K-Drama

Good news, folks – My Royal Nemesis is on a bit of an uptick in Episode 7. I’ve been critical of this recent portion of...

There’s a very fine line between slapstick-y comedy and outright goofy claptrap, and it was inevitable that at some point, My Royal Nemesis was going...

Things are moving pretty quickly in My Royal Nemesis, and I don’t think that’s a bad thing. Se-gye and Dan-sim have gone from vague acquaintances...

I’ve been a little mixed on My Royal Nemesis thus far, but Episode 3 is easily my favourite instalment yet. The first two episodes had...

One of the major selling points of My Royal Nemesis is that it reverses the typical direction of a transmigration gimmick. Generally, especially with an explicit time...

Reminiscent of Bon Appetit, Your Majesty, and a smattering of other “out of time and place” streaming K-Dramas, at first blush, My Royal Nemesis is too familiar to...

As far as clear-cut climaxes go, you could probably see this one coming a mile away. Pro Bono is the sort of show that lends...

I’d like to be wrong about this, but Pro Bono strikes me as the kind of weekend K-Drama that is perfectly fine and serviceable, but one that, for some hard-to-articulate reason, never really resonates with people.

Pro Bono feels like a pretty safe bet for fans of Jung Kyung-ho and the kind of weekend streaming K-Dramas that feel more like a reassuring hug than anything genuinely provocative.

Typhoon Family was always going to struggle with its ending. It isn’t so much a case of it being “happy” or not. It isn’t even...

You wouldn’t think that Episode 14 of a 16-episode run was necessarily the right place for a significant change of pace, but Typhoon Family has other ideas.

As we approach the end of Typhoon Family, Episode 13 regathers a bit more energy and zing, which is probably just as well. It was...

Sixteen episodes is too many, isn’t it? I don’t mean all of the time, but generally speaking, especially for a K-Drama running 65-75 minutes per outing.

The last thing Typhoon Family needed was to get drier, but here we are in Episode 11, “Tomorrow Comes Love”, with Tae-poong trying to secure a government contract.

Sometimes it takes failure to show you what success really looks like.

I can’t say I didn’t warn you, but Episode 9 of Typhoon Family hits the wall I expected it to. It isn’t a bad outing,...

I feel like I have been a little hard on Typhoon Family. It’s only because I care!

There’s a peculiar predicament that Typhoon Family finds itself in, I think as a consequence of being backdropped by a very real financial crisis.

Tae-poong has a lot of admirable qualities in Typhoon Family, but the guy’s pretty unlucky.

Typhoon Family is the quintessential example of a show with very familiar constituent parts – a real-life period of turbulent history, a wayward son forced to grow up at pace, a burgeoning romance, and so on – that feels fresh and distinct through its basic underlying quality.