Dramas – 2024 Completed

When one of my favourite actors star together with one of my favourite actresses you know I will watch it. Like– both Wookie AND Shin Hyesun??! When I saw the announcement for the first time I was so happily surprised ^^

Their acting was great and I loved both of their characters. I for some reason expected them to be a bit more cliché, but I'm happy I was wrong. Yongpil was a lot kinder than anticipated and Samdal was just super cute. I liked all the other characters as well. The only thing is (if I can criticise) that Wookie and Shin Hyesun played the roles of childhood friends so well that their romance fell a bit flat. It wasn't nonexcistent, I just think that they have had greater sparks with other actors/actresses. But their friendship spark was good :)

Side note: having watched the majority of Wookie's dramas/movies, seeing him talk to Samdal about being cheated on hits a bit different knowing that his characters in other dramas have been cheated on many many times.

Side note #2: Healer and his hacker got reunited as well as Jeha (K2) and my favourite secretary~~ ^^

(Side note #3: sometimes Nico looks like Wookie. I have been noticing it a lot, haha)

Overall, it was a nice watch. However, currently not watching as many dramas anymore, I'm not sure I will rewatch it.

Well, a contrasting concept of taboo relationships, suicide and also comedy. Althought it's a student-teacher romance, I enjoyed watching it. The comedy sprinkled over every scene was a fun change of the otherwise serious and possibly dark rest of the plot. In real life however, there would be a problem. Not the student-teacher thing, but the fact that she is underage. So it's fine for fiction, and I know that the age of consent in Japan is 15 (I think) right now, but still...

The school setting with romance genre and suicide tag peaked my interest, but I stayed for the comedy. I really liked the opening and ending music as well.

Oh my... wow. First of all, so many famous actors! I didn't check, I just decided to watch it because of Seo Inguk and the score, I didn't even know/remember that Dohyni is in this! Like every episode were filled with talent. The story is already good, but I believe it has such a high score because of the fantastic acting from the amazingly talented cast!

The story is super interesting. All of the lives/deaths he experience are engaging. I'm so curious who it is he (spoiler) fell on when he took his life. It's a bit dark but when I had those thoughts I would always plan in my mind to chose a building that is remote so that I wouldn't hurt anyone else (would I chose that method)... anyway, enough about that.

I'm off to watch part 2 now.

"You're not really living when you live in constant fear"
"People are happiest when they can truly be themselves, because life would be meaningless if you can never really be yourself"

This drama is all about suicide prevention and I think it does a really good job at relaying that message. It makes a lot of sense why so many famous actors are part of this; they stand behind the message. I didn't enjoy the drama Tomorrow very much because they said that suicide is a sin. We mustn't weigh problems and compare them. But I think that they presented the message in a much better way in Death's Game than in Tomorrow.

As for the storyline of the drama, I feel slightly wronged by the ending. It's possibly the "best" outcome, but like.. then give me at least one more episode. The guy from Flower of Evil came and harrased people in this drama as well, he needs to be stopped all over again now, no? Or does the main character live as all those people at the same time in the same universe? Then will he become his mother? Not likely, right? Then one more episode and we're good. That's my opinion.

The quotes at the top resonate a lot with me. I'm afraid of everything, even being happy, This is what mental health issues can lead to. My true self is social and curious about life. I want to embody the true me :)

It's a drama that makes you reflect. I can't say it hit me that deep, but I do relate and have empathy. Worth a rewatch for sure.

This started out as a simple BL with a fantasy element. The first 3 episodes were an entertaining buildup to the 4th suddenly super cute episode. Then from episode 5 everything started to change. It got choppy and it felt like scenes and moments were skipped, leaving me a little confused. Then it turned to almost psychological horror tbh it was scary. Then by the end it became abstract, sad and philosopical. A good ending tho, but it was quite scary and depressing leading up to it.

I liked the characters and the message about finding your own happiness. In this case they found their own happiness together. A very cute love story. Yeowoo was especially such a cute innocent bean~

Might rewatch one day if I feel BL deprived and philosophical.

Omg what is this ew the main character is so disgusting... She acts so stuck-up despite saying over and over how sh*t her life is. But her life isn't sh*t, like– Her father is so kind! Why tf does she treat him so bad?? She lives in an alright house and she has food and can go to school and she has a nice family, what is the problem, girl?? She turns super greedy and she just got what she deserved honestly. Like why did she wear someone else's clothes and take photos of herself in someone else's house; of course there are consequences!! And I agree with her classmates, she should apologise for lying like what?? She progressively get worse throughout the whole drama. She is made out to be this smart kid but she is never smart seriously. What I hated the most about her was how she used Seo Doeon like force him to be her boyfriend and then blackmail him for money and favours like he just wants to know who killed the girl he loves and she uses that against him and then tells him off not f*cking knowing anything about their story together the audacity of this f*cking b*tch. The title is about mc, ok I see, makes sense.

The storyline and mystery is out the window as well together with that sh*t ending. So many wasted characters as well. I just completed this because it's so f*cking bad I had to write my anger down.

It was cute~ I really like that the male lead is Korean because it was fun to hear both Japanese and Korean in one drama. It's also fun to see main lead couples who are from different nationalities presented in dramas as it's something common in reality yet rare in dramas.

But it was once again the misunderstanding cliché a lot because of the female lead's bad communication. Around the middle of the drama I felt frustrated a lot because of this.

I found a new favourite character tho! Hanaoka~ I liked the male lead too and I don't have SLS, but Hanaoka was just a really fun character ^^

It was good and entertaining but I honestly didn't find Harin that scary. I liked Song Jaehyung the most because she was so unapologetically herself. I had hoped to see some romance between Yerim and Eunjung, but it seems I have to stick with 23.5 instead (not that I'm complaining about that at all, 23.5 is super cute so far).

Overall it was good but there are many shows with a similar premise that outshine this one.