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Nae Nampyeongwa Gyeolhonhaejweo: Episode #1.1 (2024)
If only I can go back to 2013 as well
A woman dies while having gastritis cancer after she comes home to her best friend and her husband in bed together. The husband pushes her and she falls on a glass table. She finds herself back in the year 2013 and she finds that what is bound to happen will happen. She cannot avoid it. Her boss is caring after she freaks out at her boyfriend when she comes back to 2013, not knowing she travelled back in time. They go to a restaurant later when they run into each other at the bookstore. Her boss asks her if she is planning on quitting based on the books she is looking at. The woman realizes that things are bound to happen but it can happen to another person.
The Handmaid's Tale: Chicago (2021)
Chicago Bombing
June and Brad watch as Janine and Steven have missionary sex in the next bed. Janine and Steven are moaning quietly. Janine has become sort of attached to Steven and she giggles as he shows her how to use a gun.
Lydia has been demoted and is exercising on a treadmill as the other aunts play chess and talk amongst themselves. Lydia misses her old job and she clearly still has a passion for it. She thinks she is helping to govern the country.
June asks Steven to let her join them in the outing to trade. Janine convinces Steven to let June go with them and they go to the museum to trade. Janine wants to trade her cloak for a baseball cap for Steven. Brad goes up to June and introduces himself but June turns him down. She doesn't need that kind of friend she tells Janine. June is in disbelief that Janine thinks that she has something with Steven. Janine even talks about having a baby here. June says if she wants to become Ofsteven that is her choice. June is leaving tomorrow.
Lydia sees Commander Lawrence. She tries to blackmail him to get her position back. Lawrence wants his position back on the committee. Lawrence says they need to get this country back the way it should be.
Janine eventually catches up to June with the baseball cap. She has decided to leave Steven. There is a bombing and June looks around for Janine. She sees Moira.
The Handmaid's Tale: Milk (2021)
Disgusting guy
June and Janine are on the run to find a way to the west where the war is happening. They get on a train headed for Chicago and hide in a refrigerator storing milk.
Serena Joy has asked Mark Tuello to ask Rita to see her. Serena shares the news of her being pregnant with a boy. Rita thought the Commander couldn't. Later Rita is presented with questions from Serena's law team asking for her to go against Fred. Rita replies by seeing Fred and giving him the ultrasound image.
June and Janine exit out of the shipping container when they hear gunfire. It must be a group against Gilead. They are taken to a shelter where the leader eventually lets them stay. He cannot believe there are sex slaves in America. Before they leave he asks which one of them is staying with him. It doesn't matter which he says. He says nothing is for free. It's what they got. Their bodies. June kneels and reaches for his crotch but cannot do it. He tells her he is not forcing her and they can go any time. June realizes they aren't Mayday. June tells Janine they cannot stay here.
Later Janine comes back with slices of bread saying they can stay. It wasn't so bad - he said he found her eye patch cool. June is shocked and there is a sense of guilt.
The Handmaid's Tale: The Crossing (2021)
Hit by the train
June is asked to give up the location of her fellow handmaids. She refuses to and watches as Beth and the other Indian Martha she worked with are pushed off the ledge to their deaths. Commander Lawrence and Nick drink near the fireplace as they talk about June. Nick cannot move on and let her die. Lawrence was thinking of it. June finally gives up the details when they use Hannah against her. Lawrence sits at the end of one long table and her at the other end. He wants her to give the location so they will not hurt Hannah. Holly coos and sneezes cutely back in Toronto. Luke sadly notes how June is in jail and they are lighting candles. Moira replies they are doing what they can. June is forced onto her knees as two people spray water on her as a shower and Lydia dresses her while naked. June is dropped at a beautiful location with a bridge and Nick is there. They share a passionate kiss before she gets on the next vehicle. In the end the handmaids are being driven to their new location at a farm where it will be like a breeding colony. They are to work the farms when they are not having sex with the Commander. The Guardian needs to use the washroom while they wait for the train to pass by. The handmaids eye each other and June pushes Lydia back while the others escape. The Guardian comes back and shoots two Handmaids. Alma and one other Handmaid walks on the tracks and is run over by the train. Only Janine and June make it to the other side in time.
