Long time not writing about K drama (Lies!). It seems my speed of watching K drama is faster than my speed of writing it. Ha ha ha... I'll try to catch up what I have left off. The big game changing from the last year is the foray of many big streaming and production companies into K drama like Netflix, Disney, and Apple. It really alters the K drama landscape. Some are good, some are not so. But always open for the changes because the only things that is constant is the change itself. To be constantly good, thing must constantly change. LOL
Dr. Brain
Country: South Korea
Released year: 2021
Episode: 6 episodes
Genre: Sci-fi, thriller
Rating: 3/5
Actors: Lee Sun-kyun, Lee Yoo Young, Park Hee Soon, Seo Ji Hye
sPlotlight:
I think it is one of the 1st attempt from Apple into K drama production (?) The drama itself looks slick, moody, with good cinematography. But.... the writing is not that good. I always think that sci-fi is not K drama's best forte. This is the example, it always almost, but never get there into one true sci-fi drama. This is the story about Lee Sun-kyun as scientist who tries looking into other people's memory especially dead ones or other things because he also tries looking into animal's memory. Crazy, I mean are they sure animals looking things the same way as humans looking things? That's where the plot is falling apart. This drama is forgettable.
Grid
Country: South Korea
Released year: 2022
Episode: 10 episodes
Genre: Sci-fi, mystery
Rating: 3.5/5
Actors: Seo Kang-joon, Kim Ah-joong, Kim Mu-yeol, Lee Si-young
sPlotlight:
Finally, K drama that looks like a true sci-fi genre. I can't say it is good, it is not perfect with many plot holes. It is little bit confusing on the way the plot pan out, but at least it gets the basic right. Time doesn't flow, everybody! Get used to it. The old, the present, the future you exist at the same "time". You just change the coordinate. I still doesn't get what is the different with this block universe theory with the parallel universe theory. So the "present" things that Sae-ha (Seo Kang-joon) wants to change happens because the fact that the "present" Sae-ha travels travels into the "past" with all the considerations. He may/can change this in the "past" but what he does also may/can change other factors that makes the "present" things in the way it always is. Confuse yet? So I am. What I like from this drama is that it doesn't suddenly give the simples and stupidest resolution at the end or offer some K drama tropes. I think it will be a 2nd seasons.
Happiness
Country: South Korea
Released year: 2021
Episode: 12 episodes
Genre: Zombie thriller, romance, friend-to-lover
Rating: 4/5
Actors: Park Hyung-shik, Han Hyo-joo
sPlotlight:
This has the most kick-assed OTP that I have ever seen for a long time in K drama. I love their marriage for convenience. It seems so cool just like them. If I marry someone someday, convenience has to be the 1st priority (since I don't believe in love that much, r-u-n-a-w-a-y🏃). LOL. I think it is genius to merge the zombie flick and friend-to-lover romance plus forced cohabitation tropes. How this has never been thought before? Park Hyung-shik is one of the actors who master "the eye acting" (so believable) when he looks at his FLs in dramas but it just doesn't work at Soundtrack #1 with Han Soo-hee. Wonder why.
Soundtrack #1
Country: South Korea
Released year: 2022
Episode: 4 episodes
Genre: Romance, friend-to-lover
Rating: 3/5
Actors: Park Hyung-shik, Han Soo-hee
sPlotlight:
I think it is better if Disney released it sometime later, because Park Hyung-shik just came off from drama Happiness which although with different genre but has the same drama trope which is friend-to-lover. I am not ready to jump the ship which is a better ship. The OTP doesn't even look like they have been known for years when they are living together, so uncomfortable around each other. The dialog is nothing to write home about. Han Soo-hee looks like she is playing something that not her self. Bubbly, happy-go-lucky character sure doesn't suit her or she still has many things to improve in acting department, so young and pretty.
Country: South Korea
Released year: 2022
Episode: 4 episodes
Genre: Romance, friend-to-lover
Rating: 3/5
Actors: Park Hyung-shik, Han Soo-hee
sPlotlight:
I think it is better if Disney released it sometime later, because Park Hyung-shik just came off from drama Happiness which although with different genre but has the same drama trope which is friend-to-lover. I am not ready to jump the ship which is a better ship. The OTP doesn't even look like they have been known for years when they are living together, so uncomfortable around each other. The dialog is nothing to write home about. Han Soo-hee looks like she is playing something that not her self. Bubbly, happy-go-lucky character sure doesn't suit her or she still has many things to improve in acting department, so young and pretty.
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