I Miss You (My Favorite Things): Young Jung-Woo

I really thought I was going to be all about Jung-woo and Soo-yeon being endgame based solely off the scenes with the younger versions of them. Kiddie Jung-woo and Soo-yeon were beyond fucking cute.

First of all, I felt really bad for baby Soo-yeon. Her life was massively terrible. Shitty homelife; shitty school life. She has no sanctuary. That is, until, Jung-woo's stupid sunshine face

 

appears in her life and momentarily alleviates some of her pain. Momentarily, I say, because Jung-woo is like fifteen years old and doesn't have the power to really make any significant changes in Soo-yeon's life. Like, for instance, finding her a new pair of fucking parents. But Jung-woo is Soo-yeon's first friend, and that's huge. Too bad being Jung-woo's friend comes with being kidnapped and raped and then being abandoned by him when you need him most. COOL! GREAT! WOW WOW! 

But I don't want to talk about how Jung-woo abandoned Soo-yeon in that warehouse place when all he had to do was help her up a little bit. Like, I feel like people would say "Oh, but he's only a little boy. Give him some slack. He was afraid." Totally understand, and I have no idea what I would do in that situation, but...Soo-yeon was calling out to him multiple times and he hesitated about whether or not to do something. HE HAD TIME TO HESITATE BEFORE FLEEING. Could he not, at least, been like: "Get up, Soo-yeon! Come on!" AT LEAST? DAMN. Ugh, but no. I refuse to be angry at baby Jung-woo. I will save all my hate for adult Jung-woo. Because he is less cute. :) PICTURE TIME! 

Look at his face. This is getting off to a bad, child-molesty start. And by bad I mean gut. Gut means good in German. I just found out. How appropriate. HOW SO?!

Okay, let's talk about when we're first introduced to Jung-woo and he's playing football in America.

1. Why?

2. No, really? Why the fuck is he in America playing football at what appears to be a college but then later it's revealed that possibly Jung-woo is in fucking middle school?? And even if it's a high school...was he recruited? Am I being offensive for thinking Koreans can't just pop over to America and go to school? Was it a bordering school? Should I have made separate numbers for all these questions? HELP MEEEEE

3. When that girl Jung-woo passes in the dorm hall asks him how football practice went and I think Jung-woo says "great" or something in English.

        a.  I love when they speak English on these shows. It's always awkward but also cute. That was super patronizing. Well, I am American. EAGLES!

        b. Why would anyone ask how someone's football practice went? Is that a thing? It's just practice...idk...MIND YOUR BUSINESS, AMERICAN BITCH! 

This pic is shitty but look at his sweater. I really liked it...on his body. He has a cool stocky body. How old is this kid? I will pack my bag for jail now. Do you think they'll let me have a single room? I don't want to have to shit in front of anyone. Sorry, but I am too fancy for that shit. haha #ibs

Remember when the umbrella that Soo-yeon gave Jung-woo broke as he was walking home and he was freaking out acting like it was raining fucking acid or some shit? And then he has this realization like - OH, IT'S JUST WATER! MY FACE WON'T MELT OFF IF I DON'T HAVE AN UMBRELLA TO PROTECT ME! OH, HAPPY DAY! What a beautiful fucking idiot. 

I thought it was cute that Jung-woo was so comfortable touching this bitch's feet. True love, because she definitely didn't have a shower in her poor person house.

Do I want to talk about those horrible moments when Jung-woo didn't want to be the murderer's daughter friend? NO, IT'S TOO PAINFUL. I'D RATHER FORGET. Instead, let me use this opportunity to inquire about what the fuck that chocolate poop icee shit was they were sucking on. What is that - like, a cool Korean fudge pop? GROSS. 

Okay. Real quick I'll talk about when Jung-woo didn't want to be Soo-yeon's friend. I hated that. I had no idea, really, why any of those kids would hate Soo-yeon just because her dad killed someone. Like, Soo-yeon didn't kill anyone. Do they think she gave him his orders? Like, I get these are dumb kids...but I'd think the worse they would do is tease her, not...completely shun her. And Jung-woo was already Soo-yeon's friend before he found out about her dad. HE KNEW SHE WAS GOOD, SO WTF AT HIS REACTION? Ugh, I can't with baby Jung-woo sometimes. 

But then he'll do stuff like this^, and I'm like "Ugh. I'm so glad Soo-yeon has you in her horrible, no good, very bad life." 

lol, but then he'll go right back to doing things like abandoning her after being raped and I'm like OH, JUNG-WOO! Ya silly rascal, you! 

You deserve to feel bad after that, so here are some pics of you in anguish over being a terrible boyfriend LOL

cry more

MORE! 

Oh, are you all cried out? Fucking idiot. 

