#mad for each other kdrama

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Mad for Each Other 이 구역의 미친X (2021) Dir. Lee Tae Gon – Ep. 9

[mostlyfate]

MAD FOR EACH OTHER 이 구역의 미친X (2021) dir. lee tae gon. — writ. ah kyung.

TRUE TO LOVE 보라! 데보라 (2023) dir. lee tae gon, seo min jung. — writ. ah kyung.

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Oh Yeonsoo as Lee Min Kyung and Jung Woo as Noh Hwi Oh

Mad for Each Other /  이 구역의 미친X  (2021) dir. Lee Tae Gon

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KDRAMAS SEEN IN 2022

Kdramas are my new obsession, so I have to do it

Crash Landing on You

Descendants of the Sun 🔥

Extraordinary Attorney Woo 🔥

Fight My Way

Goblin 🔥

Hospital Playlist 🔥

Little Women

Mad for Each Other 🔥🔥

My Liberation Notes

Our Blues

Romance Is a Bonus Book

Snowdrop

Something in the Rain

Squid Game

Suspicious Partner 🔥

The Sound of Magic

Tomorrow

Touch Your Heart

Vincenzo (rewatch) 🔥🔥🔥

[returning-tonowhere]

@breno-pudim ,

Como vc pediu, aqui está os 5 filmes/série que definem a minha personalidade... Eu tentei, sou péssima nisso

Stranger Things, por ser Nerd/Otaku, por gostar de videogames e por amar maratonar filmes/séries

Arquivo X, por gostar de estudar, aprender mais, investigar e ser curiosa

As Crônicas de Nárnia, por lado espiritual, fantástico e filosófico

Branca de Neve, por meu lado meigo/fofo/gentil e prestativo e quer viver de forma romântica

Welcome to Waikiki, por gostar de rir, ser besta e boba

E de bônus:

Loucos um pelo Outro, pela minha loucura hihi

Com certeza teria opções melhores mas foi nisso que conseguir pensar...

[whoever-the-heck]

Loving this drama, Mad for Each Other. It's equally refreshingly funny and emotionally cutting. They portray mental illness realistically - they do use it for comedy but the times when they are pulling aside the curtain to reveal what's underneath - the writing is so on point. Min-kyung's trauma is something I very much understand, being a woman, as these are real world horrors we fear everyday on a deep level.

But aside from the relevant themes and sharp writing on mental health issues, I am loving the electric chemistry between these two!

I didn't find Oh Yeon Seo particularly pretty before, but she is absolutely ravishing here. Everytime she speaks and those dimples peek at you, grrr I just want to squeeze her so bad! And I thought Jung Woo was not good-looking at all - boy, did I swallow my own words. They have this intense chemistry that makes both of them really shine and become 10x more attractive. I love their comedic scenes (I laughed out loud so many times especially during the first five episodes) and their banter - and I'm loving the way their relationship is slowly beginning to shift. I feel like I'm slowly starting to see her in a different light - like how No Hwio is starting to see her - and I'm beginning to find him really sexy and husband material, like how Lee Min-kyung is beginning to see him.

And so hilarious that they're the only ones oblivious to the fact that they're already dating.

Can't wait to see how the conflict resolves. Loving it 10/10 so far.

[bernard-the-rabbit]

don't i look crazy? i wanted to make people avoid me

[factorygirlsstuff]

Thinking of starting Mad for Each Other or Revenge of Others. 🤔

[gizkasparadise]

I have a love-hate relationship with enemies-to-lovers trope because more often than not, they involve an innocent third party who gets done dirty either by showing them unrealistically mature and accepting or by making them evil and twisted

Are there enemies to lovers relationships that did right by you or were problematic but you love em anyway

Haha, well, full disclaimer: I tend to enjoy problematic ships, generally. And "make each other worse/ one of them gets a villain arc" is actually a favorite trope of mine :'D

That said, here's some that I think fit your criteria:

- love between fairy and devil. At first it might seem uneven, but they're really a ride or die couple. There's a third party (changheng), but he grows positively over the course of the drama and he and the ML have a great and weird lil friendship arc

- mad for each other. they're both a lil dysfunction junction but grow and heal together by the end. Note that the drama discusses domestic violence (not between the main couple), so if that's a trigger I recommend maybe skipping this one. No love triangles in this one!

- legally romance is more like bickering to lovers (and the enemy part only exists on the FL's side), but it's surprisingly good once you can get past z.tao's hair

[katierosefun]

mad for each other (2021)

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Why I am still watching Cafe Minamdang

Let's be brutally honest here. It's likely because of this face:

But even Seo In-guk's insane charm can only keep me watching a sub-par drama for so long.

Cafe Minamdang falls under the K-drama category of comedy-crime-procedural where characters solve weekly cases with lots of shenanigans while chasing an ultimate baddie who did something awful to our heroes personally and often professionally.

