#sbs hyena

[anditendshowyoudexpect]

back up your favorite fics, kids

like i did this gorgeous series by @elderflowergin after staying up until ungodly hours to read it. it's been on my mind all day today and i knew i had to preserve it just in case, so i downloaded the epub files and merged them for convenience

#sbs hyena #hyena #fanfiction #elderflowergin thank you again #i am forever in awe and sweet pain #of not getting to see it acted by the beautiful people #i'm in love and in lust with #because this is THE season 2 #the one they and we deserve #although lbr no season 2 in tv history #could ever come close to the things #the raw talent of fic writers creates #i will never be not grateful

[purpleguitar]

I rest my case. Hyena (2020) dir. Jang Taeyoo

#sbs hyena #kdramaedit #kdramadaily #kdramanetwork #kim hye soo #ju ji hoon #jung geum ja #yoon hee jae #purple.mp4

[elderflowergin]

SBS Hyena, episode 1 rewatch (part 2)

I realise I haven't tagged/warned for spoilers, but this will be full of spoilers. I'm sorry.

So the first we see of her… is Kim Hee-sun. Gorgeous hair, beautiful no makeup-makeup face, and...near-bare feet. (This is entirely from Hee-jae's perspective, so his observation of her feet is probably intentional. It’s also not the last time he’ll do it.)

(I assume Hee-jae's writing paeans to her cute turquoise toenails in his note-book.)

I love Hee-sun's oversized white shirt. It’s  interesting that she should wear that, because in the scene just before this, Yoon Hee-jae sheds his shirt in his office and throws it in a bin. And here she is, in a lovely bit of continuity, looking like she might have just picked it off his floor and worn it, along with that cool preppy sweater. 15/10 for style, infinity/10 because she's Kim Hye-soo, and in this house she's everything.

Moving back to daytime —

This is the first time we've heard any reference to Hee-jae being related to a judge, and it's in this unnaturally coy fashion. 

We’re meant to see Hee-jae as a legal force to be reckoned with. He’d have to be, given what we’ve seen so far. Here, he's assuring a result to a client because of who he'll have on his team. He's coasting on Atty Ma's team's work (whether he admits it or not), his own big guns and lots of unearned confidence like any other corporate blowhard. 

I say his confidence is unearned, but he’s probably never had the reason to believe otherwise. He’s a big boy working for one of the big boys - things have never not fallen the way he’s wanted them to, because that’s the way their world functions. Money talks, and they have so goddamn much of it that there is never a real contest. This is the status quo of Yoon Hee-jae’s life, and it’s about to be undone in the most wildly spectacular way possible. 

Yoon Hee-jae has never had to pay his dues or prove his worth - that’s always been for other people to do. Whether he wants to pay his dues or prove his worth…is a different, and more interesting question. He does prove to be smart, thoughtful and deeply strategic as a lawyer later in the show, but we’re not going to see that side of him for a few episodes. 

And then, we find out his grandfather was the former Chief Justice. 

Yoon Hee-jae doesn’t bring this up until Ha Chan-ho brings it up first. It’s not really mentioned up till now, although it gives important context to his success and confidence. He's very comfortable talking about his pull, but he doesn’t talk about the source of the pull, if that makes any sense. I think there are two reasons for this. 

This speaks to a spectacular kind of privilege - this sort of disclosure usually opens doors, but when you’re in that stratosphere of class and breeding, it’s probably declasse to say it out loud, and more than that, it’s unnecessary. People know it and so the doors are always open, 24/7. It’s like the difference between having to tell the maitre’d at The Fat Duck that oh, by the way, you’re Meryl Streep, and you’d really like a reservation, please, and having the table by the window set aside for you every Friday night. 

I also think he wants to be seen as a good, successful lawyer, and not necessarily just Daddy’s boy. That is vital to Hee-jae in a way that seems, again, almost overtly privileged. In a society that is largely only concerned about Getting It, thinking about How You Got It either comes from having the moral backbone of a Hwang Si-mok or the extreme privilege of a Yoon Hee-jae. Those are the two warring forces in Hee-jae - wanting to be known for being a good lawyer, and yet resting on the laurels earned by those before him.

