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  • Day 12: A Mildly Disappointing Drama

    Day 12: A Mildly Disappointing Drama

    I know I can’t talk about Ando Lloyd (BIGGEST disappointment) again, so I’ll just talk about Medical Top Team (MBC / 2013). Also known as Medical Top Turtlenecks.

    This TV miniseries follows the journey of creating Korea’s best multidisciplinary medical team and the stories of doctors inside. Characters who have different hurts and dilemmas struggle as they get to work together and gradually learn that healing a person is healing oneself.
    MBC Global Media

    Not a very inspiring summary, but I remained cautiously optimistic. My reasons for adding it to my fall ’13 list were Joo Ji-hoon (my number one oppa) and Jung Ryeo-won, who had an amazing year in dramas the year before. Episode 1 was pretty decent, and I immediately took to Kwon Sang-woo’s Park Tae-shin! He wasn’t too cool for school, just a doctor with a heart made of vanilla ice cream and rainbow sprinkles. While I was intrigued by his heart (at the beginning, anyway), Medical Top Team definitely lacked in the heart department.

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  • The Naked Kitchen (2008)

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    This was one frustrating, adulterous flop of a movie, but it was nice to see Joo Ji Hoon and Shin Min Ah in something kind of recent. And together. Sort of.

  • Mawang (fin.)

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    I, um, ugly cried my way through the Mawang ending. It looked even worse than Oh Seung Ha’s ugly crying. I was literally clutching my pillow to my face for dear life and hiccuping for the last ~10 minutes of the drama. The ending itself was… ideal. It didn’t end the way I personally wanted it to, but it was for the best. I guess. Despite the fact that I feel my heart got stomped from here to Seoul.

    The only problem is that I thought Mawang was so good for a Korean drama. So good that I’m afraid to watch any others because I don’t want to be let down, ahah. They are also far too long for my tastes — twenty episodes? That’s a show, a sequel, and an SP for any Japanese series…

    I think I’m going to cheer myself up by watching The Naked Kitchen. You can never have too much Joo Ji Hoon!

  • HIDE & SEEK

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    I have finally started watching Mawang and while I’m only six eight episodes in (this would be half a series in Japan, but I’ve barely scratched the surface here) and I’m actually surprised that it’s good so far? What universe am I in?! Boys Before Flowers was so horrendous that I thought I’d never watch another Korean drama again.

    … and that is what I typed a couple nights ago. Then, I watched a couple more episodes. It got better.

    But last night I had a dream about it and that basically solidified the fact that I REALLY REALLY LIKE MAWANG. And not just because Joo Ji Hoon is fine as haaaaaaaale and he was the centerpiece of my dream … …

    I feel like the production values of Japanese dramas are slightly better than Korean dramas. I just finished watching Utsukushii Rinjin last night (which I will get to in another post) and the cinematography was gorgeous. Mawang on the other hand… is Atashinichi Danshin quality. Which is alright. And you know there’s a problem when you see the breaths of the actors when they’re inside a building, hahaha!

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    Lastly, I don’t know how I feel about Kang Oh Soo. What he did was pretty awful and I guess whoever this ~mystery villain isn’t going about this the right way, but dammit if Oh Seung Ha isn’t attractive/CREEPY. Those long stares. So awkward! And Joo Ji Hoon’s acting is kind of stiff, I don’t know if it was always like this since it’s been a while since I watched Antique.

    Also: “I don’t warn twice.” AWWW SHIT