Wait. I thought I was going to preserve all my hate for older Jung-woo, seeing as he is the one who ended up with Soo-yeon ultimately. WHICH, WHAT?! WHEN HARRY NEVER WOULD HAVE ABANDONED HER FOR ANY REASON WHATSOEVER?!

I can't do this anymore, I need to heal my wounds by googling an uncomfortable amount of Harry pics to make an embarrassing post dedicated probably mostly to just his eyebrows.

Goodbye. 

I Miss You (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying About How I Only Cared About Harry and No One Else Except Maybe Jung-Myung and his ponytail)

I should have known. I should have looked at the poster for the show. Like, really paid attention to it. HARRY IS STANDING OFF TO THE SIDE BEING IGNORED BY ZOEY AND JUNG-WOO AND THEIR STUPID ETERNAL LOVE. I should have known being #TeamHarry would bring me nothing but pain. 

I'm not even going to recap this show. Because it upset me and I just can't. That is not to say I didn't enjoy many aspects of it. Many aspects as in Harry and anything to do with him. I want to do a different post for all the different things I liked. Harry, younger Jung-woo, Jung-myung's ponytail, the Dunkin Donuts product placement, hairstyle changes, and some other things. Debating whether or not I should dedicate a post to Zoey's nails...

Zoey upset me too much so maybe I will try to hurt her by categorizing things I liked about her under miscellaneous. That'll show her. 

That Winter, The Wind Blows: Final Thoughts

I can't believe I just made like six posts about this show. To be honest, I could write a whole book on Young's high school crush alone. But I won't do that. No one would read that. Just like how no one reads this blog. Should I kill myself? No. Too time consuming.

ANYWAY! I have a bunch of pics from the show I stole off Google that I want to comment on so I'll do that and you can go fuck yourselves! 

Should I talk about these^two? lol. 

Mami on the left is Oh Soo's ex, the one who framed him for stealing Boss Kim's money dollars. She's cute as hell and obsessed with Oh Soo for some reason. Like, she's a famous actress who can date anyone, yet she wants some con man playing mindgames with a fucking blind girl. Come on, do better.  

Papi on the right is Young's FUCKING FIANCE. He is like if someone drew a stick figure on a napkin and then cast that napkin in this role. THERE IS NOTHING GOING ON. Like, can someone tap this dude and ask him if he's alright? Please, put a mirror under his nose to see if he is still breathing. Young being engaged to this anti-human is really ridiculous. Like, she can't see BUT SHE HAS ALL HER OTHER SENSES, DUMMIES! Come on, do better: part II. 

Young whips Oh Soo across the face with her walking cane really early on in the game. I think that was the moment I knew I loved everything about this show. 

This sweater.

This other one. 

CHOCOLATE COFFEE. Do they have cool places like this in America? WHERE DO THEY DO THIS? Omg, I can't wait to start blogging about I Miss You so I can talk about their way-cooler Dunkin Donuts. But anyway, characters on TWTWB (mainly Young) are constantly drinking chocolate coffee. It made me really want some. The dark roast I always get from my local Quick Chek (which is a fucking gas station) has chocolate undernotes. DOES THAT COUNT? YES OR NO?! ANSWER MEEEEEEEEE!

(Also, that sweater/coat thing. Please stop, Oh Soo. I can't do it anymore)

Oh Soo gives Young wind chimes which was pretty gay. In turn, Young gave him a little bell bracelet. He sounded like a fucking cat jingling around like an asshole. This possibly means I thought all of this shit was really cute. HAVEN'T DECIDED YET, LET ME BREATHE DAMN! 

I liked all the times Oh Soo hugged Young from behind. Hmm, that sounds weird. Their love story is pretty much always creepy, but I thought there were some really cute moments and also nice intimate moments. The backdoor hugging I approved of. The first time it happened was when Young attempted to jump in front of a train. IT REALLY SET THE TONE! #romance #emphasis on man #man is king #slightly sexist everything 

This was cute. Young was doing that sexual harassment thing blind people do to determine what people look like. In real life this would have been Boner City, Population: Any Straight Dudes. What did I just accidentally reveal about Oh Soo???? (Or is that his boner right there? Eugh) 

I'm just really into these suspenders. Praise Allah. You just know Allah wears suspenders.

Do I want to talk about that atrocious ending? N O P E

                                                        NVR4GT

That Winter, The Wind Blows IV

Okay, now I want to talk about stuff that got to me emotionally.

I think...this show was really unintentionally hilarious. As melodramas often are. But there was also a lot of stuff that was legit harrowing and sad and tragic and heartbreaking. So I laughed a lot but I also had a few teary moments. There were two scenes, in particular, that had me quietly sobbing in the dark. Okay, sobbing is a bit of an exaggaration. I'm not a sobber due to being mostly dead inside. But the wind was def blowing in my face and causing some tearing up (I Miss You reference lol! :( ) 

Okay so the first scene that had me crying was 

^this one, when Young, Oh Soo, Jin-sung and Hee-sun go on some adventure. I'm totally forgetting wtf it was they were doing. I think it was a camping thing. Fuck, I don't remember but Oh Soo and Jin-sung cook and Young can hear that Oh Soo chops food badly even though he's supposed to be an Italian chef (LIE). Oh Soo says some dumb shit like "No, it's the Chinese who chop well". 

