Category: tv reviews

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Gloria – Ep01-Ep12

Gloria’s first 12 episodes (of a lasting 50) are a light drama story with comedic moments and a bit of music. It tells the story of four characters — Na Jin Jin, Dong Ah, Kang Suk, and Yoon Seo — and how their lives change when they meet.

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Atami no Sousakan

Atami no Sousakan is an 8-episode mystery comedy written and directed by film director Satoshi Miki and starring Joe Odagiri and Chiaki Kuriyama as two special branch detectives arriving to the city of South Atami to solve the mysterious disappearance of a bus with four schoolgirls from a private school.

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Japanese that the Japanese Don’t Know, The

Based on the manga series Nihonjin Shiranai no Nihongo by Hebizo & Umino Nagiko, it tells the story of Haruko Kano, a young woman whose dream of becoming a high school teacher is trumped when she begins teaching at a Japanese school for foreigners.

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Big C, The – Season 1

Cathy is a 40-something-year-old woman diagnosed with terminal cancer, making her reexamine her own life — which includes an apparently loving but too self-absorbed husband Paul, their annoyingly average teenage boy Adam, her against the system bum of a brother Sean, and a job as a high school teacher.

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Time of Eve

Eve no Jikan tells the story of the fictional future of Japan, in which human-looking robots with top-notch artificial intelligence will be common place. Thus, an Ethics Committee has been established to make the distinctions between humans and robots more noticeable.

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Bad Guy

Bad Guy or Bad Man tells the story of Shim Gun Wook, who is plotting the revenge against the Haeshin Group, a large corporation to whom Hong Tae Sung is the heir.

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Sunao ni Narenakute

Otherwise known as Hard to Say I Love You, SuNare tells the story of the blossoming friendship between five young people who were brought together by Twitter, and their journey to find honesty with each other and with themselves.

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Glee – Season 1

We love musicals, we love over-the-top humor, and we love sappy moments, so we love Glee. We have described the show as the love-child result of a wild night between the cult loser show Freaks & Geeks, The WB’s canceled-too-soon Popular, and High School Musical on LSD. Who’s the father? We don’t know.

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Operación Rescate

Operacion Rescate is the series depicting the fateful events leading up to the taking of the residence of the Japanese ambassador in Lima, Peru by the MRTA terrorists. The events lasted 126 days, in which they tried to negotiate the release of key members of their group, the successful military operation to rescue the hostages, and the later events in which the commandos were prosecuted themselves.

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Cinderella’s Sister

Otherwise known as Cinderella Unni, Cinderella’s Stepsister or A Modern Story of Revenge. This Korean 20-episode family melodrama is filled with frustration, lovers not able to love, jealousy, loneliness and a lot of tears.