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I have not watched this YET - but would Kingdom apply? both seasons? (when I watch stuff I watch all the seasons I can get and this is on netflix rn, so....)
https://kisskh.at/22806-kingdom
https://kisskh.at/32220-kingdom-2
Was thinking of adding it to my Nail-biting section/recipe thing...

I loved this movie so much - it was such a delicate thing, some Jdramas manage to somehow deliver such subtle and beautiful states and feelings...

Hello, @Bye ;))

@Bye That is a good "Rewatch value" value, I second that.

Loved the way it was filmed & presented.

@DoramaGaDaisuki I am so glad this article exists, that way I can see what ppl who liked the same things rated high and I can watch those, as well. It's like a gift that keeps giving XD

Thanks again for writing this article, I will keep coming back for the recs from ppl - right now I found another one, Youkai Sharehouse, loving it so far <3

@DoramaGaDaisuki The premise for the first one seems a bit like "Reunited Worlds" and the second has a similar vibe with "Hi, bye mama".
Thank you for the rec, I added them both on my PTW list :)

I relate to everything it's written here to a t (except I do hold grudges, just maybe...not 500 years?). I was obsessed for a while with Ghost Bride and was trying to find a similar show (spoiler alert - there isn't), The School Nurse Files is just deliciously amazing, I loved it, I think there is a lot of symbolism and sure, it's weird, but so....poetic? even...
And Mystic Pop-up Bar was like the second drama I watched, I loved it - Master's Sun....wasn't that great, but I do admit has those specified elements.
Now, as for recommendations....the last time I was discussing this I was recommended a few shows, I just need to dig deep deep in my notifications or try to identify them in my PTW list. There was at least one Japanese and one Korean - the latter was on youtube with less than 10 minute episodes... Will get back with those suggestions - which I want to specify are not mine, I got them and I am passing them along.
Great article, I both enjoyed reading it and also resonated with it on a deep level!

So maybe gather up dramas that present these issues more accurately? Because I would rather watch those and learn, bad examples that get glorified for all the wrong reasons are everywhere...
I'm only suggesting because I like how this was written and I would love to see the positive perspective :)

@FrothyMix While I do have the tendency of being too sarcastic for my own good in some moments, my point remains - it doesn't have to be a copy-paste of the drama into reality for ppl to see similarities in what a pandemic causes to ppl. Because this is the most important aspect, from my p.o.v. at least, when it comes to exploring these scenarios - what would we do and how it affects society. And for that, as I was trying to say in my initial comment, is enough to just look "outside" - 2 years of miss rona have already passed and... I suppose a part 2 of this movie is kinda rendered pointless because we are kinda living in it.
Yes, I do see valid comparisons - if you go a bit outside the exact details, and not taking everything "ad litteram".

@FrothyMix Yup. Almost like one is reality and the other is fiction...oh ...wait

@FrothyMix I haven't heard anything

@FrothyMix It doesn't have to be literal to be a worldwide pandemic...

@FrothyMix I mean.... just watch the news? unfortunately

@River Cloud Indeed....I don't even want to think about which hurt the most =)) 1.5x speed is MY FRIEND. And I did find something I could like in all of these - although for some it was harder to find than for others.

@TalkingWithYou Sure, I can be gregarious online...sometime.
Enjoy your leisure time XD

@TalkingWithYou Weeeeeell... the human ego is fragile (not just men, but they are the most commonly used example coz they are so very visible and in all our faces), so ppl on the internet will inevitably create flame threads for any topic that is perceived as "threatening".
I think the choosing part is still correct, after all, those who can give birth select their partners carefully (or not).
The queuing part reminded me of that world in Futurama where the Amazonians treated the women as queens, captured the men in the team, and their punishment was "death by snu-snu". And all men, except Kif, bless his heart, he was so loyal and pure, had alternate reactions of joyous laughter and dread XDD.
Not sure I mentioned anywhere but this was an interesting article :-) and (again) I remembered something that a substitute physics (or maybe chemistry) teacher we had in school who asked us something along the lines of: "who here thinks they know more (or is smarter) than Newton". We were bewildered like "dude, wtf, the guy is one of the forefathers of science, he formulated the gravity principle, whatever", nobody said nothing of course and then he proceeded to mindf**k us all by saying "literally everybody here knows more and is smarter because you actually KNOW more than him...think of the science and comprehension that time brought"....and it was a simple, but very effective thing, for me at least, on the one hand because I realized how we put authority figures on pedestals ...and keep them there, but also how we should be aware of progress and trust our own minds. It was very memorable - that was a proto-realization (if you will) of the presentism you speak of.

@TalkingWithYou Speaking in a half joking way, I find weirdly comforting the thought that among the very early forms of organization for humans, in the very beginning of basically anything homo faber/sapiens, those kinds, the power structures/"sociaties" if we can call them that (tribes?) were matriarchies... and the first statues and objects of worship (maybe) were female torsos, because MOTHERS... but the whole fight for survival, resources, hunters, gatherers started and then the men took the power almost for good.
And history is mostly written by men, in other words there are/were huge gender biases in place over knowledge, education and how we acknowledge everything.

@vegan-kaktus From what you say, at least 1 and 2 you don't seem to get the chemistry or "why" some characters fall for each other. For me, apart from the age difference between ML and FL, the story was very slow burn and I think they actually made it work quite beautifully.
So I would really like to help or provide some answer or clarification, but it seems like 1 and 2 are you not really "buying it" that those ppl have those feelings...and 3 I guess applies for basically all dramas, because we are all spoon fed details and we only get the full 100% picture after we watch it all...sometimes even after the end there are puzzle pieces that are missing and we can sort of "write our own version of things".
And Dong Mae's feelings towards Ae Shin are very complicated - that scene made me think if he didn't get a bit more information about what she was smuggling from that brush and paints store, but I think it was supposed to show how conflicted he was...as in he had the authority/force to stop her or interfere with what she was doing...but she was out of reach, from multiple perspectives. That entire drama is full of tragic characters and very dark, but very well made, I love it a lot.