I'm here because of the Romance tag and Shin Hye Sun (my bias).
When i first read "Healing drama", i thought you would talk about the drama healing theviewer. I was brought up on anime, there "healing" was used for something that heals the viewer. Those healing anime usually have a quaint atmosphere are mostly slice of life and are not meant to make you laugh but to put a smile on your face. For Thirty But Seventeen to be a healing drama, the whole trauma backstory would have to scrapped and Woo Jin would have to be made more friendly and just let their romance bud like flowers in spring. So i would request you to use "trauma" rather "healing " My watchlist is small and has a lot of 10's. That is because i screen my dramas through reviews and only continue if the first episode (first 2 for half hour dramas) gives a conclusive direction to the drama and i like the direction it is going in. This also explains why i give poorer ratings to moveis (1 episode rule does not apply here).
I have given a below 10 rating to only 2 dramas, first, Wok of Love Why-1 hour of run time was cut due to FIFA World Cup and 1 side couple, whom i was shipping, didn't get a conclusive end; second, Legend of the Blue Sea(where i first saw Hye Sun) Why-I started watching becuase Ji Hyun was so cute and innocent for the first few episodes, it was going to be a great series until it wasn't. The problem was the stepmother & stepbrother part( the obstacle/antagonist of the story), it was dragged out too long and because of that i was doing something that i had never done before-skipping scenes in a kdrama-because they were too cliche. To contrast that, i knew what was going to happen in scenes in What's Wrong With Secretary Kim(WWWSK) but i didn't find them to be cliche. Talking more about that drama-viewer sense (the one that tells you what is going to happen next) i knew the father was going to die in the Legend of the blue sea, or more like, i would have killed the father if i was the writer. But as the obstacle got dragged out more and more i wished the father just survived and and pointed out the stepmother and finished it fast.
I believe Thirty But Seventeen and Witch's Love(what appears to be a far better trauma rom-com even with Thirty but Seventeen having Hye Sun) are both inspired from WWWSK( a trauma drama). I rate WWWSK at 10 because the obstacle was cleared fast and lots of time was spent on the romance no matter the shallow characters or the cliche scenes. I get bad vibes from Thirty but Seventeen, that the obstacles will be dragged out. Woo Jin was almost non-existant for the first 6 episodes, he wasn't even willing to let her stay. The trauma is too strong in Woo Jin for a rom-com, it would be understandable if it were a thriller or psychological drama. On the other hand Witch's Love has a male lead with trauma, the trauma affects him but does not define him unlike Woo Jin. In Witch's Love the male and female lead are related by a childhood event but it is a mystery not a misunderstanding(WWWSK has a combination of both but the misunderstanding does not impede their relationship). In thirty but seventeen the trauma does not let woo jin love another girl and affects the romance, while in WWWSK and Witch's Love the trauma does not impede the romance and the resolution of trauma is not an urgent matter.
For Legend of the Blue Sea i would have taken a cheesy ending like min ho jumping in front of ji hyun with a bulletproof vest rather than the remove memory, go heal in sea and meet once again ending.
Goblin and Legend of the Blue Sea are so similar love beyond life, fantasy, female lead living with male lead and friends, one lead going far away with the other having no memories of. They even aired at the same time.
When i first read "Healing drama", i thought you would talk about the drama healing theviewer. I was brought up on anime, there "healing" was used for something that heals the viewer. Those healing anime usually have a quaint atmosphere are mostly slice of life and are not meant to make you laugh but to put a smile on your face. For Thirty But Seventeen to be a healing drama, the whole trauma backstory would have to scrapped and Woo Jin would have to be made more friendly and just let their romance bud like flowers in spring. So i would request you to use "trauma" rather "healing "
My watchlist is small and has a lot of 10's. That is because i screen my dramas through reviews and only continue if the first episode (first 2 for half hour dramas) gives a conclusive direction to the drama and i like the direction it is going in. This also explains why i give poorer ratings to moveis (1 episode rule does not apply here).
I have given a below 10 rating to only 2 dramas, first, Wok of Love Why-1 hour of run time was cut due to FIFA World Cup and 1 side couple, whom i was shipping, didn't get a conclusive end; second, Legend of the Blue Sea(where i first saw Hye Sun) Why-I started watching becuase Ji Hyun was so cute and innocent for the first few episodes, it was going to be a great series until it wasn't. The problem was the stepmother & stepbrother part( the obstacle/antagonist of the story), it was dragged out too long and because of that i was doing something that i had never done before-skipping scenes in a kdrama-because they were too cliche. To contrast that, i knew what was going to happen in scenes in What's Wrong With Secretary Kim(WWWSK) but i didn't find them to be cliche. Talking more about that drama-viewer sense (the one that tells you what is going to happen next) i knew the father was going to die in the Legend of the blue sea, or more like, i would have killed the father if i was the writer. But as the obstacle got dragged out more and more i wished the father just survived and and pointed out the stepmother and finished it fast.
I believe Thirty But Seventeen and Witch's Love(what appears to be a far better trauma rom-com even with Thirty but Seventeen having Hye Sun) are both inspired from WWWSK( a trauma drama). I rate WWWSK at 10 because the obstacle was cleared fast and lots of time was spent on the romance no matter the shallow characters or the cliche scenes. I get bad vibes from Thirty but Seventeen, that the obstacles will be dragged out. Woo Jin was almost non-existant for the first 6 episodes, he wasn't even willing to let her stay. The trauma is too strong in Woo Jin for a rom-com, it would be understandable if it were a thriller or psychological drama. On the other hand Witch's Love has a male lead with trauma, the trauma affects him but does not define him unlike Woo Jin. In Witch's Love the male and female lead are related by a childhood event but it is a mystery not a misunderstanding(WWWSK has a combination of both but the misunderstanding does not impede their relationship). In thirty but seventeen the trauma does not let woo jin love another girl and affects the romance, while in WWWSK and Witch's Love the trauma does not impede the romance and the resolution of trauma is not an urgent matter.
For Legend of the Blue Sea i would have taken a cheesy ending like min ho jumping in front of ji hyun with a bulletproof vest rather than the remove memory, go heal in sea and meet once again ending.
Goblin and Legend of the Blue Sea are so similar love beyond life, fantasy, female lead living with male lead and friends, one lead going far away with the other having no memories of. They even aired at the same time.