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Category Archives: Korean Reviews
“Thundercloud Rainstorm” First Impressions (Ep.1 & 2)
Power. Obsession. Possession. Need. Jealousy. Emotions we’re taught to fear, avoid, or rise above, and yet they’re also the ones that reveal how fiercely we long to hold onto the people who matter. And in Thundercloud Rainstorm, those emotions don’t hide in the shadows, they take center stage.
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“My Secret Vampire” Series Review (Ep.1 to 8)
Light-hearted Show about a Chaotic Vampire family and a Human!!!
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“Peach Trap” First Impressions (Ep.1 & 2)
Forget love triangles. What happens when you’re obliviously stuck between three men all vying for your attention?
“Sweetheart Service” Series Review (Ep.1 to 12)
Yu Ha, a job seeker who must do whatever it takes to stand on his own without help from his family, and Min U, a developer desperate to escape the pressure to marry. An unexpected “fake dating contract” ties them together. Though it starts as just a deal, real feelings slowly begin to grow between them.
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“The Nameless Season” Series Review (Ep.1 to 6)
This is a sweet journey if you are drawn to sweet genteel cliché friends-to-lovers romance narratives. All the characters are sweet. The story is sweet. The outcome is sweet. But be forewarned. You might slip into a diabetic coma from watching this rather short series because of all the sweetness that is pumped into your blood from this saccharin novella. However, I cannot say that it is not curiously entertaining, for it is. Mainly because of the symmetry between the actors. While there is nothing in this series you have not seen in other similar versions before, perhaps done much better and deeper than here, there is still enough hitherto to grab your attention.
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“My Bias is Showing” Series Review (Ep.3 to 10)
Life is an interesting mix of feelings and misunderstandings, each of which tend to face off with each other most when we’re in love. That’s exactly what My Bias is Showing captures at its core, a lighthearted, heartfelt story that manages to be both charming and surprisingly relatable.
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“The Killer Next Door” Series Review (Ep.1 to 60)
Yet again, this is another example of a potentially good BL series that went awry. There is a lot of good acting in this series. The issue is, it was wasted in a noxious story. I want to cry over the content (or lack thereof) that is being used to construct BL stories. While I know there ought to be no topics off limits, I do wish more positive representations of ‘Boys Love’ could be portrayed. Or at least ones that are not always so pessimistic in nature and content and/or surrounded by such ugly and negative dimensions. Generally speaking, Korean BL tend to be dark and broody; this one was exceptionally morose and despairing, sprinkled with a mixture of odd personas that sometimes worked. And sometimes not.
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“Friendly Rivalry” Series Review (Ep.1 to 16)
“Friendly Rivalry” is friendly enough until it turns into a tell-tale of drug abuse, murder mystery and ricocheting teenagers going berserk!
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“My Bias is Showing” First Impressions (Ep.1 & 2)
We all have something we look forward to, something that helps motivate us through our days. Whether it’s a person, a place, or a thing, it keeps us grounded even when we don’t feel grounded at all.
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