I Picked Up a Celebrity on the Street: First Impressions

WARNING: Turn off your brain. Immediately. Trying to make sense of the characters’ logic or choices will only frustrate you.

Even the opening credits warn the viewer of this drama’s kooky nature from the start. The haunting music, severed doll heads, and blood red tissue paper floating from the sky hardly fit a romantic comedy.

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First Impressions & Somewhat Filtered Thoughts: Touch Your Heart

Maybe you loved them in Goblin and wept buckets of tears when Reaper and his lady love had to postpone their happy ending. But whether or not you saw Yoo In Na and Lee Dong Wook’s first go round as a drama couple, you may like this second revolution even more – if rom coms and airy laughs are your thing. If you’re looking for angst, this ain’t the drama for you. At least not yet.

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What’s Wrong With Secretary Kim Episode 14: You make me smile

Remember when Mi So’s favorite book said that love doesn’t have to be grandiose, just someone to wrap us in a warm hug at the end of a hard day? I feel like that’s exactly what this show does. In a world of traffic and heat waves and weight gain, there is a guaranteed bright spot on Wednesdays and Thursdays full of heartwarming confessions, goofy side characters, and toe curling kisses. This show loves us.

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What’s Wrong with Secretary Kim Episode 13: The day the word Bulldozer changed forever

I picture a What’s Wrong With Secretary Kim fan driving to work in the morning and passing a construction site. She spots a bright yellow appliance with the giant bucket on the front and lapses into a dreamy reverie as the friend that carpools with her wonders why she’s smiling at a bulldozer. The passenger may silently consider if the driver has gone insane, but don’t worry. Drama fans understand.

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