K-Drama

There are criticisms that apply to Love Next Door that are as true of Episodes 5 & 6 as they have been of the previous...

Romance in the House enters its second half with Episodes 7 and 8, thankfully focusing on the right areas – the parental relationship between Mi-rae...

Love Next Door has no right to be as affecting and compelling as it is. As far as romantic K-Dramas go, this is as tropey...

In most films and TV shows, a family reunion is a cause for some jubilation, but not quite in Romance in the House. The plot...

This is good, isn’t it? I know I’ve said it before, but Episode 4 of Love Next Door only crystallizes my point that recapping this...

In Episode 6, you can kind of feel Romance in the House gearing up towards a happy ending. That’s expected, obviously, but one wishes it...

Love Next Door is an interesting show because there’s really very little that’s noteworthy about it, and yet it somehow feels quite momentous in its...

Episode 5 brings Romance in the House very close to its midpoint, and it feels like the plot is still beginning to pick up. I’m...

Sometimes what you want from a TV show is comfort and familiarity. Love Next Door fits the bill. It’s a classic friends-to-lovers tale with all...

Romance in the House is an odd, slightly confounding show, but with every episode, it seems to be getting closer to cohering into a much...

In Episode 3, Romance in the House continues to be a bit hit and miss, with lurching shifts in tone that don’t always work and...

The premiere of Romance in the House largely worked on the basis of mystery, but nobody – including me – stopped to wonder if perhaps...

Of all the subgenres of Korean drama, romance is among the most enduringly popular and closely associated with the nation’s output. Romance in the House...

Mission: Cross is like a South Korean Mr. and Mrs. Smith, without high-octane sexual tension and playfulness. It leans toward an exhausting, miserable marriage, where...

A happy ending was always an inevitability for Miss Night and Day, but it was still important for the show to stick the landing. Episode...

Episode 15 is the penultimate outing of Miss Night and Day, and you can tell. The stakes were already pretty high at the end of...

You can tell Miss Night and Day is heading towards its conclusion with an outing like Episode 14, which feels significant in both the dual-identity...

Episodes 11 & 12 of Miss Night and Day really upended the core mystery plot and made some good progress in the relationship dynamics, so...

Thus far, Miss Night and Day has gotten by with a distinct rhythm. Each episode unveils just enough clues about the ongoing mysteries and just...

In Episodes 7 & 8, Miss Night and Day continues to coast along in that typical trending K-Drama way. You know what I mean. Certain...