We Watch Challenge 2024

10th Challenge Completed!

Hi Monotanic! There were many titles on your PTW that I thought would be a good recommendation so I've chosen 2 titles from your PTW and 2 that I usually love to recommend to people.

1. Beyond Evil (from your PTW)

2. When I Fly Towards You (from your PTW)

3. The Untamed 

4. Under the Skin 

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I accept SAOMEO146's recommendation to watch Link click.

Status: Completed! Really enjoyed the show! 10/10

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Hi SAOMEO146, I checked out your plan to watch list and picked a couple of recs for you.

You can  choose  one from the following options:

• Your Eyes Tell (from your PTW)  
• First Love: Hatsukoi
• One Spring Night 
• My Dearest
• When I Fly Towards You

Open for any recs specially from romance genre, and preferably with a happy ending. Feel free to check my completed drama list to see what I've enjoyed!

P.S. - Please try to ignore my plan to watch list!

Edit 1 - I accept SAOMEO146 's recommendation to watch Dali and cocky prince.

Status: Currently watching Completed

Edit 2 - 

Thoughts: Loved the drama. It was an enjoyable watch. Specially the chemistry between the two leads, also, the setting around the art world was quite refreshing to me. However, one issue I had was the continual screaming and shouting from some female characters. As a binge watcher, the loud acting in K-dramas took a toll on my ears and nerves.

Rating: 10/10

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HiSAOMEO146

I am recommending you Romance kdramas.

1. Because This Is My First Life

2. Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha

3. Crash Landing on You

4. While You Were Sleeping

5. Lovestruck in the City- 17 ep × 30 min, JCW, and maybe kisses

6. One Day Off- 8 ep × 30 min, 2023 Best drama for me 

7. Scripting Your Destiny- 10 ep × 30 min, Rom-Fantasy 

Movies

8. Recalled - thriller

9. The Call- thriller

10. Soul Mate

You can recommend me from this List or any best kdrama.

I accept: The Penthouse Season 3: War in Life

I had totally forgotten it was also in my list. I should use this chance to complete penthouse last season.

P.s. your comment/review is so poetic and beautiful- "I savoured all of it without rush."

Status: Completed.

Thought: as you haven't watched this drama I won't spoil it. This 3rd season was similar to previous seasons. 

It's amazing drama. But because I hated the characters. That's why I rated all other seasons 9. And I was going to give this season 9. But ending made me give it 10.

Rating: 10/10

Second Challenge complete!

Hi SAOMEO146,

i have only seen one title from your PTW list so i added some others you may like:

1.  Drawing Closer I just saw this movie a few days ago and loved it. While handling a darker topic of two people being terminally ill, it has a cheerful and comforting side to it.

2. Shogun This was hyped a lot in social media, but i genuinely think it deserves every praise it got.  Its tagged with the action genre but the action scenes arent really prevalent.  Shogun has great storytelling and well written characters and the conversations are interesting to follow. Masterpiece in my opinion.

3. Kingdom I am not a big fan of zombie themed shows but Kingdom has a different and interesting take on the genre.  The maincharacter is clever and strategic, i liked him a lot.

4. Our Blues A slice of life drama about different people living on jeju. I liked how it changes the perspective every few episodes to another character and focuses a bit more on their story. The show is a bit slow and "boring", if you know what i mean but if you like shows like this it would be a perfect fit.

I accept SAOMEO146's rec to watch 1 litre no namida 
Status: CW Completed
Rating: 9.5/10

What a ride. Its been a long time since i cried so much. I dont even know what to say. Quite hardhitting that 20 years after the show there still is no cure for this disease.

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Hello again SAOMEO146, I checked out your plan to watch list and picked a couple of recs for you.

You can  choose  one from the following options:

• Oh No! Here Comes Trouble (from your PTW)  
• Pachinko (from your PTW)  
• Youth of May (one of my all time favorites; it’s a tearjerker, so beware. It’s based on the real events of the Gwangju Uprising in South Korea from May 18 to May 27, 1980.)
• Yugure ni, Te wo Tsunagu (I watched it recently; it’s a really sweet drama centered on the two leads and their journey in the fashion and music world, also, the OST is superb!)
• As Long as We Both Shall Live (also known as My Happy Marriage; it’s a fantasy based movie and one of my favorites. However, it may feel a bit rushed, so like most viewers, I felt it needed more time.)

Open for any recs specially from romance genre, and preferably with a happy ending. Feel free to check my completed drama list to see what I've enjoyed!

P.S. - Please try to ignore my plan to watch list!

Edit 1 - 

I accept Monotanic's recommendation to watch Our Secret Diary.

Status: Currently watching Completed

Edit 2 -

Thoughts: A lovely film. I liked the story, it was quite refreshing. Plus, the movie does not feel rushed. Both leads were adorable. Overall an enjoyable watch. And, the superb OST definitely lights up my mood. Thank you for the recommendation!

Rating: 9/10

23rd challenge completed!

Hi again, Monotanic! It’s my turn this time!

I am going to be a bit more mellow because you just cried 11 liters of tears, I would guess, one for each episode, and probably don’t want your eyes to look like you’ve had Mike Tyson’s fists take a swing at em. :) The first is not on your PTW, while the others are… 

Prison Playbook’s comedy leans toward dark comedy, is sometimes a little twisted and other times dry, but the bromance of quirky guys with an odd mix of criminal histories is somehow really tender and touching, too. It is largely a slice of life with friendship its biggest theme from my memories of it, the characters Loony and KAIST forever lodged in my heart.

