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Similar concept to Sweet Home (different characters clash or learn to work together while stuck in the same building during an apocalyptic event). Hopefully supporting cast is more interesting than the two leads who are described as very generic ML/FL. Sweet Home had an interesting character at the center surrounded by interesting characters.

It's interesting that she and Sweet Home/Love Alarm co-star Song Kang debuted in 2017 but are on the roll in such a short time. I like both + Lee Do Hyun. Sweet Home has really great cast. I hope all 3 return in S2.
She's very pretty. I never understood why the guys were fighting over FL in Love Alarm cause she was completely invisible every time Go Min Si was on the screen.

The real Jinx is how boring those ML roles (River and this) are/sound like. His 2ML roles were more interesting but that is always the case with 2ML and 2FL cause they can be anything. ML and FL are in the box, they always have to be certain way in all dramas of the same genre. Romance in particular dictates the same stereotype for both.

love NK ahjummas!

my favorite part of the drama.

me too! he was the MVP of CLOY, good to see he's lining up roles.

I've only seen Sweet Home and Extracurricular from this list and had polar opposite reactions. Adore Sweet Home, absolutely hate Extracurricular. Sweet Home took about 3 episodes to find its footing but when it got going it really delivered and 7-10 were just fantastic. Extracurricular was boring, totally off topic (much more about whether dolt of ML would be busted and by whom than about sex trafficking) and FL must be the most unlikable I've ever seen which is a tall order for I find most drama FLs to be unlikable and insufferable. This girl just oozes pure evil which is wrong for the role that's supposed to be complex. I saw her among Mouse cast and said Nope (that drama also has animal cruelty going by spoilers so good call on my part to avoid it).
My favorites (of dramas I've finished) are:
Kingdom
Sweet Home
Alice in Borderland (I know it's Japanese)
All 3 are Netflix and that's not a coincidence. I like that Netflix steamlines dramas so they don't suffer from 1000+ convoluted subplots like Korea-made ones. They also stay focused on just one horror sub-genre (zombie or monster or dystopian) unlike, for example, Dark Hole which has every subgenre rolled in one episode (slasher! zombie! possession! space disaster! monsters!).
Was avoiding Strangers from Hell (Netflix begs me to watch) cause I really didn't like LDW in TOTNT but maybe he's better as the villain than as the (smug and sneering) romantic ML.

So CEW is officially in Island where he's supposed to play an exorcist priest correct? That drama and this movie are really big departures from his usual teen heartthrob roles so really looking forward to see what he does with these against-the-type roles. Very smart of him to try different things.

I felt that politics and evil spirits didn't gel. spirits randomly possessed them but without any larger plan to use the position for power or whatever. the whole thing felt like 2 different dramas awkwardly stitched together.

I was very angry that they killed Shirtless Shin right after giving his character some complexity and sympathetic background. Total waste.

Female villain was a deranged human host with a deranged evil spirit ha ha. It was hard to tell which one of them was crazier. She and Shirtless Shin had a great sexy chemistry. I'm so disappointed the drama dropped both. They could have been an evil couple which would be interesting.

Also, they sent Shirtless Shin to hell moments after he took his shirt off. Who does that?

I love the Counters but especially Shirtless Shin who was sooo hot and I shipped him with the crazy female evil spirit host. I liked all about evil spirit hunting and Yung world building. Unfortunately, the drama took a baffling turn towards politics with evil Mayor soon replacing Shirtless Shin. I really didn't enjoy that at all. So since the drama wrapped up in the finale, I'm not rushing to see Season 2 since Season 1 started as one thing that hooked me but ended as something I didn't really sign for. Plus no more Shirtless Shin. :(

Good for him! He has what it takes to be a big star.

The premise of this drama, though...yikes. And From the Writer of RWTMR doesn't instill confidence.

I really liked the 2 aired episodes of Joseon Exorcist. While it was a lesser Kingdom, it still had potential. Alas.
I'm hooked on a terrible Viki Kwilight called Sweet Blood cause the lead vampire actor Kim Ji Woong is so beautiful and charismatic.
You are my hero and Vincenzo are very engaging so far.
Dropped boring Love Ft Whatever, Navillera and Love Alarm 2. How's Navillera getting praise is beyond me. The story's so thin it should have been a 2 hr movie tops not 12 episode stretch-a-thon.
Plan to catch up on Penthouse but I'm delaying til all seasons are finished. Don't want to get invested in a potential trainwreck (see GOT, Lost).

Can't wait please no controversy! Watched 2 aired episodes of Joseon Exorcist and though a lesser Kingdom it had potential.

I love this actor. he absolutely stole the magnificent Train to Busan. I hope Hollywood put him in more quality projects. He has charisma, likability, talent.

hear hear!

yep not a single likable character. wives, husbands, all awful in their own right. plus boring. I dropped it around 5 or 6 can't remember which.

I was hooked at the beginning especially when that bizarre crazy stepmom plot kicked in but then it went downhill and became so boring and convoluted. Scenes were interminable. I remember the last staw for me was when frumpy wife's professor hubby confessed and his family was grilling him and the daughter kept monologuing for like 4 freakin hours and I was, like, screw that I have better things to do. And never looked back.

Thank you!

He he he he my list is all horror. Asians really know how to fight zombies. Unlike American zombie shows/movies where characters, especially female, always do something stupid that gets people killed. I'm watching Australian zombie flick Cargo and right on cue female character did the stupidest thing ever. :eyeroll:
So yeah Kingdom, Train to Busan, Sweet Home, #Alive, Alice in Borderland, The Host are my Top 6.

Shoot I mixed up A and A. ha ha thanks. I don't subscribe to either so maybe that's why.