‘Forest of Secrets’ finally premiered this week!

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A completely pre-produced drama can have a double-edged sword as far as its promotion is concerned — since everything is ready, one gets a chance to show as much goodies as one can before the show hits the airwaves. On the other hand, there is a thing called too much publicity. Overall, I think it’s a positive step to film and complete dramas before they air. Forest Of Secrets is the last of the new bunch of shows to screen, a thriller with an aim to target the deep-rooted corruption in society. Continue reading →

New daily drama alert: All Kinds of Daughters-in-Law

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Coffee House was one of those dramas that made me realise what it’s like to board a wrong ship! Total heartbreak! I totally rooted for [SPOILER ALERT] Kang Ji Hwan and Ham Eun Jung’s characters but it was actually a great thing the show did to subvert expectations and clichéd plotline by actually being a love story of two best friends. I now don’t have any residual sad feelings but you should have seen how disappointed I was at Continue reading →

Kim Joo Hyuk and Chun Woo Hee pair up for tvN drama ‘Argon’

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I’ve always said that there is a certain allure when stars who mostly work in films decide to visit dramaland once in a while. This time it’s Kim Joo Hyuk and Chun Woo Hee who will grace our screens and in a drama to be broadcast on — where else — everyone’s go-to channel tvN. The show is titled Argon and will be a newsroom drama. Kim Joo Hyuk has not done a drama since 2013’s long sageuk Gu Am Heo Joon. He did have a guest appearance in Reply 1988 and I liked him a lot there. Chun Woo Hee has done Continue reading →

‘Duel’ with Jung Jae Young hits the airwaves this week on OCN

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Well, mentioning the genre for an OCN drama is totally redundant. The network is known for producing slick, dark, gritty thriller shows and the latest one to join the bunch is Duel. The drama stars Jung Jae Young in the lead role, an actor who mostly does movies. In fact, his first drama came in 2015, Assembly, in such a long acting Continue reading →

Youthful variety-drama ‘The Best Hit’ starts this Friday on KBS

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I loved The Producers, overall and especially in its initial days when it experimented with a brand new format of mixing elements of drama and variety, a mockumentary style to tell its narrative. Unfortunately it dropped that style to fit in with the large audience’s demand. The broadcast network KBS thankfully wanted to bring this refreshing treatment back again and hence, we have that in the form of The Best Hit. It’s a new variety-drama starting on June 2 in a new slot of Fridays and Saturdays, the same one which was invented for The Producers and later dropped. Continue reading →