Viajero

She's good. The best thing about this series.

If the objective of a comedy is to make you repeatedly burst into laughter, then this one was is a complete success. Never mind the cheesy chaotic ridiculous plot. The infectious energy on stage of the cast even made me enjoy the performances though the music was exactly the kind of K-pop I don't usually like.

I thought S2 retained the relentless pacing, slick choreography, and high tension of S1, even as they greatly expanded the scope of the story. But the larger cast, heavy body count and sprawling plot do take some of the focus away from the FL, whose evolution from panicky survivor into a hardened, decisive leader probably deserved more attention. In any case, it turned out to be one of this year's better action series, though perhaps not quite up to the level of S1.

Love Catcher has one of the worst most annoying panels of any Korean dating reality show.

I can certainly understand how one could end up with a misplaced view of an ancestor. My father is a direct descendent of American General Winfield Scott, a man who was very popular and even a Presidential candidate in the pre-Civil War years. My grandmother constantly praised the general during my father’s childhood, as did the American History textbooks of the time (1950’s-early 60’s). It wasn’t until my father made a trip to Mexico during his college years that he discovered another more brutal and bloody view of the Scott led invasion of Mexico during the Mexican-American war. Even more serious is when even cursory research turned up the fact that the same ancestor had presided over the forced removal of the Cherokee to the west in the infamously brutal “Trail of Tears” (something that had made it into the American history textbooks by the time I was in high school 20 odd years later). It was this last that caused my father to switch to using his second name rather than Winfield. As he explained, it wasn’t that we should feel any guilt over General Scott’s actions - passing on that kind of guilt to 4 or 5 generations down the line was ridiculous. But he also didn’t want to be associated in any way with that particular ancestor and felt embarrassed at having once boasted, out of ignorance, of his relation to the general.

It's much better written and paced than Home Town Cha Cha Cha.

The beginning was so silly that I almost dropped it. Glad I didn't since it keeps getting better and better as the season goes on. It's very much the exception among this year's kdramas which have tended to go downhill in the later part of the season.

Try Mexico or one of the Central American countries

The entire show has just been put on YouTube with subtitles - at least in my region.

This season is now up on YouTube with subtitles - at least in my region.

It's Chinese

The lack of chemistry is one of the biggest problems with this show, and one of the reasons why I finally gave up and ended up dropping it.

I ended up dropping this one about halfway through. It starts out as a somewhat intriguing and amusing story about a spoiled rich girl trying to adjust to living in a small town, but quickly bogs down as it becomes very repetitive. The romance hasn't gone anywhere, with little promise that if will amount to much given the distinct lack of chemistry between the leads. Yet another example of a c-drama that is grossly overrated on MDL (if this were Japanese, it wouldn't even get a 7.0, and if it were Korean, it would be lucky to get a 7.5.)

Min Ji is the latest to start a YouTube channel. For this video she organized an athletic meet with 4 members of her season of Single's Inferno (including Joo Young & Jae Jin) against 4 participants from EXchange S4 (including a couple of my favorites). Min Ji makes a pretty good MC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHXKTBO6BUk

I found this to be by far the best season of Single's Inferno, but completely agree that My Sibling's Romance is still better. It's about as real as it gets in these kinds of shows. Just adding the siblings naturally created enough drama and good storylines that the producers didn't have to interfere as much as usual.

It's true that this affects most of the more developed countries worldwide simply because the economics of a modern post-industrial urban economy discourage having lots of kids. But its much worse in Korea where the birthrate is less than half of what it is where I live (in Latin America) or in countries like the U.S, and Canada. Of course, because of laws and social norms here that are very different than Korea's, women here are able to aspire to marriage, motherhood, and a career, without having to sacrifice any of them. It's just that they tend to only have 1 or 2 kids instead of 5 or 6 like their grandmothers. I've met several Korean women over the years both here where I live and in Canada (including two who married into my extended family). They all say they can't believe how much better off women have it in these countries compared to back in Korea.

4B is a tiny extremist minority. But its true that according to polls a significant number of young Korean women have no interest in marrying Korean men and they have some good reasons for feeling this way. In any case, I don't think that has anything to do with this drama.

I don't get this at all. She was one of the best things about this series.

I'm trying to figure out why Seo Su Min is classified as having a Support Role when she is not only absolutely central to the plot, but has as much or more screentime (so far) than many of those with Main Roles. She's been great and deserves the recognition.

Agree particularly when it comes to EXchange (particularly S2) and Offline Love. The Korean Heart Signal S2 was fine, but not up to the level of these. Beware that while The Future Diary S1 may have also been fine, S2 is a complete disaster. Another one I really liked was the original Korean version of My Sibling's Romance, for which I understand a S2 is on the way (the Chinese version of this show is far inferior and not worth it).