BUT ANYWAY THAT'S NOT EVEN THE SCENE I'M TALKING ABOUT. The four of them are staying in this place and Young and Oh Soo have a quiet moment alone to talk. Something inspires Young to ask Oh Soo about the man she met when she went to find her real bro. That man was him, obviously. Oh Soo says something like: Don't worry about him, that man is a con-artist piece of shit scumbag. IF IT'S NOT CLEAR, HE IS TALKING ABOUT HIMSELF. Then I think Oh Soo mentions that "that man" was abandoned as a baby. Young surmises that "that man" must be really angry because of that. Maybe he should give himself a break and try to forgive himself for the bad things he's done. Something like that, and I'm totally ruining it, but it was beautiful of Young to be so understanding of "that man". That man, being Oh Soo. As Young is saying these things about him, Oh Soo is getting all choked up and it just killed me. Like, it was the first time someone ever said something like that to him. The self-hate he had for himself was so obvious in that scene and it was just touching that Young, someone Oh Soo was falling in love with, could sympathize with such a "monster". 

Another scene that had me crying was towards the end of the series after ~everything is revealed~ and Young kicks everyone out of her house. She is apart from Oh Soo and misses him. 

I think in this scene she is imagining Oh Soo reading her a story. IT'S SO SAD BECAUSE IT'S NOT ACTUALLY HAPPENING. The scene just ends with her crying alone in the bed. Idk, it just got to me. I think I felt so exhausted after watching all the drama with them the whole series that their separation and this quiet little breakdown with Young just broke me. 

Two entire characters that killed me were my baby villains Secretary Wang and Jo Moo-chul. 

I could tell from jump that I was not going to hate Secretary Wang no matter what it was revealed that she had done. Her worst transgression, it turns out, was not taking Young to get her eyes fixed when she was a child and keeping her blind. It's clear immediately that Secretary Wang does this because she wants to keep Young dependent on her. THIS IS FUCKED UP.

But. Also. Super sad. Her whole life was Young. She had no one else. I'm not sure what her relationship with Young's dad was, but it was clearly not a good or intimate one. Young was her everything. It's not okay that she allowed Young to remain blind, and I supported Young's cold treatment of her. You just don't do that shit. Like, couldn't Secretary Wang have just been a really good stepmom to Young and nuture her and watch her grow? Why did she need to imprison her? Because, ultimately, she imprisoned herself as well. I don't know, clearly Secretary Wang had some untreated mental problems. But she devastated me. 

I think here she puts it all out there for Young. I just...I loved her. I felt bad for her, I wanted Young to love her properly, I wanted her to feel whole or something. I also thought the actress who played her was really good. This was just really good work.

This takes place after Young has kicked everyone out. At some point, she tries to casually ask Attorney Jang if Secretary Wang called. That almost made me cry. Then she called her and I was like YESSSSSSS. I don't know, I still feel weird shipping this mom-daughter thing. The fact that Secretary Wang kept Young blind loomed over everything. But I guess, that's just how life is and everything is a fucking mess. Okay, this is a TV show I need to calm down. 

Now Jo Moo-chul. 

L  U  N  G  C  A  N  C  E  R

Of course, he has lung cancer. Of course he does. 

It's revealed that Jo Moo-chul was in love with Oh Soo's dead girlfriend. He, like Hee-sun, blames Oh Soo for her death. Actually, Hee-sun probably feels Oh Soo is vaguely responsible as sort of a way to deal with her grief. Moo-chul legitimately believes the dead chick's death was Oh Soo's fault. Dead Girl was pregnant with Oh Soo's baby (gasp). She goes to tell him, thinking he'll be super pumped. HE'S SUPER NOT PUMPED. Essentially he tells her to fuck off. He might even shove her, I don't remember, but the show wants to get across that nineteen year old Oh Soo is a massive cunt. Dead Girl flees and is immediately hit by a truck. Moo-chul witnesses all this shit. 

Oh Soo is number one on his shit list now. Good thing he's been assigned to kill Oh Soo if he doesn't pay his debt to Boss Kim. 

I only accepted Moo-chul as the villain for like one episode. Pretty quickly I decided he cared about Oh Soo and was definitelty not going to be killing him even if Oh Soo failed to pay his debt. Moo-chul was upset and sad, but not on any murdering shit. He was a fake ass gangster, but not in a cheesy way. Just in a, look at this wounded lil deer way. 