Examples of such dramas would be Bring It On, Ghost!, Fiery Priest, Catch the Ghost, and Police Academy.

These tend to be weekday dramas that don't ask much from the audience.

They are light, fast, frequently funny, and let you invest just enough emotionally to enjoy the show while it's airing and forget about it soon after.

I don't mean that they aren't well written or skillfully directed. It requires a lot of production effort to craft crime dramas that aren't taxing emotionally, but still deliver a satisfying viewer experience.

I'm trying to emphasize that these dramas are meant to be easy to watch.

And Cafe Minamdang is easy to watch.

It has a quick pace, a colourful palette, unexpectedly funny moments, and a commitment to poke fun at itself.

And sometimes that's enough.

I can't make myself care about the ritual obsessed serial killer or Han Jae-hee's childhood crush on Nam Han-joon.

But, I do enjoy the Minamdang team's dynamic and their individual quirks clashing in the middle of stakeouts and fighting criminals. It creates a second layer of narrative that keeps my attention until the next scene, and then the next.

I also like the police team members. Oh Yeon-seo's Jae-hee is most enjoyable when she's working with her team. As a less experienced detective, suddenly promoted to the head of a team, her relationship with her sunbae played by actor Jan Man-shik is one of the more genuine parts of the story.

I was also impressed by the unfolding of our protagonists' connection with the serial killer, especially with the scene where Nam Han-joon finds his friend's burning body.

So, there are something that I clearly like. But I'm still feeling disconnected from the show. And that's what I'm mourning when I see this face.

Because the story largely keeps its focus on Nam Han-joon and Han Jae-hee's relationship, and never were two "partners" less well matched.

Through most of the show, Seo In-guk infuses his own character with clownishness and charisma in equal parts.

When he's in scenes with Oh Yeon-seo he remains the same man, but adds hints of confusion and irritation to his reactions to her. He's affected by her, but he doesn't know why, so he often loses control of his mouth or temper.

On the other hand, while Oh Yeon-seo is calm, measured, and conscientious as a detective when she's with her team or with her prosecutor friend, as soon as she comes near Nam Han-joon, she loses all perspective and will sooner punch him than listen to anything he's saying.

Which doesn't sound as bad as it actually is. As a director's note for a character who has believed that Nam Han-joon is partially responsible for her brother's death, this is not unreasonable behaviour.

But somehow, it all goes wrong in the execution.

The drama having decided that this is an enemies to lovers romance, Han Jae-hee is allowed only one way to react to Nam Han-joon – aggressive distrust.

And this makes her do things that are unethical and unprofessional to say the least. Like, breaking into his home and hiding in his closet while he changes. Or punching him or threatening to punch him frequently.

There's no subtlety to Jae-hee's behaviour and no nuance that lets you sense where her emotions actually lie. The drama tells us that she's had a childhood crush on Han-joon, but it fails to show us any slow deepening of that affection in the adult Jae-hee.

And even on Han-joon's side, it's hard to see any feelings developing under his brash external facade.

So, while the drama tries to center the romance as the emotional linchpin of the story, the audience struggles to find anything to really connect with.

Now, not all crime dramas (comedy or dramatic) have a good romance. I would even argue that most of them have terrible romantic subplots that would have been better deleted in the draft.

But when you don't have a strong romance, you need to give your audience a different emotional center to invest into, and the perfect example of this was another Seo In-guk drama from 2015 called Hello Monster.

In that show, Jang Na-ra was also trapped under the burden of playing an extremely one note heroine and her chemistry with Seo In-guk was dead on arrival. But nobody really cared about that because the emotional core of the story was held by Park Bo-gum and Seo In-guk as brothers who were separated in childhood and had very different upbringings.

Now, the writer of Cafe Minamdang, Park Hye-jin, is also working on Seo In-guk's next project Smoking Gun, which will possibly be released later this year.

Here are the tags on its mydramalist page.

While the genre is right up Seo In-guk's alley, I can't say I'm very impressed with how this writer plots her crime thrillers.

And with a trope like amnesia thrown into the mix, I'm getting a very nervous feeling that I may be writing another post in six months wondering why I'm watching Smoking Gun and if this face is again to blame.

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Mad for Each Other 이 구역의 미친X (2021) Dir. Lee Tae Gon – Ep. 6

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30 Days Kdrama Challenge

Day 2 - Favourite kdrama

Vincenzo

Mad For Each Other

Hospital Playlist

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Just finished watching 'mad for each other' starring underrated actors but god they were so good. The lesson i learnt from this drama is that we must fight for what we love despite people's opinion. And mental health issues is not to be taken lightly and the fact that it can cured. Ahhh the character and their roles everything was perfect.I just can't put it in words. One of my top 3 all time favourite kdrama. 9.7/10 highly recommended