2024

COMPLETED [ Dec 26 – Jan 3 ]

NO ONE TOUCH ME IM BAWLING

ok those last three eps really hit hard, although I will say I feel like I was too anxious for yichan to properly enjoy them LMAO. i understand complaints that the last three eps felt very different from the rest, which real. melodrama just jumped me without warning.

overall very cute. yes I have never had an original thought so yes I adore ha yichan. I hope I can learn to appreciate my life in the present half as well as he can. chungah is adorable. eungyeol is so funny with ha yichan and perhaps a bit attractive playing the guitar. I will say sometimes I appreciated "segyeong" and sometimes I didn't. she's chaotic but also annoying at times.

band bros are so cute together TnT

I got bored at certain times and fast forwarded quite a bit LMAO, admittedly mostly when segyeong showed up and whenver eungyeol and segyeong popped up together. I definitely wasn't engaged the whole way through, but I still appreciate such a feel good (although it devastated me) drama about twinkling youth :')

COMPLETED [ Jan 4 – Jan 7 ]

final thoughts

woohak mvp

COMPLETED [ Jan 7 ]

i feel like I wasted 2 hours of my life that I'll never get back

ON HOLD 1/24 [ Jan 6 ]

i'm just not that big of a fan of the actress. her pouting is just too much for me. but I will admit that at least she can act!

COMPLETED [ Dec 27 – Jan 10 ]

THE DRAMA WAS CRAZY THIS SEASON what a ride. why do so many women like gwanhee. hajeong is a queen. jinseok is a king. minkyu lowkey grew on me a lot. gyuri needs to stop.

DROPPED 5/16 [ Jan 7 – Jan 11 ]

I really did want to love this drama (it's literally my favorite genre of drama: return to small town life, BUT BY THE BEACH). it had a strong beginning: I was obsessed with the fl's strong, assertive, but caring personality (shin hye sun the woman that you are). the sisters are hilarious and so lovable.

then she went back to samdal-ri. first of all, I'm honestly not the biggest fan of second chance romance, but I was willing to overlook that. it's just that when she got back to samdal-ri, the fl turned into this whiny, slightly obnoxious mess. and I do get it, she's back with her family and her childhood friends, so of course she's going to act more childish with them after so many years of staying strong to survive a new environment. and I love that they wrote her that way. but subjectively, I just could not handle it anymore lol.

COMPLETED [ Jan 15 ]

this is as close as I will ever get to my dream movie. quiet countryside slice-of-life?? (credit card banging meme). kim taeri is a goddess with a goddess voice. the scenic shots are gorgeous and the quiet scenes of countryside work are peacefully healing. I love her friends, although there was a bit more romantic insinuation than I expected.

AND THE COOKING SCENES the cooking scenes I LOVE THEM I COULD WATCH THEM ALL DAY

DROPPED [ Jan 1 - ??? ]

oops guess this year is a dropping mood.

DROPPED 1/30 [ Mar 3 ]

I HATE INSTA LOVE. oh my god.

also we have boring person 1 and boring person 2 and they fall in love. can wu lei stop playing boring people who smolder. pls.

COMPLETED [ Jan 16 - Mar 7 ]

final thoughts

EVERYONE IS ADORABLE. comfort drama fr

DROPPED 10/16 [ Jan 14 - Mar 7 ]

life is too short to be wasted on terrible acting (na in woo i'm looking at you bro), inert chemistry, and possibly the worst characterizations of the main characters I've ever seen.

the villains stole the show in this one. not that it was very hard.

the only reason I kept watching this show was because I really wanted to see the villains suffer lol. that portion of the show was incredibly well acted, but in between scenes of revenge I found myself thinking, damn, the main leads are actually so bland. the fl and ml have zero personality. then they fall in love and you're like why??? made me want to put my head through the wall. also as mentioned above, na in woo is definitely a weak link in the acting of this show. 

ON HOLD 2/16 [ Mar 7 ]

started for park hyung sik and then realized I'm definitely not in a basic rom com with basic characters mood... oops. will I ever come back to this? idk.

COMPLETED [ Dec 31 - sometime late april... apr 20 perhaps??? ]

WHY IS IT ALWAYS SO PREDICTABLE

young jae and seo eun are lowk adorable

COMPLETED [ Mar 8 - May 12 ]

I enjoyed this a lot more than I expected. mostly because kai was such an interesting and enigmatic character! I kind of disliked gaku's arc, his transformation to Bad Dude and back to Good Dude was so sudden I couldn't really make myself believe it. the cooking also was not my favorite but ik it's because it's a high end, fast-paced restaurant rather than the slow, healing cooking I enjoy.

COMPLETED [ May 15 - May 16 ]

this is why I can't do horror bc why was this drama lowkey so scary for me LMAO. anyway i love the premise! love love love how the game started messing w the ml and made him make hard choices. wish there was more of that tbh, would've sold the drama for me.

romance was meh. it confused me since they were dating but cha yeo woon didn't even know if tae myung ha liked him?? which is wild to me but ok. basically I was a bit skeptical that tae myung ha liked cha yeo woon romantically. also the infantilization of cha yeo woon was a little... but anyway they were still cute tae myung ha had some good lines (and a really cringe one too) and cha yeo woon was a cutie.

COMPLETED [ May 16 - May 20 ]

i liked it but i also didn't??? tbh I already didn't like the way the show was set up and the stilted dialogue and transitions.

final thoughts on plot: https://mydramalist.com/profile/mango-sorbet/feeds/LO0W8yF9

but jing boran in slightly longer hair is so *chef's kiss*

COMPLETED [ May 20 ]

THEY'RE SO SILLY GOOFY I love them. made me laugh and smile so much. it's so heartwarming to watch teenagers take things so seriously and them as adults, still maintaining their silliness.

friend group was def too big to focus on each character, bokhee and geumok in particular felt overshadowed. the end also escalated really quickly and I feel like we were missing a bit in terms of why the group suddenly just disbanded

CURRENTLY WATCHING [ Jul 26 2023 ]

you can do it :'))

CURRENTLY WATCHING [ May 12 ]

CURRENTLY WATCHING [ May 14 ]