Pocha Playlist: The KDrama Podcast

This week we review Mr. Queen (Ep: 9-10) @ 15:04, Uncanny Counter (Ep: 13-14) @ 25:32 & True Beauty (Ep: 9-10) @ 33:32.  Let’s go Biker Boizzz!     Next week we will be reviewing the season of Bling Empire on Netflix, Mr. Queen (11-12), Uncanny Counter finale (15-16) and True Beauty (11-12).    Please leave us ratings and reviews on Apple Podcasts and also let us know if you have any ideas for...

Big news this week, we finally have Captain Eugene Choi back on the podcast! It’s been 2 months since we heard his voice, but we are happy to have him back. This week we review Mr. Queen (Ep: 7-8) @ 13:09, Uncanny Counter (Ep: 11-12) @ 23:28 & True Beauty (Ep: 7-8) @ 34:39.     Next week we  will be reviewing more episodes of Mr. Queen (9-10), Uncanny Counter (13-14) and True Beauty (9-10).  M...

Happy New Year’s Pocha Peeps! Cheers to many more years of Pocha Playlist episodes. This week we have a short episode where we catch up on Mr. Queen (Ep: 5-6) @ 2:04, Uncanny Counter (Ep: 9-10) @ 7:42 & Lovestruck in the City (Ep: 3-4) @ 11:29.     We also finalize our 2020 playlist @ 18:58 and we make a few controversial moves to some big titles. Let us know what you think of our final 2020 l...

Welcome to the very last episode of 2020! We have a very packed episode to end the year with a bang. We review Mr. Queen (Ep: 3-4) @ 6:35, Sweet Home (Ep: 6-10) @ 16:25, Uncanny Counter (Ep: 7-8) @ 23:44, True Beauty (Ep: 5-6) @ 35:11 and the new drama Lovestruck in the City (Ep: 1-2) @ 52:55.     It's been a crazy 2020 but we want to thank all our amazing listeners for supporting us! We coul...

Seems like we are out of our KDrama drought because we have so many things to watch! Starting @ 5:37 we discuss Run On, Mr. Queen and the first 5 episodes of Sweet Home!  We continue our noodle family adventures with Uncanny Counter (Ep: 5-6) @ 24:22. Early prediction from Brandon is that Rich Noodle will turn out to be a bad guy! Speaking of Brandon, he issued a formal apology for his hate on Tru...

It’s almost Christmas so we start this episode off with another rom com for everyone.   Great new recommendation from Jenny for a drama called Mr. Queen @ 3:48 and we continue reviewing Uncanny COUNTER (not encounter) (Ep: 3-4) @ 9:15. We are loving the Grim Reaper x Mafia story line and we came up with great noodle shop nicknames to everyone on the show. Stay tuned for our yearbook for this drama...

Only a few more Pocha episodes left in 2020 so let's end it with a bang.    We start off this episode with some relationship advice from our King Paju, then we get into tons of reviews: Uncanny Counter, The Guest, and Jenny reviews the finale of Tale of the Nine Tailed (props to her for finishing it).         Well, we have finally made it to the Start Up finale (Ep: 15-16) @ 24:14. We are goi...

Hope everyone had an amazing thanksgiving filled with love and KDramas!     Not many KDramas to review but the movie we watched this week was The Call on Netflix with Park Shin Hye @ 8:52. It was amazing, action packed, and make sure everyone keeps watching until the end credit scene! It changes everything...     Our main event for this week is Start Up (Ep: 13-14) @ 16:18. We are getting close to...

Happy Thanksgiving everybody, we from the Pocha Crew hope you watch a lot of KDramas with your friends and family.    Bit of a sad episode as our very own Captain Terry is moving back home so won't be able to record with us for a few weeks... BUT expect him back (virtually) and ready to review in early 2021.    Great recommendations and new K-Pop discussions starting @ 1:51.  We review The Ki...

We've made it to 20 episodes so of course we need to celebrate with booze.  We "try" to play a drinking game where we all have to drink if we: -Swear  -Say anything perverted -Don't know what's happening in the drama Sadly we fail terribly...   The Pocha Crew did our homework and we watched the feature film Let's Go to the Rose Motel and we discuss that @ 12:47.  Sinc...

Happy Birthday to Captain Eugene Choi for turning 21 this week. The Pocha Peeps review the sequal to Train to Busan, Peninsula @ 3:04.     We start Tale of the Nine Tailed (Ep: 9-10) @ 8:09 but unfortunately this show has failed to deliver for us so for the very first time the Pocha Crew will be DROPPING this show from the review list :(. BUT we continue reviewing the best show of 2020 Start Up (E...

Sadly, October is over but thankfully King Paju is back from his 2-week hiatus to tell us what he's been up to.    We start with the Record of Youth finale (Ep: 15-16) @ 6:25 which might be the biggest let down of 2020. So much potential and yet they decided to do nothing with it. Our official Pocha ranking for this drama is number 8 on our 2020 list sandwiched between Backstreet Rookie and E...

Fun recommendations this week, we talk about Mr. Zoo, Search, Kingdom Season 2, Ashfall and the best movie Let's Go To The Rose Motel.   Our reviews this week are Record of Youth (Ep: 13-14) @ 18:15, Tale of the Nine Tailed (Ep: 5-6) @ 28:04, and new drama Start Up (Ep: 3-4) @ 42:43. Record of Youth is starting to get very dull but hopefully the finale brings us some surprises, Tale of the Ni...

