This was quite a ride, from beginning to end!! Don't listen to the negative comments below - it was way unpredictable, nail-bitingly thrilling in parts, and way more emotional than I thought it ever would be! (And I hope someone subs the last movie soon.)
I just went through my Viki "Following" and "Watchlist" lists and deleted almost all of them, except the ones that I really really want to watch. It feels better now, like injecting a dose of reality into my watchlists. :-)
Love your article and time travel/time loops in dramas! One glaring omission, however - where is Todome No Kiss??! It's maybe the best time loop drama I've seen yet...
I loved The Ghost Bride and I am a huge fan of Chris Wu as well! Also if you want quirky dramas, you need to fill your queue with Japanese shows - they do quirky like no one else, in my opinion. (Maybe that will be my next custom list on my profile - "best quirky J-dramas") Thanks for the article!
Start-Up confuses me... I don't remember a single moment I thought Dal-Mi was going to choose Ji-Pyeong (and I'm…
I agree with everything you said here!! I've been so confused by the malice toward this show (and even the actor in real life, which is just all kinds of wrong!)
So much good stuff coming up - thank you for this article and letting me know what to look forward to! I'm THRILLED to see one of my faves, Yokohama Ryusei, in Shinbun Kisha, and "Netflix" better mean Netflix everywhere! I'm also interested in Yasashii Ongaku and Dakara Korosenakatta and literally counting the days until Alice in Borderland 2. :-)
You are the literal definition of a troll who is spamming every comment here. WE GET IT, you hate this drama - you've repeated yourself ten times now, and we don't need to hear it anymore. You're not changing anyone's mind and just pissing off the rest of us, so go do something more productive.
This is true! My list is one Taiwanese drama and all the rest are Japanese. It seems they like to tell stories about truly dysfunctional schools..LOL. It must be how many folks make sense of their school systems.
What the article says: "The popular Korean-drama star Jung Hae-in goes decidedly unromantic as a soldier assigned to a unit that tracks down and brings back deserters, a task for which the recruit’s unflagging sense of duty makes him perfect and his compassion makes him perfectly unsuited. The show veers between slapstick action and overflowing sentiment, like many South Korea dramas, and the pursuit and apprehension of the deserters involves a lot of punching, slapping, tackling, tasing and hitting with baseball bats. But the show is also a sensitive and forthright examination of how violent, sadistic bullying and rigid hierarchies drive young South Korean men to go to almost any length to escape their compulsory military service."
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(Maybe that will be my next custom list on my profile - "best quirky J-dramas")
Thanks for the article!
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/03/arts/television/best-tv-shows.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab
What the article says:
"The popular Korean-drama star Jung Hae-in goes decidedly unromantic as a soldier assigned to a unit that tracks down and brings back deserters, a task for which the recruit’s unflagging sense of duty makes him perfect and his compassion makes him perfectly unsuited. The show veers between slapstick action and overflowing sentiment, like many South Korea dramas, and the pursuit and apprehension of the deserters involves a lot of punching, slapping, tackling, tasing and hitting with baseball bats. But the show is also a sensitive and forthright examination of how violent, sadistic bullying and rigid hierarchies drive young South Korean men to go to almost any length to escape their compulsory military service."