Suicide Room (Poland: 2011): Run! It’s the Internet!

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Suicide Room (2011)

While the premise is interesting and the performances by the leads are strong, it is just too difficult to empathize with the characters in Suicide Room, Jan Komasa’s film about a troubled teen who withdraws to his room. Hikikomori isn’t actually a social problem in Poland that I’m aware of, and I think the director passed over several more interesting stories to theorize on what it would be like if it were. A wealthy, good looking teen throwing it all away might be arresting to watch, if only the protagonist’s most dramatic act for most of the film wasn’t to hide out at home.
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Web Junkie (USA/Israel: 2013): Social disease or phenomena

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Web Junkie (2013)

Web Junkie (2013)

More thoughtful than I anticipated, Hilla Medalia and Shosh Shlam’s documentary takes us inside a gaming addiction treatment facility in China. While it never digs sufficiently into details to be an exposé of a potential sham, the human story is compelling enough to draw one in. The audience is left uncertain whether or not the boys and their families suffer from a real clinical addiction or from social overreaction to contemporary teenage behavior, but it is difficult not to feel a sense that something is wrong with a world that creates compelling virtual universes for people to escape into and then unfairly institutionalizes those who try to escape there too often.

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Love Sick: The Blog Roll Please

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That awkward feeling that comes when you realize that you’ve got nothing new to post on Love Sick, so you’ll just recycle old images while you wait. Where have you guys been hanging out while you wait for the new subs?  How do you get your LSS2 Fix?

I know about Soompi (which I find confusing to follow now that there are 80,000 comments on 9000 pages) and the interfans Facebook pages, but what other places do you go in pursuit of fandom?

The women over at Kchat Jigae did an hour-long podcast a week or so ago discussing their love of the show. Have you found other sites worth going to? Share the links below in the comments or discuss whatever…

Love Sick The Series Season 2: Episode 8 Recap

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Love Sick Season 2, Episode 8

Love Sick Season 2, Episode 8

Summaries (Spoilers, Obviously) and Comments

Note: I group summaries by story line, not in presentation order. If you want to know how the scenes actually played out in their official sequence, why not follow this link (lol) to Kuda’s site and watch for yourself? (Note: I will activate the link when Kuda’s site comes back up)

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Love Sick The Series Season 2: Episodes 7 Recap

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Love Sick Season 2, Episode 7

Summaries (Spoilers, Obviously) and Comments

Note: I group summaries by story line, not in presentation order. If you want to know how the scenes actually played out in their official sequence, why not follow this link (lol) to Kuda’s site and watch for yourself? (Note: I will activate the link when Kuda’s site comes back up)

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Love Sick Season 2 – the Sequeequel: Open Thread

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Squeeee!

Squeeee!

O.K. Lovesickos. I know you’re bouncing around waiting for Kuda to come back online, so I figured I’d open a thread for you to talk about whatever. The show writers dropped by the other day and let us know that they do read our comments from time to time. So tell me, if you were in the room with one of them and they asked you to come up with a scene that would make you squeal with delight, what would that be? What do you want next season? Any character, any ‘ship, any of the stories. Otherwise, talk about what you are looking forward to in the next few episodes, or your pets. Whatever you need to express to get your daily Love Sick medicine.

Love Sick the Series Season 2: Episode 6 Recap

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Love Sick Season 2 Episode 6

Love Sick Season 2 Episode 6

Summaries (Spoilers, Obviously) and Comments
Note: I group summaries by story line, not in presentation order. If you want to know how the scenes actually played out in their official sequence, why not follow this link to Kuda’s site and watch for yourself?

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Where the Lovesickos are

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Pealesview visitor map, May 19, 2015

Pealesview visitor map, May 19, 2015

Missing a few of the regular visitors from the Southern Cone, Scandinavia and Korea, but I wanted to share what happens when I post a Love Sick update. Sure, this isn’t where all the inter fans are, and it’s really only a small subset interested in reading summaries in English, but it is fairly representative of who is drops by whenever I have a Love Sick post up. Lovsickos, this IS the map you made today in seven hours. I don’t know who you are, but I salute your persistence in following along with me. I’m impressed, actually.