화사 (Hwa Sa) - Orbit

The second fave drama OST this year must belong to Hwasa and the song Orbit.
It comes from the same drama I mentioned the other day - The King Eternal Monarch.

Enjoy!

김종완 of NELL - 연 (The King: Eternal Monarch 더 킹: 영원의 군주 OST Part 3)

This is one of my fave OST songs from Korean tv dramas in 2020.
This one is from the drama starring Lee Min Ho and Kim Go Eun.
If you haven't watched it, you can catch it on Youtube!

Fuller house

Raise you hand if you grew up watching this?
I did!!!

This was truly a show most followed at the time.
I cannot believe it is coming back and most of the cast are the original.
Kinda sad we won't see MKA Olsen but that's life.

Middle of shooting Arrow

A few days ago in Vancouver we ended up in the middle of the shootings of the TV series called ARROW.
I didn't recognise any of the actors...and i dont follow the series but it was fun ^^

Power of tv!

One of my fave shows as I was younger was def. Fresh Prince i Bel Air, I saw this the other day and I got so into it, I better get the old dvds out and re-watch some!!!
This clip is awesome, and yes... it was good he decided to call his character Will ^^

Satisfaction

Satisfaction is an upcoming drama series which is set to premiere on USA Network on July 17.
As I love Matt Passmore, I must see this drama! I think it has a big twist so it will be interesting to watch! ^^

Story
Investment banker Neil Truman (Matt Passmore) and his wife Grace (Stephanie Szostak) confront their relationship and life–issues by making unconventional choices


Cast
Matt Passmore as Neil Truman
Stephanie Szostak as Grace Truman
Michelle DeShon as Anika Truman
Katherine LaNasa as Adriana
Blair Redford as Simon

Official Website

恋恋不忘

I haven't watched a Chinese Mandarin speaking movie or drama for quite some time.
Until now!! I found this by chance, and it's starring Jerry Yan! I have to say, he looked much better a few years back, I guess...age... *cough*
Anyway it looks like a typical Asian drama and the ending I already know XD but well.. it will be fun to watch! ^^

Title: 恋恋不忘 (Lian lian bu wang)
English title: Unforgettable Love / Loving, never forgetting
Episodes: 30
Publisher: China Film Co. Ltd
Director: Zeng Li Zhen

Story
"Unforgettable Love", Jerry Yan plays a role of Li Zhong Mo, a CEO, after having a one night stand with a woman, Wu Tong, plays by Tong Liya, finds out that he has a son after seven years – leading to a custody battle with the woman. However, he later finds himself falling in love with her.

Wu Tong, a single mother with a son, Wu Tong Tong, live in a big city, poor but with full of hope and joy. Li Zhong Mo accidentally found out about his son existence, battling to get the custody of the boy. In the process, the intimacy of father and son relationship soon to emerge.

Li Zhong Mo, whose childhood upbringing was lack of motherly love, doesn't want history to repeat itself on his son.will he and the mother of his son able to learn understanding, tolerance, overcome their resentment, blame, prejudice, build their trust and love for their son sake...to be married and become a reunite family?

Cast
Jerry Yan as Li Zhong Mou
Tong Liya as Wu Tong
Denny Huang Bo Jun
Feng Jing

Info @ Asianfanatics

Worst ending EVER

I had read about it before I watch it, but I have to agree.

The ending to How I Met Your Mother sucked!!

I have watched the series on and off but still you get the picture. However that was not the end I expected. It kinda felt like a April Fools. I cannot believe that is how it ended!

I wonder what they were thinking when writing the final story. Did they actually think it'd be a perfect end to 9 seasons!?

Robin and Barney's ending... really, c'mon!?

Ted's ending...Seriously?!

Lily and Marshall...fair enough.

Oh well.. it's just tv. And I'm not the biggest fan but I still liked it and this was N O T what I expected at all!!

I give the final episode a F or half a star!!!

