Category: K-dramas
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Sold Out on You Eps 9-10 Review
‘Que Sera Sera’ At least they didn’t draw out the forced separation too long. Matthew and Ye-jin go their separate ways and spend some time moping through their daily routines before (in another fortuitous coincidence) they run into each other at a resort (Ye-jin scoping it out for work and…
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Sold Out on You Eps 7-8 Review
‘One Step Forward, Two Steps Back’ We’ve now reached that stage in most any romcom where that big relationship blocker, ‘miscommunication’, steps in and creates problems all around. The show pulls a bit of a fast one on the viewers, at first lulling us into thinking everything is going swimmingly…
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Sold Out on You Eps 4-6 Review
‘Lean on Me‘ Matthew certainly seems to have developed a bit of a saviour complex with regards to Ye-jin. Perhaps the pathos in her nighttime sleep-talking calls to her mother sparked a protective instinct in him. Especially after one such call clues him in that she’s potentially in some danger…
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Sold Out on You Eps 2-3 Review
‘If at First You Don’t Succeed…‘ I appreciate the pacing of this series so far. Only 3 episodes in and already I have answers to some of my questions, an emotional backstory with a few plot twists, and of course plenty of time with our lead pair. You have to…
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Teach You a Lesson Ep 2 – Gangs of Duun
‘The Wannabe Gangsters‘ If the previous episode dealt with a more intimate topic of extreme bullying, this one pivoted to a more macro issue of gang violence (broader in the sense of how it disrupts the entire school ecosystem vs. bullying where the majority of students can fly relatively under…
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Sold Out on You Ep 1 Review
‘Irritation at First Sight?‘ What do a home shopping network host and a mushroom farmer have in common? Not much at first glance. Or even second glance as the show impresses upon us as we get to meet our protagonists, Dam Ye-jin and Matthew Lee. Ye-jin is a highly successful…
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Teach You a Lesson Ep 1 – Bully for You
‘The Well-Connected Bully‘ Often when watching American high school dramas (especially the more edgy ones) I’ve questioned the extent to which the shows reflect what’s happening in real life and the extent to which it is sensationalised. When I heard the premise of ‘Teach You a Lesson’, about a government…
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Boyfriend on Demand Eps 9-10 – The Final Stretch
‘The Happy Ever After‘ Finally, Kyeong-min and Mi-rae get together and, after a last few minor bumps in the road, get their happy ending. Honestly, once Mi-rae had emotionally healed enough to be open to an actual relationship, the Boyfriend on Demand concept was pretty much worn out as a plot…
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Boyfriend on Demand Eps 6-8 – Running Scared
‘The Love Triangle‘ In the immortal words of Britney Spears ‘sometimes I run, sometimes I hide, sometimes I’m scared of you, but all I really want is to hold you tight…’. Which pretty perfectly describes Mi-rae’s state of mind at the moment. Seeing Kyoung-nam’s face on Yeong-il, her ‘perfect match’…
