If you've never seen a K-Drama, Goblin would be paradoxically the best and worst one to begin with, depending on your perspective.

Since it's definitely one of the best K-Dramas to have ever been produced, if it turns out to be your first experience with them, you'll invariably enjoy it; and likely look for more that are equally as good. Unfortunately, if you're exposed to a K-Drama of this high quality, you may feel let-down by some of the other K-Dramas that you come across, despite how good they may actually be.

Let's be clear! While everyone has their favourite K-Dramas, that doesn't mean that you won't find others to be just as good, or very close, thereafter. Some K-Dramas just leap out from the screen and SCREAM high quality at your face. Some examples are:

- Goblin: The Lonely and Beautiful God
- Hotel Del Luna
- The Scholar Who Walks The Night

Yes! These are head and shoulders above anything that came before them; however, even K-Dramas that rank 10th, or 20th behind them (in their respective years) are still far superior than the crap that gets churned out in Hollywood.

With Goblin, you'll be enchanted by the actors (both lead and secondary); lulled in by the beauty of the musical scores (original music for most non-Koreans, for sure); and blown away at the originality of the stories. Keep in mind that Hollywood is struggling to find any original ideas; and even their television shows are essentially a remake, re-imagining, or blatant rip-off of something that has come before it. With K-Dramas, you might find that some were loosely based on Chinese, Japanese, or even Korean mythology, or historical fiction, it's done with a completely fresh mentality.

I've watched Goblin a few times; and each time, I've discovered something new. It's so beautiful to watch the story unfold. You'll find yourself falling in love with the characters; and wishing that you would dive in and intervene. It's so easy to be drawn into the story by the quality of acting, as well as the production values, that you'll be hard-pressed not to be emotionally invested in every scene.

Personally, I found myself falling in love with one character; wishing that I could help other characters; lusting for another character; loathing another character; pitying many characters; and generally feeling like so many other characters were my own personal friends and acquaintances. (That last is difficult for me to explain, further)

If you don't come away from Goblin without first being taken on an emotional roller coaster, then you're either not human, or you K-Dramas just might not be your thing. If that's the case, don't give up right away. Maybe the other two series that I've mentioned above, will blow smoke up your skirt. Then again, maybe you just need to consider a different genre of K-Drama. Keep in mind that they truly run the gambit of genres: Romance; Supernatural; Comedy; Thriller; Mystery; etc... you're literally guaranteed to find something that you like.

I'd like to add that regardless of the K-Drama genre, Korean directors/producers have discovered the formula for making average, or less than average looking actors/actresses look absolutely stunning... beautiful... cute... etc... Whatever it is, I like it. In fact, in retrospect, I've learned through K-Dramas that many of the girls from my past were more appealing to me than I realized at the time. (No! I'm not going to expound upon that. LOL! Suffice to say, as you get older, you get wiser... and hopefully, more realistic about life.)

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