The Musketeers

I have found a new tv series, BBC's The Musketeers. The series is based on the characters in Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers. Ten episodes have been produced in Series One which aired from January to March 2014 in the UK. It started in the beginning of March in Sweden, we have aired 2 episodes so far.
It's said that the series has been commissioned for a second series!! ^^
As I have always liked the "story" Three musketeers this felt like a MUST see show and so far, I'm very pleased ^^
Also this is a BBC production, so there's no wonder it has been a hit!! ^^

Plot
Set in 1630 Paris, D'Artagnan, Athos, Aramis, and Porthos are a group of highly trained musketeers who fight to protect the King and Country. The Musketeers shows Athos, Aramis, Porthos, and D'Artagnan as 'The Musketeers', commanded by Captain Treville.

Cast
Luke Pasqualino as D'Artagnan
Tom Burke as Athos
Santiago Cabrera as Aramis
Peter Capaldi as Cardinal Armand Richelieu
Howard Charles as Porthos
Alexandra Dowling as Queen Anne
Ryan Gage as King Louis XIII
Tamla Kari as Constance Bonacieux
Maimie McCoy as Milady de Winter
Hugo Speer as Captain Treville

Info @ wikipedia

Sad moment

One of my fave US tv dramas has been THE GLADES.
And for some reason I have totally missed that it has been cancelled. I had been looking forward to a 5th season, however there will be no such! (T_T)
I mean season four ended with such a cliffhanger, like a season finally should be. But it also made me sad because it feels like it ended without a proper end!! Something is missing!
It's kinda sad and annoying!!!!

This is why I prefer Asian series, although some ends really sucks, there is an end to it!!

8 Simple Rules

I got the first season on dvd the other day, It's so fun!
I remember watching this in my younger teens ^^
So now I know what to watch when having some time over... it sure makes me laugh :)

Ørnen: En krimi-odyssé

I posted the theme song for this drama the other day, as I said then, I have started to re-watch this drama series.
I really like it. I still wonder why I don't remember more of it while watching ^^
Anyway I like the stories and how they mixed so many things and still it's easy to follow. Also they travel a lot - Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Russia, Germany...
But I shouldn't be surprised right?! I mean Danish dramas as to 90% always awesome ^^

★★★★★

The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey (In Danish: "Ørnen: En krimi-odyssé") is a Danish police procedural television series produced by Danmarks Radio, created and written by Peter Thorsboe and Mai Brostrøm. The series debuted on 10 October 2004 in Denmark. It won an International Emmy Award from the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for best non-American television drama series in 2005. There were three seasons; the second season premiered in Denmark on 9 October 2005 and the third on 8 October 2006.


Plot
The series is named after the lead character, a half-Icelandic half-Danish police officer named Halgrim Ørn Hallgrimsson, nicknamed "Ørnen" (the eagle). In the first episode, a new international criminal investigative unit is being formed under Thea Nellemann, and Hallgrimsson is persuaded to take the job as the lead investigator for the unit. He puts together a small investigation team that are experts in their respective fields. Their cases cross the borders between Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Russia and various other countries; and involve biker gangs, former Russian KGB, possible terrorist threats and international fraud. Throughout the series Hallgrimsson deals with recurring flashbacks and possibly post-traumatic stress from a childhood incident.

Main Characters
Jens Albinus as Hallgrim Ørn Hallgrimsson
Marina Bouras as Marie Wied
Steen Stig Lommer as Villy Frandsen
Susan A. Olsen as Ditte Hansen
Janus Nabil Bakrawi as Nazim Talawi
David Owe as Michael Kristensen
Ghita Nørby as Thea Nellemann

info @ wiki

Forgiveness

Recently I started to rewatch a Danish tv-series I like, I watched it back in 2005 something and I bought the dvd boxes some time back.
And I just wanted to share the title song, which I think is an amazing song!!!

Enjoy!

Broen/Bron 2

Season 2 of the mega hit drama, Broen/Bron is back with a second season.
If you followed the first you can sorta expect what to see.
It's fun to have a second season, and this is a really good collaboration between Denmark and Sweden.
Also it's the same main cast. Kim Bodina is one of my fave Danish actors, but the age starts to show ^^
The first episode just aired and I'm excited to follow this season as well!!
Just like last season they, Danish and Swedish broadcasting will try to show it simultaneously as it otherwise will spoil a lot. Also most people in Denmark and in Skåne, Sweden have both Danish and Swedish TV and could therefore watch the series either way which also is a small spoiler alert.

