Dramas Over Flowers
Destined friends and professional fans Saya, Anisa and Paroma yak—at length—about Korean dramas. Expect a healthy mix of subjective critique and objective fangirling.
Episodes
Anisa and Paroma pop in before our next installment of the Year-End Yak to chat about currently airing dramas, including pretty much a full Spoiled Yak about Love Scout, which we ADORED. Paroma convinces Anisa to watch My Dearest Nemesis, Anisa laments the wasted potential of Melo Movie, and more.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:03:11 Love Scout
00:11:59 Love Scout SPOILERS
00:46:52 The Potato Lab
00:56:36 My Dearest ...
In Part 1 of our (extremely belated) Year-End Yak for 2024, we talk Personal Gogumas - the awards the three of us want to give to the dramas we loved in 2024.
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LINKS MENTIONED:
Dramas Over Flowers' playlist of favorite 2024 OSTs as curated by Anisa
TIME STAMPS:
(These are questions we asked each other)
0:07:36 What’s a drama that surprised you?
0:46:20 A drama I'll remember 2024 for
0:54:15 An OST that ...
Anisa and Paroma yak about dramas they finished recently.
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Tell us about your drama year in our annual survey! Vote in the Goguma Awards (deadline: Jan 18th)
And while you vote, listen to this playlist of our favorite OSTs of 2024.
TIMESTAMPS:
00:02:46 Face Me (final thoughts)
00:20:31 Dongjae, the Good or the Bastard (final thoughts)
00:27:27 When the Phone Rings (midway thoughts)
00:36:10 The Tr...
Anisa and Paroma have a little yak about some new dramas we've sampled, and others we've just barely tasted.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:02:04 Love Your Enemy
00:16:39 Mr Plankton
00:21:22 When the Phone Rings
00:34:37 Face Me
00:49:29 Tell Me that You Love Me
00:58:01 The Trunk speculation
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NEWSLETTER:
Join our email list for the ...
We are bringing back What's Up In Dramaland as bi-weekly youtube live streams. A newsy episode that covers Korean entertainment including casting news, upcoming dramas, catching up on industry conversations. (This is a one time livestream audio upload. Please check our youtube channel for future WUID episodes!)
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TIME STAMPS:
00:00:00 lengthy intro
00:06:05 episode begins
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Anisa and Paroma discuss their final thoughts on recently ended romcoms Love Next Door, No Gain No Love and Serendipity's Embrace, plus some first impressions of the Korean adaptation of Go Ahead and wacky romance DNA Lover.
LINKS MENTIONED:
Family by Choice Episodes 1-2 Review
Paroma fights Anisa(?) about Love Next Door
TIMESTAMPS:
00:10:38 Family by Choice
00:21:30 Love Next Door
00:35:19 No Gain No Love
01:15:35 DNA...
In this episode we discuss the many popular re-unions of famous romantic and non-romantic actor couples. We ask why these re-unions happen, do they ever achieve the popularity of the original project, and why is there often a distinct shift in genres? (You can watch the video version of this episode at the link below).
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LINKS MENTIONED:
Watch the livestream on YouTube ...
Paroma is joined by Deepanjana in a mission to express their deep feelings about No Gain No Love without spoiling every single scene in the drama. It was a challenge. This episode was recorded after the first 6 out of 12 episodes had aired.
You can hunt down today's guest @/dpanjana on Threads and Instagram.
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TIMESTAMP:
9:45 - Actual discussion starts
51:22 - Warning for...
Saya and Anisa have a quick yak about our first impressions of two currently airing dramas, and then Anisa confesses to having seen some Run BTS.
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LINKS MENTIONED:
Part 2 of our throwback 2014 dramas livestream
TIMESTAMPS:
02:19 Cinderella at 2am
15:22 Love Next Door
31:56 Run BTS (a sampling)
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NEWSLETTER:
Hi, we come back to you (pretty soon for us) with another long yak! Yes, Anisa is in this one. 😄
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TIMESTAMP:
00:01:24 Bad-memory eraser
00:17:47 My sweet mobster
00:42:57 The auditors
01:04:02 Dreaming of a freaking fairy-tale
01:14:57 Miss night and day
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Episode 173: Growing out of fandoms
Saya takes Paroma on an epic journey through her recent watchlist.
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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 Dog
00:34:00 Miraculous Brothers
00:39:53 Moving (ending spoilers beware!)
00:49:15 Begins =/= Youth
00:58:51 MYSTERY DRAMA no okay just kidding - R...
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.
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LINKS MENTIONED:
Paroma's video on time traveling Im Sol: Link
TIMESTAMP:
0:05:14 - Audience response
0:08:35 - Production budget
0:12:25 - Hear...
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.)
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Episode 171: A Short...
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!
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LINKS MENTIONED:
Anisa's Queen of Tears first impressions review
TIMESTAMP:
00:40:27 Spoilers
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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.
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TIMELINE OF DRAMAS MENTIONED:
1997 IMF crisis
1997 What is love all about (N...
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).
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LINKS MENTIONED:
Paroma's Doctor Slump post.
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.)
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Overall thoughts
20:39 Spoilers
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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!
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LINKS MENTIONED:
Actor Jin: The Handsome Hotelier
TIMESTAMP:
00:00:00 - Introducing the Goguma Awards
00:02:46 - The Classic Gogumas
00:17:47 - Your Top 3 Dramas of 2023
00:25...
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!
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LINKS MENTIONED:
Paroma's excellent 2023 Wrap for Film Companion
Paroma's My Demon Halfway Review (Spoilers)
K-drama Research Institute's video essay We Need to Talk About Netflix K-dramas
Saya and Paroma's new BTS YouT...
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 an...
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