Dramas Everyone Talks About But I Never Watched

Healer: Heard about it all the freakin time and now I decided to watch it. The hype for it... I really don't understand -_- Yea JCW is gorgeous (its a given) but I can't watch a show simply for a good looking ML and a boring story. Its close to being dropped.

Your list is pretty much the same as mine. I hear about these dramas and feel like I should watch them cause they treated like classics (yea they're bad but you should watch them anyway) but that doesn't justify it for me.

Another show I heard about CONSTANTLY and broke down and watched was Goblin. Sorry not sorry but that drama was not all that great. And I still don't understand why people go crazy over it. 

At this point I say read the synopsis, read some of the reviews and comments, watch the trailer and form your own decision to watch. Don't feel like you're missing out on something that could just possibly be a waste of time.

I've watched the majority of the shows in your list... many of them are really overrated or suit only people who have just started watching asian dramas. hearing everyone talking about them gets your hopes up but then... meh... like for example You who came from the stars, Personal taste and Healer... i did enjoy them but they were nothing special, a little bit overrated...

Flower boy ramyun shop and Gong (the one mentioned by mars) were awful, a big waste of time, i would not recommend watching them

W was a big disappointment, it had everything needed for a good show, but was way too boring... while watching it, i've found myself waiting for a good plot twist or for some exciting change, but nothing happened...

Master's sun up to episode 10 was such a great show, then it became a mess... the first part was a 10/10, the second part a huge disappointment, not even a 5/10

then there are some dramas that are really wothy of their fame, such as Kill me heal me (i can't stand the main actress, but the amazing performance of the male lead compensated for her...) and Secret garden

My list of famous shows that i plan to watch (when? i don't even know it. some of them have been in my list for years...)  includes Descendant of the sun, I hear your voice, Doctor stranger, Moon lovers (i watched the chinese original version and was AWESOME, so i'm a little bit scared of watching the korean remake...), Legend of the blue sea, School 2015, Pinocchio...

i think that many kdramas are a little bit overrated, especially because a lot of people tend to watch them only because of the actors... and that's why i prefer watching dramas from other countries, less biased and a lot of different plots (this does not mean that i dislike kdramas!)

before choosing a drama i tend to read some comments here on mydramalist and on other sites and then watch some videos on youtube (saved me from watching a lot of super boring, not-what-the-plot-described dramas!!).

I actually really enjoyed the humor in Flower Boy Ramen Shop... XD

Goblin

Moon lovers Scarlet Heart Ryeo

Goong

Heirs

Kill me Heal me

Cheese in the trap

School 2015

 In my humble opinion (In decreasing order)

Coffee Prince: Well, I confess I have a bias towards this. I love Gong Yoo <3<3<3<3, and I think the  main difficulty with this is the slow start (I tried it three times until I could get hooked). But the love relationship was unique, one of my favorites

Moon Lovers: I liked this very much, I didn't watched the Chinese version.

The Bridal Mask: I liked it, mostly because the SML performance. Awesome. 

The Master's Sun, Kill Me Heal Me, Oh My Ghostess, Cheese In The Trap,: Good stories, not so predictable.

Reply series:  They were good, not fabulous but good enough, same as  Uncontrollably Fond (I loved Won Bin), 

Boys Over Flowers, The Heirs, Secret Garden, Personal Taste, I Hear Your Voice, Flower Boy Ramen Shop, Cinderella and the Four Knights: average, a bit chiche. 

You Who Came from the Stars: Boring to death. His expressionless face was unbearable. Her erratic behavior, totally incomprehensible.

Healer: Yeah, JCW is sexy in it...but not much more to rescue.

Fight For My Way: too much slice of life, it seems that nothing really happens.

Descendants of the Sun: awfull. It's my least favorite from Dramaland. I think this stole all the western cliché of the history. 

I still did'n watched Doctors, Dream High, Hwarang, and A Korean Odyssey. 

I hope I have been helpful ;)

 lucy_lu:

W was a big disappointment, it had everything needed for a good show, but was way too boring... while watching it, i've found myself waiting for a good plot twist or for some exciting change, but nothing happened...

Master's sun up to episode 10 was such a great show, then it became a mess... the first part was a 10/10, the second part a huge disappointment, not even a 5/10

then there are some dramas that are really wothy of their fame, such as Kill me heal me (i can't stand the main actress, but the amazing performance of the male lead compensated for her...) and Secret garden

My list of famous shows that i plan to watch (when? i don't even know it. some of them have been in my list for years...)  includes Descendant of the sun, I hear your voice, Doctor stranger, Moon lovers (i watched the chinese original version and was AWESOME, so i'm a little bit scared of watching the korean remake...), Legend of the blue sea, School 2015, Pinocchio...

So, where W is concerned, I agree. And I say this as someone who started liking LJS because of this show. The concept was absolutely fantastic, like a mix between Stranger Than Fiction and The Matrix, but overall it was a letdown and for what? Thirty seconds of happiness at the end? Smh. As for Pinnochio, like I said I do like LJS, this was my first drama with him in it, but I barely got through this show. Pinnochio and WYWS have the same screenwriter and both star LJS as the male lead, and quite honestly? Pinnochio feels like an awkward, overrated, and boring version of WYWS in my opinion. I still haven't watched anything else with Park Shin Hye in it because I was so irritated by her in Pinnochio. 

Healer is my big one.  It was praised so goddamn loudly and forcefully when it aired that I can't bring myself to watch it.  I would probably like it just fine, it's just...I'm sure already that I wouldn't love it and it's forever associated with the airing hype for me.  Oh well.  Doomed to a life without Healer ;)

But there are plenty of others that I tried to watch with the herd as they aired.  I tried to jump on the bandwagon, I really did.  But I dropped them within 3-4 episodes at most.  Just not for me.  DoTS and You Who Came From the Stars are both in that category.  I will never pick them back up.

I will also never watch any of the other Reply series after being underwhelmed with 1997 (which I watched just after it aired in 2012, and long before the others came along).  On top of that, the shipping wars during 1994 soured me on the whole thing.  I do not care who ends up with whom.  Lol.  I learned my lesson with 1997: if a drama boils down to that question, I will not touch it.  

I will also not watch any more of the "classic" rom-coms, since I think I've basically never enjoyed a single one as much as I thought I "should" have.  Or I've given up on the idea that one needs a thorough grounding in the "classics" (when it comes to Korean rom-coms).  :D

So yeah.   A lot of my list of "won't watch" is similar to yours.  Probably for different reasons though.  The only ones I've seen of those are Coffee Prince (so overrated), Flower Boy Ramyun Shop (dropped after a couple of episodes), Cheese in the Trap (loved the first half, drama dropped the ball on the most interesting question raised by that half, and so it ended up net mediocre for me.  Okay but not great),  and Bridal Mask (which is the only one I wholeheartedly disagree with, since it's my favorite drama ever, but I have no idea why you refuse to watch it, so I can't judge).

The thing is, once you find what you like to watch, there's no need to watch things you're pretty sure you won't like anyway, so don't feel guilty.