Rewatchable Kdramas and Favorite OSTs with Maxine

S2 E25 / Maxine Wright, supply chain professional, master gardener, avid podcast listener—and, of course, passionate Kdrama fan—joins me to talk about her favorite dramas and how her journey started during the pandemic.

⭐ We explore how Kdramas connect us with our emotions, the joys of discovering underrated gems, and why Maxine seeks out older and less mainstream series between the new hits.

🎵 Maxine lists her favorite re-watches and classic OSTs, and she also shares her unique way of searching for Kdramas that surfaces new recommendations. 

Currently Watching:

Maxine: 

• My Dearest 
• Bon Appétit, Your Majesty

Sara:

• To the Moon
• Ms. Incognito

⚠️ Light spoiler warning! Our wide-ranging conversation touches on the following shows: 

• Crash Landing on You
• Descents of the Sun
• Moon Embracing the Sun
• Coffee Prince   
• Romance is a Bonus Book
• King the Land
• Alchemy of Souls
• Vincenzo
• Goblin
• The K2
• Dali and the Cocky Prince
• Karma
• Connections
• First Frost
• The Double
• Prisoner of Beauty

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Maxine’s TikTok: @wrightstuff20

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:12

This is the How I Met My K-Drama podcast, and it's all about K-drama origin stories and recommendations. I'm Sarah Rosette, and today Maxine is here with me. Hi Maxine, how are you?

SPEAKER_00 0:23

Hey, nice to finally catch up with you.

Meet Maxine

SPEAKER_02 0:25

Yeah. So tell us a little bit about yourself.

SPEAKER_00 0:28

Okay, so I'm Maxine Wright. I live in Toronto, the grid at GTA. And I am a uh supply chain professional by day. I'm uh I like to consider myself a master gardener. And I um I love exploring and I'm one of those people who walk every day. And I actually listen to a bunch of podcasts on my walk, and so before you know it, the hour is done and I'm home. So that's a little about me.

Currently Watching

SPEAKER_02 0:56

I listen to podcasts while I walk too. So and no one can see your background right now, but it's beautiful and green and leafy, so I'm not at all surprised that you're a gardener. It's beautiful. Let's talk a little bit uh kind of back and forth about what you're currently watching. Do you have any K dramas that you're watching right now?

SPEAKER_00 1:13

Absolutely. I um I finally pushed play on my dearest, and I intentionally kept it. It's one of those ones where I I knew I needed the headspace for it, and I'm like, you know, I always have a couple that I'm waiting for the right time to watch. So I'm watching that. I'm like about episode 10, and just let you know it's completely got all my attention. So it is it is worth the hype. It's worth the hype, it's worth the right. So it's definitely watching that. And then I started to watch Bonapet, My Majesty, and I've put that on hold because one thing I do know about myself and Kramas is I don't get the best outcome when I'm watching when everybody else is watching the same thing, right? And so that whole everybody is crazy about it. Whenever I jump on that bandwagon, I always walk away feeling less, getting less out of it than I should. So I try to avoid that. So I started, I'm like, no, put it aside, put it aside, walk away, put it on that list of uh plan to watch, and then move on. So it's it's uh my dears that I'm totally immersed in right now.

SPEAKER_02 2:20

Yeah, yeah. That's one that I love. Uh is Nyamku Min, right? Who's the main lead, and I love him. But I just I've heard so many things about that one. I'm like, you I'm like, I can't watch that right now. I need some space and some time.

SPEAKER_00 2:34

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Absolutely, absolutely.

SPEAKER_02 2:38

Well, I'm watching, I've tried two new ones recently. One is called Um To the Moon. These are both pretty new. Uh, To the Moon only has a couple episodes out, and it has the same female lead in it that was in Potato Lab. And I really liked her. And it's also got another actress who's a little bit older, and she's not playing a mom. And I'm I want to give that a try just because I want to see older actresses playing non-mom roles, you know. And so it's, I think it's the settings 2017, and it's these three women that they meet through work and they connect and become friends. They're kind of all different personalities, but they get involved in it. I think it's gonna be like a crypto thing. It's like what happens as they invest and fortunes go up and down. It's pretty funny, it's pretty light. So I'm in to watch more of that.

