Hello Jojo77. I've looked through your drama list and while you've watched most of my list that applies to your preferance I hope some of these recommendations fit. Otherwise send a dm and I'll dive deeper for knowledge ヾ(≧ ▽ ≦)ゝ
1. Twinkling Watermelon 16 ep 1h 10min - a youth serie with music, family and love at it's core. Takes place in the present and the past with some flash-backs to connect the stories. It's refreshing with some tears and heartstrings attached but a perfect spring/early summer watch.
2. Summer guys 10 ep 30min - a web series with summer vibes with relationships at it's core. Softer romance and a fun watch without too much investment mentally. Love goes around a bit so if rooting for the wrong ship is too heartaching maybe pass, but pretty clear which they want you to pair.3. Innocent (bl) 4 ep 23min - a very different story that puts light on childhood trauma, split persona (mdl says DID) and unusual relationship dynamic at the beginning. Really short and budget tight but a good short watch for something different. TW: SA
Bonus from your PTW that doesn't fit the previous profile but may work as stand in if intresting enough:
4. Mr. Heart (bl) 8 ep 11min - two cute characters that really likes to run. A bit like A breeze of Love but less aggression with more understanding and a lot cuter (imo).5. My School President (bl) 12 ep 55min - you haven't seen cute until you've watched this. Youth in school with a crush and pining at it's most adorable stage. Funny, cute (and even sometimes childish) to the point of a tooth ache. But it is young love and really embraces the thai concept and clichés. You really have to have the right mood for it and generally appreciate the acting to really like it. Don't go looking for a serious and profound plot here. It's for vibes only.
Open for almost anything. No horror with dolls, ghosts or true story based And no love triangle. But any origin and number of episodes. Bl, gl or straight is up to you. Give me a selection of your best watches. Thanks ^.^
Thank you for all the different recs Sweetsis. Most of them sounded really good, but I don't trust myself of not binge-watching a full length drama before exams. Therefore I accept Sweetsis recommendation of Gameboys. But some others will denfinietly go on PTW.
Status: Plan to watch
Rating: tbd
Thoughts:
Thesis we've watched a similar amount of dramas
let-s-talk-about-chu is for more of a mature audience as it explores whether sex and love mean the same thing. There are 3 couples that have different ages that explore their identity and what they want from the world.
cold-case-provisional-task-force is a great move showcasing what hard work can achieve even with a barrier of dyslexia. You will always be rooting for him
gameboys is set during the pandemic everywhere faced but who knew romance can spark between screens and generally made me laugh. Favourite scene is the first kiss scene.
our-police-course this had many character growth as students train to become police they learn what that truly means today in a corrupt society. Yes this will make you cry as friendships are tested
I want physiological thrillers that talk about issues in our society such as traumamatic experiences like rape and murder with the consequences explored.
Would love another crime with one trying to right the wrongs of society
I accept hope
Girl from nowhere definitely will end up in my PTW
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@Sweetsis I have a couple recommendations for you, I think you might enjoy. My go to rec would have been 3 Nen a Gumi which you already watched, but those are similar:
The Gifted(includes corruption, inequality and social differences and a student who fights the system)Not Me (tackling social inequality and the fight for justice/revenge)Girl From Nowhere (includes different misdeeds from students like rape, bullying and a girl that exposes them)- Hope (Movie that is based on the true story of a girl who was raped and the trauma it caused her and her family)
Open for recommendations. Preferably from my MDL Watch Challenge Custom List and something short but also open to other recs. Movie recs are welcome too, because I haven't watched many movies lately. Thank you! :)
I accept the recommendation for Moonlight Chicken. I was saving it for a while but it's time to watch it. Thank you, Jojo! Your recommendations are always welcome, dear! :)
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Hi JulyMoon
Hope you don't mind recommendations from me. xD It's always the other way around so...
All the recommendations are from your PTW list -
1. Unknown - A 12-episode Taiwanese BL drama. For me, this is one of my favourite BL of 2024. The acting and storytelling were very on point.
2. Moonlight Chicken - A 8-episode Thai BL. Since you introduced me to Earth and Mix(ATOTS) this has to be here *_*
3. Hidden Love - A 25-episode Chinese drama. A lot of fluff with amazing acting and chemistry between ML & FL. One of the few Chinese dramas I absolutely love.
Let me know if you prefer something else.
Open for reccs. No Horror.
Hi ElBee - Thank you for the recommendations and such explanatory descriptions. :)) I was torn between my My Dearest and Dr. Romantic and the BL. Since Dr. Romantic (S2) has been on PTW for long, so will choose Dr. Romatic (S1) so I can watch S2. xD But will definitely watch My Dearest and About Youth later on.
