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This week we are back in the OR with episodes 3 and 4 of ‘Hospital Playlist’! Listen in as we review the best new friendships, air some grievances with the best-worst romantic storyline, and the new King of Cliffhangers. Leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter on our website ( playonk.com ), give us a hey by email ( playonkpodcast@gmail.com ) or on Twitter (@playonk) or Instagram (@playonkpo...

Welcome back for season 2 of ‘Hospital Playlist’! We were so excited to get back into this funny and melodramatic show with our five fictional best friends. Join us here as we talk about what every familiar face was up to, all the unfamiliar faces who we don’t remember from season one, all the requests we made that were given to us and all the new requests we had come up with. Leave a comment or s...

We finished it! We finished ‘Hospital Playlist’ season one! Join us for episodes 11 and 12 as we spend way too long ranking our ships, fangirl over adult friendships, and make a lot of (probably wrong) predictions about season two. Leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter on our website ( playonk.com ), give us a hey by email ( playonkpodcast@gmail.com ) or on Twitter (@playonk) or Instagram...

We’re finally back! Sorry for the long wait, but we finally have enough emotional bandwidth to rejoin the real world and it all starts with this review of ‘Hospital Playlist’ Eps. 9-10. Listen in as we record in the same space for the first time in years, share way too many details about our hometown, and rank the many ships that ‘Hospital Playlist’ is teasing us with. Leave a comment or sign up f...

We're sorry for the brief intermission we took with zero notice and so grateful that you're still here! There's nowhere to go but up for us this year, so we look forward to sharing lots more K-dramas with you all from here on out. Thank you for your patience, hold your loved ones extra close, and we're sorry again. Finger hearts, Emily and Raquel

We’ve watched ‘Hospital Playlist’ Season 1 Episodes 7 and 8, and this week we’re here to talk about them. Listen here as we talk about how livers work, how to manage conflict between employees you’re supposed to be managing, and how to incite the most drama within an already dramatic medical drama. Leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter on our website ( playonk.com ), give us a hey by email...

We’re back after an unplanned break week! Sorry for leaving you hanging, Raquel’s been sick. But not to worry, she’s feeling better and we’re ready to talk about ‘Hospital Playlist’ season 1 episodes 5-6. This week we worry for the safety of a character too good for this world, get very overwhelmed by how many doctors are in this drama, and talk about siblings who maybe should or maybe shouldn’t t...

We watched and review ‘Hospital Playlist’ season 1 episodes 3 and 4 this week. Join us here to chat about slow roll outs of big storylines, ships we can see getting ready to set sail, and some lightly dark and slightly sinister plots that are building up the drama in this show in a believable way. Leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter on our website ( playonk.com ), give us a hey by email...

This week we started watching 'Hospital Playlist' and this it has been the perfect mixture of drama, comedy, and slice-of-life-esque ease we need this holiday season. Join us here as we talk about so many doctors, storylines that jumped out at us right out of the gate, and give our stamp of approval on the best possible name for a low-key financial assistance charity organization. Leave a comment...

It's time for the bonus review of 'Signal'! Listen here as we talk about how maybe there aren't the time paradoxes we thought, deep dive into corruption plots, and host an 'In Memoriam' in lieu of doing awards, because a heck of a lot of people died in this show and there are so many to remember. Leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter on our website ( playonk.com ), give us a hey by email (...

We've finished the final four episodes of 'Signal' and now we're ready to review them! This week we talk about disappointing lead character motivations, very good villain monologues, and living for good friendship chemistry. Leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter on our website ( playonk.com ), give us a hey by email ( playonkpodcast@gmail.com ) or on Twitter (@playonk) or Instagram (@playo...

This week we're back with 'Signal' and reviewing episodes 9-12. Listen here as we receive some murderer back story that we explicitly demanded, a very well and very patiently put together corruption storyline, and keeping product placement fresh. Leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter on our website ( playonk.com ), give us a hey by email ( playonkpodcast@gmail.com ) or on Twitter (@playonk...

