summary: divorced and cast-out woman gets her life saved by another cast-out who is murdered and who she then pretends to be. goes on an insanely epic revenge arc

her dedication. her passion. her skill. her talent. for revenge. absolutely entranced like that's a woman without equal. literally she is so competent at revenge that's really what gets me

summary: woman is good at video game woman gets recruited into esports team things happen

look. LOOK. it's just really cool when woman is good at video game. also hello?? what the fuck ai jia??? why do you have to be so mysoginistic in the final??? bro u literally know her too. like it's your fiance's best friend. and you're like "i'll show her why women can't play video games" i screamed . man . shut the fuck up you don't deserve to get married at the end.

summary: woman reads new novel novel is shit she gets transported into world of novel beats novel by agressively making friends

due to a plethora of reasons that may or may not have something to do with how i grew up and my current mental health problems. i find it really cool when people just get fucking shit done and ling miao miao really is the queen of getting shit done fuck getting transported into the world of a shitty novel and facing almost certain death, someone has to fix it and she is the someone so she just fucking does it. need the guy who hates her fall in love with her? no problem she uses the age old technique of 'being friends'. i really lost to the plot in the last few episodes though like what's this fucking tower

summary: sometimes you are an awesome warrior but then you get unexpectedly fatally poisoned and have to seduce this guy. also a cautionary tale against forming parasocial bonds. most importantly most of it happens in an abyss and very much not in the titular clouds (this is not a bad thing just false advertising)

chomp . no sorry i can't marry you im doing a bit with this guy it's starting to get really funny. he really has this intense parasocial thing for her and she's just like uh can you get out of my house please. i gotta do a bit with this guy. wait. the bit is not that funny anymore wait hold on it's not funny at all stop stop also this parasocial guy is really starting to get on my nerves can someone please make him shut up. can someone please take one for the team and kill him please for god fucking sake just bash him on the head with a baseball bat. LET BUXIU KILL HIM PLEASE!!! bro this is so not funny anymore stop stop stop man i dont like to advocate for suicide but buuuuddddyyyy just kill yourself

summary: fan changyu. can knock out a pig. with. a. SINGLE. SLAP. finds a half dead guy in the snow, takes him, later turns out he's just 16 old wounds that never quite healed in a trenchcoat. also marries him because when you find a half dead guy in the snow you can encourage him to marry you so you get to keep the house. interested in how the village community processes and survives the trauma of the slaughter of almost their entire village? watch this!

yes go girl war crime relativisation!!! true love is when you jump your ex together. actually she can excuse whatever war crimes. supernatural-esque suicide competition. also i had to stop watching this because it made me too crazy

took a chlonazepam, absolutely murdering a pirulo. life's good. ← also turns out this is actually the only way to watch this show. pop a chlonazepam. it made me less crazy.

first of all. this show has me googling finance terms i am not amused. this is how i learned about the time the taiwanese army massacred 24 viatnamese refugees because i love clicking on links on wikipedia. his dedication to trying to make her remember the one time they had a blind date set up (?? i forgor) is amazing. and everytime she doesnt he's like well considering this is as bad as you literally running me over gunning for my hand. i will now hate you forever and bully the shit out of you. bro is this discussing patients with a non-practising doctor in front of a literally random ass person illegal? it feels so illegal. it must be. right. this man is too confident

summary: it says ski but it's about snowboarding. they say skiing all the time but they always mean snowboarding. also it is about how it is ok to be crazy when you are cute and really good at something too

"dangerous stunts do not attempt" over footage of some people snowboarding and skiing. but actually they're correct i once broke my leg while skiing. mhm and then we can discuss absolute real danger of professional alpine skiing (you have one (semi) professional skiier usually die each season, and several severe injuries). and the insane amount of people who got quite seriously injured at the olympics in italy over all downhill sports . anyways . wait not anyways he did big air?? my obsession with winter sports is going to come in handy?? although im more of a classical guy tbh wait . so my previous discussion of injuries in alpine sport were correct NO FoR THE FOGGING YOU NEED TO SPIT ON THEM SPIT ON THEM . i wonder why they never show this on tv . anyways chong looking at her like. there's so many things wrong with her

summary: crime drama procedural in historical china (tang?). kinda? like any good crime drama, the investigator has a ~dark~ past. she's really cool but also this show misogyny?

