Finished #CrashCourseInRomance and that was cute. Been watching a lot of heavier stuff lately so a nice, sweet romance was a good fit. Now I'm eyeing #WhenTheStarsGossip as my next watch on my own. #KDrama

@KoreanPassion

I love a "slice of life" drama but ugh, the ending to #SomethingInTheRain" was awful. I preferred the writer's #OneSpringNight, again with #JungHaeIn as the male lead.

Suggestions, not knowing what you have seen or can view but based on your listed likes:

#CrashCourseInRomance
#HospitalPlaylist
#WhenTheCamelliaBlooms #ItsOkayToNotBeOkay
2 oldies but a goodies are #FatedToLoveYou and #ItsOkayThatsLove

#AlchemyOfSouls (I prefer season 1)

#LawlessLawyer
#Monster

#MyCountryNewAge
#MoonLoversScarletHeartRyeo

5/? #kDrama #valentines
#CrashCourseInRomance

4/? #kDrama #valentines
#CrashCourseInRomance

@MisuseCase yesssssss I love this show ( #LikeFlowersInSand ) so much! It is quiet and not a lot happens but a lot happens at the same time? Baekdu is my favorite himbo since the hockey player in #CrashCourseInRomance.
#kdrama

#endofyearchallenge #kdrama

Day 31: Fave drama of 2023.

Hands down, #CrashCourseInRomance

#endofyearchallenge #kdrama

Day 30: Was 2023 a good drama year?

Again I can only base my answer on which 2023 dramas I have been able to stream and on which platforms. My platforms are primarily NFx, PRIME (yes IK, Bezos) and occasionally VIKI and Disney+.

With that in mind, to me 2023 was an average year. Only one or two and at a push three dramas stand out in my mind as having really delighted me and kept me transfixed and fully entertained.

#CrashCourseInRomance
#TheGlory part 2
#KingTheLand

#endofyearchallenge #kdrama

Day 28: Theme or premise I would like to see more of in a drama

Relationships between persons in an older demographic, like #CrashCourseInRomance. #DearMyFriends from the writer behind #OurBlues looked at couples and friends in their 70s and up apart from 1 couple.

Also single parents who are men and also including more than just tiny inferences about the LGBTQ community

#endofyearchallenge #kdrama

Day 25: Favourite Romance

Hands down, #CrashCourseInRomance

#endofyearchallenge #kdrama

Day 19: Laughable moment

This will require some thinking but off the top of my head, #CrashCourseInRomance gave me quite a few chuckles.

#endofyearchallenge #kdrama

Day 18: Favourite Scene

I have 2 tied for first place:

1. #CrashCourseInRomance
The hallway scene in episode 12. ML treats FLs injured hand then asks her to spend the night at his place. It's kind of tentative, awkward and kind of sweet. Yeah, I am a hopeless romantic 😍

2. #UnderTheQueensUmbrella
Episode 3, the painting scenes at the end of the episode.

Set up: Queen discovers her son's secret room filled with female attire and makeup. The Queen burns it to the ground to keep him safe. He is heartbroken.

In the painting scenes, the Queen has given women's attire to the prince and arranged for them to have their portrait painted not as a prince but as a princess, their true self. They know that they are loved and accepted. The Queen gives the prince the hairpin meant for a daughter. As the pair walk back to the palace in the rain, they are at first seen as a woman and a man under an umbrella. As the scene ends, the pair becomes two women.

#endofyearchallenge #kdrama

Day 17: Favourite actor

Of 2023 dramas, I am giving a huge thumbs up to #JungKyungHo in #CrashCourseInRomance. In the drama he was an asshat, a bumbling idiot, a know-it-all, a romantic sap and a knight in shining armour. 👏

Overall and in order, faves are:
#JangHyuk who I have yet to see in 2023s #FamilyTheUnbreakableBond but I would watch him watching paint dry.
#ParkHaeJin. 2023's #KillingVote was not his best work but I am shallow and he is pretty to look at. 😉
#SeoInGuk
#HyunBin
#KimSooHyun
#LeeDongWook
#ParkSeoJoon

End of the Year Drama Challenge
Day 16: best actress of 2023

Jeon Do Yeon 전도연

Her two roles this past year that cinches the deal for her are:

• The movie #KillBokSoon where she plays an elite assassin by day and mom to a teenage daughter by night. She is a hot, lethal noonim and also has to reconcile the ethics of her lifestyle with her rebellious teen daughter. The action sequences in this!
• The #kdrama #CrashCourseInRomance where she is a hot noona who runs a lunch shop while also supporting extended family members, and winning the heart of a handsome younger celebrity.

The two roles are so different yet similar. She's got RANGE.
#EYDC2023 #EndOfYearDramaChallenge

#EndOfYearDramaChallenge2023 Day 6
#EOYDC2023
#KDrama KDramas
Dramas I dropped in 2023. Limiting it to only 2023 Dramas there were 3
#JoseonAttorney
#TheRealHasCome
#CrashCourseInRomance

A reminder to other #KDrama #CDrama and #JDrama watchers here on Mastodon:

To aid in accessibility, it is a big help for screen readers if hashtags use capital letters at the start of each word, as all the hashtags in this post do. Apparently it helps A LOT for those who depend on screen readers

Watching Crash Course in Romance and wondering why Choi Chi-yeol's Ioniq 6 *electric* car keeps making engine noises. And tires squeel when stopping from speeds like 10km/h

#KDrama #CrashCourseInRomance

Well, late last night M and I wrapped up #CrashCourseInRomance, and I thought I'd want to spend a couple days coming down from that particular finished-a-kdrama type of high before diving into something new.

Then a friend came into my DMs just this morning and said, "I just finished Weak Hero Class One! Have you heard of it? It was sooo good" and OBVIOUSLY we had to dive straight in the second we learned it stars Jihoon of #WannaOne :blobcataww:

Now we're down 4 episodes with only 4 left to go, and I don't know how to handle myself!! It's almost too intense for me. Someone just needs to give all these kids a hug.

#kdrama #WeakHeroClassOne

@MisuseCase

I have seen all 3 of the recent #kdramas where there is a character whose behaviour appears somewhere on the austism spectrum. *Apologies to anyone if my terminology is incorrect.

IK from reading a translated article that Oh Jung-Se, who played Sang Tae in #It'sOkayToNotBeOkay, spent some time observing and interacting with people with #autism before the filming of the drama. He wanted to be as natural as possible.

There are of course varying degrees of autism so I don't really think 1 portrayal is better than another. And each of the dramas has the character serving a particular purpose. IOTNBO was the first recent drama to feature a character with autism. Other dramas quickly followed. Of the 3 aforementioned dramas, the brother in #ExtraordinaryAttorneyWoo is really a side character. IOTNBO and #CrashCourseInRomance both have the actors as main characters.

If I had to say it, then personally I liked Oh Jung-Se's portrayal the best. I cried and I cheered for that character as he grew to understand and be understood.

I recently finished #crashcourseinromance and I want to talk about Nam Jae-woo for a bit, in terms of how people with #autism #asd are represented in #kdramas (and maybe television generally, since #kdrama has an international reach these days).

Spoilers follow of course. /1