An all-black suit, for a douchey comment about hooking up with one's client's younger sister. That is cackle-worthy in light of what said younger sister does a few episodes down the road. 0/10 for the sister comment, Hee-jae. 

Next up: the prettiest girl ever. 

BOO HYEON A, BEST GIRL, BEST OF ALL. APART FROM JIEUN. 

@thefeastandthefast once said her hair probably smells of raspberries, and that is entirely correct. She is the loveliest and her belted jacket is so chic. (10/10. I dock no points from Ms Boo.)

She, too, is in all-black, like Hee-jae, which positions them similarly against all the other lawyerbots. This dovetails with things we will learn later about both characters. Both are second kids; both come from incredible privilege, and both are the softest marshmallows who will come to love and adore Jung Geum-ja.

I'm constantly amazed by Yoon Hee-jae's total and utter lack of chemistry with anyone other than Women Who Can Step On His Neck. Park Se-jin and Ju Ji-hoon have such a friendly vibe for two very good-looking people. 

Unlike, say.....

THEM. THEM. 

Yet again, this entire encounter feels surreal, in the way the best romances often do. For starters these two aren’t knocking elbows with five other grumpy people looking to do laundry. Yoon Hee-jae doesn’t dress like this, ordinarily. (As an aside, his soft old man cardigan made me giggle. I had at least two bosses who wore cardigans like this, so at least this is somewhat accidentally accurate to me.) I mean, when Ga Gi-hyeok visits him late in the series, he’s wearing a cool bush shirt (thank you @rain-hat) that looks like something Dries van Noten might have put out. (I think it was Gucci, though, I stand to be corrected). All his soft lil sweaters are reserved for the woman he loves.

(He stares at her feet up. Just sayin'.)

(Next up: we're upping the ante, the stakes, and most importantly, the hotness. A violet dress makes its appearance. A man's dignity makes its disappearance. IYKYK)

#sbs hyena #sbs hyena recap

[yeommijeong]

girlboss meets maleboss and turns him into a malewife is actually the greatest ship dynamic ever

#sbs hyena #my liberation notes #there must be more examples of this not just in kdramas but in every kind of media ive consumed #just the idea of a man thinking he's the shit and getting schooled by an absolute powerhouse of a woman #and then subsequently liking it and accepting that she'll always be the way that she is #and it doesn't make him less of a man to support her in being herself

[thepersona]

Kim Hye-soo's eye(brow) acting appreciation post - gifs not mine

#kim hye soo #her eyebrows can either cut you or cradle you #juvenile justice #sbs hyena #hyena kdrama #signal kdrama #a special lady #under the queen's umbrella

[theinfinitedivides]

....... Hyena????? SBS Hyena????? bisexual dream 2020 Hyena?????? Jung Geum Ja and Yoon Hee Jae!Hyena?????? Japanese Hyena????? coming this year??????

#tv: hyena #hyena #sbs hyena #tv tokyo hyena #hyena kdrama #hyena jdrama #kim hye soo #ju ji hoon #joo ji hoon #shinohara ryoko #ryoko shinohara #yamazaki ikusaburo #ikusaburo yamazaki #kdrama #jdrama #local gay watches k-dramas.txt #i'm so sorry the articles are in Korean and Japanese y'all will have to run it through the translator like i did but uh. what #airs October 20th has an absolutely f*cked cast (positive) #reportedly it'll have a different ending than the original............. #if we don't get (good) official English subs i'm going to go cry i need to see what they do with this #it's supposed to be on Netflix tho so some comfort ig #Hyena in the year of our Lord 2023 it's almost enough to convince me to try a rewatch. maybe after i crawl out from My Dearest's #claws but that will mostly likely take months once part two airs. rip

[kactors-kpop-kdrama]

#ju ji hoon #kim hye soo #sbs hyena

[phant0m-l0rd]

(I should’ve learned my lesson the first few times this happened, never to edit big chunks of text on tumblr because sometimes it’ll refresh for no reason and I’ll lose everything right before pressing send. Anyway, off to rewriting this whole thing I go!!)

I felt like doing this because I watched a lot of kdramas this year. Everything will be after the “keep reading” line. Some prompts will be edited because I didn’t watch any dramas actually made in 2022, so if you see things being crossed out like this and [inserted text], that’s what that is.

