Healing drama about adult friendships, living together, and eating together as therapy for everyday life's problems, especially in the professional sphere.
-Friends eating together, spending time together, and gaining strength on their professional journey because of platonic friendships and relationships.
- one of the characters works in the creative field in both dramas.
- one of the characters may be aromatic.

The theme of redefining masculinity and getting rid of gender stereotypes and all its limiting parameters. Both explore the love between unlikely-looking couples, the males look and dress uniquely and embrace their feminine side.
-Crushing social norms that try to limit both males and females in certain roles that have margins like gender, age, and the "social curse" mentioned in BSL.

Similar vibe when it comes to work and finding the strength to survive when all else seem to be falling apart professionally.

Had forgotten how similar this drama is to this Jdrama oldie. The new school, the bullying, the toilet scenes.
I think Life was even more intense with the amount of violence.

Similar aspects of a popularity contest being organized by the unlikely villain and being used as a basis for bullying and unfair treatment. The villain has almost everyone under their control and wants to be the center of attention.

Differences - high school ( Pyramid Game) College ( Beauty Newbie)
- Beauty Newbie has other side stories ( romance,family drama) besides the main plot.
-Beauty Newbie (being Thai) it's less intense/violent/cruel.

They are very similar and some of the aspects explored in the book and the movie are also in this series. The way the Daughter in Laws is treated by other women who are their mother-in-laws. They are treated more as slaves even though women have daughters who are married. Still, they continue the pattern of abuse and perpetuating and unleashing misogynistic views on their daughters-in-law. It's more like generational trauma being carried over to the next generation. Being a good daughter-in-law but abandoning their own families at the expense of the husband. They all hate Chuseok.

-Same subject matter of working with women at a clinic dealing with reproductive issues.
-Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Difference is from the nurse perspective vs Dr's perspective.

- about broken and burdened characters who are trying to make peace with the past and move on though they are different issues. ( mental illness vs death of a spouse , fear of intimacy vs professional misconduct).
- the Dr Female Lead with a phobia/fear or hiding some painful past incident.
- the positive and supportive working environment. Bosses in both dramas have similar characters and encourage growth of those around them by encouraging them.
- Drs have different professions though ( Gynecologist vs a Psychiatrist)

- both deals with the process of grief and giving final dignity to loved ones who have passed away.
-making sense of life and life while saying goodbye.

Mia 2018 is the remake of the almost decade old Taiwanese drama The Fierce Wife (2010).
Same story with a modern retouch and worldview.
-husband cheats with wife cousin and in the process finds herself and her dreams.
-The Fierce Wife is more emotionally heartbreaking and high on melodrama with a lot of family drama and introspection by the characters.
- Mia tones it down and changes a few of the FL's attributes.

-both are feminist type dramas that try to give power back to women after years of abuse and financial control by their partners and family.
-both dramas share the similarities of married women who defy societal expectations and divorce their abusive husbands.
-both husbands are serial cheaters who physically abuse the FLs.
-both husbands have bad,enabling mothers who help abuse and torture the FLs.
- both FLs fall in love with a younger man but in Barb Ruk the age-gap is wider while in Tie Me Knot its a few years.
-The major differences is that in BarbRuk the FL is rich and it is the ML who faces financial difficulties while in Tie Me Knot it is the FL who has to start over and ML is rich.
-Another difference is that Tie Me Knot focuses on the romance of the ML/FL while Barb Ruk you barely notice it.

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- the cousin/relative dynamic where they have or want a relationship with their relative's husband.
-crazy psycho person that pretends to be a good relative behind the back but is the cause of all the problems.