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Three years ago, I dragged my parents kicking and screaming into the den and made them watch the first episode of Daejanggeum. Last year I did the same to my aunt and uncle. Now I get regular calls asking for recommendations.
During the most recent, my father mentioned that he was busy watching "Queen...Something."
"Not 'Queen Seon Duk?'" I asked, all incredulity.
Well, yes, as it turns out, Queen Seon Duk. Granted, mon pere had only made it one episode in, and from what I can tell he is not using the same set of subs, which might be a mitigating factor, but he was rather bemused by how horrid I found it and I was rather bemused by how tolerable he found it.
This led to a discussion of what he should be watching instead. These discussions also occur periodically, and usually involve mon pere opening up My Soju and reeling off the list of top dramas while I giggle at his horrific pronunciation. Toping the list of doozies during this most recent of conversations was "Kai shight uh-cumma," which I eventually determined was "Koshite Akuma," and which I happen to be rather stuck on at present. For although it's supposedly 吸血鬼もの it is, put simply, the story of how awkward it is to be a high school boy whose pretty English teacher keeps making you hard.
This statement is in no way an exaggeration. The drama really is that blatant. Now, I usually get my entertainment more from hating on such dramas than by actually enjoying them, but I am actually quite enjoying this one for its own sake. And it's not just for the sprouting fangs = onset of puberty = extreme social anxiety conflation. From the be-caped Carrot Top doppleganger Alpha Vampire and bat squeal sound effects whenever a bloodsucker pops his teeth to the prune juice product placement and the fact that the male lead is both more wooden than an oaken statue of Keanu Reeves and very obviously not finished with puberty himself, it packs such an enormous load of ridiculous it ends up more endearing than annoying.
And instead of taking the usual Japanese tack--where the audience is not meant to laugh at the Serious Melodrama of Sparkling Vampires--it plays all of this up for laughs, and delivers them more often than not.
Although I am not necessarily free from regret that ma famille knows I'm watching it, on the other hand, well, at least it's no Seon Duk.
これで以上です。
During the most recent, my father mentioned that he was busy watching "Queen...Something."
"Not 'Queen Seon Duk?'" I asked, all incredulity.
Well, yes, as it turns out, Queen Seon Duk. Granted, mon pere had only made it one episode in, and from what I can tell he is not using the same set of subs, which might be a mitigating factor, but he was rather bemused by how horrid I found it and I was rather bemused by how tolerable he found it.
This led to a discussion of what he should be watching instead. These discussions also occur periodically, and usually involve mon pere opening up My Soju and reeling off the list of top dramas while I giggle at his horrific pronunciation. Toping the list of doozies during this most recent of conversations was "Kai shight uh-cumma," which I eventually determined was "Koshite Akuma," and which I happen to be rather stuck on at present. For although it's supposedly 吸血鬼もの it is, put simply, the story of how awkward it is to be a high school boy whose pretty English teacher keeps making you hard.
This statement is in no way an exaggeration. The drama really is that blatant. Now, I usually get my entertainment more from hating on such dramas than by actually enjoying them, but I am actually quite enjoying this one for its own sake. And it's not just for the sprouting fangs = onset of puberty = extreme social anxiety conflation. From the be-caped Carrot Top doppleganger Alpha Vampire and bat squeal sound effects whenever a bloodsucker pops his teeth to the prune juice product placement and the fact that the male lead is both more wooden than an oaken statue of Keanu Reeves and very obviously not finished with puberty himself, it packs such an enormous load of ridiculous it ends up more endearing than annoying.
And instead of taking the usual Japanese tack--where the audience is not meant to laugh at the Serious Melodrama of Sparkling Vampires--it plays all of this up for laughs, and delivers them more often than not.
Although I am not necessarily free from regret that ma famille knows I'm watching it, on the other hand, well, at least it's no Seon Duk.
これで以上です。
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