DramaHeroine

It does seem to be the one that everyone forgets about. Although I guess that makes sense since it was so poorly made and was never finished.

I understand that many people will disagree with me about this, and that's fine. I have no interest or desire in going into people's private lives and telling them how to live. I just personally disagree with the lifestyle, and I am allowed to. I have no negative feelings or opinions about people who engage in BDSM. I don't think there is something 'wrong' with them. I simply think the lifestyle is not healthy. Perhaps I could have worded these thoughts better in my first comment. But again, I am allowed to feel the way I feel, and I am also allowed to express how I feel in a polite manner, just like you are free to express how you disagree with me.

My first question is just how many people live next door to a chinchilla farmer, and what is that life like, lol? Second, yes yes yes to Overprotected Kahoko (Kahogo no Kahoko). One of my top favorite dramas.

I've been avoiding adding this one to my watch list, because I was afraid of how the relationship would be portrayed. If it was going to be a 'he's never had someone stand up to him before, so he was attracted to and impressed by her strength of character and went an awkward, backwards way of gaining her trust and affection until he eventually realized it's not being pushed around that he likes, it's being pushed to be better' then yeah, I was down for that. But what the story has become just...doesn't sound cool to me. I know some people are into things like BDSM, but that's never sounded healthy to me. Even when it's 100% consensual, there's still a deeper, unhealthy reason for why someone might want to be treated that way, and I wasn't really interested in watching that play out on screen and then be treated as normal.

Honestly, I think I'm leaning more toward something like 1 Litre of Tears, because love stories that end really sad are really difficult for me to watch. 1 Litre isn't a romance, so I won't be so devastated watching two people who love each other be torn apart. The more I ponder my options, the more I think I need to ease myself into those kinds of sad ending dramas.

Up until maybe 4 or 5 years ago, I was a strict rom-com with a happy ending kind of drama girl. I would add dramas of all genres to my to-watch list in a genuine desire to watch them, but if it wasn't rom-com with that fairytale ending, I was unlikely to actually sit down and watch it. And I purposely avoided anything that I knew would have a sad ending, cause that was decidedly Not what I came to Asian dramas for. (I was here for the Romance, gosh darn it.) Then I started to branch out a bit, not into anything too heavy or sad, and certainly not anything with a sad ending, but I became more willing to give stories that weren't strictly rom-com a chance. Age of Youth, After School: Lucky or Not, Five Star Tourist, etc. Eventually, I found myself sprinkling in dramas like Misaeng/Incomplete Life, The Hours of My Life/Boku no Ita Jikan, and My Mister, stories that still have a happy ending but that definitely put you through a level of pain and suffering before getting there. Now I think I'm finally at the place where I can start watching dramas with sad endings and actually, potentially, enjoy them. I just have to find the perfect sad drama to start with, lol. (I'm leaning toward something like 1 Litre of Tears or possibly one of the myriad of amazing looking Chinese historical/wuxia dramas I keep seeing photos and videos for. Ugh! They all look so good, and it's hard to choooooooose.)

Ah, ok. I can understand that then, I guess.

It looks like it’s not out yet.

Are we sure that it's meant to be two distinct seasons, or are they just uploading it in two batches because Netflix is weird like that? I get the impression that Netflix just likes to split their dramas up when they upload them sometimes, not because production is still ongoing or they're meant to be distinct seasons or anything like that, but because they have some weird attachment to their particular system of dump-uploading content, and they're also trying to milk their drama content as much as possible in order to get more eyeballs watching them over a longer period of time. If there's definitely another 6 episodes coming out at some point within the next few months, I wouldn't consider that two separate seasons since 12 episodes is a pretty standard number of eps for a complete drama. To me, that's just Netflix being Netflix and using a weird system for uploading their drama content in order to trick people into using their site more. Which I kinda hate, lol.

Are we sure this drama is only meant to have 6 eps? Or is this another one of Netflix' dramas where they upload it in two parts for no discernible reason? (I still can't wrap my head around why they think that's a good idea.)

Are we sure this is only six episodes, or is this one of those Netflix dramas where they upload the first half of the series all at once and then the second half later on?

Um, the synopsis is actually really different? Yeah, they're still going to meet on a cruise and have a baby and then a miscarriage, but a lot of the other key elements appear to be missing. Like no secondary love interest for the male lead, the main characters will fall for each other Before getting married and pregnant, it honestly sounds like a pretty different, more modern, take on the story to me.

So this is a very interesting sounding take on the original story, and I'm kind of intrigued. Might actually check this out even though I don't really watch C dramas.

So maybe I'm going crazy, but it says this was published on March 10, 2020. But today's only the 7th. Did I just get a peak into the matrix???

