Dramas Over Flowers

Anisa, Saya, and Paroma talk about recently airing dramas, shows they chose to stop watching, and KDrama's tendency to value emotions over plot development. Also, drama recs!

01:15 - Poem A Day

17:47 - Suits

30:40 - DNF'd dramas: Great Seducer

31:25 - DNF'd dramas: Shall We Kiss First

33:16 - DNF'd dramas: Switch

36:18 - Depiction of marijuana in Suits

39:01 - Is the frequency of sexual assault plots in recent dramas a result of the #MeToo movement?

39:44 - Japanese Drama: Signal

44:54 - Are Korean Dramas overly emotional? Paroma compares The Liar and His Lover with its source material and thinks it comes up short.

47:19 - Why some dramas choose to focus on emotions and leave the plot behind. Saya uses The Great Seducer as a likely culprit.

50:11 - Chinese Dramas: Only Side By Side With You

52:57 - Question of the Yak: What will make you drop a drama immediately?

We dive deep into what is probably the best "Robot drama" of a year full of dramas about Robots, and we have a very insightful guest to help us wade through all the ways in which this show was truly awesome. Meet (Beanie) Lee Tennant.

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Welcome to Part 2 of this month’s Long Yak. Here we move away from our usual Korean fare and check out some new and old Chinese dramas that have caught Paroma’s attention and imagination. We also cover some Japanese anime and dramas, and then introduce a new segment: questions we want to ask each other! And we end, of course, on Saya’s terrible (but inevitable) monthly dad joke AKA “ajusshi gag”.

Shownotes -https://akdramapodcast.wordpress.com/2018/04/16/podcast-ep-12-the-long-yak-part-2-nirvana-in-fire-a-love-so-beautiful-love-020/

This month on our Long Yak we cover hot new dramas Misty and The Great Seducer. We also talk about Queen of Mystery 2 and whether it lives up to the promise of the first season. Doctors and some other older dramas come up as we swap recommendations...and then we run out of time. So, you can catch Paroma's foray into Chinese Wuxia dramas in PART 2 - which will be out tomorrow!

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In this episode we take a slight detour from our regular programming to squee about Black Panther, because we love it.

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Welcome to our first monthly Long Yak. Here we discuss currently airing dramas, shows we're finally catching up on, and other matters that may or may not be related to binge-watching. Follow our time-stamped shownotes here: https://akdramapodcast.wordpress.com/2018/03/02/podcast-ep-9-the-long-yak-im-not-a-robot-hwayugi-just-between-lovers-mother-shownotes/

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Join Saya, Laica, and special guests SailorJumun and Chickachunga for a spoiler-filled deep dive on 2017's Forest of Secrets!

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In our first throwback episode we talk about obsessive love and Ji-sung’s kisses in 2013’s breakout revenge melo, Secret or Secret Love. Joining us in examining what makes a good revenge drama is Odessa Jones from koreandrama.today.

Shownotes - https://akdramapodcast.wordpress.com/2017/12/28/podcast-ep-4-secret-2013-k-drama-wrap-up-throwback-edition-with-show-notes/

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Saya, Paroma and Laica discuss School 2017, about a group of students who struggle to make their dreams come true in a system where everything seems set against them, while a mysterious vigilante named X commits acts of rebellion against corrupt school officials. Join us as we go back to school, and experience once again the highs and lows of being eighteen.

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This week in While You Were Sleeping, Kitten Killers and Crafty Defense Attorneys bring on the heat for our heroes. Jae-chan can see a case derailing before his eyes but he’s unable to stop it because the law must follow its course. Meanwhile, Hong-joo is back on her job and unhappy about her first assignment.

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