Tag: Drama Review

Virtually spoiler-free for your convenience, let us relive a worryingly sizeable chunk of what the Korean drama industry had to offer in 2019.

There's no shortage of revenge plots and vigilante killers in K-Drama thrillers, and Kill It is OCN's 2019 venture into this genre. While it is a well-produced project from a technical standpoint, unfortunately, Kill It doesn't exactly "kill it" in terms of delivering a story that was entirely distinctive. Or, ...

Human beings have a rather morbid fascination with watching a series of disastrous events play out in front of them - so long as they can remain safely removed on the sidelines as members of the audience. That's mostly how I felt watching the 2018/2019 K-Drama The Last Empress. Set ...

Bai Bai He and William Chan pair up for 2018 C-Drama Only Side by Side With You, a slow-burn romance between a drone-designing entrepreneur and the man that sets out to ruin her company out of petty desire for vengeance against her childhood friend. Despite the rather twisted synopsis, this ...

I'm not really sure what spurred tvN to adapt the nearly two decades old Japanese television series Hundred Million Stars From the Sky into a K-Drama of the title The Smile Has Left Your Eyes, a work that borrows the bare bones structure of the original show. Both works tell ...

In recent years, tvN has been churning out hit over K-Drama hit, from the slice-of-life Reply series to the fantasy-romance Goblin. One of this cable network's latest 2018 success stories comes in the form of What's Wrong with Secretary Kim? an adaptation of a novel and webcomic by the same name. ...

The stigma attached to plastic surgery makes it touchy subject to address, even in a country like South Korea with the highest number of surgeries performed per capita. Thus, when a drama adaptation of the webcomic "My ID is Gangnam Beauty" was announced I was intrigued to see how the ...

I'm here for a long overdue review of MBC's idol-led sageuk, The King Loves, which finished its run on Korean television back in 2017. While I initially began watching this drama as it was currently airing, my growing frustration and waning interest as the series progressed pushed it to the back burner ...

Defendant, a drama that finished its run a few months ago in South Korea, was met with a warm reception by the general public. That wasn't altogether shocking given its star-studded cast and story of chaebol corruption. There's nothing like a good morally bereft CEO to fuel a modern K-Drama, ...

Crime may have no borders, but justice can be found by crossing them. The recent C-drama When a Snail Falls in Love illustrates this in chilling detail in its travel through the sprawling cities of China and jungles of Myanmar. This high stakes drama combines mystery, police work, and a nice ...