The Handmaid's Tale: Nightshade (2021)
Serena is pregnant?!
In Toronto, Luke and the others have a charity fundraiser of some sort. Rita gets up to give a speech. She is shaky. Moira meets with Asher's aunt who has taken him in after he escaped Gilead. Asher, whose real name is James, doesn't like his new home and misses Gilead. Rita comes in to help him ease into his new place.
Serena is checked out by a doctor and has to disrobe to get photos of her naked body as evidence. She mentions that Fred frequented a brothel. Serena disagrees with her lawyer in front of Mark Tuello. Later Mark tells Serena the blood tests came back and she is pregnant.
Back in Gilead, Esther teaches June how to make poison using the plants overhead in the kitchen. She meets with a woman in the local Jezebel. The woman has a sparkly silver halter dress on. We see men enjoying women all around - one more day of fun before Chicago. The woman gives the poison to the men and the one woman in charge of the place.
The nice Guardian is driving June back to the farm when June feels something is wrong. She tells the Guardian to leave when he can but the Guardian refuses to leave her there alone. Nick comes out and asks for the location of the other Handmaids. He tells her he is trying to keep her alive. She surrenders as bright lights shine.
The Handmaid's Tale: Mayday (2019)
Cried so much
We see a flashback to when June and the other women first are brought into Gilead wearing their modern attire. June sees a room with naked women with a doctor being herded like cattle with no privacy. Disgusting. They are forced onto a vehicle. One of the Marthas from Lexington has brought a girl named Kiki but they are way too early. The Martha wants to leave but June forces her to leave Kiki. She holds up a gun. The Indian Martha mentions she was studying for the MCATS to become a radiologist after June doesn't treat her like she does with Beth. June says she needs to be independent if she wants to help and not have someone hold her hand. Commander Lawrence reads to the room of more than 52 children and Marthas. Off they go through the forest to the airplane. June distracts the guards by throwing rocks and other Marthas have come back to help. In Canada, Moira, Luke and Emily set up for the passengers on the plane getting off. Moira is shocked when she goes in. Emily greets Rita and Rita hugs Luke. Serena has been arrested for forcing her driver to rape June which led to the birth of Nichole.
The Handmaid's Tale: Witness (2019)
Great episode to show others
Omg this episode was chilling. During grocery shopping, June talks to the Handmaid about getting children out. They are all called for some gathering and we see the Waterfords enter the ring. They have the man from Washington. Fred suspects that Lawrence is not following protocol as June seems content enough. On the day of the ritual, the Waterfords show up with the man from Washington and Aunt Lydia. They are to watch the ritual happen. They have a doctor to inspect June after. Lawrence has no choice but to cum inside her and then afterwards gives her contraceptives. That was the last straw - he told June to get his wife out to Canada by truck safely. He will help get children out of Gilead to make up for his war crimes.
The Handmaid's Tale: Heroic (2019)
Most uneventful episode
Ofmatthew is hooked up to machines helping her live while her baby grows in her tummy. June is forced to sit and pray by her bed for months. She grows more insane by the day. She sings a pop song with the lyrics "Heaven is a place on earth". The attractive doctor makes a cut on the thigh of Ofmatthew when she is having a seizure and tells his team not to worry about the scar. Gilead only uses women as vessels. June grabs a scalpel from the waste and attempts to hurt Serena. The attractive doctor comes in and stitches it up for her. He knows her mother. The doctor says that today's medicine is to focus on the baby over the mother. Back then, when June's mother was practicing, it was the mother first. June doesn't know if her mom is alive. June watches as young girls walk by her door as they are to have pelvic exams called "menarche". They are able to have babies now. Soon that will be Hannah.
