Category: tv reviews

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Secret Garden

Secret Garden is your typical drama in where the rich boy falls in love with the working class girl. He wants her, she resists a bit and suddenly they have switched bodies. One of the better Korean dramas of the winter 2010-2011 season.

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Dream High

Six students at Kirin Art High School work to achieve their dreams of becoming stars. In between struggles and moments of joy, they find out their true selves.

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Keizoku 2: SPEC

Keizoku 2 follows two detectives, ill-suited to each other with the uptight and uncommunicative Sebumi clashing with the slobbish genius Toma, trying to track down criminals with supernatural abilities.

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Episodes – Season 1

Episodes is a 7-part British-American satirical sitcom created by David Crane (Friends) and Jeffrey Klarik (Mad About You), starring Matt LeBlanc. The show portrays the process of adapting British shows and retooling them for American audiences.

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Mother (Jdrama)

Mother is an 11-episode Japanese drama that deals with various issues such as child adoption, foster parents, parent abuse, and the more taboo subject of the spousal abuse.

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Personal Affairs

Personal Affairs is a BBC 5-episode series that chronicles the office life of four personal assistants and the mysterious disappearance of one of them.

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Mary Stayed Out All Night

Mary Stayed Out All Night had the potential to be one of the cutest dramas this winter, consisting of — according to me — three of the best Korean actors under the age of 30. I was setting my hopes high for it.

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Dexter – Season 5

This review considers that you have seen Season 4, as it deals with clear storytelling points that may spoil your viewing pleasure of the fourth season. We sure hope that the production knows when to end the series, to not make it overlong or tedious. Let it go out with a bang.

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Gloria – Ep13-Ep25

In the next 12 episodes of Gloria, the story starts to grow into the crescendo of drama that is essential in all telenovelas! Gloria is slow without being boring, and lacks a lot of the “cheese,” which makes this feel mature.

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Sungkyunkwan Scandal

Sungkyunkwan Scandal tells the story of a smart and gifted young woman who is forced to dress as a man to be able to work during Korea’s Joseon era. Her path is crossed with a very stick-in-the-mud yet righteous young man that sees her potential and forces her to join Sungkyunkwan — a school for men.