Team Dramabeans: What we’re watching (April 19, 2025)

Live watches

Resident playbook
I know I will enjoy this one but I have accepted that it will be a four episode ease in to the world of the characters. I am looking forward to getting to know the characters.

When I first started university during the first week of lectures one of the lecturers said that we should look to the people sitting to our left and right and know that by the end of the course one of us will have left as most years ⅓ of the cohort drops out. If only the residents were told about the week three challenge and ways to manage it they would at least have been aware of the kinds of support that could be offered to them. Each one got help but it was not necessarily tailored to their needs e.g. the one who was most sleep deprived would have loved that sauna option. I am desperate to know if the two sisters live together with their men due to the financial situation Yiyoung found herself in after the incident at the other hospital.

Divorce insurance
Confusion reigns but it is an ok watch.

Crushology
Looking forward to meeting the fourth contender and seeing the love challenge games begin. Surprised to see Me too type issues popping up in this low key drama so maybe it will have more depth than implied in the first two episodes.

Kururi – who’s in love with me – J drama
This drama shows the different motives behind the approaches used to support vulnerable people with limited access to their memories. The psychiatrist whose wife has dementia and thinks he is her older brother, the florist who claims to be an ex to support from the side lines, a current boyfriend who pretends to fall in love at first sight to try to restart the relationship, an acquaintance at work who claims to be a friend in order to have ongoing contact when she leaves the job. It ends next week so hopefully it will explain the stalker and what happened in the three months which she still can’t remember. I am guessing the relationship was rocky and she either had plans to end it or they had already broken up.

Hello, nice to meet you. Let’s get divorced – J drama
Still slow watching.

Completed

XX+XY
This was an O’PENing 4 episode drama about a child born with a condition that meant they have male and female sex organs. The adoptive parents give the child a name that can be male or female and allow the child to make the decision about which gender they want to be. This was so much better than the Taiwanese film Hijra in between which has a similar theme but showed the decision making being forced upon the young person at the point of crisis and implied that being a woman without a womb was not an option.

The decision making process shown in both the film and this drama had a huge impact on the young person’s friendships and sense of self. This drama gave an interesting perspective for the characters as they navigated their sense of identity and coming of age challenges.

Our beautiful apartment
Another O’PENing short this…