bro i just think we should kill all men. fuck this shit. brooo why is everyone so obsessed with hating women is2g

i don't think having the central woman die at the end of each case is that cool. and like any good tortured detective she drinks copious amounts of alcohol. im just sitting here telling myself imagine this 34 episodes of boring tatort with annoying detectives just so i dont get attached and regularly get gut punched. i know women are not seen as people but do so many of them have to be the victims CAN THESE WOMEN STOP KILLING THEMSELVES . like everytime it's about a woman who has done something wrong but was pardoned properly regarding the fact that it is shit to be a woman the women are like. well i guess i gotta kill myself . STOP . also lol very much well i guess ill take the stairs guy . her dress is so fabulously orange however i have intense matplotlib default colour trauma so i hate orange and blue together. it's so ugly. bro we all know she's pulling this out of her ass right now she is not ok right now dont listen to her. also lol i am also a well-i-guess-ill-take-the-stairs astronomer there's 5 more episodes we can do this we can do this we can do this

fascinating how the emperor has really shown he is a giant ASS BITCH. is this anti-imperialist question mark

summary: tortured genius everyone loves him bla bla bla i wish he was dead

no. tortured genius are stupid and annoying. and the music's not that good and literally any other character is more interesting than this fucking guy. why couldn't it be about the female drummer instead of her being a fucking audience stand-in. no. im not finishing this im sorry guitar man. and i should be into it! i love music i love the legendary i love concerts i love the trandescendence but oh god can we please get over lone tortured genius

summary: imagine you want help this high jumper get his mojo back because you think you accidentally broke it. what do you do. YES . pretend to be a guy and enroll in all boys boarding school. there are three genders of guys: martials arts, sports, and theatre. bro i just realised im sports thank god

the real question is. why did we continue making tv after this? it's. taking she's the man and just shoveling stuff onto it until there is glorious and gay mountain of stupid wonderful 2000s shenanigans. also an insane amount of cross-dressing to the point where she. who is cross-dressing 24/7 is forced to comment. why the fuck is everyone so into cross-dressing here. and you know what. they're right. (do not take this as a condemnation of she's the man i love her so much)

you go in, fun romcom stuff, then HIDDEN-BLADE ASSASSINATION FROM A BUSH. actually this about a woman's childhood trauma to the point she presents a different personality. one question though: i get that he doesn't carry her off to a&e as soon as he realises but mate he knows a psychiatrist personally he should have called him up and just ask. hey i know someone who is presenting a different personality but i can't get them to a&e what do i do. just saying

summary: oh man i needs money oh they're hiring mums lemme just pretend. oh cool actual job! OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT I ALMOST FUCKED THAT GUY (le boss)

i call this the show with the 'wait a second. stop. gimme a minute' guy because he spends the entire show having life changing experiences or recovering from having life changing experiences

summary: woman can see ghosts and bro it is not fun at all

this show stressed me out so bad and made me feel so bad for her like just imagine living like that literal hell i am so happy she got better with it

HOME OF PHOBIC. also every now and then there's the wii channel theme? okie

HOW DOES SHE KNOW WHICH YEAR SHE TIME TRAVELED TO FROM THE BANNER IN THE MUSEUM? SHE MOST PROBABLY DOESN'T KNOW ARABIC NUMERALS !!11! i have been trying to find out when arabic numerals got introduced in korea in a widespread fashion she is from 300 yrs back right so early 1700s. while korea of course had sustained contact with both china and japan throughout their history and especially the joseon period arabic numerals where not in widespread use in china and japan in the 18th century, in japan they were used as a standard in mathematics beginning in the meiji period (second half of the 19th century). korea was very isolationist in the 19th century and this is also where the first sustained interactions with westerners occured. i think it is reasonable to say that arabic numerals were first introduced in a widespread fashion with the japanese annexation in 1910. so yeah she doesn't know how to read the arabic numerals and also THEY USED A DIFFERENT SYSTEM OF COUNTING YEARS. SHE DOESN't KNOW WHO THE FUCK JESUS IS i know it's not important and yet it also feels fucking fundamental like how can she say to that woman 300 years bro. ok sorry yeah the woman in the museum said 300 years but i stand by all of my other points she doesnt know what capitalist is either sdhjfgajdkg

to ignore everything this is really about, kang si-yeol and the story of 'thames fc' becomes increasingly funny because he is clearly based on the south korean player son heung-min who used to play for tottenham hotspur fc (from london (on the thames)). tottenham, long famous for being an absolute cluster fuck of a club (see e.g. the adjective 'spursy' or the label 'dr. tottenham' - when another club is having a bad run, and their next game is tottenham, they get a visit from dr. tottenham, and win the game to get out of their rut), is now in actual danger of relegation. not tbecause of bad finance just because of shitty football. life imitates art etc

summary: i don't actually know what this is about i am too blinded by his pure existence but uh there's body swapping involved between literally the most gigantic asshole ever seen on television like he's not even an asshole he's just on another level. and a woman her job is stunt woman she is really cool like i get why he falls in love with her

man really grows on you after like. 12 continuous hours of watching huh. the only real case of stockholm syndrom ever is me watching this show and earnestly rooting for him by the end

