Dramas Over Flowers

Welcome, welcome to Part 2 of our year-end celebration gala! With no less than 28 different awards, this not so much a Yak as it is a Mammoth Marathon, as we try to conquer the highs and lows of Dramaland 2021 in the space of two wild hours. If you've listened to Part 1, you may already know that we thought this was going to be in 2 parts (big mistake!), but it ended up being 3 - so happy new year...

Welcome to Part 1 of our Year End Yak. In this episode, we discuss the stories, trends, controversies, and fall out from dramaland in 2021. And when Saya, Anisa, and Paroma are done, our listeners and guests chime in with their insightful commentary on the year that passed. Have a very happy new year, everyone! TIMESTAMPS: 05:00 - Shorter Streaming Dramas 10:17 - Getting Netflix to Pay For Data Co...

It’s the end of the year and as we all reflect on the dramas we loved in 2021, we thought it would be a good time to release this Spoiled Yak on one of our favorites— Run On . Our friend, Seoulbeats editor Rimi, joins Anisa Paroma for a long and detailed squee session about the show. If it sounds familiar, that’s because we actually recorded this in a livestream on Valentines day. In the spirit of...

Saya and Paroma sit down for a good gab about jTBC's 10-year anniversary drama, Sisyphus: The Myth , that aired earlier in the year, starring Park Shin-hye and Jo Seung-woo. We discuss why it wasn't a perfect show, but also the things that were perfectly done despite it. We're optimistic about the future of sci-fi in the K-drama realm, though, and the lush scope of Sisyphus gets us really excited!...

In our final What's Up in Dreamland of the year—what.—Anisa and Paroma discuss December premieres, with a meaningful tangent about political protest. As we anticipated during recording, The Silent Sea does now have an airdate and will be dropping on Dec 24.  There are plenty of ways you can participate in Dramas Over Flowers' year-end festivities. See the links below to join us! Links: Upload...

Welcome to the last Long Yak of 2021! Join us for a long conversation as we catch up with each other on all the dramas on our plate. Use the hashtag #DramasOver2021 on twitter and review the dramas you watched in 2021! We'll retweet every one of them. <3 LINKS: Send us your voice notes for the Year End Yak: UPLOAD Use our K-drama tracker for 2021 for free: DOWNLOAD Join our newsletter for month...

Paroma and friend of the podcast, Just Me, discuss the first season of Yumi's Cells - the perfect casting, the amazing music, the beats of the story that surprised us, the weight and beauty of the ending, and what we think will happen next! You can find Just Me on twitter @justepicness . LINKS: Download the Kdrama tracker for 2021 for free: LINK Join our newsletter for monthly updates and podcast...

November brings a lot of new dramas to sample. Apple TV+ releases Dr Brain and Netflix brings you another short, hellish series by the director of Train to Busan - Hellbound. We also talk about the conversation around Kim Seon-ho in the last month and our personal belief that it should never have been a public discourse. LINKS: Wish Anisa luck on her job as a podcast producer @anisakhalifa_ Listen...

Finally, we have arrived at the titular Squid Game! Anisa is joined by our friend kfangurl to finish up this dystopic voyage into the human psyche. We take a spoilery dive into episodes 7-9, discussing those much-maligned English speaking actors, whether the ending worked for us, and our thoughts on a second season.  Links: kfangurl's excellent review of Squid Game Director Hwang Dong-hyuk de...

In this Wild Yak, Anisa and Paroma talk to Tina, our friend and an aficionado of Korean web dramas, about what makes web dramas unique and appealing, the benefits and drawbacks of the format, and how they’re changing in this new era of streaming. Tina and Paroma also give Anisa some web series recommendations because she's a total noob in this area. Dramas mentioned in this episode: 7 First K...

We review the first week of The King's Affection, our strong reactions to the childhood story of our protagonists, our resentment over deaths that we knew were coming but wish didn't happen, and our anticipation of the grown by characters carrying the story forward! Watch Paroma's video essay on 3 ways The King's Affection subverts gender bender tropes! Other podcast episodes you'll enjoy: Episode...

This month, we're back and labouring under the realisation that when you have a K-drama podcast, you have to watch the biggest global TV sensation in the history of K-dramas! I admit, we are not hating it, but we reserve the right to grumble! We also take a sidestep to talk about whether age affects how we enjoy actors, before jumping into October premieres. TIMESTAMPS NEWS 00:01:22 Why did Squid...

Saya and Anisa discuss the devastating developments and twisty turns in Episodes 4-6 of Squid Game , which is slowly killing us even as we can't stop watching. We discuss the show's brilliant takedown of neoliberal capitalism, how it implicates even the viewer, and what it has in common with Vincenzo (links to our Long Yaks about Vincenzo below). It's so metaphorical . Other Episodes We Think You'...

