K-Drama

Jae-i is one of the most important characters in Hierarchy, and her personal arc touches on many of the most crucial themes that the Netflix series...

Hierarchy was billed as a limited series, which is common among Netflix binge-drop K-Dramas, especially these days. But don’t trust the label. Season 1 ends with...

The Atypical Family has been improving every week, and that trend continues with Episodes 9 & 10. The K-Drama is finding a real love story...

Time travel is a theoretical superpower that people tend to covet. It’s attractive because it gets at a fundamental desire in human beings to be...

There are several levels on which The Atypical Family doesn’t work. It’s an oddly structured and paced show that sometimes seems to be making things...

Families are trouble at the best of time, but the Boks are a nightmare. The Atypical Family is weirdly titled, really, since superpowers notwithstanding, they’re...

The obvious question to ask about the ending of a series like The 8 Show, which is based around a bizarre reality TV competition that...

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...