SPEAKER_00 3:26

I've heard a bit about it, but it's it's on my plan to watch list.

SPEAKER_02 3:29

Yeah. And then the other one I just have watched one episode, uh, Mrs. Mrs. Incognito. And that one, just the name alone. I was like, okay, I'm in. I don't really need to know anything about it, and I'll watch episode one, but it's really good. I'm really enjoying it. It's kind of got that mystery. Um, you're not quite sure about the main character and what she's doing, and she gets hired for a job, and you're in there's obviously a lot more to it than we're first seeing. You know, I love that.

SPEAKER_00 3:56

A great K drama, there's always more than than the description tells you.

SPEAKER_02 4:01

Yeah, and sometimes the descriptions are so vague, you're like, I don't even know what this really is.

First Drama and Recommendations

SPEAKER_00 4:07

I'm just going, I'm just trusting the process.

SPEAKER_02 4:09

Yes, that's right. Well, how did you get into K-dramas? And what was your first K-drama if you remember?

SPEAKER_00 4:15

Oh, yeah, I absolutely remember. So I got into K drama in 2020. As you know, that was COVID. And as you know, I said earlier, I'm in supply chain. So that, you know, it was real, like, right? It was real. Work was real in that in that window. So, you know, downtime, what do you do? How do you unwind, right? And uh, somebody on one of my Facebook friends said, Hey, I'm watching this, and they showed a picture of uh crash landing on you. And I'm like, All right, let me just give this a shot. I mean, one of my barriers to even trying K dramas was like, you know, the whole subtitle thing. And then I mean, I kind of had a conversation with myself and said, girl, you can read. What is the problem? Kind of get over it and just give it a try, right? Yeah, yeah, right. So I did. I got over it, I turned it on and I watched that drama, and it was like, okay, we went down the rabbit hole, and I haven't been up since, right? So it, yeah, I I absolutely love that drama because it, you know, it spoke to all different elements of life. Romance, you know, strong women, families all messed up. It was everything. It was all that about a little mystery, a little murder, geography, geography, everything. So it was fantastic. The styling was amazing, characters were great. I I could go on.

SPEAKER_02 5:34

So it means not to like about it, right? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 5:36

I mean, yeah. And the thing about a love about K-dramas is that you can love something to the moon and then 10 other people hate it.

SPEAKER_02 5:45

Yes, that's true.

SPEAKER_00 5:46

Right? It is so it's so uniquely that way. It's it's you know, so I love that fact that even though it appeals to me so much, I'll meet 10 other people that are like, oh, I hated that drama.

SPEAKER_02 5:56

So yeah, there's people who don't like K who don't like uh Crash Landing on You, which I would say like probably 85% of the people that are your K-drama fans have probably seen it and liked it. But that's true. And there's all kinds of different dramas. And so if you didn't like Crash Landing on You, there's plenty of other ones to choose from, right? To try something else.

SPEAKER_00 6:17

It was absolutely the gateway to to uh into uh into the space.

SPEAKER_02 6:21

Well, which K drama has a special place in your heart and why does it resonate with you? Do you have just like a really favorite one?

SPEAKER_00 6:30

Um, I have a lot of favorite K-dramas that resonate with me that I think I kind of like the ones that I re-watch, right? If it's a score for me is is it rewatchable? Have you watched it more than once? And so obviously Craftsland and I watched more than once. Um, Descendants of the Sun, that's the second that I think that's my second K-drama dot. I loved it. It has the best soundtrack OST bar none. That OST dot hooked me into OSTs, and so I have a stand-in playlist of OSTs, and that was the that was the hook for me because it was amazing. So I I do love uh descendant stuff. I love anything that uh G Song is on, is in, and he's like, he's all that all that, all that in a bag of chips. Anything that he's in, I'm watching it. The secret, you know, karma, uh connections. So yeah, I just love anything that that that that he's in. So I love some of the underrated K-dramas, the stuff that that you can only find on Vicky, older, the stuff that you're like, oh my god, it's it's amazing. So I do love a lot of those. I recently just watched uh The Moon Embracing the Sun, which is a classic OG historical K drama, and I hadn't seen it before. I don't know how come I missed it.

