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spoiler alert button is there for a reason.....

started 2 days ago and am completely into it. But it's on the darker side, psychological thriller.

spoiler alert please. I didn't want to know this.

Good article. Especially love the point about trusting my instincts more. Having to skip to a lot of boring scenes to just to finish a drama is not a good use of time. But re. comments, it's actually often good to watch a little bit of a drama from the start and then, if it does not seem immediately catchy, to look at comments sections to see whether it gets better after the first episodes. Because first episodes are often just laying the background, and k-dramas tend to do that in a very thorough manner (which is in a way loveable but often boring). Agree anout King The Eternal Monarch - and yet I've watched it twice! (Why, is a mystery hahaha! But at least I now really appreciate Kim Go Eun's acting since I've really watched). One drama I forced myself to finish is Empress Ki, bc I had already watched more than a half of the episodes when it became too repetitive.

We aren't on the verge of www3. Mainstream media's only function is to scare you. It whips up irrational hysterias. Just stay off.

This is really a sweet slow burn romance drama. But not too slow since we get to enjoy some of the couple's good times as well from early on which I really liked. This is a rare drama in that it doesn't get boring or repetitive at any point. The main couple's romance is quite lovely despite not much chemistry being there. The good thing is that there aren't many plotholes, the bad thing is episode 15 where there's a 2-year time flip. Would have been much better without that, bc it made me loose faith the in the couple. The FL was good at start, but somehow resorted to "cute" childishness toward the end - when she should have been matured by all her experiences and difficulties. Kim Dong Wook is very sympathetic here like always, even if dryish :) But sympathetic-dryish is better than overdramatic or overacting :) The (memory/no memory) plot sounds pretty crazy but that's not the case at all. The social message about the cruelty of the public towards celebrities and excessive interest in their private lives is very much on point. As we have recently witnesses similar things occurring, scandals based on mere lies and rumours and/or impossible moral demands and standards. 8.5 all the way.

Indeed. Great to find people who saw and experienced it the same way.

It was great. Really, almost like a full live theatre show.

Me too, I think 20 mins is enough to see where it's going and am going to drop it.

I liked the earlier seasons for their realism but full blown makjang also taints the first 2 seasons. It was a wise desicion for the three actors who dropped off. They saw this would take a turn for the worst.

Well said. It's all I feared judging from the first half of the first episode. I liked the earlier seasons for their realism but full blown makjang also taints the first 2 seasons. It was a wise desicion for the three actors who dropped off. They saw this would take a turn for the worst.

I don't think they swapped her out, I think she chose to stay out since it was clear her role could only go from ridiculous to worse. I love her stylishness and coolness, I hope she gets some serious bad ass heroic support roles.I think she didn't want to sink in deeper into the mud bath that seems to be Season 3.

Definitely worth watching. KBS short dramas are my fave things to watch when longer dramas start to get boring. This one's almost like a film. Don't be fooled by the title, this has nothing to do with NK. The title is the name of the driver renting firm where the ML works. 8.0

So sweet. Little gem indeed. Highly recommended. Jung Hyun very good and the female lead just lovely. 9.0

I like this a lot. She's been great in every role I've seen her in. An intelligent actress that can't be praised too much. She's also had great chemistry with all the male leads she played with and that's quite rare in dramaland.

Good list, bc healthy relationships are surprisingly hard to find. In Descendants of the Sun, it was disturbing how the FL was constantly weighing her future career prospects against love, imo. In Oh My Venus, ML was pretty fatphobic all in all, or the drama overall was ambivalent in that respect (body positivity vs. fatphobia).

haha, ain't that true. Can't be sister, must be stepsister. And the "sister" is such a person that she would be making a big deal out of them not being real sisters.

Moral problems to think about, for me the biggest issue is the son sent away from home. Seems like a very cruel thing to do.

I'm not going to say this drama is slow and boring because I will be attacked. Fervently. But still. Been trying to finish this for some 6 months because I honestly wanted to give it a chance. Honestly, really, truly, tried to like it. I liked Kwon Nara most, she brings some interesting change to the walking in the night streets, waiting for the subway, sitting and drinking and not talking, being suffocated at work. There are good moments like when Dong Hoon visits his colleague (temporarily monk) at his monastery. I do understand all the characters and their decisions, affairs/love life and not getting divorced bc of the son, and so on. It's life as is. But overall the slowness and emptiness doesn't strike me as cinematic or artistically driven. Pls don't attack people with different opinions. It's just that your culture and background and religion and viewing experiences may well be different from mine. Therefore differences in opinions and tastes are to be respected.

This is just fluff to pass the time. Okayish in the beginning - Ahn Jae Hyun has some body language! But after 10th episode it's just flashbacks after flashbacks, looping and repetitive. Fast forwarded most of the last 6 episodes. Park So Dam is a very good and a lovely natural actress. Hope she gets more serious roles. I didn't get the rest of the casting, especially Jung Il Woo. Kinda not ML material imo. Second lead couple story is cringey as. Second FL just very annoying and emptyheaded. The secretary was interesting in the beginning, but all comedic possibilities there went missing after 6 episodes. In the beginning, 8.0, ended with 7.5.