K-Pop Extreme Survival

K- Pop Extreme Survival

Okay just a heads up for everyone, this show was cut short two episodes and therefore has a beyond sucky ending!!! I am going to tell you though that it was a great show but had the worst ending ever!!!!! So here is my breakdown...

The beginning of this show was very comical and gave you a pretty good idea of the comedy that lies in wait for you! 

When you first meet our leading lady, Seung Yeon, you instantly fall in love with her. Her personality is very different from most leading ladies in other dramas. She is very spunky, tough, cute, exciting, and very fun. 

The other leading man you meet is Ji Woo. He is a shy, sweet, loving, but very unconfident in himself. He has a very strong, sweet, and caring relationship with Ji Seung Yeon. Ji Seung Yeon often calls Ji Woo her wife because he is everything she isn't. It is almost as if Ji Woo is the girl and Ji Seung Yeon is the boy. Don't get me wrong though Ji Woo is very manly too, just not all the time! :)

Next you meet the Juniors!!! Oh how I love them! They are all very different and very fun!!! It is a group of 8 "boys" who are going through a "elimination" of sorts to find out who is the top 4. Then those top 4 join the big and famous M2 group. As a group they go through a lot of struggles and rough patches, even when the different members were going through rough patches they always stuck together and supported each other, even though they were competing against each other. I really liked that! Especially after they found out Seung Yeon was a girl! It took them a bit but they were awesome! 

Alright! Its time for the main leading man.... Woo Hyun!!! When you first meet him he is a total jerk!!! I absolutely loved to hate him. When Woo Hyun and Seung Yeon first meet it is gross but kinda funny, and I think that describes their relationship perfectly until Woo Hyun finds out she is actually a girl! 

As their friendship grows so does Woo Hyun. His character development is amazing! He goes from cold and cruel to soft, sweet, and seriously charming. After he found out about her being a girl, I was so impressed at his forgiveness, it was not what I was expecting. Their romance after that, although short was very sweet and cute. It was pretty cheesy but I loved it. I also loved how persistent Woo Hyun was with Seung Yeon, 

he never gave up. I Loved it!

 

Alright, now for what I didn't like about this show. I usually don't have any but there are a few....

1. How the show ended. 

I know that they cut the series short two episodes but still, they spent so much time on useless stuff that they left no room for the important stuff. Like the flashback of the Juniors past. That took up time they could have spent on other stuff like... How did they fans react once they found out she was a girl? How did the Juniors end up? Did they form their own group or were some eliminated and the rest made M2? How about Team Leader Han? There was just too many stories left unfinished.

2. What was with the flower girl? 

I seriously find no point with this. I know she played a little part in making Team Leader Han want to leave but that could have been accomplished differently. The whole thing was really weird.

3. MURDER?

This is so dumb. Why would you have wasted time with this? It is so pointless and does nothing for the story line. It would have changed nothing if they had left it out, which they should have. 

4. Ji Woo...

I am one of those people who always roots for the underdog so I was a little annoyed that they never gave Ji Woo another love interest. How did he end? Was he always pinning for Seung Yeon? Did he always stay by her side as a friend because he could never be more? 

Well that's it for me. I really did enjoy this show up to the last episode. The music was also really great. Most of the people who sang or play instruments are Idols themselves so that was pretty cool. The audition part of this show was fun because of all the different music. If you are looking for some mindless comedy with and easy story line to follow and some good music but don't mind the completely absurd ending, go for it! 

If they had finished it like they should have I would given this a 3 out of 5 stars but since they didn't, I am going to give it a....

 2 out of 5 stars.

City Hunter

City Hunter

When you first meet the leading lady, Kim Nana,  you are instantly enchanted by her. Her love for her father is truly admirable.  You also cannot help but love her spunky and confident attitude, not to mention her beauty.

The male lead Yoon-Sung / Buchai , you instantly love as well.  Preparing to deal out  his revenge he  learns a lot about the world but at the same time is naïve and ignorant to so many things. As he unravels the secrets of his past you can't help but feel sadness for what has happened to him and the path that he was put on.

There are quite a bit of fight scenes in this show and Yoon-Sung's  skills as a fighter leave nothing to be desired. He Leaps, and flies, and soars all without breaking a sweat.

Jin Pyo/ Steve Lee  plays the ultimate bad guy. His motive for vengeance so strong that his desire to kill overcomes all.  As the father and sons plan for revenge plays out lots of twists and turns begin to unfold and eventually they play on opposite teams. Bae Man-duk/Bae Shik-joong who plays a sort of mother figure to Yoon-Sung is the perfect partner in crime. The sheer cunning of their plans and actions that follow are amazing. The way the two whisper back and forth is hilarious.

