I though that it was about time to start talking about shows that are from the East end of the world for a change.

Secret Garden is a Korean love story drama which spans only 20 episodes. The main plot of the story revolves around a rich man and a poor stunt woman who exchanged souls.

Their paths crossed when the rich man’s cousin finds trouble with an actress ex-lover threatening to expose a scandal and asks his cousin to hold the woman in exchange for his contract renewal in the rich man’s department store. Instead of getting hold of the actress, he mistakenly retrieves the stunt woman. The man falls in love at first sight and thus began their love story.

The shows that I often watch that were previously on break are airing again! They include the following shows:

1. How I Met your Mother

2. Chuck

3. The Vampire Diaries

4. Gossip Girl

Although it’s sad to note that some other shows like Glee, White Collar, and The Big Bang Theory have not started airing new episodes yet. I can’t wait for the latest episode of these shows that are still on break. I hope it would be soon though. Right now I’m only streaming gag reels of the shows on Youtube and occasionally watching a re-run. Gag reels are blooper outtakes from the shows and watching them are really fun because you get to see other sides from the actors.

The Vampire Diaries is back! And they enter with a new twist.

Isobel, Elena’s birth mother visits her and comes allegedly in peace to help protect her daughter. Elena doesn’t believe her despite John, her birth dad’s trust in her vampire mother. Later in the episode however, we find out that Isobel and Katherine happens to be close friends and Isobel claims that her real intent in coming back is to save Katherine from Klaus. But everything changes as soon it was revealed that Isobel came back to aid Klaus; give him Katherine, the moonstone, and Elena!

The real twist here is that Alaric or Ric has been somehow possessed by Klaus. No one knew this could happen and that was totally unexpected!

It would be worth noting however that Klaus will be appearing later in the series in a corporeal form that is not Ric.

One of the things I always looked out for when watching TV are episodes of shows that are themed according to what currently is. Now that it’s Summer, I look forward to watching shows where everyone is on a vacation setting; local shows in the Philippines only of course.

At this time of the year, most shows in the Philippines feature a Summer feel of fun and bright colors and simply soaking up under the sun. Most especially Sunday shows like ASAP and Party Pilipinas where actors and actresses perform to entertain the audience, the crew and production team usually go out of their way to conduct the show on a Summer setting. The typical summer setting in the Philippines is always somewhere one could easily have access to a cool body of water.

Watching these shows help me enjoy the summer without actually leaving for a similar destination myself. And now I await the coming episodes from these shows.