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It's short and sweet and far better than the description suggests, and the choreography is simply lovely.

I have no idea why I keep coming back. I'm very much "see it once, been there, done that." I can't stand Lee Min-ki's acting but despite that this is one of maybe five dramas on my rewatch list. It's compelling in its own way.

There's a limit to how exciting a business drama about reviving a failing hospital can be, no matter how much Doctor X music you put into it.

Dear Diary,

For the first four episodes, every time I thought that the FL could not possibly be more oblivious she found another gear. And I've never seen a child interview bungled like that.

The story itself had a solid structure but the telling could not find a balance. ML's sinister cloak and dagger crap lasted way too long. The acting never improved. It became increasingly soapy towards the end. Romance was at arms length and couldn't have been more conservative if it came with church chaperones. This drama is definitely a mixed bag.

A rather bland representative of the "this is our hometown" genre.

Wow. Three years after its release and there's still a slow-burning flame war in the comments.

Y'all have chosen a really weird hill to die on.

It's like a buddy road movie in the American style. I found the premise decent, the writing quite good, and the resolution satisfying.

I though it was a relaxing late night watch. It may not be a work of genius and may not have Jack Nicholson in it but it has its own dirty charm and might deserve better than the rating it has here.

Say what you like about the plot and the character, and you might indeed be correct, but this is what peak Go A-ra looks like (even if Sung Dong-il stole the show).

In contrast I found the second couple more annoying every episode.

Something about the native phonology of Japanese makes them the least intelligible English speakers on the planet unless they put a lot of hard work into it. Which is alright but also leads you to expect actors to put in the work if they're going to speak a lot of English on screen.

Whoever cast the FL is an idiot. The "American" doctor has a thicker accent than the Japanese characters when they speak English.

I saved this for a weekend binge... and had to pause halfway through episode 1. Is the acting this godawful for the whole series?

It can't be helped. It constantly pits really good acting and decent character development against a checklist of stale tropes from 2007 and is about eight hours too long.

https://asian-series.com/japanese-drama/535-hadaka-no-kusuriyubi-2014.html

You're on your own for subtitles.

Ep 1 was startlingly underwhelming. It's like both leads forgot how to act.

The big picture is that the poster above goes through the standard right-wing "talking points" that women's behaviour is to blame for everything, women are to blame for how men react, it's women's fault for demanding better, and why don't they just ask nicely and shut up and have babies?

Read it carefully. I missed nothing. The poster was not addressing the "smaller picture" concerning the societal and parasocial forces that kill artists. She was broadly rationalizing modern misogyny and demeaning all women who dare to demand better.

2/10. Nothing more intense than a crush that goes nowhere.

Let me summarize this: All the regressive, pseudointellectual arguments of neofascism in one neat package of eloquent horse manure.

I'll be blunt. You're the problem, not the solution.

Let us know if you find it. All I see is Telasa. I got to see the trailer by using a good VPN. It wants a paid subscription for the two episodes.

The mind games don't end. Aoshima sees the light and quits but the rest of the drama is one tiresome game of contrived misunderstandings, putting forward worst case scenaria before backtracking.

Among the lovely women in this drama, Mizuno Kumi at 84 is still in a class of her own.

I see. I guess it's come as too little, too late for me so I'll have to take your word for it regarding what they have now.