I think there is a problem with the list. No offence but, this list should have made a distinction between poisonous…
Thanks for your feedback! However, I think you may have a different perception of the reason why I created this list. Please allow me to explain. This list isn't focused on whether or not a character or drama is good or bad or toxic or not toxic, but rather focused on higher than average levels of toxicity. "So when you vote, take into consideration the dramas that have unusual, and unnecessary high levels of toxicity." As I also mentioned in the description area, I believe as humans we do grow and develop to become less toxic people as we age. However, this list wasn't about growth & development.
If I were to create a list based upon the criteria that you mentioned, the subject would be " VOTE: For dramas in which characters had the most emotional intelligence development from beginning to end."
I am currently on episode 5, and I am wondering if it is it just me or the male lead character isn't in the wrong, but everyone else is? The only thing the male lead character has been doing for the last 5 episodes is holding people accountable for their actions. I used to be the exact opposite of him, as I'd empathize with people to the point where I didn't hold them accountable, and it did nothing but aid them to continue to be the horrible people they already were. Accountability and integrity doesn't always feel good at the moment, but it does yield long term beneficial results. I don't know whether or not the script writer wanted to make the male lead character seem like a bad guy by having the supporting characters call him aloof and cold, but the supporting characters were the bad ones (e.g. one stole from his wallet, one wanted to live off of his dad and be a spoiled rich party girl, one tried to rape the girl he liked, another tried to ruin his relationship because she wanted to be with him). The only con that I have for the male lead character's personality is the fact that the eye for eye, tooth for tooth methodology is not always the best route, even if he's justified in his actions, which he was. Oh yeah, the female lead character believed everyone but the person she was in a relationship with. She's another person that basically did the male lead wrong. I wouldn't want to be in a relationship with someone like her, who would trust a random stranger (e.g. the second male lead) over the person she agreed to date. Ehhhhhhhh
BTW, they both disliked one another in the first 2 episodes. They both made assumptions about one another and as you watch the first 6 episodes things are cleared up and they both agree to start a new but the female lead keeps remembering the past and doesn't actually start a new.
By episode 7, I just get annoyed with the female lead character behavior. Her boyfriend literally went out his way to find the guy who tried to assault her, and she's upset with him because he's defending him and her (she has a flashback about what her boyfriend ex-friend whom she did not know at the time, told her)....If a guy snuck into my room to rape me or assault me, I would want my boyfriend/husband to beat him up and hold him hostage until the police get there. I don't get why she would have this much compassion for a serial-harasser. The best thing she could do is to allow him to get locked up, so he can get treatment for any mental illness he may have. While this drama is good, I think I am going to drop it because it's a repetition of stupidity from the female lead character.
I am on episode 8! IF YOU WANT TO SEE A TOXIC FEMALE LEAD CHARACTER, WATCH THIS DRAMA! This is a prime example of how "innocent looking people, or people who say they are well intended (like the female lead)," are able to justify their bad behavior by playing the victim, against someone who is outspoken and not as innocent looking (like the male lead). Also, you start to understand that the second male lead plays the victim a lot too. He blames the male lead for career failure.The reason why he didn't play the piano for 5 years, is largely due to him. All of sudden, we see him playing the piano. Everyone mentioned how poor the second male lead attitude was and is. Who in real life would want to deal with someone (with unresolved childhood traumas) that refuse to grow up?
Okay, so I decided to drop this drama after episode 9 because it's the same story of the female lead not trusting the male lead, while doing shady things to him. Like believing everyone else, hanging around his friendenemy although he told her that he didn't feel comfortable with that. She's horrible, and I hope the male lead character finds someone who will love him for him, and who is mature and knows how to communicate.
True Beauty was one of the most toxic ones bc of the main male character.cheese in trap was also toxic, but it…
I just started watching Cheese In The Trap (well I dropped it after episode 8), but to me, it seems like the female lead is the toxic one. Do you mind explaining to me why the male lead character is toxic in the first 8 episodes? I am asking because maybe I am not seeing something that others are seeing. Below this reply is a snippet of my review for that drama.
