OP, thank you for reminding me to clean up my Plan To Watch list - of the fourteen dramas in my list, four I started and didn't like, two I changed my mind on and don't plan to watch, one I started but the content is heavier than I can emotionally deal with right now, and one isn't airing yet. Whoops!
The premise seems solid, and I've had such positive experiences with Lee Jun Young's acting that I'll try any drama he's in. Hyeri is a bit of a turn-off (she's a one-note actress, and is effectively "Hyeri as Hyeri" in every drama), but not a deal-breaker - a good script and a strong ML will carry her through. Adding it to the watch list and crossing my fingers.
Should the industry just put all entertainers on suicide watch from their 27th birthday until their 28th? Because the famed 27 Club is getting out of hand.
I'm glad they gave us a week's warning. I would've been pretty dirty if they'd said it was THIS weekend's episodes that were postponed. And if waiting a week means better quality, I'm happy to wait.
아줌마 at your service. Watching since 2006, when dramas were 100% bootlegged and some were only partially subbed (or never picked up by subbing groups at all). I dip in and out of dramaland, and every time I come back, the fans seem younger at younger (and yet I feel no older, wth?). We do give fandom lectures, for sure, mostly because we were actually there when those classic dramas aired, or the scandals went down. Good times.
(I don't bother with life lessons, because that shiz is experiential. No matter what I tell them, today's kids will make the same mistakes I made at that age... even though older and wiser people tried to warn me (>.<) That's why they're life lessons.)
I wouldn't class most of the actors at the top of the list as character actors AT ALL. Those are leading men or second male leads who, as often as not, get their roles based on charisma or ratings-clout rather than their ability to truly embody a character. (*whispers* And a few of them can barely act.)
"Character" doesn't mean any role that has a name and lines. It's a distinctive, memorable role than is not part of the lead ensemble. If almost all an actor's credits have "support role" listed against them (rather than main role), and you distinctly remember most/all of the characters they've played, but the thought of them headlining a drama/movie seems really weird? Yep, THAT is a character actor.
(Uncomfortable truth: they also almost always lack the movie-star good looks that would get them cast as a lead. They might have a nice face, a friendly face, a kind face, but not a "good lord, that is an attractive human" face. The world isn't fair, and showbiz even less so.)
I feel like if youre an asain watcher from 2010-2016, your first drama was BOF. if you started from 2017-2019,…
And those of us who started in the 00s? Maybe Coffee Prince? Or the earlier versions of BOF: HanaDan (2005 jdrama) or Meteor Garden (2001 tdrama).
I never watched the BOF kdrama, because I'd already seen MG and HanaDan, and the latter had two seasons AND a feature film, which was... yeah, more than enough for me 😅
I feel you. I also started around 2007-2008 and cannot remember the first drama that I watched :/ But must be…
Ah, Meteor Garden! The true OG HanaDan/Boys Over Flowers 😊 TDramas were hard to get in the community I sourced mine from (it was 95% kdrama/jdrama), so I haven't seen all that many, but MG was so famous that it was one of the few available.
I started watching in 2006, and have watched hundreds since, so my memory is a little hazy. Having said that, I'm pretty sure I watched my first kdrama (My Girl) before my first jdrama (Attention Please!), so that's what I nominated.
(I don't bother with life lessons, because that shiz is experiential. No matter what I tell them, today's kids will make the same mistakes I made at that age... even though older and wiser people tried to warn me (>.<) That's why they're life lessons.)
"Character" doesn't mean any role that has a name and lines. It's a distinctive, memorable role than is not part of the lead ensemble. If almost all an actor's credits have "support role" listed against them (rather than main role), and you distinctly remember most/all of the characters they've played, but the thought of them headlining a drama/movie seems really weird? Yep, THAT is a character actor.
(Uncomfortable truth: they also almost always lack the movie-star good looks that would get them cast as a lead. They might have a nice face, a friendly face, a kind face, but not a "good lord, that is an attractive human" face. The world isn't fair, and showbiz even less so.)
I never watched the BOF kdrama, because I'd already seen MG and HanaDan, and the latter had two seasons AND a feature film, which was... yeah, more than enough for me 😅