The Fabulous

the fabulous

just finished watching.

such a cute little drama. i was attracted to it because of a singular clip on youtube when ji eun is comforting joseph while woo min laughs.

i. the centre point of the drama which COMPLETELY made it my favourite was the friendships. even tho joseph and ppyoji were a segment and seon ho and woo min the other, they all complimented each other so well. perfectly showed the dynamics of a four-people friend group where two people are closer to each other. but it didn't deter seon ho and ji eun to be so close to each other, nor did it stop joseph and woo min to love each other.

another thing about friendships is the love between boss and employee, ms oh and ji eun, mr do and woo min, joseph and esther.

the friendships of joseph and ji eun was so comforting, them being each other's hype men and always there. seon ho and woo min was personally very attached to me because of the nature of call out friendships mixed with the same rough affection we all have.

ii. i am SO glad kdramas have moved on from the 'toxic parents' trope. i am so sick of seeing unsupportive parents and fathers who try to hide their emotions while the mother slyly tells the daughter who is shedding a tear. seon ho's parents were so fucking supportive and open about it. and joseph's mother, in the first ep, i thought she was going to be the airhead mother who's just...there. but she really is his biggest hype(wo)man and supporter.

iii. the thing that did bug me was when ji eun slept with woo min in the first ep despite being in a relationship with nam jin at the time. seeing how it was never discussed again i thought maybe i was mistaken but...idk. still bothers me a bit.

iv. but apart from that, THE CHEMISTRY BETWEEN THEM was so fucking charged. like, in the first ep, during the pub scene, you could literally feel the sparks in between them. even if it was a little predictable, we dont watch kdramas like these for the slice of life it offers, but rather a feeling of comfort.

v. seon ho. my woman. what a fucking badass. the way she stood up for those models? bad ass. also she's so fucking pretty.

ps - the side plot of do young was so weird and unnecessary did not get it. except when he showed that album to ji eun.

pss - may everyone get a friend like esther amen.

It’s so difficult to be shippers of sun jae and hae e in a world of geon hu and hae e shippers istg

Crash Course in Romance (2023)

I hope all those people going crazy mad over sun jae hae e and geon hu love triangle are HAPPY now that was the best ending to a love triangle in kdrama history

The age thing bothers me so much too. She’s a wonderful actress, but just too old to play this particular role

Crash Course in Romance - 6/10

I have so many complicated feelings about this one. I mean, it wasn’t BAD. But there were a couple of things that bugged me about the show that kept me from fully loving it. 

The basic premise of the show is that Hae-e, a high school junior who has been raised by her aunt Haeng-seon, decides she wants to enroll in some math classes at a private academy as she prepares for the college entrance exam. This thrusts them into the crazy competitive world of private education and the pressures that these parents put on their children as they push them to attend the best universities. Through this Haeng-seon’s life begins to intersect with star teacher Chi-yeol and obvious they fall in love etc etc etc. But idk I wasn’t that interested in the romance.

I did appreciate this show as a look into the competitive education system, especially among those high achieving students who attend private academies after school hours. I mean, I got some of that in SKY Castle, but that show was melodrama dialed up to 15. This show’s melodrama was more at a mellow 8, lmao.

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You know what that's a more satisfactory ending than I was hoping for.

Sure, it would have been nice to see joong gil and koo ryeon get back together, but this is nice too. Because now, at least they have a closure and can take things slow at their own pace, even forever. There's no society to bury them and no obligations to the living world. And why bother going back to the living world if that world ruptured their connection. They found happiness in the afterlife even if that took centuries.

And anyway their love story was indeed not the main plotline, which I realised as each episode's protagonist scrolled through the final scenes. But they all helped ryeon come to realise who she needed to save. And in connection saved joong gil from his eternal heartache.

Jun woong going back to the living world as promised and still being the hero. A full circle moment. Boy was born to save people and so he will.

Mr. Lim got his promotion. Also, not him keeping exact count of Jun woong's time. I can see that someone grew fond of the golden retriever.

don’t worry about why i had to google this but this example sentence is killing me