Drama schedule (and a bit on Manny)

[dangermousie]

So, my current drama watching list is as follows (I am only including dramas I am actively watching).

China:
Jade Palace Lock Heart
Three Kingdoms

Taiwan:
K.O. 3an Guo

Korea:
49 Days
Can You Hear My Heart
Crime Squad
New Tales of the Gisaeng

I think the list shall stay pretty much the same (though I am woefully behind on my kdramas) until the new batch of kdramas arrive in May. None of the upcoming twdrama/cdrama offerings interest me, and as to kdramas - I am going to check out Royal Family and Thorn Birds properly when they finish airing (I liked the first eps for both but they really are dramas better off watched in a marathon).

Oh, and I tried Manny.

No.

Just. No.

It's not a bad drama, but entirely not to my tastes.

1. The title. Manny. Unless you name is Manuel and you prefer diminutives, nobody should be referred to this way. I hate this word with a passion, the way I hate portmanteau words in general. What next, a drama called 'Absitively?"
2. I have a (reasonable or not) prejudice against male nannies. I'd never entrust my kid to one. (Not that I would be keen to entrust one to a female one, either).
3. I was till willing to give it a chance because I adore Suh Ji Suk, but then he came on my screen and I had to stifle a gasp. WTF? Did a labrador die on his head? Just no.

So yes, not for me.

Comments

[ockoala.livejournal.com]

Feel free to link to my Other Shore post. Actually, you can link to anything I post, sweetie. Really no need to ask me in the future. ^___^ Hope the new job is working out as well as you had expected.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Thank you :)

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

Manny sounds like a soft-rock song with mullets.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

LOLOL so true.

[katranna.livejournal.com]

I have a (reasonable or not) prejudice against male nannies. I'd never entrust my kid to one.

That's... not very reasonable, no. Nannies generally come with references and background checks. And men who are interested in children would be unlikely to seek a job as a nanny as, if anything, that offers way more chances of getting caught out. If you get unlucky with nannies, you are probably as likely to get a woman who wants to steal your kid, or is generally abusive, as you are to get a male molester.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Thoroughness of references and background checks depends on the agencies. Also, sometimes past employers do not know about what you really did. Leaving a small child one-on-one with a stranger in a non-structured environment is, imo, a bad idea wheher the nanny is male or female. When you add in the fact that majority of child molestation is done by men, no thanks.

[issy-chan.livejournal.com]

HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUH? Suh Ji Suk is in Manny???
I did not even bother to check casts as soon as i read the drama name. I can't resist SJS. maybe i just check the first ep and see ;-)

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yup. it's him. He has the world's worst haircut in this.