Story
A rusty old coaster en route in the Öresund sound suddenly veers off course and heads for the Øresund Bridge. The Maritime Administration in Malmö calls the coaster, but gets no answer. The operator’s call echoes on the ship’s empty bridge. The crew is nowhere to be seen.

Meanwhile, the coaster, making good speed, rams the concrete foundations laid out to protect the bridge. The ship is empty – or so it is believed until five people are found chained, cold and exhausted below deck. Saga Norén (Sofia Helin) from Malmö CID arrives at the scene and starts working on finding the identities of the five people.

The unknown victims, of whom three are Swedish and two Danish, are brought to a hospital in Malmö. Without hesitation, Saga contacts her Danish colleague, Martin Rohde and their new investigation begins.

Cast
Sofia Helin as Saga Norén, the lead homicide detective in Malmö
Kim Bodnia as Martin Rohde, the lead homicide detective in Copenhagen
Dag Malmberg as Hans Petterson, a senior criminal police officer in Malmö
Sarah Boberg as Lillian, a senior criminal police officer in Copenhagen

Trailer for season 2, with English subtitle.

Waiting impatiently

I'm waiting impatiently for my dvd's to arrive.
It took amazon quite some time but they have arrived to my destination in the US.
Have no idea why it took them one and a half day to get it from a location that's a 30 min drive.
Maybe someone crawled with the package!? ^^

Anyway I'm excited to get these two. One is my fave US tv series - The Glades, and the other is one I used to watch when I was in my teens - 8 Simple rules ^^

I'm excited and hope they will soon arrive at my house in Sweden!

Dicte

My new Danish tv-drama I follow is called DICTE and they air on Swedish TV on Mondays!
I donno how our neighbour in the South can make so many good movies and dramas..!
I started follow various Danish produced movies and drama series at the age of 12, well 12 (almost 13) years later, I'm still a fan of Danish movies and dramas!!

Title: Dicte
Broadcast network: TV2 Danmark
Episodes: 10
Broadcast period: 7 January 2013 -

Plot
The newly divorced journalist Benedicte Svendsen, moving back to her hometown Aarhus with her daughter Rose. A city that she would otherwise have tried to leave behind, along with memories of a childhood as Jehovah's Witness and having to give up her son for adoption. Benedicte is employed as a crime reporter at the newspaper.

Cast
Iben Hjejle as Dicte Svendsen
Lars Brygmann asJohn Wagner
Lærke Winther Andersen asAnne Skov Larsen
Lene Maria Christensen asIda Marie
Ditte Ylva Olsen as Bendtsen
Emilie Kruse as Rose Svendsen
Dar Salim asBo Skytte
Lars Ranthe asTorsten
Peter Schrøder asKaiser


Title track

Den som dræber - Fortidens skygge

I found this movie when I was in Denmark, I followed the tv-drama and loved it!! So I guess I just had to buy it since it doesn't seem it will be out in Sweden for a while. And when it will be released I'll probably be in Canada!!
What can I say, I'll miss them all...
And it was fun to see Simon Kvamm, I used to watch him alot during my junior-high and high school days, however I'm more used to his comical acts and singing!!
The movie was different from what I expected, not as dark as the tv-drama and a surprising end.
Still happy I saw it, guess it'd be much more awesome to see it at the cinema, but good enough with a big tv ^^

I wish it wasn't the end... but that's how it is!!

★★★

Org. title: Den som dræber - Fortidens skygge
Eng title: Those who kill - Shadow of the past

Story
Detective Katrine Ries Jensen and legal psychiatrist Thomas Schaeffer form a special unit at the Copenhagen Police investigating serial killings. A case from Schaeffer's past crops up. As a young psychologist, he held back from sending a patient, who was manically drawing the details of a traffic accident, to a secure hospital. Now these bloody scenes resurface.

