21st challenge completed!
Hi again, Saygo!!
You are consistently both fun and challenging to recommend things for because of the overlap in our dramas, but this round I think my main recommendation is…
Defendant ! You’re no stranger to Ji Sung or Uhm Ki Joon, and they are quite an intense pairing for this crime thriller from 2017. Feel free to blame me if the name Cha Min Ho rings in your ears a while. It lives rent free in my brain. :)
Also back to before the pandemic, an alternative I think you will enjoy (assuming the pandemic didn’t distort what I remember of it which is also possible) is Children of Nobody (aka Red Moon, Blue Sea), Kim Sun Ah the force to reckon with for that drama.
(Side note: you have not yet but absolutely should watch, whenever you have some time and can handle an intense story that involves, as a warning, child abuse as its starting point, my favorite drama, Mother, also from 2018.)
“Hello, darkness, my old friend” and the rest of The Sound of Silence seems to be playing in my head at the moment. Let me know if you might want something a little lighter.
Open for recs! No dubbing (so no Chinese historicals), but and under 20 hours is all I ask! Otherwise, ignore my chaotic mess of a bPTW and go off my completed list to know what I have liked! :)
I accept SAOMEO146’s recommendation for Blue Birthday! I picked the original one since it was the one you watched and rated highly.
Thoughts/rating: This was an easy quick watch I finished in one day. The cast were really convincing as teens, and while much of the story is the same as other youth-age first love time travel stories, this did a better job even with the sort episode length. Thank you for the rec! I gave it an 8.5 (a very good rating from me). :)