ShortCircuit

After first ep - wow, we've got Taiwan's Gravitation, let's goooooo :D

Just passing by because it annoys me to no end that the composer stole basically 80% of Joe Hisaishi's Mononoke Hime OST - basically the main line for Legend of Ashitaka - for the OP and will probably see no repercussions for it, dammit. Shame on him.

YES!!! Too bad it doesn't look like Mao Mao will come back for a spin, too... But Greg Hsu - I'm in!

Devoured it in a day and a half. This is just as good as the original, even though I still have a little preference for LJG (because he's LJG!).

RIP Miura Hamura, I hope he's at peace, wherever he is.

Thank you to Irozuku Subs - great work!

What's wrong with Kopiko, Subway, Kia, all kinds of brands of water, LOL, coloured cool drinks (didn't catch their name, they were all over My Demon though), oh and let's not forget Samsung??? (Everybody and their dog in the slums ALWAYS have the latest Samsung phone, LOL.) Oh and that looooong streak of BMW cars in QoT, right? That was so subtly done. /s

I'm pretty sure I'm forgetting a trillion others, LOL. But I HATE Kopiko and Subway insertions the most. I'll never EVER in my life buy anything Kopiko and I'll never step in another Subway.

Thai BLs are also conspicuous about this, LOL, from Toyota to any brand of toothpaste or "fresh" drink you want - it's there in a in-drama commercial :D

....I did fall for the Kia Sportage though (featured in While You Were Sleeping) but it's always been out of my price range and it's too big for me now. But wow, did I love that car (and it's been 10 years now, still haven't gone over it.)

We will remember your courage, fight on! :D

After Jirisan, I wanted to watch JJH in ANYthing. But then anything turned out to be Blood Free and I couldn't, LOL.

I'll give this one a try instead :D

... By the director of The Impossible Heir *sigh*

I postponed this forever because of what happened to Miura Haruma (RIP, beautiful soul), but now I'm watching it, I remember the thrill of the original, too.

I just might re-watch the original, too, after this. So far, so good. Knowing the general story is helping a lot, the young prosecutor is a bit overacting IMHO, but MH is perfectly cast for the Japanese version. (The dark and dangerous stalker is more stalkerish in the kdrama version, LOL, but one can't have it all.)

As to the kids... TBH I still love little SooJin more, but little Hana is also sooooo cute!!

ETA LPT don't ever start a drama that you know you'll like at 4 AM on a sleepless night, because then it'll be 8 AM and you're 4 eps in and you STILL haven't slept for the day!

Also, MANY THANKS TO IROZUKU SUBS, you guys rock!

Some dramas get super-inflated ratings, now imagine what if people were forced to watch the worst dramas ever THEN evaluate those that are already overrated. Ratings would explode :D

I guess the seal-clapping made the whole ep, LOL.

Also, OMG, did Amasawa basically call Sakuraba a mama-san AND a good boy at the same time?!! I kept waiting for Sakuraba to slap his hand away, but no, I guess we'll have a good doggie... er, boy who cooks for Amasawa everyday LOL.

Wow, two editorials in a row :D IDC, I'll take it :D

I haven't watched any of the dramas you've listed, (though I think I kind of watched - maybe - one episode of that cdrama, too - I have a vague impression the FL is in fact a substitute for the legitimate daughter and sent to the groom in her place, or something). I don't really go on with dramas low-rated UNLESS they weren't low-rated before I started (like The Impossible Heir, LOL). But I've learned to try a first ep and not go on, instead of trying hard and dropping them anyway, so there's that, too.

I've only completed very few of dramas I'd rate under 6, but they usually are better rated in the end that what I'm rating them... (Checking now, 6 dramas finished that I rated under 6, and including those rated 6, there are 12 in total, LOL, out of which half are Thai BLs...) I don't watch short-cdramas, I guess I'd be giving more under 6s a lot, LOL. I DID drop quite a few that are under 5, because I finally learned not to try to make it through if it's not for me.

Would I start a drama that has been low-rated, if it's finished airing? Not a short-format, anyway, and I would, if it's rated by few watchers (because I have no idea how MDL scoring goes, it's up for dramas that are pure trash IMHO and low for some I find really really good, but also my rating and the general ratings also overimpose for a lot of what I watch... so it's complicated.)

Would I finish it if I don't like it? No way. Life's short and then you die.

Because - spoiler - it actually is a cover-up. But you know this already, if you trust the MC.

It's based on Nele Neuhaus' Snow White Must Die, if they adapt it closely, all the tropes are already set in. The novel is from 2010 or so, police procedurals evolved a lot in 14 years, and even drama tropes, LOL.

But obviously since they're only adapting, they can change whatever - hopefully not the whodunnit OG and the ending from the original - to make it more fitting in SK.