SPEAKER_01 7:50

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 7:51

And it was great. I was bawling, I was crying, I was laughing. It was it was all of those things in one. So in this space, you just never know what you're gonna stumble on. And so it continues to to resonate with you. I'm gonna go back to Crash Landing on you because I think they did relationships and romance really well. And those two characters, the male and the male lead, they they really understood each other and they supported each other in a way that wasn't overly clingy and it was great. So yeah, I I see that couple as here. I keep going back to Cash Land and On You because it was such a phenomenal uh way, way of life to to connect people.

SPEAKER_02 8:32

Do you tend to watch um a mix of old and new? Do you look for older K-dramas to watch while we're watching something new as well?

SPEAKER_00 8:41

Absolutely. I look for old and new because I mean, when you look at some of the old ones, you go back and you're like, some of them like were ahead of themselves. Like I watched Coffee Prince, and when that came out, I was like, Oh, this is like you know, 2013 or something like it to 16. I'm like, they were way ahead on this stuff, right? So it's almost like if you go back, you're like, oh, there were thought leaders here. I like a mix of old and new, especially if you're in that space. On the older ones, they tend to do a lot of melodramas, which I like, the layering of like everything is in there, like the mother-in-law from hell, you know, the the stepchild, the secret child, yeah, all of those dramas, uh complaints. So I the the family, the the friendships, the found family. I love all of that. And you find those more on the older side of this of the space. So yeah, I like to mix. I like to mix. I like to mix.

SPEAKER_02 9:36

I agree, I do too. And I like to have, like you said, have a couple that are they're you're saving for later, you know. You're like, okay, that this one I I know it's gonna be special. I've heard about it, so I'm gonna save it, put it aside, you know. I love to do that too.

SPEAKER_00 9:49

I do have a list of plans to watch and I'm saving them for when I have the headspace or when I get on a plane, right?

SPEAKER_02 9:55

Yeah, that's true. That's a good, it's a good uh travel like long haul trip.

SPEAKER_00 9:59

Oh, yeah, you get through eight hours like that.

SPEAKER_02 10:02

Yeah, and it makes it go by, which is great. Yeah, yeah. Well, do you have a a comfort watch? I mean, maybe Crash Landing on You sounds like your maybe your comfort watch.

SPEAKER_00 10:12

Um, come that was one. Another one I watch is uh romance is a bonus book. Okay, yeah, that is a great uh comfort watch. I like it. The characters are are quirky, they're not the standard K drama characters, and um, it's a noon hour uh romance, so the female is a little older. So I do love that. And you know, they spend a whole lot of time just being at home, and so I do love it. And it it it goes, it it speaks to the literary world, the publishing world, which is a topic that doesn't get a lot of exposure. Yeah, and what I like about K dramas is that when they find a topic, they like go deep, right? Yeah, and expose expose you to some things you would never think about, right? Right, so that is a great comfort watch for me watching that, and then another fun one that I like to watch that I think is also underrated is uh it's a romance, King the Land.

SPEAKER_02 11:07

Oh, I love King the Land.

SPEAKER_00 11:09

Wow, it is like you know, whoa, this is like well, one of the best I think dramas. I love it, and I've re-watched that several times, so I I I like that, and yeah, so there's just lots to play with, right? And when you when I can't find anything good to watch or nothing is popping, I go back to my favorites. It always works. It's also a great way if I want to uh clean my house, just put on something that I've watched before, right?

SPEAKER_02 11:35

You don't have to give it your total attention, right?

SPEAKER_00 11:37

Yeah, exactly. And then I just have to pay attention to the points that I the parts that are that I want to rewatch, right?

SPEAKER_02 11:41

Yeah, take a little break, and then you can go do something, like go clean the bathroom, come back.

SPEAKER_00 11:46

It's it's it's great. I love it.

SPEAKER_02 11:48

Yeah, I do too. Yeah, I don't rewatch a ton, but I do I have certain scenes and episodes that I go back to, you know, certain ones that I'm like, okay, I feel like I need this found family moment or whatever.

