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This has just made me realize, I am very superficial. Some of these sound a little half baked plot wise, and as bonkers as one expects from Thailand. But oh, it had Push and his dimples and Mark and his dimples... #immawatchfortheplot 😋

Help, please spoiler me a little...I found this on my dropped list. Somehow I find this frequently on lists of dramas that interest me... does the female lead tone down after a few episodes? Because I found her screechy voice and strange/cutesy acting really grating, as much as I liked the male lead.

I can only take one at a time, because of this. Even the serious and sweet dramas have those strange interjections and 4th wall moments, that make me think huh. And even if it's subtler it's still overacting.

Not actively, though of course I pick up plenty of phrases by watching KDramas, now I do understand some of what my Korean friend is saying to her kid. I just really fell in love with Mandarin, I just love the rythm and melody and my brain started to focus on words a lot when a drama got draggy, you know, around Ep 18 of 40. :-P So I decided to learn it properly, but learning languages is an on-and-off hobby of mine.

Probably Beth. If it is contemporary, it is an unlikely storyline for her to die and her storyline would be hard to update. On the other hand, it would have helped stretch the story to 16 episodes.

In the original story, when they first meet she is 13 or so and he is 16, but he has a friendship/crush with the 15 year old sister. And he has that crush for a long time, but gets rejected. The 13 year old is now 21 or so, when they meet again (she is overseas with her aunt for years), so he is 24 and then they fall in love.

Eh, I don't know if it is that smart, watching hour and hours of dramas so empty of plot that you start to focus on the language and words, rather than the content. But Zhang Han Dramas always have actors with perfect pronunciation, so there is that. I am also doing the Rosetta Stone course and some Mandarin Podcasts, so it's not just dramas.

I also watched Paris Downcast and Here to Heart, and in comparison to those he was overacting in Boss&Me.
He is dubbed a lot too and these shows are so slow I use them for Mandarin practice...

I was surprised to find Zhang Han on here, because even though he is stunningly handsome and knows how to do the wistful eyes, he is otherwise as emotive as a wooden doll. But then I only watched/discontinued a few of his contemporary dramas, maybe he is better in historicals?

Okay, I didn't need crying and after reading the synopsis of Mother I just scrolled down here to comment. I don't know why I clicked, since I avoid sad dramas like the plague, because I don't mind having unhealthy eyes... but I guess, I just wanted to say, you have reached your objective. So thankyou for the article.

You know, I am not a hair person. I am genetically blessed in the hair department, and never got my bestie, who is very specific about her boyfriends' hairstyle. I liked looking at beautiful updos on women, never cared what my love interests hair looked like.
But then I came across Chinese historical dramas. The first one, being low budget, had really bad wigs too. And suddenly I found my head turned. Not only the shiny black hair, but also the very pastelly "dresses", that swung elegantly as they moved, their hair gently flowing in the wind. I was like; "Apparently I am into this look now."
And I also can't quite explain it. Hair stands for virility in a lot of cultures, so I imagine having really long, shiny hair probably means good genes and good health? Health is sexy, right?

:grin: Thankyou for the laugh... Turkish Dramas regularly get cancelled mid first-season, so that might be for you.
I wish all of them would adjust the episode count to the story. If the story runs out, stop writing episodes.

This was fun, I added a bunch of totally new to me dramas to my list. I only knew one of the dramas, with whom I had a very melodramatic break-up midway, maybe destiny brought us together again for a reason?

Ugh, he is so pretty! I loved watching him in "A Class of Her Own", even though the drama itself was so-so. Didn't watch anything else with him, totally missed that he is in Sweet Teeth, which has been in my recommended list a few times.

I completely ignore my PTW list. The number of times, I have come across some random drama I didn't want to forget, only to find it on my PTW list already. If a drama really catches my eye and I really don't want to forget, I add it to currently watching, though I usually wait for it to be done airing or until I have a binge weekend.

I am usually a mellow person when watching dramas, but the last character I watched where I wished the white truck of doom on him is the husband in "On The Way To The Airport". I wish he had just died in a plane crash, that would have made the plot better.
I also avoid "hidden or obvious social criticism" dramas like crowds during a Covid-outbreak, because it might make me want to actually start throwing stuff at government buildings and such. Usually the synopsis is enough to get my blood boiling.

My Dad was fan of Westerns and then by accident we stumbled on Samurai movies and he loved them too. Funny to learn that there is a connection. :-P
Though clearly the theme is finding glory and friendship in a very chaotic world, full of people who are ready to kill. I can't imagine why that could not be applied to Korean history, they surely had a period with a lot of random violence that wasn't exactly war? (Me: clearly no expert in Korean history.) Or you could do it in a full on spoofy way, like Shanghai Noon, but set in Korea. Or mostly Koreans, but they moved to the US.

And here my dramas and movies with a rating of 4 and below, High Society only got a 1,5 and Obsessed 0:
Obsessed

High Society

Girlfriend

The Master's Sun

My Fuxxxxx Romance

Good Night

I Wanna Be Sup'Tar

If you want real garbage, I will post you my "dropped" list, though of course this is subjective. I have watched some low rated dramas and liked them more than some of these highly rated dramas:

Coffee & Vanilla

Goblin

Heart to Heart

I Picked Up a Star on the Road

Introverted Boss

Khing Kor Rar Khar Kor Rang

Kor Kerd Mai Klai Klai Ter

Meteor Garden

My Heroic Husband

Oh My General

Rookie Historian Goo Hae Ryung

Suparburoot Jorm Jon: Maturot Lohgan

Watashitachi wa Douka Shiteiru

Well Dominated Love

I have definitely learned a lot of history and culture from the dramas and the research I had to do to understand. It even led me to learn Mandarin, because I understood phrases and words after a while, but it was puzzling putting it all together myself. I just don't know if I or many other casual foreign viewers would find these hardcore historic dramas accessible easily. Or as easily as if we were surrounded by it, had family history in these events and so on.