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Dramas Over Flowers Saya, Anisa, and Paroma
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4.7 • 67 Ratings
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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.
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Lovely Runner One Last Time (Spoiled Yak)
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.
Leave us your thoughts in a voice note here:
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 - Heart eyes for the drama
0:14:19 - Taesung vs the serial killer
0:18:31 - Sunjae remembering the alternate timelines
0:27:41 - Sol driving the story action
0:37:00 - On how Sunjae died in timeline 1
0:42:15 - Sol’s brother & best friend
0:45:29 - Erasing Sol’s disability struggles
0:50:22 - Fate demands a life
0:59:05 - 33yo Sol falling for a teen
1:10:54 - Only one Im Sol got a happy ending
1:22:43 - Grandma has the best line about memories
1:26:51 - Sunjae’s choice & final thoughts
Running list of dramas mentioned:
W: Two worlds
Her Private Life
Familiar wife
Hometown CCC
Will Love In Spring (CDrama)
Marry My Husband
Nine: Nine Times Travel
Someday Or One Day
Go Back Spouses
Rooftop Prince
Dark (German thriller)
Goblin
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MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE:
Episode 172: Lovely Runner halfway discussion
Episode 173: Growing out of fandoms
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PATRONS:
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SOCIAL:
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CREDITS:
This episode was edited by _____ -
Growing out of fandoms, and what makes us stay
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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MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE:
Episode 171: A Short History of K-dramas Before Netflix
Episode 165: Perfect Marriage Revenge spoiler review
NEWSLETTER:
Join our email list for the monthly newsletter with podcast announcements and special episodes!
PATRONS:
SPECIAL THANK YOU to our beloved patrons for another year of helping us light the lanterns to sail our ship! Join it here!
❤︎ You can MAJORLY support us by leaving a review on your podcast app, or sharing the episode with friends! ❤︎
SOCIAL:
Follow us on Twitter @dramasoverflow and Instagram @dramasoverflowers_.
Email us at dramasoverflowers@gmail.com.
CREDITS:
This episode was edited by Paroma and Anisa.
Music: "I'm Still in Love with You" (Instrumental) by Jake $ing -
Lovely Runner is a delightful genre mashup | Episodes 1-8 Review
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!
Tell us what you think of Lovely Runner in a voice note here:
LINKS MENTIONED:
Anisa's Queen of Tears first impressions review
TIMESTAMP:
00:40:27 Spoilers
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MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE:
Episode 162: Someday or One Day Review
Episode 170: A long yak on Doctor Slump, Marry My Husband and Like Flowers in Sand
NEWSLETTER:
Join our email list for the monthly newsletter with podcast announcements and special episodes!
PATRONS:
SPECIAL THANK YOU to our beloved patrons for another year of helping us light the lanterns to sail our ship! Join it here!
❤︎ You can MAJORLY support us by leaving a review on your podcast app, or sharing the episode with friends! ❤︎
SOCIAL:
Follow us on Twitter @dramasoverflow and Instagram @dramasoverflowers_.
Email us at dramasoverflowers@gmail.com.
CREDITS:
This episode was edited by Anisa.
Music: "Dear My Ocean" (Instrumental) by Adelyn Paik and "Woke Up" by Cushy -
A Short History Of the K-Drama Industry Before Netflix
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.
Leave us your thoughts in a voice note here:
TIMELINE OF DRAMAS MENTIONED:
1997 IMF crisis
1997 What is love all about (NBC)
2000 Autumn In My Heart (KBS)
2002 Winter Sonata (KBS)
2007 The Legend (MBC)
2013 My Love From the Star (SBS)
2016 Descendants of the Sun (KBS)
2016 Signal (tvN)
2016 Hwayugi (Korean Odyssey) (tvN)
2016 THAAD missile crisis/China bans K-ent
LINKS MENTIONED:
CedarBough Saeji's twitter thread on why South Korean academics rarely contribute to international journals.
Living document of sources here.
