Dear M Tp1
10pts
 Bingo Card
(디어엠) 2022 KBS2

At Seoyeon University, someone from the Photography & Appreciation class posts an anonymous confession of love to a fellow student. The series revolves around a tangled web of actual and potential relationships between various students in the class while they all wonder who wrote the original confession.

Ma Joo-Ah (Park Hye-Soo) is a Business Administration major. Cha Min-Ho (Jaehyun) is a  Computer Science Department, and he and Joo-Ah have been best friends since they were little. Min-Ho is a wicked app developer, and creates an app for finding a dinner partner in the school cafeteria that everyone loves to use.

Seo Ji-Min (Roh Jeong-Eui) is the center for the school's cheer squad. Park Ha-Neul (Bae Hyun-Sung) is her boyfriend, and appears to have the personality of a boring muppet.

Choi Ro-Sa (Hwang Boreumbyeol) is an old friend of Ji-Min's, but she goes all Single White Female and tries to steal Ha-Neul as well as taking over the Cheer squad through relentless manipulation.


K-Drama Bingo Score

Using the Modern K-Drama set

Running commentary

The ending is terrible, and finding out who wrote the confession was anti-climactic. Half the sub-plots go unresolved, and the overdubbed narration waxes philosophic about how "those were the days of our first loves." Whatever.

The most surprising thing about Dear.M (aside from the weird use of punctuation) is hearing that its airing was delayed because the waifish Park Hye-Soo was accused of being a bully in middle school, high school, and university. Lovely.

  • Vehicular tragedy
    (2 pt)
    Notes
    S01E02
    Min-Ho's parents both killed in a car accident
  • Bullying
    (1 pt)
    Notes
    S01
    Everything Ro-Sa does
  • Crushing Debt
    (1 pt)
    Notes
    S01
    Joo-Ah aspires to be a sports announcer, but cannot afford any of the courses that would help her train for such a career.
  • Korean Standoff
    (1 pt)
    Notes
  • Memorial service
    (1 pt)
    Notes
    S01E02
    For Min-Ho's parents
  • Thumbs up
    (1 pt)
    Notes
    S01E02
    Min-Ho gives it up
  • Wrist grab
    (2 pt)
    Notes
    Bonus point for: A woman grabbing a man instead of the more common man grabbing woman
  • 한국어학교 (Language lessons)
    (1 pt)
    Notes
    S01E01
    A ridiculous amount of discussion of politeness level logistics at the start of the school year, with new friends and roommates. Younger class, but older student!

Unmatched Bingo Spaces

  • (Dis)possession
  • Childhood friends forgotten
  • Cartoony FX
  • Chicken & Beer
  • Cramped quarters
  • Finger hearts
  • Middle-of-the-Road Soliliquy
  • Piggyback
  • Pinky swear
  • Rumble tummy
  • Shamans & Talismans
  • Son Hyeung Min
  • The Playground
  • 강한나 (Kang Han-Na)
  • 내 친구 ("My friend…")