Olive4213

Ken is deliciously evil so far. When he's on screen, it's hard to look anywhere else.

Also, mad props to Thippy who is subbing this, for which I'm ever so grateful.

But this lakorn is featuring the usual women as dummies theme. Khem is so stubbornly stupid, I find myself hoping she falls into a hole somewhere, and a another character plugs the hole up with a big rock.

And Yada is apparently the beautiful, intelligent, older sister who absolutely must appear in every scene crying or with tears in her eyes. I haven't found a female character to like in this lakorn yet, but it's still early (only 4 episodes in) and maybe the women will stop being such wimpy dummies with more episodes. But you know. Lakorn. So I'm not getting my hopes up.

I came pretty close to hitting a drama slump this year, but then I remembered that there a few--School 2017, Fight My Way, Strong Woman Do Bong Soon, Because This is My First Life and Money Flower--that were really good and saved the year. 2018 so far looks like it may be pretty blah, but there will probably be some break out shows, several from China, Taiwan and Thailand, that save the year. I hope.

I completely agree with you: bi-sexual is fine, but that is not the same thing as "deciding" to be attracted to one sexual orientation or the other. The entire premise of this show annoys me.

Nicely done article, and fun to read, too!

Most of this year has been one long drama slump for me. I stopped watching more than half of the things I started, including most of the things on your list.

I loved Sawan Biang (don't hate me). It really IS a mess, though: the thing I disliked strongly about it was the misplaced revenge by Kawee. I mean, he's furious at his father's newest wife (for reasons), and so he takes his revenge on the wife's sister?

I like lakorns, and I've watched a lot of them. Once you digest the idea that karma and forgiveness, along with the "purity" of women are central thematically, you accept a level of nuttiness in these dramas you wouldn't accept anywhere else--and the notion of personal responsibility is sort of a moving target--which is how you get some really ridiculous revenge lakorns.

However, and this is a BIG however, many of the characters are given actions and dialogue that make them look like they're too stupid to live--especially the women characters. I mean. the writers can thread all of the culture-centric ideas their viewers want in their dramas, but that doesn't mean they have to make the characters into idiots, too. There have been several lakorns I've watched where I've wondered just how stupid the writers think think the audience is.

This is a terrible lakorn. Unless you have a high tolerance for mama's boys who would rather destroy the life of the [pregnant] woman they love rather than to do the right thing, give this lakorn a wide berth. I like, a lot, that lakorns have forgiveness, repentance, karma and the redemption by love as their themes, but not even featuring 3 out of 4 of those AND being set in Austria can rescue this lakorn. You will want to empty a bucket of swill on the main male lead. Trust me. Avoid.

Say what, now?
Something about a painter, an accident, amnesia, and a culprit?

What is it with cdrama endings? Even when a novelist ends their book with a HE, the film maker decides to end it another way--"Sealed with a Kiss" for example, or "Princess Agents". Is there like a law saying unless it's a romantic comedy, it has to be a bad or sad ending?

I'm going to watch this as the episodes air, rather than binge watching it, but if this drama ends as badly as Princess Agents did, it will be the last. damn. time. I ever watch a cdrama without knowing something about the drama's ending.

Looks like DramaFever picked it up, too. I think we're going to be seeing a lot more cdramas at both DF and Viki since the k-networks decided to limit the dramas they license so they can stream their own content.

I was just looking that up! Wow, it's annoying that Netflix changes titles of dramas, isn't it? Makes it harder to look things up.

Oh, I doubt Viki will license this. I don't know what's wrong with them--they get quite a lot of feedback from their users about what their users want to subtitle and watch--and then they ignore the feedback. If it involves $$, Viki right now is going for the worst kind of bottom feeding trash. Just check the "coming soon" section of their website. Viki's going to keep doing this until their subscriber base shrinks. Not that they particularly care about their subscribers. So pissed at them right now.

I looked forward to seeing MSR for months. I did not hate the first episode, and I liked the second one better. The series has some skinship, and Sung Hoon, a hilarious secretary side-kick (and the budding romance between this secretary and a woman of cleavage who works in the female lead's department), and a lovely little boy who's not a half-bad actor.

This is the complete summary of this drama's good points; other than these, there is nothing to recommend this show which is much more boring than it should be, repetitive and hackneyed.

Sung Hoon oppa can kiss, but even if he was kissing for 13 hours, this show still wouldn't be worth it.

He did. He was mostly adorable. Except for the times when he was soft to the point of being an idiot. There was more than once where his gentleness bordered on cringe-worthy. But hey. I like me some bad boys.

The cliches are wretched, and I still manage to enjoy them, although I don't really know why.

The characters, especially women, are completely simplistic/black-or-white. They're either evil cunning bitches, or bodice-clutching saints.

Just the other day, I was feeling sad that Viki had stopped airing lakorns before I got the chance to see the ones I most wanted. But then it dawned on me that if you've seen any ten, you can't feel too broken-hearted that you can't see the other 90 that are just like 'em.

The side couple in "Oh Hae Young" was the funniest thing I saw last year. They were so utterly wrong and hilariously awkward. If I wasn't watching that drama again for the best kdrama kiss of all time, I'd have been watching it anyway for the side couple.

Yes, indeed. And in "Black Devil and White Prince" (the movie), he pulls her hair so that he can bite her ear. It was sweetly erotic, as is the entire film.

I would like to add my thanks to you for your hard work. Thank you so very much for doing it. I'm so glad to have the opportunity to tell you how much I appreciate it--thanks for posting here.