I don't agree with OP that they've become westernized, but I do agree that they've changed. I think what's different is Korean audiences and that's what's creating the shift in Kdramas. Koreans just don't want the same things in their entertainment anymore. They're not interested in dramas that use the same tropes and common plot concepts that they used to. They've been there, they've done that, and they're ready for something different. That's not becoming westernized. That's moving on from a particular form of storytelling.

Here from your follow up article, and I just wanted to share my experience in case it might give you some comfort and perspective: I went through a very difficult to admit to and accept drama slump maybe around 2015 or 16 (I think?), and it was a very difficult time for me. I'd been watching dramas for a few years by then (maybe longer, the numbers are really fuzzy in my brain), and I was deeply invested. I loved drama's to the point that I didn't want to admit that I was in a slump and not enjoying them anymore and was sort-of afraid that admitting it would mean I'd lose dramas forever. (I wanted my love of dramas to last until I die.) But I also had to accept that I'd sort of run myself into the ground with my drama consumption and watching dramas as a whole was making me kind of miserable. See, when I love something, I can get a little obsessive about it, and it can be kind of bad for my health sometimes. By that point, I'd developed an unhealthy need to consume every drama ever made, even if I didn't like it or it had nothing to do with my personal interests or any other legitimate reason not to watch a drama. I forced myself to finish every single drama I started (still struggle with this some today, but I'm much better now), pushed myself through a number of terrible dramas that I utterly hated, and lived with a perpetual fear of missing out. Drama FOMO, if you will. But what inevitably happens when you try to force yourself to continue something you're not enjoying is you become stressed out and kind of fractious over something that should really just be fun and not serious and life-consuming. Well eventually, I found myself quitting dramas without even realizing I was doing it, because my brain had finally had enough of my heart going 'But I have to watch it! I have to finish it! It's my duty!' and put it's foot down and said 'Enough. This isn't fun anymore.' After a while of this pattern, I eventually had to say to myself 'Look. Just take a break. It's ok. You're taking this way more seriously than it deserves, and it's bad for you.' So I took a break from dramas, went cold turkey, and allowed myself to focus on other things. In the back of my mind I was still thinking about dramas all the time, because I was so afraid of not having them in my life anymore, but I think my body just knew that it was time to stop, and it ultimately ended up being a very good decision. The break lasted a year or two (again, fuzzy numbers) before I ultimately came back to dramas a couple years ago to try and get back into them again, and my consumption habits have definitely changed since my sabbatical. Mainly, it's slowed down. I watch significantly fewer dramas per year, I don't try to consume everything in existence, and I'm a lot more selective about what I do watch. And while part of me still feels guilty about not watching more of the dramas on my watchlist and wishes I could find a way to get back to that obsessive love I once had, I'm definitely consuming dramas in a much healthier and more enjoyable way (although I admittedly still have a little ways to go.) I still put way too many dramas on my to-be-watched list, I've currently got too many dramas I'm trying to watch all at the same time, and I will still force myself to finish dramas occasionally, but I've completely accepted it now that some dramas, some entire genres, are not for me, and I purposely choose not to watch them at all. I also allow myself to actually drop dramas now when they are just not working for me, and at least half the time, I don't feel any regret about it at all (I did say only half of the time though). I'm honestly just so much less willing to watch a drama I'm clearly not enjoying, and I've found that writing reviews discussing my reasons for not enjoying and ultimately dropping a drama actually helps with drama-dropping guilt. The guilt I feel over it is just so much tinier than it used to be now that I'm expecting it to be pretty non-existent within a few years, and I'd say that's some pretty good improvement. After all, we're not obligated to watch everything Or to like everything, and it's okay to treat dramas as one of many interests/hobbies we have rather than the thing that gives us breath, lol. So all of this was to say, it's okay to take a breather from dramas, whether that's all of them or a particular country, and focus on other things for a while. And if after awhile, you find yourself not interested in coming back, that's okay too. But who knows, maybe when you caught the drama bug, it really was a lifetime commitment, and you and dramas are just moving into a new phase of your relationship with each other, and that's okay too. Just don't take it too seriously, because at the end of the day, there are so many types of entertainment out there, and there's a little something for all of us.

Not that it would be any use to him now, lol.

Bwahahahahahaha! Shakespeare would be making Bank.

This. What he's claiming has been taken from his movie sounds very much like a story Element, not an entire story Plot, and you can't go around copyrighting elements. That's insane.

Thaaaat's a pretty thin case for plagiarism seeing as the premise of a family working together in someone else's house has probably not only been done in other films before but is also not totally implausible to see happening in real life. Not to mention it's not really a story element you should be able to own??? I call frivolous on this.