The BumbleRabbit Archives

Good morning, Erin. Time travel. Soul mates. Jeon Yeo-been. These are a few of my favorite things.  Need I say more? …look, we both know I’m going to say more, whether I need to or not.  For example, do I need to tell you that I saw a shooting star, the other night? No, I don’t. But I’m going to. Because, Erin, I saw a shooting star, the other night. Just zipped across the night sky as I was staring up at it, walking back to my car.  I froze, wondering if I’d been mistaken, if I’d been fooled by a streetlamp reflecting off my glasses—but no, I realized, I’d stumbled into something wondrous. Fleeting, of course, as wonders so often are, but real. I’d seen a shooting star—or, to borrow a phrase, potentially the destruction of a Chinese satellite. But I made a wish all the same.  Was it a wish that the K-dramas I end up watching of my own volition turn out to be good rather than disasters that reinforce how much of a broken dowsing rod my instincts are when unguided by ...

Good morning, Erin. That’s right: it’s time . Or, well, it turns out that it could well have been “time” last week, since my decision to include the where-are-they-now episode in that discussion was somewhat misinformed: rather than a one-off reunion special, Heart Signal 4 has apparently decided to wrap up with a six-episode spinoff/sequel called After Signal , in which the cast gets followed around for the months after their time in the house to document what it’s like for them and their relationships with each other (coupled up or otherwise) as the show is being aired. So…yeah, that’s gonna be a totally separate letter, it seems.  Truly, this show has been a gift that never stops giving.  Which I’m sure is a bit of a giveaway of my feelings about this season, if the half-dozen other references I’ve made to it over the last few letters were not clear enough: I absolutely adored this show. BUT…did I ultimately like it more than Single’s Inferno 2 ? Am I hyped to watch the s...