I'm very impressed with the #Filipino adaptation of #김비서가왜그럴까 / #WhatsWrongWithSecretaryKim. Modern production style, not the old Filipino style. No overused special effects. Fun comedy too!
Feedback 1: No reason to copy the Korean pinky swear. The thumb step is a Korean culture to seal agreements. But it's fine. A good nod to the original. ^_^
Feedback 2: Seatbelts, even for passengers on the back. Shows are a good opportunity to instil the importance of seatbelts in the people's mind.
I was surprised to see a real #Filipino actor (and kid) & a fluent translator in S01E15 of #DoctorSlump#닥터슬럼프. It's rare in #Kdrama, usually they use non-Filipino actors and make them memorise Tagalog sentences.
@youronlyone@kdrama@asiandrama@tv@kdrama I'm going to write a review later but the only issue with this #kdrama is that it's too fast-paced. I would have liked more scenes to better explain the plot.
They should have done 32 episodes to further develop the conspiracy.
Everything else is excellent and I agree with your review
If you look at it deeper, the fall of the #Khitan Empire / #Liao Dynasty was when #Goryeo won the #GoryeoKhitanWar#고려거란전쟁#遼麗戰爭. It showed to the world that a smaller country can force the tiger on its knees.
Once again, the 33-year-old superstar #KimTaeRi (#김태리) displayed her acting versatility in #Alienoid2 (#외계인2부). No matter what genre, role, or gap between her projects, her acting is diamond level!
The new #Kdrama entitled, #PyramidGame (#피라미드게임) is far too similar to what I designed in the early‒mid 90s. And yes, I used it in school, too (but for a different purpose).
But it was not her show and not her story. She's as good as a support role only, or for comedic purposes.
If you haven't watched this, you'll in for a serious #drama, bordering #melodrama. It was an adaptation of a Korean #manhwa by Cheon Kye Young (천계영).
Good story, good #TV series. The format and flow is just something I'm not used to: full on comedy, and halfway through, a sudden switch to melodrama and mystery. It was like they tried to mix various methods in storytelling and genres.
If you only want to watch because of IU, there are other better shows, like #HotelDelLuna (#호텔델루나) which was made for her. (With a bonus “fashion show” at that, rivalling #LucyLiu's fashion in #Elementary.)
A very good thing in watching #Tagalog dubbed period #Kdrama from #Viu#Philippines is their translations are not exaggerated. Period #Pdrama by local networks are often exaggerated, or use ancient words (or they invent new ones).
It is growing on me. Love the red/green theme going on. The leads are playing the duality of their roles amazingly. I love the side characters - although I don't feel we've had enough of their stories yet.
I am disappointed in the lack of soul switching problems. The scene in the grocery store was marvelous - we need more of that.
The kiss in 14 was great, but I kept thinking - they're kissing themselves?? I need more clarity about whether they've resigned themselves to adapting to the new bodies or what.
@ronsboy67 Oh yeah, the dailies are still long, and in the family genre usually.
Hmm… maybe it's more of the type of story or genre? Like in the family genre, it's mainly light and comedic, for the general audience. And they rarely need a big budget, they can even film it at the studio.
But, yes, it's better to have 12-episode today, especially with many of the recent 16s are starting to have fillers, not like in the early days when it was packed.
6-8 are still, I don't know, too short. Even those Western shows with 6-8 were just too short. I think 6-8 works if they wrote it like it was a “movie”, like the #Kdrama “Anna”.
@youronlyone
Page Turner was not a Web #Kdrama it was a KBS production, possibly from a screenwriting contest, I think?
Check Out The Event may have been a web Drama as MDL lists both iQiyi and MBC as the networks responsible. Neither Drama was a compilation of shrot web episodes though
@KDramaQn@youronlyone There are A LOT of recent shorter #KDrama series that are clearly built around at least the possibility of a 2nd season, and I tend to shun those as I INTENSELY dislike that element of "Westernisation".
But having drifted toward #JDrama (where 12 is LONG) in large part because of all the saggy bloated filler in >=16 ep KDramas, I love the nice tight feel of those #KDramas that are written short and complete. "One Day Off" is a beautiful example
None of those series appealed to me, and am suprised by your praise for the IRIS sequel. In the 11 years I've been watching #KDrama, that one has been universally lambasted as an absolute turkry. You're literally the first I've ever heard praise it.
I HATED the 1st Strong Woman for its brazen misogyny, so was never going to watch a 2nd season. The ONLY #KDrama I've wtached with more than 1 season was Forest of Secrets - which, to be fair I scores S2 higher than S1
@ronsboy67 Interesting. The IRIS franchise, especially the spin-off Athena, was well received here. In my case, it's actually the first time I've heard someone who did not like it. I guess that points to cultural differences and genre preferences. Was it perfect? Of course not.
As for Strong Woman, was it not the point of the writer to expose it without getting a negative reaction from their own culture? If one's culture (in this case, the writer's) still have prejudices against this and that, fiction is often the best way to express it and to expose it. Fiction has been used that way for centuries.
Many #Kdrama I've seen for the past 7 years touched on sensitive issues common in South Korea that either no one is talking about or you'll get cancelled for raising it up (for example, toxic feminism). So, fiction became a medium. It's there, and hopefully people in Korea noticed it at least (because foreign fans typically missed it and instead are drooling for their favourite actors).
This is what I like with K-drama, and #Jdrama for that matter, there are social issues embedded in their stories. This has been forgotten, in general, in Western entertainment. In the West, it's about how much money they'll earn; to the point that they'll pretend they agree with “movements” just so members of those “movements” will watch their shows. This is why I like “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds”, because of all the “nuTrek”, SNW is the only one that went back to its roots (but it does not mean I don't like the other ”nuTrek” series).
Going back to Korea, it was actually amazing that productions like “Extraordinary Attorney Woo” and “Innocent Witness” were green lit, as well as, “The Devil Judge” and “The Killing Vote”. These shows directly addressed social (and political) issues. If I take a guess, they got green lit because those issues (prejudice against #Autistics; and corrupt politicians) apply not just in South Korea, but everywhere else; otherwise, they more likely have to do embed it, or just mention in passing.
In any case, maybe it is just me. When I watch, I try to unlock the mind and goal of the writer, and understand the story from their perspective. What made prompted them to write it this way? What drove the director to express an act in a particular way?
For example, the K-drama “Please Don't Date Him”, and another one I can't recall right now, got so much negative reaction from foreign audiences. Some even had the audacity to make statements like “it doesn't happen in real life” or “the writer should quit, they don't know how to write a good story”. But, when I explained it to them, they changed their mind.
It's the same with “Grid”, “Alice”, and “Sisyphus: The Myth”. The writers got reactions like “the writer is dumb”; “that's now how time travel works”; “they should stop writing, they suck”. Likewise, after explaining it to them, they understood the story and what the writer had in mind.
So, I guess, it is just me seeing things differently in these stories. Maybe because I see these as a form of #Art. If it is an art, then we have to view it and understand it from the creator's perspective.
I need a #kdrama or #cdrama recommendation where the romance has a happy ending, please? I cannot afford to have my heart shredded by fiction currently.
And my brain doesn’t seem to be able to deal with words currently so I’m not reading.
People complain a lot when #Kdrama pairs an older person (be it a man or a woman) with a younger person, with a 5-year gap. But the same people celebrated when Anakin Skywalker fell in love, and later married, Padmé Amidala (who was older than him). 🤷🏽