Hotel King

Today I finished watching the new k-drama Hotel King. The reason I started watching the drama was because I got interested in Lee Dong-wook through the show Roommate and thought I would check it out! 

I really liked Hotel King, it had all of the things I love about k-dramas: love, action, intriguers and plot-twists. The last is something the drama have a lot of. Yes, some parts (no spoilers!) I figured out before hand but some were also big main parts of the story and changed everything! And you need to have these twists in the story if you are going to stay and keep watching all of the 32 episodes. 

The story revolves around two main character, Ah Mo-ne and Cha Jae-wan. Cha Jae-wan is the hotel king, or hotel monster as his co-worker calls him. He works at Ciel Hotel as the General Manager and is well known for his high standards and work ethics and is trying to hide his bad past. In fact his past is the reason he is working at Ciel to begin with. He is trying to seek vengeance for the last 20 years or so and above all else he hates the chairman of the hotel and wants to take it away from him. But the chairman dies and his daughter Ah Mo-ne arrives at Ciel and tries to take over the position as chairman. Something Cha Jae-wan isn't going to like... 

One of the shows best qualities was all the good actors. The two main characters Cha Jae-wan and Ah Mo-ne (Dong-Wook and Lee Da-hae) really have chemistry and you are really rooting for them. Lee Deok-hwa, who plays the evil Lee Jong-goo are a mastermind! I really didn't like his character at all! And then we have Baek Mi-nyeo (Kim Hae-sook in real life) a character that changes drastically a couple of times. Kim Hae-sook really succeed to act as her character and change with her, a couple of here scenes have the potential to become ridiculous if she wasn't as good as she is. 

Another thing besides the actors that I enjoyed in this drama was the wardrobe! All of the people is so well dressed all of the time. It doesn't matter if they have a maid uniform, a suit or big printed dresses with a lot of colors. Noting is to much or out of place. Half of the time I found myself admiring just how well-fitted a suit jacket or a blouse was instead of concentrating on the plot and story. 

I have one big negative aspect to point out as well. For me the drama felt really long! and with 32 episodes it kind of is as well. K-dramas is well known for the drama and deep story. Something that you also have to control. Hotel King could have had just 20/24 episodes and still be a great story. The last ten episodes or so just felt like the had to fit the story to the bigger number of episodes and therefore added stuff to the plot to try to keep it interesting. It felt as if there were to much if you understand what I am trying to say? 

But anyhow, I liked the drama a lot (I did finish it, didn't I?) and you got your happy ending, just not exactly how I had written it myself. 

Faith (AKA The great Doctor)

I have started to watch k-drama again! And the last serie I watched were Faith (AKA The Great Doctor) from 2012.

As you can see one of the stars are Lee Min-Ho, and he looks awesome! Real eye-candy there girls! I usually don't watch that much of historical dramas but I really liked this one. The story starts with two time-lines, the one that Choi Young (Lee Min-Ho) lives in (around 14th century I think) and the modern days were Yoo Eun-Soo (played by Kim Hee-Seon) lives. Choi Young is escorting the king Gongmin and his new wife to Goryeo (Korea) after have been held hostage in Yuan (China) for several years. But during the trip they get attacked and the Queen is hurt badly. No doctor in that time are skilled enough to save here and as a last resort the king sends Choi Young into a strange "door" in witch the story says that a legendary doctor went trough to heaven. Choi Young ends up in the present days and somehow finds a convention for plastic surgery, there he also finds Yoo Eun-Soo. He brings here back to the 14th century against her will and this is the start of her adventure in the historical world.  

The drama is good even if 24 episodes is a bit of a stretch. I think it could be even better if it was shorten some, but it is still really nice with some really good actors.  The bad guys really gives you the chills and the protagonist feels really sympathetic. i really recommend the drama for people that likes a good story, nice acting and o course a gorgeous Le Min-Ho <3 

Sherlock Holmes Weekend

We had a Sherlock Holmes theme this weekend. First we saw the new TV-series Elementary and I think it is lovely. They have taken Sherlock Holmes to the present day and move him to New York and Watson is a girl! Even with all the changes Sherlock is still the right way, a little bitter and to smart for his own good.

