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ADO Update Video #1

Update and clips video about the Japanese and Korean drama I will be reviewing soon. Read more

... the journey will continue!

My negative experiences with real world communication and my strong feelings about communication subjugation from a professional sociological and psychological standpoint are causing me to have a difficult time experiencing the presentation of melodrama in the proper way. I'm the passenger in someones car alright ... but for me the driver is drunk and blindfolded, swerving back and forth while going the wrong way on a multi-lane highway, and all I want is to get out ... Read more

It's a new year ...

I feel I am still in a grieving process over my mother. I picked up my phone to call her the other day and it just really struck me again that she is gone. I wonder how I will be able to emotionally fall into dramas the way I need to in order to write. I want to try. I have to push myself to try or I may never be able to start again ... Read more

Apologies and Updates ...

My apologies for being away for so many months. Many events have occurred in my personal life over the past few months that took quite a toll on me. As a result of these events I strayed far from my dedication to this blog and far from my enjoyment of Asian dramas. Because of your continued support I wanted to be open and honest and let everyone know what's been going on since September and what my plans are ... Read more

More Commentaries Coming Up!

I decided when I started ADO that there was no way I would be able to write on every episode but here is how I will most likely tackle this blog from here on out so everyone can understand my process ... Read more

... the journey begins

Truly watching melodrama is about nothing that you bring to what is being presented. The melodrama is meant to present something to you ... a portraiture of emotional rivers that run against one another, cross each other, and sometimes merge together. Will your fear be the damn that blocks it? Or will you allow those waters to wash over you and carry you away to beautiful, complex, and enlightening emotional shores ... Read more