This took place at Dead Girl's grave. I don't even remember what this fight was specifically about, but Moo-chul def called Oh Soo to acount. Also, he gave him a euthanizer pill or some shit???? But anyway, anytime Oh Soo and Moo-chul fought it was super revealing. I never felt like: This is not going to be good. The fights were more like therapy sessions. Um, to be clear though, Oh Soo always got his prissy ass kicked. Moo-chul took his man-feelings out on Oh Soo's face. Do I think Oh Soo deserved it? No. I'm not into violence.

Speaking of violence. 

In this^ scene Oh Soo asks Moo-chul to ask his doctor sister to operate on Young. Moo-chul immediately kicks the dick out of him. BUT THEN HE ASKS HIS SISTER TO DO IT. Because he loves Oh Soo and is also not a bad person. Yeah, all the characters are three dimensional, but Moo-chul isn't even trying to be villany. Okay, he fucks Oh Soo's shit up multiple times, but I feel like a lot of people watching would explain it away like..."well, um, Oh Soo is kind of a dick, so..." 

Moo-chul's arc ends with him being stabbed or dying of lung cancer or both. I was upset. I don't want to talk about this. LIKE, I KNEW HE WAS GOING TO DIE BUT STILL. Ugh, no, I can't. 

That Winter, The Wind Blows III

Okay, I think I need to address Oh Soo's two friend-things: Park Jin-sung and Moon Hee-sun.

Here they are. As you can see, they are adorable. Looks-wise. Other things wise, they are super annoying. At first, Jin-sung is more annoying. 

When Oh Soo goes to move into the mansion with Young, for some normal reason, Jin-sung tags along. NOW, Jin-sung and Oh Soo are..."partners". They appear to do semi-crimes together as a team. So, naturally, Jin-sung is in on the plan Oh Soo has to get money from Young. But why does Jin-sung also move into the mansion? He isn't related to Young (or fake-related, anyway). AND IT'S SO WEIRD BECAUSE NO ONE SAYS ANYTHING ABOUT THIS. It's just accepted that Jin-sung will get a room. In episode 2 when Oh Soo first meets Young and co. he brings Jin-sung along and they sort of just look like boyfriends. I wonder if everyone was like: "Oh, well, ugh, if Oh Soo is going to be staying here he probably expects his boyfriend to stay, too. Ugh, maid, get out an extra set of sheets and pair of slippers." IT'S JUST OKAY THAT JIN-SUNG IS MOVING INTO THE MANSE. And it's so funny because I don't think he ever really introduces himself to anyone. He's just...around, eating food and adding input to conversations that have nothing to do with him and no one is ever talking to him. 

There he is just, like, at the table even though he is irrelevant to everyone who lives at the mansion. I mean, I guess if you have a mansion, it's just, like...fine if some rando off the street wanders into your house to live and eat all your fucking rice. (Oh Soo in suspenders shout out!)

Another thing about Jin-sung...he is quite loud. At least in the earlier episodes. The plan is that Oh Soo will get close to Young by pretending to be her brother and she will give him money. Fine. This could work. BUT NOT IF JIN-SUNG KEEPS LOUDLY EXPLAINING EVERYTHING THEY ARE SECRETLY UP TO ANY CHANCE HE CAN GET IN REALLY OPEN SPACES ALL THROUGHOUT THE MANSION SO EVERY FUCKING BODY CAN HEAR. Like, you really want Oh Soo to fail, right? It's ridiculous how sloppy and dumb he is. But so cute tho so I forgive you!

Especially when you consider his future-wifey Hee-sun. 

Her^. I am a little confused about her introduction. She appears to be shouting at Oh Soo, complaining  about him sleeping with other girls. I assumed from this scene that she was fucking Oh Soo. She finds a pair of panties in his bedroom and dumps soju or some shit on his head. BUT, later it's made clear that Oh Soo used to date Hee-sun's sister, who is now deceased (of course). Hee-sun seems to blame Oh Soo for the death of her sister. SO. WHYYYYYYY...IS SHE FUCKING HIM??? Who fucks the ex-boyfriend of their dead sister? ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU BLAME THE DUDE FOR HER DEATH??

Did I get it wrong? Were Hee-sun and Oh Soo not actually hooking up? I actually don't think I got it wrong, because Hee-sun spends a healthy chunk of the show acting super annoyingly jealous about Oh Soo and Young's budding relationship. 

I didn't really get Hee-sun. Also, she was all like to Oh Soo early on "why don't you just die?". And Oh Soo got all man-emotional and was all like "Because I wake up alive." I am paraphrasing, and obviously they were speaking in Korean, but it was actually beautiful. This made me sort of hate Hee-sun. One, don't tell your "friend" to kill himself. Two, don't make me feel bad for Oh Soo. I don't like it. 

