In this second part of this conversation, we talked about our favourites for 2021.

* Beyond Evil (our pick)

* The Imperial Coroner (my pick)

* Vincenzo, The Red Sleeve (absoluteM’s picks)

We also gave Hometown Cha Cha Cha a bit of a drubbing and compared it to favourites Racket Boys and Dali and the Cocky Prince. I think we were both disappointed at the end product.

We also talked briefly about older dramas we watched in 2021.

* Dr Romantic — the second series (absoluteM)

* Reborn — a 2020 C drama that I watched. I posted a review on the blog some time last year. (me)

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This is the first part of a really long conversation between absoluteM from Janghaven Forums and myself about two weeks ago about our favourite (and not-so-favourite) dramas from 2021. (Took me forever in between writing fanfiction and blogging to edit this) The segment is largely focused on our favourites from the second half of the year. Notable mentions include:

* The Red Sleeve

* The Devil Judge

* Racket Boys

* Dali and the Cocky Prince

* Bossam

* Hospital Playlist

* Luoyang

* Jirisan

* DP

Enjoy!

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Drama buddy absoluteM from Janghaven Forums and I managed to find some time to chat to each other about our recent favourite Dali and the Cocky Prince. We yak about the leads, the unpleasant people, — far too many to count — the storyline, sneak in a mention of Charles Dickens, pontificate about the importance of art and speculate over what the future holds for this odd couple.

Thanks ahead of time for listening… hope you enjoy it and let us know what you think about the drama!

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This has been in the works for sometime and we were finally able to find time to have this conversation. I apologize ahead of time for some of the audio issues because we ended up using a messenger app because it didn’t seem that the alternative was recording well on Audacity. I recommend the use of earphones to expedite audibility.

In this podcast we talk about:

* Dr Dave’s background and interest in K dramas

* Dr Dave’s assessment of the drama’s use of medical information

* The role of tertiary hospitals

* The diet of health care workers

* Work-life balance issues

* The emphasis on organ transplantation

* Hospital Playlist as a wholesome drama

* Hospitals as supportive work environments

* The hospital hierarchy

* The Five Friends — Professors: Too god-like?

* Table tennis tournament — Former Olympians (We said that they were from Radiology but I think it is Nuclear Medicine)

* The most stressful department(s)

* Dr Dave’s experiences of different rotations

* Romance among doctors

* Differences between the seasons

Thanks for listening…

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In this podcast episode, absoluteM and I yakked about the final episode of HosPlay S2. We talk about what we like. We respond to criticisms about the season finale and put in our two cents about that and the possibility of a S3. We also managed to sneak in a plug for PD Shin Won-ho’s masterpiece, Prison Playbook.

Apologies about the tapping here and there. It’s probably the teacher in me getting a bit carried away. I don’t think I was firing on all cylinders at the time during the time of recording.

This came out a bit later than I had planned to but all sorts of things came up and this got put in the too hard basket and was almost forgotten.

Recorded on 28 September 2021.

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absoluteM from Janghaven Forums and I were deep in conversation over the more recent episodes of Hospital Playlist over the weekend. If you’re wondering why I sound like I’m about to crack several times throughout the discussion it’s because I was nursing a wannabe cold that I managed to stave off with supplements.

In this podcast we chatted about overall impressions, the development of lovelines in the drama, some of the key characters and the prospect of another season.

Enjoy! Feel free to comment.

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I caught up with drama-watching buddy absoluteM from Janghaven Forums and we nattered about Hospital Playlist S2.

In the podcast we yak about…

* whether the show has changed

* the PICU mums

* the main love lines and their impact on the characters

* the highlights of the drama

* what’s happened to NS… and we grieve over the loss of Ahn Chi-hong

* Jun-wan’s recent trajectory

* the different types of relationships in the show

* the surprising use of noble idiocy in the drama

Recorded on 11 July 2021

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In this podcast recorded on 12 June, AbsoluteM and I talk about our favourites from the past six months. We talk about:

* Mad for Each Other

* My Roommate is a Gumiho, Doom At Your Service

* Undercover

* Taxi Driver (minor spoilers)

* Vincenzo and villainy (minor spoilers)

* Beyond Evil

* The Imperial Coroner, The Long Ballad and You Are My Hero

* Law School

* Sequelitis, Hospital Playlist S2 and beyond

* Navillera, Youth of May

* Bossam: Steal the Fate and sageuks

* A new type of romance dynamic??

What were your favourites for the first half of the year?

Apologies for the all the sound and editing issues… I’m still a bit of a novice at this and working out the software.

Edited: Doom At Your Service… not Side as originally published.

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