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"I reassure you it won't happen again, but you have to promise me...to stop staring at me like that. Two men staring at each other like this is too strange."
From The Magicians of Love, the second Taiwanese show to star Ming Dao of Prince Turns Frog
(and, incidentally, his band-mates) in another double-role: the harsh-tongued salon manager, who sometimes pretends to be his younger twin. The way he plays this dead brother, so sweet and open, is almost like a tribute, like he thinks this person is so much better than he is.
Waiting for THAT little falsehood to start blowing up in faces any time now...
This has shades of "Boys Esthe" to me, a Japanese show about a salon staffed by attractive young men who do wholistic makeovers.
Somewhat of a similar line-up, too,"The Magicians" haven't gone wholistic yet. The heroine is an outspoken girl who is given a dash more realism in that sometimes she just says the wrong thing aloud, when it's not even comic. She's adorable, though. And the difference in plot is largely from the fact that she's already a hairdresser, and now being dragged into a world of the high-style salon.
PS, I should fact-check my blog posts...Ming Dao does not have a non-Taiwanese accent--he's from Taiwan. He just talks funny. But then, I think a lot of their leading guys talk a little funny, my Korean bias may be hurting me here.
From The Magicians of Love, the second Taiwanese show to star Ming Dao of Prince Turns Frog
(and, incidentally, his band-mates) in another double-role: the harsh-tongued salon manager, who sometimes pretends to be his younger twin. The way he plays this dead brother, so sweet and open, is almost like a tribute, like he thinks this person is so much better than he is.
Waiting for THAT little falsehood to start blowing up in faces any time now...
This has shades of "Boys Esthe" to me, a Japanese show about a salon staffed by attractive young men who do wholistic makeovers.
Somewhat of a similar line-up, too,"The Magicians" haven't gone wholistic yet. The heroine is an outspoken girl who is given a dash more realism in that sometimes she just says the wrong thing aloud, when it's not even comic. She's adorable, though. And the difference in plot is largely from the fact that she's already a hairdresser, and now being dragged into a world of the high-style salon.
PS, I should fact-check my blog posts...Ming Dao does not have a non-Taiwanese accent--he's from Taiwan. He just talks funny. But then, I think a lot of their leading guys talk a little funny, my Korean bias may be hurting me here.
