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I’ve found my K-Drama gang @writercherie @j_a_bennet
@SBrownwriter which is totally cool. When I talk about my K-drama addiction, my
real world friends (as opposed to on-line friends who I can’t see) kind of roll
their eyes and mumble, “Oh, it sounds good,” followed by an even quieter
grumble, “Shut up already, Angie.”
It’s wonderful to have a posse. I can gush about
my favorite shows without feeling like a freak. Without their reviews, I never would’ve watched FLOWER BOY
RAMEN SHOP (2011). I started the first episode a few months ago, but I didn’t
get past the first fifteen minutes for some reason I don’t remember. Either
writing or the kids interrupted and I never went back.
Then my K-gang started
talking about how good it is. I was caught up on episodes of FLOWER BOY NEXT
DOOR (2013), the third show in tvN’s "Oh! Boy" series, which also includes SHUT UP FLOWER BOY BAND (2012).
Since Flower Boy Ramen Shop is the first in this “Oh! Boy” series, I
thought why not give it a shot.
Holla! I totally marathoned this 16 episode series over a weekend.
It begins with Yang
Eun Bi (Lee Chung-Ah), a college student studying for her civil service exam to become a high
school teacher. Stress has the girl teetering on the edge of a nervous
breakdown. All it takes is accidentally meeting Cha Chi Soo (Jung Il-Woo), the handsome and arrogant
son the biggest food conglomerate in Korea, in a
public bathroom stall, followed by a public break up with her cheating
boyfriend, to shove her off the ledge.
Every time Eun Bi
came on screen, I squirmed with contact embarrassment. The girl was a dripping-hot
mess.
“Good God, please, you’re killing me. Resist temptation. Don’t do it!” I
yelled at the screen as I watched her fall under bratty Cha
Chi Soo’s spell, sealing her dooooom!
It only gets
better and better. The show has a fairytale feel to it at times—true love, a
dictator villain, Sleeping Beauty trapped in the tower in need of rescue and ramen.
I won’t say any more, other than I will forever associate a toilet bowl plunger
as a crucial artifact to represent the pinnacle of climactic storytelling.
