I have responsibilities, but dammit, The Glory and Island started today and I have Unchained Love and Reborn Rich to get caught up on-!
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I just watched ep 2 and this kid... This kid is going to places, alright?! The acting was so good, he nailed it old joong ki so well????? There were moments I was remind of old Do-joon from ep 1.
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ok finally started reborn rich and literally no better way for this show to hook me in the first 15 minutes alone is to make song joongki pathetic sopping wet tragic doomed poor meow meow of a man. i Am tuning in
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My Top 10 BL from 2022
This is strictly for shows that aired and ended in 2022 so that means no shows that I watched this year that would make my top 10 if they were included (sorry Untamed). This isn’t necessarily just what I rated them but also how likely I am to rewatch:
10. My Ride - Mork and Tawan are really just the kindest people. My only wish is that Tawan hadn’t been such a doormat at first. Thank god he’s got Mork.
9. DNA Says Love You - Someone give Amber a hug. A+ friend group.
8. Cherry Blossoms After Winter - I love how much they love each other and how they support each other. I love that we got to see them come back together after drifting apart during their childhood despite living in the same house.
7. Roommates of Poongduck 304 - I’m still thinking about that scene at the beach. It lives in my head rent free.
6. Semantic Error - This show remains the only show that successfully changed my opinion on a character that I hated at first.
5. Triage - Every single part of this show was well thought out. The acting was great, the chemistry was great, but rarely do I love shows so much because of the plot. Triage is fantastic.
4. Minato Shouji Coin Laundry - I love Minato so much. And I love the way they handled the age gap.
3. Secret Crush On You - This show was the biggest surprise for me this year. I really thought I was going to hate it. But here I am, in love with it. It will remain one of my favorite shows.
2. Ghost Host, Ghost House - This show aired at the perfect time for me. It took me longer to finish it than I was expecting but it was absolutely everything I needed and wanted.
1. Old Fashion Cupcake - Need I say more?
Bonus: my top 3 non BL shows:
3. Ghost Doctor - Solid drama with a bromance. I also love Kim Bum, so of course I loved it.
2. Tomorrow - Every single trigger warning for this show. But damn if it isn’t just so good. It is extremely heavy and deals with a lot of dark subject matter so if you’re going to watch, be prepared for that.
1. Reborn Rich - I have many, many thoughts on this show. Other than the fact that I love it so much, it’s that this show could have easily been very bad. The storyline is good, but it’s not phenomenal and could have easily been handled poorly. The acting is superb and each character has so much depth that it really makes the show as amazing as it is. I have so many theories about this show and would be more than happy to talk about it with anyone else that’s seen it.
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I'm having the horrible feeling that I'm losing interest in BL 😭 Or at the very least I need to add some non-BL variety to my watch list so that the BL shows I am watching will hold my attention. I'm enjoying Between Us and The New Employee but not with the same intensity as before and I feel like I have nothing to say about them.
I've glancingly seen your posts for Reborn Rich. If you have the spoons, can you share what liked about it, or if you've talked about it elsewhere, link to the post? ❤️
Me too 😕 I am also worried I'm losing interest in BL. The only shows I'm managing to keep up with are two I'm not feeling that invested in: Candy Color Paradox (which I don't think is very good but first I was pulled to figure out why, and now I'm just watching for Izuka Kenta) and The New Employee (which I like a lot but mostly it feels more like an intellectual appreciation rather than an emotional connection). Probably this pulling back is overall a good thing for my life, as I'm going back to school and need to focus on the real world. But it makes me sad—I don't want my love for BL to be a brief thing that comes and goes in 6 months, I want to keep it a part of my life. In part because I like it, but also because of the community I've found here, with people like you.
Hopefully for both of us this is just a temporary thing and we will regain our interest in BL shows. I know for me part of what's going on is it's hard for me to watch a show now without wanting to write about it, and that's simply unsustainable with the number of shows I want to watch (or at least want to want to watch), and I need to figure out a new approach. It only worked before because that was literally all I was doing with my time most days. And that's not actually how I want to spend my life, once I emerge from that bubble of avoiding the real world.
So I need to find a way to just watch shows without it feeling like an obligation, just for fun. That's part of the reason I've been watching more non-BL, I don't feel the need to talk about them in the same way. Although honestly I've also been struggling to focus there too, so a lot of it's not about BL, just my attention span at the moment. The only two shows I've recently watched straight through, completely absorbed, were the Korean revenge drama The Glory, and the 2018 Japanese BL The Novelist.
So to answer your original question, I'm liking Reborn Rich, but not captivated by it. I'm on the fourth episode, and I'm largely continuing at this point because I want to figure out what the show is trying to say, if anything about money/wealth/chaebols/recent S. Korean history. And because I like watching Song Joong-ki onscreen (the other show that I've been intermittently watching is Vincenzo). But it's very well done, and expensive looking, and the story is intriguing. This is another one that I went into without seeing the trailer or anything; I watched the first episode the week it came out, last fall, then for some reason (probably saw a post on here) decided to pick it up again. So I'm not quite sure where the story is going, which makes it interesting for me.
I was going to write more detailed thoughts, but in support of me being a responsible student and having a life outside of drama series, I should really go to bed. Whatever I have written should be under my reborn rich tag, but I think it may just be the one post.
It's always wonderful to hear from you 😘 Let's keep talking on here regardless of the role BL has in our lives.
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