S2 Ep5: 2022 Dramas Year in Review

There are SPOILERS for 2022 dramas in this episode. Check out the timestamps below to avoid discussions of specific shows. Our podcast team had a mixed 2022. Some of us felt fed, some of us felt seriously let down by Korean shows this year and some of us fell in love with dramas in countries outside of Korea.  5:35 My Liberation Notes 10:53 Extraordinary Attorney Woo 22:25 Little Women 24:30 Discussion of dramas with controversial endings (are writers doing this on purpose???) 25:18 2521 30:31 Big Mouth 32:55 Reborn Rich 43:58: Discussion of sageuks 46:48: Under the Queen’s Umbrella  50:10: Bloody Heart  56:41: Discussion of legal dramas (there were 20+ legal dramas in 2022!) 57:34 The Law Cafe 59:23 May it Please the Court 1:04:28: Non-Korean dramas: F4 Thailand opened the floodgates and we watched dramas from China, Japan and Taiwan as well. 1:06:48: Bad Buddy (Thailand) 1:07:05: Old Fashion Cupcake (Japan) 1:07:12: Love Between Fairy and Devil (China) 1:13:24: Not Me (Thailand) 1:14:40: We each got a chance to spotlight some favorite dramas we watched in 2022 regardless of whether the drama aired in 2022  Jo’s Picks:  1:16:28: Sound of Magic 1:20:34: Alchemy of Souls (and the controversial ending) Vickey’s Picks 1:25:28: Crazy Love 1:29:44: Link: Eat, Love, Kill Alisa’s Picks:  1:34:10: Someday or One Day (Taiwan) 1:37:37: First Love: Hatsukoi (Japan) Melanie’s Picks: 1:40:49: Shooting Stars 1:41:00: Yumi’s Cells S2 Katherine’s Picks:  1:46:11: Boar Hunt, aka Hunted 1:46:56: The King of Pigs 1:47:53: Summer Strike 1:49:15: Glitch RK’s Picks  1:50:04: Political Fever 1:51:44: Bad and Crazy

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A deep dive into the classic Kdramas that have hooked fans around the world and across decades. Are you crazy for Coffee Prince? In love with My Lovely Sam Soon? Can't get enough of Boys Over Flowers in all its incarnations? This is for you! Hosted by the F4, aka the Flower Fans 4. Vickey and Katherine are longtime Kdrama fans while Melanie and Alisa have just jumped into the Kdrama pool. But we all share a love of good storytelling, epic romance, shower angsting, piggyback rides, back hugs and yes, 🤞❤️. Follow us on Twitter: @daebakpodcast1 (https://twitter.com/daebakpodcast1) _________ Melanie reviews Indian cinema on her YouTube channel, Pardesi Reviews (https://youtube.com/c/PardesiReviews) . Find her on Twitter @PardesiYT and also @moviemavengal where she’s been gushing about Kdramas for the last year. Instagram: @pardesireviews _________ Vickey reviews and react to Indian cinema/music videos as well. She also reacts to music from other countries, such as KPop, Indonesian music and etc on her YouTube channel -https://youtu.be/C76njJFlzZk. Find her on twitter and Instagram @thatvickeygirl. She’s been a kdrama fan for a year and a half _________ Katherine (@kaymatthews (https://twitter.com/kaymatthews) on Twitter) fell into the world of Kdramas in 2013, when she bought the DVD set of Arang and the Magistrate, and although sageuks (historical dramas) remain her favourites, she watches a wide range of dramas, and is happy to share them (though don’t ask about the year of the “no drop” rule).  A fan of Malayalam cinema for a little longer than that, she writes about it (and occasionally other Indian cinema and television) at http://totallyfilmi.com (https://t.co/d8ujNOb8Hc?amp=1) . _________ Alisa reviews and fangirls over Indian films and Korean dramas on Twitter @BollywoodNewbie.