Dramas Over Flowers

Hi, we come back to you (pretty soon for us) with another long yak! Yes, Anisa is in this one. 😄Leave us your thoughts in a voice note here: <Recording Page>TIMESTAMP:00:01:24 Bad-memory eraser00:17:47 My sweet mobster00:42:57 The auditors01:04:02 Dreaming of a freaking fairy-tale01:14:57 Miss night and dayLEAVE US A REVIEW:Apple podcasts | Spotify | Audible!MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE:Episode 173: Growing out of fandomsEpisode 175: Art of convincing Saya to watch dramasNEWSLETTER:Join our email list for the monthly newsletter with podcast announcements and special episodes!PATRONS:SPECIAL THANK YOU to our beloved patrons for another year of helping us light the lanterns to sail our ship! Join it here! ❤︎ You can MAJORLY support us by leaving a review on your podcast app, or sharing the episode with friends! ❤︎SOCIAL:Follow us on Twitter @dramasoverflow and Instagram @dramasoverflowers_.Email us at dramasoverflowers@gmail.com.CREDITS:This episode was edited by Paroma

Saya takes Paroma on an epic journey through her recent watchlist.Leave us your thoughts in a voice note here: <Recording Page>LINKS MENTIONED:"Silenced Beauty" video essay on Seolhyun in Running Man.TIMESTAMP:00:00:00 Jinny's Kitchen 00:19:22 Top Management 00:27:25 Good Day To Be a Dog00:34:00 Miraculous Brothers00:39:53 Moving (ending spoilers beware!)00:49:15 Begins =/= Youth00:58:51 MYSTERY DRAMA no okay just kidding - Ripe TownLEAVE US A REVIEW:Apple podcasts | Spotify | Audible!MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE:Episode 174: Lovely Runner spoiled yakNEWSLETTER:Join our email list for the monthly newsletter with podcast announcements and special episodes!PATRONS:SPECIAL THANK YOU to our beloved patrons for another year of helping us light the lanterns to sail our ship! Join it here! ❤︎ You can MAJORLY support us by leaving a review on your podcast app, or sharing the episode with friends! ❤︎SOCIAL:Follow us on Twitter @dramasoverflow and Instagram @dramasoverflowers_.Email us at dramasoverflowers@gmail.com.CREDITS:This episode was edited by Paroma & Saya

Here are our final thoughts and theories on the one drama all three of us watched with equal fervour. Joining us for this final journey into the world of Piggyback Sunjae and Run are friends of the podcast, Hanah and Sarah. Leave us your thoughts in a voice note here: <Recording Page>LINKS MENTIONED:Paroma's video on time traveling Im Sol: LinkTIMESTAMP:0:05:14 - Audience response 0:08:35 - Production budget0:12:25 - Heart eyes for the drama0:14:19 - Taesung vs the serial killer0:18:31 - Sunjae remembering the alternate timelines0:27:41 - Sol driving the story action0:37:00 - On how Sunjae died in timeline 10:42:15 - Sol’s brother & best friend 0:45:29 - Erasing Sol’s disability struggles0:50:22 - Fate demands a life0:59:05 - 33yo Sol falling for a teen1:10:54 - Only one Im Sol got a happy ending1:22:43 - Grandma has the best line about memories1:26:51 - Sunjae’s choice & final thoughtsRunning list of dramas mentioned:W: Two worldsHer Private LifeFamiliar wifeHometown CCCWill Love In Spring (CDrama)Marry My HusbandNine: Nine Times TravelSomeday Or One DayGo Back SpousesRooftop PrinceDark (German thriller)GoblinLEAVE US A REVIEW:Apple podcasts | Spotify | Audible!MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE:Episode 172: Lovely Runner halfway discussionEpisode 173: Growing out of fandomsNEWSLETTER:Join our email list for the monthly newsletter with podcast announcements and special episodes!PATRONS:SPECIAL THANK YOU to our beloved patrons for another year of helping us light the lanterns to sail our ship! Join it here! ❤︎ You can MAJORLY support us by leaving a review on your podcast app, or sharing the episode with friends! ❤︎SOCIAL:Follow us on Twitter @dramasoverflow and Instagram @dramasoverflowers_.Email us at dramasoverflowers@gmail.com.CREDITS:This episode was edited by _____

