AfterNoona Delight Podcast

Happy New Year!

What are you watching to bring in 2022?

Megan: Reply 1988 and Singles Inferno

Lia: The Silent Sea and Mad For You

Amy: The Silent Sea

2021 K-music recs!

Hey everyone! Our own Tonya suggested a post where we can talk about our fave songs from 2021! I'm using the term K-music so it's not just limited to K-pop. My top pick of the year is The Real (Heung version) by Ateez which should be a surprise to no one, haha. Feel free to suggest more than one! The rest of my pics are on our Spotify lol. 

-Megan

Vote on an upcoming deep dive!

Happy (almost) 2022, folks! As we build out our 2022 pod schedule, we want you to pick an upcoming deep dive! There is no set date for when this deep dive will happen, but we promise it will be on our 2022 list. Thank you all for your continued recommendations. We love hearing what dramas are tops on your list!

Today's pod chat!

Our last two podcasts of the year are up! We look back at 2021 in podcasting and Kdrama watching. There's lots of reminiscing. Then we have a quickie bonus recap episode one of The Silent Sea, which we had different opinions on for sure.

For the record, I (Megan) am binging The Silent Sea now and am almost finished and am really enjoying it, although I predict Lia will continue not to like it, haha. We will see! No spoilers about The Silent Sea in the comments, please! We'll have a spoi...

Fight for My Way Spoiler-filled Discussion Thread

We have someone in the group who has a mighty need to discuss this drama. And that’s what we are here to enable! Please note that this thread is going to be spoiler city so proceed at your own risk…mkay?

Happy I Dunno What Day It Is

Jk….I know tomorrow is a Kdrama Support Group session and Megan, Amy and I are also recording a snack on Ep. 1 of The Silent Sea. If our Slack convo is anything to go by we are all over the place on our thoughts and might pee our pants.

Hope everyone is hanging in there, keeping healthy, and finding some time to watch a few episodes of something good!

What a Year!

We want to extend a happy holidays wish to everyone who celebrates this time of year. And most of all, we want to say a huge THANK YOU. This year was special for us because of all of you and this community of Kdrama fans. In the last two weeks, we received emails from listeners from Germany, Switzerland, and Uruguay. How awesome is that? It's amazing to connect with so many people from around the world about something that brings us joy, from Healer's uneven bar routine during a gang fight, t...

What are you watching?

What's on your screen this weekend? Here's what we're watching...

Megan: Mad for You

Amy: Happiness

Lia: King's Affection

Leveling Up the Sharing Today

Our recent vulnerability in this space really got me in the heart—I value so much being in community with ya’ll. For my day job I work at a local university and one of my favorite ways to check-in when I meet with folx is to use various conversation prompts…you know me and my love for questions and allergy to strained silences ;)

So I decided to pull out a card for this group. The card was chosen at random and this is 100% voluntary to participate :)

If you are up for it—...

Bonus Snack #3: Our Favorite Tropes!

Hi all! Happy halfway through the month, which means it's time for a new snack, and this month we are talking tropes! Thanks for weighing in on some of your favorite tropes. We're excited to share some of ours with you!

Do Over

I’m listening to tomorrow’s podcast deep dive and really appreciating the vulnerability of my co-hosts—plus they are hilarious. You can expect some fairly deep discussions around the ideas of regret and things we’d do differently.

So I bring the question here—if you could do something differently (but let’s pretend it doesn’t have to mess up your present unless you want it to be so)—what would it be and why?

-Lia

Short Drama Palate Cleansers (Amy)

Hey all! Hope you had a lovely weekend. Just popping in to quickly gush about Kiss Goblin (Megan has watched it too). Remind me which one of you recommended this one because it was pure joy, so THANK YOU! I've watched a couple other short dramas, the BL drama Color Rush (a Megan find) and Imaginary Cat, which Megan and I did for a pod that Lea couldn't attend. It was a drama we thought would be pretty silly, but because we love cats and Yoo Seung-ho, we dove right in...and both of us...

This month's Support Group live

Hey everyone! So with the holidays, we are scratching our heads a bit on when to host the support group live that would work for us and you. We want to host this month's earlier in the day so that we can catch some more time zones, so keep in mind we're aiming for early afternoon EST on the offered dates. Please choose which days work for you. If they all work, select all! Thanks and we hope to see a lot of your faces soon!

OTP of 2021

Which Kdrama couple is your OTP (aka “one true pairing”) of 2021? This can be a new drama or simply one you first watched this year.

This feels like an appropriate listicle for this group

:)

Me while watching Happiness

Anyone else? LOL.

