The Emergence of First Love (Chinese Drama)
As a comic writer hoping to publish her very first sports romance, our heroine attends her brother’s soccer game hoping to get some ideas….and ends up getting herself on the confusing and thrilling journey of “first love”. The journey is destined to be extra confusing because we will have two charming male leads vying for our heroine’s heart.
The first episode didn’t catch my attention…plus I don’t usually do well with shows that have two male leads so I am skipping this one.
Home For Summer (Korean Daily, New)
Unwilling to let her boyfriend quit school in order to take care of his ill father, our heroine resolutely marries him at a young age so she could support him through medical school. After 13 years of marriage, other than the lack of having a child of her own, our heroine now lives an envious life with a surgeon husband who dotes on her. Unfortunately, this is a K-daily so our heroine will eventually lose her husband to an old nemesis whose father owns the hospital where her husband works at. To make this even more messy, our hero, our heroine’s new love interest is her old nemesis’ brother.
I checked out the first couple episodes and it looks like it will be a bit before our heroine even gets divorced so I plan on checking back on this one in a couple of weeks when the story has progressed a bit more.
The House on the Slope (Japanese Drama, New)
A devoted housewife and mother to her three year old daughter, our heroine is dismayed when she is summoned to jury duty for a case where a mother drowned her eight month old baby. Unable to imagine how a mother could kill her own child, our heroine thought she could never understand the accused in a million years but as the trial progress, our heroine begins to see disturbing similarities between her own situation and the case.
The story is very compelling…which makes it extremely difficult to watch. Still, if you are interested in the subject of the invisible pressures that come with being a wife and mother, then this should be a very thought-provoking show.
Where Have My Skirts Gone? (Japanese Drama)
Walking into his first day on the job as a high school teacher, our hero introduces himself as one who is gay and likes to dress in female clothing. With his unconventional appearance and a temper to match it, our hero begins to wreak havoc among his new students and co-workers’ lives…This is a J-school feel-good drama after all so the havoc will be the good sort.
This one was a little over the top for me. I am one who firmly believes one should not worry too much about logic when watching drama…but try as I might, there were simply too many things (ie. in a fit of anger, the hero destroys the school wall with a tractor) I really can’t imagine happening in real life…at least without our hero getting fired. The show does have plenty of wacky humor though so maybe just watch it with a complete suspension of reality.
Different Dreams (Korean Drama, New)
Set in a pivotal point in Korean history when it’s under Japanese occupation, our two leads’ path will become intertwined as they devote their lives to changing their country’s future. Our hero’s character, played by actor Yoo Ji Tae (The Good Wife, 2016) is based on a real historical character Kim Won Bong who was the leader of Heroic Corp, an organization with the mission to assassinate Japanese officials. Our heroine, played by Lee Yo Won (Avengers Social Club) is a Korean who was adopted and raised by Japanese parents. As the first Korean female surgeon, our heroine seems to be destined to stand against our hero but as our hero will soon find out, our heroine is not what she appears on the surface.
Boy, what a great cast and the chemistry between our two leads is great right from the getgo as well. My only worry is that our hero IS based on a historical character so I am not certain if it would be possible to give our two leads a happy ending.
The Great Craftsman (Chinese Drama, New)
Wallace Huo and Yang Mi’s new historical C-romance is set in the tumultuous period of early 1900’s to the Second Sino-Japanese War. Wallace Huo plays our hero who after tragedy tore his family apart, grows up to become a leader in the Shanghi construction industry. Yang Mi plays our talented architect heroine who grew up with our hero and after a period of separation from him due to some misunderstandings, will eventually team up with our hero to contribute their talents to help their nation in crisis.
I am cautiously hopeful about this one. The first few episodes were background set up of how our hero lost his once happy family so they weren’t exactly my favorite (I am usually very impatient during background set up) but I am liking our two leads’ character set up thus far so I am (cautiously) excited to put this one on my watch list for now. Going by the show’s synopsis (and some clues from the beginning scene of episode one) our hero will mistakenly believe that our heroine’s father has a hand in his family’s tragedy and thus leads him to break up with our heroine. Wallace Huo is usually great at playing the “I hate you but I love you” sort of character so I am looking forward to his performance here.
I am also pretty curious of Wallace Huo and Yang Mi’s onscreen chemistry since they are supposed to be good friends in real life but has never been an onscreen couple. (They were almost a couple on Chinese Paladin 3 ten years ago so fans of that show would be pretty happy they finally get to be a couple on this one) I guess Wallace Huo had confessed during an interview that it was a bit awkward at first to act as a couple on screen with a real life friend but they did eventually get over it.
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