The Handmaid's Tale: Under His Eye (2019)
Mrs. Lawrence goes out with June
June decides to get Mrs. Lawrence out of the house to go to Hannah's school. Mrs. Lawrence sees Mrs. Putnam where she makes unsettling comments about the baby not being dead. Lawrence is bi-polar. At the school June is forced to stay outside of the school while Lawrence goes in for a tour. They come home with Commander Lawrence being silent. Serena is shown a home in Washington. Fred and Serena attend a ball where Serena wears gloves. Other women don more formal things as well. Fred and Serena dance and are applauded. Their legs were the stars of the show. June goes to her best hanging. She hears the Lawrence couple have mysteriously disappeared. One of the people to be hung is Hannah's Martha. It was June's walking partner who ratted them out.
The Handmaid's Tale: Mary and Martha (2019)
The Commander isn't so nice after all?
June gets visited by Aunt Lydia who now uses a wheelchair. When on the stairs and falling down a bit, June suggests another day. Aunt Lydia zaps her with the taser saying to shut up. She should have been on the wall for what she did at the Waterfords. The Marthas have another Martha they are going to move. June dresses as a Martha to join them and see how it all works. The Commander doesn't like it because to them they are strangers. June and Lydia wonders what is wrong with the Commander's wife. The Martha is being sent to help make bombs. She comes back to the home, shot. They take her downstairs where she pleads for them to not let her die. Alas, she does pass away.
The Handmaid's Tale: Night (2019)
When I think I have hardships, watch this episode
June has given the baby to Emily and shut the door. She cannot leave Gilead without her other daughter, Hannah. I cried when Emily crossed the cold waters and got underwater. She finally made it to the other side which is Canada. A kind Canadian officer asks if she would like to seek asylum and she says yes. He calls for emergency services. At the hospital everyone stares at her and she is greeted by Dr. Chung. People start applauding. It was like a North Korean escaping. The nice Commander got June to where Hannah is at. She is taken care of by a couple who is raising Hannah well but they are determined for Hannah to be exclusively theirs. Before leaving, June states again she is Hannah's mother. June returns to the home where Nick calls her selfish for not taking the chance to leave. There will never be another chance he says. Serena sets the bed on fire which results in Nick and June splitting up - June is off to the handmaid centre where she will be sent to a new posting. Her feet are beaten bloody and she is ordered to get on her hands and knees to wipe the floors. One kind handmaid tells her that Emily and the baby got to Canada safely. June's pain is slightly alleviated with this news. Moira tells the front desk she works on Dundas where she is also swamped. Luke receives the photo of Hannah in Gilead. Emily introduces herself to Moira and Luke with Nichole.
The Handmaid's Tale: Postpartum (2018)
Breastfeeding
June is forced to pump in front of Aunt Lydia. Aunt Lydia marvels at her bravery for giving birth alone in that giant house. June is not allowed to nurse the baby as ordered by the Waterfords - Serena doesn't want it. They are running low on milk so June is brought to a room. Inside there is Fred, Nick and Holly. With Holly's cries, it triggers her breasts to produce milk which soaks her dress. Serena pretends to breastfeed Holly - she gives Holly her breast despite not having any milk. Eden and Isaac are found to be missing and a search is carried out. They are found together. Nick urges Eden in the pool's locker room to say she is pregnant - Eden says they tested her and she is not. Nick then tells her to just blame Isaac. Eden refuses to do so - she has fallen in love with him and doesn't want to have Nick's babies. Nick said they can make a baby to get this smoothen over. In the end Isaac and her don't admit to their wrongdoings and are pushed off the diving board with a heavy rock attached to their ankles. Serena allows June to breastfeed.
Platonic: Pilot (2023)
Getting in touch with a divorced friend in their forties
The main character sees that Katie posted about her and Will getting a divorce. The woman advised Will before to not marry Katie because she didn't like Katie.
The woman meets up for coffee with Will and then they have a tense conversation. The woman pretends to not know about the divorce already. It ends with Will inviting her to his bar's weekend party.
When dropping the kids off at school she talks with another mom. They decide to go to the bar in the weekend.
They are dressed more elegantly than the others and they feel like they stick out. They wonder if they should go to a place with wine. Will sees the woman though and they are forced to stay. Later the women witness Will yelling at his ex for coming to the bar with a partner. Will says he got the bar in the divorce.
