The Leverton Review

  This is a speculative documentary that attempts to show how different environments would affect evolution on different planets. It's a great idea, but I think they spent all of their budget on the graphics, which were bad and paltry. Paltry because each planet (there are four or five episodes) had only two or three scenes that repeated. It would be better to focus on one planet, and show how life could develop there, and how evolution could play out differently. The talking heads on the show were much more interesting, especially the guy who says we should be trying to make contact with aliens all the time, because if they were really threatened by us, they would have killed us already. The most disappointing episode was the last, an attempt to show a technologically advanced species. They are just neurons in a box. Robots and A. I. do everything for them. There's a throw away line about them becoming one mind and working as one...but what would the point be? To live in a box...

  A handsome young CEO with a severe allergy to human contact gets duped by a team of robotic scientists and an aspiring entrepreneur.  I won’t reveal any more of the plot than that, but I have to say that this is one of the better K-dramas I have watched. It shows the effects that loneliness can have on a person. Plus the actress playing the romantic lead is so cute. There are more beautiful Korean actresses, but she seems like someone you could actually talk to. The plot is pretty contrived, as with all of these dramas, but one scene that stands out is one in which a bunch of tiny crabs escape and two men are having a very serious discussion while they have crabs exploring them. I think there are many people who are lonely, and it is a fact that not all of them will find someone that they are compatible with-so if the future is to be robots like AG-3, I wouldn’t mind.  This is not the most moving K-drama, but it does make you cry a few times. I think I’m finally underst...

  My Holo Love is a typical K-drama. There's an attractive male lead, and a woman, who is quite attractive, but due to her face-blindness is an outcast. The male lead is a hacker who lives with his adopted sister, who also plays a crucial role in the events of the drama. The hacker invents a hologram called Holo which can be used as a personal assistant. But Holo becomes an AI and falls in love with the face blindness woman. In the world of K-drama, this can't be left to stand, and she realizes that she doesn't actually love him, but his creator (who I didn't mention, looks exactly like him). The plot is very conventional, but this doesn't mean that it's bad. The most moving scene is when the woman with face blindness finally recognizes her mother's face after so many years. The villain of the piece, while completely predictable, is a delight to watch. Another good aspect to this particular drama is that it wraps up with one episode. Usually in K-dramas ther...