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I second Voice 1, and while you're at it watch voice 2 as well. The villain is attractive and psychotic but a little more restrained and...sophisticated in his killings compared to the one in voice 1. Other than that:
Liar Game (korean version)
The uncanny counter
Train
Bad guys s1 (all of the protagonists would be the villains in another show but not in this one. Watch it, it's a really good show)
Hometown (not to be confused with Hometown cha cha cha. The villain is sooooo terrifying yet so charming! His voice alone is scary)
My name (havent watched it nor do i plan to but alot of people are raving about the villains in this one so maybe)
Flower of evil (it's on my to watch list and i hear the villain is very good looking)
Missing you (this isn't a favourite and i actually dropped it buuuut the only reason i would recommend it is for the villain. Be warned though the actor playing male lead has been accused of sexual assault by multiple people)
Less than evil
Money game (he's not psychotic and is more grey than evil. But he's definitely the antagonist for most of the show. You'll go from hating him in one moment to shipping him with the female lead the next 😅)
Strangers from hell (lee dong wook, who woulda thunk it?)

Ooooh that's interesting! Thankyou so much! It always bothered me, not knowing it

Yeah i remember i kept waiting for it to be revealed but it never was :P

Yeah you are right it really isnt that far off. The king should have just let her be. I absolutely hate it when one person in a relationship makes a sacrifice and pushes the other one away but in this case, I'd rather the king pushed her away and let her be free.
How different their stories might have been.

Im glad i wasn't the only one shipping them :P most people shipped her with her male friend

This also happens to be one of the few dramas i caved and watched while still ongoing

He's such a charismatic actor. Villain, hero or supporting role, this man always pulls you in with his acting. He really needs more leading roles in action thrillers.

This and money game remain my top 2020 dramas. Funnily enough, both are underrated 😅

I like to think there was but it's very subtle. It's not what the show is about though

Given the success of squid game, I wish this show had been a netflix original too. And had it been released this year, people would have appreciated it more. It absolutely kills me to see this brilliant show being ignored. I first watched it back in 2019. Then rewatched it last year. I still felt the same emotions I did as when i first saw it. This was THAT good.

I havent watched the drama (not my preferred genre) but because I'm a fan of lee se young and think junho is an emerging talent, i watched the clips that people posted on Instagram. And from all of those clips all i was able to deduce was how much happier deok im would have been had she never become the consort. Sure she loved the king, but we humans often can't have everything we love and look, we still live on. But since this is based on actual history obviously they had to stick with events that happened.

Thanks!

Who knows, it may surprise you. There are many shows that had normal ratings initially but then reached double digits

I meant the episodes airing on Saturday for all weekend drama saw a drop in viewership due to the red sleeve's finale being pushed to saturday because of the award shows being aired on friday. See originally red sleeve was supposed to follow schedule with episodes 16 airing on friday and 17 on saturday, both at 10p.m. However because of the awards, both episodes aired on saturday from 9.30 pm onwards (sorry the miscommunication was my fault). Bulgasal airs at 9 and snowdrop at 10.30.
So it was likely due to red sleeve's finale that all saturday episodes saw a drop. Snowdrop was at 1.9 and bulgasal was at 3.2. Sunday episodes showed a rise in ratings for both. So it was the much anticipated finale of the red sleeve which was the factor here. Next week's ratings will likely show a rise for both shows.

Viewership of all weekend dramas dropped, not just bulgasal's. Probably due to the awards being aired (kbs, mbc etc). Red sleeve's finale is another factor. I think ratings will rise up again next week.

You've made me curious, now i wanna which ones you are referring to 🤣

Yeah i thought you might have but wanted to let you know on the off chance that you hadn't.
Also i don't necessarily agree with the diagnosis of ASPD. Im a doctor, and though im not a psychiatrist, i do know a little about the subject from what i learnt in med school. I think do kang woo was having side effects from repressing his memories and from taking medication that wasn't meant for him. See not a lot of people know this but visual hallucinations are actually more likely to be due to medication related side effects rather than mental illness. So i think that do kang woo was having his memory come back in explosive flashes, confused his repressed memory and responses to bleeding ears to be as a result of ASPD and was taking medication. The hallucinations were likely due to the medicine and not worsening condition. But while watching shows i tell myself to just sit back and enjoy and put the 'doctor' away :P

Yeah jo in sung was a major factor there, i completely agree
And yeah now that you mention it i think you're right about her doing well as a blind character because her eyes are cold and blank. But despite that, i still wouldn't call her acting in TWTWB mediocre. For example the emotional scenes especially after she found out the truth about her brother, the anger and bitterness was well acted (in my opinion of course). Even mediocre actors like her are capable of putting out one or two performances that are pretty good especially when they have career spanning more than 2 decades.

Well i think she did a good job of in her portrayal of a blind, depressed, suicidal woman. Especially the blind part. I feel like that drama was when song hye kyo peaked. Now is it getting redundant? Yes it is. But that doesn't mean she didn't do well. Also recall, that winter the wind blows was before this drama and encounter. So her cold, aloof character portrayal has been redundant since AFTER that winter the wind blows. I think maybe because she was praised for her performance then, she decided to play safe and stick to characters with similar traits? I dunno.

I think shk was good in that winter the wind blows too, but that and full house are just about it