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Whoosh Jan 4, 2025

What are you watching?

How is everyone starting the new year - drama-wise?

*** Watch Parties ***
- The Imperial Coroner: great #cdrama funny & interesting.
- When the Stars Gossip: (airing) just watched the 1st episode - so funny & strange

*** Airing ***
- When the Phone Rings: 1 eps to go - lots of mystery has been fun

- Love Scout: Just watched the 1st eps. - very engaging

- Check in Hanyang: binged 1st 4 eps. - pretty funny (running a Joseon resort like "King the Land" sort of thing)

*** Others ***
- Empress Ki: slow going because I just know it's not going to end like I want it to.

- Eulachacha Waikiki 2: stupid humor, but on a Kim Seon Ho quest - good when there's too much tension elsewhere

- Where Stars Land: on my Chae Soo Bin (When the Phone Rings) quest - interesting to see the workings of the airport.

I finished #WhenThePhoneRings yesterday and it's probably the worst last episode in #kdrama history. A well deserved WTF 😶‍🌫️😄

Currently watching:
1️⃣ #Namib
It's so hard to wait for new episodes! It's the story of a k-pop producer who gets fired without severance pay and an 18 yo trainee whose contract gets revoked.
2️⃣ #RentedInFinland
A #kshow with Cha Eun-woo (True Beauty, Astro), Kwak Dong-hyeon (Queen Of Tears), Lee Dong-hwi (Reply 1988) and Lee Jee-hon (producer).

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V Jan 6, 2025

@s1m0n4 @whoosh Aaaargh! Is it enough of a wtf to not start watching it altogether? Or do you still recommend it, despite the last episode?

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s1m0n4 Jan 6, 2025

@dikgelukkig @whoosh it's hard to answer because it depends on personal taste. For me it was ok with red flags until the last episode. Now I'm disappointed and I feel I wasted my time.
But keep in mind that I'm quite polarised myself, I can easily love or hate something.
And I don't cope well with BS even if it's from very popular k-dramas, like, for instance, the goodbye scene from Crash Landing On You. WTPR last episode has a similar vibe but even more made up, TBH.

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@s1m0n4 @whoosh hmmm, ok …

I don’t remember that scene from CLOY, so that was apparently fine by me at the time 😆

I had a bit of a bad aftertaste with Flower Of Evil. Not necessarily with the ending itself, but I thought everybody acted so uncharacteristically in the last two episodes, that I had that wtf reaction.

So I’ll think about When The Phone Rings … Thanks for the feedback!

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V Jan 6, 2025

@s1m0n4 @whoosh oh, and the feeling of having wasted your time – I had that recently with ‘Eve’.

Intriguing revenge story but towards the end they totally messed up (in my opinion). I wanted to stop watching immediately after that, but by then I also wanted to know how it ended. So I kept watching, but with a lot of grumbles ☹️😁

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s1m0n4 Jan 6, 2025

@dikgelukkig @whoosh I agree for Flower Of Evil. Last episode was absolutely unnecessary and a bit WTF too. Still I didn't have the feeling of wasted time because everything before that was so incredibly thrilling.

The last episode of WTPR is worse than that, because they make up an implausible plot entirely.

As for CLOY I am talking about the scene at the DMZ line during last episode (or the one before the last) when they say goodbye to each other.

#kdrama