Kannadin

Oh ok thank you. I didn't know it was only 8 episodes. I think everybody can just stop panicking then. It's gonna air as planned. I mean I haven't looked into it much, but whether it's true or not, it's a money scandal... Not something linked with drugs or sexual misconduct, as far as Netflix is concerned, no need to cancel a whole show for that.

Oh my! Same!
Well I wish the both of us to get "cured" this year 🤣

Here's the thing though... I can't fast forward for the life of me, let alone skip episodes... Also I globally know the story, but there's quite a lot of characters in this series, it's not that easy to follow once you've let it on the side for a while.

I watched the donghua by the way and really enjoyed it though they skipped quite a LOT of the main story.

Anyway... Right now... I'm still deciding... Still on my "Thai phase"... Giving myself a couple of days to make a final decision.

I might watch a couple of Chinese movies in-between... That will give me more time to decide...

Is it a Netflix exclusive? Or wasn't it supposed to be aired on some Korean channel as well?

(If it's a Netflix exclusive, I'm sure it's gonna air no problem but if it was supposed to air on a Korean channel that's another story...)

[Putting the spoiler tag because this comment is too long]

Chinese dramas are the worst to drop...

Like, since lots of these dramas are novel adaptations, you sort of feel obligated to watch quite a number of episodes to get into the "meat of the story" and yet, once you're past the long introduction that usually takes 10 episodes or so, it becomes difficult to drop the whole thing.

Right now I'm in the middle of wondering if I should drop the Untamed ( And yeah, I know EVERYONE loved that show). I've watched 10 episodes... I just can't get into it... But here's the thing. I already dropped it once 3 years ago... I went up to episode 17 or 27 from what I remember... and it was a struggle...

I started the novel a bit after that and I enjoyed them ( though due to lack of time I haven't finished them but planning on picking them up again at some point) but for some reasons... I just can't with the drama.

SO

I already dropped it once... If I drop it this time, am I going to pick it up again? I just don't want to bother rewatching episodes I already watched because I forgot the story. So I know that if I drop it NOW, I'm never EVER gonna bother again...

But everybody says I would be missing out.

This is the worse case scenario because I feel I should like the show but for some reasons things are not clicking. I already gave it a try years ago and people said that after a while you get into it but how long exactly is the "while" in question?

So here I am stuck. Usually I try to switch between languages: Korean Chinese , Japanese ( often with anime instead of dramas or movies) and Thai... So right now, I should switch to Chinese after a couple of episodes of the Thai drama I'm watching...

But I don't want to start something else... Otherwise the list of shows become too long and it becomes complicated to complete. Apart from when I'm on holidays, I try to keep my watching list under 5 dramas and/or anime, 1 in each language with eventually one currently airing drama/anime.

Anyway here I am.
What do you think I should do?

HA! Good luck to us. I've only managed to drop shows which I know there's several seasons. Take Taxi Driver for instance. The show didn't grab me and knowing that there's 3 seasons and how much I HATE this idea of having multi seasons shows, it was easy to drop... But for the classic 1 season dramas?

More than 20 years of Asian dramas under my belt... and I still haven't learned my lesson.

Nah... It doesn't get better for the OST. If you don't like it, I doubt you're gonna change your mind later...

Personally I would advise against watching this slowly if your intent is truly to finish it... It's one of this show that if you put on hold, you're never going to finish... There's just absolutely nothing that is going to make you want to go back to it whether we're talking about the main intrigue or the romance.

Honestly, I was on holidays until last week, which is why I managed to finish it and IT STILL was one heck of a struggle but if I was working... I'd have dropped it. Waste of my free time.

Well you'll see how you do... But if you put it on hold... I'm 99% sure you're gonna drop it.

Ha... Well if that's how you feel... I'm sorry to tell you that it's not gonna get better. We do get an explanation for the villain in episode 12 or 13 from what I remember ( I was bored so much by brain erased most of the drama quickly after I finished it)... still as far as I'm concerned, some of his decisions still don't make sense even knowing his tragic story.

