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You’re welcome! I loved it too. :-)

He’s a phenomenal actor and lights up the screen whenever he shows up. I look forward to seeing him more.

Let us know what you think when you’re done!

I haven’t seen a K-drama in a long time (preferring J-dramas instead) but honestly this looks interesting enough to make me want to try it.

Obviously he doesn’t stay that way or the drama wouldn’t be on this list.

He was really good in I Remember You. I don’t agree at all that he lacks charisma, but we have different opinions about him and that’s fine.

Did you like it? I haven’t seen it yet.

What are your favorites?

I’ve heard characters (and real people) being referred to as “Teflon” - I guess this would be the same idea…

What does “thicc plot armour” mean? I’ve never heard that phrase before.

I LOVED this so much. Some of the best fight scenes I've seen yet in this series, and incredibly emotional parts sprinkled throughout.
We need to take just a minute to appreciate the ARMS on Mackenyu, my lord, and the simply beautiful long dance between Enishi and Kenshin. This was, imho, Mackenyu's best role to date. He's the whole package.
My girl Tsuchiya Tao is a straight up badass, she's the real thing, and a joy to watch every minute she's on screen.
Unpopular opinion, but mine nonetheless: I didn't read the manga, I haven't seen the anime. I don't care about the manga, and I don't care about the anime, or what they left out or didn't leave out or anything else this comment section is full of complaining about. Each film has built on the last one, and I cannot wait to see the fifth film in a few weeks - thank you, Netflix.

Here's an article about the queen from Queen for Seven Days.
https://www.historyofroyalwomen.com/dangyeong/queen-dangyeong-seven-day-queen/

Please put your comment under a spoiler tag - that was a lot of specifics you just laid out and there are folks who haven't watched those dramas yet on here and won't want to be spoiled.
While you bring up good points about the dramas you mentioned, Queen For Seven Days was based on factual people and real events in history, even as it was dramatized for television. I would imagine that 15th century Joseon royal culture was probably much, much worse in reality than the 21st century dramas portray it to be.

You're welcome! Happy to help. :-)

Ok! So excluding his last two main drama roles, which you've already seen, these are my recommendations:
Dramas:
Shiro demo Kuro demonai Sekai de, Panda wa Warau (2020)
Hajimete Koi wo Shita Hi ni Yomu Hanashi (2019)
Anata no Ban Desu - Counterattack (2019)
Brother's Friend (2018) (This one is not as good as the others)

Films: (excluding the ones you've already mentioned)
Your Eyes Tell (2020)
Cheer Boys!! (2019)
Inakunare Gunjo (2019)
Ao no Kaerimichi (2018)
Rainbow Days (2018)
Kiseki: Sobito of That Day (2017)

There are a few others that I'm in the middle of myself and so don't know how they'll end. Let me know how you like some of these!!

I never saw the original YET, so I love love love the remake. To each their own, and sometimes I like the original of something better too, so I get it.

Yes! What have you seen already?

Thanks for sharing your story, and for your encouragement!
Trauma, and one's response(s) to it, has a lot to do with what's called "perception of overwhelm." If a potentially traumatic thing happens to someone, and they 'perceive' it to be 'overwhelming', then it's much more likely to cause a trauma response. Perception is reality. So yes, in a way you could say that it's often about an interpretation of the events rather than the events themselves. That's one aspect of a trauma response.
Overwhelm could also refer to how a person's nervous system, where a trauma response often originates, reacts to potentially traumatic events.

I want to be very, very clear here that this almost always is subconscious, it's not an ACTUAL choice to either perceive an overwhelm or to choose to be overwhelmed. It's not our fault if we perceive something to be overwhelming - it just 'is.' Our brains and nervous systems do this subconsciously, and often our 'thinking' brain doesn't realize what's happening. We're all one body, obviously, but sometimes certain parts of our body take over and do things subconsciously, (like breathing and digestion.) This is also true often of trauma and how we respond to it.

This is a very simplistic way of explaining this, but I want to use plain language so folks can understand what I'm saying. (And I'd like to normalize these kinds of conversations as well.)

This is a very nuanced question, because no one drama gets it right completely, and some dramas I've watched have just one or two particular scenes where a character says or does something that matches reality. :-) Plus trauma is very complex and has lots of different facets to it, and is different for everyone.

But all that said, the one drama that had enough right on enough aspects of trauma (for me) was Just Between Lovers. And I will think seriously about writing an article on this, so maybe I won't expound too much more here. But suffice it to say, that that drama was often quite realistic in its portrayal of both the physiological and emotional symptoms of a "primary" trauma (often called PTSD but actually becoming more complex than that diagnosis), as well as the secondary trauma and the secondary impacts of trauma on family members, friends, and the larger community.)
I'm not saying that it was 100%, and folks might quibble with this bit or that bit in the drama, and that's fine, but it gets enough right for me.

One other recommendation would be Melo is My Nature, which shows the complex link between grief and trauma and how it can manifest in our bodies and brains.

The same storytelling device is actually used in both dramas to describe one particular way the two characters' experienced their grief/trauma, and I actually really liked how it was done in both dramas. What I liked was that - for both characters - it wasn't the ONLY way their traumas were experienced, it was just one aspect. I also liked that neither drama showed a quick fix - yes, both dramas had romantic elements to them, but they weren't magical fixes.

I haven't seen Age of Youth, so thanks for the recommendation.