Viajero

This is a tough one for me. I'll probably give it a chance because I really liked Go Youn Jung in Moving (one of my all time favorite k-dramas) as well as some of her supporting roles. But I'm not a big fan of slice of life dramas. The characters have to be extremely interesting or the plot needs to surprise me with something new. I ended up struggling to finish Hospital Playlist because despite the excellent cast, I only found about half of the main and supporting characters interesting enough to keep my interest and I found most of the storylines extremely predictable (probably from having watched too many hospital dramas over the years).

Perhaps not a film with a broad commercial appeal, but I found it wildely entretaining and with something important to say. My only criticism is that it was extended an extra 15 minutes beyond where it could have ended.

I should mention they've also been adding a lot of Japanese movies and series lately, as well as a few Chinese.

Netflix has completely loaded up on k-dramas in my region. They've been adding at least half a dozen a month lately, with some new ones mixed in with a lot of old ones that used to only be available on other steamers like Viki or that were only available on Netflix in Korea or other geographical regions. They must have well over 50 available here by now.

My impression is that Disney+ almost always carry Korean shows through most of Asia. But its spotty in the rest of the world. In any case, they just announced that for once we are getting this particular drama at the same time as the rest of the world.

Disney+ finally made this show available in my region. Only a year late!!

Taxi Driver reminds me a lot of a certain type of American Vigilante shows from the 1970's and 1980's. It's well made, but otherwise no more nor less than those old shows. Not a show I would recoemmend to anyone who isn't in to those kinds of stories.

This sounds like it could be interesting and I'm willing to give any show with Park Eun Bin a chance. Too bad its on Disney+ since they offer very few of their Korean shows in my region and when they do allow Star+ to eventually add one, its usually anywhere from 6 months to years after the rest of the world. It's hard to understand becuase Netflix has had great success with Korean series here, with almost always at least one in the Top 10.

Here's a link to the teaser on YouTube for those of us who got sick of X:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miEBR6CD_x4

It came first, but I liked Study Group a lot more.

I thought Season 1 was fairly good, but not to the extent of all the praise it was getting. Something was missing for me. I couldn't figure out what it was until I recently watched Study Group. Both shows have ridiculous exaggerated unrealistic almost cartoonish violence and a male lead who takes on bullies, but Study Group not only has much better developed and well rounded characters and a needed dose of humor, but also a main protagonist who goes out of his way to try to avoid violence, only fighting when he has no choice, while the protagonist of Weak Hero almost goes out of his way to incite people to violence. I was kind of fed up with his attitude by the end of the season. But I did enjoy the show overall and am looking forward to Season 2.

I clicked on this show without knowing anything about it. I'm not really much into reality dating shows, but I have to admit this one brings back memories of travelling back in the days before cell phones and trying to meet up with friends based on the roughest of plans. I can remember once spending almost an entire day wandering around Cordoba looking for some friends because the hostel where we were supposed to meet was full and didn't give me the note they had left on where we were supposed to meet for lunch.

We hardly get any Asian films in theatres where I live either. The only one in months has been IU's concert film, The Winning. It's strange since the Netflix Top-10 for this country almost always includes at least one k-drama. But I guess this doesn't translate into movie goers.

I'm almost caught up with this series, but its been tough going. I can usually get into a good romantic drama, but it does require that the leads be worth watching beyond having good chemistry with each other. For instance, if I can sympathise with them and/or identify with them. Or if they are quirky enough to make you laugh or constantly surprise you with the unexpected. But these two are so ridiculously boring and bland. Its bad enough that the FL is a stock character of the one-dimensional career woman who has neglected her social life, though that can work if at least the ML lead brings something interesting to the table. Unfortunately, the ML is even worse than a stock character. He's basically the ultimate fantasy perfect boyfriend, perfect father, and perfect secretary, who bears absolutely no resemblance of any kind to a real person - not even by the loose standards of romantic dramas. The guy is a complete blank slate, with no personality beyond being of perfect service to others. It got me thinking that the best way to make this show a little more interesting would be to have some big reveal that the ML is a robot. That would certainly be more believable than that he's supposed to be an actual human. The only thing that has kept be from dropping this show is that I am getting a kick out of the second couple and some of the office related subplots. But I'm not sure that's enough.

Here's hoping this is another Pyramid Game and not just another mediocre cheesy teen drama.

It doesn't sound that interesting, but I'll give anything with Park Bo-Young a try.

Looking forward to seeing Jin Ki Joo again. I first noticed her when she played IU's maid in Moon Lovers and then was really impressed by her lead roles in the time-travel murder mystery My Perfect Stranger, as well as in the movies Midnight and Little Forest.

I wasn't going to watch this one as it sounded a bit silly. But now I'm curious. What could possibly be so offensive in this series to cause 50% of raters (and 90% of Koreans) on IMDb to give it only 1 or 2 stars out of 10. Did one of the actors kill his mother, rape an underage girl, or get caught taking drugs?

Its on Netflix in my region.

Couldn't disagree more. I thought episodes 1 to 5 were great, but episodes 6 & 7 dragged on a bit too much with long extended flashbacks that interrupted the flow of the story, before they finally got back to the action in the final episode.