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  • Scene Stealers: Bleeding Flowers

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    Those who know, know. Those who don’t know, should watch. Right now. Some performances steal a scene. Some an episode. Some steal an entire damn show. And in this particular month on this particular site, there’s only one scene stealer I could possibly write about. And you already know who it is. I can’t say…

  • Epilogue of a relationship

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    An unpublished Theme of the Month post submitted to Dramabeans for the prompt, Epilogues Korean dramas are full of romance. Even shows with psycho killers and kidnapping plots have a One True Pairing – the cornerstone of 90 per cent of Korean television. But I know I’m not alone in imagining what happens to that…

  • Completing the Circle

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    This is a slightly-edited version of a unpublished piece I wrote for Dramabeans on the topic of Epilogues Last year I watched Circle while I was on holidays. I came back from my morning swim, had breakfast and then decided to start the first episode of Circle. It was about 10am so I made myself a…

  • Epilogues: The Epilogues of our Dreams

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    It is said that the moral arc of the universe bends towards justice. It’s a concept that comforts us through the world’s worst periods but also one that seems to be far from true in this day and age. Many things have happened in the last few years that have made the concepts of fairness…

  • Food: Going Troppo

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    I needed noodles and the closest restaurant was 10 kilometres away — by boat. I had planned for my holiday well but had not anticipated this. Who could have? This was an emergency. A ramyeon emergency! Now I love noodles but rarely make them myself because I don’t have the cookware, my local takeaways are…

  • Best Friends Forever: Reunited Friends

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    One thing dramas do really well is friendship. This piece on friendship in Reunited Worlds was originally published on Dramabeans.

  • OTP: The Best OTP is a NOTP

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    Soon after I discovered K-drama, I watched Boys Before Flowers. This classic introduced me to the Kdrama tropes I was only just starting to recognize. The second male lead syndrome. The dead fish kiss. The chaebol jerk. The insane mother-in-law. The wealthy asshole male lead won over by impoverished-but-good-hearted female lead. The wealthy asshole male…

  • OTP: One True Partnership

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    Relationships are a partnership. We all know this; we even repeat it like a mantra in comments sections. But television is still replete with relationships portrayed as “romantic” despite a power imbalance that can sometimes verge on the disturbing. From Strong Woman Do Bong-soon to I’m Not a Robot, dramaland is full of romances that…

  • Haitus Part the Second

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    My apologies for not putting this blog on hiatus before Christmas. As most of you know, there was a lot going on at the end of last year. Part of this was my preparations for a bit of an epic travel tour. I’ve just come back from three weeks in Antarctica (which was amazing) and…

  • The Dame’s Guide to Uterus Removal: So You’re Having a Hysterectomy

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    When you first decide to have a hysterectomy, one of the most astonishing things you discover is just how common it is. In the great tradition of soldiering on, most women schedule life-altering surgery in between the school lunches and the afternoon laundry. When I wrote my original blog post about needing to have the…