We Watch Challenge 2024

Anne613 

This is slightly harder for me as I've long given hope that I will enjoy romance but I will give it a shot.

-a-business-proposal 

It made my laugh our loud. It is the typical rich ML and poor FL with a contract marriage and hidden identity. It was definitely worth the watch with interesting characters. I loved the second couple as well.

-beauty-newbie 

It is a hit or miss with this one. Personally I'm more neutral and sometimes seems the romance isn't their and there is no little sexual connection. But we all loved the sassy best friend. 

devil-sister

It was excellent acting with you really hating some, feel sorry for others. It was a classic case of love triangles, marriage convenience. It did get a little dark

let-s-talk-about-chu

This for me was informative about relationships for different age pairs so someone im sure will be relatable and take some life lessons from it. It is quite mature though 

Would love for recommendations to be from my plan to watch only as it is almost as long as my competed so need to shrink it a little. 

I accept ji kara 9 ji made

9th Challenge Completed!{?}

Hello, autumn iris! I was confused on what should I recommend you, so I added some of my fav and some from your plan to watch

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Better Days

I wasn't sure what to recommend you so I decided the one from your PTW but I need to warn you that it's a tearjeaker.

• Better Days: My top favourite movie. ✓    
• My Annoying Brother: Since it was available on your PTW. 
• I Told Sunset about You: Since it was available on your PTW. 
• Two Lights: Relumino: Since it was available on your PTW.

I am open to all recommends. Prefer BL or any type of movies. Dramas are okay but not more than 10 episodes.

Don't worry, just recommend me. I am sure that one of your recommend is in my PTW so absolutely don't go there („• ֊ •„)੭

I accept autumn iris's recommendation of  Till We Meet Again 

Status: Completed

Rating: 9/10

Thoughts: Thank you autumn iris for the recommend! The ghost part were really weird but leaving that everything else was beautiful. I always loved the concept of red string. But I didn't like how they tied string of Alan Shi with Pinky, it would be better with Mi, I am okay since everything ends well even if not it's not how I wanted. First I thought the string was going to the snail, the vet doctor was holding lol. I tried so much to not cry cause my mom was sitting in front that my throat started to hurt so bad but since I have periods and my cramps are deathly painful so my mom didn't suspect.

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Hello autumn iris, I checked out your profile and picked a couple of recs for you.

You can  choose  one from the following options:

• Someday or One Day
• My Dearest
• Your Name Engraved Herein
• Youth of May
• Eien no Kino
• One Day Off
• Chicago Typewriter

Open for any recs specially from romance genre, and preferably with a happy ending. Feel free to check my completed drama list to see what I've enjoyed!

P.S. - Please try to ignore my plan to watch list!

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I accept ElBee’s recommendation to watch "Be Melodramatic." Honestly, I don’t think I’d have given it a shot without the nudge.

Status - CW Dropped (2/16)

Edit: 2

I'm sorry, but I had to drop it.

The drama feels like it's trying too hard to be edgy. Most of the characters are portrayed with heavy sarcasm. While being different can be fun, here it feels forced, like each character is trying too hard to appear cool. Instead of feeling authentic, it's a bit of a mockery of reality. Maybe I’ll give it another shot some other time.

25th challenge completed!

Hi, Anne613!

I had to think a while to recall some romances that have happy endings without too much sadness making them bittersweet. Here are a few I can recommend based on what you’ve enjoyed so far:

Twinkling Watermelon is a rare case where I think a show is well worth the hype (and man there is a lot of hype for it)-some initial hype was because of the young actors, but the story is what made it sustain the high praise. It has an interesting combination of music and deaf characters as main focal points, but the character dynamics are fun, tender, sweet, and sometimes overly familiar/real in a way that is quite authentic to teenhood of the main era we see them in. I think you’ll enjoy it. It is high energy and was either the first or last thing I watched in a given day when it aired (first because I couldn’t wait, last because I wanted it to be what I fell asleep after seeing!) The bromance is even stronger (and gave me fun secondhand embarrassment that made me turn red while laughing) than the romance, but the romance is really endearing the whole way through.

