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Honestly at this Point I suspect Que Sera Sera 2.0 will never actually be made....

I mean compare Master In The House with nearly any US reality show, one is showing great habits and life advice from succesful inspiring people while many US shows just dumb brainless garbage

Even my own european country have now begun remaking the k-shows King of Masked Singer and Hello Counselor, and the same people who hates US reality shows and US reality shows inspired remakes are huge fans of these k-show remakes.
There's a HUGE difference between k-reality shows and US reality shows, and I'm sure that if K-shows were as brainless and annoying as US reality shows, that many k-stars would also be ashamed to be on k-shows just like Hollywood stars are.

This drama and Bad & Crazy drama hmmmm..... is there a new Superhero subgenre of Kdrama emerging now?
A decade later than in western tv

I think reality shows are a bit different in korea than the US. They're more focused on being semi-educational and healing while also entertaining while american reality shows on cheap exaggerations and over-dramatizations and narcissistic self-display or like the saying "15 minutes of fame".
Even european reality shows are generally not as cheap as american ones, and less focused on fake over-dramatizations to sell fake drama (well depends on the show too, remakes of American formats can be nearly as shallow).
I noticed Kstars see k-variety shows/reality shows as more another additional skillset which enhanches their competency? Or so it looks like from the outside at least

The thai drama Angel Destiny did a much better job with the same concept

https://kisskh.at/19502-angel-destiny

Having watched AD first, Angel's last mission was a huge let down and just dragged on

4 eps watched so far, this is really good! It's similar catharsis to watching Vincenzo with an antihero handing out punishments to the rich and powerful, sort of modern dark re-tellings of Robin Hood.

Ga On's naive black and white morality and misguided judgemntal attitude towars Yo Han is getting on my last nerve though, can't wait for more bromance development and Yo Han to teach him a thing or two about shades of grey and ways of the world, only dark can take out dark and not fluffy innocent unicorn heroisms. The preview for next ep looks promsing on that front.

My Rankings:

1. Joan's Galaxy
2. Blink
3. Manxin
4. Baby It's Over Outside
5. Love Virtually
6. White Crow
7. Empty Body
8. The Prayer

Watching this and realizing there needs to be more GL dramas....

Nope, it's fully an anthology series about 8 different potential near futures surrounding 1 innovation/future per ep, each disconnected from the other (though I suppose each innovation/future can be all in the same future), but I watched all 8 eps and realized there's no need to watch others . Each ep has different story with different characters

Now that you point it out, yes they do!
Now it's making me all nostalgic for The Nanny ha ha maybe need to look up some youtube clips

Who are these people putting any random Death Games as recommendations for this, this is so much deeper than just a normal death game, you obvously MISSED THE WHOLE POINT OF THE SHOW....

I'm putting Society Game as recc, it's more aligned to what Squid Game is actually about aka. critical commentary on society and not just a shallow action game

Agreed, these two are like those pairings you never thought of together, but once suggested the possibility you're like "Why did I never think of these two together, what a FANTASTIC pairing!"

Anyway are you sure there's no romance, for example Vinzenco has some even though no romance tags.
I noticed this mystery-COMEDY genre tends to do minimal romances quite often (compared to more serious thriller mysteries, which skip it entirely) or at least hinted at the possibility even if they never kiss/no or not much skinship.
The description of this makes the male & female leads sounds like a fun bickering pair that will show alot of fun bickering type of chemistry like the leads of Switch: Change the world, despite no ppssibly official romance . A fun platonic duo with chemistry can also be fun to watch, that's what learned from Switch and from The Fiery Priest too.

Still hoping for at least some romance though for this bickering duo here 🙏

Oh Yeon Seo back in another drama love it! Also I like the idea of these two as a pair, I hope there's at least minimal romance!

I agree the ML here is too much for an all-powerful male Mary Sue. He is too perfect. I guess they try to compensate by giving him the flaw of also being annoying and judgem ental..but he winds up just as both a mary sue AND annoying lol.
To me JJH plays too charmingly that I'm
just mildly annoyed by her character so far but mostly even liking her & rooting for her character.

Despite that this drama has imo a VERY high entertainment value, no dragging at all; I hope it stays that way throughout whole drama (I just started it for the first time).

Well I guess PURE family dramas are not for me; I do like them when they mix in Revenge or Mafia and make them less about real life problems that way but more real danger aka. Many Crime-Telenovelas and some turkish drama.

Sky Castle is more like a parody of real life, and I do like parodies...when they are more either COMEDIES or FULLY MAJKANG (or more scifi/fantasy/unique ala Squid Game).
One The Woman for example is great but has COMEDY and identity swap mixed in w. typical boring fam drama.
So to me, Sky Castle comes ascross as neither commiting to HILARIOUS Social commentary (tag claims this is black comedy...but it's honestly lacking, Vinzenco for example has actual black COMEDY)
nor going fully high-stakes makjang; ending up with just a typical fam drama that shows more real life genre but in a boring way.....So I'm left neither laughing nor emotionally affected by the drama.

The goals of the main characters are also too boring to me, so I end up not rooting for anyone on Sky Castle. In Penthouse I want to slap all chracters every second lol😅, Sky Castle in worst in that I don't give a f what happens even lol.

One The Woman, Vincenzo, The Fiery Priest = Aced the comedy

Many Mafia telenovelas (they often have fam drama mixed in), Black Money Love, aka. mafia-rom-fam turkish drama(turkish dramas frequently have fam drama), Squid Game (not much fam drama but has a more fun and unique take on real life parody/social commentray than Sky Castle), The Last Empress (fam drama w . makjang edge)
= NAILED The Makjang/drama (without being annoying like Penthouse)

Sky Castle = in between, not commiting to either side, No rootable goals, stakes aren't high enough (compared to when mafia or dangerous revenge involved) or not funny enough either, no laugh aloud black comedy....I wind up bored.

But anyway that's just my opinion, it seems most other were able to enjoy this drama, that is fine, I'm happy for you all, just different tastes.

And thanks for being logical and not judging nor attacking for differing taste, too many times the fans of popular dramas get mega butthurt about the few who dislike and childishly start attacking for differing opinions. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Btw sorry for long comment 😅, as I was typing I realized more & more exactly why Sky Castle wasn't for me.

Penthouse feels more like. a parody of makjnag than a makjang 😅 Maybe its genres should be listed as both makjang AND comedy lol

Happens wih me and popular dramas frequently, I don't know I have different taste...

I also came to this after watching some e of Penthouse, in comparison this lacks drama....( that one has too much lol)

WHO ARE THE PEOPLE WHO ARE RATING THIS MASTERPIECE SO LOW?!?!

Should be 10/10, but really this one is really like 15/10 utter flawless perfection AND DEEP AND INSPIRING AS F!!....People just don't know a masterpiece when they see one sigh

Propably idiots who only want to watch fluffy happy shallow things

I now deleted him from the list. Someone seems to have confused him with being an idol lol

Just started watching this classic for the first time, so far I can understand the hype, it's really entertaining so far.

Also FINALLY THEY CAST A CHILD ACTRESS WHO ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE THE LEAD!! She's looks SO alike , that everytime I see her on screen
I'm blown away by the fact that she's NOT Jun Ji Hyun's real life sister lol;
finally no suspension of disbelief needed on that front! XD

So grateful to writer-nim for NOT making the leads into the terminally ill ones, so tired of that overused and ANNOYING trope; this sounds much better with others being the patients and watching the leads grow from it all rather than having to watch a ticking timebomb for the leads.
Here's hoping for some AMAZING writing, JCW deserves to finally have a drama with good writing all the way through!