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I feel sympathy for her, and I guess S. Korea's divorce laws have forced her into a combat corner, but her ethics are . . . troublesome.

Sun Woo's friend, Myung Sook (the "double spy") is a ghoul. Or a vampire. I can't decide which. If you thrive on other people's misery, you should just exit the planet.

This might be the most intense, mature, and exciting Kdrama I've ever seen. Excellent drama to watch as it airs. You need a week between episodes so that you don't throw your electronics out the window. I despise every character in the drama so far (except the kids), which makes it nearly perfect.

Finally an official place to talk about bad styling. The worst dressed for me was the FL in the Cdrama, "Face Off". (Sorry. I know we're talking about Kdramas now, but I can't help myself.) They styled her like she was 12, and stuck pompoms on all her garments. It was ridiculous.

Runner-up for worst styling was the FL in "Go Go Squid" (Yes, another Cdrama. Sorry. I'm terrible at following directions,) Her outfits were oversized, shapeless, frumpy and pointless.

There were at least 3 costumes in "Goong" that were fabulous, but most of her outfits were utterly silly.

I couldn't agree more.

When the ML is a cheating bastard, that's fine. But if the FL even has lunch with another male, holy fuckballs, the sky is falling. I hate the double standards in lakorns more than any other trope in their dramas, and that's saying something.

At the time I wrote this comment, episode 1 is subbed on YT on Tencent Video's channel.

Really well done, and helpful. Thank you so much.

So fed up with psychopath/serial killer/super-duper detective plots. But it's Lee Joon Gi playing a scary villain, so I have no choice but to watch it. (I hope he's put on a little weight, though. Sorry, that was a dispatch from the small mind department.)

Back when it had the other synopsis, I was really looking forward to seeing this Cdrama (not that I really believed it would get aired.)

This next, newest synopsis makes the drama sound like every other Cdrama ever produced, Maybe the first synopsis was wrong. Maybe the producers have had to slice and dice the film they've already got, just to get it on the air and get some of their money back. Which I completely understand.

But it's the OTHER damn drama I waited for, not this blah, tropey thing.

One of the reasons I liked "My Mister" so much was his role as IU's tormenter. I really like his restrained performance.

I'll be looking forward to this drama.

One of the reasons I liked "My Mister" so much was his role as IU's tormenter. I really like his restrained performance.

I'll be looking forward to this drama.

Oy. More dramas with serial killers and supernatural detectives. I'll watch one or three of these dramas, but for the most part, it looks like there's no end in sight for my Kdrama drought.

Thank you so much for the listicle!

Oh, my favorite genre.

Both y'all got nothing on me. My first Asian drama was "Noble, My Love". So very, very bad, that one and somehow, not bad enough to keep me from watching 100 or more kdramas after.

So true. I think she cried in every episode (which was the director's fault, really), but even so, it ruined the drama for me, and put me right off Go Ah Ra--possibly permanently.

I've watched it 99 1/2 times, so I'm just saying, but Ha Ji Won's coming and going martial arts prowess in "Secret Garden" near drove me insane. In episode 1, she rides a crappy bike to out race a van full of baddy purse snatchers, stops it, beats all eleventeen gangstas in the van, gets the purse, and gives the purse back to the obnoxious loser who got it grabbed in the first place, but she can't deal with Hyun Bin in later episodes when he manages to grab her wrists. Now, arguably, that's part of the charm of "Secret Garden", but it's suuuuuuper annoying when a FL is drawn to be strong and capable except for when she's a dimwitted crybaby around the ML.

How a drama ends is the one sure thing I check here at MDL, because ain't nothing I dislike more in a drama than having watched 40 or 50 hours of it only to get to a tragic ending. I'm not looking for a good cry ever, but stumbling on one really sucks.

Jin Dong. I'm in. Hope it gets subbed.

Mango TV is pretty good about subbing their stuff, particularly if they get signs at YT that there's a market for subbing the drama.

I'm not reading books of any kind lately, much less Chinese novels--which I probably wouldn't read in the first place, for the reason that any book that's been translated so that you can read it rises or falls on the skill of the translator (if you can't read Chinese). Combine that with how a Chinese novel can be mangled to death by adapting it to the screen, and my feeling is you're better off sticking to either the book or dramatization. Doing both will probably make you lose your mind. [Not you, Wandering Queen. You seem to have the knack for it. Good article, by the way!]

I'm still pissed about what happened to Princess Agents, which had some fairly radical departures from the novel. Especially the ending. I'm going to be mad about that forever.