Partners (Chinese Drama, New)
Forming an unlikely friendship in college, our three male leads will go from naive young men to successful businessmen while holding onto their loyalty to one another. I am certain there will be plenty of romance for our three male leads but I believe the bulk of the storyline will be focused on the men’s career and their friendship. This sort of C-drama doesn’t really interest me but I do have to say Joe Cheng looks REALLY good in this one.
Time (Korean Drama)
This one is a tear jerker! Well, at least the first couple episodes. The story centers around our spoiled rich hero whose once aimless wasteful life finally has a meaning after he finds out that he only has six months left to live. Waking up after a night of heavy drinking, our hero is horrified to find a girl’s body in his hotel room’s pool. Carrying the burden that he might have been the one that somehow caused the girl’s death, for the first time in our hero’s life his heart aches for someone else as he watches our heroine grieve for her little sister. Watching our once spunky heroine walking in the rain like a lifeless doll, our hero decides that he has found the one thing he has to do before he leaves this earth.
I know the story reads like a K-daily, but the show doesn’t come off that way when you watch it. The emotions feel raw and real without exaggeration. Time might not have big names in its cast, but I quite impressed with the solid acting. I would usually avoid ANYTHING with terminal illness…but I find myself itching to just watch a few more episodes…
Witch’s Love (Korean Drama, New)
Due to a traumatic experience in his childhood, our hero has been searching for a particular house…or more correctly, a particular group of people. Disappointed again and again through his years of seemingly futile searching, our hero’s persistence finally pays off when he discovers something strange about a popular local noodle house run by three generations of women.
This one looks like a fun fluffy supernatural romance. The show doesn’t take itself seriously and is not afraid to use lots of witch stereotypes.
My ID Is Gangnam Beauty (Korean Drama, New)
The target of merciless teasings and bullying all her life because of her appearance, our heroine undergoes plastic surgery in hopes that she can have a fresh start at college. On the receiving end of other people’s envying and compliments because of her look for the first time in her life, our heroine dare to hope that a whole new life is ahead of her…until the bullying and teasings start again. Weary at first of our hero who went to the same elementary school as her and quickly recognized her even with the drastic change in her appearance, our heroine eventually learns the true meaning of being confident in herself from our aloof but kind hero.
This one obviously addresses a number of ugly social issues so quite a few scenes will be difficult to watch but I liked the first episode and am planning to check in on this one when I have time.
Your Honor (Korean Drama, New)
This one’s premise reminds me of K-drama Switch where both heroes are criminals who end up taking over a high profile job of someone they look identical to. In Switch, Jang Keun Suk’s character became a prosecutor. In Your Honor, our hero will become a judge. Switch had a more wacky fun vibe to it while judging by the first episode, Your Honor will have a more serious tone to it…even if Yoon Shi Yoon’s character could be pretty playful.
Himo Man (Japanese Drama, New)
Unable to convince her boyfriend to get a job, our heroine is stunned to realize that her boyfriend might be a “Himo Man”. Himo Man= A man who is satisfied to mooch off financially on a woman. A nurse by profession, our heroine loves her boyfriend and knows that he loves her as well, but no matter what she does she can’t seem to get her boyfriend to get a job!
This is a manga adaptation so the show takes a comic approach to our two leads’ relationship and their conflict point. I did like the fact that the writer made BOTH of our leads very endearing. Our heroine is no pushover and her boyfriend actually does love her very much. I think when it comes to the concept of Himo Man it is easy to have some preconceived notion about the women and men in such relationships so this particular drama shows that relationships are never so black and white.
Dele (Japanese Drama, New)
This one has such an intriguing premise. In the digital age where secrets are usually kept in our phones and computers, our two leads’ job is to erase certain files when their clients die. In the process of verifying their clients’ death and carrying out their work of erasing sensitive information, our two male leads will invariably find themselves getting involved with their clients’ secrets.
It looks like Dele will be an episodic format with one new client’s death a week.
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