Don't worry, this is NOT a stealth goodbye podcast! In this episode, we talk about why we fall out of love with fandoms that we once loved so much, and what makes some stick for life. (You could call it the date, marry, kill episode? Spoiler alert, we marry K-dramas.) Leave us your thoughts in a voice note here: <Recording Page>LEAVE US A REVIEW:Apple podcasts | Spotify | Audible!MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE:Episode 171: A Short History of K-dramas Before NetflixEpisode 165: Perfect Marriage Revenge spoiler reviewNEWSLETTER:Join our email list for the monthly newsletter with podcast announcements and special episodes!PATRONS:SPECIAL THANK YOU to our beloved patrons for another year of helping us light the lanterns to sail our ship! Join it here! ❤︎ You can MAJORLY support us by leaving a review on your podcast app, or sharing the episode with friends! ❤︎SOCIAL:Follow us on Twitter @dramasoverflow and Instagram @dramasoverflowers_.Email us at dramasoverflowers@gmail.com.CREDITS:This episode was edited by Paroma and Anisa. Music: "I'm Still in Love with You" (Instrumental) by Jake $ing

Anisa and Paroma gush about the first half of currently airing time-travel romance K-drama Lovely Runner, which we are LOVING. The first 40 minutes are free of major spoilers!Tell us what you think of Lovely Runner in a voice note here: <Recording Page>LINKS MENTIONED:Anisa's Queen of Tears first impressions reviewTIMESTAMP:00:40:27 SpoilersLEAVE US A REVIEW:Apple podcasts | Spotify | Audible!MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE:Episode 162: Someday or One Day ReviewEpisode 170: A long yak on Doctor Slump, Marry My Husband and Like Flowers in SandNEWSLETTER:Join our email list for the monthly newsletter with podcast announcements and special episodes!PATRONS:SPECIAL THANK YOU to our beloved patrons for another year of helping us light the lanterns to sail our ship! Join it here! ❤︎ You can MAJORLY support us by leaving a review on your podcast app, or sharing the episode with friends! ❤︎SOCIAL:Follow us on Twitter @dramasoverflow and Instagram @dramasoverflowers_.Email us at dramasoverflowers@gmail.com.CREDITS:This episode was edited by Anisa. Music: "Dear My Ocean" (Instrumental) by Adelyn Paik and "Woke Up" by Cushy

In this episode, we talk about how K-dramas became a highly profitable export long before the entry of streaming platforms in the mid 2010s. This is a story of a nation's economic crisis, the creation of a unique opportunity, and a two decade long struggle for air wave supremacy in East Asia. Leave us your thoughts in a voice note here: <Recording Page>TIMELINE OF DRAMAS MENTIONED:1997 IMF crisis1997 What is love all about (NBC)2000 Autumn In My Heart (KBS)2002 Winter Sonata (KBS)2007 The Legend (MBC)2013 My Love From the Star (SBS)2016 Descendants of the Sun (KBS)2016 Signal (tvN)2016 Hwayugi (Korean Odyssey) (tvN)2016 THAAD missile crisis/China bans K-entLINKS MENTIONED:CedarBough Saeji's twitter thread on why South Korean academics rarely contribute to international journals.Living document of sources here.LIGHT READING 😌:Korean Dramas Adopt Pre-Produced Format to Mixed Results (article)The Reason SBS Missed Out on "Descendants of the Sun" and "Signal" (article)Romantic blockbusters: the co-commissioning of Korean network-developed K-dramas as ‘Netflix originals’ (journal)TIMESTAMP:04:41 - How Kdramas came into existence11:18 - How dramas used to be made21:54 - Start of the digital age and entry of iQiyi27:40 - Dramas begin to get expensive31:32 - Watershed: Descendants of the Sun34:40 - China bans Korean entertainment over THAAD36:51 - Economics of terrestrial vs cable channels47:12 - Netflix knocks (cliffhanger)LEAVE US A REVIEW:Apple podcasts | Spotify | Audible!MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE:Episode 170: A Long Yak on Doctor Slump, Marry My Husband, and Like Flowers In SandNEWSLETTER:Join our email list for the monthly newsletter with podcast announcements and special episodes!PATRONS:SPECIAL THANK YOU to our beloved patrons for another year of helping us light the lanterns to sail our ship! Join it...

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). Leave us your thoughts in a voice note here: <Recording Page>LINKS MENTIONED:Paroma's Doctor Slump post.Support Gaza through the Palestine Children's Relief Fund here.TIMESTAMP:00:01:50 - Doctor Slump00:45:57 - Like Flowers In Sand01:06:15 - Marry My HusbandLEAVE US A REVIEW:Apple podcasts | Spotify | Audible!MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE:Episode 166: Our last long yakEpisode 165: Our spoiled yak on Perfect Marriage RevengeNEWSLETTER:Join our email list for the monthly newsletter with podcast announcements and special episodes!PATRONS:SPECIAL THANK YOU to our beloved patrons for another year of helping us light the lanterns to sail our ship! Join it here! ❤︎ You can MAJORLY support us by leaving a review on your podcast app, or sharing the episode with friends! ❤︎SOCIAL:Follow us on Twitter @dramasoverflow and Instagram @dramasoverflowers_.Email us at dramasoverflowers@gmail.com.CREDITS:This episode was edited by Paroma

