Premiere Watch: Moonshine, The One and Only, The Silent Sea
by missvictrix
We have a fun assortment of dramas awaiting us this week! Another sageuk awaits (flowery and full of illegal alcohol), a tear-jerker of a melodrama, and a sci-fi adventure on the moon.
Time slot: Monday & Tuesday
Broadcaster: KBS
Genre: Romance, sageuk
Episode count: 16
Reasons to watch: The feast of sageuks continues, and I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t getting a little overwhelming. With The King’s Affection over, and The Red Sleeve Cuff and Secret Royal Inspector and Joy half through their run, there’s room on our plates for more. Yoo Seung-ho plays the government official in charge of sniffing out illegal alcohol breweries and consumption, and Hyeri plays our alcohol-brewing heroine. The promos are far more beautiful than expected (can this drama be even prettier than The King’s Affection?!), and I’m wondering if this drama can do something playful, romantic, and exciting all at once.
Time slot: Monday & Tuesday
Broadcaster: JTBC
Genre: Human, melo
Episode count: 16
Reasons to watch: So torn. This looks and sounds like the sort of moving, heart-wrenching drama that makes you feel, and makes you cry 10,000 rivers. That has an appeal, but so does not crying, and not having your heart ripped out by yet another drama. In The One and Only, we have the story of three terminally ill young women and their final days together at a hospice. Ahn Eun-jin leads the drama (yay for her, she’s been doing great work) with Joy and Kang Ye-won — the three are very different, but build a bond together. Special bonus: Kim Kyung-nam (oppa!) as a hitman who gets involved with Ahn Eun-jin. That both takes my interest level from 10 to 100, but also makes me wonder how much melo we’re going to get in our human melodrama.
Time slot: Friday
Broadcaster: Netflix
Genre: Sci-fi, thriller, mystery
Episode count: 8
Reasons to watch: Our next Netflix original is here already, and with it comes Bae Doona and Gong Yoo — not too shabby. The series takes place in the near future, and a special group of astronauts and scientists gets tapped for a mission to the moon. The mission is shrouded in as much mystery as the drama is, but I’ve always got my antennae up for a good sci-fi story, and even better with an apocalyptic or somewhat dystopic setting. Netflix dramas seem pretty hard to pin down, or even predict in terms of tone, so no promises, but all the crossed fingers.
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