Just Bananas About: Week of 6/19/17

Recently, I’ve been watching Fight My Way, starring Park Seo Joon and Kim Ji Won, as merely another fun, summer drama.  Honestly, I admit that I didn’t really take too much stock in the story as I found the premise a little predictable.  However last week, the drama’s plot took a turn for the better, mainly changing the dynamics of the four main characters.  The drama is about four childhood friends as they try to navigate the complicated world of young adult life while trying to achieve their dreams.

[Review] Descendants of the Sun – 태양의 후예

IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY WITH PRETTY BOYS

Captain Yoo Shi Jin (Song Joong Ki) is part of an elite Special Forces Unit in which their highly classified missions help to keep the peace all over the globe.  Dr. Kang Mo Yeon (Song Hye Kyo) is a surgeon at a big Seoul hospital.  After a misunderstanding, Shi Jin and Mo Yeon fall for each other and begin to date but due to the demanding constraints of their jobs they decide to break up.

Eight months later, they both find themselves in the fictional country of Uruk on a peacekeeping mission.  They both get a chance to rediscover their feelings and understand their views on life.

Sergeant Major Seo Dae Young (Jin Goo) is also part of Shi Jin’s Special Forces Unit.  When he’s not busy trying to keep his best friend Shi Jin out of trouble, he pines for his ex-girlfriend Yoon Myung Joo (Kim Ji Won) who is an army doctor.  She also happens to be the daughter to his Lieutenant General who doesn’t like the fact that his daughter is in love with a soldier.  Instead of facing his dilemma head on, he avoids encountering Myung Joo every chance he gets even though he is madly in love with her.

Just Bananas About: Week of 2/29/16

Happy Leap Year Day!  I’ve been waiting for the premiere of Writer Kim Eun Sook’s latest drama, Descendants of the Sun.  It marks Song Joong Ki’s return to TV since he finished his military service.  He’s paired with Song Hye Kyo in this romance drama that blossoms in a war-torn country.

[Review] Gap Dong – 갑동이

THE ANATOMY OF A SERIAL KILLER

In 1996, a girl is brutally murdered. The police believe it to be the work of a serial killer, known only as Gap Dong. The city is gripped with fear because this is the 9^th in a series of murders linked by the way each body was tied up by a signature fisherman’s knot. Detective Yang Cheol Gon (Sung Dong Il) believes that the killer is Ha Il Suk, a mentally challenged town resident. However, his arrest attempt fails when Ha Il Suk commit suicide in front of him and Il Suk’s young son, Ha Moo Yeom.

Seventeen years later, Ha Moo Yeom (Yoon Sang Hyun) is now a detective himself but comes to the belief that the infamous killer is dead after the statute of limitation expires. That is until a series of new murders bears the same eerie resemblance to the original Gap Dong murders. Detective Yang Cheol Gon returns attempting to catch the killer who has eluded him all these years but his suspicions quickly turn to Moo Yeom assuming the child has taken up his father’s crimes.

[Review] Expect Dating – 연애를 기대해

GREAT EXPECTATIONS?

Meet Joo Yeon Ae (BoA), a dating novice who always manages to date the wrong guy.  Meet Cha Ki Dae (Choi Daniel), a dating coach who is an expert at the dating but a failure at the next stages of a relationship.

[Review] Horror Stories 2 – 무서운 이야기 2

BOO!  DID I SCARE YOU?

Like the first movie, Horror Stories 2 is an anthology of shorts with an interstitial connecting the disparate stories.  Se Young (Lee Se Young) has the ability to see into people’s past and read their minds.  Late one night, her boss at the insurance company, Manager Park (Park Seong Woong), tries to test her powers and asks her about three cases he suspects of insurance fraud.  The cases involve two friends who are waiting to be rescued after falling off the edge of a cliff; three girlfriends who set off on a road trip and become stranded after a car accident; and a young teacher who befriends a student obsessed with black magic and tries to escape from hell.

[Review] To the Beautiful You – 아름다운 그대에게

THANK YOU, TO THE BEAUTIFUL YOU!!

After watching a track and field competition one day on TV, Gu Jae Hee (Choi Sulli) comes to idolize one of the high jump atheletes, Kang Tae Joon (Choi Min Ho).  Tae Joon suffers an accident which could potentially end his career and Jae Hee transfer into the school.  However, it happens to be an all-boys high school and Jae Hee must disguise herself as a boy to enter.

Unlike most of you whose peg are the Japanese versions of Hana Kimi, I came into the show out of pure, unconditional love for the Taiwanese spinoff. Unlike most of you, I’m not really a big fan of idols, I’m more into K-Dramas and K-movies. Basically, I decided to watch To the Beautiful You just to see whether it’s going to be better (or not) than the Taiwanese Hana Kimi, which gave us solid performances from Ella Chen and Jiro Wang, and NOT because of the idol group boys.

[Review] What’s Up – 왓츠업

WHAT’S THAT PLAYING ON MBN?

There have been many musical k-dramas this last year and it took What’s Up awhile to get broadcast.  The drama is about the lives of the 1^st year students in a musical program at a university.  The timeline expands from the time the students apply to the prestigious program to when they premiere their theatrical project.

There are a lot of characters in this drama and I like that all the characters come from different backgrounds and bring different kinds of baggage.  In that way, I was continually interested in the plot because I had a different person to care and worry about or story to follow.