Hi everyone.

We jumped a lot in this episode because neither of us watched the same dramas. Thanks for being onboard and supporting what we’re doing here.

All the best for the new year. Xing Nian Kuai Le.

0:00 Introduction

0:37 absoluteM launches into a review of Undercover Miss Hong starring Park Shin-hye as a investigator/auditor in a checkered relationship with Go Kyung-po the CEO of the company she’s digging into.

7:41 We talk more generally about dramas

11:50 absoluteM talks about Honour, another legal drama featuring Lee Chung-ah as three friends who set up their own law firm to champion the forgotten people. I comment on the recent spate of stories.

18:49 I start yapping about Pro Bono and it’s protagonist. Afterwards absoluteM references his previous drama Oh My Ghost Clients — also another legal show.

30:36 Our focus shifts to The Judge Returns and then our discussion moves to Ji Sung who plays the titular character.

39:33 absoluteM starts talking about C dramas by first mentioning Bai Lu and Wang Xingyue’s newest release on Netflix, Unveiled: Jadewind. She’s watching another C drama spearheaded by Cheng Lei and Wang Churan, How Dare You?! — a piece of lighthearted fare about two book transmigrators trying to navigate the ancient past.

45:32 Our relationship with C dramas and dramas more generally.

57:37 We discuss recent dramas of Wang Xingyue and his career thus far.

1:01:26 absoluteM misses Lin Gengxin. Where has he gone??

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