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Yes.
It was a pleasure having this convo :-D

I'd love to hear back when you watch Strangers Again.
It's been several years since I watched .. was airing when I watched and I got SO SO restless ..

Is DOUBLE FANTASY the Japanese Drama?
I just looked up on MDL?

After Reading the brief I am not sure I'd go for it (Palm on Face) .. sounds like a NETFLIX Western Drama ;-p
(gratuitous affair and sexual relations (??) as theme is what it sounds like - not my cuppa LOL).

After an entire lifetime of watching Netflix-type, Western Serials, I moved away; and since 2020 - Covid years - after I discovered K and C Dramas I spent the first 3 years only watching K, and only about last 3 years been mostly watching C; with an occasional K that grips me .. very few and far between though.

Not watched J (except one that felt bland and lacked the flavour of K and C), a few Taiwanese that were REALLY well made production-wise and thought provoking.

LOL
Meh indeed!
Wasted potential of so many top actors

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Yes !!
I enjoyed the beautiful play of comedy tragedy and slice of life …
I laughed so much and I cried a lot too.

Was totally enraptured by grouchy snappy smart FL and dorky sincere oh so adorable ML Park Bo Gum

Loved the generational story .. the full poetic arc from childhood to end of life …

It was heavy but it was so full of light too ..

Anyway sorry I just caught up in the memory of one of my topmost Kdrama series

It’s OK you dropped it 🤓

I totally am on board with you for the Dr Romantic 3 seasons 10/10 for me and I second watched all of them.

Yeah I’ll take a peak and see if it sits with me

Only occasionally do I see a Kdrama that’s worth its salt.

The last one I remember thoroughly enjoying AND bawling my eyes out for was “When Life Gives you Tangerines” ~ that was drama epic!!
For me 😌

Same same 🤭🤭

Oh dear !!
I was thinking of watching it soon.

I LOVED Hospital Playlist and watched Dr Romantic all three seasons twice!!!

Love well made medical dramas : and these were the gems in that genre.

Ep 33

Omygawd omygawd!!!!

I think it’s the FIRST FIRST FIRST EVER time in any CDtama or Kdrama that I heard the ML ask the FL to kiss him!!!!

Did anyone else die with the squees? And yelps!!
And coo along ….

ZLH is back on my list : after SOKP.

How groundbreaking is that “KISS ME” line for ALL DRAMA … and I have watched upward of 300 dramas

Anyone else knows a drama where the ML in a molten lava voice says to the FL : “kiss me”

MDL needs to add a tag : “Steamy kiss” JUST FOR THOSE TWO WORDS!!!

The rating should shoot up by a point

Yes.
Me too.

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That’s OK

Probably not your genre?

We all have dramas that dont click for us 😝

YAY .. I LOVED AJTL AND Prisoner of Beauty
WHOA!! how GREAT were those two dramas.

AJTL was my first show with him that I fell for .. I thought he was SUCH A TALENTED actor.

LOL
I too went looking for Gong as Lead dramas .. He was SUCH a good actor in this .. until the script and director FAILED him
Found one that I plan to watch .. MISS S

;-p
Already queued .. Will finish Pursuit of Jade and get to that

LOL

That's WHY I think I FELL SO HARD on my BUTTOCK AND broke my tail bone prolly Ha ha ha ha ..

If you read my excitedly SCREAMING, DELIGHTEDLY HAPPY comment from some 20 days ago, about this drama, that FINALLY there was a GREAT modern CDRAMA .. which was SO edgy that I was stressed throughout wondering what next .. so stylish and beautifully done ..
I even have the director on a PEDESTAL since he pulled off the EPIC Three Body Problam Drama (which beat the ass of the Netflix shallow production of same).
I was SO certain that he would make it SHINE.

But even as it got brilliant somewhere around 17 I started to get awful nervous that this might plummet ..

So 18 onwards when it started to slide .. My stress was rising .. I HAD PUT SO MUCH hope in this production ..
BUT NYAH!!!

It killed me .. I wish I had rather not watched it .. It's left such a BAD taste in my mouth ... someone described the ecperience aptly .. you were SO SO HUNGRY (for a GREAT DRAMA) that you began slurping it up .. BUT after it was OVER .. you were not only still left hungry BUT with a horried aftertaste in the mouth and a sick feeling in the stomach.

Anyway in a way it's made me WRITE SO MUCH after a LONG TIME.

The last was probably for :
~ Lighter and Princess
~ Arthdal Chronicles
~ Royal Nirvana

ALL GREAT DRAMAS

YAY .. found it ..
Needed to see the Gong Character in a main lead role after the disaster that was ABOUT LOVE ..

