Certified Stray Kids
To celebrate our Natalia’s birth, she made us deep dive a group with over 70 music videos: Stray Kids.
Noonas 101: Boys’ Love
Getting into the BL fandom can be overwhelming, but we are here to help you out by hosting a crash course on all you need to know about the fandom and what you will encounter as you watch boys’ love dramas.
Book Review: The Stand-In
I got to visit Toronto and a Canadian character in Lily Chu’s new book The Stand-In. The book itself is fairly standard with a few twists thrown in to keep it fresh.
Certified A Show of Pride: LGTBQ+ in Asian Dramas
We are celebrating the start of Pride Month by sharing our favorite LGBTQ+ dramas and characters.
Certified What We’re Watching: May Trio
This week 3/4 of the Noonas tell what they’ve been watching in dramaland.
Certified Continental Exploration: Dramas Outside of the Big Three
This week we are looking outside of the big three countries – Korea, Japan, China – and talking about dramas in the lesser-known or looked at Asian countries. We discuss the importance of branching out, where to find them, and some of our personal favorites.
Certified The Sound of Magic
This week we’re discussing the new Netflix musical, The Sound of Magic starring Choi Sung Eun, Hwang In Yeop, and Ji Chang Wook. Note: We discuss the entire series during this episode.
Book Review: Siren Queen
The new book Siren Queen by Nghi Vo is a dark fairy tale set in the Golden Age of Hollywood. The story is run through with a thread of magic that sets it apart from other similar stories. Despite the magical edge (or perhaps because of it), the story and it’s characters are so realistic that this fake Hollywood story reads as a very real memoir.
Certified Kim Hae Sook
What better way to celebrate Mother’s Day than with the Nation’s Mother? This week is dedicated to our favorite kdrama mother, Kim Hae Sook.
Certified Remakes
We’ve briefly mentioned remakes in several of our episodes but decided that a full episode was in order. Listen as we talk about the different remakes, some of our best and worst, and create the most epic gay mafia Boys Over Flowers recast. *Editing note: We forgot to cast Jun Pyo’s Grandmother in the drama […]