Accepted Recommendation From Elbee - Dr. Romantic
Status: Completed [ Started: 20/05/2024 ~ Completed: 08/06/2024]
Rating: 8.5/10
For any medical drama genre lovers out there, this is a solid pick. The medical cases are really well-researched, and I liked how they intertwined with the personal stories of the doctors.
The heart of the show was Teacher Kim for me !! His unconventional methods added a unique flair, even though he could be a tough nut to crack at times. However, I would have liked a bit more background on him to justify his stubbornness in the initial episodes.
The young doctors also nailed their roles and acted well. The only thing that was off-putting for me was the romance angle which felt very rushed. I mean, falling head over heels after just a couple of episodes? It was way too soon and then the accident arc. It kinda felt unnecessary. Though I did enjoy their chemistry in the later episodes after proper character development. Thankfully, the show didn't go all-in on the romance stuff. It stayed true to the medical genre and focused on the camaraderie among the hospital staff, which saved it for me.
Overall this was a very good watch. Thank you for the recommendation! :)) Onto season 2 now!
17th challenge completed! Thank you for such a great rec, Tanii!
Hi, Jojo! Quite a few I thought to recommend you have already seen, so here is my very long rambling set of recommendations this round (just woke up from a nap that was much needed after wiping myself out earlier, sorry for the word vomit, dear!). Don’t be too surprised if I get you again and recommend the others after so much researching this round! Of course, if you mention that you are completely not gonna watch one of these, I will X it out. :)
If you don‘t need the drama to have super slick cinematography, I really recommend 2004 jdrama Home Drama that starts with a group of people, all of whom lost their closest loved ones to an accident when a tour bus flipped (some right beside them in the bus, some not there because they were busy working, etc) who have survivor’s guilt and are mourning but have no one to just exist and breathe around… they come together in the new home, still in progress, of an architect who was one of the survivors and sent them an invitation to stay there… It is deeply healing for them and my heart both ached and felt relief, fell in love with all their stories, and just loved how it all fell together. My eyes had to do some two-decades-ago adjusting (especially since naturally it was put online when the resolution was not so amazing), but once I was there with the characters, I was charmed and couldn’t dock points for compression in the “early days of YouTube” era of the web or it being made then because it had my heart.
More modern options:
Dr. Romantic -I saw S2 in your watchlist, and this (along with the extra episode called the “appendix” cleverly that goes into a bit of backstory of the main “Kim Sabu”) really does need to be watched first if you want to get the real heart of all the characters because so much is established in the first season that you would be missing some seriously lovely buildup to scenes in S2 if you don’t watch its first. I wasn’t in love with the younger of the two MLs having known, back in med school, guys just like him lol, but he grows quite a lot (I also have a Yang Se Jong bias and have since that trio of back to back feeling releases he did, Duel especially, so of course I wanted more of him)… the hospital staff is an eclectic mix that I love to bits, and Han Seok Kyu admittedly makes my heart flutter as an older person who wants a bedtime story series of his voice to go to sleep to lol. It is 20 eps, 20 hours, plus the 21st episode (linked here) with lots of stories told in that time. (FWIW I like S2 even better bc of the young residents and romance in that season, but it would truly not do justice to the immense stories of everyone else to not know what transpired in S1-a whole lot of it would be just thrown at you without you having the benefit of understanding the plights that lead to those points/developments… not impossible, but you won’t have context for many parts even if you could probably just nod and say “well, this is what is happening now” without looking into the history of this place full of it. Definitely better with S1 references understood, hard belief on my part lol.
My Dearest is a historical kdrama that was, yes, hyped like mad (I was guilty of picture posts to occasional extremes, commentary on cinematography and how the writer and director were constantly using tiny color cues to reference things we’d already watched, things that showed the mindset of the character we were looking at as they often were thinking of the other lead)… but if you want impeccable cinematography, even managing action shots at night with a crazy hard level of detail to achieve without washing out the colors with artificial looking lighting, it has that and a seriously intense love story… also some truly hellish but realistic scenes of invasions and how women were treated so badly as they fought to live or died for some reasons that are completely maddening. It is not light fluff despite starting with a couple of gorgeous idyllic episodes in a village full of people sheltered from the hardships outside their precious little home space. It does have 2 parts (they didn’t wish to have weeks of episodes being skipped while the Asian Games were scheduled w/SK playing on their days, so they found a suitable cutoff point and took a break in airing; part 1 here is 13 hours or so total, 10 eps that are about 80mins a piece acc to the page)… you can, naturally, stop at part 1 if that is the ending you want lol. :)
3 Nen A Gumi: Ima kara Mina-san wa, Hitojichi Desu (9 hours total viewing time) is a bit of a thriller that has a teacher hold, 10 days before graduation, his homeroom hostage, bombing the school to keep them stuck with him, to find out what happened to a student who died the month before. Self explanatory, I think, and the ML Suda Masaki is a favorite chameleon of a jdrama actor for me. (He also starred in Mystery to Lunakare and dele which I highly recommend!) Very fast-paced with a lot of heart and a little mystery.