I wasn't here for Hee-sun in that scene and I wasn't here for her jealousy shit. I wasn't here for her being jealous over a dude she blamed for the death of her sister. Also, Jin-sung expressed feelings for her early in the game but she was too busy being like WHY IS OH SOO SO OBSESSED WITH THAT BLIND GIRL??? Like, can't blindies have anything, Hee-sun? You have Jin-sung's adorable boyband affections, cool clothes, and a cool last name. Let Young have Oh Soo. He's super damaged, anyway. It's not like he's some great prize. 

Speaking of not being some great prize...

Shout out to Oh Soo's mom (apparently not Secretary Wang, ugh) for realizing early on what a piece of shit Oh Soo was and discarding him in a laundry bag outside in the middle of the winter. LOLJK HE TURNED OUT THE WAY HE DID BECAUSE OF YOU, YA DUMB BITCH! 

Getting back to Oh Soo's half-heartedly "adopted" fam, Jin-sung and Hee-sun eventually toned down their annoyingness by being cute. And not cloying cute. Just, awww cute. 

They get a little romance going. Clearly Jin-sung is disgusted by the female form, but I still liked their little thing. It was a nice distraction from their dramatic scenes. Like, can they stay out of Oh Soo's business? Can he breathe?? 

Mmm, apparently, no, because Jin-sung stabs Oh Soo at the end. 

I'll get to that mess later. 

That Winter, The Wind Blows II

Instead of recapping That Winter, The Wind Blows in episode order, I think I am just going to recap it using random pics from the show I found on Google. Mainly because I forgot a lot of shit and also the order in which it happened. But pics will revitalize my stupid memory!

Also, PICS!!! Because I have no attention span and PRETTTTTTTTY!

Okay, one of the main things I want to address about the show are - okay, I will attempt to correctly write the actor's name - In-seong Jo's acting ticks. Or, "choices". 

So, the pic above^ illustrates one of his go-tos. It's sort of this open-mouthed angry breath thing. He does this so much. Oh Soo has like two modes: angry and angry tears. Actually, really just angry tears. But sometimes Oh Soo is just something I'll call dry angry, where there are no tears. Possibly because the actor is too dried up from all his many wet angry scenes. So, anyway, anytime Oh Soo is pissed or offended, or shocked or whatever you get the above face. It's great but also terrible. Like this show. 

Here is another example. I think in this pic he is ~shocked~. This is probably when Attorney Jang visits him looking for Oh Soo 2. Should I explain Attorney Jang? NO, I DON'T FEEL LIKE IT. 

One other "acting choice" In-seong Jo does a lot in the first ep, but then it sadly disappears, is this laugh-scoffing thing. Like, he's offended by something but you can see he's mentally telling himself "It doesn't matter I'M COOL. FUCK YOU, MOM!" Oh Soo in episode 1 is super cocky and obnoxious. He is obnoxious all throughout the show, but he loses the majority of his cockiness after his year in jail, as well as the laugh-scoff thing. He seems sort of beaten-down in his soul. The laugh-scoff thing is replaced by open-mouthed angry cry breathing for the rest of the show. There are a few moments when Oh Soo is ~happy~ and the laugh-scoff returns, but it's never the same. He's never the same. Wait, why do I miss episode 1 Oh Soo? He was a fucking dick. Well, at least episode 1 Oh Soo never sleep-kissed anyone. 

SPEAKING OF SLEEP KISSING!

So, I have watched three Korean Dramas thus far: this shit, I Miss You and currently The Master's Sun (which is really more of a comedy). I am about four episodes into The Master's Sun, and so far, no sleep-kissing. But it's happened in both That Winter, The Wind Blows and I Miss You, causing me to wonder if this may be a theme in k-dramas (because two means a theme ugh). 

Sleep kissing is when one character is asleep and another character takes advantage of this by kissing them. The intent behind the kiss, as far as I can tell is, "Please don't ever find out that I kissed you. THIS IS A SECRET THING I AM DOING." It's very...creepy. A lil rapey. I am being a bit unfair. It's pretty harmless and there really is no ill intent, especially in I Miss You where the sleep kiss occurs between two teenagers and it's accidental. Um, but in That Winter, The Wind Blows...Oh Soo...Wait, let me post the pic of the sleep kiss heard round the world.

Okay. Oh Soo attempts to sleep-kiss Young one or two times before he eventually succumbs to his ~desires~. The first time, Oh Soo stops himself from kissing a sleeping Young and says to himself something like "What am I doing? Am I crazy?" And I was like, YES GOOD DON'T DO THAT AND DEFINITELY FEEL WEIRD THAT YOU WERE ABOUT TO. But then a few episodes later...he does it anyway. In the pic above, Young's eyes are open. Because she is awoken by some dude macking on her face while she is unconscious. I get that it's supposed to be this romantic, sleeping beauty esque thing...but it's just weird. OH, ALSO, YOUNG THINKS OH SOO IS HER FUCKING BROTHER AND ALSO SHE IS BLIND. Not to take any agency away from blind people, but idk, it just makes it...especially worse? 

