rationalbeings

I'm still having withdrawals from Kim Bok Joo. :( (Dr Kim helped but I still miss #SwagCouple).

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It's 2017 and I still can't get over how brilliant and how much of a masterpiece this drama is. Everything from the story to the characters to the cinematography is so unique and executed so breathtakingly that it's deeply etched in my mind till today. Even the OST, I once told my sister the ost represented my life to which replied, Misaeng represents everyone's life. And that is so true. Hands down the best drama I ever watched.

Dramas are always thought to be just something we watch to entertain ourselves and most of the time its true, but there are times when dramas teach us more about life than we anticipated. Dr Kim was one of those dramas. Although the ending pushed its from a 9 to 8.5 for me (with too many things being rushed), the values taught in the drama echoed from beginning to end. I personally really enjoy the dramas where there is a mentor like figure (aka Misaeng and Chief Oh, which I will never get over no matter how many years pass) and this one was done brilliantly as well. There were times it came of as just a littttleee preachy but it reeled that back in quite well. The drama is all about the growth of each characters, even Dr Kim who throughout the drama grows and learns through his own mistakes as well.

It's a drama that reminds us the meaning of a romantic life and then demonstrates how to live one through Dr Kim.

I had the same thought! but then in signal she already was in love so it wouldn't fit...still would have been interesting.

hahah i had the same reaction!

this drama is so erratic. dropped at ep 15, i feel bad to have wasted my day coming so far. Second lead syndrome is too strong in this one as well. not worth the watch, but Joe Chen was charming in the episodes I managed to get through.

No#5 irks me the most. I hated the kiss series because of that, they would have been so much more enjoyable if she had just a tiny amount of backbone or skill...in anything!! I loved Miss Korea because it was the opposite of that. Every single female character written in that show was strong and inspiring.
Also all of PSH dramas....zero chemistry. Every.Single.Drama.

This drama was so sweet. It flowed so naturally you don't get bored at all, which is surprising because there are no major plots or secrets or cliches to keep you hooked. It just works on natural chemistry, of the friends, the teachers, the school and ofc our #SWAGCouple. Those two were just so natural with their chemistry. And main lead wasn't your average drama-jerk but someone who kept worrying he was hurting Bok Joo with his words and would constantly try to take back what he said. His growth from a teasing friend to a caring boyfriend was created so naturally! Adorable drama, everyone should watch i for the happiness if gives your heart...!

This drama was special, my favourite character being Yuri-chan. She was so strong but also fragile because of societal pressure on older single women. She really is someone who (as she mentions) can inspire younger woman by being the kind of character you say "she's there, so we can continue fighting!"

The last episode really made me love this drama more with truly showing how much Hiramasa has grown and developed. This is finally a drama where the main female lead is not a manic pixie girl but someone with her own insecurities her own doubts and has her own story where she has to grow. I love how collaborative and unsure they portray marriage to be, it really gives it a slice of reality. No one is sure how to handle sharing a life with someone and this is portrayed beautifully in the drama. I love dramaland for all its rose tinted view of love but its nice to have dramas like these which remind us that even in the daily struggle of who cleans what there is just as much love as in a melodrama.

Yeah I hate when writers do the whole staying away and not contacting thing. I mean....we live in an age of multiple apps that allow us to stay in touch....it's ridiculous how they expect people to buy that crap.

This drama could be awarded with the slowest moving plot of all time. literally there was nothing happening in middle episodes, as if the writers forgot there was a storyline that they should be creating.

As someone else pointed out our badass main lead becomes a wimp since there is nothing happening and so he just can't seem to be able to do anything. It frustrates the heck out of you. I also wish the female lead's wig was out sooner but it does kind of grow on you after a while. I forgot how pretty she was till the last episode. The synopsis is also kind of misleading the elder sister doesn't have much of a story line apart from being selfish and annoying and you can basically skip her parts and not even miss any part of the story (I can never get over the fact that Gong Shim's entire family was ok with her having no room in their own house!!! and then somehow be all loving towards the end).

