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It's time for episodes 9-12 of 'Mr. Sunshine'! This week we celebrate the begrudging birth of a beautiful bromance, lament the abandonment of adult decisions, and worry about every character's well-being because now we're attached and we want to keep them all forever. Leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter on our website ( playonk.com ), give us a hey by email ( playonkpodcast@gmail.com ) o...

This week we are back to review episodes 5-8 of 'Mr. Sunshine'! It's early in the drama, but we're feeling pretty confident that this is one of the best K dramas we've ever watched. Join us here as we discuss poetry that isn't poetry, the origin of the word "wierdo", and the development of every single person because there is no such thing as a one-off character. Leave a comment or sign up for our...

We've started a new drama! This week we watched episodes 1-4 of 'Mr. Sunshine', where an American military officer returns to his homeland of Korea in the early 1900's and becomes entangled with a young noble woman who is fighting to free Korea from the powers attempting to colonize the nation. Join us this week as we review our first ever historical drama, fail to accurately learn any of the real...

It's time for our bonus review of 'Tale of the Nine-Tailed'! This week we give our overview of the show, talk about actors talking about acting, Emily shares some surprisingly intense folk lore, and we send some fashion to the thrift store. 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 I...

We've watched the final four episodes of 'Tale of the Nine-Tailed' and we're back to talk about Lee Rang...and other finale stuff too, if it happens to come up! Join us here as we talk about letting the world die for one person, Deep Cut Granny, and our favorite fox brother. Leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter on our website ( playonk.com ), give us a hey by email ( playonkpodcast@gmail....

It's our third week of reviewing 'Tale of the Nine-Tailed'! We've got a lot to talk about, so catch us here as we lament watching characters make the same mistakes twice, rewrite the whole drama as a one-woman-show, and delight in continuity errors. 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 (@play...

We're back for our second week of 'Tale of the Nine-Tailed' and actually we really go off in this one. For real, this episode contains one planned rant and three or so additional and completely unplanned rants. Prepare yourself accordingly and then listen here as we discuss unfortunate age gaps, reincarnation frustration, and our big hopes for a couple of brothers to work out their problems and be...

This week we start a new K drama! We watched episodes 1-4 of 'Tale of the Nine-Tailed' and we're here to review them. Go start this drama and then listen here as we talk about fantasy genre tropes, solve a several-hundred-year-old mystery, and analyze effective spook tactics. Join our fan chat forum on Discord, leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter on our website (playonk.com), give us a h...

We've finished our holiday celebrations, we're back for one last bonus review of 'It's Okay to Not Be Okay' and we have so many nice things to say! Join us here as we provide a list of life lessons, discuss how many Subways are too many Subways, and talk about what we would do with $900/month. Join our fan chat forum on Discord, leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter on our website ( playon...

We've finished 'It's Okay to Not Be Okay' and we are here to review the final four episodes! Listen here as we talk about a new kind of parent trap, the different types of sadness K dramas use to hurt us, and fashion (because we avoided talking about it for far too long and it's time). Join our fan chat forum on Discord, leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter on our website ( playonk.com ),...

This week we are reviewing episodes 9-12 of 'It's Okay to Not Be Okay'! Listen here as we talk about characters that are really turning it around (but we're still grudging against their flaws), the intersection of K dramas and Telenovelas, and who we would fire if we were in charge of who gets to work in this very fictional psychiatric hospital. Join our fan chat forum on Discord, leave a comment...

We're back to review (and deeply love) episodes 5-8 of 'It's Okay to Not Be Okay'! This week we talk about the realest friends coming in with the hardest truths, the Pain Olympics, and the viability of seeking help with security issues. Join our fan chat forum on Discord, leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter on our website ( playonk.com ), give us a hey by email ( playonkpodcast@gmail.com...