OH WOW THANK YOU SO MUCH :-D

I'll begin scrolling NOW .. LOL

lol

I cant get off this thread!!
I feel SO compelled to point out the TERRIBLE writing that started after Ep 17

LOL

Yes yes opposites do attract .. but IMO succeeds only when a few traits are that way .. a match of FUNDAMENTALS is essential for the stable long term relationship that stays strong ..

I CANNOT imagine that Bei would EVER be comfortable

~ with a woman who has such a 'misguided belief' in the 'righteousness' of her "TESTING" actions .. I mean she isn't a teen or a young adult .. She is a MATURE ADULT with enough exposure to literature, reading and thinking to NOT know that IT IS WRONG!! What she is doing is IMMORAL .. to imagine that it is some kind of 'social service' for women is full on delulu!!

In fact his first BLURTING out of what he thought of such a woman was HIS TRUE thoughts on such behaviour and mindset.

Any SANE human would be SHOCKED that an ADULT MATURE working woman didn't pause to consider what was SHE DOING!!!
It was ALMOST a game to her .. Guan pins her down to it also .. and she even TAKES on another 'assignment' WHILE she is still with him, AFTER telling him that it was ALL behind her ..
SHE basically betrayed him by breaking her promise ..
Which DELUDED human makes the excuse that because someone is on her death bed they have agreed to do a favour and ACT to make their partner swerve and 'fall'.
If the DRAMA wrote that as part of portraying Xi's character flaw and misjudgement, then it should logically leads to Bei breaking it off .. YESSS that would be a plausible ending to that thread. Each could have emerged 'wiser' .. Xi growing up even if heartbroken at the loss, and Bei realizing that he was blinded by her coming at HIM FULL FORCE during a time when he had JUST been rebuffed for good .. He was in REBOUND MODE .. he would have learnt that it was a REBOUND relationship for him. That would have made sense.

~ next point, Bei cannot be OK with a woman who doesn't up front own up to the 'shady stuff she was up to' right at get go .. and expects that a "clean, straight-laced, homey guy" would be OK with this deception .. OF COURSE she KNOWS what she did was WRONG and is therefore petrified being found out.
Some people say he was not talking about his ex ..
YEAH SO???
It takes time to bring those things up, he doesn't have GUILT about a failed relationship. For him it's still too raw, and he had JUST had that encounter which sends him off to the bar (it was that emotionally traumatic for him) .. A serious relationship that moves towards marriage will always ultimately get to talking about previous entanglements that ended badly .. Bei WAS NOT written as smeone who isnt WISE enough to know that .. During dating phase .. BEFORE marriage talks .. They had JUST begun seeing each other.

BUT MOST IMP DISTINCTION between the 2 concealments : for Bei it was a serious and real relationship that FAILED; in NO way does it compare to the STUFF she was up to .. BREAKING up couples!! THAT was IMMORAL!! Spoke of a weak character, lack of wisdom and a moral compass.
HOW are they EVEN on the same level ..

~ Third point, SHE BROKE UP the relationship of his childhood best friend!!!
A bestie who he discovers is still in love with her, THAT she is STILL seeing him behind his back .. REALLY!! That's an honest bestie relationship?? S
he ASKED Gong to CONCEAL that .. and was Bei written as a character who would be OK with it??
What is he Bodhisattva??
An upright straight thinking guy who likes it clean WOULD IN NO way 'forget or forgive' such blatant concealment .. LIKE he would JUSTtake her words for it???

IMPLAUSIBLE Character Writing .. LAZY script!!

FAILED destroyed REALTIONSHIPS would have been the ONLY plausible REAL LIFE way this could have ended .. FORCING a CARTOON ENDING with ALL behaving like Buddhas with NO attachment anxieties and was just a terrible JOKE on the viewer AFTER setting up such a REAL scenario until Ep 17

OH YESSS .. I would so much like to know what you think.
It's also a Drama RIPE for lots of discussions ..
I spent a lot of time thinking during and after the end of show ..

I cant find it there.
Maybe they removed it.
:'(

LOL

I read one of your comments : you had wanted more 'bonding" time for the Lead Couple in Ep 26?

They look at REAL life themes of LOVE- Marriage-loyalty-faithfulness-insecurities that are at the foundation of how these play out.

Have a look ..

I found these organic and NOT Bent to Fit a HE .. but a realistic reasonable ending that leaves ALL the characters STRONGER