![This is a painting with dark brown and orange swirls with sparlking yellow infusions which create an image of a firery path at the right side of the image. It almost makes it seems as though the painting was on fire at the corner while simultaenously seeming as though the light is engulfing the darkness. This image is used to describe the incendiary tone of Beyond The Dream and the surreal way in which delusion warps reality.](https://lazyreader.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Pawel-Czerwinski-min-min-1024x640.png)
It’s incredibly gentle about animating the horror of losing your mind.
(more…)![This is a phone with the time 12:09 showing, Tuesday May 9, and a battery level of 98% on display. This is used to highlight the impact of a phone in Kairos](https://lazyreader.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/noah-erickson-min-min-1024x640.png)
Kairos can be quite depressive when observed independently from its magical realism aspects.
(more…)![This is a man in dark brown slacks and boots in the muddy woods during the bright summer afternoon. The man is standing just a step away from a shovel which is helf vertifically, suggesting that he is holding the shovel. It is used to describe the fact that the murder in Beyond Evil is mysterous and dangerous. In episode nine, we discover that a body has been burried, so the image is also used to illustrate this gruesome information.](https://lazyreader.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/tim-foster-min-min-1024x640.png)
With the release of every new episode of Beyond Evil, the show forces you to build an attachment with Lee Dong Shik’s (Shin Ha Kyun) pain and boy, is he in pain.
(more…)![This is a field of vegetables which have yet to be harvested used to represent the farm in Minari.](https://lazyreader.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/maria-orlova-min-min-1024x640.png)
The most grounding element of Minari is how it makes sense of hunger and a cry for security.
(more…)![This is an older frameless golden clock with roman numerals against a dark background used to represent the importance of accounting for time past in Kdrama "Times".](https://lazyreader.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Thomas-Bormans-min-min-1024x640.png)
For whatever reason, there seems to be a trend to create stories about convergent time lapses. We saw this with South Korean drama Kairos and now, Times parallels its story direction but, takes a twist on the larger theme about changing the past.
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