No Andy this week but we have a KDrama packed episode for you guys. We talk about the new Black Pink documentary & Kingdom season 1 starting 2:23.  Our reviews this week are Record of Youth (Ep: 11-12) @ 20:15, Tale of the Nine Tailed (Ep: 3-4) @ 34:15, and new drama Start Up (Ep: 1-2) @ 50:58. Next week the Pocha Crew will continue reviewing Start Up (3-4), Tale of the Nine Tailed (5-6), and...

The Pocha Crew starts off this spooky episode by reviewing the horror movie Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum which we all watched together @ 3:15. Terry gives us some free Amazon Prime movies to NOT watch and Jenny finishes reviewing School Nurse Files (Ep: 4-6) @ 19:46. We FINALLY finish the last episode of SF8 (Ep: 8) @ 27:00, review the crazy drama stirring in Record of Youth (Ep: 9-10) @ 31:38, and we...

Happy October everyone, get ready for lots of spooky stuff this month. Great recommendations (both American and Korean) @ 5:34 then we get into our drama reviews. Unfortunately, due to Chuseok there was no episode 8 of SF8, so that got pushed to next week. We start by giving a School Nurse Files (Ep: 1-3) explanation @ 23:11 and then Record of Youth (Ep: 7-8) @ 35:47. School Nurse Files must be th...

Pocha Crew is back with another HOT episode that will make you whistle like a missile. Eugene Choi recommendations @ 1:25 plus Jenny and Brandon did their homework and cover Fight My Way and Arthdal Chronicles. This week we review the long awaited Siwon episode of SF8 (Ep: 7) @ 15:23, Flower of Evil Finale (Ep: 16) @ 25:36, and we continue Record of Youth (Ep: 5-6) @ 35:57.    Episode 7 of SF8 did...

Captain Eugene Choi is back with us this week and he and King Paju give us their great recommendations as usual @ 2:07. Jenny and Brandon discuss the finale of I-Land and the new group ENHYPEN @ 7:31. This week we review SF8 (Ep: 6) @ 12:14, Flower of Evil (Ep: 14-15) @ 21:29, and Terry gives his take on the new drama Record of Youth (Ep: 3-4) @ 34:53.  SF8 episodes just keep getting better and ne...

The Pocha Crew is all recovered from last weeks drinking shenanigans and ready to review some dramas. Unfortunately we don't have Terry, but do not fret we have our Pocha Pup Tibby filling in for him. Andy has some great recommendations for us starting @ 3:29 and then we get into our packed schedule. SF8 (Ep: 4-5) @ 21:18, Flower of Evil (Ep: 11-13) @ 31:12, and the new drama Record of Youth...

Welcome back to our booziest episode yet! This is our very special 10th episode so we decided to do things a bit different this week. That means no going over what the Pocha Crew watched, no episode reviews, and no rankings either. Instead, we decided to use this episode to have some fun… After we go through what’s on our full 2020 Playlist and explain why each show is ranked where it is, we get t...

It’s Pocha Time! Andy tells us about his “College Night” party which leads the Pocha Crew to rank their favorite College alcohols. No spooky recommendations from Brandon this week but he did watch Terry’s recommendation Confidential Assignment with Hyun Bin. Terry @ 7:40 brings us another drama of the year candidate called Live Up To Your Name, reviews the new time traveling drama Alice, and wraps...

We have another very special guest this week… Terry from World A shows up VERY Hungover and we have a fun discussion with Andy about his wine preferences, BTS’s new song Dynamite and we even go over our Zodiac compatibility and Horoscopes. Brandon finished Prison Playbook and claims it’s the best drama… like ever and even got into trouble with Jenny when he started singing the soundtrack at 2am on...

We have a very special guest this week… Andy from World B shows up not hungover to give some great drama and movie recommendations (Bad Guys: Reign of Chaos, Monstrum, Lucid Dream, Lonely Enough to Love) @ 2:07. Terrys favorite drama Flower of Evil (Ep: 5-6) @ 20:10. Early prediction, is the reporter (Bully) the true killer?! Will we get the #DumplingMurderGang in the end?! Next week is the finale...

The Pocha Crew is back and extremely hungover from playing the It’s Okay Not to Be Sober drinking game on Saturday’s Episode 15 of IONTBO. We wrap up Backstreet Rookie, Bad Guys & Strangers from Hell, plus give some great movie recommendations @ 1:50. Train (Ep: 7-8) @ 12:40, Flower of Evil (Ep: 3-4) @ 19:03 and finally the finale of It’s Okay Not To Be Okay @ 31:17. Sadly NONE of the Pocha Cr...

We have made it to episode 5 which makes Terry officially the CFO! Great recommendations such as Dinner Mates, Backstreet Rookie & Bad Guys starting @ 3:49. Train (Ep: 5-6) @ 17:50, It's Okay Not to Be Okay (Ep: 13-14) @ 32:25 and finally Flower of Evil (Ep: 1-2) @ 50:37. The last two episodes of IONTBO are finally here, so the Pocha Crew gives their final predictions for what will happen...