SPEAKER_00 12:01

And the weird thing about it, I find when I'm rewatching, there'll be things in it I never saw the first time around. So true. The 10th time around, I'm like, well, I missed all that, right? So because when you're watching the first time, you're you're so focused on getting to the end that you miss some of the nuances, right? And the second time around, you know how how it ends. So you're like, you can really pause and and and really watch it. So that's the thing about it. There's always stuff that you missed and that you missed. Rewatching is part of that, relearning and getting the some of the stuff you missed the first time around.

SPEAKER_02 12:36

Right. And I've noticed too, if I rewatch things at the first time through, I'm reading the subtitles and trying to look at, you know, and when I rewatch, I'm like, okay, I kind of remember what's going on here, so I can just watch the actors and what's going on in the scene. And sometimes they're doing little things that you miss it, really adds. Do you have any tropes that you are like, oh, I love this trope, I've got to check this one out?

SPEAKER_00 12:58

Um, I think I like the I do like the contract marriage trope, like the forced habitation.

SPEAKER_02 13:06

Tropection, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:07

Yeah, I like I like that because I like to see the build, right? From the forced no relationship to get into the I like you kind of way. And just I just love the way how they do connections and relationships. It it it never starts out, it rarely starts out being totally physical, right?

SPEAKER_02 13:26

Right, yeah. A lot of times they're just kind of indifferent to each other, exactly.

SPEAKER_00 13:31

And it it it's just a build-in of emotion and feelings until they get to a point and you can see, and I really like that whole concept of the I like you versus I love you, because the reality is you really need to like somebody for it to matter, right? Because you can love somebody and actually don't even like them.

SPEAKER_02 13:48

Yes, you can be attracted to someone, but then they can drive you insane, right?

SPEAKER_00 13:52

Exactly. So I like you. I really the first time I saw that, I'm like, what is that all about, right? That's kind of weird. But now I've that I get it. Conceptually, you really need to like that individual as a person and then build from there, right? So love how they layer uh uh the the the folks and the people and layer the relationship when you see it going from zero to a hundred, right?

SPEAKER_02 14:16

Yeah, it's the progression, right? Because it's like you can see them kind of begin to understand the other person a little bit more and then they're sympathetic to the person and then you know, and build like in these stages, it's more of a slow burn.

SPEAKER_00 14:28

Absolutely, absolutely. The character building is amazing.

SPEAKER_02 14:32

Well, what about characters that are that you love that you're like, oh, characters or couples that I put down live live rent-free in your head? Um, do you have any that you think about even after the show's over?

SPEAKER_00 14:46

I I would say uh people that live rent-free in my head would be um my favorite couple, Crash Line and me, you can't pull it they live right free in my head. Um, I I thought Captain was such a green flag in terms of when he was going back to South Korea and he left all those messages for years.

SPEAKER_02 15:11

Yes. So sweet. I know.

SPEAKER_00 15:14

Organize the French, organized the cabinet, left you notes. I mean, those are the things that matter, right?

SPEAKER_02 15:20

Right.

SPEAKER_00 15:21

The little details, the little things, the thinking about you, the making your life filled with joy, like that to me, like that character lives free in my head, right? The thoughtfulness. So I I think that was amazing.

SPEAKER_02 15:35

Yeah, and when he's doing the shelves and the he makes it the right high eye, you know, it's just so thoughtful.

SPEAKER_00 15:41

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Amazing, amazing.

SPEAKER_02 15:43

Yeah. Was there been a drama that you were surprised that you liked?

SPEAKER_00 15:49

Uh yeah, alchemy of soul. Like I put that mom up there, like I like it, it's like it's time travel, it's fantasy, or like it's just one of those, like, yeah, I'm not gonna watch that. And I watched it and I was like, oh my god, this is so good. It was really good. So again, it was one of those that you kind of saved and then you got into it. And do you know, watch it when everybody else was watching? Yeah, so that really completely uh changed my perspective that you don't you don't know until you watch it, right? So Alchemistal, I it was not on my radar, I was never gonna watch it, and then something happened. I clicked play, and yeah, it was like whoa, yeah, got my full attention.

SPEAKER_02 16:29

Yeah, so you're not normally uh like fantasy isn't like one of your go-to things.

SPEAKER_00 16:35

Yeah, I would say fantasy, uh fantasy, like time travel and uh you know, 800 years old, come back to earth, and like my brain is like, how does that going to work? Right? So right. So I those are not the first ones I click play on. But Alchemy Soul kind of shifted that a little for me.