The woman hangs out with Will for a bit at another bar, a pawn shop and at Denny's. She complains of her husband taking too long for sex. Later that night when he initiates sex, the woman is obviously not in the mood and wants him to hurry up.
The Last Thing He Told Me (2023)
San Francisco / Mafia
I was most impressed with their beautiful floating home and the scenes of San Francisco.
This series is based off a book so they probably tried their best to keep it the same as the novel. It's a bit bewildering to watch Hannah decide to keep trusting her husband and making impulsive plans that require quite a bit of money. She must be rich. They go to Austin because Bailey "might remember" something from there. The Hyatt Regency hotel was also stunning.
Interesting to learn about the existence of the marshals' office, the witness protection program. FBI agents such as Naomi Wu was also interesting to watch. The possibility of people tracking you such as the mafia is played out.
The Last Thing He Told Me: Sanctuary (2023)
The Godfather
Hannah goes to the luxurious mansion near the lake in the middle of no where with Charlie. Charlie drives her. Nicholas Bell tells his son to leave and he will get someone to drive Hannah back. Hannah asks for the safety of Bailey. Nicholas says that his clients did not kill his daughter. He doesn't think so. Owen messed things up impulsively and made Nicholas go to jail. Nicholas lost his daughter, granddaughter, wife, and career. Hannah just asks for Nicholas to ensure that the mafia does not ever persuade him to hurt his granddaughter. Nicholas wants a relationship with Bailey. He cannot promise the protection of Owen even if he wanted to he says. These people, the mobsters, don't forget. Grady and authorities arrive in front of the home to get Hannah. Hannah decides not to do witness protection because Owen would have already gone into it if he thought they wouldn't mess up again. 5 years later at her woodworking showcase, a bearded Owen shows up and brushes past Hannah. He tells Hannah the could-have-been boys still love her. He means her exes such as the Harvard lawyer who helped her. Bailey comes in calling Hannah "Mom" with her boyfriend.
The Last Thing He Told Me: When We Were Young (2023)
Witness Protection Program
Hannah waits anxiously with Grady in the marshals' office for the whereabouts of Bailey. Bailey has gone to see her aunt.
Hannah calls Jules and finds out that she is listed as next of kin to Bailey.
Bailey's grandfather is a lawyer for a mob family. He refused to take on a big case for them and this resulted in his daughter getting killed in an intentional car accident. Owen, who created the encryption system for his father-in-law to allow those in jail to communicate with the family, turns the info to the authorities. 6-7 key members of the mafia are sent to jail. Nicholas Bell, the lawyer grandfather, is given 6 years.
Hannah goes to the bar to ask Charlie to take him to his father.
Tonari no Totoro (1988)
Totoro
I've seen the character so many times in my childhood in shops but never knew what it was. Totoro is a troll in a picture book that the 4-year-old girl has.
The father drives to their new home and the two girls sit in the back. They hide from those who they think are the police. At their new home there are tons of tiny black circular bugs and they go to investigate. The father introduces them to a grandmother who will be housekeeping. Their mom is in the hospital. The father takes a bath with his two daughters.
The little girl ventures out alone and follows two totoros. She falls onto a fluffy giant totoro and tells her sister and dad about it. Later when it is raining, the girls wait for dad to come back. They have umbrellas. Totoro shows up while Mei is asleep. The older sister gives Totoro an umbrella and he goes into a cat bus. Dad shows up later.
Mei is upset mom will not be coming home after all and runs off with a cob of corn. The entire place is looking for her and grandma thought Mei fell into the water. The older sister asks Totoro to help and she falls onto it. She is brought to the top of a tree by Totoro and given a ride on the cat bus. The cat bus leads her to Mei and they go to the hospital where they watch as their parents chat. They leave corn on the windowsill with to mom carved into it.
Jin xiu Wei Yang: Episode #1.8 (2016)
Changle's brother is a player
Changle's brother seduces Xin Er's servant. He tells her he lost a fan in a garden and asks her to come along to help him find it. She reports she cannot find it and he presses up against her. They are waist to waist and then he puts his hand on her waist. He yells out loud to show no one is around and tells her he liked her when he first saw her. He wants to be with her day and night. He asks her to come to his place at midnight and gives her a kiss. He claims he will treat her well. Changle appears after the servant leaves and her brother tells Changle this girl was easy prey. These kind of girls are easy for him. Ugh.