In our second review of 'Signal' we cover episodes 5-8. Listen here as we get super bummed out about K drama events, then get super bummed out about real life events, and we revoke a character's seat at the 'good guy' table. Also, Raquel just really wants six taquitos and completely loses her mind at the end of this one, sorry about that. Leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter on our websit...

This week we started a new K Drama! We watched episodes 1-4 of 'Signal' and we're here with our first review of this crime drama (with a little time bending shake up). Join us here as we pretend to know anything about Behavior Analysis, have our minds blown by potential paradoxes, and prove once more that we desperately need someone who knows about South Korean Law to come and explain some stuff t...

Now that we've finished the first 2 seasons of 'Kingdom' we're ready to talk about all the bonus thoughts we have about this very good show. Join us here for a round of 'Who's That Face?', a new game we invented called '1 Truth and 100 Lies', and then do some mock interviews for an imagined future where the director of a K Drama consents to coming on this weird little podcast. In short, this episo...

It's a wrap on 'Kingdom' season 2! We watched the final three episodes and we're here to review them. Join us here as we chat about some late-in-the-game feelings we developed for characters, characters we loved all along but even more so now, and themes of blood relations (and surprisingly almost not at all in the bloody zombie kind of way). Since our reviews on horror Korean dramas are few and f...

It's time for season 2 of 'Kingdom'! New season, same layout, this week we review the first three episodes and in doing so chat about unique scene shake ups, rage about a static character, and respect the heck out of women (always). Since our reviews on horror Korean dramas are few and far between we just want to take a section here to remind you to heed the rating for this drama (TV-MA) and the r...

We're back with our second review of 'Kingdom' where we talk about the final three episodes of the first season! Listen here as we celebrate a very rare correct prediction, try to further understand how zombies work, and how to make a villain who is the absolute worst. Since our reviews on horror Korean dramas are few and far between we just want to take a section here to remind you to heed the ra...

October is here and with it we're starting a new Korean drama to get spooked with. Politics meets horror (which actually feels pretty realistic, to be honest) in Kingdom; a K drama set in a fictional Joseon era Korea where the Crown Prince investigates the origins of a plague outbreak that is bringing the dead back to life. Listen to us as we talk about delightfully complicated characters, the eth...

It's time for our third review of 'Move to Heaven' and our third week of Big Sad September! We once again did not count episodes before starting a drama so it's another combo episode! Join us this episode as we talk about surprise romance storylines, and character growth. Then join us for some bonus content as we play 'Who's That Face?', talk source material, and inexplicably do a poetry reading....

It's time for our second review of 'Move to Heaven' and our second week of Big Sad September! This week we review episodes 5-8 and chat about what part of these four episodes made us cry the hardest, when it's time to learn about the Korean healthcare system, and when body language can say the things that are also being said out loud. Leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter on our website (...

We've started a new drama! This week we watched episodes 1-4 of 'Move to Heaven' and designated this month 'Big Sad September' because it looks like we're gonna be crying during every episode of this beautiful K drama. Cry along with us as we review effectively compelling cliff-hangers, when to break hard truths to the forgetful, and sleuthing within one's skill-set.  Leave a comment or sign...

It's time to review the 'Another Miss Oh' finale episodes! But wait! There's more! We're also ready to get in all that bonus material! Join us this week as we talk specific moments, abruptly created and concluded drama, and, for some reason even we don't understand, flex our limited knowledge about plumbing. And then as a combo treat just keep on listening as we play our least ever recognizable ga...

This week Emily and Raquel reviewing episodes 13-16 of 'Another Miss Oh'. Join us here as we chat about the justifications and ramifications of opting for single-parenthood,  well handled secondary character arcs, and some character arcs we're ready to go ahead and throw right out. Leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter on our website ( playonk.com ), give us a hey by email ( playonkpo...

It's another review of Another Miss Oh! Join us this week for episodes 9-12 where we chat about relationship power imbalances, a life flashing before one's eyes, and a Boys' Night Out that feels like it was written by a boy. Leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter on our website ( playonk.com ), give us a hey by email ( playonkpodcast@gmail.com ) or on Twitter (@playonk) or Instagram (@playo...