When I first watched I, Claudius many years ago, I didn't really know anything about that dynasty. I knew the names Julius Caesar and Augustus and Caligula, but nothing else. It was only later that I read about it to learn more about the people in the show. Historical dramas can do that. Maybe a part of history I'm unfamiliar with is made vivid by ( Read more... )

I went through a time of not really wanting to watch dramas. I'm still not in the mood for kdramas right now. There just don't seem to be any calling to me. I've been watching cdramas again, though. Rewatching 步步惊心 (just watched the ending for the first time), sampling others here and there, and watching The Book and the Sword a.k.a "We really will ( Read more... )