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My primary reason for watching this was my one-sided love affair with Lee Yoo Ri. That being said, it was not a great effort to watch for the story as well. I have found that most long dramas do not hold up well over 50 hours or so, but The Promise was well-written and well-acted, without any long periods of me wondering when they would 'get on with it already.'

amore: I'll try skipping past the fight scene and see if I feel any differently. I felt that that scene was staged in a very amateurish manner, so I assumed that the drama would continue that way. So many commenters below write about how boring it is, and that they had to drop it after a few episodes. Since you were nice, I'll give it another try.

I really wanted, and expected, to like this, but the middle hour seriously dragged. Lee Young Ae's English was distracting because I could not get past the fact that she should have had perfect English, or perhaps a German accent, since her character was supposed to have been born in Europe. They could have cast an actress who had been raised in Australia or the US. In fact, the caucasian actors all had thick accents, so subtitles would have been useful when they were speaking. The four primary actors were all very good, so no complaint there. So, tighter editing and a re-cast of the female lead would have improved the final product. In the end, I had to give it a 7.

I admit that I laughed a couple of times, but most of it dragged. Lee Ha Nui is beautiful and talented, but her voice reminds me of tires over a gravel road. I gave the film a 6. I watched it on Kissasian.sh. They say that the subs are not final, but they seemed fine to me.

In a way, this is the Korean version of "The Big Short," but not fleshed out as well. Like every other male in the world, I cannot get enough of Kim Hye Soo. She did her usual excellent job. However, Yoo Ah In's character could have been expanded a bit. When he screamed at, and hit, one of his investors, I immediately thought of a similar scene with Brad Pitt in the Hollywood movie. How much money did Yoo Ah In and his partners make? Just curious. Yoo Ah In's performance was fine. It is the writing that I have a problem with.

Government workers are all shown to be incompetent. Has there ever been a movie that presented them any other way? The youngest son of the corporate mogul could have been edited from the movie,and not have been missed. At the very end, 20 years later, none of the characters had aged, except for Kim Hye Soo. When you finish a movie thinking of all the ways it could have been better, it is not a good sign. I still gave it an 8, but it could have been more.

I thought that Yoo Seung Ho and Chae Soo Bin were very good, but the other actors were less than stellar. I am really surprised by the high average score. Most of the other dramas with 8.6 - 8.8 are much better written and have much better acting. I suspect that people are voting for Chae Soo Bin in that pink dress. I gave it 5.5.

Have you ever watched a drama and within the first 10 minutes felt that you could not waste any more of your time? That is what happened to me with this. In the opening scenes the dialogue, acting, and choreography were really poor, as if planned out by a group of high school students. The comments and reviews here did not give me any hope that things would get better. It had taken me a long time to give this drama a chance, but bad reviews made me stay away. My suspicions proved correct.

Edit: Due to the comments from Amore, I have moved forward and am now watching episode 5. I do not find DOTS to be of the quality of My Mister or Signal, but I have watched worse. I am not yet looking forward to the "next" episode as I do with dramas I really enjoy. A major irritant I am experiencing is with the subtitles. I am watching on Kissasian, and it is clear that the translator is not quite fluent. I often find myself wondering what he/she meant to say. I do not know if better translation would change my overall opinion.

Final Edit: Following Episode 7, I decided that I did not care what happened to these people, so I skipped to the final episode and fast-forwarded through most of that. As the saying goes -- "different strokes for different folks." If watching DOTS brought you pleasure, that's great.

I guess that I am from another planet, because I thought that this stunk. The writing was awful, with little continuity. All the Americans were made to look like clowns and/or murderers. On the whole, I feel that the best movies in the world are coming out of South Korea, but this was not one of them. It is only the second time that I have given a movie just one star. I stuck it through to the end, only because it has such a high average rating. But, what do we aliens know?

I understand. I have no idea what that "#126" references. I am just hoping that more people will now stumble across "Bathwater" and enjoy the experience.

??? -- When I look at the Top Movie List, I find it at #29, under "Tae Guk Gi." (Explore > Top Movies > Page 2)

In an Advanced Search, looking at only movies from Japan, it is under "Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno." #126 is the Chinese movie "I Love You As A Man: Part 2." From this distance, I don't know why you are finding otherwise.

I agree with everything that you wrote. The viewing public in South Korea missed this one.

Sorry, Lesle. I thought that this was a film with 15 minutes of story, but with an hour-forty-five to tell it in. One of those bare-bones stories that some directors like to tell. I had to watch most of it in 2x-mode. "Different strokes for different folks." There was so much 'fleshing-out' that could have been done.

This may not be the best written drama of all time, but for me it is fun to watch Lee Yoo Ri and Um Ji Won play off of each other. They seem to be having a really good time.

This was highly recommended to me by someone I do not know well. As soon as I saw the average rating, I took pause, but watched it anyway. Kaneto Shindo is not Akira Kurosawa. The plot sort of floated along, but without any intricacies. It is not a movie that I would suggest a friend should spend any time with. 6.5.

It is on both kissasian.sh and www1.ondramanice.tv

I found the first half of this to be very gripping, but then I became annoyed that Kim Sun Ah seemed so tired and breathless through the entire production. The story-line of her relationship with her husband disappeared with no explanation. Nam Gyu Ri's character was shown to have issues with her step-brother for no other reason than to give her some screen-time. However, I did enjoy seeing Nam Yi Kyung in a drama. I thought he did very well. I ended up giving it a 7.5, but I may have been too generous.

I watched most of Ep 19 in fast-forward mode. Changing the story from 16 episodes to 20 really slooowwwed it down. I am still looking for the 'black humor' that others write about. I guess that they mean that it comes from Professor Cha, but I find him to be much more sad than funny. During most of the drama, I thought that I would end up rating this a 10, but it is about to slide below 9.

To each his own, I guess. I fail to see how this could have been more boring. I never gave a one-star rating before.

Thank you to everyone who replied. I began to watch episode 2, but still did not like the first 15 minutes. I decided to jump to the last 15, thinking that I would drop the series completely if something there did not grab me. Well, I was mesmerized by what I saw, so I went back and watched the middle section. I guess that I will be watching episode 3 tonight.

The description says that this is a comedy. I just finished the first episode and did not see anything to laugh at. Is it really a drama? If it is really about back-stabbing and status-seeking, I am not sure that I want to continue.