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15. The Long Yak - Poem a Day | Suits | Switch | (Japanese) Signal

15. The Long Yak - Poem a Day | Suits | Switch | (Japanese) Signal

FromDramas Over Flowers


15. The Long Yak - Poem a Day | Suits | Switch | (Japanese) Signal

FromDramas Over Flowers

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Length:
64 minutes
Released:
May 9, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Anisa, Saya, and Paroma talk about recently airing dramas, shows they chose to stop watching, and KDrama's tendency to value emotions over plot development. Also, drama recs!

01:15 - Poem A Day
17:47 - Suits
30:40 - DNF'd dramas: Great Seducer
31:25 - DNF'd dramas: Shall We Kiss First
33:16 - DNF'd dramas: Switch
36:18 - Depiction of marijuana in Suits
39:01 - Is the frequency of sexual assault plots in recent dramas a result of the #MeToo movement?
39:44 - Japanese Drama: Signal
44:54 - Are Korean Dramas overly emotional? Paroma compares The Liar and His Lover with its source material and thinks it comes up short.
47:19 - Why some dramas choose to focus on emotions and leave the plot behind. Saya uses The Great Seducer as a likely culprit.
50:11 - Chinese Dramas: Only Side By Side With You
52:57 - Question of the Yak: What will make you drop a drama immediately? Support this podcast
Released:
May 9, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

We’re Saya, Anisa, and Paroma. Three women of South Asian descent, brought up in three different continents, as diverse in our cultural outlooks as we are in our accents. With our powers of drama analysis combined, we formed Dramas Over Flowers: a podcast that lets us work through our joys and frustrations of drama watching.