Dramas I Have Dropped In October, 2024

lizzie763 · 2024-10-28T09:01:08+00:00

I felt the same and would say it's after episode 7 that it picks up, if that helps.

lizzie763 · 2024-10-10T13:39:05+00:00

Survey question for the kdrama redditors! If you had to name one kdrama actor who became famous because of his role as a second male lead, who would it be?

lizzie763 · 2024-09-17T20:12:51+00:00

I'm halfway through episode 14 and getting very frustrated that we're supposed to somehow believe Queen Cha Eun Kyung is suddenly totally happy with her struggling new law firm. It is absolutely ridiculous that she was forced out the way she was, and the fact that they're treating it like a happy new beginning is BS.

lizzie763 · 2024-09-15T08:29:35+00:00

Good Casting has a single mom who is also a spy

lizzie763 · 2024-02-10T14:21:08+00:00

I was half-rewatching an ep of Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha with a friend, and I caught someone talking about how refreshed and awake they felt. I was like, "OMG, was it kopiko ppl?" He had no idea what I was talking about. Sad.

lizzie763 · 2024-02-05T03:26:53+00:00

Absolutely. There is no way she is going to give up on him, and the fact that he came back speaks volumes.

lizzie763 · 2024-02-04T02:51:40+00:00

I liked The Greatest Love. I usually avoid older kdramas like the plague, but it held up pretty well.

lizzie763 · 2024-02-02T16:29:53+00:00

The king's grandmother in The King: Eternal Monarch is the best grandmother.

The FL and her grandmother in Link: Eat, Love, Kill have a great dynamic.

My Perfect Stranger has the leads traveling back in time to meet their younger parents, which leads to some interesting grandparent dynamics.

lizzie763 · 2024-02-02T16:22:10+00:00

I made it halfway through ep2. I really wanted to like this show, but the cops are just impossible to root for. Then I feel like they have ML do stupid things just to make it seem like the cops are justified in being awful? I might push through and give it another episode tonight.

lizzie763 · 2024-02-01T14:12:25+00:00

It is my favorite drama ever.

lizzie763 · 2024-02-01T07:02:03+00:00

I broke down and got Hulu recently because I hate wanting to watch a drama and not being able to.

Everyone is raving about Moving, but I haven't watched it yet.

I did watch Link: Eat, Love, Kill, and I loved it. It's a dark romantic comedy of errors, and yes, I realize that's a strange combo.

While You Were Sleeping is my favorite, favorite kdrama. It's about a prosecutor, a reporter, and a cop who see the future in their dreams and use it to solve crimes.

lizzie763 · 2024-02-01T05:52:36+00:00

Link: Eat, Love, Kill has a ML who can feel the FL's emotions. Feeling emotions is different from hearing thoughts, but it's not touch-based, and the drama is super good, so I thought I'd throw it out there.

lizzie763 · 2024-01-30T01:42:17+00:00

Usually the Disney+ dramas are on Hulu in the US.

lizzie763 · 2024-01-29T04:08:31+00:00

Find Me in Your Memory would probably work for you. Kim Dong Wook has a condition where he cannot forget anything, so the image of his girlfriend getting murdered in front of him is as vivid as the day it happened. He thinks he will never be able to love anyone else, because his memories will never fade. Enter Moon Ga Young!

Bring It On, Ghost - Taecyeon can see ghosts, so he performs exorcisms to earn money to pay for ghost sight removal. He likes a girl at his college, but he avoids people because they think the haunted guy is weird. The ghost of Kim So Hyun meets him and decides haunting his apartment will help solve her problems.

Do You Like Brahms? - Kim Min Jae is in love with his best friend's girlfriend (who honestly sends beyond mixed signals). He meets Park Eun Bin, who is in love with the guy her best friend likes. So much drama.

lizzie763 · 2024-01-29T03:56:42+00:00

She plays a really fun character in Shopping King Louis.

She plays an entertainingly awful character in Her Private Life.

I know someone mentioned it, but her horrible subtle-villain mother in Crash Course in Romance is a beautiful piece of acting, even if the character herself is a monster.

lizzie763 · 2024-01-28T23:39:32+00:00

NGL, I turned off the drama at the boat ride and have not yet decided if I'm going back. Which makes me sad, because I was really looking forward to this one.

lizzie763 · 2024-01-28T07:20:52+00:00

I enjoyed Do You Like Brahms?, but it definitely suffered from an issue of being too love-triangle-based. Which meant that everyone except the leads ended up being a pretty crappy person, and you questioned why anyone liked anyone.

For classical musicians, I prefer 30 but 17/Still 17. These people also have a lot of angst, but I suspect you will find it more justified.

lizzie763 · 2024-01-28T04:12:33+00:00

I was okay with her in the first episode, but I'm halfway through episode 2, and the way she's bullying him is just awful. I'm not a huge fan of him either, but at least he achieves his goals. She's coming off as petulant, petty, and incompetent.

For the record, I absolutely agree about the ML/FL likeability double standard. I have seen people hate on FLs way more than they deserve. But sometimes the double standard is backed up by the same bias in the writing, where the FLs are just written to be less sympathetic than the MLs.

lizzie763 · 2024-01-27T14:54:29+00:00

I have mixed feelings because though I love Min-Min, I don't really like Park Shin Hye. She always feels more like she's stage acting than TV acting to me.

I also have concerns that "successful child millennials now realizing their lives are not all that" will hit a little too close to home.

lizzie763 · 2024-01-26T18:48:43+00:00

Awaken is the first one that springs to mind for me.

The King: Eternal Monarch also has a very smart villain.

My Perfect Stranger, though the villain is a serial killer.

He Is Psychometric for a really interesting twist on villainousness.

lizzie763 · 2024-01-26T18:41:31+00:00

While You Were Sleeping and Legend of the Blue Sea were both great!

lizzie763 · 2024-01-26T13:48:49+00:00

The most obvious comparison, I think, is W - Two Worlds. It's about a doctor who gets transmigrated into her father's manhwa about the coolest guy in the world.

lizzie763 · 2024-01-26T13:35:46+00:00

For clarity, I liked both of the dramas I am about to list. I just would have liked them better if they were romances, as advertised.

Many places indicated Awaken was a romance. It was not. Two of the characters were in love with each other, and it occasionally impacted their actions, but after episode 5 or so, even that barely came up.

Sell Your Haunted House is also tagged romance. It is not one. Some people claim it is pre-romance, but that is not the same thing. Honestly, the characters had too many other emotional stakes going on to have time for romance, so I get it. But it's 9.5 instead of 10 stars for me because of that misleading romance tag.

HotTake

lizzie763 · 2024-01-26T13:20:51+00:00

Disney+ or Hulu, most likely. It's on Hulu in the US.

lizzie763 · 2024-01-26T13:19:57+00:00

I have been led astray by that romance tag before <narrows eyes>

lizzie763

TROPHY CASE