2013 Beanie Awards: Vote for your favorite dramas of the year
Here are your Beanie Awards! It’s December, which means our monkeys are madly typing away in the backroom to prepare our annual Year End Review Extravaganza, which we’ll be kicking off soon. But...
View ArticleA Year in Compliment Sandwiches [Year In Review, Part 3]
It’s been an interesting year for the world of dramas, hasn’t it? Usually any given year will at least give us that one epic drama we can all rally around like a big ol’ communal campfire, allowing us...
View ArticleGonna find out who’s naughty or nice [Year In Review, Part 4]
It’s that time of year, for Show to trade in all its good deeds and gold stars for a spot on Santa’s list. Have you been naughty, nice, or something in between? If there’s any constant in dramaland,...
View ArticleSanta presents: Things I Learned from Dramaland
The one good thing about working one day a year and outsourcing most of your menial labor to elves is that it gives you plenty of time to watch dramas. This year I discovered that I had watched them...
View ArticleResurrection, Devil, Shark team helms new tvN drama
The PD-writer team behind the revenge “trilogy” Resurrection, Devil/Mawang, and Shark (not a technical trilogy since they’re three separate stories) is headed to cable network tvN next year. Aren’t...
View ArticleWe’ve met before… once upon a K-drama
Korean dramas love interconnectedness. In fact, it’s hard to find a drama that doesn’t connect even the smallest, faintest of dots between its characters through their shared histories and experiences....
View ArticleTransplant tropes: How K-dramas use health crises as storytelling devices
Korean dramas are brimming with tropes and plot devices, and they often revolve around illnesses or injuries sustained by leading characters. From the skinned knee or sprained ankle that necessitates a...
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