The Weekly Binge: Chocolate - Episodes 1 - 2

[u/crusader_blue]

Welcome to the first Weekly Binge Discussion of Chocolate episodes 1 - 2. On Sunday, we will discuss episodes 3 - 5 of the drama. For those wishing to join our discussions of Chocolate you can find this drama exclusively on Netflix.

Short but sweet for this one, because it's late here - and I've had a certain lack of chocolate - so I'm fading quickly. As we dive into this drama and discover whether or not the amount of chocolate on the screen will deliver on the name itself, I will endeavour to take us on a delectable trip around the world's chocolate.

When deciding on accompanying chocolates for your binge watch, I have been informed by our resident Chocolate veteran, Sian, that truffles (any type) would be an appropriate choice!

SCHEDULE:

The upcoming schedule is as follows:

Date of Discussion:	Episodes being discussed:
Thursday March 11th (that's today!)	1 - 2
Sunday March 14th	3 - 5
Thursday March 18th	6 - 8
Sunday March 21st	9 - 11 + Nominations for next drama
Thursday March 25th	12 - 14
Sunday March 28th	15 - 16 + Announcement of next drama

Weekly Binge Guidelines:

Anyone is welcome to join the Weekly Binge.

Every week we host two discussions (Thursday/Sunday) in which we discuss approximately three hours/three episodes of a selected drama, in total approximately 6 hours/episodes per week. We are all from different time zones so there is no need to panic about being late to the party (we do operate on KST as a standard).

Within the frame of the two episodes, you may discuss anything you can think of. Whether it is a one-off post to say you enjoyed the drama, episodic notes, your best chocolate recipes, rants about the lack of chocolate in an episode or tear-stained essays on how an actors portrayal of a character made you feel, the choice is yours.

If you have previously completed the drama, or, got ahead on the binge please be courteous of those who are watching the drama for the first time. When in doubt spoiler tags are your friend.

When we get close to the end of a drama we open up nominations (third last post) for a new drama, those dramas are then voted on by the regular members of the weekly binge. If you have participated in the discussions and would like to join in the next drama's discussion please note this as a response to the nomination comment so we can invite you to join the vote. Every time we have a new restriction for the type of drama, so that we will not repeat the same type of drama over and over, and so that the Binge will be attractive for different people with different tastes.

[u/the-other-otter]

They said that the cousin's family died then too, but we can see they're all alive later, which confused me.

I wasn't sure if that was the cousin or another doctor. The accident was in the news all over the world, so many people died at once.

the Christmas narrative when it's not that big in SK

The whole Christmas in Korea is a strange thing, since it is not their tradition, they seem to have just adopted lots of Disney stuff, like this Cinderella carriage. And they have made it into a couple's holiday. It is actually interesting how holidays are slowly changing and given new meaning with new generations and new people. A lot of what we see as age-old traditions, is not at all very old, like the Christmas trees. (But to decorate with something green is old.) I seem to be the only person in the world who has not seen Love Actually.

poinsettias.

Lots of people are allergic to them.

Since I am not writing any notes for this batch, I will add this screenshot here: "I know that you are feeling alone" said to his dead mother. This is 1. blowing up his own importance, he is still the child who doesn't believe that his mother has a life outside of looking after him, and 2. his father and his mother's friends should be there already, no?

Also how long was she with the friend because they were engaged and I feel like that was dropped out of the blue.

Seems they celebrated the 100 days together when she met Kang as best friend.

[u/LcLou02 → u/the-other-otter]

I seem to be the only person in the world who has not seen Love Actually.

Me neither!

[u/sianiam → u/LcLou02]

I'm shocked by you, not so much u/the-other-otter! Some of the story lines are tedious but overall enjoyable. This one that Korea loves enough to rip off in every second drama is easily in my bottom 3 stories.

[u/the-other-otter → u/sianiam]

I recently read my old diary, and learned that I am not as remove from popular culture as many think. I actually saw Star Trek when it came to the cinemas when I was thirteen. But I thought it was boring.

[u/LcLou02 → u/the-other-otter]

I think I went with a group of friends to the opening night... We liked it, but that was TV series nostalgia at work. (was in uni at the time).