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He's also a director.

And in this one he plays a struggling director....

I'd imagine his acting will be EVEN BETTER HERE, just because of automatic role immersion/relatability to his irl.... Going to be an interesting watch for sure!

FL WISHLIST, in their 40s or very late 30s:
Lim Soo Jung (A reunion since I'm Sorry I Love You (2004) would be fun!)
Seo Hyun Jin (#1 queen of Chemistry with anybody!)
Oh Yeon Seo (why not reunite after starring in same movie back in like 2020 or was it 2022, i thought back then they'd be great doing a drama together)
Han Ji Min (chemistry queen)
Chun Woo Hee (needs to do more romance Projects!)
Jung Eun Chae (underrated, needs a FL role!)
Park Min Young (chemistry queen)

Yeeees sounds fun! 😍

Please a good Female Lead! It's a Romance drama, so it's important.

DON'T just watch ANY Random ones, or you'll get a wrong impression. Tons of bad ones, among some very amazing ones.
Always go for the popular ones, they tend to always be longer too, since the trashy ones just get canceleld mid airing.

My MUST x3 to GET STARTED WITH WATCH LIST:
- Kara Para Ask / Black Money Love (Thriller Romance!
Addicting! This is the 1st time I've come across so many men shipping anyone too, the leads so powerful turned even men romantic. )
IT WAS THE 1ST TUK DIZI I EVER WATCHED. My fav.🥰
- Erkensi Kus / Early Bird (romcom/dramedy, addicting and more lighthearted than Kara Para Ask, so more watchable when stressed in life etc.)
- Kiralik Ask (Romcom dramedy. Totally Healing Anti-stress Regular Binge for me. Even when it has dramatic moments it's still very antistress, I keep reading comments that others keeps rewatching it too).

then others after those 3:
-Ada Masali. /Be My Sunshine (summer island rom!)
-Sen Çal Kapımı
-Marasli
-Yargi
- Hercai
- Hudutsuz Sevda
- Sefirin Kizi (Kara Para Ask Main Leads' Reunion Project 6 years later🥰. After the original FL actress leaves /was fired for being drama queen backstage or something lol. Also The Kara Para Ask screenwriter Swaps into the new writer for the series too once the leads reunited to fix the trash it was before the leads + writer made it good. All 3 saved the project in the end and no early cancellation and good endings.)
- Black and White Love (I haven't yet watched this one..but same screenwriter as Kara Para Ask! So must be amazing too! Others gave good reviews)


Good Telenovelas to get started with:
- Pasion de Gavilanes (total Classic for a reason!. They even made a follow up season 2 , 20 years later in recent years. But season 2 not remotely as good. But still pretty watchable too and fun tos ee them 20 years later)
- Los Serranos
- Road to Love (Family + Romcom)
- La Reina del Flow (mafia, revenge + Music!)
- Blood Ties / Las Villamizar (Historical. 3 Female leads and their loves)
- Betty en NY
- Cable Girls (though some love triangle drama totally ruined the main lead pairings and ruined main female lead character writing. Watch later seasons for friendships between the women and the other lead pairs instead)
- The Unbroken Voice
- Without Breasts There Is Paradise
- Bolivar


NOTE!:
Turkish dizis
are more Melodramatic+ SLICE OF LIFE than Kdramas.
It's like a mix of Slice of Life with serious drama.
They are also much longer.
Telenovelas 60-80 ep or 100+ eps.
Dizis (well the good ones which didn't get canceleld mid aieing) tend to be 40-60 ep x 2 hour eps. Some places like Netflix and Youtube divided the eps into 45 minute more watchable chunks x100-150+ eps.
Longer doesn't mean boring, they are so well-paced often and longer format allows for deeper romantic lovelines and character developments.
....I could binge 10-60 eps of Kara Para Ask or Kiralik Ask in a flash vs many kdramas even when much shorter I struggle to get through just 3 eps lol.

Dizis generally come in 2 Types:
a) Thriller/action/Revenge Melodramatic Romance.
As If MAKJANG + SLICE OF LIFE got combined....

(Kara Para Ask, Yargi, Marasli, Black and White Love, Hudutsuz Sevda etc.)

or
b)
More RomCOMS, but also has dramatic moments.
More Slice and life and DRAMEDY than Kdrama romcoms.
(Erkenci Kus, Kiralik Ask, Ada Masali, Sen Çal Kapımı, Sefirin Kizi )



Telenovelas tend to ke very Melodramatic Romance too.
But VERY GOOD CHEMISTRY and hot people.
Dizis also have that amazing chemistry.
Overall they are better in having Realsitic romance and amazing chemistry, than kdramas.
Kdramas really can't keep up with the chemistry, in Dizis and Telenovelas chemistry so good it almost looks they are all dating off screen too lol.

