Michelle Topham

Disagree on the first two (haven't seen the last one). Every episode was superb.

Fair point.

Too many trolls allowed to rate dramas on MDL. And it's a shame, as it likely dissuades some people from watching what, much of the time, turns out to be a very good drama. MDL really needs to block people rating until at least a couple of episodes have been aired.

Solid first episode -- funny, silly, nicely acted (fabulous visual special effects :) and love the leads. Unusual plot too. Loving it so far.

They should also stop the troll ratings from certain groups of people who downrate dramas en masse because a comment a character makes "offends" them.

Never consider MDL ratings. A drama can have a character who says one line that "offends" a certain group of people and they crawl all over MDL downrating it. Watch the show for yourself. I've watched some of the worst-rated MDL dramas and absolutely loved them, and watched the highest rated and hated them. Ratings mean nothing, especially on here, as it's all about personal taste. EDIT (And I liked the first episode -- a unique plot, nicely acted by both main leads, and pretty funny in that quirky Korean way a lot of us like!).

This has been absolutely solid entertainment all the way through. Not remotely surprised it has done so well in the ratings either!

Yawn. Bored now. Bye bye.

Stop believing the mortality rate released by Hamas -- an actual terrorist group. You will end up more intelligent. And btw, if Hamas didn't want to have their members killed, they shouldn't have invaded Israel, killed over 1,300 people (many of whom were not Israeli, but Thai, Dutch, French etc), kidnapped hundreds more and then held them hostage for over 8 months! (And btw, over 75% of Palestinians support what Hamas did on October 7th -- so I would say they are the people with "black souls".

BTW, it's not rocket science. Start a war. Expect to have the country you start a war against to fight back and kill as many as it takes to get their kidnapped hostages back. "Am Yisrael Chai (aka The People of Israel Live).

Nope. That would be Hamas -- murdering over 1,300 people, kidnapping hundreds more and imprisoning them as hostages, while hiding behind Palestinian civilians who have joined the cult. That is a precise definition of a cult. And it will eventually wipe out every Palestinian if they don't break free from it.

Yawn. Go away, you're just a troll.

Yep. Out of the 3 she mentioned, Rowoon has by far the weakest acting skills. Hard to watch him in some scenes. And definitely not 'unfixable' as, if he worked on them, he could get to the level of BWS.

What's also interesting, and I do agree with everything you said, a huge number of writers who write K-dramas are female. And the ones who are successful are very successful. So the misogyny in the industry does not reach all parts of it.

You apparently know nothing about the Korean entertainment industry (hint: I've been covering it as a journalist for more than 10 years).

Like she/he said, KHY changed agencies between filming Lovely Runner and the drama airing. So... when an agency would normally spend money on promoting their actress, her old agency didn't as (like she/he said), it wouldn't benefit them, and, on top of that, her new agency dropped the ball and didn't promote her either.

So... Byeon Woo Seok got a massive amount of publicity for Lovely Runner, as his agency spent money, which is why he was all over entertainment news for weeks, and KHY basically got nothing because nobody was promoting her.

And still she was nice about it, and about him, which shows what a nice, kind person she is.

Reported.

Edit: Now available on KOCOWA in Europe. It wasn't last night when I checked.

Masters Degree in Political Science here with an emphasis on the Middle East, so I've done my research on that region of the world as well as spent copious amounts of time in the Middle East, unlike the Pro-Hamas supporters who believe the data being released by actual terrorists.

And btw, I would love for one of you to explain how there is a "genocide" or an "occupation" when the Palestinian population has not only not had an Israeli living amongst them in the Gaza Strip for 20 years, but also has had one of the highest population growths worldwide for the last two decades.

A population, I might add, with over 70% of Palestinians supporting the terrorist acts of Hamas against Israelis on October 7th. You want to support terrorists, you do you. Just be aware that many of the people you feel sorry for would happily throw you off a building and not even wait to see you hit the ground.

And when you call them Anti-Semitic they say "only against Zionists", conveniently forgetting 95% of Jews are Zionists. (Alongside a huge section of the not-crazy western public).

Both the Israeli drama and the American remake are superb. Especially the American drama. Really disturbing stuff, when you see how far some parents will go to protect their children.