Love The Way You Are | Review

She turns fat once she consumes greater than 1000 calories lol.  Wonder how her fat suit works....(apparently she puts on hand gloves as well. No wonder her hands were so chubby too).

I feel as though Chinese dramas are trying to recreate Love O2O CP. These two are another perfect couple with tiny bits of flaw only the other can fix. Cute. Lovely. The secondary couple are also adorable. Best to watch it in one go. Ren Dong Shen has this undying love for her whether she's skinny or fat. She's pampered by his love but is still insecure. It'a a drama where she learns to love herself and allow him to love her. A drama for girls to envy her and love Ren Dong Shen, mmhm.

Notable Actors/Actresses:
Derek Chang: Ren Dong Shen
Qi Yan Di: Zheng Yuan Yuan
Chinese Title:
身為一個胖子
As a Fatty

Genres: Contemporary, Romcom, CEO, Contemporary Romcom

Network: MangoTV

Year: 2019
Episodes: 24

Rating: 4/5 ♥

Crocodile And Plover Bird | Review

How much better it would have been had it only had 24 instead of 50 episodes. Really liked the beginning when the setting was in France. Everything was pretty there including all the actors and actresses. Plot was strong. Style was on point. Chemistry was fresh. Everything fell apart for me when they returned to China, too many overused tropes, overly dramatic schemes without a strong chemistry to keep me focused.

Notable Actors/Actresses
Zhang Tian Ai: Li Nan En
Chen Bo Lin: Zhou Er Wen
Huang Yi Lin: Wang Wai (Vivian)
Luo Yu Tong: Chen You
Chinese Title:
鱷魚與牙籤鳥

Genres: Contemporary, Romance, Contemporary Romance

Year: 2019
Episodes: 50

Kdrama Korner 2020

Campus Romances / Coming of Age

Criteria:

✓ Campus Romances

✓ Coming of Age

Genres (but not all-inclusive): 

✓ Contemporary, School

✓ Romance (Contemporary Romance) / Romcom (Contemporary Romcom)

Excluding overlapping dramas that are mainly:

𐄂 Students / Teachers who actually study/work more than love are in Work/Life/Family ≥ Romance.

CEO Romances

Criteria: 

✓ CEO/Heir or Manager-Employee relationship 

✓ CEOs can be ML or FL

Genres (but not all-inclusive): 

✓ Romcom > Romance

✓ CEO

✓ Contemporary (Contemporary Romcom / Contemporary Romance)

Excluding overlapping dramas that are mainly:

𐄂 Ladies Ensembles

𐄂 CEOs who are actually working in more serious dramas (Work/Life/Family ≥ Romance)

Note: 

♥ Standards are low 

Work/Life/Family ≥ Romance

Criteria: 

✓ Balance of Work / Family / Self-Improvement 

✓ Workplace Dramas (including lawyers, doctors, firefighters, bankers, etc.)

✓ Big Family Dramas 

✓ Romance can still be romantic. It just isn't the focus. 

✓ Balance of ML and FL screen-time

Genres (but not all-inclusive): 

✓ Contemporary

✓ Romance (Contemporary Romance) / Slight Romance / No Romance. 

✓ CEOs who actually work

Excluding overlapping dramas that are mainly:

𐄂 Ladies Ensembles

𐄂 Romantic > Work/Life/Family are in  Contemporary Romance Central

Era Dramas

Criteria: I hope you're CPP vaccinated.

✓ Serious War Times

✓ Trashy Republican Romances

✓ Half-bald Times

✓ 1990s, etc.

Genres (but not all-inclusive): 

✓ Historical Era, Republican Romcom, Republican Romance

✓ Mystery

Crime and Suspense

Criteria: 

✓ A single crime/suspense unfolds

✓ For crimes, MCs are involved in the crime rather than just investigating it. 

✓ +/- Romance

Genres (but not all-inclusive): 

✓ Suspense, +/-Romance

✓ Period / Contemporary (Period Romance / Contemporary Romance)

Excluding overlapping dramas that are mainly:

𐄂 Procedural police/detective shows where MCs are police officers or related

𐄂 Police vs. Mafias

Contemporary Romance Central

Criteria: 

✓ Love story is front and centre. 

✓ Balanced ML vs FL screen-time

Genres (but not all-inclusive): 

✓ Contemporary, Romance, Bromance , Sismance, Family, Contemporary Romance

Excluding overlapping dramas (which will be its own category):

𐄂 CEO romances

𐄂 Campus romances
𐄂 Female ensembles 

𐄂 Work++ / Family++

Scheming/Palace Romances

Criteria: 

✓ A degree of seriousness in the plot

✓ Scheming / Revenges / Palace Politics

✓ Romance

Genres (but not all-inclusive): 

✓ Period, Romance, Palace, Bromance , Sismance, Period Romance

✓ Transmigration

Excluding overlapping dramas that are mainly:

𐄂 Mystery
𐄂 Wuxia