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Perfect Marriage Revenge (2023)

The show that brought me into the new year – mini time travel (by only two characters and going back just a year), spiced up with lots of greed, lots on family life, lots of love and a few murderous plots! Do-guk and Yi-joo Sung Hoon reprises his role as man with childhood trauma causing him sleep problems.  Here, it is Yi-joo (Jung Yoo-min) who has the eating problem, and he pours his heart into feeding her.  The larder he stocks for her… complete with dark chocolate Loacker!   Do-guk’s devotion in some ways mitigates how weirdly their relationship develops.  We don’t know till rather late why he loves her so much nor do we know why she loves him back in the end.   Nevertheless, they make a cute couple, look fantastic together, and show much resilience and determination as a pair.  Yoo-min (looking like Park Eun-bin in certain scenes!) acts much more strongly and her character development provides more room to showcase her skills....
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Love Your Enemy (2024)

Somewhat unusual, with the comedy and the side plot more interesting than the romance, which was, sadly, bland and predictable. Hilarious Seok Ji-won ( Joo Ji-hoon ) Lee Ki-ha (Kim Hyun-mok) Ji-hoon and Hyun-mok are funnier than Rowoon and Hyun-mok in The Matchmakers ; without this pair, I probably would have dropped the show. Moderately funny Grandpa Yoon (Kim Kap-soo), with his smirking and some amusing lines Mildly funny Dad Seok Gyeon-tae (Lee Byung-joon) Teacher Byun (Yoon Seo-hyun) VP Kang (Baek Hyun-joo) Disappointing The love stories Seok Ji-won and Yoon Ji-won I don’t know why Seok JW likes her.  Student Yoon JW isn’t a nice person – smug, vain and self-centred.  She’s mostly just putting down Seok JW or swinging her hair around and looking pretty.  Teacher Yoon JW is boring, and again, I don’t know why Seok JW likes her again/still.  It felt like he was carrying over his teenage affections into adult life.  When she asks why he...
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Heavenly Ever After (2025)

Heart-warming, tear-jerky, sometimes funny, well-acted!  There were lots of plot-lines, because there were all sorts in ‘heaven’ and in ‘hell’, so it is challenging to manage and keep everything together.     Having a strong lead couple helps!  Hae-sook (Kim Hye-ja) complains about her and Nak-joon ( Son Suk-ku ) looking like mother and son, but it never feels like they’re mother and son.  Throughout the show, you think of them as a couple.  Well done, both! Ryu Deok-hwan, playing the pastor, is impressive portraying different emotions and moods, especially when he has to come to terms with Hae-sook's identity.  However, he has major question marks.  How is he an adult here when he died as a child?  In fact, how did he become more mature and perceptive than many others? People probably found Som-yi ( Han Ji-min ) exasperating, puzzling, disturbing or even hateful.  Smart plot move to make us w...
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Nibbles – artistic sides to supplement the main course

Probably I should keep a closer eye on the art scene here, learn a bit more and move beyond just looking out for people painting flowers and landscapes.  Besides the Impressionists , there were a couple of smaller displays to enjoy.     Fernando Zobel: Order is Essential (National Gallery Singapore) This is the first solo exhibition of works by Fernando Zobel (1924-1984), a Filipino artist with a cosmopolitan spread in his experiences and art. Zobel's interpretation of van Gogh's A Wheatfield with Cypresses Penitentes Also on display were works by artists connected to him and by other Filipino artists. St. Thomas Aquinas, Alfonso Ossorio (Zobel's relative and friend) San Vicente Ferrer (artist unknown) Jose Joya And yes, order in art, please. Verse: A View of Things to Come (The Arts House)   A very interesting collaboration between art and poetry (my friend FS tells me it’s called ekphrastic poetry), with the artwork done by former prisoners and poems b...
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