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2021 Most Anticipated Content and Dramas
Milk Tea With Mandy has been such a fun project during this unusual year. I had wanted to have a space to discuss my love for Asian dramas and had watched plenty while working at home. This was one of the things that got me through the slump and monotony of 2020. (I even mentioned […]
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Itaewon Class: A KDrama With Inclusion
Itaewon Class was a show I started having no clue what it was about. The teaser trailer just shows three young people running through a busy Seoul neighborhood at night. They each have a random caption and the show pans out. However, there was a lot of buzz about the drama on Netflix. It turned […]
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Somewhere Only We Know 2019 Review
Unlike my feelings of the drama Face Off I reviewed a few weeks ago, Somewhere Only We Know (2019) surprised me in a good way. I have to admit that it took me four tries to get through the first episode. Yup that is right, I started and stopped the first episode that many times. […]
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My Holo Love: More Technology More Problems
As you prepare your Netflix binge list for the holiday season, I would recommend My Holo Love. It is considered a ‘mini-series’ with only 12 episodes. (Normal Korean dramas are usually 16-18 episodes.) It is a great show that explores the effects of artificial technology on individual people and society as whole. At first, the […]
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Fall in Love at First Kiss Review
Fall in Love at First Kiss is the first movie I am reviewing for this blog! Normally, I do not catch movies since my husband and I will watch a movie together. So then we usually opt for English films. I watched Fall in Love at First Kiss on my flight home from Beijing to […]
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Guardian: The Lonely and Great God -A Goblin of a Review
I began looking for more Korean dramas after enjoying Crash Landing On You. On most of the shows that kept being posted in Korean drama checklists and challenges was Guardian and Descendants of the Sun. (Both happen to be written by Kim Eun-Sook who seems to be the Shonda Rhimes of South Korea.) So naturally, […]
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Face Off: Needs a Face Lift
I really debated reviewing this drama. Although I certainly want to keep things real, I also want to be positive. It was a real struggle to find many positive things about this drama. I am referring to the 2017 Chinese drama Face Off. The cast starring Seven Tan from My Mr. Mermaid and the beautiful […]
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Love Me, If You Dare: A Criminal Review
Love Me, If You Dare is another great Chinese drama to enjoy around Halloween. It does not deal with anything supernatural, but it is a psychological thriller. (Think Criminal Minds.) It was also recommended to me by another Mandarin studying friend and is completely different than any other show I have watched since. It was […]
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My Roommate is a Detective: Another Attractive Sherlock Holmes
Now that cooler weather has found my city this week in October, I am ready to enjoy Fall and my favorite thing about Fall is Halloween! So this month, I will feature some dramas that fit a Halloween vibe. The drama My Roommate is a mystery series launched in March of this year. I found […]
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My Mr. Mermaid… Man Candy with a Side of Swim Trunks
My Mr. Mermaid is such a cute Chinese show. I loved the energetic vibe with the sports element. It worked out that swimming is actually one of the three sports I can handle watching. (Randomly, I enjoy some soccer and rugby as my other sport viewing choices.) The show follows the antics of young reporters […]