Month: May 2017

Suspicious Partner (aka Love in Trouble) Review

Update: Full Suspicious Partner review Ji. Chang. Wook. Need I say more? Ever since Healer stole my heart, I’ve been waiting for him to star in another solid romance. (Sorry, but Yoona dancing with a packet of ramen kinda killed The K2 for me.) And here he is—in a romcom penned by the writer behind the oh-so-enjoyable I Remember You, no less. Of course that means I was going to pick up Suspicious Partner (aka Love in Trouble) the moment it aired. What it’s about: I…am not even really sure since so much was crammed into the first batch of episodes. So there’s this woman, Eun Bong Hee (Nam Ji Hyun), and she’s studying to be a lawyer. She keeps having run-ins with upright prosecutor Noh Ji Wook (Ji Chang Wook). And then she gets framed for murder. And there’s what appears to be a serial killer on the loose? Oh! And there are some side characters who I’m pretty sure are important to the backstory, like Ji Eun Hyuk (Choi Tae Joon), who is either going …

An Underrated Gem: Radiant Office K-drama Review

I’ve been thinking about how to review Radiant Office for a while now. It’s a show that doesn’t seem to have much buzz among K-drama viewers compared to other recent dramas like The Liar and his Lover (which I didn’t like at all and immediately dropped) or Strong Woman Do Bong Soon (in which I liked only the romance). As is sometimes the case in dramaland, this show that no one seems to be watching was infinitely better in nearly every way than either of those shows, and for some reason, I feel like I need to defend this series tooth and nail from anyone who might say otherwise. Why I Loved Radiant Office If you take a gander at what other online reviews say about this show, you’ll see a smattering of “It’s boring” or “The plot doesn’t go anywhere” or “There isn’t enough romance.” The people who wrote these reviews are not my people. Sure, at first glance Radiant Office has a lot going against it (that honestly almost made me skip the whole thing …