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I liked some of these better than others of the ones I watched, but there are some good ones on this list and some that I still plan on watching.

Certainly medical/hospital series and comics tend to have many similarities. The reason why I associated Doctor X and Trauma Code is that they both have highly conceited protagonists who are insufferably arrogant with almost cartoonish abilities, and are propped up by making almost everyone else in their hospitals look ridiculously incompetent, cowardly, corrupt, or all three. The fact that they come from different source material just shows the pervasiveness of this trope. And why not, its clearly a very popular trope, even if I don't particularly like it.

I guess this show is entertaining enough, but what's taking me out of it is that Jang Se Kyuk is simply not up to the task. I guess he's okay when he's acting as possessed by the sister and making goo goo eyes at Park Seo Ham, even if his mannerisms are more than a bit exaggerated. But It's crazy that the brother's character is so much tougher and assertive when Bona is acting the role than when he is. Please don't ever cast this guy in a thriller.

It's probably no coincidence that this announcement came now that its clear that the Korean adaptation of Doctor X is turning into a big success. After all, Trauma Code is basically the same story as the original Japanese Doctor X, only with a male protagonist rather than female.

For me, the 2 Korean actresses who did the most convincing jobs passing for men are Ha Ji Won in ¨Empress Ki¨ and Lee Yo Won in ¨The Great Queen Seondeok¨, both of whom won awards for their performances in those older historical epic dramas. But they had an advantage of trying to pass for teen boys rather than full grown men and spent much of the time they were crossdressing wearing the bulky armor of foot soldiers.

There have been some good k-dramas in 2026, its just that they weren't romcoms or romantic dramas. The same was mostly true last year as well. Dramas like Undercover Miss Hong, A Bona Fide Killer, and Agent Kim Reactivated, were all major domestic ratings successes and would all be considered well above average quality in most previous years. The problem with romcoms is that they seem to have run out of original plots, so they just try throwing together different tropes from past shows.

Except she's already made numerous mistakes that she has had to scramble to get out of.

That's what happened with Friendly Rivalry. I thought it was quite good but it seemed to get a lot of down-votes both from people who didn't like that it had a scene with 2 girls kissing (even if in a dream) and also from people who were disappointed it wasn't like a full-on Thai GL. But in the case of this series, I don't get any accusations of queer-bating. Unlike Four Hands, Two Sonatas, there was never any deceitful advertising implying it might be a gay story.

It seems that in my region Netflix is dropping 4 episodes a day up until they get to Episode 14. But after that they haven't yet announced the schedule.

I wonder why this show was suddenly flooded with minimum ratings of only 1 on IBDb. You usually only get that where there is an organized protest or boycott against a show. Who did they offend? Or is it really that horribly bad? I was about to start watching it because I've always liked Bona.

This review is next to useless because you don't even come close to justifying a score of only 1.0? I'm not sure how I feel about the series myself since I also find the protagonist annoying at times (for pretty much the same reasons I didn't really like the male lead in Trauma Code), but the show isn't completely worthless on any objective scale. For instance, do you really hate the production or the music that much?

I would also rate Master of My Own well above As Beautiful as You. But Go Ahead is much better than both. I really don't get the incest bit since they weren't related at all.

I don't really want to watch 33 previous seasons, but are there any that really stand out and are considered favorites.

I'm trying to figure out why this series is showing as finished here on MDL when it's only up to Episode 43 on Viki. Are they running a week behind WeTV and Tencent?

The main reason I stopped watching shows from the moment they start dropping the first episodes is that so many of them (both k-dramas and c-dramas) go downhill later in the season. I've been burned too many times and the disappointment when this happens easily overshadows the excitement of waiting for each week's episodes. So for me the main advantage of a show dropping all at once is that I can start watching it withing a few days, while in the case of a show like this one, I have to wait a month or so.

Netflix seems to be showing Part 34. Is this the equivalent of a brand new season that hasn't aired before?

I'm debating whether to watch this because the original was so iconic that it's hard to imagine what the Koreans are going to do with it. I guess I have to trust Kim Jiwon to put her spin on the character. I do like that Netflix is promoting the original Japanese show right alongside this remake (at least in my region). I am still angry that they took off the original Japanese version of Even if This Love Disappears from the World Tonight shortly before they released that inferior Korean version. It was like sending a message that they didn't want viewers to compare the two.

This is the first c-drama I watched and also the first one I dropped because of the combination of poor writing, laughably poor acting, and plot progression at a snail's pace. After I followed it up by the even worse Use for My Talent, I stopped bothering with Chinese shows for quite some time as I figured (incorrectly it turns out) that they all must be pretty bad if these were the ones recommended to me.

I guess it depends on what you were expecting. It seemed pretty clear to me from the beginning that she was the main lead and the story was primarily a character study of a young woman attempting to get ahead in her career. Her relationship to the ML seemed to be only part of this rather than the primary focus.

I finally got around to watching this season and would put it right up there with S6 as not only the best seasons of Heart Signal, but the best seasons of any Chinese dating reality show I've watched. I honestly don't understand any negativity about this season. Not only did we get 5 couples (at least 4 of which seemed to be in it for the right reasons, and at least 2 of which seem to have lasted long-term), but we got some great friendships within the house. For me this last is almost as important as the couples (and is one of the reasons why I don't rate S2 highly, beyond the fact that I also didn't like the couples that season).