That being said the show still gets a 7 from me for the romance (great chemistry wasted on an an extremely slow moving plot-line) but more so for the comedy. If there's one thing that happened in each episode it was that I was laughing out loud so much. There is so much comedy in this drama and all the actors all did a great job to bring it out (esp the episode where the 2 dads meet!). So watch it if you are out of dramas and want something genuinely funny and cute.

DOTSSSS that bromance was the main reason for watching that show *_*

i guess i really shouldn't have watched this after watching signal, because the comparisons were inevitable. I found this drama to be quite lacking, the acting was weak, the murder case made unnecessarily complicated and didn't add to the suspense much. Towards the last few episodes I was skipping through just picking up the gist of what was happening just to finish it off. I'm quite thrown by the high ratings and glowing reviews cause I really didn't feel it in this. Tbh honest there is no character development and the plot is convoluted.. Unlike in signal you don't get the feeling there is any real profiling going on, it just seems to be random connections made.

The only thing i liked about this drama was the cuteness of the main female lead and her drawings which were awesome.

Also the ost!!!! <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

Aw this drama is such cotton candy fluff which gets a 9 because its cotton candy fluff done so well and with so much meaning behind it. It's one of those dramas that throws in almost every cliche in the book and yet doesn't drag any of it out and makes you believe that people are good, even the bad guys. It was balanced so well and was like a sweet stroll through drama land where everything has been very boring lately. The pacing is slower but matches the drama's feel and so you don't mind watching event unfold in an almost natural fashion. It's the kind of story that gives you all the feels and makes you smile at the end of every episode (also it helps that In Guk is my bias)

Highly recommend watching this drama as everyone acts really great and the story is one of the few that doesn't need to make you feel anxious to keep you watching.

The thing about the last episode I didn't get, they have Mirror, which is like the smartest thing in the world, and they couldn't ask her to quickly analyse the bomb and how to diffuse it? I mean she was right there....even if the communications had been cut off she still seemed to active so her database would still be able to have figured that out. It was such an easy cop out, although I understand that Yoo Jin dying was the only way to end the drama towards the end.

Still also felt kind of betrayed that Je Ha just runs away with Anna and leaves her to die....but ofcourse he never had any feelings for her and did repeat he would not be on her side anymore...conflicted feelings >.<

I love strong female leads, but never knew I would ever root so much for a strong female villain. Although I started watching this for Chang Wook (because of its similarities to Healer especially, which is amazing, similar set up and a better version of this drama) Song Yoon Ah became the sole reason for watching this. (Chang Wook to be fair was his usual great self as well, Song Yoon Ah just stole the entire show). You feel so bad for her despite every horrible decision she has made and the fact that she hurt so many people. Je Ha is right when he tells her -you kind of people only think about your own pain and the world revolves around that- and despite all that you still root for her. Her acting was so amazing!! She is someone you both pity, admire and are at times disturbed by.

The chemistry is unfortunately lacking between Anna and Je Ha, and the drama may as well have been without it. Yoona acted pretty well in the first episode but after that her role didn't really have any substance apart from being dragged around from one hostage situation to another so there isn't any more to comment on her in that aspect.

I wish they had developed Je Ha and Yoo Jin as the main leads instead of having a pretty flower girl in the show. It would have been a much tighter storyline with the amount of chemistry between those two. I also feel like there were too many filler scenes midway (like with head of JSS and the police chief, I always skipped their talks).

The drama is worth watching if you enjoy action scenes cause they were really well shot, the OST too is pretty darn good, it just lost a bit of its spark in the last quarter and the ending was more than a little disappointing if justified. Wouldn't rewatch this like I have done obsessively with Healer but it's still a great drama to watch, if just for Song Yoon Ah acting and Chang Wook's face and action scenes (which have developed even more than his role in Healer).

That ending.....it creeped me out quite a bit. I'm not sure i would forgive him if i were in her shoes, its actually really really really creepy and awful what he did. But it did make the movie heaps more interesting....

I skipped through the last few episodes as well....seriously so overdone and i am so over the noble protagonist trope