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this was a nice breath of fresh air among the usual cliche romance kdramas I've seen all these years.

my mister ost's are a godsend. That drama is a masterpiece.

NIF 2. Amazing amazing amazing.

Best Screenwriter (and for which show?): Park Hae Young (My Mister)

Best Director(and for which show?): Kim Won Suk (My Mister)

Best Korean Drama of 2018: My Mister

Best Korean Movie of 2018: Be With You

Best Action/Thriller/Suspense Drama:
Children of a Lesser God
The Guest

Best Melodrama: My Mister

Best Actor:
Lee Sun Gyun (My Mister)
Ji Jin Hee (Misty)

Best Actress:
Kim Nam Joo (Misty)
Lee Jieun (My Mister)

Best OST: Sondia - Adult

Best Chinese Drama of 2018:
Nirvana in Fire 2
Story of Yanxi Palace

Best Historical Drama:
Nirvana in Fire 2
Story of Yanxi Palace
Secrets of Three Kingdoms

Best Wuxia/Xianxia Drama:
Ashes of Love

Best Chinese Actress(and for which role?):
Wan Qian (Secrets of Three Kingdoms)
Qin Lan (Story of Yanxi Palace)

Best Bromance:
Liu Hao Ran - Huang Xiao Ming (Nirvana in Fire 2)

Best OST(and for which drama?):
Wei Qi Qi - Love, Exist (Meteor Garden 2018)
See by Lu Hu (Story of Yanxi Palace)
Unsullied - Mao Buyi (Ashes of Love)

I enjoyed every bit of this movie.

one of the very few kdramas I didn't drop this year. This was fun. It had it's ups and downs but definitely a watch if you enjoy thriller/mystery.

how I interpreted it- they needed to grow as individuals of their own and regain/find their own happiness in life before meeting again.

NIF 2

Jun Ji Hyun, Han Ji Min, IU, Kim Namjoo.
I've been on the fence about starting AYHT? because I love scifi and I find kdramas don't write scifi stories well enough (Circle was almost there but fell short in the latter half). After reading this I think I'll give this one a try. Thanks!

I see a lot of rave reviews about come&hug me but I really didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would. The lead characters aren't good in their roles they have inconsistent acting performances throughout the drama and the plot drags on forever over the same thing. Meteor Garden 2018 is actually quite fun IF you take it at face value of it just being there for some sweet innocent romance. It's one of the lighter and imo better adaptations as theres very little dramatics at play as it's more focused on the romance of the characters.
Overall kdramas have given us some really iconic content but the past few years I think cdramas have really pushed the boundaries for dramas and delivered some epic stories and thoroughly entertaining series'.

I thought the pacing was excellent, and the slow-ness of the drama was also a representation of the mundane and draggy life that the characters lead. The silence and "slow" parts speak volumes about the characters. Drinking is a huge part of their social culture and their drinking dialogue isn't pointless... this story won't lay out the pieces for you, you have to watch and understand for yourself what the significance of what you're watching REALLY means. Most kdramas will lay out exactly what part you should feel sad, happy, angry. This doesn't. For some people they won't understand it, and for some other people this drama hits them like a bulldozer in the feels because it's relatable to their real lives. For me, this drama really hit home.

My Mister anyone

a good watch. A slow burn but worth the time watching. Thorough and intriguing political plot, great acting and cinematography.

I'm waiting for this series to finish airing before jumping in, but I have high hopes for this one. Hopefully the plot doesn't sizzle out by the end like a lot of historical cdramas have in the last year(cough Princess Agents, Tribes&Empires). TMOPB, NIF2, and Secret of The Three Kingdoms (so underrated) were really the only standout dramas coming from last year and this year so far. Flame's Daughter was a hard miss for me. Not gonna lie I'm finding this package deal with all the Yang Mi studio stars in the same dramas a little boring.

it's really good. Emotionally I'm much more attached to NIF2. It deserves to be viewed as it's own drama separate from the 1st.

nirvana in fire 2!

I went into this drama with zero expectations, didn't even read the synopsis, didn't know it was a taiwanese drama (tbh if I had known, I would have never given it a shot), thought it was a mainland china drama the whole time and thank god because wow, this drama was actually good the plot was great, a super unique and intriguing spin on supernatural time travel. The leads have amazing chemistry together they're probably one of my favorite lead couple pairings. Main guy slayed the crap out of his role. Makes me want to take a second look at Taiwanese dramas again, because this one was good.

I can't forgive Princess Agents for wasting my time with such a bad ending as that one.

what kind of ending was that...that was so weird idek how to feel after watching 25 eps of whatever that was. I thought the North vs. South fox clan talk would eventually give us a good fight to watch by the end but nah, they literally killed off their own plot. Ugh. The drama was a good watch up until the middle and after that it went to complete sh*t. Literally random stories etched here and there for filler, disturbing addition of rape (my gawd I wanna punch whoever wrote that into the story), random tomb raiding, and ep 24 was plain unnecessary and redundant in their love story.