A light option (though the high school set jdrama isn’t hard viewing, it isn't fluff) in case you want fluff that I just didn’t gravitate toward today: Taiwanese BL drama About Youth is a short, sweet slice of life (short as in 3.5 hours).
I hope you enjoy whatever you choose!
Open for recs! Can be from anywhere though I am craving Jdramas at the moment for whatever reason, probably storytelling style. No big deal if you don’t have any from there that would suit my taste or that you need someone else to see desperately! :) Same as always, no dubbing or romanticized violence from the writer’s POV (“bc he loves you so much and is a wounded man” justifications of domestic violence will make me hate a writer to a point of no redemption), and ignore my PTW (I prefer recs for titles I don’t even know about-those are my best surprises!)-most of my PTW titles that aren’t second seasons of something were added whenever someone I liked was “in talks” for something with little or no description, so I need to clean it out since many just proved not my kind of story and didn’t even have the cast member I wanted to see lol. My completed list, sorted by rating, is your easiest way to know what I like or really don’t. (Of course, if I’m already watching it or have it on hold, skip those-they are already on my radar, some on hold bc they are not completely out yet in that one season didn’t finish the story-I have Vagabond trauma, y’all ;_; .)
Well, this is easy-I’ve already seen Oh No! Here Comes Trouble, so I accept Forgotten_Words’s for In Blossom. I just finished a modern era investigation CDrama (Under the Skin-which is fantastic!) and now I will tumble into a historical one! Should be interesting to see them back to back, especially since I rarely watch Cdramas at all!
Hi, ElBee! I went through your list, and I am really sorry, but I am not a J-drama watcher and can hence not recommend you one. But, I have a few c-drama recs for you, feel free to check them out if want to!
1. Oh no! Here comes trouble: A short Taiwanese drama that explores different sides of humans, with powerful performances and a slight touch of horror and comedy. No matter the viewer's tolerance, this one is a tear jerker.
2. In Blossom : Set in a fictional time period in ancient china, one of the best investigation dramas that I have come across in the past few months.
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I am open to recs, preferably c-dramas, but I don't mind dramas or movies from any other country as well. Just no horror or sap, please.
olily, challenge accepted. Since I am already watching a heavy drama, i.e. Joy of Life s2,I choose When we were young from your recs.
Hey, Forgotten_Words!! I didn't watch a lot of C-Dramas so my choices are going to be really basic. I picked those that I watched, but didn't see in your completed list.
All of them are romance because I only have seen romance C-Dramas :c
I watch ANYTHING, but J-Dramas. They just never got me hooked so maybe the person after me could recommend me some.
Or some K-Dramas that are hidden gems.
What I decided to watch: Light on me
Progress: Completed
Rating: 9/10
Note: I didnt know the actor from Black Knight had a BL. This random fact made it so much better.
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Hi olily
Here are some of my recommendations after looking through your lists. I specifically chose these titles because they may be up your alley.
1. Light on Me - BL; K drama; charming and fluffy show. It's about friendship as well. One of my favorites
2. A Tale of a Thousand Stars - BL; Thai Drama. I HIGHLY recommend this one. I would be up at 6:30am the days it released an episode with my friends. I was hooked. The cinematography this is great imo.
3. A Korean Odyssey - K drama. this is a classic drama and one I noticed you have not watched yet.
Up for any recommendations except horror and no longer than 24 episodes. You may recommend a C drama even if they are longer than 24 episodes but keep it mind that I tend to get very intimidated by them hence why I don't start them.
I accept to watch the Eighth Sense. I keep pushing it back but I guess its time
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Hiiii Jenn!
I stumbled upon this page by pure chance and I absolutely can't back out. So here I am with my first recommendation:
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The Eighth SenseI will never get tired of saying that every BL lover must absolutely see this little gem! Hoping that you too will love it as I did!! |
Recommendation bonus:
2. Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo - another must watch, just have the tissues ready.
3. When the Weather Is Fine - something healing with a bunch of lovely characters.
Ready for any recommendation as long as it doesn't have too many episodes and has a happy ending. If you want to make me happy, no angst and no excessive love triangles.