Princess Agents is literally the worst. Why did they have to make the ML die in the end and continue to leave…
I love Princess Agents! I don't think the ending was bad, because from what I can gather, the male lead is not dead, and we would have known this if there was a season 2. I also didn't see the second male lead as a villain until the last 4 episodes. I agree with you regarding season 2; the producers shouldn't have filmed season 1 if they wouldn't be able to film season 2 within a 2 year period. About once per month, I search for Princess Agents season 2 but it seems like there will not be a season 2... sigh =(
One of the dramas that I voted for is Go Princess, Go! The reason the ending was horrible is because it literally made no sense that the female lead would abandon her child, along with the male lead who left his throne. Soon after they both end up getting killed anyways. SIGH! The second drama that I voted for is The Long Ballad, the ending was horrible because it left me with many unanswered questions. The male lead and female lead were traveling separately, and that's all we got.
A female character doesn't even need to be an " evil " character for people to hate on the character. Recently…
I totally agree with your comment, but please check the spoiler box.
The male lead was awful. What I disliked the most was the fact that he used everyone and was surprised that they didn't respond with love, to his usery. The thing that I did not like about the female lead character was her naive behavior between episodes 1-6. However, the female lead character reminds me of most of the women I know between the ages of 16-28 who are desperate for love and romance.
Below is a snippet of my review for Goodbye My Princess. BTW, I rated this drama a 9.0!
This review may contain spoilers Highly recommended, but do not binge watch this drama!
If you try to binge watch this drama, you will end up dropping it before you reach episode 25. However, if you take a day break, after binge watching every 15 episodes (e.g. 1-15 (then a break), 16-31 (then a break), and 32+, then you will fall in love with this drama. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Review of episodes 1-19 This drama really had the potential to be a 10. However, the romance between the two leads in the first 6 episodes was not well developed, meaning it was not believable for adults over the age of 25. Don't get me wrong, I am enjoying the romance, but it's seemed a bit too rushed. She barely even knows the male lead, but because she thought he saved her life she develops feelings for him within 2 episodes, which btw, isn't too far fetched but on top of developing feels she ditched her first love who she had been crazy in love with for years, for the new guy and this happens all within four episodes. If the screenwriters would have invested one more episode, in between episodes 3-6 solely to dedicate more conversations between the two leads, then it would have made episodes 1-6 more realistic. What I am surprised by is the sexy flirtation coming from the male lead, specifically in episode 6. He tries to do the do, after their engagement but before their marriage. That is pretty uncommon in C and K dramas. Note: I just finished watching episode 7 and I am glad towards the end of that episode, the second male lead basically tells the female lead what I wrote above this line lol. "You've known him for how many days, and you want to get married?" "You cannot be reckless." My favorite episode is episode 8, because I think the female lead actor did a fantastic job portraying her emotions. If you can get past the female lead character in the first episode, you can make it through this drama. To be honest, I don't like the female lead character (not the actress) in the first 19 episodes. While it's not the worst that I've seen in Chinese period dramas, it definitely isn't the best. I would have prefered the female lead to be cute, playful, but cautious about who she befriends. However, the character is cute, playful, but has no sense of caution, actually she's pretty naive, and foolish.
Episode 8 at the 31 minute mark had me screaming; basically, I intentionally acted dramatic because of the betrayal (e.g. imagine the scenes in movies when someone is screaming and they kneel down and rip their shirt off because something painful happened). ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Review of episodes 20-52 •The female lead character gets better starting with episode 20. •The male lead character is drugged and was supposed to be raped by a servant. I hate this because the scriptwriter did not write how wrong it was. RAPE IS WRONG, WHETHER IT'S A WOMAN OR MAN WHO IS THE RAPIST. •The male lead character slaps the female lead in episode 37, and the scriptwriter wants us to be okay with it by saying he had to physical abuse the female lead character in order to protect her. PHYSICAL ABUSE IS WRONG IF IT IS NOT SELF DEFENSE, NO MATTER WHAT! •The male lead character is VERY toxic. He basically uses the female lead and his concubine to get what he wants, and then is surprised when they don't respond with love. Unfortunately, out of all the historical k and c-dramas that I've watched, I believe his character matches how a crown prince in prehistoric times would have really been like (TOXIC). •Although back in the first to fifth century, it was normal for women to start marrying as early as 12. It's gross to see a 60+ year old emperor, marry, and have a child with a 18-20 concubine. I am a bit disgusted by the scenes in which they appear together. •There were a lot of filler episodes (e.g. 25-31, 44-46). I believe Chinese period and historical dramas should have 30-40 episodes, instead of 60-70. Let's make this a thing in 2022! •Originally I rated this drama a 9.5 but took away .5 because of the end of episode 46 and beginning of 47. It's just not realistic. They are trying to escape so that they can go back to the female lead's country. Yet they stop to attend a festival where the court officials and the king will be at. Additionally, they stop and stand below the King, male lead, and the male lead other wife (the same people they are running from). SIGHHHHH C'mon now! •The acting in episode 48 deserves an oscar. WOW •Unlike other reviewers, I actually liked the ending. I don't think a toxic character like the male lead deserved to have had everything go his way, it's not realistic. He murdered the female lead family, lied to her, stalked her, threatened her, slapped her, in a rage of jealousy he killed her teacher, and tried to kill her best friend. How could their relationship ever recover if they ended up together?
