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Thank you Kele! I try. I have an MDL friend that I correspond with often. We trade back and forth on dramas and movies and what is nice about that is that we can be more open with what we think.

It's been so long that I've have watched Search and I liked most of it and the end made sense but you know, up in the air. Sense of freedom for those 3 women.

You might like Rational. It really is a woman's rights drama with a noona romance on top of it. I'm watching it for the second time, skipping over side stories. (another one of my annoying tropes but sometimes necessary.)

Believe it or not, every time I read articles on MDL, if I like the drama I put it on my watchlist. Well, it has grown out of proportion so I am culling it, painfully.

I'll try to make a list of my most favorites and I'll send it to you here. You may have seen most of them but in case you haven't, you might try one or two.

Thanks!

Yep, since I haven't ever written a review, I need to put my review in some easy readable format. I've read some that are very good and some that have unending paragraphs!

My problem is that I don't understand the language spoken. A lot gets lost in the translation and depending who translates it too. I watch some Italian movies and since I speak the language, the translation is almost a summary.

Well better to have the translation than not, right?!

Thanks DramaTime333! Later!

I agree- I wish the writer could read our posts. I too would love to watch those evil women get punished, especially Sara. That sour, pouty face. Why can't the ML wake up?

Well for the first time, I plan on writing a review. I'm not that great of a writer but I think people need to know. It just sprung out of the blue so to speak.
I agree that too much business especially without real business talk, just gibberish turns people off but this one has some meaningful business.
I wrote my comments on Viki. I think I would, as one person, like to reward this kind of adult conversation instead of rewarding dramas that are filled with tropes, childhood connections, pretend romance, pretend kisses, where one lead goes away for 1 or 2 years or more, or any and all of these quick and cheap writing tricks.

On the other hand, DramaTime333, it isn't finished yet. Who knows what will happen. I may have spoken too soon. :-)

You are brave mtfbwy! I just use the Young Lady if there isn't anything else I want to see. On the other hand, if the ML has off and on amnesia I'm going to drop it or fast forward. Too many episodes left to go.

Ratings may be high in Korea because it is a family show on weekends. Maybe there isn't much to watch during that time :-) Or maybe we are all crazy and love to watch it (I'm included). It's light, it's fun, it's romantic, it's got out of control people in it that people can relate to

Yep, I just rationalized it for myself!!!

I wonder for which drama she won the award for. Wow, I doubt that she will win an award for Young Lady and the gent. At least hope so. :-)

It may not make any difference - we would have to be higher in the status poll :-) At least I don't count :-) But we still can protest.

I can hardly wait until the next available episode of Win The future!
I agree with all your points!
The business part of it didn't make much sense at first but it all hangs together as the episodes progress.
This is not a drama like for example, Hometown chachacha.... no super happy stuff. It is intense, a little bit of angst but not a lot, but one could learn a bit about business by just watching this!
I really like to know how this sleeper was left sleeping?!
It is really sad to me. The two mains are excellent and the lack of tropes is so satisfying.
Thanks for your comments DramaTime333!

I think they must have a bad publicity group - even on Viki, the usual complaining suspects are not there. This is a fantastic series - very unusual watching the explosive chemistry between the two main leads. It doesn't make sense. It just popped up on Viki. no warning.

Yes, I'll watch Luo Yun Xi in anything he is in BUT Broker exhausted me completely. I really don't like Victoria Song, she sucks out the air in any of the dramas I've seen her in. (eg: Lover or Stranger etc).

Win the Future is really exciting in so many ways: ML and FL passionate/hate relationship, interesting business stuff and I love the OST. It's so weird, in watching it on Viki.com, no one seems to be commenting. Not even the complainers about the lack of subs. I don't understand what is going on with this drama's publicity also. Strange.

I am a happy ending person too!!! I don't like bad endings and I hope Win the Future has a good one.

I will keep the recommendations coming. Will save your name in my email list. I'm rewatching The Rational Life on Netflix. Good ending. Cute Noona drama. Will try to find others to send you in case you haven't watched them.

I watched Search: WWW. Somehow the ending was up in the air so to speak? Wasn't it about 3 women who get together to flourish and survive?

I watched it with subs on Viki and what I've discovered is that if only a partial portion of a drama is subbed, somethings if you close it and restart the drama (while staying in Viki), you can get more subbed portion of the episode.
I think the subbers work hard and continuously add more subs. In other words, it's almost real time and you can get a few more subbed portions of the drama by closing and reopening the drama.

17 and 18 were really good - the cut throat is astounding. The occasional romance between the leads is good too.

I hope this sleeper has come alive!

How do we complain about that issue? We can't complain to the writers but really an article would be great. I wish I could write as well as some people that write those long articles.

From what I understand, because MDL is for English speaking people, the writers may not care about how we feel or read about our comments.

But this issue affects everyone that watches these dramas/ movies, English speaking or otherwise.

Maybe I can write to Netflix. :-)

Thanks Idb01 for your thoughts.

To me that's not fair. I would rather see the drama concentrate on the two leads instead of the rest of them being featured so much.

I apologize Achi, yes they did show FL's mom and dad when she went to visit them. They were nice people. Dumb me, sorry. As far as ML father, he got mentioned but I don't think I've seen him. Again apologies!

That is sad about fang wei, he has been trying so hard. Yes, luo jia looked abs beautiful in orange. She is such a good actress and her eyes tell it all.

I love this series but I really got very confused on ep 17 where the 2 main leads were writing on the white board. I didn't know what it was all about but I think the ML was planning on winning. Love his facial expressions.

I wish I could write to the writer. I looked at his dramas that he wrote on MDL and I was not impressed. Dramas with long episodes with relatively low rating, except for Young Lady and the Gent.

I wonder why the LM was gone for 7 years. He seems like a very sweet man and doesn't follow the usual K-drama idol personality. Sad, though.

To watch an interesting 2 year old interview of him you might find this interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv-ij-260uU
Probably he gets bad roles but tries to make the best of them. From the interview, he seems like a very nice person.

He has a new one supposedly coming out called Oh Man Sang and Prejudice but no definite date published.

Yes, flashbacks a lot. Flashbacks are ok but don't feature them majorly,

Enough of that. I skip a lot of the flashbacks even though they give reasons for why the main leads are the way they are but don't make them the major part of the drama.

I like the ML however - loved him in Parasite. A good idea to wait until the end - I've been doing that recently. Lesson learned :-)

I'll try to find the review, thanks. ML is doing a great job in spite of the bad writing. There are a few interviews of him on Youtube. He comes off as a very humble person in one of the interviews. Also there is a funny Youtube of him and the FL, interviewed by some funny people.

In both interviews, he remains the same - humble, calm, non assuming and sort of cute spacey. So unusual for a K-drama actor, I think. I like!