Sunday, 9 September 2012

I have an ADDICTION!!

So it's official I am obsessed.
With what you say? Besides the obvious. Music, Makeup and Magic?
 Lately I've been watching/ catching up on Korean Dramas... and sometimes it hard. Right? Finding the things we want with English subtitles is well a bitch.
That is until I came across dramafever.com. It's a legal site that buys the copyrights of a show to air it, much like a television station does. They subtitle it and voila. Magic
And the best part it's free... yay... granted there are Ads.. but that's how they make it free.

So naturally I was a-browsing and I got addicted to a show... or two.
And when I say new it means I have officially eaten through any and all episodes available and I am still waiting to watch more. Because the season isn't over yet.

*sigh* Am I surprised... Nope. I new it was coming. In fact, it hit me twice.

And how could it not.
I knew the first one I started I was going to be addicted from the start.
To the Beautiful You is based off of my favourite manga of all time Hana Kimi or in English For You in Full Bloom. (There's even a very good Japanese Drama with the same name)
The drama and the manga are about a girl who pretends to be a guy to get into an all boys school. Just so that she can meet her athletic hero- a high jumper and convince him to start up in the sport again.

The drama stars Sulli from f(x) and Minho from SHINee as the leads and so far... their fantastic.

Minho left, Sulli right 
I can not even begin to describe my epic need to squee practically every minute of the episode.  And I can honestly say that the episodes are the best part of my Wednesdays and Thursdays. I wait up just to watch the new episodes. Only eight are out as of now but two new ones come every week

To the Beautiful You plays Wednesdays and Thursdays on SBS, and are approx. an hour long. There will be sixteen episodes in total.
I give it four and a half stars out of five- for now.

The official poster for To the Beautiful You




 If you want to it out then I've set up a link.
Drama Fever



The second Drama is called Faith and at first I was a little leary.
The premise of the story is that a warrior from I believe the 14th C.(1300's) Korea goes through a portal - which he believes is heaven's door (the realm of the gods) to find a doctor to save the Queen, whom was hurt in an assassination attempt. Instead this portal takes him to the future where he finds a Plastic Surgeon instead, he kidnaps her and brings her back to his time to work her "magic".
The drama is like a mix of Doctor Who, X-Men and a historical drama. The components shouldn't work... but they so do. 
I'm in eight episodes and so far it's action packed - great fighting, filled with intrigue and conspiracy, humour, and just a little bit of romance. Not to mention I've cried several times already while watching it and I've been glued to the screen the whole time. All marks of an excellent drama.

The drama stars Lee Min-Ho and Kim Hee-Soon as the leads in this drama. And the performances for these actors are flawless... How else would I end up crying?
K.Hee-Soon top, L. Min-Ho bottom. 

This drama pulls you in and there's no way of stopping yourself from getting emotionally attached to characters, you end up yelling at the screen when one does something wrong (in your opinion), loving some and hating others fiercely.

Faith plays on SBS (not sure which days yet... but I'll find out :D) and the episodes are approx. one hour long. There are scheduled twenty-four episodes. I give this drama five stars - for now. 

The official poster for Faith
If you want to check out this action- pack adventure you can catch it here:
Dramafever