What Modern drama should I give a chance first?
People who know me on MDL are aware that at least 90% of all dramas I'm watching are Historicals! But on the last year, I'm trying to branch out, and it's usually easier if the drama in question has at least some Fantasy or Supernatural element to it, or if not, some Dark/Psychological/Mature/LGBTQ/Otherwise Unusual twist to it.
But here are some that I'm thinking of giving a chance, and are neither Historical, nor Fantasy Dramas! (I'll pick some from the top 20 to watch periodically & I'll remove them once done.)
Voting Ends by the End of March 2021.
Update: 2/51 done, so I removed them. THANK YOU!
Estelll Jun 28, 2020
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![Healer]()
Seo Jung Hoo is a special kind of night courier, known only as "Healer" by his clients. For the right price and with the help of a genius hacker, he gets his ...more -
![Extracurricular]()
"Extracurricular” is centered around four high school students who start committing crimes to earn money and the unpredictable dangers they face as a result. Ji Soo, who goes from a model student ...more -
![My Mister]()
Park Dong Hoon is a middle-aged engineer who is married to attorney Kang Yoon Hee. However, his life is not that happy as he has two unemployed brothers, Sang Hoon and Gi ...more -
![The K2]()
Kim Je Ha is a former mercenary soldier known as “K2” who suddenly turns into a fugitive when he is wrongfully accused of killing his girlfriend while he is serving in Iraq. ...more -
![The Fiery Priest]()
Kim Hae Il is a Catholic priest. He makes spiteful remarks, and he can be rude to others. Koo Dae Young is a detective. He talks a lot, and he is also ...more -
![King2Hearts]()
Kim Hang Ah is a legendary top female instructor working for North Korea’s elite special forces unit. With stamina, training tactics, and strength in all areas, she is the perfect female soldier; ...more -
![Voice]()
Popular detective Moo Jin Hyuk who is filled with guilt for his wife’s death, works with professional voice profiler Kang Kwon Joo, whose father is killed, to solve a different crime, chasing ...more -
![When a Snail Falls in Love]()
Detective Ji Bai has to train a new recruit, the criminal profiler Xu Xu. Although she is great at determining one's thoughts, she doesn't know how to interact well with people. But ...more -
![Hyena]()
'Hyena' deals with very competitive, private lawyers who only work for the richest 1% of society. Lawyer Jung Geum Ja crosses the boundaries of law and lawlessness, justice and injustice, ethics and ...more -
![Cruel City]()
It portrays the cruel life of the drug cartels and the story of revenge for a loved one. Jung Shi Hyun is a newly appointed under-boss of the drug cartel. He lives ...more -
![Avengers Social Club]()
It features three women from different walks of life coming together for revenge: a middle-aged fish store owner who envisioned a better life for herself, a housewife, and an heiress who was ...more -
![Boss & Me]()
Big conglomerate president Feng Teng has a younger sister, with a very rare blood type, who needs a transfusion. He finds an employee at his company named Xue Shan Shan and asks ...more -
![Doctor Prisoner]()
Doctor Prisoner centers around an ace doctor in a university hospital’s emergency care center, a skilled professional who treats his patients with full devotion and without discrimination. However, his medical license gets ...more -
![Triad Princess]()
Growing up in the shadows of her triad boss father, Angie craves an independent life of her own. Defying her father's wishes, she runs away from home and takes on a gig ...more -
![The Bad Kids]()
A story that follows three children from a coastal town who unintentionally film a murder scene. As the kids become involved with the suspect, it opens up a case that is far ...more -
![Kahogo no Kahoko]()
Nemoto Kahoko is a naive 21-year-old university student. She relies on her mother, Izumi, for everything in her life. Her mother wakes her up everyday and picks up her clothes, while Kahoko ...more -
![Secret Love Affair]()
Sun Jae, a twenty-year-old piano prodigy working as a delivery man due to his humble background, stumbles upon a concert hall one day. Upon playing the piano there, he captures the attention ...more -
![Dear My Room]()
The tale of Shim Eun Joo, a self-employed woman who is trying to redefine her life after winning a big project as an editorial designer and subsequently struggling on her own. -
![Ore no Hanashi wa Nagai]()
Kishibe Mitsuru is a 31-year-old single guy. After he graduated from a university, he became absorbed with coffee and opened up a business related to coffee. His business failed. Since then, Mitsuru ...more -
![Kaitou Yamaneko]()
Yamaneko is an eccentric and mysterious 'Phantom Thief' who steals from the corrupted rich while exposing their misdeeds. Along for the ride is Katsumura Hideo, a magazine reporter who, at Yamaneko's request, ...more -
![Shinya Shokudo - Tokyo Stories]()
There is a small eatery, ‘Meshiya,’ in a back alley of a busy street which is run just by its owner. Called the “midnight eatery”, its opening hours are from midnight to ...more -
![Tell Me What You Saw]()
Oh Hyun Jae used to be a top criminal profiler. He solved many cases with his skills, but one day, an explosion caused by a serial killer ended the life of his ...more -
![The Lover]()
The series talks about four different couples living together in one apartment complex. Both in their thirties, Oh Do Shi is a voice actor and Ryu Du Ri is a blogger. They ...more -
![Khun Mae Suam Roy]()
Sina, a professional stunt woman, returns from America to find her identical twin sister, Siriya, a mother of a child from her already-married lover Pipop and disabled from her waist below after ...more -