I really enjoyed Prosecutor Kim Young Joo's journey through this show. The pain, heart ache, and growth he goes through to reveal the truth and catch the City Hunter is truly admirable.  Then by making the ultimate sacrifice he becomes a hero of justice.

As Kim Nana and Yoon-Sungs lives begin to collide, they are very cold and stand off-ish to one another. As the show progresses they begin to have feelings for one another and they start a back a forth banter of feelings and emotions ,although they try to hide it from one another. The first time that they kiss I was caught completely off guard, it was very cute but totally unexpected.  As the rest of their story continues to unfold, their struggles to save their love begin to seem impossible.

As this story comes to a close , the sorrow and tragedy it brings is truly heartbreaking, but has a beautiful and moving ending.

This show was intense, action packed, full of forbidden love , and passion. The struggles of the individual characters to achieve their goals is thrilling and heart wrenching  all at the same time. This show has it all. I really enjoyed this show and hope that you will too!!!!

I would give this a a very well deserved...

 5 out of 5 stars!!!!!!!!!!!!

Playful kiss

 Playful Kiss

    

Oh Ha Ni is a sweet lively and happy high school student yet she is definitely not the sharpest crayon in the box.She has a crush on Baek Seung Jo, the smartest boy in school despite being chased loyally by Bong Joon Gu herself. When she confesses to Seung Jo through a letter, he brings it back to her, after grading it harshly and commenting that he hates stupid girls.When Oh Ha Ni's new house suddenly collapses her father's friend offers for him and Ha Ni to stay with them. Unknown to Ha Ni, her father's friend is actually Baek Seung Jo's dad.As they continue to live under the same roof and attend Parang University together, Ha Ni continues to show affection for Seung Jo although he seems to be more interested in the equally clever and beautiful Yoon Hae Ra.
I have got to say that this is in my top 5 of TV shows that I have ever watched!!!!! This show is also known as Mischievous Kiss, and it is rightfully named too! This show and I had a wonderful love hate relationship throughout the series. Then male lead in this show Baek Seung Jo, is a very smart and talented boy who is incessantly chased by the sweet and innocent Oh Ha Ni. Despite her steadfast and undying loyalty to Baek Seung Jo she is constantly rejected by him and is subjected to the cruel and heartless side of his personality. For this reason, my love for this show was always on the rocks. His endless torments and nasty words towards Oh Han Ni annoyed me, but for some reason I could not tear myself away from it, I was completely captured by this show. Every time he would repent by being nice to Oh Han Ni I would forgive him and get right back to loving this show.

This show never left me wanting more. It has a magical and whimsical start, which at first I was like, "What is this? This is not what I want!". But I pushed through it and was so happy that I did. The characters in this show were very comical and entertaining. I especially loved Baek Seung Jo's mother. She was hilarious. Her meddling and constant sneaking around left me thoroughly entertained.
I have to tell you that the love triangles in this show were unbelievably charming. Everyone of them lovable in their own ways. I couldn't decide which ones I wanted to root for! (Little tip about me, I am always silently rooting for the underdog!) 

Bong Joon Gu stole my heart from the minute I saw him! I loved his growth throughout this whole show. He went from a hopeless romantic (kinda weird) high school-er with not thoughts or plans for the future to a successful, thoughtful, caring and wonderful person. 

 I love his characters complete 360!

 

I cannot on the other hand say the same for anyone else in this show. That to me was of the things I did not like. The two main characters had no personal growth at all. They never changed, especially Baek Seung Jo! I was so hoping for him to suddenly become the prince charming that Oh Han Ni deserved. But he didn't. (And I still liked the ending!) Overall I really loved this show and I was in LOVE with the chemistry between the leads two leads in this show. 

 

I would give this an awesome...
4 out of 5 stars!!!!!

HERE IT IS!!!!!

Alright, this is the moment that you have been waiting for.... THE LIST!!!!!!!!!! I have watched a ton of K-Dramas and these are a list of my favorites and the ones in red are my absolute favorites. I beg of you to try it before you judge. Seriously you won't regret it!!!!!!!!!!!

Romantic Comedies

Your Beautiful

The playful Kiss

Heartstrings

Coffee Prince

Mary stayed out all night

My Princess

Shut Up Flower Boy Band

Listen to my heart

Boys before Flowers

To the Beautiful You

Love Rain

My Girl

Personal Taste

(WARNING: if you are not in the habit of giggling with pure excitement and giddiness get ready.)

Okay So next in my list is Action. Now all of these have a little romance in them, some more than others but it is still there. I have to tell you first of all that these are incredible and the fight scenes are amazing! My favorite on this List is City Hunter. I will do a post about this show later just because it is so amazing!

Action

Secret Garden

City Hunter

Faith

Queen and I

Here are a couple others I love that are a mix of both!