Speaking of worse. 

The cotton candy scene. Maybe...I should sum up the show from when Oh Soo 2 is rammed to death by a car in the street. So...Oh Soo 2, Young's real bro, dies. Oh Soo goes to jail because he was framed by his girlfriend. She stole money from Boss Kim but told Boss Kim it was Oh Soo who did it. A year later, when Oh Soo is released from prison, he is told that he has like 90 days to repay all that money back, or Jo Moo-chul will murder that ass. It's a lot of money and it's impossbile for Oh Soo to make it via gambling because Boss Kim has had him and Park Jin-sung blacklisted from the casinos or gambling rooms or whatever. LUCKY OH SOO, he gets a visit from a man named Attorney Jang looking for Oh Soo 2, the unclaimed heir of THE BUSINESS AND MONEY AND STUFF. Oh Soo is like: oh, yep, yeah, I am him. He moves in with Young, pretends to be her bro, and attempts to get close to her by lying about all kinds of shit, so he can gain access to dem funds. EVERYONE suspects that Oh Soo isn't really Young's bro. Like, he is not convincing at all. But despite everyone's deep, and justified suspicions, Oh Soo is allowed to remain at the mansion and force Young's blind ass to fall in love with him. ~~Her brother~~. At some point, Young mentions that Oh Soo owes her something from her childhood. She's like "don't you remember? If you bring that thing to me, then I'll know you're really my bro." Because Oh Soo is not actually this bitch's brother, he has no idea what she is talking about. But, even if he was, this is something that happened when Young was six. Who the fuck remembers shit when they were six? AND THE THING SHE'S TALKING ABOUT IS SUPER WEIRD AND SPECIFIC. It's fucking cotton candy. And how Oh Soo figures out what she is talking about is ridiculous. Like, literally it appears that he looked at a photograph of child-Young and was able to recreate the day that photograph took place in his brain. Like, on the show, it's playing as an original memory in his brain. BUT HOW I HAVE NO IDEA AS HE IS NOT YOUNG'S BROTHER AND WOULD HAVE NO MEMORY OF ANY OF THIS. NOR WOULD HE BE ABLE TO JUST CONSTRUCT AN ENTIRE MEMORY BASED ON ONE PICTURE. But anyway, he looks at a picture and a cotton-candy shaped lightbulb appears atop his dumb head. So he buys some AND BY THE WAY PULLS IT OUT OF THE TRUNK OF HIS CAR AND IT'S SOMEHOW PERFECTLY INTACT????

idk, anyway, Oh Soo and Young both smush their faces into the ball of perfectly intact cotton candy even though it was in the trunk of a car and it's the worst thing I have ever seen. 

Look^ at his face. I can't do this. Pray for me, Jesus. 

smh

SOMETHING THAT WAS INTENDED TO BE CUTE THAT ACTUALLY WAS

was a scene later on in the series when Oh Soo and Young go out to some weird ski lodge place for a conference or some shit. All the ski lodge shit is really cute, to be honest. But the thing that I rewinded because it killed me was

this^. Did I mention that Young is BLIND?? In this scene she is baking a fucking gateau or some shit. Because she is a blindo, she burns her hands on something. Immediately, Oh Soo takes her hands and presses them to his ears. Idk, to cool them off? To...heat his ears? ...Because he is a moron? DOESN'T MATTER - IT'S THE MOST ADORABLE THING I HAVE EVER SEEN. LOOK. AT. THAT. SHIT.

Young still thinks Oh Soo is her brother in this scene, btw. SO CUTE!~

Watching Burning Love right now...

I am legitimately sad that Ballerina just went home. 

The Wolf of Wall Street: (a review nobody asked for)

This is what the real Jordan Belfort looks like. He looks EXACTLY like I imagine someone like him to look. Leo, on the other hand, does not. 

Leo looks like he's still constipated from playing Howard Hughes in The Aviator or Hoover in J.Edgar and is planning on carrying that constipation over to a Frank Sinatra biopic. A lot of times, Leo's appearance is distracting to me. I'll ignore The Great Gatsby, because Leo's aging baby bloat was the least of that thing's problem. 

But anyway, Leo always looks like...himself. Like Leo. It's a super particular, potato-esque look. It never ever totally works anywhere. Maybe in Revolutionary Road. I don't know what that says about him, or me. But I really needed to get Leo's awkward appearance thing out of the way. He just doesn't look like I imagine a Jordan Belfort-type to look. 

BUT I'LL GET OVER IT. Eventually. Transitioning from talking about Leo's awkward face, I think the look of the movie was...a good one. I liked the coloring, I believe it worked well with the tone. Sort of this high-camp, quaaludes loaded comedy thing. I want to call it a dark comedy, but I don't think it's dark at all. Barring some scenes near the end, the movie plays as a comedy. I think if you take it as anything else, you'll be really disappointed. 

