Welcome to my weekly blog post where I give thoughts on dramas I’m watching but not recapping.
This week I recapped:
Love Between Fairy and Devil Episode 23
Love Between Fairy and Devil Episode 24
And I basically wrote a dissertation on:
Utsukushii Kare Season 2 Episode 2
I started watching a few different shows:
My Lethal Man – 对我而言危险的他 – China 2023 (pictured)
A recently aired Chinese modern thriller, I’ve watched 12 of 24 episodes.
If you’re a fan of movies like Roadhouse and dramas like Koi to Dangan and Maid’s Revenge then this is a show for you. Don’t read about the plot, just go watch it.
But if you need the plot, it’s about a woman who discovers she has a doppelganger and then gets sucked into the doppelganger’s life. In the process, she meets a lethal man who won’t stop strangling her and falls in love. She also ends up the CEO of a company. This is high soap opera, with bizarre surreal skinship, sincere acting, and hacking that looks like the Matrix. I highly recommend it.
GAP – ทฤษฎีสีชมพู – Thailand 2022
A recently aired Thai GL, I’ve watched 4 of 12 episodes.
I read somewhere that this is the first full-length GL Asian drama and I can’t think of any others, though there have been shorter ones. It’s from the same company as My Secret Crush On You, a show I appreciated for celebrating LGBTQ+ themes and having characters that are usually the butt of the joke be the heroes.
GAP is about Mon, who has admired and looked up to Sam ever since they knew each other as children. Now an adult, Mon goes to work for Sam and discovers she’s changed for the worse.
Like most Thai BL, the characters of GAP are over the top and the plot barely there. Sam struts around in fashion that at times reminds me of Star Trek villains and Mon is oblivious to the fact her love and admiration might be sexual/romantic. Sam’s traumatic backstory makes for an interesting, tragic and comic character who struggles to interact with other people. Mon is less interesting but sweet and cute. I’m not blown away by the show, but I’m enjoying it.
Love To Hate You – 연애대전 – Korea 2023
A recently aired modern Korean Rom-Com, I’ve watched 4 of 10 episodes.
A female lawyer who doesn’t trust men and a popular male actor who doesn’t trust women meet and, well, this is a romantic comedy. You know what happens next.
The set-up feels dated, Korean romantic comedies often don’t work for me and the one-dimensional attitudes of the characters made the first episode a slog. If not for all the positive comments I’d read I would have dropped it. But a few hours later I’d finished the fourth episode and had to force myself to stop. Now that I know the characters enough to be invested I want to see these vulnerable, funny people get to know each other better and fall reluctantly in love.