SPEAKER_02 16:56

Yeah. Well, how do you pick what you're gonna watch next? How do you decide?

SPEAKER_00 17:00

Um, I kind of like to explore. So I will put a random word or a random phrase in Vicky and see what pops up. And then usually it'll pop up with five or six different dramas, and then you know, I kind of scroll through them and then pick from there. Um, if it's got a rating below nine, I'm not watching it. Um 9.5 is kind of the sweet spot, but yeah, and that's kind of how I don't, but yeah, I so I put random things in in Vicky and then whatever pops up, I'll go watch. And if I find something in there, because that's kind of the the first reference for me is like finding something that not everybody's watching because a lot sometimes a lot like K drammers are popular because of the platform that they're on, right? Yeah, a lot of gems along the way, and so I'm trying, I'm always about finding those those special gems that we missed or forgotten about or didn't get enough eyes on it because it wasn't on a uh a popular platform.

SPEAKER_02 18:02

Yeah, yeah. I feel like there's so many that I've found that I think, why has no one talked about this? Why have I never heard this? Yeah, I kind of want to get the word out about it, you know. Yeah, but I love your idea of putting in a term and using that to find or word or whatever, just to find some new stuff because yeah, a lot of times the recommendations they're all the same.

SPEAKER_00 18:20

And yeah, exactly, exactly. So I just put in something random like summer or or you know, winter or yesterday or something, just something random and see what pops up and then follow that, follow that through.

SPEAKER_02 18:34

Yeah, kind of the K drama random visor, just kind of see what you get.

SPEAKER_00 18:38

Exactly, exactly, and just see what I get, yeah, yeah. See what I get. And I can I find I can only do that really well on like Vicky.

SPEAKER_02 18:45

So it's a streaming service that I carries a lot of uh gems, yeah, and a lot of them are niche or or not as well known, right? Exactly, yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_00 18:56

So I I do like that platform for that reason.

SPEAKER_02 18:59

Yeah, I do too. Well, do you have any uh K-drama disappointments shows that just didn't work for you personally? Like if somebody is thinking, oh, I love all these shows she's talking about, maybe some that you were like, eh, that they might want to avoid.

SPEAKER_00 19:13

Uh Vincenzo did nothing for me. Sorry, I tried it. And then this one that you know people swore up and down that I must watch it when I was beginning my journey, and that was Goblin. Don't come for me, folks, but I tried Goblin and I'm like, hmm, it has a great OST, by the way. So I took that and I left.

SPEAKER_02 19:36

So you know, you did gain something from it, right?

SPEAKER_00 19:40

But I just again it might be that fantasy thing, like 800 years old, come to Earth, and then I was like, yeah, and then I think the other pivot point for me was the female lead, she was like 15, which I generally don't that's not a thing, but she not only was she 15, she looked like she was 15, she was wearing that high that high school uniform. Yeah, and I'm like, okay, no, this that doesn't even make any sense. So yeah, so I'm like, no, I I just couldn't get past all those things. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 20:10

But yeah, I mean that's fine. Yeah, and you know, there are people who love that drama, and there are people who I feel just like you. I've seen both both camps, and so it's fine. There, there are plenty of other K dramas, you know, and there's no no uh I used to feel like there was sort of like, oh, you have to watch these because you know they're the classics or whatever, and it's okay if you don't like a classic. I've kind of come to that conclusion too.

SPEAKER_00 20:35

Absolutely, absolutely. Some of the classics are not all that great, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 20:40

So it's just not for you personally, maybe it's like that's just not my cup of tea, and I'm fine moving on. Yeah. Well, do you keep track of the dramas you've watched?

SPEAKER_00 20:50

I kind of just use MDL to track my dramas. The biggest thing I get out of the MDL is the things that I plan to watch.

SPEAKER_02 20:57

Oh, yeah. So you can see what's coming up.

SPEAKER_00 20:59

Yeah, in between, you know, searching for stuff, then I'll go look at MDL and say, what do I have on this list of things I plan to watch that I can then oh go tap that, right? So I I keep my plan to watch more up to date on MDL than things I've watched, right? But I try to update and and score things, right? I do use it religiously.

