Contains spoilers for the Korean drama series “Tomorrow”. Content / Trigger Warning: Suicide Fantasy K-drama Tomorrow is probably the last thing I would have consumed for comfort. I’d been re-watching and rereading the Spy x Family anime and manga to the ground in the worst days of my sickness and isolation. I guess one day I thought, “hmm, how about pain?” Tomorrow’s premise is the main content and trigger warning. It follows a small team of grim reapers tasked not to collect souls but to save lives. Called Risk Management (RM), team leader Koo Ryeon (Kim Heesun) and assistant manager Lim…
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Drama Review
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It’s been 50 days since the finale of The King: Eternal Monarch and I am still here going back and forth the portal to the Kingdom of Corea. Usually 2 weeks of K-drama hangover is enough (or even too much) but this is TKEM, the drama that loved me back and helped me through pandemic anxiety. In this essay (lol) I try to process why I still live here. [Obviously spoilers everywhere. This is your first and only warning. Ok go] Reconciling with Lee Minho. I came here because of Kim Goeun whom I loved since Goblin. When casting…
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Last night I knowingly made the mistake of watching Episode 14 of webtoon-based Kdrama Cheese in the Trap. I expected it to be a mistake because given how compelling the drama is and how in love with it I already am, starting Episode 14 would mean binge watching all through the Episode 16 finale. My expected aftermath was a sleepless night and a heart full of kilig and sepanx. I had a sleepless night sure, and sepanx in spades, but the swirling vat of kilig and delicious complex emotions I’ve accumulated for this drama were overridden by a high wave…
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It took me half a year to finally decide to catch the Heirs. For one, I thought patronizing Lee Minho was too mainstream (Bench‘s fault, haha) and although I love Park Shinhye, it’s just really difficult to get over You Who Came from the Stars. So I put on the Heirs DVD without much excitement.
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So an alien-earthling love story is not exactly the most original plot line in the cosmos. SBS’s latest outing You Who Came From the Stars (별에서 온 그대) tread the same pseudo-scifi/romcom path as Secret Garden, and as both dramas proved, such a plotline provided a solid backbone for a hit series.
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I don’t remember crying so much over someone I only felt I knew but never really did. This week, Glee finally put out its much awaited and similarly dreaded tribute episode for the late Cory Monteith. It was honestly one of the hardest 44 minutes of television that I had to go through, and I am a known crier for all sob stories. Cory’s passing is one big Hollywood spectacle. But despite his tragic and sudden loss, a lot of hecklers wondered out loud, why the big deal? Why the tribute at the Emmy‘s and now for an entire episode…