![History of the Salaryman]()
Part melodrama, part comedy, this series takes its cues from the epic legend "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms." One night, Yoo Bang enters a dark, mysterious villa with nothing but a ...more -
![Trap]()
Kang Woo Hyun is a respected anchor at a broadcasting station. He has a lovely family and he is asked to enter the political field. His life seems perfect. One day, he ...more -
![Bad Guy]()
Shim Gun Wook is a stuntman whose secretly plotting revenge against Haeshinm Group, a large corporation to whom Hong Tae Sung is the heir. As he works to destroy the family by ...more -
![Kakafukaka]()
When her boyfriend was caught cheating on her, Terada Aki moved out of her apartment and into a sharehouse, where she found herself reunited with her first love, Hongyo Tomoya. Hongyo is ...more -
![Manhattan Love Story]()
Next door to Chuo TV's offices is "Manhattan," a coffee shop for aficionados. The owner's passion for coffee is almost a sickness and all he wants is for his customers to enjoy ...more -
![Turn Left Turn Right]()
This story delves into the lives of three individuals from different generations, all brought to the enigmatic bar, "Somewhere Only We Know," by fate. Despite making what they believed to be the ...more -
![Hitori Camp de Kutte Neru]()
Kento enjoys cooking with canned foods and eating them at a camp-ground. Nanako likes cooking with natural ingredients she obtains herself from nature. The only thing in common between Kento and Nanako ...more -
![Osen]()
Handa Sen is the "okami" (proprietress) of a long-standing restaurant in one of the lower parts of Tokyo. Though she is normally airheaded and loves to drink, she has an impressive mastery ...more -
![100-manen no Onna-tachi]()
Michima Shin is a 30-years-old lonely and unpopular novelist who lives alone in a big house. Shin's father is a convicted murderer, awaiting capital punishment, who killed 3 people, including his wife, ...more -
![Bread and Soup and Cat Weather]()
Akiko lives with her mother, but suddenly her mother passes away. Since then she quits her editing job and takes over her mother's small restaurant. At the restaurant there's only two items ...more -
![Anata no Ban Desu]()
Nana and Shota are a newlywed couple, and Nana is 15 years older than Shota. Nana works as a designer, and Shota works as a gym trainer. They both enjoy mystery. The ...more -
![Rinsho Hanzai Gakusha Himura Hideo no Suiri]()
36. Rinsho Hanzai Gakusha Himura Hideo no Suiri
Japanese Drama - 2016, 10 episodes153 points by 2 votersCriminologist Himura Hideo seeks the pleasure of murder scenes and announces, “I’ve ever wanted to kill a person”. He appears to be a rather dangerous guy who pursues the ultimate crime. His ...more -
![Fermentation Family]()
This drama tells the story of the family of Chunjiin (Heaven, Earth and Man), who own a traditional restaurant famous for its Kimchi, and their suspicious guests. As an abandoned child, Ho ...more -
![Miss Culinary]()
"Miss Culinary" reveals the brilliance of a young man who tries to keep his girlfriend by telling delicious stories of his mother's recipes to win his girlfriend's heart back. With the story ...more -
![AMO]()
Despite the Philippine government's crackdown on narcotics, high schooler Joseph expands his drug business while his cop uncle profits from corruption. (Source: Netflix) -
![Karamazov no Kyodai]()
‘Karamazov no Kyodai’ is a psychological suspense drama based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s last novel ‘The Brothers Karamazov’. Set in present-day Japan, three brothers are being suspected of having killed their father, Kurosawa ...more -
![Biblia Koshodou no Jiken Techou]()
Biblia Second-hand Bookstore has been quietly open for business in some corner of Kamakura. Its owner is Shinokawa Shioriko, a young, pretty but introverted girl who is extremely shy around strangers and ...more -
![Oum Rak Game Luang]()
Tid and Giew dated back in their university days. Some years later, Giew becomes a strict and famous lakorn director, and Tid, whose TV show is dying, works at a TV company. ...more -
![Kakegurui]()
Children from influential families in politics and businesses attend the Hyakkaou Private Academy. There, the hierarchy of the students is classified by a series of games. Students that win the games are ...more -
![Sapai Import]()
Lisa is a rich, spoiled girl who returned from her studies in England to find her parents were in debt. She had to work to repay that debt. And Don's mother helped ...more -
![Nuay Lub Salub Love]()
Inspector Chanathip has to go undercover to investigate a drug dealer gang disguised as the manager of superstar Nubdao, after she got shot by someone for being in possession of a memory ...more -
![Mr. Nietzsche in the Convenience Store]()
Matsukoma-kun, a veteran part-timer and jobless university graduate, finds himself stressed and twisted around by Nietzsche-sensei, his new colleague at the convenience store. Also known as Nii Tomoharu, Nietzsche-sensei is a university ...more -
![Followers]()
Nara Rimi, an established and popular photographer, meets Hyakuta Natsume who has come to Tokyo with dreams of becoming an actress. Although Natsume suffers setbacks, she grows from these experiences in this ...more -
![GTO]()
Onizuka Eikichi is a graduate of a third-rate University and the leader of a motorcycle gang, whose lifelong dream is to become a teacher. After being hired by a seemingly eccentric director, ...more -
![Little Girl K]()
Cha Yeon Jin is a high school girl whose outwardly normal existence and reticent character masks her true identity: she is a professional assassin who is seeking out her biological father in ...more