SPEAKER_02 21:21

Yeah, it's a it's convenient, super convenient. Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 21:23

Yeah, it gives me ratings, it tells me what's you know, I give us get a sense if it's rated high on on MDL or low. It gives me a balance to it's just a check-in point.

SPEAKER_01 21:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 21:34

Do you have anything that's like the this is a K-drama made-me do it question? Have you done anything because of K-drama's food travel or anything like that?

SPEAKER_00 21:44

I've done a few. I've done a few. I would say my first K-drama moment where I was watching something on TV, it was I was watching the K2.

SPEAKER_01 21:55

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 21:56

And the um the lead or the female. uh Lee our villainous was uh was actually putting on makeup and she was putting on lipstick and she had this little bottle of it looked like a bottle of wine and actually I have it here it looked like a bottle of wine it does yeah yeah and when you open it it's uh it's a lipstick and I she was doing this on TV and I'm like I need this in my life I really do I need it in my life yeah so you know I'd say 30 seconds later I was on Google I googled it I found it and it was reasonably priced yes they shipped to Canada yes it's not gonna cost me my paycheck yes okay and I got it so yeah I have it I still have it and add it to the cart and you know yeah why now so this was my first c draw on my inspired purchase and I still use it yeah yeah yeah so it was that is yeah so amazing uh it's called uh wine wine lip tint and it's uh called it's it's called Chateau Labote L-A-B-I-O-T-T-E.

SPEAKER_02 23:12

Okay I will find a link to that and I'll put that in the show notes if anyone wants to go look at it.

SPEAKER_00 23:17

Yeah so that was my first K-drama. So uh everything and and then I've been influenced from you know glass coffee mugs to oh yeah vacuum cleaners to skincare so sense of style is is also I loved uh about K dramas. So yeah uh I I love it the how our stuff is styled or people are dressed and yeah I love how they do product placement so you don't even think they're African it's just intertwining your lifestyle it's it's your lifestyle yeah you know yeah yeah I would much rather watch a character put on lipstick than watch commercials exactly exactly exactly well we talked about this a little bit but uh do you have anything else on why K dramas are special to you um I would say a couple of things uh storytelling is amazing um character bill is amazing but for me personally k dramas allow me to feel right I I laugh I cry I get frustrated I I feel I feel something and I I think during COVID you were like kind of numb for a bit yes right and so I think it allowed me to feel and it it does a great job of playing or speaking directly to our humanity like it allows you to be human right and so I love that it brings out humanity it allows you to do empathize to feel something and when you look through the lens of how they bring this to life you just realize that you know as humans we basically want the same things right we want our families to be healthy we want them to have a better life we want to be happy we want to have joy you know how we go about it is slightly different but at the core of it it really taps into us as humans. So I just love how it brings out humanity you know and even when you see a character that is like uh you know terrible person on screen they build them so even though you may not agree at the end or you still think they're horrible you conceptually oh I get it right you can understand the human part of that behavior. So I just love how they do that.

SPEAKER_02 25:33

Yeah it's like you the length of the shows unlike a movie that's a couple hours because we have so many hours we can really see their background and how their childhood you know things influence them and they're so good at layering in those little details you know yeah and then when people have had a difficult time and they overcome things it's so much more satisfying because you have the whole story right you get it.

SPEAKER_00 25:58

Yeah yeah right I totally agree yeah well do you have uh drama or dramas that you feel are overlooked and you wish more people knew about or watched um yes there's a couple of dramas that I feel are overlooked and I wish people would watch more I thought I talked about King Glen that's a great uh drama um there's another uh K-drama that I think totally got overlooked it's called Dali and the cocky princess and the cocky prince yes I love awesome drama yeah awesome drama it's funny the characters are quirky he's like uh a rich guy but he's like uh new rich or gangster rich and she's like a cultured art major museum owner kind of things and like she's very sophisticated yeah yeah and these two come together it is on point love that drama there's a drama that I watched last year it's called Karma like 10 episodes it's on it's on Netflix amazing I don't know why people aren't talking about this drama but check it out it's called karma and it's about almost the action and the reaction to your actions and how they show up in lives and so it is amazing the whole time I watched it every time it ended I'm like what the hell like like it was just it just kept you hooked right yeah it just kept me hooked there's no romance there's none of that stuff it's all about uh the action and and the inverse reaction and how it impacts you know karma how karma shows up in your life and things so I'd say you know watch that because it it it does it hasn't gotten a lot of the airplay that I think it should get I saw that one mentioned but I haven't watched it and then another one that I watched that it's a thriller kind of uh cop show it's called connections okay um I that's on I think it's on Netflix I think so too but again it stars my favorite G song so I might be a little biased there but that's okay maybe you know but you know it's it's my K drama so I can I can I can be yeah again this one is amazing because it's about a cop who is a investigates draw is a drug squad who inadvertently got addicted to drugs um intentionally somebody spiked him spiked him with this drug and so now he's trying to solve this crime but in the meantime he has his addiction that's raging and he's trying to keep those things separate amazing amazing that's all I have to say without giving away too much of it.

