is doing well until his life suddenly takes a turn and he becomes a “crazy” person who can’t hold in his anger about anything. Lee Min Kyung is a woman who is caught up in her own delusions and compulsions. She had lived an ordinary life as a pretty woman with a respectable job until “that incident” that caused everything in her life to break down. As a result, she was unable to trust anyone and is caught in a prison of her own making. Her delusions also have the unfortunate side effect of making everyone else around her angry.

It doesn't feel like there's only one episode left of this show cause I feel like there's so much still to wrap up! We really went from Min Kyung and Hwi Oh officially dating to them breaking up in the course of this week and it's completely understandable why Min Kyung made that decision. I mean yes Hwi Oh has been mad around her before but this time was different especially since her abusive ex was there. She probs was terrified and still tried to help and yet fell on her ass all the same. The saddest thing is that before this I wanted to praise Hwi Oh for how soft he is around her like when she was freaking out over Howi's accident and he squatted down and gently asked her to open the door and asked her what was wrong. I do think he should have checked the CCTV right then when they talked about it cause even if she was wrong and it was all in her head, it would have helped her to realize it right away but instead it was the first of many fights. Having said all that I do want to highlight how amazing it was when they did get together at the top of the week from her calling him cause she misses him to them sleeping together which I was high key squealing about! I even liked the return of the ex even if it led to problems and I'm left really curious to see how they'll get back together again. 

My Roommate Is A Gumiho (8/16): Shin Woo Yeo is a handsome and smart professor. He is also a 999-year-old nine-tailed fox. To become a human, he collects human energy in a bead. Soon, he is set to become a human. Meanwhile, Lee Dam is a university student. One day, her drunk friend falls asleep on top of an expensive car. She apologizes to Shin Woo Yeo, who is the car owner. While Lee Dam struggles to take her friend away, Shin Woo Yeo gives her a hand. An accident happens that changes their fate. Shin Woo Yeo's bead falls out of his mouth, and Lee Dam unintentionally swallows it. The bead can exist inside of a human for no more than 1 year and, afterwards, the bead will break inside of that person. This will cause Lee Dam to die, and Shin Woo Yeo will lose his chance to become a human. Shin Woo Yeo explains to Lee Dam their predicament and suggests that they should live together until they figure out a solution. Lee Dam, who has never had a boyfriend in her life, now lives with Shin Woo Yeo.

We're halfway through this show now and this week was strange cause hit the amnesia part of the story except Dam actually didn't lose her memories so both she and Woo Yeo are pretending like they don't know each other and it's low key hilarious. As it also turned out Woo Yeo's first love did appear again but unlike what I thought would be used to make him choose between his first and second love, the girl who looked like his first love was actually just an evil spirit who was pretending to be his first love in order to steal his Marble away. We're back to not having a real villain to fight cause Woo Yeo actually defeated it super fast though it left us with a conundrum and showed us that if he doesn't hurry up and become human this year then he'll also turn into an evil spirit. I wonder if he'll end up putting it back in Dam cause he does need to collect more energy and it feels like he shouldn't be too far from it in order to protect it and the host but since this is a romance then there's no way that he can not be next to Dam. In other news the second leads are getting cuter and cuter every week and I can't wait to see who falls first though I have a feeling it'll be Hye Sun cause I want to see her chase the poor boy around and see how fast he falls.

So I Married An Anti-Fan (14/16): Hoo Joon is a top star while Geun Young is a magazine reporter. For a potential news article, Geun Young decides to attend an opening ceremony for a club. There, she witnesses top star Hoo Joon's violent behavior and she also vomits on him by accident. This leads to Geun Young losing her job. Believing that Hoo Joon was behind her firing, she decides to get him back by demonstrating in front of Hoo Joons management office. Slowly, she begins to receive media coverage on her demonstration and soon becomes famous as an anti-fan. A PD approaches Geun Young about participating in a reality TV show which revolves around the idea of a top star and their anti-fan living together. Being unemployed, she decides to accept the offer. Meanwhile, Hoo Joon is offered the same reality TV show and accepts to try to improve his image. Hoo Joon and Geun Young try to give each other a hard time on the reality show, but soon start to fall for one another.

Can you believe we're one week away from the finale for this show?? It's actually crazy cause I started out not really liking this show but needing a rom com to fill the emptiness of my kdrama rom com slot and ended up really falling in love with our main couple. Once Hoo Joon stopped being an asshole for no reason he became someone I could understand that Geun Young liked rather than being like what does she see in this asshole?? Shit hit the fan this week in terms of every lie that had been building from Geun Young's file on Hoo Joon's two-facedness being exposed to Superpatch really being such a disgusting company to Hoo Joon finding out about Bae's horribleness to JJ and Hoo Joon kinda reconciled even though I didn't particularly enjoy that given that the show wants to give JJ a redemption arc when I still despise him. I was glad that Hoo Joon's lies were exposed by Bae though cause it gave him the reason to finally leave the company and not fear the lies anymore. Bae had really no right to dictate Hoo Joon's love life either and I really liked that Geun Young despite worrying didn't actually do the noble idiot thing and break up with Hoo Joon "for his own good" though it was funny that literally no one in that giant filming crew saw Hoo Joon and Geun Young make out on that beach. I'm assuming that next week the fact that Hoo Joon's birth father is an entertainment lawyer means that he'll be able to help Hoo Joon with Bae and Hoo Joon will probs join JJ's company and I'm hoping that he and Geun Young can live happily ever after!!

CDRAMA

DROPPED New Horizon (30/47): It is about young people who dream of taking flight in the blue skies and the tests that they encounter when in comes to friendship, romance and career. Xiao Mo is a talented pilot who experiences a blow to his career when a person dies on his watch because of an accident. The person is the mother of Xia Yu who is the successor of an aviation empire. Even though subsequent investigations cleared Xiao Mo of any fault, he resigns from his job due to guilt and chooses to become a mechanic instead. Two years later, Xiao Mo returns to flying and also encounters Xia Yu who's studying to become a pilot as well. The two men find themselves falling for the same woman. To complicate matters, details from two years ago resurface causing the people to suspect Xiao Mo once again.

I am deciding to drop this drama cause I really can't deal with Wu Di anymore. Like I get the idea of the woman needing her man to treat her like a queen but seriously she's starting to get excessive. She knows the kind of man she's dating and yet she complains that he's not romantic enough or doesn't sweet-talk her enough. I hated how jealous she got over that photographer cause like she knows he's not a playboy and like he said once he likes someone he only likes that person but Wu Di went around acting like the fact the two of them speak to each other is like he slept with this girl. I also really don't understand what their fight is about now. Like I get the idea that he doesn't say what he does or doesn't like but if you tell him not to accomodate you then that should be that! Wu Di meanwhile is throwing tantrums left and right and I swear if I have to look at her pouting face one more time I might drop this drama. I hate that the show is trying to convince you that it's all his fault and maybe it's a me problem and maybe I'm a robot too but I really don't understand. All that aside I found myself enjoying the third couple in this show the most this week with Yu Jie and Luo Dong though I also liked Xia Yu and Wu Di's roommate a lot too.

xoxo Allie