(featuring a bunch of gifs I made over the course of this year and never posted anywhere)

→ First drama completed in 2022: Black (2017).

→ Favourite actress discovered in 2022: Kim Hye-soo. I absolutely loved her in Hyena (2020) and fell in love with both her acting and her (she's literally the perfect woman). She was fabulous in Signal (2016) as well. Her ability to nail both comedic and serious acting is a testament to her amazing range.

→ Favourite actor discovered in 2022: Honourable mention to Ji Chang-wook, whom I adored in the 3 series I watched him in this year.

However, my favourite actor I discovered this year has got to be Lee Joon-gi. Truly a master of his craft; I’m convinced there isn’t a single thing he cannot do. His acting range is amazing, from subtle and subdued to incredibly emotional.

→ Favourite original song from a drama [discovered in 2022]: Adrenaline (Vincenzo OST). I feel like this song fit the series so perfectly, but also sounds really good as a stand-alone song. I love its brooding, ominous, yet entrancing atmosphere.

→ A visually beautiful kdrama [discovered in 2022]: I’ll be mentioning this series a lot in this post, if only for the reason that it’s become one of my favourite series of all-time, from the second I watched it, the series being Flower of Evil (2020). The cinematography of this series is one of the many elements that makes it stand out from a lot of other dramas I’ve seen. It’s so beautiful, the lighting is always stunning, the colours are soft, the framing is always on-point…

Take this shot, for instance, which is from the opening scene of the drama (I just had to gif it). It instantly draws you in and sets the tone for the rest of the series.

→ A drama you dropped in 2022: Strong Girl Bong-soon (2017). I’m actually surprised I made it this far into this series before dropping it considering how uncomfortable the humour made me feel. From thinly veiled homophobia to crass humour to making light of domestic abuse, this series shocked me, especially considering it isn’t that old. So many series have had narratives of female empowerment and have done so so amazingly well that this series feels very subpar in comparison, in my opinion.

→ Favourite character [discovered in 2022]: Do Hyun-so in Flower of Evil (2020). He stood out to me the most because of how complex and multidimensional he was, and how well all the different facets of his character were portrayed by Lee Joon-gi. I felt so empathetic for his character, angry at the tragic circumstances that had shaped his life, and endeared by the kindness and softness he retained despite all he had been through. His character is tragic but is also an exemplification of resiliency in the face of adversity.

→ A [drama discovered in 2022] with an interesting story: W (2016) had a very interesting premise that was actually executed surprisingly well, in my opinion. In brief, it centres around a webcomic that has somehow come to life, with there being a portal between the real world and the world within the comic book. It’s very entertaining.

→ Oldest drama you watched in 2022: Time Between Dog and Wolf (2007) which I’m currently watching (only 1 episode left). I started it because of Lee Joon-gi and have honestly not been disappointed one bit. Sure, the filming and editing is dated, but that doesn’t detract from the quality of the narrative and the acting. Nowadays, this premise (a revenge undercover story) feels like it might’ve been done many times, however it does not feel boring in this series at all, quite the contrary. It’s been incredibly engaging.

Furthermore, I just have to say… I love 2000s fashion and hairstyles. I mean, look at this. Oh and how could I forget the single earring.

→ Have you rewatched a drama in 2022? Oh yes. I tend to rewatch series quite a bit once they’ve graduated to being comforting series for me. Not sure if I rewatched The Guest (2018) this year or if it was in very late 2021, but I know for sure that I rewatched Her Private Life (2019) (my comfort series at the moment), Vincenzo (2021), Flower of Evil (2020), Sell Your Haunted House (2021), and Suspicious Partner (2017).

→ A drama that kept you on the edge of your seat: Most action/thriller series I watched this year kept me at the edge of my seat, so I cannot list but one. The 3 that stressed me out the most were Signal (2016), Mouse (2021), and Voice 1 (2017).

→ A drama friendship that stole the show: There’s actually quite a few so narrowing it down to one is hard. I think the friendship between the 3 lead girls (Yoon Ji-ho, Woo Su-ji, and Yang Ho-rang) in Because This is My First Life (2017) was really great and heart-warming.

I must also mention the amazing friendship between the two leads (Hong Ji-a and Oh In-beom) in Sell Your Haunted House (2021).

