Shows I Watched: February 2025

Status: Dropped

Year:  2025

Country: Chinese

Genre: contemporary, romance

Episodes: 7/38

Plot: A love story between 

Comments:

• I can't buy into this drama. I cannot get into the exposition of both the ML and the FL. Which is too bad, since I was really, really looking forward to the drama.
• I think Chen Zhe Yuan fit his role until his supporting roles looked more like "soldiers".
• I did not feel the chemistry between the leads.

Status: Dropped

Year:  2025

Country: Korean

Genre: Melodrama

Episodes: ??/12

Plot: Our FL left her hometown for the big city but work brings her back and she reunites with people who hurt her and her first love who has been waiting for her.

Comments:

• I couldn't understand why the ML still liked the FL. I got it when they were a child, but I feel like anyone will be turned off. 
• I think the writing has been all over the place. I feel like it is obvious that they like each other and it's just that their circumstances kept them from being together, but the writer forces the "angst" between them by making them doubt each other's feelings (?)
• I dropped it and then checked it out, and it got dark. 

Status: Dropped

Year:  2025

Country: Chinese

Genre: costume, thriller

Episodes:  5/30

Plot: Our FL is believed to be a witch and can kill people in their dreams, she is framed for a murder and her case is assigned to the ML, who has risen from the slums to officialdom.

Comments:

• The acting is not it. 
• I think they should fix the narrative structure, and keep the mystery of the FL because I feel like it gets revealed too early. We as an audience know that the FL is out for revenge but it would have been more engaging for the audience if the storytelling was more engaging. 

Status: Dropped

Year:  2025

Country:  Chinese

Genre:  fantasy, costume, romance

Episodes:  4/40

Plot: IDK... too complicated to explain in 

Comments:

• I think I have grown out of this genre and I'm not a diehard fan of the actors to watch it just for them.

Status: Completed (re-watched)

Year:  2016

Country: Korean

Genre:  contemporary, romance

Episodes: 16/16

Plot: A love story between a soldier and a doctor.

Rating:  8.5/10

Comments:

• I watched this just in case I was being too harsh on White Olive Tree or it's objectively not a drama I can immerse myself into because of the exposition.
• But I loved this drama and makes the setting and the situations believable and reasonable. 
• I know they are divorced, but the chemistry is just a chef's kiss.
• One of the biggest problems I have is the cringe ending. (The common problem I have the the great Kim Eun Sook, is that she doesn't know how to wrap things up in her drama)

Status: Completed (re-watched)

Year:  2024

Country: Korean

Genre: contemporary, romance

Episodes: 16/16

Plot: A story of a strained marriage between the heiress of a department store and her husband a lawyer, who is planning to divorce her, until she is diagnosed with an incurable disease. 

Rating:  10/10

Comments:

• The rating is purely because of the satisfaction that this drama brings me
• I thought I liked it because of the hype but when I rewatched it, it was so good.
• Don't get me wrong, this drama is not perfect, you can say that the story is dated and cliche, but the actors carried the drama well. The directing and the writing did not suck. 

Status: Completed

Year: 2025

Country: Korean

Genre: contemporary, romance

Episodes: 12/12

Plot: A workaholic CEO butts head with her newly hired secretary (single father) who seems to be perfect but eventually falls in love.

Rating:  8.5/10

Comments:

• I love love love love love love this drama
• The chemistry is everything on this drama
• And I mentioned in the last video, that their past hidden connection isn't necessary, but when I saw Han Ji Min's acting I was sold.
• I was also sold on the second lead couple.
• It is a good light watch.

Status: Completed

Year:  2025

Country: Chinese

Genre: contemporary, legal

Episodes: 38/38

Plot: The story continues for our FL as she is kicked out of the law firm and establishes her own firm, unraveling the truth of a case that involved her former law firm. 

Rating:  10/10

Comments:

• This was so much better than season 1, which I had a hard time watching (it was engaging, but they had the arc of the female lead)
• The second season was engaging, I was looking for the newer episodes. I did not know it was airing. 
• The acting of these non-idol middle-aged actors, good script and directing
• Finally, the two leads got together!!!!!!!!!
• Looking forward to season 3

Status: Completed

Year: 2025

Country: Korean

Genre: investigative 

Episodes: 6/12

Plot: The story of the members and the cases that the investigative program Trigger

Rating:  6/10

Comments:

• It had a good 6 episodes
• And then they went into the big case, then a dog whisperer appeared and we are now taking a dog as a witness to a crime as a guide...
• I wish that the male villain was given time because the female villain was imprinted too strongly in my mind. 
• Looks like they want to do a second season.

Status: Completed

Year: 2025

Country: Korean

Genre: contemporary, school, action

Episodes: 10/10

Plot: Our ML likes to study and his goal is to go to college and get into a high school that ranks students for their fighting skills with the wrong impression.

