2022 is somehow nearly over and it’s time to vote in our annual end of year poll.
I attempt to wrest order from chaos in my review of L.U.C.A.: The Beginning
The currently-airing Love is for Suckers has left me more and more uncomfortable as it unfolds. I tease out the problems I have with the show by examining its thematic confusion.
On its five year anniversary, I finally collate all my I’m Not a Robot ravings into one post on the show’s amazing visual imagery.
Your Kdrama Mixologist is once again in the house! Ready to serve up some beverages for your viewing pleasure
A sparse and filmic piece of science fiction, The Silent Sea is beautiful and atmospheric but also at various points generic and even derivative. I take a deep dive into Korea’s most mainstream piece of science fiction television.
A body-swapping, universe-jumping adventure on paper, Vice Versa is instead a deeply self-aware and self-referential bait and switch. A BL romcom on the outside and a highly meta and very earnest discussion about having the courage to pursue what you want in life on the inside.
Was Glitch’s ending glitchy? Or was it more nuanced than I had originally thought?
Shaking up my planned timetable for the science fiction reviews to start with one of the worst dramas ever made. Alice.
What is a fourth wall break and how it is used?
I discussed the technique and compile a list of some of my favourites.