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I have close to zero tolerance for violence, so historicals are REALLY not for me, but one with a low-ish body count and with the VERY, I mean EXTREMELY, rare distinction of being a Korean Drama with a FEMALE genius lead (there are almost NO others) is Dae Jang Geum. It's overlong, and repetitive in the middle section, with endless "cook-offs", but the fact that it's based on a real person and named after her makes it well worth watching. If a sageuk anti-fan like me enjoyed, you might even more.

As someone else said, "finally someone talking about Girl's Generation 1979" - I loved it so much it made my "10+" list, https://kisskh.at/list/O38nwv91 Kill Me Heal Me probably deserves even more credit for the fact that its saving grace was Ji Seong's stunning performances as multiple characters -after signing on as lead barely 2 weeks before shooting began!

Be ruthless - life is short, with MANY Dramas you will love out there. I never even started DotS, Pinocchio was sort of OK but not worth pushing yourself your, and Forest had me snoring by the end of ep 1. "To thine own self be true" grab something new. :)

It's purely an emotional, gut response - when I'm left feeling Wow! in a way that merely excellent Dramas don't. And as that list shows, it's seldom a mainstream hit :)

The fact that several of mine were given scores higher than 10 might complicate the maths for you :) https://kisskh.at/list/O38nwv91

Interesting stats - I'm at 374 completed, 14 scored 10 or higher, not sure any of those 14 were truly "hyped" https://i.imgur.com/mNqbSeY.jpg

"PS, I would love someone to breakdown the shows some of these gifs are from! I only recognize the TKEM one." Me too - I think there's Arthdal, TKEM (LMH) and Hotel de Luna (IU), but I haven't seen any of the shows featured, so I'm not sure

An interesting read, thanks for sharing. My personal Drama tastes are such that the pros of the hype culture outweigh the cons - I quickly find out if the Drama will be for me or not. In the last 4 years, I have only completed maybe 2 really hyped Dramas, "Prison Playbook" "Crash Landing On You", while dropping some like Strong Woman Do Bong Soon, Weightlifting Fairy, The Tale of Nokdu Flower and dodging all the rest - Goblin, DotS, Hotel de Luna, TKEM, etc (including the all the mega-hyped C-Dramas). The flood of commentary reactions and spoilers is invaluable because it saves me wasting time starting Dramas I would loathe. Hail the hype, I say! :)

You're right, it will all turn out to be a HUGE misunderstanding - in the final episode it will be revealed that the kid got so fed up with him wasting breakfast foods she yelled "You're a cereal killer!"

It looks like the newly-started Flower of Evil - female cop discovers her loving husband is a psychopathic serial killer. An everyday occurrence in Dramaland, natch. :)

For these situations, the definitive XKCD https://xkcd.com/386/ :)

I've just realised why I was so even-handed in my reaction to the differing opinions presented - 30 but 17 was one of only 2 Dramas on the list I actually finished (Her Private Life, 7/10) - Suspicious Partner and K2 both dropped, the rest you quite literally couldn't pay me to watch. Vive la différence!

In a wonderfullly balanced performance, I'm delighted that I was able to side with each of you on at least one Drama - Jeana for 30 but 17 (describing imo the Age vs IQ of the writer) and Minarii for K2, who's 3.5 represents twice the umber of episodes of that drek I managed to finish - SERIOUS kudos for getting through it all! Thank you both for sharing such an interesting read, though I personally found 7 vs 9 and 6.5 vs 8.5 a bit tame - a 2vs 9 or 1 vs 10 showdown would have been *bloody* good fun :D

A very smart compromise approach! :)

They are a very cute couple for sure. That's why I'm actually annoyed how little cute time they've had so far. I've finished ep 15, and there has been nowhere enough time with the two of them being cute together. :(

Ditto - I'd forgotten about this one. It ended up being "not awful", which is a lot more than can be said of many Dramas I suffered through in my early days.

The core plot summary sounds like it was heavily inspired by "Touch", a K Drama that aired just before it. Still going to try it out, and hope it's more sweet fluff

I fast forward A LOT, hut still, to watch 24 40 minute episodes in 120 minutes means watching at 8X fast forward. At that speed it is very hard to get any sense of the Drama

DO try Girl's Generation 1979 - it's at the other end of the length scale from the absurdly overlong R88, and the soundtrack is just DAE to the BAK :)

I should have known better, really - I'm VERY hematophobic, there's a word in the Drama title that should have tipped me off :)