After the three episodes of Sherlock we also watched the two movies with Robert Downey Jr. Again. They are also nice, I know I have been writing about the second one before. But short I can say that I like the puzzle in them, and the humour and the wardrobe. The last one I think makes me like them most! All the clothes is so neatly and nicely done!

Beside watching TV I have also been playing DS and the new Pokémon but of course I am a lot after my fiancé right now (T__T) We also tried Dance Central 3 and played trough the story, I think it was really fun! And in some of the songs I had the opportunity to feel better than my all-around-gamer-fiancé, I doesn't happen very often.

We also spend some hours at a birthday party, my fiancés grandfathers mother was celebrating here 90th birthday and I got to meet a lot of there family. They served a sandwich cake and three different sweet ones. Sandwich cake eh? It is so hard to explain in English because I don't know if there is something alike out there. But in short it is a "grown-up" cake that is made of bread and all different food and decoration. Shrimps, ham and egg is usually standard as you can see. It is a way to serve food instead of only sweet cakes and you eat it with fork and knife. It is one of my favourite things to eat!

So, that was in short my weekend, now it is time to start up the school work again. Fighting!

Mitt liv är ett skämt

I really like stand up comedy and have now started to watch Mitt liv är ett skämt, a swedish television production where well known artist/idols/famous people in Sweden get to try doing stand up. Some of the episodes are fun ^__^

Arrow - S1 Ep1

I have been hoping that I would find some good TV-show to follow and comment on from the beginning but all the series I have been interested in is to long gone allread. But now maybe I have found it. I watched the first episode of Arrow togheter with my fiancé this week and I feels promesing.

It is not a secret that we the last years have been interesting in super hero movies, it is a genre we both like (even if he is more knowledgeable than me) and want to watch so it is an easy way to spend good, happy times together. Anyhow, when I heard about Arrow, an tv-series that is built on the story of Green Arrow, it wasent hard to know that this was something we had to try watch together.

It is always some trouble when they make a TV-adaption on a super hero, they tend to change so much from the story to fit the budget, script and production and not the other way around (even if I have to say that a lot of the new super hero movies is great!). My fiancé was afraid that they would change Green Arrow to much, I myself wasn't that scared, I don't have so much earlier experience with Green Arrow as he and it is harder to get disappointed if you don't have preconceptions about the deitails. 

Anyhow, I do think we both liked the first episode, I am sure I did at least. It was not to childish but not to dark or to advanced either. I think that if they do it right a lot of people can like it regardless of how much they know about it before hand. The story is easy to understand even if you don't know all of it yet and the man that plays Arrow/Oliver Queen (Stephan Amell) is nice to look at. Even people that doesn't really care about comics can find something to like I think.

So hopefully I will continue watch and can make some updates here about it. I would be happy if I am correct and this is going to be something good but one episode isn't always enough to know. We just have to wait and see.

Glee

I thought it was time to write about another of my favourite TV-series. This time I get inspired to write about Glee after watching the latest episode. But the thought was that in this post I was going to introduce you to the show, not talking about the latest episode, so here goes:

Glee started to air in 2009  and is now in its 4th season. The show got a lot of viewers from the beginning but now I think it mostly is teenagers and young adults that is interested because the show itself is about teenage life, high school and being different.

Yes, it is the being different, an outcast or an underdog that from the beginning is the main theme in the show. A group of these not so popular people starts to hang out through the schools glee club and some of the more popular kids, that wouldn't even speak to them before, joins as well (not everyone voluntarily). In the beginning the difference in the group leads to hardships, fights and disagreements but eventually Mr. Schuester, the Glee club director gets the group to work together trough music.

