more kdrama feelings

Let's talk about Coffee Prince, which was SO DAMN DELIGHTFUL I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH MYSELF.

Okay, first off: most gender-bendy thing EVER. If you enjoy that, get thyself to hulu or dramafever or something and watch this series. Yoon Eun Hye (my Kdrama girlfriend for sure) is a girl who's super tomboyish and often gets mistaken for a guy. She's the breadwinner in her family (her dad's dead, her mom is pretty useless and her little sis is still in high school) and constantly needs to find ways to make more money. She ends up running into the layabout grandson of a (badass) lady owner of a big food company and he mistakes her for a guy. She thinks he's a jerk, so she doesn't bother to correct him. But then he hires her first to play his boyfriend so he can convince girls his grandmama is setting him up with that he's gay and secondly at an all-guys coffee shop (the workers are all guys, the customers are everyone). So obviously she can't tell him now that she's a girl--she'll lose her job, and she really needs it!

Cue all sorts of shenanigans and adorable "male"-bonding and conflicted feelings and of course falling in love. It's a romantic comedy, after all.

In short: YOU SHOULD WATCH THIS.

It is so lovable, y'all. YEH, who was adorably teenage girly in Goong is adorably not at all girly in this. Her physicality is awesome: she takes up space in ways that most women have been culturally conditioned not to, flopping her limbs around and moving like a teenage boy who hasn't quite managed to figure out how his body works yet. She also completely gives up any attempts at vanity: there are moments where her character is the opposite of attractive, and she goes all the way with it.

Another little detail I liked was how realistic the relationship between YEH's Eun Chan and her little sister felt. They felt like real siblings to me, and I rarely see that on TV, as much as I love my TV siblings. They love each other a lot, get on each others' nerves, make fun of each other, flop around on the floor play-wrestling, are incredibly different, insult each other, misunderstand each other, and love each other some more.

And I just love this whole cast of characters. The boys in the coffee shop have the most adorable little friendships (I especially love Min Yeop and his pursuit of Eun Chan's little sister and also how he always calls Eun Chan hyung and is basically a big dumb but sweet guy. Awwww! Also: Sun Ki is hot, so).

( spoilers )

Blah blah blah. Lots of feelings. Probably left some stuff out, but whatever.

I also watched the first half of Shut Up Flower Boy Band yesterday, which I actually ended up enjoying way more than I thought I would.

First of all: HAHAHA THIS KID. ♥

I love him and his coked-out whackjob amoral androgynous nonsense. THE EYELINER ALONE. I mean, I knew going in that he would only be in the first two episodes, and it broke my heart because: LOOK AT THIS KID. This show got 6,000% less punk after he was gone. But writing him out makes sense for Watsonian reasons, too, because the life that this boy would lead would never, ever be airable on Korean TV. He would take all the drugs and sleep with all the people and probably have severe mental health problems all the time and then die young. This. Kid.

But I started loving all the other kids, too, after the first few episodes where I couldn't tell them apart.
( spoilers )

So yeah. I'm liking it. It's an easy watch.

And I never realized till recently just how much LONGER an hour-long episode feels than a 40-minute one. But the difference is staggering.

more kdrama feelings

Let's talk about Coffee Prince, which was SO DAMN DELIGHTFUL I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH MYSELF.

Okay, first off: most gender-bendy thing EVER. If you enjoy that, get thyself to hulu or dramafever or something and watch this series. Yoon Eun Hye (my Kdrama girlfriend for sure) is a girl who's super tomboyish and often gets mistaken for a guy. She's the breadwinner in her family (her dad's dead, her mom is pretty useless and her little sis is still in high school) and constantly needs to find ways to make more money. She ends up running into the layabout grandson of a (badass) lady owner of a big food company and he mistakes her for a guy. She thinks he's a jerk, so she doesn't bother to correct him. But then he hires her first to play his boyfriend so he can convince girls his grandmama is setting him up with that he's gay and secondly at an all-guys coffee shop (the workers are all guys, the customers are everyone). So obviously she can't tell him now that she's a girl--she'll lose her job, and she really needs it!

Cue all sorts of shenanigans and adorable "male"-bonding and conflicted feelings and of course falling in love. It's a romantic comedy, after all.

In short: YOU SHOULD WATCH THIS.

It is so lovable, y'all. YEH, who was adorably teenage girly in Goong is adorably not at all girly in this. Her physicality is awesome: she takes up space in ways that most women have been culturally conditioned not to, flopping her limbs around and moving like a teenage boy who hasn't quite managed to figure out how his body works yet. She also completely gives up any attempts at vanity: there are moments where her character is the opposite of attractive, and she goes all the way with it.

