If you’ve spent half of your life watching Grey’s Anatomy, House, ER The Resident, Chicago Med, Doctors, Hospital Playlist, Dr. Romantic and many other Medical TV dramas, then you will know that we have this standard when it comes to these kinds of dramas. We aim for clarity, not only just about the medical terms but we also need to have the clear picture of the context, how did it happened and also we need to learn form it, and this I believe the samples I mentioned were considered as the standard.
In all fairness, we have been talking in this blog how korean dramas are significantly different from any other series, just like the Squid Game series; who could’ve known that the games you play when you’re a kid can be deadly? Well, not necessarily deadly, but for those who watched the series, you understand why I wrote those lines.
Squid Game is a series about people who needs money and suddenly they agreed to be in a game where they will win billions of money in exchange to playing children’s games which they have knows ever since they were kids the only catch is that, only one can win and every time they miss a round, they’d be killed, this is how the game worked all throughout the series. People getting killed every time they fail in the game. The main character Seong Gi-hun was lucky enough to pass and win all the games. But since he lost all the people he became friends with during the games, he wanted to make use of his price money to find the people behind these selfish-people-killing games.
If there’s so much more to look forward to movies and tv series, it is the new plots and standards for Philippine Cinema and Series, I’m proud to say that from the movies released for the MMFF (Metro Manila Film Festival) last year, there’s a lot of big changes to the plots, the character build ups and cinematography. Filipino production has exerted efforts to catch up with the standards set by Korean TV series and Movies for the past few years.
This year, Star Magic (A popular celebrity agency and production in Philippines) has gone to lengths unimaginable, releasing so many TV Series that are best to compare to some of the Korean Dramas we have watched in the past. First of all, I would love to speak highly about the recently completed series Senior High, Starring Andrea Brillantes, playing the role of twin girls who entered an a elite school only for one of them to die and one to investigate the whole incident.
Okay, not all of my avid moview readers know that I am also into reading books. Well, I have a long break from reading books…more like a 10-year-gap kind of break. I got busy with life, that’s how it is. although there are also times that I was able to read books through audiobooks, so it’s not actually a good to nothing break. I still had a chance to read some new books through listening to their audiobook versions. But this 2024, I am trying to convince myself that I really need to go back to reading because why not? Especially now that people are finally returning to the reading paperback and hard bounds.
Aang! Yes, you know it! From Nickelodeon, the famous cartoon has released its live action this 2024. We all know Aang as the Avatar, we have seen its cartoons in 2005, to my memories, it had 3 seasons and it was a kid friendly cartoon.
Avatar is a story of a world where 4 elements lead the balance of life, Air, Water, Land and Fire, these elements create the balance that the world of Avatar needs and there comes the Avatar, the only creature who can bend all the the elements, making him/her the leader of all elements. But when the last Avatar died, The Fire Nation took over and conquered other elements’ kingdoms, ruling the whole world as if their own. Killing all the element benders that can possibly become the next Avatar. But one remained and lived for 100 years.
Well, there’s that. Another school setting Korean drama is out on Netflix and this time around, this is not your ordinary school drama, but rather, it is one of the most relatable Korean drama that was released last 2023. We’ve all seen Penthouse, which was really good and also Celebrity which depicts the whole rich and popular life of celebrities, while this new series entitled … Continue reading Bitch X Rich
They said that one game can change your life but what if the game not only changes lives but also takes life itself? This drama released last December 4th of 2023 is actually banging the suspense/thriller genre yet again. The story is about a group of students who got stuck alone during a trip without their teachers. They were left alone in a school like facility which was supposed to be a retreat. A mysterious message asking them to join a mafia game got them hooked only to discover that this game is not just a game but a real game that can affect all of their lives.
Okay, we’ve loved Logan Lerman as Percy and we have been waiting for the next movie since like forever, and that gives me an utter disappointment that they will never continue that movie series. But now, Disney, has come to refresh our minds and decided to remake Rick Riordan’s books and do a longer tale than the movie. Directed by Pierre Gill and Jules O’Loughlin another ship is going to sail for our favorite character Percy Jackson.
Percy Jackson is a story about a demi-god, who have never known his real identity until creatures have been trying to get him and one day, his mother told him everything sent him to camp half blood. But the real story is that he has to prove Zeus that he isn’t the lightning thief or else, destruction will come.
I have the chance two watch the first three episodes and the series may have been a little different from the movie but I think since this is a tv series, they did justice on how they can actually make this enjoyable on each episode they release. If you compare the movie and the tv series with the books, the movie was closer than the tv series, maybe because they had to choose some elements that can make the series go a little longer however, if you read the book, of course, you’ll get a little confused. You know me, I do love comparing books against their adaptations and so, that’s what we will do.
Sorry for the spoilers, but yes, we need to tackle some of it.
Here’s another book adapted series and it is something that you would want to check out. From Ali Novak’s novel, with the same title, My Life With The Walter Boys. Starring Nikki Rodriguez, Noah Lalonde, Ashby Gentry, new faces but not so new in the film industry too.
This is a story about a girl who lost her family due to an accident and had to lived with her mother’s best friend’s family who is very far away from what she was used to. Jackie, who was born and lived all her life in New York is forced to move away from the big apple to live with her mother’s best friend after the accident. Katherine is married with kids living in Colorado, with a family of 12 boys, She has known Jackie’s mother since they were college and so, they agreed to be the guardian of each other’s family in case something bad happen to them in the future and that’s how Katherine got the custody of Jackie.
There’s so many series that are new to Philippine TV standards but I am so amazed how the cinematography when it comes to Philippine films and TV dramas has gone from average to international standards. Most of the new TV series that are being released this year were actually passing the international standards and one of them is the recent Netflix release, entitled, Replacing Chef Chico.
Starring Alessandra de Rossi, Piolo Pascual and Sam Milby. This is the story of Hain, a filipino contemporary restaurant that serves Filipino traditional cuisine with the fusion of each of the customer’s life stories. The main plot is Chef Chico, played by Sam, was being replaced temporarily by his sous chef, Ella, played by Alessandra after he met an accident, causing him to stay in coma, with the supervision of Raymond, played by Piolo, the consultant that Chico’s parents’ hired to decide with the future of the restaurant as it is facing a fall back in the industry.
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