Yes, the show is a musical, but not in the mossy kind of way. The main point in Glee is the story and then the add the music to fit. In the beginning it got me thinking about Disney and how they in there animations add the element of music to get the story to evolve. Glee is a lot like that, singing about being different, expectations, love and hardships as a way to develop and for me this is really really interesting. 

But on of the most interesting parts in the series isn't the singing or dancing, even if the cast does that really well, no it is the intrigue when you put a lot of different people in the same group and how the people you at least expected to see together becoming friends and gets a deeper understanding of each other, something that they never even expected to understand before.  In Glee these individuals starts to form a group despite if they are cheerleaders, gay, nerds, divas or have disabilities and is stuck in a wheelchair, and It makes me happy and hopeful to see scenes like that. 

Somewhere I heard that Glee has made the nerd the new cool, and maybe that is somewhat true. Thinking about it you can see an wave of glasses, suspenders, bow-ties and intelligent getting the spotlight, but I can't possible say that Glee is the reason for this, it could also be the other way around. Either way it is something new for the industry and for me I think it is something good. The show has a good message and if kids and teenagers can see on TV that it is okey to be different then I cant see any harm in that. And in the mean time I will be entertained.

Bones

Ohh! almost all of the TV-series (American ones) I follow has started up again and I'm so happy to have something to watch again. But it is also hard when i realize how many they really are, how will I be able to have the time to watch? Maybe I have to drop one? or two? But I like them all! Anyhow, I thougt i would introduce you a little more to some of my favorites so here is the first:

The first of the series I want to introduce is Bones and started to run 2005. This fall the 8 season began, you can already there grasp how popular it has become. I first got in contact whit it through Swedish television maybe five six years ago at least but at that time it wasn't as easy to get a hold of it and they took there time to run it. Sometime I missed an episode or two as well... Later on I started to watch it all from the beginning and right now I am in the middle of buying the series on DVD. My fiancé and I have started to watch it from the beginning again and I am really happy that he likes one of my favourite shows as well.

So what is so good about it then? Well maybe some of you already know about it so I write this for you who haven't watched it yet. The name Bones refers to the woman who is in the centre of the show. Her name is Brennan (Emily Deschanel) and works as a forensic anthropologist in the Jeffersonian institute, her speciality is bones and therefore she as got the nickname Bones. She starts to work together with an FBI-agent named Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz) on a murder case and later on they became a permanent team.

Over all it looks like just any other crime-series out there but for me it is special. You get in contact wit many different personalities during there investigations. Brennan only believe in scientific evidence and finds it hard to sometime understand the more human and psychology bits in there cases. Booth on the other hand often acts on his gut-feeling and leave the science to Brennan and her "squintsquad" (the other people that works in the Jeffersonian). So you see, the show keeps a lot of different aspects and these differences also leads to a lot of personal problems in between the characters. The growing sexual tension between Brennan and Booth doesn't make it any worse either.

every case is different in some way and sometimes the work also get intervene with the characters personal life. I don't want to give any example because I am afraid to give you some spoilers but I can promise that it is interesting. A thing I have found some humour in is the naming of the episodes. Almost every episode gives a hint about the contents by answer the question what and were. For example The Man in the SUV and The Soldier on the Grave. These gives you an hint that makes it interesting but you don't really understand before you watched the episode. Somewhat this reminds me of the Morse code in the beginning of every episode of the series Jericho (another show that I find interesting).

David Boreanaz as Angel

Beside the story in Bones it is one other thing that makes me like it so much and that is David Boreanaz! I am not unhappy with any of the actors, I like them all, but David is still my favourite. He was even before Bones on of my secret crushes. He plays the awesome vampire Angel in Buffy: the Vampire Killer and also in the spin-of called Angel. In Buffy and Angel he was a bit younger but he then played a character who was a lot darker and one-sided (I actually liked Spike more). When I watch him in Bones you can see that he got better at acting and now he plays a more humanly character filled with life and humour. Booth is more my type of man and I am really happy that he got to play that role.

And there you have it, I don't really know what more to write about Bones. I hope you will watch the show if you haven't already ^__^