Good morning! There’s nothing I’m excited about in currently airing shows so I’m catching up on old stuff: watching King of High School Savvy for the first time (absurd but boy does it make me smile) and working on my Deep Thoughts about how to explain K-dramas to the non-fan crowd. Here are some of the Deep Thoughts and I’d love to hear what you think.

Now that K-dramas are a huge global business American journalists occasionally have to write about them. And anytime K-dramas are mentioned in the American media they are reduced to two words: formulaic and melodramatic.