hihihihihihi i love this show so much !!!! also everyone is so competent and good at their job but mainly i love this show so much!!! oh han-byul running away screaming after getting kissed by her crush is one of my favourite ever tv moments

i feel like i've gotta say this. love will not solve your debiliating mental health issues why does this keep coming up

look it is actually really interesting to bring up one of the most central question of especially modern life, "for what are you working for", in the context of characters that are working in one of the most fundamentally capitalist fields, home shopping, which is essentially consumerism as entertainment. interested in what comes out of this. also going against the grain with her not relocating to the country to slow down and recuperate because she is clearly not doing well at all but instead she is doubling down on all of the things that are making her life near-unlivable, scratching her trauma, and full on-course to an insane breakdown by going to the country. respect. also im going to throw something if this series ends up with her going back to the job at the home shopping channel like maybe we have medicalised mental health too much? bro for reals ill be sitting here thinking i failed my life because she just gets back up after a little rnr (not rock n roll) and im here every day wondering. can i even work even if my job is something that i love maybe you are doing something that you love but it is also incompatible with your health in the current state of your life and i think that is really interesting to think about and i think this show is well poised to ask that question but it probably won't . anyways papaya time i don't usually buy exotic fruit but it looked so lonely and angedätscht in the supermarket

summary: nun-in-training who was raised in a convent needs to pretend to be her twin brother real quick (failed plastic sugery where his eye is stuck open) to take his place in a boyband. shenanigans, of course, ensue

explaining to a nun-in-training who was raised in a convent what gay fanfiction about real people is. perfect depiction of catholic guilt too you just have to suggest she is connected in any, tenuous way to a situation and she immediately feels responsible for it and guilty about it. this woman is amazing. also the straightest women-pretends-to-be-a-guy story ever conceived it's like ac/dc levels of non-sexuality here. man (angus young) reguarly strips in front of tens of thousands of other men and yet the event is so incredibly sexless it is genuinely astounding. not even a criticism every time im like man that guy really has no personality other than guitar

summary: uh the master's sun but less depressing because the acting is worse? i could barely watch her because she was literally always . always . in a state of extreme anxiety i felt that so bad but here i dont feel it as much i guess

broooo not even counting the scary ghost this passes the bechdel test. scary ghost does scare his aunt but they dont talk. do we count the fight between the two female ghosts as passing the bechdel test technically their conservation was about a guy even if the scary ghost wanted to kill him so i guess no. whelp. also what's this about the immoral sexual values is this about the gay sex? because there is a lot of gay sex and that feels kinda counterproductive like hey look at all of this gay sex ! but we don't actually believe in it no no no ! no actually immoral sexual values is straight sex because they don't believe in relevance of women

pink hair. also while the ghost thing is certainly real under the assumption it isn't, this is what we call a mental health emergency i love how thup is always sitting in the background like 👉👈. no one else does though give the guy a break his life is stressful. he's always sitting there like a little kid someone gave things to draw with to keep them occupied. every now and then he looks up and solemnly nods. im ngl sing's outfit is doing it for me as in god i wish that were me kinda thoughts i usualy have about mark farner or marc bolan you know. boyfriends are for people who close cases . im putting my vote in now it's his mum SCORE (look im fully aware this was predictable from the beginning im just really stupid) im ngl im trying really hard not to think about the gender politics implications of having one of the most relevant female characters in a series already severly lacking women have her mouth and eyes sewn shut. not thinking about it bro im ngl im really sitting here like thank god a woman is getting murdered so little female characters they can't even have a woman be murdered cause there is no one to murder. just chop off that lag man the antibiotics and shots this man needs to get now . he could get prions. literally any imaginable bacteria and virus is inside of his body right now chop it off TAKE SOME FEVER MEDICINE? he should be taking all of the medicines. ALL OF THE ANTIBIOTICS i bet it is infected no leg has ever been infected like this if anything it's too infected where all of the competing infections cancel each other out. sing clearly didn't stop breathing because of the hanging and a ghost fucking around with his heart that was just incidental actually he is currently dying of all the bacteria at the same time. so cringy man im reading wikipedia about the middle eastern theatre of wwi at the same time to get through this

i lived for 7 years in england and this the singular best representation of british culture i have ever come across. also s2e6 'pool show' is one of the singular best episodes of television ever but unfortunately i am the only one who has that opinion

summary: if you are sitting while working you might as well just hold a gun to your head

look this is not a fever dream because this was clearly carefully scripted

the only things i remember is the good times i had with my friend (we used to live together) watching this and also they stopped playing lacrosse halfway through :(

really mastered just like. everything. no notes. THIS ACCUSED MURDERER IS BISEXUAL