Squid Game really took over the world, huh? We talk the whys and wherefores of it becoming the biggest show ever in next week's What's Up in Dramaland, but for now, have Saya and Anisa's spoilery thoughts on Episodes 1-3. Let us know what you thought of this bonkers, brilliant setup to the deadly game. Other Episodes We Think You'll Like: Episode 105 - where we first hear about Squid Game and spec...

The Long Yak is back! After a bunch of spoiled yaks and wild yaks, we’re back with the classic yak flavor! ...Okay that sounded weird - we’re not eating Goguma, don’t worry. In this episode, we talk about some shows we’ve started and finished over the last couple of months. A heads up that we discuss spoilers for episodes one and two of Hometown Cha Cha Cha, and Anisa gives away the broad strokes...

We bring you another spoiler-filled movie chat with Anisa and Paroma. The last time we did this, we had just watched Black Panther and couldn't stop ourselves from recording an episode. You can find that episode here . (Episode 10) No time stamps on this one since it's a super casual chat, but we focus 70% of the conversation on the perfection of casting Tony Leung as an immortal warrior as well a...

Here's another foray into the wilds of Dramaland on the back of our yak - specifically a "shigan yohaeng" (time travel) into Seo In-guk's filmography, from his recent film, Pipeline , all the way back to the impression he made as Yoon Yoon-jae in Reply 1997 (aka Answer Me 1997 )...and even further back than that. What was your first Seo In-guk? We'd love to know! LINKS Saya's 2016 end-of-year revi...

Eight new dramas releasing in September! TimeStamps! NEWS 00:03:16 - 'Imitation' boy band song gets on real world chart 00:05:56 - Lee Jun-young helps police catch a drunk driver 00:09:29 - Seungri's sentencing and what happens next 00:11:06 - 'Hospital Playlist' actress Ahn Eun-jin (Min-ah) signs up with UAA 00:12:18 - Casting speculations! PREMIERES 00:15:02 - Lost 00:19:32 - High Class 00:22:38...

Welcome to the August What's Up in Dramaland! Here we take you through some industry news, give you our take on them, and then move on to upcoming dramas, which is MY favourite segment cause it's all about wild speculations and mixing up actor names while we try to figure out if we're willing to give these show a chance on our watchlist. TIME STAMPS: 02:43:17 Covid updates from S. Korea 04:17:16 M...

Welcome to our first outing of The Wild Yak! In this episode, Saya gives her closing thoughts on this little jewel of a drama that ran March-April, starring Song Kang and Park In-hwan. Spoilers inside! Our Beloved Patrons: Egads, Steven, Lia W., Hades, Gracefulegg, Divina, Saoirse10, MCG, Humbledaisy, Eunice Choi, Jojo, Rue, k8ekol, mindy, Liliana, Edyth, Marcia, unatuna, Dr. Chi, Lesley H, G. K,...

This month, we have the return of the wooly mammoth! We’ve had more reasonably sized yaks lately, but we had a lot of dramas to talk about when we sat down to record this, so settle in for a long one. This yak is premiere-heavy—we discuss our first impressions of a LOT of shows, as well as some ongoing and final thoughts on other dramas. Time Stamps: 00:02:37 Monthly Magazine Home 00:10:57 Neverth...

Welcome, welcome, we are back to our regularly scheduled programming now that we've gotten over our plague of technical hiccups! A small note: since recording, the last drama we mention as upcoming in July 2021, POLICE UNIVERSITY, has been postponed to August. (Saya is disappointed.) TIMESTAMPS News: 00:01:50 Park Seo-joon in The Marvels? Upcoming Dramas: 00:11:19 Devil Judge 00:19:51 You Are My S...

Welcome to the first Q&A with Dramas Over Flowers! We decided to answer some interesting email questions on the podcast in celebration of our 100th episode. We have loved taking this journey together and we appreciate every listener who's joined us on the way. Please keep sending us these wonderful questions, so we can do another mailbag soon! Time stamps (for the full questions, please visit...

Some announcements about upcoming events, as well as some boring administrative stuff about Patreon and episode names (you wouldn't know it by how much we giggle though). Register for KPSN to come see our panels on July 11th: https://solo.to/kpsnfun See you in the next Yak of miscellaneous description, and thanks to all our listeners & patrons as always!

In this episode of the Long Yak (which was recorded on the same day as the last long yak and is therefore technically Part 2 of a very, very Long Yak), we discuss some dramas we finally completed, and some we rewatched. TIME STAMPS: 1:56 - Oh Master 13:35 - Vincenzo 30:12 - Hello Me 37:36 - L.U.C.A. 40:34 - Scripting Your Destiny 42:54 - Use For My talent/Clean With Passion For Now 56:03 - Bring i...