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Some Day or One Day is one of the best dramas I have ever seen, in any language. It's a masterpiece and I don't say that lightly.

I'm also waiting for Lost Romance to be done so I can binge the rest. I made the mistake of watching it before it was done, and then I didn't want to wait for each new episode to come out. I'm liking it a lot so far and it's so nice to see Marcus again.

Have you seen the rest of my favorites list?

LOL! I hope we get more seasons!

I LOVE TW-DRAMAS! I love love love them. They might not have the biggest budgets - their K- and C-drama counterparts outshine them in this regard, but TW-dramas are just full of LIFE. And yes, sometimes the melodramas are outlandish (but hello, K-dramas!) and yes, sometimes the acting is "passionate" (but again, hello, manga-based J-doramas!) But when I watch the best TW-dramas, I often feel like I'm watching real people - families who truly love each other, and folks who are struggling to find something authentic for themselves.
They're blissfully free of the ridiculous dubbing that drives me crazy in C-dramas, and we get to hear a different kind of Mandarin being spoken, which is always interesting to this native English speaker.
They're (thankfully) not nearly as squeamish about skinship as K-dramas can be, and they are more open to show different kinds of love on screen - they excel in noona romances, and their BL's rival Thai-dramas. ( While their big neighbor censors and denies the existence of same-gender love, this small country has become the first Asian country to have marriage equality and I've wondered if their openness to BL's has helped this progress.)
I'll be honest - some of the most beautiful men I've ever seen are in the TW-dramas that I love: Marcus Chang, Aaron Yan, Wu Kang Jen, Greg Han Hsu, Jasper Liu, Bruce He, Derek Chang, Fandy Fan, Wayne Song, Wang Zi.) And their female actors are powerhouses: (Alice Ke, Ivy Shao, Tia Li, Puff Kuo, )

Here are my favorites:
1) Some Day or One Day (maybe the best drama I've ever seen - it was near-perfection in writing, acting, directing, and cinematography)
2) Back to 1989 (so much to love about this drama)
3) Yong-Jiu’s Grocery Store (more people need to see this!!)
4) Fall in Love With Me (yes, this one went off the rails in the middle, but to get to see Aaron Yan and Tia Li together makes it all worth it.)
5) The Perfect Match (Wu Kang-Jen, or Chris Wu, and Ivy Shao are just brilliant here)
6) What Is Love (Wu Kang-Jen, Jade Chao)
7) Hello Again (totally underrated drama!)
8) HIStory 2: Crossing the Line (my favorite of the series, although I really loved Make Our Days Count...except for, well, you know)
9) Before We Get Married (Jasper Liu and Puff Kuo)
10) Attention Love! (slow burn, and totally worth the wait)
11) Back to Home (I never knew what salt farms looked like!)
10) Love Storm (this one comes with a caveat - I really only liked the storyline between Greg Han Hsu and Chen Yu, but I really, really liked it.)

I love Healer's OST as well.

Dark Walk from Goblin is one of the best pieces of music out there.

There are many, many individual songs from OSTs that I love so much that I either buy from iTunes or put into Spotify playlists, but there are only a few drama OSTs where I loved EVERY song and the whole arc of the OST from beginning to end is an embodied musical experience. Those are listed here (and not in order of preference per se, because that changes for me based on my mood.)
*Forest (some of the best instrumental songs from any drama - perfectly fits the theme of nature, memory, trauma, healing, love, etc.)
*Just Between Lovers (both the instrumental and sung version of I'll Be There by Zitten is perfection itself, and the rest of the songs are masterfully written and performed. "My Family" hits me in the chest every time.)
*When the Weather is Fine (the music follows an arc of freeze to thaw, of sadness to joy)
*Goblin (not much more to add to what others have said, but I will say that so much of this OST is sheer genius - and not available on iTunes for reasons that I don't understand. "Dark Walk" is one of the best pieces of music from any genre, and any region of the world. And I'm Here is so hauntingly beautiful that I can't listen to it very often - it brings too much longing and sadness.)

Thanks for the suggestions!

I haven't seen that drama yet! I generally prefer TW-dramas and K-dramas to C-dramas, but I've watched four C-dramas in a row now, and have liked each one so far.

People love who they love - we haven't fully figured out the mechanics to attraction and desire yet, and so as long as its consensual (and legal) I'm ok with it, generally. Also I'm just a sucker for romance so I love watching people in love - no matter if they have an age gap or not (or are the same gender - love is love!)

I just wanted Dong Mae to have love in his life.....it almost didn't matter who it was. :-)

Two of my top five K-dramas are in your list: Goblin and Thirty But Seventeen, and two of my least favorite dramas ever are also in your list: She Was Pretty, and A Korean Odyssey. To each their own! We all have such diverse likes (and dislikes) and dramas impact us each in a different way. Thank goodness there are a lot to choose from. :-)
My top five K-dramas:
Stranger
Just Between Lovers
Tunnel
Goblin
Thirty But Seventeen

Spoiler tag would be helpful!!!

This is definitely a struggle. I have almost never watched a currently airing drama, (on purpose for these reasons) but I started binging Count Your Lucky Stars not realizing that it was still airing and now I'm annoyed. I stopped watching new episodes of Lost Romance, not because I didn't like it, but because I loved it so much that I wanted to have more than one episode to watch at a time. I think I might just wait until it's done to pick it back up.
I despise spoilers that I don't actively seek out, and more than one drama has been spoiled this way, which is just sucky. More importantly, I've decided that other folks' opinions about a drama are irrelevant. One of the worst things for me is coming here or Viki and reading too many negative comments while I'm watching a drama - it just ruins it for me. So I make it a habit not to read comments while a currently airing show is on, and only sparingly afterwards.

That's what I was going to comment as well. I'm still not sure what all the titles are because I couldn't read them.

I definitely disagree with you (and apparently a lot of people here) about Goblin and Romance is a Bonus Book - I loved both of them immensely. (Also, I'm still confused why some folks have made such a big deal about the actual age between the lead actors in Goblin, considering Kim Go Eun was 25 when she filmed that drama, and not a child.)
I'm not bothered by age gaps at all, and in fact noona romances are some of my favorites. You could add Secret Love Affair here (20 year difference) and Pretty Noona Who Buys Me Food (although that drama had other issues). People love who they love, and I'm here for it, as long as it's legal and consensual. (And I would add that same-gender folks also deserve to love who they love, even if it's not legal - yet - in their country.)
I agreed with you about Mr. Sunshine, but I would have preferred the FL with the SML instead, but not because of an age gap. I also agreed with you about Search: WWW because both couples had great chemistry and were good influences on each other.
Folks seem to get way too worked up about the age of someone, and I find that incredibly problematic, especially for women in this world. A Witch's Romance had some of the fieriest chemistry of any drama I've seen and the FL was in her 40's, and good for her....(because Park Seo Joon) !!

Bonnie, I love your comments here!! I agree wholeheartedly.

Totally disagree with you (but to each their own)

AGREED, @Xue Yin!! Well-said comment! I'm watching Count Your Lucky Stars right now and their chemistry is off the charts!