reviews and rants
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Drama Review: The Glory (2023)
Starring Song Hye-kyo, Lee Do-hyun, Lim Ji-yeon, Cha Joo-young, Park Sung-hoon Starting things off with a ban-tangent Can I just say, before I begin this review for real, how very lacking Netflix subtitles are? There was a line about a storm in a pond or something that certainly got lost in translation. When I saw…
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Shows to Watch Instead of Crash Course in Romance
Ft. Green Mothers’ Club, Under the Queen’s Umbrella, SKY Castle, One The Woman, and Love to Hate You When I started collating my notes on Crash Course in Romance, I never intended to write such a long and detailed review: the original idea was always a “Shows to watch instead…” blurb series, but like everything…
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Drama Review: Crash Course in Romance (2023)
Starring Jeon Do-yeon, Jung Kyung-ho, Roh Yoon-seo Overthink? Me? Overthinking is an understatement, I’m beyond saving. Read at your own risk (sanity and spoilers). Plot(s) First, let’s get the obvious question out of the way. Is this a murder mystery or a rom-com? Here I used to consider Green Mothers’ Club to be the epitome…
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Book Review: Sarah J. Maas—A Court of Thorns and Roses (The Series)
A few disclaimers at the start I could have chosen not to do this post, but having sunk so many hours into this book series, I figured I should at least get a good rant out of it if nothing else, and bonus if I can also manage to settle my raging heart. A question…
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Drama Review: Bad Guys (2014)
Don Lee, Park Hae Jin, Kim Sang Joong, Jo Dong Hyuk At this point in history, Bad Guys is probably a genre unto itself—there has been at least one follow-up season to the 2014 release, and a movie from 2019. But I actually watched Bad Guys on a whim, because Netflix was going to remove…
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Book Review: Rick Riordan–The Heroes of Olympus
Recently in an attempt to find common ground with my 14-year old niece, I took up Rick Riordan’s second fantasy-adventure series—the Heroes of Olympus—that follows the super popular Percy Jackson and the Olympians books (which I have not read, I vaguely recall the movies; a TV reboot is coming to Disney at some point apparently,…
A Kultured Bear 