Rating:  8/10

Comments:

• This drama was a nice surprise, most of the actors were unknown except for the ML
• The exposition is immature and childish, but the drama pulls you in.
• The action scenes are well done
• The drama is funny (especially "uncles forbidden moves")

Status: Currently Watching

Year: 2025

Country: Thai

Genre: time-travel, historical, romance

Episodes: 12/23

Plot: FL is an actress in the present time, who time-travels to the past and ends up with the identity of a prostitute. Our ML is a detective/police officer who shares a history with the FL.

Rating:  7/10

Comments:

• This is a nice surprise, I don't usually watch Thai dramas but My Cherie Amour brought me back
• The chemistry is very good, the leads are very good-looking
• I think the criticisms it makes about past social norms and rules are very surface-level and shallow (I don't expect it to go too deep into it, but I wish it wasn't done just to criticize) 
• And I get confused by them being physically intimate, even if they haven't established their feelings 
• Please recommend Thai dramas.

Status: Currently Watching

Year: 2025

Country: Korean

Genre: costume, romance

Episodes: 8/10

Plot: A princess of a fictional country is set to choose her husband and our ML is one of the potential suitors who is one of the richest merchants. He also publishes a book that is very popular and is suspected to be real events in the royal family.

Rating:  6/10

Comments:

• Warning this drama is explicit (the drawing) but you'll get a sudden boob attack in the first episode, but is it necessary? The answer is no, the explicit drawings are enough. This is not an 80s Hollywood movie where female frontal exposure is a norm.  And I would understand if the explicit scenes continued throughout the drama; to show the intimacy and emotions shared during sex, but it wasn't don't either) 
• Go Ah Ra is stiff in this drama, she should try to relax. Her acting doesn't blend with the other actors (I know the character is supposed to be "different" and "modern" but I feel like she is acting in a different drama)
• I'll finish it since there is 2 more episodes.
• Warning: the subs are bad, but during my years of watching KDramas I understand a little.

Status: Currently Watching

Year: 2025

Country: Korean

Genre: weekend, family

Episodes: 8/50

Plot: Family drama about a widow and her four brothers-in-law who took over her late husband's Makgeolli brewery and a Hotel CEO/ Chairman who is also widowed as her new romantic love interest. 

Rating:  8/10

Comments:

• It is going well, the characters are stereotypical and one-dimensional (especially those not in the main cast)
• I am looking forward to the story between the two leads.
• It's an easy watch I play in the background while folding laundry or cooking.

Status: Currently Watching

Year: 2025

Country: Korean

Genre: daily, family, makjang

Episodes: 62/120

Plot: Rating:  8/10

Comments:

• Same as the weekend dramas,
• It's entertaining.
• Can't wait for the downfall of the villains

Status: Currently Watching

Year: 2025

Country: Korean

Genre: contemporary, rom-com

Episodes: 4/12

Plot: Our FL is known as a boss killer, as her bosses quit due to her workaholism and hot temper. The new director of her department is the heir to the department store that she works for. He puts on a mask to be the perfect heir, but our FL discovers his secret hobbies.  And they knew each other in the past, they met in a game when they were younger, and the FL dumped him cruelly.

Rating:  8/10

Comments:

• I like both the actors (more the ML)
• And this is a very watchable rom-com

Status: On Hold

Year:  2025

Country: Chinese

Genre: contemporary, melo, romance

Episodes: 4/32

Plot: First loves reunite after years of separation. 

Rating:  7/10

Comments:

• I'm still on the fence about this one, I have the same feeling as the other Chinese drama, Will Love in Spring, where it tries too hard to be moody and melodramatic, and the only reason I watched it was because of the leads.
• Based on the comments on kisskh, audiences love it, and I don't think this is my cup of tea (don't get me wrong, I love melo dramas, some of my favorites are (I Have a Lover), but I think it's hard too pull off a modern drama in today)
• And based on the spoilers I've seen, it's mostly the FL suffering and miserable, I want both sides to suffer for me to buy into the angst and longing. 

Status: Currently Watching

Year: 2025

Country: Chinese

Genre: contemporary, sci-fi, comedy, romance 

Episodes: 10/32

Plot: Our FL receives a bracelet that allows her to change her appearance. She then reunites with her first love (which the ML has a different recollection of) and experiences the funny things that can happen. 

Rating:  8/10

Comments:

• This is a funny drama (FL turns into an alpaca and flying kicks the ML) I applaud the comedic timing of the two leads.
• I am watching this for the 2nd leads and their story, I think they are really cute together and their story could be a whole drama itself. I feel the chemistry more with this couple compared to the leads.
• I like the sister who is a lawyer and the third executive and owner of the brand, I hope they have their own story (not necessarily together)

Status: Currently Watching

Year: 2025

Country: Chinese

Genre: contemporary, romance

Episodes: 6/28

Plot: Our FL is a Hotel Front Desk Manager who seeks treatment from a Chinese Medical Center for her insomnia, there she meets our ML who is a Traditional Chinese Medicine doctor.

Rating:  9/10

Comments:

• I was looking forward to this drama for such a long time and this drama follows my expectations, which puts me at ease. Sometimes dramas make me uneasy because they throw me a curve ball. And one of the many reasons why I can't start a drama easily is because I'm afraid of the disappointment I'll feel.