LIGHT READING 😌:
Korean Dramas Adopt Pre-Produced Format to Mixed Results (article)
The Reason SBS Missed Out on "Descendants of the Sun" and "Signal" (article)
Romantic blockbusters: the co-commissioning of Korean network-developed K-dramas as ‘Netflix originals’ (journal)
TIMESTAMP:
04:41 - How Kdramas came into existence
11:18 - How dramas used to be made
21:54 - Start of the digital age and entry of iQiyi
27:40 - Dramas begin to get expensive
31:32 - Watershed: Descendants of the Sun
34:40 - China bans Korean entertainment over THAAD
36:51 - Economics of terrestrial vs cable channels
47:12 - Netflix knocks (cliffhanger)
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MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE:
Episode 170: A Long Yak on Doctor Slump, Marry My Husband, and Like Flowers In Sand
NEWSLETTER:
Join our email list for the monthly newsletter with podcast announcements and special episodes!
PATRONS:
SPECIAL THANK YOU to our beloved patrons for another year of helping us light the lanterns to sail our ship! Join it... -
A Long Yak on Doctor Slump, Marry My Husband, and Like Flowers In Sand
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).
Leave us your thoughts in a voice note here:
LINKS MENTIONED:
Paroma's Doctor Slump post.
Support Gaza through the Palestine Children's Relief Fund here.
TIMESTAMP:
00:01:50 - Doctor Slump
00:45:57 - Like Flowers In Sand
01:06:15 - Marry My Husband
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MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE:
Episode 166: Our last long yak
Episode 165: Our spoiled yak on Perfect Marriage Revenge
NEWSLETTER:
Join our email list for the monthly newsletter with podcast announcements and special episodes!
PATRONS:
SPECIAL THANK YOU to our beloved patrons for another year of helping us light the lanterns to sail our ship! Join it here!
❤︎ You can MAJORLY support us by leaving a review on your podcast app, or sharing the episode with friends! ❤︎
SOCIAL:
Follow us on Twitter @dramasoverflow and Instagram @dramasoverflowers_.
Email us at dramasoverflowers@gmail.com.
CREDITS:
This episode was edited by Paroma -
Past Lives is a gorgeous meditation on love and regret | Spoiled Yak
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.)
Leave us your thoughts in a voice note here:
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Overall thoughts
20:39 Spoilers
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MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE:
Episode 89: Our review of Minari, also with Yunah
Episode 153: Crash Landing on You and the unbearable sadness of partition
NEWSLETTER:
Join our email list for the monthly newsletter with podcast announcements and special episodes!
PATRONS:
SPECIAL THANK YOU to our beloved patrons for another year of helping us light the lanterns to sail our ship! Join it here!
❤︎ You can MAJORLY support us by leaving a review on your podcast app, or sharing the episode with friends! ❤︎
SOCIAL:
Follow us on Twitter @dramasoverflow and Instagram @dramasoverflowers_.
Email us at dramasoverflowers@gmail.com.
CREDITS:
This episode was edited by Anisa. Music: Pretty without You (Instrumental Version) by Vicky Vox
Customer Reviews
really enjoying 😊
I have really been enjoying this podcast, especially the analyses of all of the hosts. you can tell they care about the work and effort they put into this podcast.
Wonderful Podcast
This podcast got me through the pandemic. Their analyses are ALWAYS thought provoking and sometimes hilarious. I particularly love Paroma’s insights and wit! Saya is intelligent and loves darker fare while Anisa has knowledge of the Korean language. I also adore their BTS appreciation.
Always insightful, but sometimes hard to understand titles
Just listened to your 2023 review which is incredibly insightful but there were more than usual moments where you mentioned dramas where you said the title so quickly I couldn't understand it. When you recommend dramas in a throw-away manner, perhaps you could list the titles in the episode notes? Because I'm always interested in knowing what these older dramas are since I didn't start watching K dramas until 2021 & have gradually come to realize that the ones I prefer were all made in prior years. Thank you!
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