Dramas Over Flowers
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We're Saya, Anisa, and Paroma. Three women of South Asian descent, brought up in three different continents, as diverse in our cultural outlooks as we are in our accents. With our powers of drama analysis combined, we formed Dramas Over Flowers: a podcast that lets us work through our joys and frustrations of drama watching.
Dramas Over Flowers
2w ago
In this episode, we talk about how K-dramas became a highly profitable export long before the entry of streaming platforms in the mid 2010s. This is a story of a nation's economic crisis, the creation of a unique opportunity, and a two decade long struggle for air wave supremacy in East Asia.
Leave us your thoughts in a voice note here: <Recording Page>
LINKS MENTIONED:
Korean Dramas Adopt Pre-Produced Format to Mixed Results (article)
The Reason SBS Missed Out on "Descendants of the Sun" and "Signal" (article)
Romantic blockbusters: the co-commissioning of Korean network-devel ..read more
Dramas Over Flowers
1M ago
We are back with a long yak on three dramas we started 2024 with: Doctor Slump, Marry My Husband, and Like Flowers In Sand.
This episode was recorded on 11th February. Our feelings on these dramas have stayed the same (with Doctor Slump getting special love for staying so reliably warm till the end).
Leave us your thoughts in a voice note here: <Recording Page>
LINKS MENTIONED:
Paroma's Doctor Slump post.
Support Gaza through the Palestine Children's Relief Fund here.
TIMESTAMP:
00:01:50 - Doctor Slump
00:45:57 - Like Flowers In Sand
01:06:15 - Marry My Husband
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Dramas Over Flowers
2M ago
Awards season is the perfect time for us to share our review of Past Lives, our favorite film of last year. Saya, Anisa and our friend Yunah talk about why this movie's meditations on grief, love, diaspora and selfhood spoke to us so deeply. (We recorded this at the end of last year.)
Leave us your thoughts in a voice note here: <Recording Page>
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Overall thoughts
20:39 Spoilers
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MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE:
Episode 89: Our review of Minari, also with Yunah
Episode 153: Crash Landing on You and the unbearable sadness of ..read more
Dramas Over Flowers
3M ago
The 5th Annual Goguma Awards have landed! Your votes have been tallied and the results range from unexpected to unsurprising, all of which we dissect with glee. Get your tea and biscuits, it's long!
Leave us your thoughts in a voice note here: <Recording Page>
LINKS MENTIONED:
Actor Jin: The Handsome Hotelier
TIMESTAMP:
00:00:00 - Introducing the Goguma Awards
00:02:46 - The Classic Gogumas
00:17:47 - Your Top 3 Dramas of 2023
00:25:27 - The Wild Gogumas
01:11:15 - Create Your Own: Listener Awards!
01:49:36 - Patreon Roll Call of Love and Appreciation ?
01:55:08 - Love note to all our li ..read more
Dramas Over Flowers
4M ago
The Year-End Yak is here! Or Part 1 anyway, where we talk about what K-dramas did this year, and how we felt about them. Goguma Awards coming in Part 2!
Leave us your thoughts in a voice note here: <Recording Page>
LINKS MENTIONED:
Paroma's excellent 2023 Wrap for Film Companion
Paroma's My Demon Halfway Review (Spoilers)
K-drama Research Institute's video essay We Need to Talk About Netflix K-dramas
Jae-Ha Kim's article Rest in Peace, Lee Sun-kyun
TIMESTAMP:
00:04:17 2023 K-drama trends
00:50:07 Saya, Anisa and Paroma's personal year in dramas
01:25:16 Notable podcast moments!
1:37:06 A ..read more
Dramas Over Flowers
4M ago
If you missed our callout for votes for the 5th Annual Goguma Awards, or if you simply haven't had a chance to vote yet, we've extended the deadline! Vote here for the dramas you loved and hated, the OTPs that made you swoon, the actors who blew you away with their talent in 2023. See you in the Year-End Yak ..read more
Dramas Over Flowers
7M ago
We are joined by kfangurl on an ultimate fan trip episode where we deep dive into a cult classic time slip romance that set new standards in storytelling for all of us. This drama has also been recently remade into the Korean, A Time Called You, which we discussed in episode 161.
Tell us your thoughts about either drama in a voice note here: <Recording Page>
LINKS MENTIONED:
Paroma's twitter post on face blurring <link>
the fangirl verdict blog <link>
TIMESTAMP:
00:01:52 - Introducing Someday or One Day: plot, characters and cast
00:15:11 - How is Someday or One Day quintesse ..read more