DM me if you need sites where to watch.
Not all are on Netflix or Youtube.

I guess the kdrama Reign era is over. These days all scripts are trash to Mediocre AT BEST...

I switched to Turkish dizis and Telenovelas instead for my Romance tv fix and to rewatching old favs....

You must not have watched Positively Yours where both ML and FL both felt like side characters in contrast to side stories which took center stage instead, sister in law with dramatics was more main lead and 2 ML who somehow had as much screentime with FL as ML. 🤦🏻‍♀️

IT'S BECAUSE IT'S A LONGER KDRAMA!

The kids on this site are not patient enough for them,

i haven't seen a single longer kdrama rated above anything 7. something here lol.

You basically need to add +1.5-2.0. points to any longer Weekender kdranoa here .

7.9?! Fine..So the TRUE rating is 8.4 to 8.9! 🤭

I found this along the last 2 before it had big names though.
(For Eagle Brothers,
Our Golden Days).

and the one after this one (Love Is Coming) has Ha Seok Jin (Something About 1% guy) and Hani.

I think lately all these late 30s to early 40s actors are pivoting to these longer Weekender kdramas, thus bigger names there suddenly, since the younger actors these days have more popularity and get cast in the more mainstream global kdramas, weekenders are more accepting of older actors as leads....

The Oldest son ML looked MUCH better with the Curly hair he had in ep1-2!

I hope he goes back to it!

Ep 2 completed. Liking it so far.

The psychologist needs a lesson in being Humble and in stoping blaming others, I'm sure 90% of her problems would actually get solved that way, and if she actually listened to what she herself preaches on tv lol..

How can a psychologist be this lacking in self-awareness.....

I don't blame FL at all for not getting along with her mom....

What does this show have against women?!
All-male cast really?! "Only men can do puzzles/action shows!"?!

Compare with Busted and Agents of Mystery which actually have women too in cast, this show is sexist I guess....

Ooh thanks for info!

She's extremely mid in both acting and looks.
(Anyone who think's she's pretty , must be less than even mid in looks themselves to find he pretty)

But like I said, I'll watch this anyway.

Meh he deserves a much better FL!

Will watch it anyway for Plot + ML.

Share a list of your own then. Who would you cast??

?!
I literally avoided mentioning ones who already done typical office romcoms. (well execpt Kim SeoJeong ,i just miss her lol)

And the Lee Jong Suk FL list are all Super Underrated fresh face actresses?!
Especially Shim Eun Kyung like that girl CAN ACT, yet jumped to Jdramas for last few years for better roles wtf?!
I NEED HER AS LEAD FL in Kdramas!

The Lee Jun Hyuk FL list would all be fresh in the Chaebol Office Rom Genre.

I think you just have bad taste in actresses lol

FL WISHLIST:

with Lee Jun Hyuk:
Seo Hyun Jin
Shin Hae Sun
Lim Soo Jung
Esom
Jung So Min
Jin Ki Joo
Park Bo Young
Chun Woo Hee

especially Seo Hyun Jin or Shin Hae Sun!! 😍


With Lee Jong Suk:
Shim Eun Kyung
Jung Eun Chae
Bo Na
Kim Se Jeong

Since both are the basic Rich Man Poor Woman Romcoms:

It all depends on who gets cast as Female Lead with them.
.I hope they announce the FLs SOON VERY SOON (and not many months from now 🤦🏻‍♀️) so I can know if to be excited or not.

Not a fan of LJS but he does tend to be good at building chemistry.....

But you must rember that webtoon adaptions frequently change things.

If they simply go Inspired By (Like Positively Yours did)rather than follow webtoon, it can be fun, even if webtoon is bad.

While this was a disappointment for me,

(8/10 overall. Decent basic romcom but nothing amazing.
The pairing's cuteness lifts it up into an 8 from 7.5 writing .)

it definitely deserves to have higher rating than that Trainwreck Dynamite Kiss (Which just got worse and worse... and Last Eps had AMNESIA Trope and nonsensical ep 11-12...)

Positively Yours actually ended things well with a good ep 11-12 ending. No weird amnesia or Trope hell.




So
DK: " \ " Tragic downward spiral in quality.

PY: " V". Worst part was the middle. Last eps somewhat redeems, but not as high quality as ep1-2.