Cast
Laura Bach as Katrine Ries Jensen
Jakob Cedergren as Thomas Schaeffer
Lars Mikkelsen as Magnus Bisgaard
Lærke Winther Andersen as Mia Vogelsang
Frederik Meldal Nørgaard as Stig Molbeck
Iben Dorner as Benedicte Schaeffer
Simon Kvamm as Krisitan Almén
Lars Ranthe as Sørensen
Benjamin Brüel as Johan Schaeffer

McLeod's Daughters

One of my fave tv-dramas all time is the Australian drama called McLeod's daughters.
The reason why I like it so much is the set and the story. It has a lot of drama just like most series however the set makes it so different from everything else we are used to watch.
But I have to say, I kinda stopped following the show after season 6 since most of the original cast all left the series. My fave was characters were Claire, Tess, Nick, Alex...Becky and Dave.

Story
It tells the story of two sisters, Claire and Tess McLeod, who are reunited after they inherit the family farm. Brought together after 20 years apart they put together an all-female workforce and commit to life at Drovers Run in South Australia, 180 km from the nearest town and 400 km from the city.

Cast
Lisa Chappell as Claire Louise McLeod
Bridie Carter as Teresa "Tess" Charlotte McLeod
Rachael Carpani as Jodi Fountain McLeod
Jessica Napier as Becky Howard
Aaron Jeffery as Alexander "Alex" Marion Ryan
Myles Pollard as Nicholas "Nick" Gary Ryan
Brett Tucker as David "Dave" Brewer
Sonia Todd as Margaret "Meg" Fountain
Michala Banas as Kate Manfredi
Matt Passmore as Marcus Turner
Marshall Napier as Harry Ryan
John Jarratt as Terry Dodge

Den som dræber

Last night they started to air the "new" Danish tv drama on Swedish television called "Den som dræber". (Swedish: Den som dräper, English: Those who kill)
The series is created by Elsebeth Egholm and Stefan Jaworski.

PLOT The series is about the hunt for a type of violent criminal who has yet to strike in Denmark, and who is surrounded by fear and mystique.

The series is starring Swedish actor Jakob Cedergren as Thomas Schaeffer, Laura Bach
as Katrine Ries Jensen and Lars Mikkelsen as Magnus Bisgaard.

The series was first broadcasted on Danish TV2 in March 2011 and now it's our turn in Sweden to follow the first season of this new drama, total of 10 episodes.
When it first was aired in Denmark it made the headlines because it's too rough and violent and it aired at 8pm, prime time, on TV2. Other Danish tv channels said it features "sexual behaviour" and "explicit violence" which would not be able broadcast on their channels at such early time.


I have to agree it's violent but the first ep was GREAT, this will be my new drama series to follow!

Trailer EP01 (in Danish)



A movie of the drama was released in Denmark on Sep 8 2011.
I sooooo want to see it!!

Here is one of many trailers...

TV-series

Earlier I mentioned Asian tv-dramas I've seen..
Here are other tv-dramas I liked, US, UK, Denmark (DK), Norway (NO), Sweden (SE)...

★ = Bad (I stopped watching after a few eps or watched now and then)
★★ = So-so (Good in the beginning but same all over after some time)
★★★ = Average
★★★★ = Good
★★★★★ = LOVE

★

Family Guy (US)

Joey (US)

★★

Aspiranterna (SE)

ER (US)

Grey's anatomy (US)

Two and Half Men (US)

★★★

8 Simple rules (US)

According to Jim (US)

Castle (US)

Ebba & Didrik (SE)
Emma Åklagare (SE)

Fox Grønland (NO)

Hotel Faber (DK)
House (US)
How I met your mother (US)

Navy CIS (US)

Pappas flicka (SE)
Rena rama rolf (SE)

Taxa (DK)
The Glades (US)

Without a trace (US)

Ørnen (DK)

★★★★

Anna Holt (SE)

Forsvar (DK)
Foyle's war (UK)

Solsidan (SE)
Snoken (SE)

The Simpsons (US)

Wire in blood (UK)

★★★★★

7th Heaven (US)

Friends (US)

McLeod's daughers (AUS)
Midsomer murders (UK)

Rejseholdet (DK)

Skärgårds doktorn (SE)



Still airing:
Bron (DK/SE)