Thirty But Seventeen is a story where first love leads to trauma but returns to bring healing… the romance is a slower burn here as the FL has been in a coma for 13 years and goes back to the house she lived in before (so cohabitation is part of it, too) where the one living in it is a traumatized man who thought she was gone from this world after he told her what bus stop to get off at and blamed himself for her particular death on that bus. That should be enough description to let you know if it is your kind of story. Bromance is pretty cute in it, too.

After reading your message, I am going to offer these two that fit your descriptions (didn’t want to just use your PTW): 

Be Melodramatic 

It’s Okay to Not Be Okay

Bits of charming quirkiness, character-driven, emotional, romance... they fit the bill and are very unique in their own lasting ways. Hopefully one of them works! 

Ready for recs! Anything up to ~20 hours works, my only firm exception/non-option dubbing (so no historical cdramas). Please ignore my PTW and just tap the score button on my lengthy completed list (and country if you are only recommending from one or two places) to sort by rating see what I rated very high and very low and obviously check if I’m already watching it (not all eps get updated as regularly so even if it says 0 seen, I’ve started it, just been distracted from updating things not on air). Weird=wonderful for me so long as the writing and acting can pull me in! I could use something a little (or very) bizarre and funny or you can always entice me with a thriller!

I accept jenn’s recommendation for Kill Bok Soon!

Thoughts/rating: This was a fun ride! Jeon Do Yeon has yet to disappoint me! It was on my watchlist from the time she was cast (and my notes said “bonus Lee Jae Wook cameo” which made choosing it easy-and what a sweet cameo-except wait, who’s that girl calling ahjussi?! lol).  It feels really hard to rate, but I gave it an 8.5-I would’ve liked it as a miniseries more just to get more story development for the daughter in particular, and more cases would’ve been welcome, especially a flashback, perhaps, to her very early start beyond the first encounter… I could definitely enjoy another 10 hours of it! I wish it hadn’t rushed quite so much (in terms of the story not having enough time to development-the fast action with the slow downs and them reading each other was fantastic!), but that is pretty common for films. Thanks for getting it off my PTW list! :)

12th Challenge completed!

Hi jenn!

I recommend you to watch Under the Skin! It's one of my faves and the chemi between the leads is really good. I didn't see it on your list but just in case I missed it you can let me know and I'll pick something else!

If not that then a light one would be My Sweet Mobster. :)

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I accept KC Drama LOVER's recommendation to watch Midnight.

Status: Completed 5/10

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Hello KC Drama LOVER, I checked out your profile and picked a couple of recs for you.

You can  choose  one from the following options:

• One Spring Night
• Flower of Evil
• If You Wish Upon Me
  
• Chicago Typewriter
• Lighting Up the Stars
• Hold My Hand at Twilight
• Trillion Game

Open for any recs specially from romance genre, and preferably with a happy ending. Feel free to check my completed drama list to see what I've enjoyed!

P.S. - Please try to ignore my plan to watch list!

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I accept Selbee’s recommendation to watch The Forbidden Marriage. Funny is always welcome!

Status - CW Completed

Edit: 2

Thoughts: The Forbidden Marriage is definitely worth a watch! It’s full of fun and quirky humor. The drama kept me hooked without taking itself too seriously. Thank you for the recommendation!

Rating: 8.5/10

26th challenge completed!

Welcome back, Selbee!

I’m going to stick to two options this time. Both start from a quite sad place, but healing and finding one’s path in life is central to them, just with very different stories and styles of telling them. I can offer something chirpy and cheery if needed, or I can just serve them with a side of Higuma (which comes in 5 minute episodes lol). 

