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<\/a><\/div>\nCrash Landing on You (Korean Drama)<\/h3>\n
Starring Hyun Bin and Song Ye Jin<\/p>\n
Crash Landing on You is a highly chase-able love story separated by the North and South Korean border, between South Korean fashion entrepreneur, Yoon Se Ri (Song Ye Jin), and North Korean Army, Captain Ri Jung Hyuk (Hyun Bin). Wiretapping threaten Yoon Se Ri\u2019s safety while Ri Jung Hyuk\u2019s fianc\u00e9e threaten any thoughts Yoon Se Ri might have about staying in the North after the development of both their feelings during a dangerous attempt to get Yoon Se Ri back to where she belongs without being found out.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nGo Ahead (Chinese Drama)<\/h3>\n
Starring Song Weilong, Tan Song Yun, Zhang Xincheng<\/p>\n
This Family drama is such a heartwarming drama\u2014at least it is by the end of the drama. Go Ahead tells a story about three young children\u2014Li Jian Jian (Tan Song Yun), Ling Xiao (Song Weilong) and He Ziqiu (Zhang Xincheng)\u2014who grow up closer than any blood-related siblings after both Ling Xiao\u2019s mother and He Ziqiu\u2019s mother abandon them to the care of Li Jian Jian\u2019s father, Li Haichao (with Ling Xiao\u2019s father, Ling Heping, on the side). However, in the last year of high school, the belief which Li Jian Jian held that they were as real as any blood-related family is challenged when both Ling Xiao and He Ziqiu is forced to be with original family out of duty or as a way to keep threats at bay. The separation causes a gradual drifting apart between them. Ling Xiao and He Ziqiu\u2019s thoughts have always been with their foster family, though, as they return nine years later to come together to ultimately become family not only through their bond and their own eyes, but on paper. Read Go Ahead (2020) – Summary<\/a>.<\/p>\n Starring Joo Sang Wook and Kim Bo Ra<\/p>\n Unexpectedly, this drama about a fallen idol star making makeup and beauty her new career and new passion with a fallen best-in-the-industry makeup artist turned out to be quite a good watch! Even the casting of Kim Bo Ra and Joo Sang Wook as Han Soo Yeon and Cha Jeong Hyeok (respectively) worked as a pairing. Read Touch (2020) Series Recap<\/a>.<\/p>\n Starring Zhao Lusi and Ding Yuxi<\/p>\n This is a hilarious as well as a very cool and interesting drama which sees female lead, Script Writer Chen Xiaoqian (Zhao Lusi) unexpectedly enter her own story to become one of her characters Chen Qianqian after working tirelessly to improve her script following criticism from male lead, Actor Han (Ding Yuxi), that the romance developments in her script were unrealistic. After completing the script, she falls asleep to find herself in her script\u2019s third episode where the script\u2019s male lead character, Han Shuo (Ding Yuxi), is attempting to poison Chen Qianqian so he doesn\u2019t have to marry her and get his plans back on track to marry the script\u2019s supposed female lead, Chen Chuchu (Zhou Yixin). His need to marry Chen Chuchu is for the Dragon Bone that has the ability to cure his heart disease which will see him not live past 20 years old. But with Chen Xiaoqian being the scriptwriter, it\u2019s going to be hard for Han Shuo to ever pull one over Chen Qianqian\u2014that is, until Han Shuo starts deviating from her script on his own, to the point of even falling for her when he shouldn\u2019t be.<\/p>\n Starring Marcus Chang and Vivian Sung<\/p>\n It\u2019s been a while since we\u2019ve come across a Taiwanese drama that looked interesting, but this year, we finally came across a Taiwanese drama which had us actually waiting for new episodes to release. Lost in Romance is a modern twist of Chinese drama The Romance of Tiger and Rose (2020) with a slight change where female lead and male lead characters Zheng Xiao En (Vivian Sung) and He Tian Xing (Marcus Chang) assume the characters in a manga novel written by her friend following an incident which sees He Tian Xing forced over a building rooftop and Zheng Xiao En to fall sick.