Changle's brother comes by with a portrait of the Northern Princess of Liang. Xin Er is shocked and stops him from opening the scroll by saying she wants to see too. Changle's brother leaves with Changle. Xin Er dresses all in black to go to get the portrait - the brother is coming in so she spills black ink. The man with the brother points out Xin Er's shadow and there is a fight. Another person in black comes and joins the fight. It is the woman good at fighting who was part of Xin Er's clan. She is wounded when she leaves.
Weiyoung's birth mother suspects something is off because she sees a birthmark on Xin Er's wrist that she has never seen before. Maybe this isn't her daughter she thinks.
Xin Er manages to get madam's approval to go pray at a remote temple. Xin Er is looking for the woman who was in her clan as she is wounded. Due to a flood there are lots of homeless people. She shows blue clothing she wants to get changed into by her servants and says she will go out alone. There is a fight for food and Xin Er is saved by Jun. Jun wonders why Xin Er changed so much.
You: The Death of Jonathan Moore (2023)
Nadia is framed
Wow. So this episode gives rich people vibes.
Kate texts Joe to come over. She explains her father has always controlled her life. When she was a boy-crazy teen she overheard her father hiring someone to follow her. He knows when she gave a blowjob to a boy and even knew her menstrual cycle. Disgusting.
Now Kate found out all the opportunities she thought she received on her own were secretly passed to her by her dad. She is upset. Her life is an illusion.
Joe texts Tom Lockwood on Kate's phone and sneaks into the aviation garage. He ties up the dad and when the bodyguard comes in, he kills him. He suffocates dad and makes it look like the bodyguard killed the dad for money.
Joe jumps over a bridge and wakes up in the hospital. H admits to Kate that he killed people and Kate says they can both support each other to become better people. Joe says he thinks this is something he needed to hear for a long time. Kate says her father is dead - killed for money. He left everything in her name. Joe can be with Kate and enjoy their lives. Joe first tells her of his real name.
Flash forward in time the couple is giving an interview. They look very rich and elegant. Joe has his old look from season 1 back.
Nadia explains to her guy friend that she switched the pills that Joe gave Marienne. Marienne only was unconscious and she followed Joe to the bench. Marienne is safe with her daughter now. Joe has no clue she is alive. Nadia is stupid to go back to Joe's apartment to look for evidence though. Joe confronts her and picks up her phone when she drops it. He sees the photos of evidence Nadia took and deletes them. Joe tells Nadia he now has plenty of resources and in her room there is a box of Rhys's things. Joe will frame Nadia for everything about Rhys and for her dead boyfriend.
Joe used his resources to pay many people to fabricate a story that sounds true of the deceased Joe in LA. He has explained his "death" and escape. He put his son into safe hands.
Lady Phoebe is now a teacher in Thailand.
You: Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? (2023)
Joe is the true murderer
We see Joe was the one who drugged Marienne before she got on the train and kidnapped her. He forced her into the human cage and brings her Indian food from next door everyday. Joe is now different - he has a sense of heartlessness and his eyes are soulless. Nadia is shocked to see a human in a cage and gives her food and water. Marienne gives it back to her. Marienne warns Nadia to make sure Joe does not find out Nadia knows about Marienne. The police will not help - this man found her halfway across the world. He killed his wife and got away with it. We see Joe hallucinating Rhys who speaks to him constantly. Joe cannot remember where he put Marienne. Joe realizes he was the one who killed all those victims he thought Rhys killed. Joe himself set a fire and forced himself to be trapped.
You: Best of Friends (2023)
Another party but with an erotomaniac
Phoebe has invited Joe to another event promoting Simon's work. Joe jealously watches as another heir goes up to Kate and suggests they have sex later. Lady Phoebe is escorted out of the party by a maid who says the police need to talk to her. Phoebe looks amazing in a light pink mini. The maid is crazy and pulls out a knife to carve a tattoo on Phoebe. Phoebe tries to play along with the maid to prevent harm from coming her way. Joe finds the room they are in and suggests to the maid that the killer is coming. He needs to let in. Phoebe manages to pry the knife out of the maid's hands and insults her. Police comes in and arrests the woman. They find Simon's ear in her bag.