Another little detail I liked was how realistic the relationship between YEH's Eun Chan and her little sister felt. They felt like real siblings to me, and I rarely see that on TV, as much as I love my TV siblings. They love each other a lot, get on each others' nerves, make fun of each other, flop around on the floor play-wrestling, are incredibly different, insult each other, misunderstand each other, and love each other some more.

And I just love this whole cast of characters. The boys in the coffee shop have the most adorable little friendships (I especially love Min Yeop and his pursuit of Eun Chan's little sister and also how he always calls Eun Chan hyung and is basically a big dumb but sweet guy. Awwww! Also: Sun Ki is hot, so).

( spoilers )

Blah blah blah. Lots of feelings. Probably left some stuff out, but whatever.

I also watched the first half of Shut Up Flower Boy Band yesterday, which I actually ended up enjoying way more than I thought I would.

First of all: HAHAHA THIS KID. ♥

I love him and his coked-out whackjob amoral androgynous nonsense. THE EYELINER ALONE. I mean, I knew going in that he would only be in the first two episodes, and it broke my heart because: LOOK AT THIS KID. This show got 6,000% less punk after he was gone. But writing him out makes sense for Watsonian reasons, too, because the life that this boy would lead would never, ever be airable on Korean TV. He would take all the drugs and sleep with all the people and probably have severe mental health problems all the time and then die young. This. Kid.

But I started loving all the other kids, too, after the first few episodes where I couldn't tell them apart.
( spoilers )

So yeah. I'm liking it. It's an easy watch.

And I never realized till recently just how much LONGER an hour-long episode feels than a 40-minute one. But the difference is staggering.

more kdrama feelings

Let's talk about Coffee Prince, which was SO DAMN DELIGHTFUL I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH MYSELF.

Okay, first off: most gender-bendy thing EVER. If you enjoy that, get thyself to hulu or dramafever or something and watch this series. Yoon Eun Hye (my Kdrama girlfriend for sure) is a girl who's super tomboyish and often gets mistaken for a guy. She's the breadwinner in her family (her dad's dead, her mom is pretty useless and her little sis is still in high school) and constantly needs to find ways to make more money. She ends up running into the layabout grandson of a (badass) lady owner of a big food company and he mistakes her for a guy. She thinks he's a jerk, so she doesn't bother to correct him. But then he hires her first to play his boyfriend so he can convince girls his grandmama is setting him up with that he's gay and secondly at an all-guys coffee shop (the workers are all guys, the customers are everyone). So obviously she can't tell him now that she's a girl--she'll lose her job, and she really needs it!

Cue all sorts of shenanigans and adorable "male"-bonding and conflicted feelings and of course falling in love. It's a romantic comedy, after all.

In short: YOU SHOULD WATCH THIS.

It is so lovable, y'all. YEH, who was adorably teenage girly in Goong is adorably not at all girly in this. Her physicality is awesome: she takes up space in ways that most women have been culturally conditioned not to, flopping her limbs around and moving like a teenage boy who hasn't quite managed to figure out how his body works yet. She also completely gives up any attempts at vanity: there are moments where her character is the opposite of attractive, and she goes all the way with it.

Another little detail I liked was how realistic the relationship between YEH's Eun Chan and her little sister felt. They felt like real siblings to me, and I rarely see that on TV, as much as I love my TV siblings. They love each other a lot, get on each others' nerves, make fun of each other, flop around on the floor play-wrestling, are incredibly different, insult each other, misunderstand each other, and love each other some more.

And I just love this whole cast of characters. The boys in the coffee shop have the most adorable little friendships (I especially love Min Yeop and his pursuit of Eun Chan's little sister and also how he always calls Eun Chan hyung and is basically a big dumb but sweet guy. Awwww! Also: Sun Ki is hot, so).

( spoilers )

Blah blah blah. Lots of feelings. Probably left some stuff out, but whatever.

I also watched the first half of Shut Up Flower Boy Band yesterday, which I actually ended up enjoying way more than I thought I would.

First of all: HAHAHA THIS KID. ♥

I love him and his coked-out whackjob amoral androgynous nonsense. THE EYELINER ALONE. I mean, I knew going in that he would only be in the first two episodes, and it broke my heart because: LOOK AT THIS KID. This show got 6,000% less punk after he was gone. But writing him out makes sense for Watsonian reasons, too, because the life that this boy would lead would never, ever be airable on Korean TV. He would take all the drugs and sleep with all the people and probably have severe mental health problems all the time and then die young. This. Kid.

But I started loving all the other kids, too, after the first few episodes where I couldn't tell them apart.
( spoilers )

So yeah. I'm liking it. It's an easy watch.

And I never realized till recently just how much LONGER an hour-long episode feels than a 40-minute one. But the difference is staggering.