→ A drama you found boring: Nice Guy / The Innocent Man (2012). I watched this series for Song Joong-ki and sadly found it quite boring past the halfway point, which is a shame because it was really great up until that point. I kept with it until the end for both Song Joong-ki and Moon Chae-won but I’ll admit I did fast-forward quite a few scenes near the end and just wanted it to be over.

→ A writer or director who caught your attention: I’ll admit, I didn’t really look up writers or directors this year, but I was really impressed by the writer of Black (2017), Choi Ran (who, it turns out, also wrote Mouse (2021), which I’m only now finding out). Her writing in Black impressed me because of the sheer amount of plot twists and details that were in the series and the fact that there were still very few plot holes.

→ Favourite drama poster of 2022: Flower of Evil (2020) has some of the most memorable posters, to me.

→ Standout secondary character [discovered in 2022]: Choi Yoo-jin in The K2 (2016). I don’t know if she can really be considered a secondary character given her prominence in the series, but nonetheless I absolutely adored her. The perfect antagonist, not one-dimensional at all, on the contrary. Song Yoon-ah’s acting was stunning.

I must also give an honourable mention to Mo Tae-Goo in Voice 1 (2017), whose portrayal by Kim Jae-wook was both haunting and captivating.

→ A drama that made you laugh: Quite a few dramas actually did manage to make me laugh this year, and one of these is Live Up to Your Name (2017). Kim Nam-gil is truly an amazing comedic actor (I loved him in Fiery Priest (2019), which I watched last year). I have yet to watch his more serious roles, but I will.

→ A drama that made you cry: I don’t know why but, despite watching quite a few depressing series, the one that has made me cry the most this year is Time Between Dog and Wolf (2007). I don’t know what it is but this series has made me sob, whereas I know more recent series with similar premises haven’t tugged at my heartstrings in this way. I don’t know if it’s the nostalgia factor but safe to say this drama is making me feel all the emotions.

→ A drama that was better than expected: Simply because I was apprehensive when I saw it was about sports (as a non-sports fan), I did not expect Hot Stove League (2019) to be the absolute masterpiece that it was. Goes to show, you truly cannot judge a book by its cover. This series may be centred around baseball, but it’s so much more than that. It truly amazed me with how realistic it was, with the characters feeling like very real people whom I greatly empathised with.

→ Shortest / longest dramas you completed in 2022: None of the series I watched were shorter than 16 episodes or longer than 20.

→ Favourite costumes of 2022: Simply because I loved Hong Ji-a’s fashion style in Sell Your Haunted House (2021) and would wear it myself, I’ll go with her wardrobe.

→ Sweetest romance of 2022: Toss-up between Healer (2014) and Suspicious Partner (2017). I guess the key to a good romance, for me, is for either Park Min-young or Ji Chang-wook to be involved haha.

→ Most disappointing drama of 2022: Strong Girl Bong-soon (2017), for all the reasons listed previously.

→ A [drama discovered in 2022] that deserves a shout-out: Hot Stove League (2019) simply because I’m afraid people might glance over it simply because, in appearance, it’s about sports, but it’s truly spectacular and I think more people should give it a shot. Another drama that I want to shout-out even though I know it’s already incredibly popular is Itaewon Class (2020), simply because it’s great and heart-warming (despite it getting depressing at times).

→ Something you want to see more in dramas: I’m enjoying seeing more and more lgbt representation in dramas and hope it’ll keep going in that direction because it’s just a nice thing.

→ A 2023 drama that you’re excited for: I don’t really look at future releases, I just find out about them after everyone else…

→ Was 2022 a good drama year for you: Yes- I believe I watched a total of 23 kdramas this year (not counting rewatches) and the vast majority of them were quite enjoyable. Other dramas I watched this year but haven’t mentioned in this post were Crash Landing On You (2019), Lawless Lawyer (2018), Descendants of the Sun (2016), 38 Task Force / Squad 38 (2016), and What’s Wrong With Secretary Kim (2018).

→ Favourite drama [discovered in 2022]: Flower of Evil (2020) (*pretends to be shocked*). Honestly though, this series was such a masterpiece that it’s second only to Stranger / Secret Forest (2017) when it comes to kdramas, in my mind. Everything that it set out to accomplish it did so well. It’s one of those rare series where I struggle to find any flaw in it. My mom, who also watched it (and has watched even more kdramas than me at this point), also said it might just be the best series she’d ever seen right after she finished watching it.

