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Tuesday Collection
Jan. 8th, 2019 10:33 amThis week's it's Hyori's Bed and Breakfast. I love this show so much. I've watched both seasons twice and started watching again for a third time last fall when I started to feel down for a while. What I love about it:
Zero drama The producers jokingly attempt to insert tension with some of the inserted text. Anyone who watches Asian reality shows will be familiar with this effect, which is laughingly pointless on this show.
Beauty Everyone on the show is some variant of lovely--not necessarily physically beautiful (although Lee Hyori is absolutely gorgeous), but always gentle, kind, and considerate. The exact opposite of most unscripted television we see here in the U.S. Jeju Island, where it's filmed, is a major tourist destination so of course the show highlights the landscape. And the food, oh god the food.
Kindness I don't hide the fact that I'm not a people person. I don't often go out of my way to hang out with others, much less strangers, but there are scant few people on this show that I wouldn't get along with for a few days spent in the close quarters of the B&B. The one person I absolutely couldn't stand was (surprise!) the Fucking American that shows up late in the second season. Ugh, Jackson is the worst. Everybody else is great, though--even the kind of grouchy Elderly Couple in the first season turn out to be charming and endeared themselves to me by the time they left.
Someone on cm.net pitched the show to me last year with the description of ASMR television. It's the most soothing show I've ever watched. If you're looking for something plot-free with charm, and you don't mind (not great) subtitles, check it out on Netflix.
Let me know if you try it and like it. And if you have watched it, please talk to me about it! I have vanishingly few people to squee about it with.
Zero drama The producers jokingly attempt to insert tension with some of the inserted text. Anyone who watches Asian reality shows will be familiar with this effect, which is laughingly pointless on this show.
Beauty Everyone on the show is some variant of lovely--not necessarily physically beautiful (although Lee Hyori is absolutely gorgeous), but always gentle, kind, and considerate. The exact opposite of most unscripted television we see here in the U.S. Jeju Island, where it's filmed, is a major tourist destination so of course the show highlights the landscape. And the food, oh god the food.
Kindness I don't hide the fact that I'm not a people person. I don't often go out of my way to hang out with others, much less strangers, but there are scant few people on this show that I wouldn't get along with for a few days spent in the close quarters of the B&B. The one person I absolutely couldn't stand was (surprise!) the Fucking American that shows up late in the second season. Ugh, Jackson is the worst. Everybody else is great, though--even the kind of grouchy Elderly Couple in the first season turn out to be charming and endeared themselves to me by the time they left.
Someone on cm.net pitched the show to me last year with the description of ASMR television. It's the most soothing show I've ever watched. If you're looking for something plot-free with charm, and you don't mind (not great) subtitles, check it out on Netflix.
Let me know if you try it and like it. And if you have watched it, please talk to me about it! I have vanishingly few people to squee about it with.