Ranking 2025 Dropped Shows

Choi Yun Ji is really great and both Kim Min Kyu and Yang Kyung Won bring life to the screen but there's just not enough going on in the main characters to keep things interesting. But maybe if Kim Sun Young had been the main character? Nothing was bad but it just didn't have enough good stuff to keep the momentum going.

From afar, this was a great idea. Not just a promising cast, but a cast that can excel in lighter comedic productions. A bit of a stretch for Jung Eun Ji to be this out-of-shape loser at the beginning, but it's television and if Renee Zellweger can be Bridget Jones, then sure, why not? But there's brutally little actual LOLs. 

Huge marketing gaffe here by pushing this as a wholesome, feelgood light show about a guy who's an unconventional peacemaker. The reality is that it's a nearly wall-to-wall revenge project and, for all the light superficialities, Shin is a dark and angry main character. Lee Re sparkles with a paper thin character but the rest of the cast is underwhelming. 

Credit to this production for REALLY REALLY REALLY TRYING. It's baffling what it's trying to do but it works hard as hell at it. Lee Jae Wook and Choi Sung Eun are talented and when they have a scene with coherent dialogue, they kill it. Kim Gun Woo has a nice change of pace role for him as an against-the-grain lawyer. But this show has a wonky setup with a dead twin and brutally butchers revealing the backstory. And despite the talents of the two leads, they don't feel  even a little like the inevitable couple that the story needs them to be. 

Maybe Jang Kyung Ho lost a bet and doing this show was how he had to pay it off? He's great t taking an unlikable sort and being a complete shallow jackass and still making the character likable. But there's just nothing else going on with this show. Seol In Ah tries really hard. Cha Hak Yeon is the right actor for what they wanted to do with his character. But the action is dull, the reveals are boring and the dialogue is grating. 

There's worse material to try to rip off than "Silence of the Lambs" but everyone involved in this production needed to dial things way, way back. Instead of building up the tension slowly and slowly peeling back the complex layers of the relationship between the serial killer mother and detective son, everything is rushed. It's less noir cinema and more 80's daytime soap. Then the actors have to go full crazy right off the bat so they look ridiculous. A promising scenario but it needed an editor to take a chainsaw to the script. 

Props for putting Mun Ka Young back in a role where she should excel - light romance with opportunities for physical comedy. And pairing her with Im Se Mi again is brilliant. There's some nice supporting cast too with Kwak Shi Yang and Kim Young Ah. But the grandmother villain is a mess and Choi Hyun Wook either was the wrong actor or he badly misinterprets what this character should be. For Mun Ka Young? More of this. For Choi Hyun Wook? Please never again.

Honestly, there's a storyline with a gorgeous golden retriever. That's like where half the 4 stars came for this show. The acting is stiff. The plot isn't a cliche but it's not edge of the seat material. The dialogue is uninspired. The cast is unremarkable. The dog is pretty as hell though. 

This show badly needed someone on set and whenever anyone came up with an idea, they would have to run it by this person. "I have this idea to do [blank]. Is it dumb?" "Hell yes. Don't do it." "What about [blank]?" "That's dumb as shit." 

Just about everything on this show was dumb. Nothing was dumber than though than Park Bo Gum's idea of making the main character more obnoxious than any random  little brother character on a 90's Disney Channel sitcom. It's more grating than a shredded cheese factory.

Cast is great but the production seemed bent on making them do things that are exactly the opposite of where their acting strengths lie. 

Great acting. Great cast. All of them doing things all the time that are of absolutely no interest. It's like if the great Renaissance painters spent a weekend doing community service spraying pedestrian crosswalks.

Heo Nam Jun should not be playing a teenager. The man looks old enough to help his wife with her menopausal hot flashes. And any producer that puts Lee Won Jung in another role as the somewhat spastic and pathetic wannabe friend can spend the next twenty years on underwater rescue detail in Siberia. The production design is amazing. The wardrobe is phenomenal. Shin Ye Eun nails it. Kim Da Mi, though, faceplants. She interprets the Yeong Rye as this naive, earnest "aw shucks" wide-eyed open book. There's no subtlety. There's no possible development from that point. And it ruins every scene she's in which because she's the main character is [checks notes] every scene in the show.  

Social media spoiled the twist in this show but it wouldn't have mattered. What began as a taut, suffocating psychological mystery jumped multiple egregious plot holes straight to off-the-rails nothing-makes-sense incoherence. A Rin had a strong first episode but once she recedes, everything implodes. There's no shortage of dumb police detectives but Lee Soo Hyuk's here is dumb to a point that no actor should be willing to read the dumb words that this dumb cop says. 

To its credit, this show isn't trying to be great. It wants merely to induce a few chuckles by having its cast make some Kevin-tries-aftershave-in-"Home Alone" facial expressions, wear terrible clothing and recycle every memory loss cliche ever created. But as someone once said, "We lowered the bar to the ground and you brought a shovel". 

The first episode is a brazen ripoff of the setup of "The Count of Monte Cristo". Had it followed through, Park Hyung Sik would have been brilliant as a Korean Edmund Dantes bent on revenge. But what followed was an incomprehensible mess. The pacing it brutally awful. Instead of building tension, it continually cycles through subplot after subplot where Huh Joon Ho cackles maniacally through a fiendish plot only to be foiled over and over and again and again. There's just so much plot that none of the characters matter because nothing stops or slows down long enough to figure out who any of them are. Total wreck.

See the comment for "My Dearest Nemesis". Same thing but now with a poorer supporting cast and in a historical drama where the set looks high school drama level of cheap. It does have Kwon Han Sol though. She's likable. That's all it has though.

Nice to Never Watch Another Minute of Ever Again.

At some point, Park Eun Bin or her agents decided she needed to play a monster bitch instead of another sweet or quiet or naive type. Makes sense. Play a bitch. Be a monster. Act like a sociopath. Do all three at once even.

But do it in a way that there's some resemblance to a human being. Mommy Xenomorph from "Aliens" is a warmer, more nuanced character than Jung Se Ok. There's nothing to identify with or root for here so why watch?

Ick. 

It's not funny. The romance is bland. Some of the cast can't act. The ones who can don't seem to be even trying here. And whatever stylist decided it was a good idea to cut Lee Da Hee's hair that short is very bad at their job.

If the name makes it sound tedious and juvenile, rest assured that the full product is even more tedious and juvenile than its title or anything written here could adequately measure. This was a horrible idea made worse by even more horrible execution. It is not amusing for even a fraction of a moment.

Everything about this show's existence should be scrubbed from human and machine memory for the rest of time.

The full review is here..

This could have been a somewhat, mediocre to forgettably bad legal drama. Most of the cast is out of their element here. The ones that aren't are either über-bland or mildly obnoxious. But mostly, these cast and these characters are just not great.

What elevates it to the worst thing on a video screen in 2025 is the inhumanly smug and unlikable Lee Jon Suk. This is the closest thing humankind has come to turning the greenfaced barf emoji in to a humanlike organism.