K-Drama

Whenever I write about a K-Drama, I typically avoid played-out comparisons to Squid Game, which seems to be the only Korean show Western critics have...

If nobody knew quite what to make of The Atypical Family throughout its first three episodes, I imagine Episode 4 is where undecided viewers will...

Everyone has superpowers these days, don’t they? It’s pretty played out as a hook to hang a TV show on, but The Atypical Family takes...

Romance Is a Bonus Book is that slice-of-life, feel-good, cozy K-Drama that soothes the soul. The series follows a gifted writer who has become the...

Goodbye Earth explores the run-up to a devastating event that will end life on Earth, which doesn’t lend itself especially well to Season 2. Indeed...

Yes, of course, Queen of Tears has a happy ending. What were you expecting? It isn’t about the destination anyway, but instead the journey, and...

There are a lot of expectations on a penultimate episode, especially one for a series that is among the most popular K-Dramas of all time....

The cleverness of Goodbye Earth is exposed by its ending, which refuses to cop out in the way a great many stories would. The premise...

Imagine an asteroid is hurtling towards Earth. You have 200 days to live, at best. What do you do? This is the question Netflix’s Korean...

Once Upon a Small Town comes across as your typical K-Drama romance, and to be honest, that’s the best way of describing it. Spanning 12...

So, here’s the thing – I don’t think Queen of Tears is going to have a sad ending. I can’t say how yet, but I’m...

You always get a sense when a show is narratively nearing its end, and that comes through very strongly in Queen of Tears Episode 13....

Episode 12 of Queen of Tears is the first installment to really justify the runtime. I know, I know – I keep going on about...

I know I keep going on about it, but these episodes are just too long. I’m preaching to the choir since Queen of Tears is...

Parasyte: The Grey was generally considered a completely new interpretation of the iconic original manga by Hitoshi Iwaake, set in South Korea and following a new...

While it was widely understood that Parasyte: The Grey was a reinterpretation of the iconic manga by Hitoshi Iwaake, the last-minute cameo of Shinichi Izumi revealed unforeseen...

“Filler” is a weird word to use for a TV episode, since it’s always taken as a criticism (because it’s almost exclusively intended as one.)...

I lightly complain about the lengths of these episodes, but nobody cares – which is fine, obviously. But Queen of Tears Episode 9 makes me feel...

The usual quibbles notwithstanding – the length! – Episode 8 of Queen of Tears was good. Like, really good. The emotions were high, the characters...

Blimey, this is much too long, isn’t it? Queen of Tears is a good show, but it runs the risk of becoming a tedious one...