I am an addict. My brain is addicted to the high that romantic stories can deliver. My newest happy hour (hours) is watching (and re-watching) all 49 episodes of the newly released Chinese Netflex series called, “Meteor Garden”. It’s the romantic tale of a strong, highly principled, plain looking, female university freshmen from a middle class upbringing accidentally clashing with a highly popular, wealthy, smart, but ill-mannered male university senior. I’m surprised that I wasn’t completely put off by the sub-titles nor by the physical violence that would have gotten the young man expelled from an American university. But the show follows a romantic formula that my addict brain craves. Continue reading “Guilty Pleasure: Binge Watching Romance”
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