There's no real story, just scenes. Jordan has aspirations. He's got the snake oil salesmen version of a green thumb. He starts his own business selling penny copy, and is immediately successful. It's made clear that this shit isn't really legal. I know all my illegal wall street-stuff info from the film Boiler Room which, if you're looking for a drama about the rise and fall of stock broker types, I recommend. Anyway, selling people stock to businesses that aren't real or whatever is illegal. I don't know if that's exactly what was going on in this movie, but I'm sure it was something similar. Blah blah this just means I tuned out any explainy shit about what Belfort and co. were up to. 

The majority of the movie is about Jordan and his crew getting into ~wild and crazy ~ shenanigans. You can tell that the creative team behind this movie really thinks they were doing some shocking, WILD AND CRAZY STUFF. Eh. Like, I can definitely tell they thought the various sex scenes were super risque. Like, there's a scene where Jordan and some other dude double team a woman from their office. But it's filmed in dark light and everyone has their clothes on. WILD AND CRAZY!

I liked the movie for random, weird things. Maybe I'll list those. I think this will help me to ultimately figure out how I feel about the film as a whole.

Okay, 1: Jonah Hill.

Everything about his character. I was a little bored watching the beginning, but once his character came on the screen I perked up. 

^This is the scene where he first comes in. His character (Donnie) and Jordan live in the same apartment building. I think Jordan lives on the 12th floor which probably signifies that he has more wealth than Donnie who lives on the fourth floor. Donnie asks Jordan how much he makes. Instead of being like "um, wtf, go away" Jordan is like I MADE SEVENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS LAST MONTH. He doesn't shout it in caps, but he might as well have. He tried to play it off like it was no big thang but lol Jordan or Dicap's acting. Anyway, Donnie immediately quits his job and says he'll work for Jordan now. It's a great scene in my opinion. And Jonah is hilarious. Also, those teeth.

Another scene I really loved was when Jordan mentions that there have been rumors going around that Donnie married his cousin. Just, everything Jonah says in response is gold. Also, I am going to assume that a lot of this scene was improvised. Which, cool. Always cool to hear lol. Except in the case of End of Watch, where there should have been no improvising. They should have stuck to a tight script with that one. BUT THAT'S FOR ANOTHER TIME. 

2: Spike Jonze's random cameo. I had no idea that was Spike Jonze until today when I saw a headline on Vulture about it or something. I remember thinking while watching: "who is this high-voiced man?" Spike Jonze, apparently. How did I not notice it was him? I was obsessed with him for a solid at least thirty seconds back when Where the Wild Things Are had come out and there were all these photos on the net of him taking cute couple pictures with Max Records. HOW IS SPIKE JONZE'S FACE NOT BURNED IN MY RETINAS FROM THAT TIME?! Anyway, his cameo here was funny and I liked it. Thank you. 

hmmmm, why am I having a super hard time coming up with shit I liked? Did I even like this film? Should I just end this so I can write up a review for American Hustle and spend the whole thing verbally masturbating about Amy Adams everything???

I need to watch this movie again. I left the theater thinking: Yeah, I liked that. BUT WHY? I don't know...it was funny? Sort of. Mostly. I was into a lot of the actors and also the costuming. A random woman's head is shaved and I wondered how much that actress got paid and how they found someone willing to get their head shaved. Or, maybe, CGI???

Oh. The quaaludes scene (^) was pretty funny but it was also hyped up too much. I spent the whole movie waiting for the scene I read about that was THE CRAZIEST THING. It was alright. I laughed. But, like, I'd rather watch the "Everytime" sequence from Spring Breakers. Way funnier and something that deserves the hype. Also, Alien. omg...do I love Spring Breakers more than this movie? 

Yes.

That is my decision. 

Spring Breakers > The Wolf of Wall Street

It is a dark day. 

Also, I really wish I could decide my feelings on DiConstipated. Do I think he's good or not? He tries really hard, which I always appreciate. Like, sometimes, oftentimes actually, I'll be watching a male actor on screen and it's so flat and lifeless and I am like: "does this dude just act to make money to support his christian rock band or some shit? DANG!" 

I think there are two types of man actors: dudes who go all-in and Australianamericans. I find that Australian and American male actors often struggle to...act good. This is not to say all of them. There are definitely good actors from both nations. Is Oscar Isaac American? Because he's great. Ezra Miller is American, right? PERFECTION. And I think Dane DeHaan is American - also really good. Ben Mendelsohn is Australian and he is my everything. But...to be honest, those are exceptions. I like that Leo is really trying to get it all out there. Um, but maybe, he should take a break??? Idk. Isn't he around Fassbender's and Tom Hardy's age? They are so much better than him. Tom Hardy would've murdered this role, imo. There's just something always...off about Leo. Probably the best Leo performance is Revolutionary Road and even in that movie he looks like a baby walking around in his dead dad's old suit. Also, yelling does not equal acting. He yells good, though. God idk how I feel about him. OH! I actually thought he was legit good in J.Edgar. That movie was dead on arrival (and hdu waste Naomi Watts like that) but he convinced me as J.Edgar. I also liked Leo's Calvin Candie, but compared to Christoph Waltz it was child's play. Like, literally a child overacting in a play. 

