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I notice a heavy focus on Boy Love series on this list. Nothing wrong with that for those who are interested, but you've left out some pretty good shorter Japanese series in other genres. ¨First Love Hatsukoi¨, ¨Nigeru wa Haji da ga Yaku ni Tatsu¨, and ¨Boku Dake ga Inai Machi¨ just to mention a few I would recommend at least trying. Also, note that several of the shows you do list have additional seasons that make them longer.

I see we have yet another MDL comments section taken over by bigoted trolls.

The American Ballerina is not a remake of the Korean Ballerina. It's a completely different story. It's also staring Ana de Armas, so I will definitely be giving it a chance.

I enjoyed Season 2 as much as Season 1, though for different reasons. S1 was more tightly focused on the monster story, with an interesting historical context, while Season 2 was more focused on the main characters, providing a needed explanation for their behavior and choices. My only real issue is that S2 feels incomplete, with some story-lines not fully resolved. But this may be fixed if they do film a S3 (as seems to be implied by the post-credits scene at the end).

I think its too unusual a show for everyone to like it. But obviously many people did.

Were the reviews in Korea negative? Because on Rotten Tomatoes the first season got a very good 93% critics score and a high 83% audience score.

I personally thought S1 of this show was at least as good as Itaewon and significantly better than Fight for My Way (where I couldn't stand how PSJ's character was written) or Secretary Kim (which was so full of cheesy tropes that I had trouble finishing it). But that's just me.

It might depend on your region. In my region its currently available on Prime.

The reason why Miss Night and Day is only now trending in Latin America is that Netflix only started showing it in that region last week and they are only up to episode 2.

I'm not usually much into historical fantasy, but I might give this a try as I thought Bona was great in both Pyramid Game and in 2521.

I guess I didn't explain myself very well. I wasn't referring to other streamers but rather that the Netflix and Disney+ content made in Korea still tends to have a lot less sex and nudity than the Netflix and Disney+ content made in the US, Europe, Latin America, etc... If even this minimal amount of sex and nudity is still uncomfortable for some viewers, then I guess the solution to avoid Netflix and Disney+ originals. I personally have really enjoyed some of their Korean originals. Series like Squid Game, Moving, My Name, All of Us Are Dead, Revenant, Extracurricular, and Revenge of Others are all among by Top-30 favorite all time Korean series. One of the strengths of the Korean TV industry is that they cater to a wide variety of genres and viewers. There really is something for everyone.

It's always frustrating in my region because half the time Netflix starts showing series a couple of months after most of the rest of the world. But at least that is better than Disney+, which doesn't bother showing its Korean shows at all in this region.

I don´t know anything about any of those fan groups. I just thought TW was an excellent all around show. As for the cast, all were pretty good, but for me the most impressive performance came from Seorina, who very convincingly pulls off the dual role of both an initially suicidal student and the younger version of her overbearing haughty mother.

Scarlett Heart Ryeo was one of the most difficult shows to find online as its not carried by any of the streamers I usually go to.

I guess it depends on your tolerance level for incidental partial nudity. I find Netflix's Korean originals to be extremely tame compared to their content from almost anywhere else. But they do allow characters to have sex lives, even if they don't really show anything all that revealing.

I find it strange that Netflix never picked up Twinkling Watermelon. That was last year's Lovely Runner, only I thought it was even better. In fact, I still consider it one of the top-5 k-dramas I've ever watched.

I find this criticism to be more than a bit hypocritical given that one of the main reasons for the global success of k-dramas is that they have been purposefully making them more palatable for western viewers for many years now. I can easily name off the top of my head at least a dozen relatively recent k-dramas produced by local cable or over the air networks that are clear imitations of western shows or movies. Sometimes they are straight up remakes and in other cases they are more indirectly inspired, but either way, the only thing that really differentiates these dramas from the western originals is that they change some details to reflect the Korean cultural context. The main difference I see between the Netflix (and Disney+) originals and the locally produced shows is that the streamers tend to make more shows in genres other than straight up romance, and when they do include romantic story-lines, these tend to me a lot less cheesy and full of tropes than all but the best of the locally produced series.

Season 1 was fairly good, but Season 2 was sprawling unwieldy mess. The cast is pretty good, but they could only do so much with the what they were given.

On your last point, I guess I should clarify that while her level of maturity if fine for Xue Fang Fei, she's supposed to be passing herself off as Jiang Li, who by my count was still in her teens when she passed away. There is no way Yu Jin Yan can pass as a teenager.

It's true that Love Like the Galaxy was more character driven - almost more of a coming of age story (at least in Season 1). I usually prefer more action oriented series (I still prefer Reset to any of these historical series), the character development and overall writing in LLTG was so good and the plot moved along fast enough that I never got bored. Part of the attraction may be that I found the protagonist simply a lot more believable. The depth in which they delve into her character, warts and all, made her a lot more interesting.