oh Please... Yaeh he is a typical male bastard. Doesn't konw what he really wants, but he wants EVERYTHING.Lost…
I agree! The female lead is toxic. I was confused by some of the reviews because they made it seem like the male lead was taking advantage of her. While the male lead character is also toxic, at least he was upfront from the beginning regarding his viewpoints on relationships, a lot of guys wouldn't do that nowadays.
Thanks!
If I were to create a list based upon the criteria that you mentioned, the subject would be " VOTE: For dramas in which characters had the most emotional intelligence development from beginning to end."
I am currently on episode 5, and I am wondering if it is it just me or the male lead character isn't in the wrong, but everyone else is? The only thing the male lead character has been doing for the last 5 episodes is holding people accountable for their actions. I used to be the exact opposite of him, as I'd empathize with people to the point where I didn't hold them accountable, and it did nothing but aid them to continue to be the horrible people they already were. Accountability and integrity doesn't always feel good at the moment, but it does yield long term beneficial results. I don't know whether or not the script writer wanted to make the male lead character seem like a bad guy by having the supporting characters call him aloof and cold, but the supporting characters were the bad ones (e.g. one stole from his wallet, one wanted to live off of his dad and be a spoiled rich party girl, one tried to rape the girl he liked, another tried to ruin his relationship because she wanted to be with him). The only con that I have for the male lead character's personality is the fact that the eye for eye, tooth for tooth methodology is not always the best route, even if he's justified in his actions, which he was. Oh yeah, the female lead character believed everyone but the person she was in a relationship with. She's another person that basically did the male lead wrong. I wouldn't want to be in a relationship with someone like her, who would trust a random stranger (e.g. the second male lead) over the person she agreed to date. Ehhhhhhhh
BTW, they both disliked one another in the first 2 episodes. They both made assumptions about one another and as you watch the first 6 episodes things are cleared up and they both agree to start a new but the female lead keeps remembering the past and doesn't actually start a new.
By episode 7, I just get annoyed with the female lead character behavior. Her boyfriend literally went out his way to find the guy who tried to assault her, and she's upset with him because he's defending him and her (she has a flashback about what her boyfriend ex-friend whom she did not know at the time, told her)....If a guy snuck into my room to rape me or assault me, I would want my boyfriend/husband to beat him up and hold him hostage until the police get there. I don't get why she would have this much compassion for a serial-harasser. The best thing she could do is to allow him to get locked up, so he can get treatment for any mental illness he may have. While this drama is good, I think I am going to drop it because it's a repetition of stupidity from the female lead character.
I am on episode 8! IF YOU WANT TO SEE A TOXIC FEMALE LEAD CHARACTER, WATCH THIS DRAMA! This is a prime example of how "innocent looking people, or people who say they are well intended (like the female lead)," are able to justify their bad behavior by playing the victim, against someone who is outspoken and not as innocent looking (like the male lead). Also, you start to understand that the second male lead plays the victim a lot too. He blames the male lead for career failure.The reason why he didn't play the piano for 5 years, is largely due to him. All of sudden, we see him playing the piano. Everyone mentioned how poor the second male lead attitude was and is. Who in real life would want to deal with someone (with unresolved childhood traumas) that refuse to grow up?
Okay, so I decided to drop this drama after episode 9 because it's the same story of the female lead not trusting the male lead, while doing shady things to him. Like believing everyone else, hanging around his friendenemy although he told her that he didn't feel comfortable with that. She's horrible, and I hope the male lead character finds someone who will love him for him, and who is mature and knows how to communicate.
