Kdramas are critical to mental and emotional health, right?
I write reviews of kdramas that seem more like personal essays.
photo: Suncheon Filming Site (2019)
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I try to post reviews seven days after they conclude. Do I generally succeed? No! But bear with me!
Snowdrop: The Case of the Hysterical Hostage
My resentment towards Snowdrop can be summarized by one particular point; it actually made me question the legitimacy of the beloved drama, SKY Castle. To have it sullied after watching the sophomore endeavour of the writer/director feels insulting because now the original drama feels transformed from a critical satire on Korean elites and their nefarious plans to buy their children’s futures into a run-of-the-mill makjang (though these elements were ever-present). Nonetheless, I still assert that SKY Castle was refreshing, tawdry, and fun; Snowdrop was vanilla, repetitive and pretty boring.
Breaking Up is Hard to Do?: Yumi’s Cells
Western culture is bad at acknowledging and processing a lot of things: namely, grief, conflict, justice, fairness and atonement. A lot of these things are deeply rooted in the way we process emotion. Human beings have the tendency to either react too impulsively or interpret their emotions as irrational. Nonetheless, the way we feel about things and how we make sense of emotions matter immensely. In reflecting on this, I enjoyed Yumi’s Cells for two reasons. Firstly, it showed the complexity of a human being’s emotional landscape in an entertaining and earnest way, and secondly, it appealed to the audience’s emotions, in a way that probably bordered on the manipulative, but allowed for true outpouring that was very comforting to the viewer…this viewer anyways.
