I love the literary magazine Epiphany and they recently featured Zheng Yu’s “Name名.” Things and beauty can always be lost in translation and be awkward. Zheng Yu is writing with English as her second language, and this is a beautiful poem about how her grandfather struggled to find the perfect name for his granddaughter. While the entire poem is great,
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Untouchable Lovers is a 2018 Chinese drama starring Guan Xiao Tong and Song Wei Long. I am not certain how many episodes I made it through but I believe it was over 30 before I gave up.
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It’s really been a long time. I think I have several of these percolating in the corners of my mind, but since I marathoned the episodes with English subtitles available for Taiwanese drama Behind Your Smile, this drama gets center stage in synopsis failures!
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Welcome to this week’s synopsis fail. I want to say that when I originally tried out my first drama from Singapore, the synopsis DramaFever has now isn’t what it had then…but who knows? I don’t think I would try this drama out now based solely on what is there now, so I really think the synopsis changed. This week I
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Welcome to this week’s edition of Synopses Fails. I hope you’re enjoying this series as much as I do. This week’s topic is the popular addition to the school series Who Are You: School 2015.
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I love Lee Jun Ki. I loved him in My Girl and King and Clown. He’s got some great acting chops. So…I finally broke down and tried out his latest drama 밤을 걷는 선비 (Scholar Who Walks the Night). I…really don’t know what I think about this drama overall. I don’t buy the affection between the bookseller and scholar. Plus…there’s some
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Oh, it’s a major fail. The funny part about the synopsis of Korean drama Prosecutor Princess [검사 프린세스; Geomsa Peurinseseu] is that while not entirely untrue, it doesn’t give you really enough to go on and makes you think it will actually be something it is not. I honestly can’t remember what even motivated me to watch this drama…and finish
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Welcome to another addiction of Asian Drama Synopses Fails. There are so many really when you think about it long enough. The first that came to mind was last week’s fail Bachelor’s Vegetable Store. This week’s is another that also exhibits a plot synopsis fail and one that I did want to watch based on the intriguing plot premise. The
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Welcome to what may or may not become a regular series on Asian Addicts Anonymous. I think it’s high time we address the epic failure of drama synopses. Sure, the writers don’t want to give the plot away, but some of them are so far off course, it’s an epic misrepresentation of the drama entirely.
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So what to cover for this installment? What happened in 2011 that I can recall with any significance? I think besides the major issue with moving to self-hosted there was really another or rather two major happenings. The first is that I decided to split Asian Addicts Anonymous into two separate sites. The old one, asianaddictsannon.wordpress.com was to be devoted
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