Depends on you I guess... Personally, if I had been a rational person, I would have dropped it at episode 6 because everything you said... is exactly how I felt as well... and sadly, these feelings stayed up to the end. But since I'm stupid and thought I was almost halfway, I finished it.

I consider it a pure waste of time. I gave 5.5 as a ratings for the cinematography and the actors... but not for the story....

So in conclusion... if you're smart, drop it. If you're stupid like me, keep on watching.🤣

PS: The OST is crazy good though.

How the murderer got scot-free to until almost the very end can only be summed up as "botched investigation" or " lazy writing" and I wish we could have witnessed the Prosecutor's father's downfall...

But apart from that, it was a well-paced very enjoyable show. Although it wasn't romance focused, the kisses were some of the best I've seen in a K drama so that's another plus.

Overall I'm left with a very warm feeling. It's not a flawless show but still a show I'd recommend for a good one time watch.

I think for me, the really positive point is the pacing. Honestly I've seen so many terribly paced C and K dramas as of late that for once, getting a drama that does the pacing right AND gives a satisfying ending that doesn't feel overly rushed nor long comes literally as a miracle.

Anyway, a solid 8.5. Won't rewatch it... but hoping Kim Jae Yeong does a rom com next. I dropped most of his recent dramas because they didn't grab me but this guy just knows how to give his viewers butterflies.

I know. I thought he would get a lead role after the success of Semantic Error but I guess going to the army was sort of mandatory given his age and that sort of postponed his rise. It's fine though. Hopefully he'll be the ML in his next drama.

I mean I get you but if it was that, it would have been surprising but then you'd have to give a proper reason and I don't think they could justify it in the little screentime we had left... If they did it, it wouldn't have made sense without proper explanation.

As for the rest, to be fair, I think that any culprit would have felt anti-climatic.

So true ^^ Maybe I unconsciously associated him with a guilty verdict due this type casting as well 🤣🤣🤣

OHHHHHHHHHH

So it was the ex...
Honestly it did cross my mind at some point because I didn't really see the point of her character yet she was given too much screentime for a nobody... She wasn't even in a love triangle of any sort because Ra Ik didn't care about her any more so all that screentime felt a bit weird to me...

Still... No certainty about any character so very well done.

If I had had to bet on someone, I'd probably have voted for the CEO since he only cared about keeping Ra Ik in his company and U Seong signing with another company meant Ra Ik would leave.

Hopefully he gets a lead role next. He's no SML material.

Glad I started this show late and just caught up for the two last episodes.

I think I would have gone insane if I had to patiently wait for 2 episodes each week especially since the Prosecuteor duo, Father and Son, is driving me up the wall.

Hopefully tonight the Son goes down, followed by his shi*** father tomorrow. I WANT BLOOD. 😈😈😈

Anyway, MDL ratings are a joke. This show was ( at episode 10, waiting for episode 12 for final verdict) great up to this point. I'm just removing 1 point for how much screentime was given to the most irritating characters especially at the beginning of the series.

The second half was more emotionally rooted with our main characters which I think fitted well.
Overall a very good watch, very well-paced unlike many K dramas I've seen as of late...

I still have absolutely no idea who the murderer is... But who knows? It could me the ex's father for all we know or even the cleaning lady.

Haha^^ Ok now I get it 🤣🤣🤣

IF the Prosecutor and his ass*** of a father both don't get their comeuppance by the end of this show I'm gonna scream BLOODY MURDER.

I want not only their downfall but also utter humiliation. I want SENA to gloat onver their despicable corpses.

Here I said it.
They both piss me off so much 🤬🤬🤬🤬

Treating other people's lives as nothing but tools for their selfish ambitions. That's what you get when people with no moral compass have too much power.

Lol 🤣🤣🤣
Hang in there because they really don't get better.
But err what does haram bit* mean?

Well err... They broke up a couple of years ago actually.

On episode 6...

I don't know who I hate more between the prosecutor and Jae Hui. The mother is also on another level...

Basically most secondary characters are annoying as hell. Even the other bandmate is annoying as fudge, it's one thing to be a freakin' coward but to outwardly lie when literally another bandmate is about to be branded a murderer and sent to jail is something else.

If only they had less screentime...