Hi, I’m SAORI (Chinese Drama, New)
As an AI humanoid robot from the future, our heroine (Zheng Shuang) has time traveled back to the “ancient” time of 2018. With a mission to test out the new “love program”, our heroine has set her sight on our hero who is a super popular actor during the year 2018 but will eventually fall into traps set by others and become a washed up “has been.” Vowing to change our hero’s fate, our heroine becomes his housekeeper and uses her super AI abilities to help our hero avoid one crisis after another.
The show is not bad…but it really didn’t stand out either. I am guessing the robots from the future are supposed to be so advanced in this show that they are just like humans but it really is a bit weird to watch a character who is supposed to be AI reacting to things (such as fear of dark places) as a human would.
Our Glamorous Time (Chinese Drama, New)
Zanilia Zhao’s new C-city romance where she plays an aspiring fashion designer dreaming of creating her own brand only to find the path of entrepreneurship extremely difficult. While our heroine is bumbling around in the unforgiving world of entrepreneurship, our hero, a soldier who has been working as the captain of a special force team is suddenly called back to his family when his older brother dies unexpectedly and he is the only one to save his family’s struggling corporate empire. Even though no one believes in his ability to save his family’s business, our hero will eventually build a legacy with our heroine by his side.
This one looks quite promising! I went into it expecting it to be your typical business inspirational success story but the fact that our hero is a special force op threw a completely different dynamic into the story. The usual business inspirational success story (such as Entrepreneurial Age that just ended. By the way, it was actually pretty good. It did get draggy but I thought the story had surprisingly amount of depth in it.) for the most part involves the good guys having to suffer without any way to fight back when the bad guys decide to employ some unsavory means but our hero here obviously excel in fighting AND strategizing. So what happens when corporate intrigue meets special op? Very intriguing.
The Elfin’s Golden Castle (Chinese Drama, New)
Running away from home yet again to escape from her suffocating home life, our heroine meets our hero who is the head singer of a band and begins a heart healing romance. The story will also focus on our heroine’s two friends’ struggles and relationships as they too must figure out along with our heroine, how to heal their own hearts so they can all achieve their individual happy endings.
The first episode didn’t really catch my interest but this type of story (heavy on the topic of depression and emotional baggage) is not really my thing so probably not a fair assessment.
I Picked Up a Celebrity on the Street (Korean Drama, New)
Fuming with resentment after she was unfairly fired from her job, our heroine who has up to this time, lived an extremely ordinary life, decided to throw a shoe at her ex-boss in a dark alleyway…only to accidentally “kill” our hero- a super popular celebrity. Dragging our hero’s body back to her tiny rooftop apartment, our heroine readies herself to begin the unpleasant task of getting rid of our hero’s body…only to have him wake up. Overjoyed to not be a killer but now faced with the crime of kidnapping/intention to dispose of a body/ physical violence, our heroine is once again stuck figuring out how to get out of her little delimma…while holding our hero hostage in her apartment.
This one is hilarious! The kind of hilarious that makes you question a bit of your own sanity when you laugh out loud at something that really should be so wrong if you just think seriously about it but then you promptly decide thinking is overrated and laugh anyway.
Anata ni wa Watasanai (Japanese Drama, New)
I started watching this one and thought “Wait, I have seen this before…and not too long ago either.” Turns out, I wasn’t crazy. This show is based on the novel “Kakure Kiku” by Mikihiko Renjo. Kakuregiku: A Hidden Chrysanthemum aired back in 2016 was also based on the same novel.
Having spent her last twenty years as a housewife, our heroine gets the shock of her life when her husband tells her to go meet an important VIP guest for him…only find out the VIP guest is a woman who has been having an affair with her husband for the last six years. To add insult to injury, the mistress gleefully recounts how close she was to our heroine’s now deceased mother-in-law…the mother-in-law who had never accepted our heroine and forbade her to even step foot into the family’s famous restaurant. Eventually getting over her shock, our heroine accepts the mistress’ offer of a large sum of money in exchange for her signature on the divorce paper. Taking the money she received from the mistress, our heroine buys her husband’s near bankrupted family restaurant (Yap, the one she wasn’t allowed to step foot in) and makes the daring decision to revive it.
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