<\/p>\n The plot then is similar the Korean drama Extraordinary You (2019) where Zheng Xiao En is an antagonistic side character watching the main lead characters, Situ Aoran (Marcus Chang) have eyes only for female lead character of the manga Ling Chuchu (Snowbaby). However, after a series of events which sees Zheng Xiao En move into Situ Aoran\u2019s apartment for a short time to serve as his help, as well as helping love-rival Ling Chuchu with her financial issues (which, thanks to the help of manga novel\u2019s second lead character Duan Mu Qing Feng (Simon Lian)), has Situ Aoran see Zheng Xiao En as no conniving, scheming character out to get Ling Chuchu. Situ Aoran\u2019s feelings start moving towards Zheng Xiao En and she becomes the manga\u2019s female lead character.<\/p>\n Starring Darren Chen Guan Hong and Sebrina Chen Yao<\/p>\n This is a gender-bender story with the usual tropes, but it was a very nice watch with the cliches done well. Set on Liuye University\u2019s ice hockey rink, female lead character San Tian (Sebrina Chen Yao) tries her hand at ice hockey after failing her ice skating exam, and makes the male ice hockey team as a guy. Her decision to try out for the ice hockey team comes from her goal to remain at the same university as her late mother. Not able to do this through ice skating, she seeks out ice hockey to try continuing to realise this dream. <\/p>\n Through an incident which sees San Tian fall into a swimming pool, San Tian\u2019s true gender is discovered by three-time Most Valuable Player, Wen Bing (Darren Chen Guan Hong), but he doesn\u2019t out her. Wen Bing has a couple secrets, too, which San Tian uses to stop him from thinking of reporting her. He had gone against his mother\u2019s wishes for him to study in the business field to secretly try realising his dream of being an ice hockey player.<\/p>\n This secret is only but one of his secrets. His biggest secret is he has prosopagnosia, a condition which has him unable to see faces. He\u2019s a talented ice hockey player, but without the ability to recognise his own teammates, it limits his ability to carry out an attack plan. There is one person he discovers he can see, though. Not surprisingly, it\u2019s San Tian.<\/p>\n Starring Joo Won and Kim Hee Sun<\/p>\n As mentioned above, Alice is one of the dramas we couldn\u2019t finish. Unlike the other dramas where the story didn\u2019t appeal, Alice actually started off looking pretty good. Being past viewers of American science-fiction dramas, we found the science-fiction genre that Alice is appealing. But the drama lost us when the drama tried to create a pairing between Joo Won and Kim Tae Hee\u2019s characters, who starts off as mother and son, but through time travel and the explanation of alternate universes and how Kim Tae Hee\u2019s other character is not his mother but a professor who\u2019s totally unrelated, we couldn\u2019t watch the rest. Why Alice needed a romantic element to the drama, we have no idea. Had it just left this out and stuck to telling a time travel story with its story surrounding a book containing a prophecy, this drama could have been one we would have stuck with till the end.<\/p>\n Starring Xiao Zhan and Wang Yi Bo<\/p>\n Had we continued this drama beyond the first few episodes when we first watched The Untamed during the drama\u2019s airing instead of returning to the drama earlier this year, The Untamed would definitely have been on our favourite dramas of 2019. We can probably say The Untamed is one of our All Time Favourites. We could definitely see ourselves watching this drama right through again a few times. Read The Untamed (2019) Series Recap<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nTouch (Korean Drama)<\/h3>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe Romance of Tiger and Rose (Chinese Drama)<\/h3>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n2020 Asian dramas – Good for the most part<\/h2>\n
Lost in Romance (Taiwanese Drama)<\/h3>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nMy Unicorn Girl (Chinese Drama)<\/h3>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n2020 Asian drama(s) – Not so good. A miss for us<\/h2>\n
Alice<\/h3>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nAwesome old dramas<\/h2>\n
The Untamed (2019 Chinese Drama)<\/h3>\n