Life is Beautiful : more pretty than I can cope with

[alexandral]

Gay Romance in a Korean drama? Done in a beautiful heart-breaking way? As in - two gorgeous guys in a screen frame at the same time, just so that your heart feels like breaking? There is honestly so many interesting insights into family life in all it's possible aspects in "Life is beautiful" , but I am sort of blinded by all the pretty:

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Their storyline is exactly as you said! It's touching, heartfelt and done in a sensitive way. More importantly? It's believable and realistic. I can totally buy it, their feelings and reasons for their actions and most of all, I can totally see happening what's gonna happen to both of their families. Which is why I'm so fond of this storyline. I really think it's groundbreaking for Korean mainstream tv.

And yes, they're so pretty. Whenever they're on screen, I awww, sigh and think, "oh so cute!" *draws hearts around KS and TS*

PS: I'll snag a few screencaps. Thank you!
PPS: this guy uploaded the shippy bits. It's an useful link when you want to get a quick fix of The Cute without having to ff through millions of eps. But hey, many scenes related to their storyline are missings. Just an FYI.

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

I love their story more and more. But the rest of the family - I am annoyed with everyone at the moment. To the point that I will be glad to see something bad happened to them! (yes, I am petty!) I am on the episode 8 , BTW.

Thank you for the rec! Gosh, I wish the drama was all about these two.

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Trust me, it gets better. When I recced LiB I told you there are storylines that were going to piss you off or make you tear your hair out and that they were all at the beginning. It gets better, though (except the youngest uncle. He's hopeless imho. Sometimes I see something that makes me hope he'll mature or that he's not that bad, but 5 seconds later he opens his mouth again and I want to strangle him!). I don't know if at what point of the story you are (is the storyline about the tae-sub's oldest sister still in full swing? That's the one I hated the most) and I'm fuzzy about the details of the first few eps because I honestly watched I don't know how many eps a day ^^ But hang in there!

You're welcome. And word, word, WORD about Kyung-soo/Tae-sub. Don't get me wrong, I like the drama, but these two? they OWN my heart. I wish they had their own show. I'm going to be SO sad when the drama ends because they're so cute.

[timescout.livejournal.com]

OMG! Aren't those two just ever so cute?!

LiB is on The List already. Got convinced by blueocean80, she's been pimping it for a while now. :) Just not sure when I'll have time for it. Prolly when I go on another marathony binge, ha.

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

YAY!

I think this is a good one to marathon - the best bits are about the guys and you can ff the rest.

[timescout.livejournal.com]

I just mainlined on Giant (well, up till ep 23 or so), which is great and picked up Baker King, LOL! Don't think there's room for another long drama atm. Did you see my 'bigass dramapost' btw. I've been on a roll, ha. ;P I think I need to ease up on marathoning for a bit.

[sodahands.livejournal.com]

I'm so behind on this but isn't it great?
Lovely spam :)
Ugh this picspam makes me wish I was felt like watching dramas rn.

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

OMPH!!! I thought you are watching this all the way!

I am in a drama void too at the moment, I seem to be all about work, books and even Western TV, but not drama.

Nooooooo! Come back!!!!

[sodahands.livejournal.com]

I'll pick it up again once I feel like watching dramas again.

[vert-gazon.livejournal.com]

They are too adorable! If this storyline was the whole show I would definitely watch LiB.

To follow up on your recommendation request, the currently airing jdrama Atami no Sousakan is wonderful so far! It stars Joe Odagiri and the director/writer is the same one who wrote Adrift in Tokyo so you know the drama is in good hands.

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Plot from daddicts: Three years ago in Minami-Atami, Japan, a school bus carries four female high school students to an entrance ceremony. The bus driver named Ayumu Hirasaka (Masato Hagiwara) suddenly stops the bus when he spots an old man collapsed on the road. The bus driver gets out to check on the man leaving the four high school students on the bus. Suddenly, the bus starts to go down a slope, even though the bus driver enabled the emergency brakes. The bus driver chases after the falling bus, but it disappears into the woods.

As soon as the case is reported to the police station, Osamu Sizu (Yutaka Matsushige) leaves for the accident scene. When he arrives he spots the bus driver running in the woods. No clues are to be found.

Three days later, late at night, Mai Shinnome is found unconscious at a downtown bus stop. She is sent to the hospital, still unconscious, and the other three girls are still missing.

Three years later, Mai Shinnome finnaly comes to consciousness. National investigators Kenzo Hoshizaki (Joe Odagiri) & Sae Kitajima (Chiaki Kuriyama) are sent out to Minami-Atami to interview her and uncover the truth of their disappearance.
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Mix in a cast of wonderfully eccentric characters, a dash of Americana, and a bit of noir and you get Atami no Sousakan. Some people have described it as a cross between The X Files and Twin Peaks. Although I've never seen either of the shows, this drama doesn't feel like a jdrama at all. I think it's closer to an American show or something different all together. It's not just a "whodunit" story but a drama that tries to piece together the island's mysterious inhabitants and their connections with each other. It's also worth mentioning that the soundtrack has some great jazz and piano pieces.

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

Gosh, I must say huge thank you to you because I am loving "Atami no Sousakan " from the first sight. I will post more when I watch more, but so far - this is so different!

[vert-gazon.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear you like it! :-)

I will be awaiting your posts so I can meta/fanwank about it because it's just that good. Three episodes are subbed on ourhour in case you need dl links.

[linfer.livejournal.com]

Just a quick question. Are you able to watch anything on dramafever using Hotspot shield? I tried, because they have Kim Soo Ro with subs, but it didn't workd (version 1.46 or 1.46, I think it's the latest).

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

I am sorry - I haven't reinstalled Hotspot yet, after my hard-disk reformatting! I will try this weekend..

[linfer.livejournal.com]

Whoops, I kind of forgot that reformating also deletes programs. *gg* Thank you and it's nothing urgent. :D

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

I installed the latest version, 1.49 and it didn't work for me neither!

[linfer.livejournal.com]

Thank you for cheecking. At least it's not my laptop. But darn, I want to watch this show! *gg*