- Megan

Sunday Shout: Trope Talk

What is a romance trope that you can’t get enough of watching/reading?

Here are a few to get your brains going:

Friends to Lovers

Forced Proximity

Fake Relationship

Enemies to Lovers

Marriage of Convenience

Accidental Pregnancy/Secret Baby/Suddenly Parents

Second Chance Romance

Best Friend's Brother/Sister

Alien Hero

Amnesia

Beauty and the Beast

Boss and Secretary

Love Triangle

Time Travel...

Afternoona ARMY

I am still gathering my thoughts about the BTS Permission to Dance Concert on December 1 in SoFi Stadium. It truly filled my bucket and was a bandaid to my pandemic battered heart. And cherry on sundae was meeting Afternoona friend and Patreon member Alison for a few minutes as we walked back to our buses.

A concert pod will be dropping Dec 15 :)

A few other snaps from the last couple of days…

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Happy Wednesday!

I hope you enjoy today's episode on Hospital Playlist! I wanted to share the video of the Kpop rec I mentioned: Form by Vanner. This song is fire and so is the video. Check it out! And you'll be yelling "Caja!" at the beginning with Gon like I do. :)

Universal Fantasy

Hello everyone! First of all, thanks for those who could tune in to our live last night. It was so fun! So I mentioned a book the three of us are reading and I'm linking it here in case anyone is interested. We will be talking about it on the pod coming up where we rewatch our favorite dramas and then highlight the "universal fantasies" in each drama and why we love it so much. 

Universal fantasies are basically the meat of tropes/plot elements--what hooks us and WHY we love that t...

Bad And Crazy

This video made me EVERY MORE EXCITED for this drama! The chemistry between Lee Dong Wook and Wi Ha Joon is great together even on set. Ahhhh! Who's looking forward to this? Airs Dec. 17.

THANK YOU for the dramas we might have missed! (Amy)

Hi everyone! As mentioned earlier this week, thanks to Grace, Lia, Megan, and I have watched/are watching Go Back Couple and cannot wait to deep dive this one! In the spirit of the recent Thanksgiving holiday over in the U.S., I wanted to share some gratitude to those who have recommended dramas that I might have missed otherwise and see what drama gems you found thanks to someone else's recommendation!

First and foremost, thank you to Lia for sending me on this journey and telling me ...

Go Back Couple

Okay so thanks to our very own Grace, Lia and I (Megan) watched Go Back Couple and Amy is currently watching it. In short, Lia and I loved it. Amy is currently loving it, and it's truly an underrated gem. To recap: It's about a couple who has reached a breaking point and agreed to a divorce who are suddenly thrust back in time to their 20-year-old selves when they first met. It's funny (lots of over-the-top physical comedy from the cast), full of tender moments, and as a married mother, I fel...

I haven’t shared my Kang Ha Neul Obsession lately…

Anyone else a fan? He is still my ultimate bias

-Lia

Happy Tuesday! You're welcome.

The Joys of Hibernation

My family is currently roadtripping up through Northern California and the Pacific Northwest to Seattle to eat turkey with my sister and her family. My coastal California children were, ahem, unprepared for 30 degree weather here in Bend, Oregon. My middle ran outside this morning in a short/tank top romper and barefoot—annnnnd ran back shrieking. The youngest has found the fireplace and been sensibly hibernating for a few hours. Here in the Northern Hemisphere it’s getting dark early and...

Drama Hangovers

What dramas were you so obsessed with that when they were over, you sought out additional content? I'm talking like cast interviews, red carpets, etc? I (Megan) finished My Name and I can't stop watching bonus content, because I'm not over this drama. I'm not sure when I will be lol. Han So Hee is such a precious giggly person and it's so in contrast to her character. Also Ahn Bo Hyun is also a smiley delight in real life, yet he chooses masochistic roles where he can never be happy. WHY DO Y...

What should I watch next?

Okay I finished My Name and I'm emotionally exhausted. GOOD LORD. It was great, and we'll likely be covering it on the pod, but hooo boy. So I want something a little more low key, maybe a little funny. Romantic would be nice too. What should I watch? HEA, please.

I've seen a lot of the popular rom coms like Touch Your Heart, Her Private Life, etc.

- Megan

PS I'm also starting Happiness.

Unburden Yourself: Hospital Playlist 1 or 2

A spoiler thread to get any big feelings about Hospital Playlist off your chest! We are doing a podcast on this drama tonight and might share a few of the answers on air :)

Most Anticipated Drama

Which up-coming drama are you most hyped for? If your choice isn't in the poll, share in comments!