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The male lead was awful. What I disliked the most was the fact that he used everyone and was surprised that they didn't respond with love, to his usery. The thing that I did not like about the female lead character was her naive behavior between episodes 1-6. However, the female lead character reminds me of most of the women I know between the ages of 16-28 who are desperate for love and romance.
Below is a snippet of my review for Goodbye My Princess. BTW, I rated this drama a 9.0!
This review may contain spoilers
Highly recommended, but do not binge watch this drama!
If you try to binge watch this drama, you will end up dropping it before you reach episode 25. However, if you take a day break, after binge watching every 15 episodes (e.g. 1-15 (then a break), 16-31 (then a break), and 32+, then you will fall in love with this drama.
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Review of episodes 1-19
This drama really had the potential to be a 10. However, the romance between the two leads in the first 6 episodes was not well developed, meaning it was not believable for adults over the age of 25. Don't get me wrong, I am enjoying the romance, but it's seemed a bit too rushed. She barely even knows the male lead, but because she thought he saved her life she develops feelings for him within 2 episodes, which btw, isn't too far fetched but on top of developing feels she ditched her first love who she had been crazy in love with for years, for the new guy and this happens all within four episodes. If the screenwriters would have invested one more episode, in between episodes 3-6 solely to dedicate more conversations between the two leads, then it would have made episodes 1-6 more realistic. What I am surprised by is the sexy flirtation coming from the male lead, specifically in episode 6. He tries to do the do, after their engagement but before their marriage. That is pretty uncommon in C and K dramas. Note: I just finished watching episode 7 and I am glad towards the end of that episode, the second male lead basically tells the female lead what I wrote above this line lol. "You've known him for how many days, and you want to get married?" "You cannot be reckless." My favorite episode is episode 8, because I think the female lead actor did a fantastic job portraying her emotions. If you can get past the female lead character in the first episode, you can make it through this drama. To be honest, I don't like the female lead character (not the actress) in the first 19 episodes. While it's not the worst that I've seen in Chinese period dramas, it definitely isn't the best. I would have prefered the female lead to be cute, playful, but cautious about who she befriends. However, the character is cute, playful, but has no sense of caution, actually she's pretty naive, and foolish.
Episode 8 at the 31 minute mark had me screaming; basically, I intentionally acted dramatic because of the betrayal (e.g. imagine the scenes in movies when someone is screaming and they kneel down and rip their shirt off because something painful happened).
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Review of episodes 20-52
•The female lead character gets better starting with episode 20.
•The male lead character is drugged and was supposed to be raped by a servant. I hate this because the scriptwriter did not write how wrong it was. RAPE IS WRONG, WHETHER IT'S A WOMAN OR MAN WHO IS THE RAPIST.
•The male lead character slaps the female lead in episode 37, and the scriptwriter wants us to be okay with it by saying he had to physical abuse the female lead character in order to protect her. PHYSICAL ABUSE IS WRONG IF IT IS NOT SELF DEFENSE, NO MATTER WHAT!
•The male lead character is VERY toxic. He basically uses the female lead and his concubine to get what he wants, and then is surprised when they don't respond with love. Unfortunately, out of all the historical k and c-dramas that I've watched, I believe his character matches how a crown prince in prehistoric times would have really been like (TOXIC).
•Although back in the first to fifth century, it was normal for women to start marrying as early as 12. It's gross to see a 60+ year old emperor, marry, and have a child with a 18-20 concubine. I am a bit disgusted by the scenes in which they appear together.
•There were a lot of filler episodes (e.g. 25-31, 44-46). I believe Chinese period and historical dramas should have 30-40 episodes, instead of 60-70. Let's make this a thing in 2022!
•Originally I rated this drama a 9.5 but took away .5 because of the end of episode 46 and beginning of 47. It's just not realistic. They are trying to escape so that they can go back to the female lead's country. Yet they stop to attend a festival where the court officials and the king will be at. Additionally, they stop and stand below the King, male lead, and the male lead other wife (the same people they are running from). SIGHHHHH C'mon now!
•The acting in episode 48 deserves an oscar. WOW
•Unlike other reviewers, I actually liked the ending. I don't think a toxic character like the male lead deserved to have had everything go his way, it's not realistic. He murdered the female lead family, lied to her, stalked her, threatened her, slapped her, in a rage of jealousy he killed her teacher, and tried to kill her best friend. How could their relationship ever recover if they ended up together?