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.)Leave us your thoughts in a voice note here: <Recording Page>TIMESTAMPS:00:00 Overall thoughts20:39 SpoilersLEAVE US A REVIEW:Apple podcasts | Spotify | Audible!MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE:Episode 89: Our review of Minari, also with YunahEpisode 153: Crash Landing on You and the unbearable sadness of partitionNEWSLETTER:Join our email list for the monthly newsletter with podcast announcements and special episodes!PATRONS:SPECIAL THANK YOU to our beloved patrons for another year of helping us light the lanterns to sail our ship! Join it here! ❤︎ You can MAJORLY support us by leaving a review on your podcast app, or sharing the episode with friends! ❤︎SOCIAL:Follow us on Twitter @dramasoverflow and Instagram @dramasoverflowers_.Email us at dramasoverflowers@gmail.com.CREDITS:This episode was edited by Anisa. Music: Pretty without You (Instrumental Version) by Vicky Vox

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! Leave us your thoughts in a voice note here: <Recording Page>LINKS MENTIONED:Actor Jin: The Handsome HotelierTIMESTAMP:00:00:00 - Introducing the Goguma Awards00:02:46 - The Classic Gogumas00:17:47 - Your Top 3 Dramas of 202300:25:27 - The Wild Gogumas01:11:15 - Create Your Own: Listener Awards!01:49:36 - Patreon Roll Call of Love and Appreciation 💗01:55:08 - Love note to all our listeners 💕02:00:46 - Predictions for 2024LEAVE US A REVIEW:Apple podcasts | Spotify | Audible!MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE:Episode 167: 2023 in Dramaland: Year-End Yak Part 1 (Trends + Our Year in Dramas)Episode 160: Six Years Of Podcasting About K-dramas! Opening your mailbag ✨NEWSLETTER:Join our email list for the monthly newsletter with podcast announcements and special episodes!PATRONS:SPECIAL THANK YOU to our beloved patrons for another year of helping us light the lanterns to sail our ship! Join it here! ❤︎ You can MAJORLY support us by leaving a review on your podcast app, or sharing the episode with friends! ❤︎SOCIAL:Follow us on Twitter @dramasoverflow and Instagram @dramasoverflowers_.Email us at dramasoverflowers@gmail.com.CREDITS:This episode was edited by Saya.Music: "Carry You Home" by Duplex Heart

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! Leave us your thoughts in a voice note here: <Recording Page>LINKS MENTIONED:Paroma's excellent 2023 Wrap for Film CompanionParoma's My Demon Halfway Review (Spoilers)K-drama Research Institute's video essay We Need to Talk About Netflix K-dramasSaya and Paroma's new BTS YouTube ChannelJae-Ha Kim's article Rest in Peace, Lee Sun-kyunTIMESTAMP:00:04:17 2023 K-drama trends00:50:07 Saya, Anisa and Paroma's personal year in dramas01:25:16 Notable podcast moments!1:37:06 And some heartbreak.LEAVE US A REVIEW:Apple podcasts | Spotify | Audible!MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE:2022 in Dramaland: The Year-End Yak, Part 1 (Trends + Gogumas)Perfect Marriage Revenge Spoiler ReviewNEWSLETTER:Join our email list for the monthly newsletter with podcast announcements and special episodes!PATRONS:SPECIAL THANK YOU to our beloved patrons for another year of helping us light the lanterns to sail our ship! Join it here! ❤︎ You can MAJORLY support us by leaving a review on your podcast app, or sharing the episode with friends! ❤︎SOCIAL:Follow us on Twitter @dramasoverflow and Instagram @dramasoverflowers_.Email us at dramasoverflowers@gmail.com.CREDITS:This episode was edited by Anisa and Paroma.Music: "La Sortie Francaise" by Smartface and "Woke Up" by Cushy

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.Leave us your thoughts in a voice note here: <Recording Page>LINKS MENTIONED:An interview with a haenyeo female diverWomen of the Sea: Diving with the Haenyeo of JejuParoma's latest video essays: Twinkling Watermelon never explains its time travel & here's why we don't careBonus: My Demon Halfway Review (Spoilers): Hey! Song Kang can do romance!TIMESTAMP:00:00:29 My Demon 1-400:19:57 Death's Game Part 100:32:28 Death's Game Spoiler section 00:35:33 The Story of Park's Marriage Contract 1-8 (bit spoilery but who cares)00:49:00 Welcome to Samdal-ri 1-6LEAVE US A REVIEW:Apple podcasts | Spotify | Audible!MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE:Episode 165: Perfect Marriage Revenge is a dish served SPICY HOT and DELICIOUSLY POETIC (Spoiled Yak)Episode 146: 2022 in Dramaland: Our Year In Dramas (Year-End Yak) - enjoy a throwback while we work on the new one!NEWSLETTER:Join our email list for the monthly newsletter with podcast announcements and special episodes!PATRONS:SPECIAL THANK YOU to our beloved patrons for another year of helping us light the lanterns to sail our ship! Join it here! ❤︎ You can MAJORLY support us by leaving a review on your podcast app, or sharing the episode with friends! ❤︎SOCIAL:Follow us on Twitter @dramasoverflow and Instagram @dramasoverflowers_.Email us at...

