Episode 14: Contracts and Cohabitation: Talking About Tropes

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Today we are talking all about tropes. There are many different tropes but some of the ones we talk about include: contract relationship, met as kids, and friends to lover. We had a lot of fun talking about a ton of different shows and their tropes! There is time stamps below saying the trope and then the shows we talk about.

2:15 Contract Relationship

• Because this is my first life
• 1% of something
• Marriage Honey(J)

4:00 Amnesia/Memory Loss

• Boys over flowers
• Devilish charm
• Legend of the blue sea
• W: two worlds

7:00 Friends to Lovers

• Fight for my way
• Hospital playlist
• Weightlifting fairy

13:20 Crossdressing

• Love in the moonlight
• To the beautiful you

15:50 Cohabitation

• Legend of the blue sea
• 30 but 17
• Romance is a bonus book
• Cinderella and four knights
• Goblin
• True Beauty

26:05 Evil Mother/In-law

• Marriage, not dating
• Boys over flowers
• High society
• Hwarang
• Crowned clown

33:25 Rich/Poor Leads

• Secretary Kim
• Secret garden
• I picked up a celebrity
• Heirs

38:10 Met As Kids

• Weightlifting fairy
• Doctors
• My strange hero
• 30 but 17
• Secretary Kim
• Her private life

47:05 Tragic Illness/Event

• 30 but 17
• I'm not a robot
• Kill me, heal me
• Hyde, Jekyl, Me
• Secretary Kim
• Iteawon

58:20-1:03:00 Sacrificial Love

• Unforgettable love(C)
• Man to man
• Scarlet heart