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Unfortunately I am unable to post pictures at the moment. Not sure what’s going on with Substack. I had to rewrite the entire post because I lost the…
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Now that it’s all over I’m wondering why I even bothered persisting with this one. Even knowing how mediocre Part 1 was, I still made the effort to…
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If ever I need to be reminded of the grotesque evil that human beings are capable of, I can reassure myself that there will always be a K drama just…
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Who doesn’t love an underdog triumph over the odds story? I don’t know how this gem almost eluded me but a show that features men with beards squabbling…
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Sigh. I think it’s time that I bid K drama rom coms farewell. It used to be when I started with K dramas they were my immediate go-to genre but these…
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Chen Yuqi and Dylan Wang are delightful pairing as a imperial consort and eunuch respectively in this faux historical romantic comedy. It is a quirky…
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Drama Watch 3 March 2023: Taxi Driver S2 and other dramasListen now (29 min) | In conversation with absoluteM
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Drama Watch 3 March 2023: Crash Course in RomanceListen now (17 min) | This is Part 2 of a 3 part conversation between absoluteM and myself about recent K dramas. This segment mainly covers Crash…
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Drama Watch 3 March 2023: Strangers Again Listen now (27 min) | In conversation with absoluteM
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Drama Watch: Taxi Driver S2 Part 2Listen now (19 min) | Daughter Liz and I had a conversation yesterday about Episodes 3 and 4 broadcast last weekend. We start by giving a short synopsis…
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February 2023

There’s a great moment in Episode 14 (probably my favourite) where Chi-yeol confronts Dong-hui about the deception surrounding the maths camp. Dong-hui…
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I have a theory about this show. While I never thought that I was watching a garden variety rom com, I laboured under the belief that belying all the…
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