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.Leave us your thoughts in a voice note here: <Recording Page>LINKS MENTIONED:Our new youtube channel, Bangtan Over Flowers.LEAVE US A REVIEW:Apple podcasts | Spotify | Audible!MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE:Episode 164: A Long Yak on Castaway Diva, Perfect Marriage Revenge, Twinkling Watermelon, and many moreEpisode 149: K-Drama Screenwriting (Part 1): The Value of Tropes & Why Second Halves PlummetNEWSLETTER:Join our email list for the monthly newsletter with podcast announcements and special episodes!PATRONS:SPECIAL THANK YOU to our beloved patrons for another year of helping us light the lanterns to sail our ship! Join it here! ❤︎ You can MAJORLY support us by leaving a review on your podcast app, or sharing the episode with friends! ❤︎SOCIAL:Follow us on Twitter @dramasoverflow and Instagram @dramasoverflowers_.Email us at dramasoverflowers@gmail.com.CREDITS:This episode was edited by Saya.

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.Leave us your thoughts in a voice note here: <Recording Page>TIMESTAMPS:00:01:00 Castaway Diva00:12:24 Spoilers for Castaway 1-400:21:38 Daily Dose of Sunshine00:31:09 Twinkling Watermelon00:46:39 Vigilante00:56:59 Call it Love01:11:06 Nine: Nine Times Time Travel 01:20:43 A very long Park Hyung-shik detour01:26:46 The Real has Come01:35:16 Perfect Marriage RevengeLEAVE US A REVIEW:Apple podcasts | Spotify | Audible!MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE:Episode 163: A Long Yak on Destined with You, My Lovely Liar and Titanic Episode 160: 6th Anniversary Mailbag SpecialNEWSLETTER:Join our email list for the monthly newsletter with podcast announcements and special episodes!PATRONS:SPECIAL THANK YOU to our beloved patrons for another year of helping us light the lanterns to sail our ship! Join it here! ❤︎ You can MAJORLY support us by leaving a review on your podcast app, or sharing the episode with friends! ❤︎SOCIAL:Follow us on Twitter @dramasoverflow and Instagram @dramasoverflowers_.Email us at dramasoverflowers@gmail.com.CREDITS:This episode was edited by Anisa.

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. Tell us your thoughts in a voice note here: <Recording Page>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)MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE:Episode 159: Listen to our first impressions of My Lovely Liar hereEpisode 160: ICYMI listen to our anniversary mailbag episodeNEWSLETTER:Join our email list for the monthly newsletter with podcast announcements and special episodes!PATRONS:SPECIAL THANK YOU to our beloved patrons for another year of helping us light the lanterns to sail our ship!Join our Patreon here! ❤︎ You can also support us by leaving a review on your podcast app, or sharing the episode with friends! ❤︎SOCIAL:Follow us on Twitter @dramasoverflow and Instagram @dramasoverflowers_.Email us at dramasoverflowers@gmail.com.CREDITS:This episode was edited by Paroma

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: <Recording Page>LINKS MENTIONED:Paroma's twitter post on face blurring <link>the fangirl verdict blog <link>TIMESTAMP:00:01:52 - Introducing Someday or One Day: plot, characters and cast00:15:11 - How is Someday or One Day quintessentially Taiwanese?00:31:09 - How did you feel towards Yunru?00:44:25 - Were Yu Xuan and Zi Wei too happy/too perfect?00:49:50 - Would you change any plot points?01:01:45 - The 2022 film 01:11:34 - The drama's ending01:21:57 - Speculating on the K-drama remake, A Time Called YouMORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE:Episode 161: A Time Called YouEpisode 96: Kfangurl interviewNEWSLETTER:Join our email list for the monthly newsletter with podcast announcements and special episodes!PATRONS:SPECIAL THANK YOU to our beloved patrons for another year of helping us light the lanterns to sail our ship!Join our Patreon here! ❤︎ You can also support us by leaving a review on your podcast app, or sharing the episode with friends! ❤︎SOCIAL:Follow us on Twitter @dramasoverflow and Instagram @dramasoverflowers_.Email us at dramasoverflowers@gmail.com.CREDITS:This episode was edited by Saya