Challange #1
Accepted Recommendation From ibelieve413 - Clean with Passion for Now!
Status: Completed [ Started: 29/05/2024 ~ Completed : 06/06/2024]
Rating: 8/10 ⭐️
Note: I loved the first part as much as I suffered through the last episodes. It's a shame when a good drama is ruined by stylistic choices like the ones presented here. Grandpa gave me stress hives and definitely didn't deserve the final redemption story arc.
I loved the ML, I hated the FL. All in all a good watch, it's been a while since I watched something older and I must say that I was reminded of all the tropes that were so fashionable when there wasn't the kdrama boom on the various mainstream platforms yet.
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Hi Mart!
I've looked through your list and there were a few that I would recommend but decided on...
Clean with Passion for Now
You put on your list that this was a high priority. I really enjoyed the drama myself. It's a cute rom-com and not much angst.
The other dramas I've seen that I recommend are Marry My Husband, My Demon, and Tempted. However, there is angst and love triangles. You should definitely give them a try some time though.
As for a recommendation for myself, I enjoy romance the most (mostly what is on my list). I mainly watch Korean and Chinese but don't let that stop you from recommending from another country.
Thank you!
Thank you Leafless7 for your recommendations. They all look good. I am going to go with...
Healer
Park Min Young is my favorite actress, so I was excited to see her in it. I have heard good things about this drama so am looking forward to watching it.
Status: PTW CW
6.
Hi ibelieve413,
1. Healer is one of my favourite drama. Its from your ptw.
2. Lovely Runner recently finished airing. I liked it so much.
3. Taxi driver just in case if you want mood/genre change.
Recommend me tearjerker. I want to cry after my exam stress. I prefer kdrama.
I accept KC Drama LOVER recommendation for Unforgettable
Status: completed
Rating:10/10
Thoughts: I choose this movie because of mention of '20th century girl'. So I predicted that someone will die.
Movie was sad from beginning. But yet death part was so sudden. I was not ready for that. 😭.
Hello, leafless7! Since you said you wanted to watch tearjeaker but most of them which I watched you too watched it. I am giving you the kind of what you watched previously
I would love to recommend you:
Since you watched:-
Lovely Runner | 20th Century Girl | Midnight |
Personal Favorite I think you would like
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I am open to any recommends :)
I accept neriya's recommendation of Tomorrow
Status: Currently Watching
Started On- 6th June, 2024 | Ended On- |
Rating: ---
Thoughts: ---
Heya KC Drama LOVER! I'm happy to see you adore Pyramid Game like me. Hopefully you'll like one of these as well too :)
1. Tomorrow - If you're in the mood for something serious and in need of a good cry, Tomorrow has you covered. It's a case-by-case format, so each episode has a different plotline. Despite that, I think there were no "boring" cases; all of them were important and need to be talked about. (16ep x 60m)
2. Kieta Hatsukoi - If you're in the mood for a cute and fluffy romance, Kieta Hatsukoi is the right choice. The acting was surprisingly well-done and there are a bunch of adorable moments. (10ep x 24m)
3. Gaus Electronics - If you're in the mood to laugh and just have a good time, I recommend this one here. Kwak Dong Yeon is truly the highlight of the show, but the side characters are just as amusing too. (12ep x 50m)
4. Since you love Lee Jae Wook, I think you'll like Extraordinary You! He's not the male lead, but he shines just as bright. With his role here, he really cemented himself as a rookie actor to look out for. (32ep x 35m)
I'm in a huge drama slump, so something on the shorter side would be appreciated. I'm open to anything, but if you recommend a thai drama, please make it a GMMTV production series. Oh, and avoid anything in my Not Interested list :)
I accept Mart's recommendation of Last Twilight!
Status: Currently Watching (25%)
Rating: TBD
Thoughts: TBD
Hiiii neriya,
I completely understand how bad it is not to be able to find anything to watch, I recommend three titles that helped me get out of similar moments:
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Last TwilightA small masterpiece. of an absurd power and delicacy. The actors outdid themselves. The ost has been on replay on my phone since the first listen, the story steals your soul. |
Recommendation bonus:
2. Reply 1997 - The best installment in the reply series and one of my all time favorite. This drama has it all.
3. Weak Hero Class 1 - This drama has to be seen, there isn't much that can be put into words. I'm still crying.
As always open to everything as long as it has a happy ending and the absence of hateful characters that only make me nervous (I'm already stressed enough from work xD).
Even a good crime is fine if well done.
Challange #2
Accepted Recommendation From Jojo77 - Twinkling Watermelon
Status: CW [ Started: 08/06/2024 ~ Completed : ]
Rating: /10 ⭐️
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