Category: television

  • Epilogues: The Epilogues of our Dreams

    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

    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

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

  • OTP: One True Partnership

    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…