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Why We Tell Stories Part 6: The Contract Marriage -- Love Comes Later
Last weekend I caught a douyin drama that could be categorized as a workplace affair among other things. The male lead (Wang Chenpeng) is a commercial…
Mar 15
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Drama Watch March 2024
Amidst a Snowstorm of Love, Scent of Time, A Shop for Killers, The Killer Paradox, Dr Slump, The Impossible Heir
Mar 11
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Why We Tell Stories Part 5: Taming the Tyrant
Douyin dramas are notorious for proliferating the domineering/overbearing CEO 霸道总裁 trope and the first thing one concludes after weeks of watching is…
Mar 4
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February 2024
Why We Tell Stories Part 4: The Art of Forgetting and Remembering
Last night, a seemingly typical 5 years later, multiple births story caught my eye. A young mother of quadruplets … now the head of a powerful…
Feb 23
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Why We Tell Stories Part 3: Welcome to Samdal-ri (2024) Final Comments
It’s been a good six months for Ji Chang-wook and honestly this has been a long time coming. Obviously it’s hard for any actor to know how a project…
Feb 18
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Drama Watch 9 February 2023
Welcome to Samdal-ri, Death's Game, Shop's Killer, Song of the Bandits
Feb 13
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Why We Tell Stories Part 2: Short C Dramas Taster
Far be it for me to be promoting Douyin shows as I’m not exactly a fan of the platform’s impact on our culture but the short romane dramas can be found…
Feb 6
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January 2024
Why We Tell Stories Part 1
So I’ve been watching a whole lot of short C dramas… buried in drama research. Yup a serious deep dive down all manner of rabbit holes. 10-minute badly…
Jan 29
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My Week in Dramas 15 January 2024
On paper Gyeongseong Creature should be a surefire hit. Based on the premise alone it has all the elements of a classic monster story with the added…
Jan 16
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Death's Game (2023-24) A Recommendation
A young graduate (Seo In-guk) doing it very tough in the existential scramble for jobs has come to the end of his tether. After several years of…
Jan 11
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The Blooms at Ruyi Pavilion (2020) A Revisit
So I’m a little bored and lamenting the damage done to Zhang Zhehan’s acting career although his singing gigs seem to be taking off. I turn my attention…
Jan 9
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A Journey to Love (2023) Final Thoughts
*Spoilers Alert — Major reveals ahead* It’s done. I braced myself for the impact of the last 7 episodes with some vague sense that tragedy was afoot and…
Jan 7
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