I think I will give Leo more time. But, is that fair to other actors who are really good from jumpstreet but never get any respect (cough Sam Rockwell cough)?? Not that I think Leo should say to himself "Hey, other actors are better than me. Maybe I should sit down for a bit?" Actually, I do sort of think he should say that to himself. 

Probably he should have taken a seat back when he filmed Gangs of New York with the goddess Daniel Day-Lewis. How did Leo not kill himself after that experience?

lol did I just work out with myself that maybe I dislike him?

oh god

this is a game changer.

But not really. 

The Wolf of Wall Street was fine. Funny in parts. There was cool stuff to look at. Shea Whigham was wasted but at least he was there. I'm not sure how I feel about this movie being an awards contender, but, shit. War Horse was definitely nominated for an Oscar for some reason. Fucking Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close; Gwyneth Paltrow has a statue. Awards don't mean shit. BUT I SO WISH THEY DID AND THAT I DECIDED WHO WINS. Ugh. I should probably end this "review".

Can Jean Dujardin please start to be put as the lead in American vehicles please? And no, I don't mean The Monuments Men. Spare me, Clooney. 

Okay, here's a pic of Oh Soo (right, ugh) and his partner in dumminess Jin-sung (left). I had no idea what his name was the entire time I watched the show. I thought...maybe it was Jyung. Or something. But imdb tells me differently...so, I guess. Anyway Jin-sung is really cute but he is solidly irritating for at least the first two episodes. Then he started to grow on me. Not, like, a lot. I just found myself able to tolerate him...better. To be honest, everyone on this show is super annoying except maybe Jo Moo-chul. 

Before I resume recapping the show I must address the ~villains~ of the show. Jo Moo-chul is the man hired to collect the debt that Oh Soo "owes" to Boss Kim. Boss Kim is like, the head gangster. He is, probably, the main villain, but I found his character so weak and non-scary. He also ran shop terribly. Like, Jo Moo-chul is Boss Kim's underling but is spitting in his face and disrespecting him all the time and Boss Kim doesn't do shit. Jo Moo-chul is a far more interesting villain but, really, he's not a villain. MORE ON THIS LATER, OBVI. Here's the only pic I could find of him on google:

He wears this like the whole time. He was the least annoying character to me even though he was trying ~really~ hard to be a badass. And it's just, like, stop. arrêter. 

The other main baddy of the show is Secretary Wang. Really, no one is presented as a straight up jerk-off except for Boss Kim. And that may have to do with the fact that he has very little screentime. No character is just black or just white, and I really loved that the antagonist-types had pretty well fleshed out backstories that gave you a good idea of why they were the way they were. Anyway, Secretary Wang is...Young's sort of stepmom. She never married Young's dad, so Young can act all sorts of disrespectful to her because Young views Sec Wang as more of a housemaid. Also, Young pretty strongly believes Sec Wang is responsible for her blindy blindess (MORE ON THAT LATER UGH). Anyway, this is what Secretary Wang looks like: 

She is a cutiiiiiieeeeeeee pie. Does she look evil? At first, I thought - yeah. Because of the haircut. But pretty quickly she just seemed really pathetic and sad and also she's just way too cute for me to believe she'd be mostly responsible for a small child going blind. (Spoiler alert: she totally is.) 

Anyway, my thoughts on Secretary Wang were heavily colored by the fact that I thought she was Oh Soo's fucking mom. I REALLY thought they were setting that up and was C R U S H E D when the show never went there. Such a missed melodramatic oppurtunity, ugh. 

They had such good chemistry! And also the show set it up like: both Oh Soo and Secretary Wang are obsessed with Young. They seem to come together towards the end when Young needs a surgery but is being hesistant. Their goals are common and so are they, just in general. Also, they have some pretty intense fight scenes. I was like: "Woah, why is Oh Soo all up in this bitch's face like that? This is weirdly aggressive, even for him." And midway through, after one of their intensely weird arguments, I was like THERE'S ALL THIS PASSION BECAUSE THEY'RE MOTHER AND SON OMG. And I thought omg this will explain EVERYTHING about the both of them. But, then, NOTHING. Secretary Wang being Oh Soo's birth mom was never revealed. I still can't get over this, ugh. 

But, anyway, this post was to talk about some characters I mentioned and provide a face. Boss Kim's face is irrelevant just like his life lol

:(