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Open Thread: Beyond Evil Episode 5-6
For the first time I grabbed a notebook and took notes while watching Beyond Evil. And when episode 6 started I had to throw them all out because that was when the whole thing flipped over.
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Open Thread: Beyond Evil Episode 3-4
As the community tries to comes to terms with the airing of dirty laundry it had long wanted to keep hidden, we start to see that under every village and every person there is a thing that lies hidden and is rarely bared – their teeth.
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Open Thread: Beyond Evil Episode 1-2
I’ve picked up the new psychological crime thriller Beyond Evil, with industry veterans Shin Ha-kyun and Yeo Jin-goo. As I breezed through the first two gripping but almost unsettling two episodes, I looked for somewhere to discuss the show and found little. And so here we are – my first open thread!
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No Pot Plants Allowed: The Lead in Her Own Story
2020 had enough blazingly original female characters that even mentioning pot plants seems… well… just so last year. You know?
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Alice in Borderland Premiere Watch
Alice in Borderland is a Netflix live-action adaptation of the manga of the same name. A thriller, a horror and a parallel world mystery: three friends find themselves transported to an empty post-apocalyptic Tokyo and forced to play a never-ending and ultimately lethal “game”.
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My Irresistibly Indifferent Year in Kdrama: 2020
There was one female lead who really shone this year. One who really owned the drama she was in. One who outshone even the supposed female lead of that drama. That female lead of course was… me.
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School Nurse Files: A Celebration of Weird
Netflix’s new Korean original The School Nurse Files is a bizarre, surreal and fun-filled ride that celebrates non-conformity and calls for us to embrace every part of ourselves