As always, the Comment section of our articles doesn't disappoint. I loathed to leave the preceding one, publishing a new post usually cut the no-holds-barred discussion on the last post. The last one was particularly fun because it tackled a topic which always gave us lots of laughs around here: the hilarious drama of pretend Korea wave which we have found to be contrived in almost all the places outside the Mongoloid zone which we had the temerity to investigate in. Nothing surprising considering that it is now too obvious the dominant gimmick nowadays of fake news in almost everything. If the fakery is the norm in the supposedly sacrosanct serious journalism, what more do you expect in showbiz? Somehow, uncovering the tricks admittedly diminished our enthusiasm for the game, but at the same time, still added more reason for those extra guffaws.
Particularly funny was the fact we are not a mere small blog after all. Once upon a time, the norm in Peru was they released online a complete Rating Chart list of their TV shows, from the top to the bottom. And we discovered that consistently for many years, the kdramas dwelled at the bottom, lower than all the other telenovelas from Mexico, Turkey, Colombia, Philippines, etc. This at a time when their massive propaganda machines were declaring they were "popular", etc. We were surprised they were still shown for years with that kind of non-performance but we soon learned that fake news could also mean fake in everything. Then surprisingly, those Peruvian rating charts were no longer released completely, you only get the top 10 or the top 3 in each station or any combination but the bottom-dwellers were already hidden. Our exposure was bad for propaganda & corruption.
GMA has been clobbered in the local primetime lately but it continues to raise its flag in the international arena, particularly in South America. Its second teleserye to be shown in Ecuador will start on December 18 at 7:45 pm primetime Ecuador time. Second Chances (South American title: Una nueva oportunidad) might have been unceremoniously pulled out in Peru ( temporarily?) but it was nonetheless given a choice timeslot in Ecuador, a notch higher than that of the first GMA teleserye to be shown in that country, the hit Cautiva (Hanggang Makita Kang Muli) which was shown on an earlier timeslot, at 6:45 pm.
