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Drama Watch 25 September 2023
Listen now (98 mins) | 0:00 Greetings and a lament (again!) about the numerous dramas on offer. 6:47 absoluteM talks about The Kidnapping Day currently…
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My Week in Dramas 21 September 2023
It’s taken us a while but we finally sat down to the first two episodes of D.P. Season 2. D.P. is not everyone’s cup of tea but the series is…
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My Week in Dramas 12 September 2023
My recent output on this blog corresponds with the fact that I’ve been taking a break from life nursing a rather bad cold. So I made good use of my…
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Someday or One Day (2019) Not Really a Review
Grief is a strange thing. It’s a shared human experience and yet when a person is in that state of mind, he/she is somehow convinced that they are all…
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One Piece (2023) First Impressions
The track record of popular anime/manga series being adapted into live action film and tv shows is a checkered one at best. The odds are that of a…
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Fake It Till You Make It (2023) A Recommendation
Can anything good come out of MangoTV? Occasionally perhaps and this gem seems to be one of them. I don’t think it is hyperbolic to say that this is…
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My Dearest (2023) Episodes 5 and 6
The thing that strikes one immediately is how grossly incompetent the existing administration is. All that book learning seems to have bred nothing but…
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August 2023
My Dearest (2023) First Impressions
Episodes 1-5
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Drama Watch 25 August 2023
Listen now (76 mins) | In conversation with absoluteM
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Lost You Forever (2023) The Problem with Reverse Harems
I’ve been told that I need to read the novel. I’ve never been told that before in all my eight years of watching C dramas. The recommendation comes not…
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My Week in Dramas and Films 22 Aug 2023
Lost You Forever, Talk To Me, Miraculous Brothers, The Ingenious One
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Not Others (2023) Episodes 9 and 10
Beware of spoilers for Episodes 9 and 10. So how do we solve a problem like Eun-mi? Dealt a poor hand at the start of the game. Not much of an…
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