#kdrama #kdrama reviews #kdrama recs #kim hye soo #lee joon gi #ji chang wook #song yoon ah #kim jae wook #kim nam gil #flower of evil #hot stove league #sbs hyena #suspicious partner #time between dog and wolf #vincenzo #itaewon class #because this is my first life #the k2 #tvn signal #sell your haunted house #live up to your name #ocn black #lawless lawyer #ocn voice #tvn mouse #squad 38 #kbs nice guy #kbs healer #what's wrong with secretary kim #descendants of the sun

[muslimintp-1999-girl]

FINALLY FINISHED HYENA AND IT WAS SUCH A GOOD RIDE

Wish there was a season 2

And it is always the couples in mystery/political kdramas that have the most chemistry

#kdrama #sbs hyena #hyena

[gidakata]

if you like ‘mist’/’fog’ by jung hoon hee, i really implore you to listen to her other works!!! ‘we are together because i love you’, ‘because i love you so much’, ‘moody girl’, and ‘lover in my heart’ are some of my faves!!!

#jung hoon hee #jung hoonhee #music #kpop #70s music #kdrama #joo ji hoon #korean drama #sbs hyena #hyena #hyena 2020

[anditendshowyoudexpect]

hahaha i forgot about the bts

i want to be either of them. or both. both would be perfect

#sbs hyena #hyena sbs #kim hye soo #ju ji hoon #they are 🔥 #this is how people get into rpf #get thee behind me satan

[purpleguitar]

the trial in episode 7 more like i never wanted to thirdwheel to someone's relationship so much

#sbs hyena #'that's all your honour' AJDHHDJSDJFJJFJDKS #SCREAMING

[elderflowergin]

SBS Hyena, episode 1 rewatch (part 5)

LEE JI EUN, BEST GIRL. With a haircut and savagery to match her boss. 

Jung Geum-ja straight up tells Yoon Hee-jae that she did the con for money. We know the building is important, but not yet why (why that particular building, anyway, if you just wanted to be rich?). But here, with Lee Seo-u, we see the Ends with which she justified her Means (and HOW mean, honestly), and that is Geum-ja's Achilles' heel: hurting kids. 

(DUE DILIGENCE, YOON HEE-JAE. DO IT NEXT TIME, YOU SUPPOSED ACE. Although even if he had, what was he going to have done about it?)

(I think this should read - “he’s impatient with women who nag for attention.”)

Of course he hates women who nag for his attention. Of course he will also be the one begging, in no short order, for hers.

I love her tracksuits. They're very different from the dresses she wore as Kim Hee-sun, but she wears everything with the same air of insouciance. A tracksuit is apropos for a woman who will never sit still; who's always running, either towards her next goal or away from her feelings.

 As @thefeastandthefast would say: she's always driving away first.  

What follows, in a genius bit, is the deconstruction of the romantic convention we saw earlier. The right hair, the right look (that oversized shirt was no accident, was it?), the right place, positioning herself in just the right spot, even the gag with the power going out - happenstance and fate, as far as Hee-jae is concerned, because that’s how everything in his life has shaken out thus far - but in reality it’s the result of a three-person team working round the clock and their tireless choreography. 

It looked like a romance film because it was one, and entirely (or not?) fictional. 

No commentary required. This dress. HER. Mother.

Up next: the most audaciously sexy line in all of Kdrama.

#sbs hyena #sbs hyena rewatch

[gagyeongs]

#fav #hyojung #oh my girl #hyena #sbs hyena #kdrama #kpop #Spotify

[thepersona]

I'll be rewatching Hyena, Juvenile Justice, and Signal in the coming weeks to prevent Kim Hye Soo withdrawal symptoms while waiting for new episodes of Under the Queen's Umbrella.

#kim hye soo #is freaking killing it #she does so every time wtf did i expect #under the queen's umbrella #sbs hyena #hyena kdrama #juvenile justice #signal kdrama #when she raises her eyebrows sh*t bout to go down

[accidentallyadramablog]

#kim hye soo #sbs hyena #my gif #i'm trying things out!