SPEAKER_02 28:32

Yeah so uh Caitlyn on the No Sleep for Dramas podcast yeah she loved that one and she recommended that one and I thought okay I want to check that out but I think it's gonna stress me out so I can't watch it right now like you I need to pick the right time to watch that one.

SPEAKER_00 28:47

So you it's not light and fluffy no not like King the land right exactly exactly life yeah you got it you got it you got it k dramas have their little slots yeah that's true this has been so much fun are there any links or anything you want to share are you on social media anywhere that if people want to follow you they can sure I have I'm not a big social I'm on social media but I don't do anything about the K drama my social media posts are mostly about Gordon stuff cool as you can well think so I'm on uh TikTok on uh right stuff um 20 so it's my last my last name double r-i-g-h t stuff 20 20 and I just post yeah I just uh post stuff on there and people can always find me on Facebook perfect okay nothing nothing special so it's been amazing and um I would love to make a plug for C dramas because um you know I started K drama was my gateway but I've been I've been going down this watching a lot of C dramas this year and I I just want to say that don't sleep on those C dramas they are kicking it 2025 has been a banner year for C for uh C dramas. Okay well do you have one you'd recommend like just uh off the top of your head a C drama if maybe like for for your type your favorites maybe one my favorite modern uh C drama would be First Frost oh yeah slow burn love it's amazing first frost would be uh I'd say check that out that's uh uh modern drama for somebody wanting historical I would say um the double that came out last year that was pretty good um then the other one that I would recommend is Prisoner of Beauty okay that's also another historical okay all right I'll put all those in the show notes too yeah so don't sleep on your C dramas that's all I'm telling people it's just another yeah avenue another perspective they're not like K dramas they're a completely different set of values and and situations but again great stellar talent and if you're into historicals they do historicals really really well yeah the costuming the patterns it's just amazing.

SPEAKER_02 31:07

Yeah well that's cool and I I since you mentioned that I think I'll add a question to the list going forward about are are you watching any other countries besides Korean dramas? Because I have a feeling you tend to start a lot of people come into Korean dramas and then they find you know Thai dramas and Japanese and Chinese and there's you know a lot more out there than just K dramas.

SPEAKER_00 31:31

Exactly the palette is wide and uh the the the the it just it's a gateway and it it leads you to other other opportunities or other places to look in and again it's not replaced not one does not replace the other it's complemented right so yeah absolutely absolutely it's not one is not better the other is just a different set of lens right yeah I haven't gone down the C drama rabbit hole yet because I know that's huge.

SPEAKER_02 31:57

There's so many to watch but I have watched a lot of Japanese dramas and I love those now and but at first I was like oh Japanese dramas I don't want to watch that I just want K dramas yeah we start widening out your interests after you watch them exactly I watched maybe two or three J dramas so definitely now there you can find them a little bit more yeah so that's kind of in my on my plan to watch list on your radar yeah yeah yeah watch some more J dramas to to build out my my my whole retrospect on on in this space so yeah that was awesome chatting with you. Yes well thank you for doing this thank you for taking the time I always enjoy talking with people and finding out their background and then everybody has such specific interest is just so much fun. So thank you for taking the time to do it. I appreciate it. Awesome thank you if you enjoyed this episode please take a minute to write or review it wherever you listen to podcasts that will help Cave Drama fans find the podcast and I'll see you next time. Bye everybody