Review | What to stream this weekend: can Korean actors and Japanese actresses find love while sharing a house? Find out on Netflix’s Love Like a K-drama
- Actors, actresses, boy and girl band members live together as they audition for a mini K-drama in Netflix series Love Like a K-drama
- Meanwhile, BBC First has three murder mysteries for crime fans: Sister Boniface Mysteries, Death in Paradise and its spin-off Beyond Paradise
Would you choose true love – or stardom, cash, social media adulation and years of guaranteed work from central casting?
The ostensible premise of Love Like a K-drama (Netflix) is: can off-screen romance be ignited between professional actors and actresses who work together on soppy TV series?
Netflix doesn’t phrase it precisely that way, but the question is easily answered, because Hollywood co-stars have been shacking up together since way before Brangelina.
Still, if you fancy 12 episodes of potential mush, scripted or not, you can have them all, because the series wrapped a few days ago.
For whom has true love’s door opened wide and for whom has it slammed shut on their fingers? Does Rio Yamashita plump for Lee Tae-gyun and give early (on-screen only?) suitor Song Ji-hyuk, of boy band Supernova, the cosmic boot? Does Nozomi Bando (of the E-Girls group) make merry with Kim Dong-kyu? Does the series ever dare show any unscripted physical contact, or is it all too prissy?
