TamzinMillemni

What an emotional ending. Crying ugly and happy tears and they just had to crack one more joke right at the end. 😅

It’s the Mandela effect. Whenever we all have collective deja vu it’s because we’ve been Men In Black’d or we’re living the same timeline again.

He looks familiar to me too like I’ve seen his exact face before. The other actors you guys suggested share similarities but I feel like I’ve seen Babe’s EXACT FACE BEFORE.

I hope part 2 is at least. I added it here because they’ve split part one and part 2 into two different MDL listings (as in you can rate each part separately).

How many 2023-release dramas did you watch? 81

What country did you watch the most in 2023? South Korea

What genre(s) do you usually watch? Romance (k-dramas have got me in a chokehold 😅)

What is your top drama listed in this article? Moving

What is your top drama NOT listed in this article? Death’s Game (especially part 1 which were the first 4 episodes released in 2023), Castaway Diva, The Glory Pt 2 and Divorce Attorney Shin

How was your drama journey in 2023? A mixed bag. The good ones were really good (found some real gems) but unfortunately the majority were sloppily executed.

What is your wish or plan in dramaland in 2024? As others have said, I wish for better consistently good dramas. I’d also like to see some newer themes and mixing of genres. We’ve started to see this a bit in the last two years and I really hope it catches on.

I didn’t know MDL did yearly roundups. This is such a cool idea and I’ve also found some interesting looking shows for my to watch list. 🤗

The late 2010s was the semi decade for Korean cinema. These thought provoking and highly emotive movies came out of nowhere and dominated with its impact. Although I am not Asian I love to see when cultural phenomenons challenge the concept that non-white stories are not relatable. After all, we are all humans and we all have stories with similar themes.

Same. I avoided it for years because I was like, “not another zombie movie” but it’s so much more than that. Like you said, it’s the kind of film that you don’t mind it ripping your heart out. You don’t regret watching it for a second even though you are left bawling on the floor. 😅

I watched this in full years after it came out (2022). It has such a gut wrenching impact. It’s the sort of bitter-sweet ending that stays with you.

Say what you want about this series but mama Nam going off on the dad will never not be iconic. How are you gonna tell a man he has a limp d*ck. bahahaha 🤣😂😅😭😭😭 Is that a record for the most series of cuss words in a bl? I think it might be tehehe 🤭

BiliBili is the site I’m suggesting. I’m just letting you know I had to fish around for the good subs because they weren’t all in one place on the site. They were from multiple different posters.

I scraped through BiliBili to find each episode with good subs. In the end I had to wade through a lot of videos by a lot of different people to find the good ones. I still don’t understand why the subs are so bad and this is a production with a lot of big names.

I had to go digging through BiliBili and found good subs for each individual episode from different posters. I can’t provide all the links off the top of my head without slogging through my browsing history but I did save the link for episode 1.
https://www.bilibili.tv/en/video/4789267706151424

We’d have to agree to disagree as the story arc ended abruptly.

When I first watched this in 2021, there was a buzz about a Season 2 or a continuation of some sort but after two and a half years I’m still holding out hope. Although it’s less and less likely. 🥲

Oh, my bad. The site I watch stuff on posted the episode link in preparation for it being released today but the episode itself was not available yet. As others have said it will be available today (Jan 5th).

I saw that ep 5 is available now but I don’t know when exactly they were released, if it was today or yesterday.

Same. Both guys are decent humans and both deserve good endings. I’m usually satisfied with the main lead ending up with whomever he or she likes.

I keep going back and forth about what her true motivation is. Is she obsessed with Ye-Ji because she is jealous of her and wants to ruin her or is she obsessed with Soo-bin because she wants him but he doesn’t want her so she’s trying to force him? Or is this her dark twisted way of making friends by manipulating them, controlling them through money and forcing them through blackmail? What does she want?? Is it chaos? 😅

In terms of the timeline, we know that Soo-bin and the others were friendly(ish) towards her at the start of the school year but they didn’t know her like that or even talked to her much. She was always just hanging around. Then we saw her first approach Soo-bin after that phone call where it’s revealed he’s having money troubles. He turns her down but ends up working at the same place as her. The place is a front for something shady and Soo-bin is forced to be a part of it to earn money it seems. Da-Eun takes a compromising picture of Soo-bin and uses it to blackmail him into hanging out with her and forcing him to act like they are together.

Three observations:
Da-Eun has been messing with Ye-Ji since day 1 which is why I’m starting to believe the root of her obsession is Ye-Ji and not Soo-bin. That she’s only going after Soo-bin to ‘have something Ye-Ji can’t have’.

I wonder if Da-Eun was the reason Sae-Na was bullied before Sae-Na became friends with Ye-Ji. I bet Da-Eun started some rumours about her.

It seems like anyone is collateral damage for Da-Eun in her pursuit. Even her father it seems, because why would you blackmail someone with something that would be a problem for your father also. This is why I say she is psycho PSYCHO. There is nothing off limits. Nothing she won’t do to get what she wants.

Oooookay……so Da-Eun IS psycho PSYCHO. Then all bets are off.

The third episode was so heartwarming. 🥹☺️