NN made such a web out of the novel's ending, it's hard to remember who killed who and what for, and how the rest of them covered it up. I don't really trust the story set in a small German village to fit perfectly into a small SK village, BUT if they adapt it carefully, it could work really well.

And I really really hope there's some detecting being done in this one, and that the whole love story of the OG detective doesn't get pulled into this, it has no place in it, IMHO.

And hey!!! Kim BoRa! Hello, cutie!! She was pretty good in Like Flowers in Sand, and even when she's lacking all the metal the OG chara should have had, she's still cute :D

I'd managed to miss everything Byun YoHan ever made, and he seems to have been in movies mostly anyway, but he's impressive. I like his acting (though he's a little bit old for the part - he doesn't look quite 28 or so, but then, his chara was in prison and that could have made him older anyway, so it'll pass). I really really hope that if they change some bits from the novel, they make it into a strong bromance or at least strong friendship between him and the detective.

Here's hoping it gets well made :D

Nice start, I hope they don't change much from the ending. It seems a bit too loose yet, not that tight as I've had liked, but then, so far, so good.

For costume cdrama, what you WANT to watch is Nirvana in Fire (both seasons, hopefully the third comes soon), Joy of Life, Under the Microscope, Wonderland of Love, Ever Night. No squeaky-voiced girl/woman love interest, I can promise that.

For modern/scifi cdramas - Go Ahead, I Am Nobody, The Youth Memories.

And for Taiwan - definitely Oh No! Here Comes Trouble.

They don't always make squeaky-voiced heroines dramas, LOL. It's just something specific to wuxia/xianxia love stories, usually.

Unneeded and vulgar sex scenes: A Killer Paradox (for example). I'm pretty sure there are way more, but I also learned to stay away from NF/D+ produced dramas that are supposed to be edgy and the like. (I'd count One Ordinary Day too, but one can argue the sex scene there was kind of needed. So I won't count that one, LOL).

Having 6-8 eps per season was introduced with Arthdal Chronicles. I still remember the extremely off-putting cutting of that one single drama into three parts when it didn't need it, and THEN not even giving it a proper ending. I remember the post-credits storyboards trying to explain what the creators had intended for the drama and didn't have time to put in, or not even an expectation of another (actual) season because it was a pretty costly drama and didn't have the expected success (why would it, since it was basically chopped up?!) I can't make myself start the actual S2 of it, since I know they didn't even involve those storyboards, so they really had to change everything just to give it some closure and maybe recoup something from the first one (even though they changed the ML and other cast, too).

Now half-seasons are the norm and if it's streaming platform-produced you can basically bet there WILL be another season in a few years to complete the story. Maybe. And you can also bet that if there is that following season, it'll be weaker than the first. This is what streaming platforms usually go for - instead of a good story, they're chasing the launch of a franchise. And if it fails, well, no renewal, on to the next try, and it doesn't matter to them the initial story is left unfinished and the watchers are frustrated. It's not new and it's not going to change for the better.

The ones where you know there will probably not be a second season are those with 12-14-16 eps, where it's harder to come up with yet another story to tell after all this time spent on the initial one. And EVEN with the ones that are the usual length or lengthier, it's not a guarantee they get a good wrap-up - just look at how beautiful AoS was in its first part (20 eps of a pretty innovative fantasy story, especially for a kdrama) and how badly they tried to end it (AoS2, 10 eps of lacklustre story but lots of pretty stuff to look at and very heroic action scenes that added nothing to the plot but some fireworks, so to speak).

(Anecdote here) I am European, no, we usually do not like multi-season dramas EXCEPT for police procedurals. And in those cases, well, you get the case of the week and that's it, and it's absolutely normal. But if it's a family drama, or supernatural or whatever, no, multi-seasonal is not the preferred form.

I'm not going to get into tech details, as I seriously don't know how they choose the aspect ratios, LOL, and the only thing I can tell about cinematography is whether I like how it looks or not.

I don't know about American influence on plots - but I CAN tell you that lately it's been going much more style over substance in a lot of dramas, and many of them are foreign-financed. I like style just as much as the other person, and I CAN spend a lot of time watching all the pretty things and listening to the pretty music, but I won't pretend there's anything of substance there other than simple fluff. And I'm getting drama diabetes from the newer ones.

I don't know how many cdramas you've watched, but I can't remember any that has an OP or ED longer than 1.5 minutes each. That's the usual standard. I DO remember the ED credits of Sweet Home S3 that were freaking 8 minutes long. Out of a 46-47 minutes-long ep, 8 minutes of credits is WAY over the top and absolutely abnormal. (And yeah I don't have to watch the credits to the end, but the video length counts them and it gives you a false expectation anyway).

Are they (Great and that woman) going in and out in between them? Is there one reality where they're dead, and the other they keep mending things because they know what would happenn?

It looks like that to me, so far.

So... paralel realities??