Journalist, Author & Syndicated Columnist
“Taxi Driver” is a thrilling series in the vein of “The Equalizer,” “Profiler” and “The Pretender.” Rainbow Taxi Service driver by day and justice seeker by (mostly) night, Do-Gi and his team are funded by a philanthropist whose parents were murdered decades ago. The goal is to rehabilitate them, but what it all boils down to is revenge.
The action sequences in “Vagabond” are thrilling and the plot is fast-paced and engaging. But the ending seems rushed, incomplete and utterly unsatisfying.
This second season of “Penthouse” is full of subterfuge, a revelation about who one of the students’ real father is and lots and lots of comeuppance. Oh, and there’s the murder of another teenage student, too.
“Penthouse” starts off with the most makjang storyline of the year. This deliciously gripping female-centric series revolves around rival classical singers and includes a (dun dun dun!) switched-at-birth plot twist. Did I mention that one of male characters has a torture chamber in his home, because, why not? Mixed in with the outrageous content is a parable about the haves and the have nots.
“Hyena” shows that being called the best doesn’t mean anything in the real world. The plot depicted South Korea’s insidious system of revering lineage as flawed (and stupid). And that referring to a human being as disposable — because they don’t hail from the proper background — depicts who exactly is the human garbage here.
“Running Man,” which has been on air for almost 10 years, celebrated its 500th episode on April 26.
ASTRO’s Cha Eun-woo is one of the stars of “Handsome Tigers,” a new basketball variety series. Are you watching? I am!
At its core, “Absolute Boyfriend” isn’t about whether the female lead would choose a robot over a human being. Rather, it’s about longing for the robot’s human traits that are lacking in too many people today.
Leave it to South Korea to make a romantic comedy that revolves around a character who suffers from prosopagnosia. Say what? The condition is more commonly known as face blindness, which prevents the person from recognizing family members, friends and — sometimes — themselves. But such is the plot for “The Secret Life of My Secretary.”
“Secret Garden” is one of those K-Dramas that gets better as it progresses — even if that progression sometimes moves at a snail’s pace.