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My Lovely Sam Soon: A Review
An older kdrama with a brash, loud, unfeminine lead who is honest and whole, and a show that subverts every trope around her.
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Piece of Your Mind: A Review
A languid study of grief and connection, scored by haunting piano, that makes you fall back in love with ordinary life.
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Begin Again: A Review
A cinematic cdrama set in Macau where lives drift past each other like bubbles, and the camera is your eyes.
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Love Scout: A Review
A cold-CEO romance that turns into a study of what a safe home does to a child. The details are flawless.
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Flourished Peony: A Review
A women-centered historical that respects the era it lives in. Mu Dan escapes a marriage and builds a life, and a tribe.
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The First Frost: A Review
Gorgeous glass-and-light storytelling that stays a step behind Hidden Love, and a proposal worth the wait.
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Will Love in Spring: A Review
A slow, beautiful study of grief and the ties that bind us, the kind of show that stays after you log off.
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The Tale of Rose: A Review
We follow Rosie from sassy new graduate into womanhood, and end up rooting for ourselves.
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Under the Queen’s Umbrella: A Review
A sageuk that is really a long argument about motherhood: protect them, then let them go.
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Flight to You: A Review
Aviation is the backdrop. The real subject is women at work, misogyny, and love that stays flawed because people are.
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