It's time for a new K Drama! This week we watched episodes 1-4 of 'It's Okay to Not Be Okay' and we finally understand the hype in a big way. This show is so good it's unreal. Go start this good good drama and then listen here as we talk about how to be petty about pettiness, mental health stuff we're unqualified to discuss, and stunning media switches the creators have pulled off. Join our fan ch...

We're back for one last week with 'Flower of Evil' for our bonus episode! This week is even more of a bonus because we have Kaitlin and Jill from the Oh K Drama podcast on our show! Listen here as the four of us talk about near death experiences, the high stakes of marriage, and children who are cute enough to be in K dramas and have modeling careers. Join our fan chat forum on Discord, leave a co...

We finished the final four episodes of 'Flower of Evil' and we are here to review them! This week we kick off the episode with a big exciting announcement! Join us here for that good good news, and then listen to us repeatedly edit out an entire episode of the show for our mental comfort, call out problematic K-Drama-Land behavior, and discuss the big conclusion (sans the episode we're ignoring)....

So it turns out 'Flower of Evil' is just extremely intense, but honestly we are loving it. This week we review episodes 9-12 where we describe basics on how to not get murdered by people you suspect of murder, deals that seem mutually beneficial but might be mutual hostage situations, and how to be a more involved parent and spouse. Join our fan chat forum on Discord, leave a comment or sign up fo...

We're back for a second week of reviewing and chatting about 'Flower of Evil'! We cannot even begin to predict what is going to happen in this show, but we certainly give it our best effort. Listen here as we talk about psychology stuff we are for sure not qualified to talk about and suspect everyone of murder. Join our fan chat forum on Discord, leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter on ou...

It's a new week and time for a new K drama! We decided to get a little spooky and started watching 'Flower of Evil' episodes 1-4. Join us here as we get a dark with our humor, speculate wildly about who done what, and forcefully push ships out to sea, whether or not they have any business being there. Join our fan chat forum on Discord, leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter on our website...

We're back for one last week with 'Spring Turns to Spring'! Join us for this bonus episode where we reiterate how to throw the best divorce party for one, romances we wanted to see, and womances you love to see. Join our fan chat forum on Discord, 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 (@playon...

We finished the last 8 episodes of 'Spring Turns to Spring' and we are back to review them! This week we talk about bad guys who turned out not so bad, bad guys who turned out super bad, and characters we were just grateful to have in the car with us on the way to the airport. Join our fan chat forum on Discord, leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter on our website ( playonk.com ), give us...

The drama has gotten real real in 'Spring Turns to Spring'. This week we watched episodes 17-24 and we are reviewing them here! We talk about crumbling relationships, crumbling personalities, and how ballistic missiles changed the ways we view K dramas. Join our fan chat forum on Discord, leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter on our website ( playonk.com ), give us a hey by email ( playonk...

This week we watched episodes 9-16 of 'Spring Turns to Spring' and we're back again to review it. Once you catch up on the episodes you can catch us here where we talk about irredeemable characters, Two Broke Girls, following teenage dreams/boys, and the CIA. Join our fan chat forum on Discord, leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter on our website ( playonk.com ), give us a hey by email ( p...

It's time for another new K Drama! This week we started watching 'Spring Turns to Spring' episodes 1-8 (the first 4 hours)! In this episode of Play on K we talk about mad science, Wife Swap, and we plot our own K drama murder most foul. Join our fan chat forum on Discord, leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter on our website ( playonk.com ), give us a hey by email ( playonkpodcast@gmail.com...

We’re back for one last good talk about ‘Good Casting’! Join us in this bonus episode as we talk about people we’ve seen before, what those people were wearing, interviews with those people, and what we thought about them being cast in this good good show. Join our fan chat forum through Patreon to let us know what you’re watching, leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter on our website ( pla...

We've made it to the finale of 'Good Casting'! We finished up the final 4 episodes this week and we're here to talk about conclusions we loved, conclusions (and relationships) we hated, and then made a couple hundred puns about the casting of this show. Join our fan chat forum through Patreon to let us know what you’re watching, leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter on our website ( playon...