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I was unhappy with the casting, so I passed and did not even start watching it 🤣
But it was extremely popular, and I know what happens under popular dramas' comment section hahaha

The more dramas you see, the harder it is to actually truly love one.

oh I knew Mouse will be ridiculous mess since episode one, coz of all the pseudoscience 🤣 Luckily I was able to drop fast.

A show I find boring will never become a hate watch for me, and I will simply drop it. It must be a certain level of ridiculousness and poor writing that hits just the right pet peeves of mine for me to finish a drama as a hate-watch. that's why it rarely happens. I maybe truly hate-watched 10 shows? Nothing compared to 122 I dropped.

The "bad show" is such a vague idea tho. There are not really general criteria for it that are objective and apply for everyone. What is good writing, good directing, good editing, etc? You will get as many different answers as people on mdl. Everyone sees it different, defines it differently and focuses on different aspects when watching a show.

I mostly drop dramas I dislike too, but sometimes there are special cases, when the show is just so ridiculously bad, it's actually fun to take it apart and analyse what did not work out.

Remember, no one can stay single in k-drama teen romance 🤣 From a Distance Spring Is Green was a mediocre show and complete failure of an adaptation.

2gether was fun, as you said till they got together. But Bright and Win had no romantic chemistry, and they just seemed like a bros on screen...

A Love So Beautiful was truly a fun story, but Korean ver, just... nope. Dropped it after maybe 2 episodes? It just did not capture the original story well.

SAME! Well Intended Love was such a wild and frustrating ride. ML is a true psycho 🤣

Nevertheless... oof. I have to say the comment section of the show was far more entertaining than the drama itself.

"Bloody Romance is a perfect example. Well-Intended Love too (enjoyed this hate watch far more than Bloody Romance).
I would also count Tonhon Chonlatee as hate watch. These are the "top" 3 from this year." < copied from a reply I made to someone else below.

Truth to be told, I don't hate-watch Korean dramas. I just drop them. They do not fit my "hate-watching" criteria usually. I never feel like it would be a fun experience.

Honestly, when I only saw like 5o dramas, everything was good to me, or at least entertaining. But now after seeing 500+ dramas, the perspective changed. I started to see more flaws, and I am more aware that they can be overcome with good writing, directing and some care put into projects. Misunderstandings based on the lack of communication? Sure, but there needs to be a reason for it. impossibly good characters (morally) - sure, but they have to have some flaws, otherwise they are unrealistic, I can't connect to them on any level, and I end uop just not caring about what will happen to them.

I mean, back in the days I loved Boys Over Flowers, gave it 10/10, rewatched it like 10 times. I tried to rewatch it last year and failed at 4th episode. The more dramas you watch, the chances are the more critical you become. Since you will see the "necessary plot devices" are not really necessary.

What a dedication. If I don't like a drama, I usually drop, no matter if I love the whole cast. There ate just some special bad dramas that are perfect for a hate watching hahaha

Police University was surprisingly bland. I dropped it rather quickly too.
I like how Poia subbed it up in a comment below, how it's fun to dissect a drama - why exactly it is such a failure for us.

I remember how much fun feeds was the The King: Eternal Monarch was airing lol
All the memes 🤣

Yeah but it does not add up with all the research that he did. That's my whole point. To learn how to mimic emotions and read it from other people, he must have research what they are, how the express in the body etc. With how "smart" he was suppose to be, it made no sense he did not connect:" ah yes, everything I am experiencing perfectly matches what I am reading right now, maybe there is something into it.

Not to mention, recent studies show that psychopaths can actually emphasize with people, they just don't do it spontaneously as an uncontrol reaction. They are actually great at reading people, and they don't need to excessively study human behavior like that. Everything they showed him "learning" and "studying" fitted ASD far more.

Again, it would be a completely different story if they did not make us believe he studied all these things. If you have no knowledge, you won't connect dots, you won't think there is something wrong. But he did. And again, his training completely did not match something that psychopath would even have to do. It's far closer to something ASD deals with.

Oh there are quite a numer of Thai shows that make my blood boil. Especially in the BL genre 🤣

First of all, you CANNOT teach yourself to not feel emotions. At some point he should have figure out that whatever is going on, he does feel something and it should be enough to get new diagnosed. They made him seem to have IQ below the average, when he is completely incapable for self-reflection and introspection. But that went against all the other aspects of his functioning - aka they showed him to be really smart. It's ridiculous that one diagnosis led to all that. It would be a completely different story if he was locked in a hospital all these years, and only when the drama started, he was able to leave and start experiencing outside world. Lack of variety of emotional stimuli in the hospital would explain his behavior, while new environment would slowly showcase that maybe the initial diagnosis was not correct.

They literally showed us he has a lot of knowledge about psychopathy if he decided to train himself to mimic emotional responses and read emotions of others, so how could have know a lot about the disorder while also being completely blind to the fact his symptoms do not line up with most of diagnostic criteria 🤣

Like, this is a serious version of Psychopath Diary, but in the psychopath diary it was all dark comedy so I could laugh about.

Flower of Evil had one of the pet peeves of mine: the skills the characters had did not match at all with how the plot was going. And it completely ruined the realism of the show for me. + I was annoyed with how ridiculous they dealt with his misdiagnosis etc. Psychology is a touchy subject for me 🤣

As for Nirvana - I often call it podcast, coz they for good 80% of the plot showed us characters talking about the events, and rarely showed the events. If I only get to read in subs about the plot, I can as well just read a book. So yeah, I disliked the type of directing. I also REALLY disliked Chang Su, so I kind of wanted him to fail. He was too perfect in the most unrealistic way. There were no stakes coz he was always 1000 steps ahead of everyone and had a backup plan for his backup plans.

I loved some mainstream shows that other liked a lot, but I also disliked many (Flower of Evil, Nirvana in Fire, It's Okay to Not Be Okay, being some of the examples). Different people different preferences. Sometimes a show is not truly that bad, but it has few elements that I myself strong dislike. Sometimes I saw ignore the flaws, that others just hate with the passion 🤣

I don't often hate watch myself, but when I do, it's a whole entertaining ride.

Guilty Pleasure - Appreciating the Bad.
Hope-Watching - Wishing for Miracle.

These two would not be a bad idea. I think Hope-Watching could be hard to write, since this term does not REALLY exist as a mainstream thing. I truly only ever saw it in that one article, but I felt like it does corresponds well with many people's experiences. But yeah, damn not a bad idea. Went and claimed both on forum 🤣

Thank you for the motivation to write them 😊

https://i.mydramalist.com/rLn3Z_3f.jpg
screen shit example of me watching Well-Intended Love 🤣

one show that is truly perfect for a hate watch is Well-Intended Love. The bullshit that happens there is something no one can truly predict hahahah