I miss you

Dream High ( this one has some awesome music in it!)

I am an addict

I am an Netflix addict. There I said it. They say the first step to recovery is realizing you have a problem.

But in my case I don't think I will recover anytime soon. :) I will seriously sit for like an hour browsing through the Netflix list just to find something to watch. It is so bad. Like I said before I am an addict. I am also a huge fan of Hulu. I actually don't have cable anymore, so Hulu is awesome! Not only does it have current shows but past shows too!!!!!!!!! So try them both out!!!!!!!!!!

Hearstrings

Heartstrings

Kyu-Won (Park Shin-Hye) is a bright girl and a highly skilled gayageum player. She is in the Korean traditional music department. Kyu-Won also comes from a family who has one of the three best pansori singers in the world. Shin (Jung Yong-Hwa) is a cold and refined young man, while being a highly skilled guitarist. He is in the applied music department. They come from different family backgrounds and have an argument, but then start to like other.

Okay seriously I loved this show! It was so cute and sweet, I was never bored and the chemistry between these two was great! The music was also really great! This show made me laugh, cry, smile and just about every emotion possible. WATCH IT!!!!!!!!!!!

It give it a....

 4 out of 5 stars!

To the Beautiful You

To the Beautiful You

The series centers on Goo Jae Hee, a Korean girl who lives in the United States. One day, she sees a track and field competition on TV, and becomes attracted to one of the high jump competitors, Kang Tae Joon. She begins to idolize the young athlete and eventually transfers to Korea to attend the same school that Tae Joon attends after he suffers an accident that could potentially end his career. There is a catch, however: Tae Joon attends an all-boys high school and Jae Hee must disguise herself as a boy to enter.


Okay so I LOVED this show! I highly recommend it to anyone! The fact that she is a girl in an all boys school first of all is hilarious. And of course the fact that she lives with a boy in a dorm room trying to hide to it from him and is successful. This show is so cute and charming and I loved every minute of it! I highly recommend it to anyone looking to watch something light and fun and sure to make you laugh!
I would give this a ...

Shut up, Flower Boy Band

Shut up, Flower Boy Band 

Eye Candy is a six member underground rock band led by Byung Hee. When the group transfers into the prestigious Jungsang High School, they find their rival, Strawberry Fields. This is a story about the two rock bands and how they deal with friendship, relationships, and their passion for music.

Shut Up Flower Boy Band is an atypical music drama – gritty, relentless and highly stylized to the punk sentiment, but always with heart.

Okay so this is the most recent show that I have watched and I did enjoy it. I was really into it and loving it, (giggling and all) until about the last 3 episodes where the story line was dragging a little bit. But over all pretty good. I would say.......

3 out of 5

K-Drama

If you live in the US then you know what TV is like here. Now don't get me wrong I am not dissing on american TV shows, but sometimes they can get a little raunchy. I love american TV as much as the next person but sometimes enough is enough. A couple of years ago I was talking with a bunch of my girlfriends about how tired I was of watching sex on TV and how inappropriate it was to show such things on TV. Then one of my girlfriends told me about her obsession with watching Korean TV, and I was like, WHAT? That is kinda weird! After a couple of days of her insisting that she wasn't crazy and that I should watch them I finally gave in. After the first episode I was HOOKED!! I watched the whole season in days! I seriously couldn't believe that I had gone this long and survived without watching any Korean Drama. Besides the fact that the shows are incredibly clean sex wise they are so hilariously cute!!! I found myself giggling all the time. Now for anyone who knows me I DO NOT GIGGLE. So this was huge! Now in these Korean Dramas physical contact is huge! And the build up for any sort of physical contact in very intense so when it happens you are dying inside! I will tell you now these shows can get insanely cheesy but in a very good way. Another thing that I love about Korean Dramas is that they DO NOT drag shows out for seasons. They usually are about 15-25 episodes long, and then they are over. So the story lines are not dragged out for 4+ seasons or randomly get cancelled because people loose interest or they run out of things to write about. They are short very sweet and to the point. Now I know that I have blabbed on and on about how wonderful they are but truly you just need to watch it for yourself. Here is a list of the ones that I have watched and have truly loved!    You can find these shows on Hulu.com or just put it into Google and watch it illegally like I did for the first couple of shows. I hope that you will enjoy and truly love these as much as have. I will post them bit by bit and then write a little about them so hang in there. I know you are as excited as I am!

I love TV.....

I am always on the look out for good TV and movies. I hate it when you start watching something thinking its  going to be great and instead it turns out to be not what you thought and a total waste of time. So this blog is my personal and honest opinion of everything that I am watching from this point on. I hope that this helps you with your future movie/TV adventures. ENJOY!!!!!!!