Colum H

I thought being entangled in feelings you fail to understand was the quintessential essence of being a teen.
I'm sorry but to me it was written badly and Song Ah was such a painfully awkward wimp who loved misunderstandings I just couldn't watch her. They all just came over as petty and petulant or apathetic.
But if you enjoyed it that's great don't mind me I loathed Descendants of the Sun as well.

Tried this again and got to episode 9 before grinding to a halt and really Joo Ji Hoon is the problem, I find him wooden and bland to the point where I find it hard to remember who he is or why I should care. I'm going to drop it again.

Dropped the feisty FL turned all self pitying and pathetic and of course needed saving the dumb pretty boy and the love triangle dude. It might have been better as a BL with all those pretty, muscly half naked chaps running about and then they wouldn't have had to bother with the women at all.

Tried again and got a little further but they were all so irritatingly awkwardly teen... meh! The classical music was nice but the slightly overwrought breathy ballad stuff not so much. Dropped.

My first attempt at watching this I got as far as episode 2 on this, my second and last attempt I got to 9 - though I was playing solitaire on my tablet through both 8 and 9. I was disappointed and irritated enough to think about writing a review but then I found you had pretty much said all I wanted to say. Thanks for that!

I've got to episode 9 and I'm really struggling with it. The situations are unreal and the characters unlikeable. I don't know if I can be bothered, though getting this far means it must have had something going for it.

Now on SBS World YouTube channel (UK)

"As One" is an excellent film not ground breaking in 'Buddy Movie' terms but an excellent show case for the leads - Bae Doo Na and Ha Ji Won.

"Our Little Sister" is a gentle tour de force that's well worth a watch.

"Canola" I enjoyed except the twist was a little too obvious too early and yet it still developed into a winner.

Which makes me want to try your other recommendations, thanks.

Yeah romance is usually the lure but I give most things a try. I ought to add procedural crime dramas to that list they are usually "so bad technically I just can't bear to watch them".

My other problem is where interesting shows just lose steam and I get bored and drop them. Once I'm bored it's very hard to go back to them and finish.

It's almost always worth giving anything a couple of episodes. Sometimes I just know it's not for me straight away. Horror (especially possession), preternatural Serial Killers, medical dramas, politics all of these have to be really special to pique my interest enough for me to watch them.

Your obviously a glutton for punishment Robert. One scene can make me drop a show I've been enjoying one episode from the last.

I've watched 205 drama's and dropped 182. I also have 105 On Hold which usually means eventually drop.
I used to watch all sorts of terrible TV/Movie nonsense till the bitter end until, for a number of reasons, I took 12 years off TV.
Since then I have no problem dropping any program/film/series if it isn't working for me then...BYE!
It's just TV drop it if you don't like it.

By the end of the first episode I found I disliked pretty much every character in this show apart from Hye Yeong's mum and Jojo's bestie. I don't think I'll bother with any more.

Not liking the ML is a problem there, I only have a 3 or 4 episodes to go so I might be able to cope. We'll see, I have many shows on my list that I almost finished before I couldn't take any more.

Excellent rant! 3 episodes is more than enough.

It's a bit difficult to say really as I find it very hard to finish most of her dramas - due to script and co-stars.
'Master's Sun' & 'Thank You' though the latter has plenty of cringe moments. I enjoyed 'The Greatest Love' first time round but found it more of a struggle on second watch - she really is treated terribly.
'Missing' was most enjoyable too.
'Pasta' - couldn't take the dreadful man-child ML
'Jealousy Incarnate' as above.
'When the Camelia Blooms' I almost finished but serial killers are meh! and I just didn't like the ML's character. GHJ is enough to make me give more chances to dramas but I still have my limits.
She's fun when she's on Um Tube too.

I know, right?

I'm a big fan of Gong Hyo Jin but this ended up as another one of hers that I couldn't finish. The inappropriate physical contact was too much for me in the end, it just killed the 'romance' and thus my interest. Good review, thanks.

Yay!