ON AIR.

Okay, me and Chris experienced THE MOST AMAZING hour and a half of television the other night. We were iggin cuz now that all our best shows are on hiatus (including best-best Friday Night Lights, RIP) we have to do shit like go outside and shit, but after a patio dinner (PACIFICO! holllar) and a lengthy walk, we decided to make use of Esan’s 4555-inch flatscreen parked in the living room. Obvious choice: the show on the Korean station listed on the program guide as “SURGEON BONG.” We of course knew that “Bong” did not refer to the american BONG, but still, how can you resist. SURGEON BONG. Surgeon Bong is totally my next booty call, holler at the weed doctor. And we proceeded to watch a vaguely surreal metashow about a beautiful actress, Seung Ah, as she’s filming a movie called “TICKET TO THE MOON.” She has a monologue to a bunch of children about how making soaps are a symbol of thanks. And if you give someone a lavender soap it means you are in love with them. Then the director yells cut, they finish the movie. The director keeps trying to get everyone to have a drink with him, leading us to believe he is a mega alkie. Seung Ah sees this other dude in a suit and gets clearly shook but it is never explained why. The dude that freaks her out, who we later learn is President Jang (obvs) is not nearly as hot as the director OR her BONKERSLY sexy costar. He gives her a monologue about learning to make udon for herself, and we can’t figure out if he’s her dad or her former sugar dad. Then at the end, the boozy director comes over to the scriptwriter’s apartment with a six pack (of course– Miller lite but there was electrical tape over the logo, really) and he tells her, “JUST FYI, I’M NOT GOING HOME TONIGHT. I’M STAYING HERE. WITH YOU.” He kisses her, then some effect comes on the camera that looks like a radiation flash just before a nuclear bomb detonates. Aaaaand… SCENE. THE WHOLE THING IS AMAZING. Later we learn we weren’t watching Surgeon Bong, we were watching “On Air,” this new drama that debuted as number one in Korea this year, for good reason because the plot is just banock. And you can watch it online with English subtitles. So I guess it’s back to not going outside or talking to you.
After “On Air” ended we watched ten minutes of an Italian news station, then flipped it to a documentary about how these big robot arms in a snack cake factory. ILL WINERY STATUS.