Later Joe watches as the heir begins making out with Kate. Kate sees his phone when it buzzes and it is from her father. She is angry he is working for her father now.
Kate goes over to Joe's after they see each other at the window. They have sex and Joe goes back to his place with after sex hair. Rhys is there waiting and saying the next victim is Kate's father.
Jin xiu Wei Yang: Episode #1.6 (2016)
Ghosted?
The guy thinks he got ghosted when Weiyoung doesn't show up at the spot he mentioned in the letter that she never received.
Weiyoung comes back and walks through the main door. The grandma is ecstatic about her return and the stepmom is forced to be apologetic. Weiyoung goes to meet the birth mother who is so happy to see her.
The Prince Gaoyang's mom is holding a banquet and is inviting people in the Li family including Changle and Weiyoung. Weiyoung reluctantly allows her maids and mom to dress her hair up even more. Weiyoung runs into Changle who trips her. The man with the bird comes to help out Weiyoung.
Jin xiu Wei Yang: Episode #1.5 (2016)
Heart-fluttering
Xin Er passes out in the hideout with the prince. The prince takes her to a building where she can rest and gets a doctor to see her. The doctor says she was poisoned for a while and it prevented her wounds from healing. He is unsure if she can recover. Xin Er goes through painful acupuncture to recover and the prince entertains her with music. He takes Xin Er out to a garden with beautiful yellow flowers. Xin Er and the prince have something romantic between them. The prince knows he must leave to see his supposedly ill mother and leaves a scroll. The woman who was hired to care for Xin Er hides the scroll in her sleeve after it drops into her wash basin. Xin Er wonder why the man didn't say goodbye. She thought god heard her prayer and that was why they met again. Xin Er figures she wasn't important to him - just another stranger. She leaves to go back to the prime minister's grounds.
Jin xiu Wei Yang: Episode #1.4 (2016)
The women try to kill Li Weiyoung
Weiyoung faces accusations of being a jinx. After hearing from a maid that the birth mother is not well she decides to go sneak in the evening. This is a trap set up by the legal wife of the prime minister. The legal wife's servant poisons the birth mother and leaves. Weiyoung attends to the birth mother when the prime minister and legal wife comes in. Changle is with them. They test the medication for poison with a needle and the needle remained the same. No poison. For punishment Weiyoung is locked in a building for the night with her two servants. The next morning she is tied up to a post in front of everyone and beaten with black dog's blood. The grandmother intervenes saying she will sacrifice ten years of her life for the remaining 31 whips. Weiyoung is not recovering from her wounds as the legal wife is giving her medication that will only make her wounds worse. The governess is ordered to throw Weiyoung out into the mountains where she will die. Weiyoung hides from a wolf she sees and at the same time the nice man who rescued Weiyoung from the fire runs into her hiding place.
Jin xiu Wei Yang: Episode #1.3 (2016)
Bullying in the palace
Xiner finds herself having to fleck off bullies. Her legal mother sends her servant to teach Xiner manners in the palace. The servant makes Xiner serve her tea and beats her. Xiner fights back and strikes the servant seven times back. They get called to see their father. For their grandmother's birthday the three granddaughters bow to her with just the fourth one missing - Weiyoung (Xiner). Changle upstages the other granddaughter by also giving a longevity gift but it is more grand. Xiner and her ladies play music and the family goes outside. Xiner performs a lion dance for the grandmother. The granddaughter who gave the lesser gift notices the prince. She obviously has a crush on him since they were kids. The legal wife and Changle talk with the son - Minfeng. They wonder if Weiyoung is an imposter because her skin is so smooth despite supposedly having done hard work. Weiyoung wonders aloud to her lady who the man that saved her from the fire was after it is reported that they don't know his name. The lady teases Weiyoung for having romantic thoughts and Weiyoung sadly replies she cannot be having these thoughts - her dad and grandma just died.