From Japan, Home Drama is a found family story where survivors who lost their closest loved ones come together to find a place they can exist and just breathe without society making them suffocate as the process loss, survivor’s guilt, etc. The characters span 3 generations and have nothing in common save that one thing at the start but find value and purpose with one another. *The cinematography is not captured well in the online videos I found, but my eyes adjusted as they will when a story keeps me locked in, so despite the colors and resolution being greatly diminished because it’s an older show that was uploaded very long ago, my brain filled in what was lost to severe early online video compression.

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From South Korea, Lost is a quiet, somber sort of work about humans “towing the line between lightness and darkness” as the original director’s words explain. It focuses on a 40 or so year old woman with clinical depression whose life feels as if it has gone nowhere and amounted to nothing and a younger man approaching 30 who feels like his is going nowhere and will never amount to anything. They are the strangest pairing to find solace and their place in the world together. The cinematography and especially the use of color (and sound and silence) is pretty close to unparalleled, the acting and characters all very real-feeling and incredibly flawed while finding their way in a very cold world. 

Anything up to ~20 hours works, my only firm exception/non-option dubbing (so no historical cdramas). Please ignore my PTW and just tap the score button on my lengthy completed list (and country if you are only recommending from one or two places) to sort by rating see what I rated very high and very low and obviously check if I’m already watching it (not all eps get updated as regularly so even if it says 0 seen, I’ve started it, just been distracted from updating things not on air).

Weird=wonderful for me so long as the writing and acting can pull me in! I can always use something a little (or very) bizarre, or you can always entice me with a thriller!

I accept KC Drama LOVER’s recommendation for Even if This Love Disappears Tonight based solely on “couldn’t breathe” commentary. I don’t need to be anywhere today, so puff my eyes up like a baby blowfish under duress, Japan!❤️

Thoughts: ratings Overall. This was absolutely lovely! A few things felt imperfect or slightly off for me, the end quite a bit too heavily foreshadowed (I was almost certain of what would happen at the end very early though I knew nothing before hitting play, so I wish there hadn’t been the heavy attention on his mother’s death), but it was still beautiful. I started off irritated with the best friend only to love her and cry like crazy as she ran away with the diary… and the pictures being painted everywhere were quite touching, the memory deeper than any surface memories. It isn’t quite as high in my list of beloved tearjerkers as Heavenly Forest, but it is pretty close! I gave it a 9 (which is pretty rare for me with films in particular).

Unrelated note: It did, from the very start and for obvious reasons, make me want to go back and rewatch Memento, though… that film is one of my 9.8 rounded to 10* kinds of films, partly because I saw it in the cinema with one of my best friends back 24 years ago now. I have a signed director’s edition DVD of it… now to figure out if I still have a way to watch it!

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Hello KC Drama LOVER, I checked out your profile and picked a couple of recs for you.

You can  choose  one from the following options:

• 1 Litre no Namida - A tearjerker
• Dali and the Cocky Prince - Two polar opposite characters in artistic atmosphere
• Gokusen  - A funny series, a good one though it came out in 2002
• Hachiko Monogatari - More heartwrenching than the Hollywood remake
• Little Forest - A slice of life movie with lots of food and natural views
• Oh No! Here Comes Trouble - A fantasy drama, a bit dark yet wholesome
• Move to Heaven - A tearjerker based on trauma cleaning ✓    
• Reply 1988 - The best one from the classic Reply series
• Summer Strike - When two introverts fall in love
• The Last 10 Years - A tearjerker based on a true story

Open for any recs specially from romance genre, and preferably with a happy ending. Feel free to check my completed drama list to see what I've enjoyed!

P.S. - Please try to ignore my plan to watch list!

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I accept Selbee’s recommendation to watch Fanletter, Please, I appreciate your suggestion and hope to enjoy the series! 

Status - CW Completed

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Thoughts: It's a sweet and simple miniseries, filled with heartwarming moments that make it worth watching. Some part seems like filler, but overall, it's a decent series.  Thanks Selbee for the recommendation!

Rating: 8/10