Kill Me, Heal Me has more prominent comedy and is definitely less realistic in scenario, but the depth of characters and warmth are immense. The ML playing over half a dozen separate identities that come from fragments of a traumatized brain is simply phenomenal-they all felt so distinctly different it made the man a whole lot of new fans and got best couple awards with both the FL and the SML (admittedly, he was my fave Asian actor for over a dozen years before it aired, so I am aware I was likely to go into it with eagerness). It is older, so the cinematography may feel dated, but it grew on people who fully expected a flop (even ones who disliked that they wrote the FL as someone who does more yelling than seems sensible-even she grew on people who hated her; they are in a different drama with wildly different characters, too, Secret, if you like their dynamic here). I also remember thinking the OST fit it really well, but soundtracks have also evolved, and I am not much of a whole show rewatcher so tend to keep my bliss stored as first time experiences. The exception from KMHM=Yo Na who I go rewatch often when I need to laugh off some stress. I will leave it at that. :)

My Mister This is a bit more moody and brooding at times, a mix of quiet and chaos of really normal people, well-written and especially embodied, the comedy far more slight, but the community and ability to heal and grow into a stronger, better person is strong and deeply moving if the meandering pace doesn’t turn you off. The cinematography and acting alike are masterful, the script smart and intensely real-feeling with a dysfunctional family of brothers at the center and every kind of relationship present from supportive to unfaithful to cold and callous to hostile, negligent. It strangely starts from a place of intense realistic depression and general downtrodden states to people pulling together and sharing what are insignificant but life-changing moments that make for lasting memories and even bursts of joy. I’ve never been able to quite explain what felt so special about it, just that it did.

(I was going to suggest Mr. Queen which is much more straightforward comedy with a modern era chef time traveling and body swapping with a Joseon era queen… BUT you are watching Dear Hyeri AND Iron Family, so yeahhh, I recommend you wait til those are over so you aren’t watching the leads from Mr. Queen in modern era lead roles at the same time so the characters don’t risk blending together/being distorted, especially Shin Hye Sun as Eun Ho&Hye Ri compared to her embodying a modern man’s soul in the body of a queen wearing heavy clothes, headgear, etc. and having to survive people wanting her gone for good.)

Ready for recs! Anything up to ~24 hours works, my only firm exception/non-option dubbing (so no historical cdramas). Please ignore my PTW and just tap the score button on my completed list (and country if you are only recommending from one or two places) to sort by rating see what I rated very high and very low and obviously check if I’m already watching it (not all eps get updated as regularly so even if it says 0 seen, I’ve started it, just been distracted from updating things not on air). Weird=wonderful for me so long as the writing and acting can pull me in! I could use something a little (or very) bizarre and funny or just wacky since I’ve watched a lot of really heart-tugging sad stories recently.

:) 

I accept SAOMEO146‘s recommendation for Duty After School: Part 1 (I remember the title but nothing about it which lets me go in pretty blind, my favorite way to watch.) 

Rating/thoughts: I gave this an 8 for the first part (I binged them but rated the first 6 eps before continuing, knowing I was probably in for a less entertaining finale). I took your advice and kept the sound down-all the gunshots and occasional sirens made my cat a bit unhappy for a while, but she got over it quickly enough and managed to sleep, probably because the bullets almost become background sound, not far from white noise, at quiet volumes with so many of them shot so often. I enjoyed the character psyches being explored in pretty decent depth, though, and think that was the core strength. I wish the ending had better resolution, but I did like the prison story arc in particular from the second so even it got a 6 (the ending really could’ve just been more normal OR even had the spheres kill them in their happiest moment or ideally just kill off the psycho going berserk, even… but I get their point/the lesson… it just didn’t really satisfy as much as something besides them blindly trusting that someone with that little time managed to find rope and big enough rocks to have someone’s body tied to those rocks etc… trust being the downfall of the characters never stopped being a main theme, that and adults’ greed making them use these kids as tools, shields to slow the spread of spheres and death.  Almost makes me wish the spheres had evolved more quickly and just devoured evil including greedy ones though it wouldn’t make for much of a drama. :)

Fun overall watch and a nice diversion from the more realistic sad stories I’ve watched lately-different kinds of sadness that thankfully don’t bother me nearly as much in this one aside from what you forewarned, some being annoying whiners. :)

saomeo146

I'm back to recommending challenges for others

Kill Bok Soon 

It is mostly action with little dialogue in between but is definitely slightly different with the main character a hired killer with a daughter. The daughter's story though I felt was unnecessary to the whole movie. The ending fight effects were spectacular.

High School Return of a Gangster 

Something i could personally relate to. Now i don't like body swapping too much but this made a proper difference in how the teenager changed into a more confident in himself and he decided it was best not to swap back which made me cry. The swap also affected those around him positively with character development.

Black Knight 

is definitely dystopian that is properly explained. the characters you will fall in love with even the one who is supposed to be intimidating. It is easy to follow

i would like anything that is crime, psychological or thriller or all in one. Movies would be great as well 

I accept night has come 

I dont know what happened. It had the plot a game we all love turned to real life. But it the acting and what each character did that made it bad.
At times it was so fast paced with everyone dying left right and centre then slow paced with me skipping some parts.
I didnt reqlly grow invested in anyone which is a surprise for me.
The ending i hated so much like it never answered anything for me as it is just a loop that they cant get out of.

For me this is more horror then physiological as the amount of gore it contains