Dramas Over Flowers

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By: Saya, Anisa, and Paroma

Destined friends and professional fans Saya, Anisa and Paroma yak—at length—about Korean dramas. Expect a healthy mix of subjective critique and objective fangirling.

A Long Yak on Doctor Slump, Marry My Husband, and Like Flowers In Sand
#170
03/16/2024

We are back with a long yak on three dramas we started 2024 with: Doctor Slump, Marry My Husband, and Like Flowers In Sand.

This episode was recorded on 11th February. Our feelings on these dramas have stayed the same (with Doctor Slump getting special love for staying so reliably warm till the end).

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LINKS MENTIONED:

Support Gaza through the Palestine Children's Relief Fund here.

TIMESTAMP:

00:01:50 - Doctor Slump

00:45:57 - Like Flowers In Sand

01:06:15...


Past Lives is a gorgeous meditation on love and regret | Spoiled Yak
#169
02/05/2024

Awards season is the perfect time for us to share our review of Past Lives, our favorite film of last year. Saya, Anisa and our friend Yunah talk about why this movie's meditations on grief, love, diaspora and selfhood spoke to us so deeply. (We recorded this at the end of last year.)

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Overall thoughts

20:39 Spoilers

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2023 in Dramaland: Year-End Yak Part 2 (Goguma Awards)
#168
01/20/2024

The 5th Annual Goguma Awards have landed! Your votes have been tallied and the results range from unexpected to unsurprising, all of which we dissect with glee. Get your tea and biscuits, it's long!

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LINKS MENTIONED:

Actor Jin: The Handsome Hotelier

TIMESTAMP:

00:00:00 - Introducing the Goguma Awards

00:02:46 - The Classic Gogumas

00:17:47 - Your Top 3 Dramas of 2023

00:25:27 - The Wild Gogumas

01:11:15 - Create Your Own: Listener Awards!

01:49:36 - Patreon Roll Call...


2023 in Dramaland: Year-End Yak Part 1 (Trends + Our Year in Dramas)
#167
01/03/2024

The Year-End Yak is here! Or Part 1 anyway, where we talk about what K-dramas did this year, and how we felt about them. Goguma Awards coming in Part 2!

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LINKS MENTIONED:

Paroma's excellent 2023 Wrap for Film Companion

Paroma's My Demon Halfway Review (Spoilers)

K-drama Research Institute's video essay We Need to Talk About Netflix K-dramas

Saya and Paroma's new BTS YouTube Channel

Jae-Ha Kim's article Rest in Peace, Lee Sun-kyun

TIMESTAMP:

00:04:17 2023 K-drama trends<...


Vote in the 2023 Goguma Awards!
12/25/2023

If you missed our callout for votes for the 5th Annual Goguma Awards, or if you simply haven't had a chance to vote yet, we've extended the deadline! Vote here for the dramas you loved and hated, the OTPs that made you swoon, the actors who blew you away with their talent in 2023. See you in the Year-End Yak! ❤


A Long Yak on My Demon, Death's Game, Welcome to Samdal-ri & The Story of Park's Marriage Contract
#166
12/24/2023

Just Saya popping in to share her thoughts on an assortment of dramas: a mixture of bright and dark, exquisite and questionable, therapeutic and aggravating. The tl;dl (?) being: My Demon is darkbright and exquisite, Death's Game is just dark, Park's Marriage Contract is bright and aggravating, and Welcome to Samdal-ri is therapeutic, bright, and funnier than it should be.

Content warning for discussion of suicide in Death's Game and Welcome to Samdal-ri. Take care and skip if needed by using the timestamps below.

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Perfect Marriage Revenge is a dish served SPICY HOT and DELICIOUSLY POETIC (Spoiled Yak)
#165
12/12/2023

Perfect Marriage Revenge is a drama that kept all its promises: revenge! marriage! perfect! We revel in how the drama revels in its story, with special props to writer Im Seo-ra for some of the best writing in dramaland this year.

SPOILERS EVERYWHERE, BEWARE BEWARE!

Feat. beloved and returning guest, Zaynab, who does not want to be found.

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LINKS MENTIONED:

Our new youtube channel, Bangtan Over Flowers.

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A Long Yak on Castaway Diva, Perfect Marriage Revenge, Twinkling Watermelon, and many more
#164
11/22/2023

Saya and Anisa talk about 8(!) dramas, including writer Park Hre-ryun's newest Castaway Diva, gorgeous romance melodrama Call it Love, and the actually perfect Perfect Marriage Revenge. Lots of time travel, revenge and contract relationships in this one, so you know we're both happy campers.

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:01:00 Castaway Diva

00:12:24 Spoilers for Castaway 1-4

00:21:38 Daily Dose of Sunshine

00:31:09 Twinkling Watermelon

00:46:39 Vigilante

00:56:59 Call it Love

01:11:06 Nine: Nine Times Time Travel

01:20:43 A very long Park...


A Long Yak on Destined With You, My Lovely Liar (Final Thoughts) & Titanic
#163
10/09/2023

Kick back with us on a diatribe filled episode where we talk about women written by men, unearned forgiveness, and the ethics of love potions.

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LINK:

Listen to the trailer of The Broadside (new podcast hosted by Anisa)

TIMESTAMP:

00:09:00 - Titanic (Spoilers)

00:19:00 - Women written by men (and also, Dev Anand's C.I.D.)

00:28:00 - My Lovely Liar (Spoilers)

01:14:00 - Destined With You (Spoilers up to episode 6)

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Someday or One Day: Taiwan's blockbuster time slip romance (ft. kfangurl)
#162
09/18/2023

We are joined by kfangurl on an ultimate fan trip episode where we deep dive into a cult classic time slip romance that set new standards in storytelling for all of us. This drama has also been recently remade into the Korean, A Time Called You, which we discussed in episode 161.

Tell us your thoughts about either drama in a voice note here:

LINKS MENTIONED:

Paroma's twitter post on face blurring

the fangirl verdict blog

TIMESTAMP:

00:01:52 - Introducing Someday or One Day: plot, characters and cast

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