Teaser trailer for Grand Prince, the year’s first sageuk.  Not much content, but they’re definitely going for a traditional sageuk feel, which is a relief after the bulk of the 2016 and 2017 sageuk offerings.  It’s going for the same premise of two princes in love with the same woman and a lot of political strife and drama surrounding that, and, ( Read more... )

( Final comments on watching Deep Rootd Tree )

Continuing with comparing and contrasting Rebel: Thief Who Stole the People and Tree With Deep Roots, as of episode 14 of Tree. (More direct spoilers for both shows here than before, I think.)

( here )

I've been watching the 2011 sageuk Tree With Deep Roots, which is a political thriller about the creation of Hangul, which Six Flying Dragons is a prequel to. Tree should be watched before 6FD though. My first “I wish I’d watched this while it was airing” moment with it was the fight at the end of episode 7/beginning of episode 8. Because while ( Read more... )

See this poster for the newly-airing sageuk, Seven Day Queen? This poster is very pretty, and makes me very angry.


( Read more... )

Click to view

First teaser trailer for Seven Day Queen, about King Jungjong's first queen, Queen Danyeong, who was deposed and sent into exile only seven days after becoming queen because of her family's attempt to overthrow King Jungjong.

Probably my most anticipated of the upcoming sageuks for May (Ruler: Master of the Mask is the most likely hit of them, ( Read more... )

I wrote this for tumblr, where I've been writing about Rebel: Thief Who Stole the People a lot, and decided to crosspost this one here.

At this point, it’s actually a little sad that Saimdang: Light’s Diary and Rebel: Thief Who Stole the People are airing at the same time. Mind you, it’s not because one is easily one of the most hyped sageuks in ( Read more... )

I have not died, I've just been on a bit of a culling spree in my apartment. I've also been binging on kdramas, though that really means that I've been alternating between multiple kdramas.

They are:

Oh My Venus: Airing drama that's a romcom about an overweight woman and a hollywood fitness trainer. On paper it's everything wrong with romantic ( Read more... )

1. The Librarians is back and I hadn't even realized z return date had been set yet.

( spoilers )

Out of curiosity, I checked out the first episode of The Last Kingdom, mostly to see if I liked it more than The Bastard Executioner. The answer is, yes and no? In that, unlike TBE, I can actually see myself liking some of the characters if I watched more. but that's about it. The show is set during the 9th century and focuses on the Danish ( Read more... )