high quality dramas
dramas that I would proudly recommend
[includes korean and chinese]
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1. When Life Gives You Tangerines
Korean Drama - 2025, 16 episodes
unarguably the best drama ever made. it will make you experience emotions you didn't know you were capable of experiencing. worth all the hype.
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2. My Dearest
Korean Drama - 2023, 10 episodes
my favorite drama of all time. Insanely well written characters and otherworldly levels of yearning.
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3. Alchemy of Souls
Korean Drama - 2022, 20 episodes
the perfect blend of fantasy, comedy, and romance. The blueprint for fantasy kdramas that still hasn't been matched.
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4. Pursuit of Jade
Chinese Drama - 2026, 40 episodes
incredibly distinct atmosphere with the most lovable characters. Worth all the hype and anyone who says otherwise is just trynna be different (I make no apologies)
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5. The Good Bad Mother
Korean Drama - 2023, 14 episodes
a rollercoaster of emotions. lovable characters. an excellent perspective on what morally gray characters look like.
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6. We Are All Trying Here
Korean Drama - 2026, 12 episodes
theatrically dramatic at times, very slow and mellow at times, dark comedy at unexpected moments. Really well crafted and unique. The title is incredibly accurate for what the show is about.
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7. Our Generation
Chinese Drama - 2025, 24 episodes
perpetual state of golden hour!!!! is my favorite way to describe the cinematography in this. A really sweet take on youth, from a very nostalgic perspective. Complex and flawed ML (making him a really well written character for those who are able to appreciate it)
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8. It's Okay to Not Be Okay
Korean Drama - 2020, 16 episodes
this (hear me out) started out very confusingly for me bc at first I was thinking "what in the riverdale..." but it completely won me over!! all three main characters are so well written and complex and lovable. It also has a really off putting atmosphere which, again, won me over as I kept watching.
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9. The WONDERfools
Korean Drama - 2026, 8 episodes
this is my favorite way to describe this: imagine Stranger Things and X-Men had a third cousin who was an adult loser (but like in a good way)
This is fun and hilarious and there is a masterpiece of a scene towards the end with Creep by Radiohead blasting in the background
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10. Mad for Each Other
Korean Drama - 2021, 13 episodes
I'm putting this here for the sole reason that it made me laugh more than any other drama :p and it won me over when the ML shat himself on the first episode









