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Yes - Dr. Romantic! And do you mean Mood of the Day? (There should be an article dedicated to this theme now...)

Great article! I'd love to hear more drama suggestions for each sin from commenters.

....and actually I'm also still pissed about Yoo Yeon Seok's character in Mr. Sunshine. Why can't my man just get the girl??

One of the only times I had SLS was Reply 1994. Still pissed about Yoo Yeon Seok's character.

Because of her actions in the first episode, I feel very little sympathy for her, but that "very little" comes from how her mother (and the other members of the company) treats her. But she has not redeemed herself at all yet and I hope she does by the end.

I made the mistake of starting this drama before many episodes came out and now I'm just sitting waiting and waiting and waiting for the next ones to come out. I love this drama so far! Marcus Chang might be one of the sexiest men on the planet and I LOVE his chemistry with Vivian Sung. I try not to get too annoyed with Chu Chu's too-sweet behavior because that's how she's "written" (by the novel's author) and all of the actors have portrayed their characters perfectly! I'm curious about Tian Xing's brother (in "real life") and if/how his character will end up developing.

In Wok of Love lots of folks thought Jang Hyuk's character would get the girl,...but she was in love with my crush, Lee Jun Ho. I'm not sure if either male character was the ML versus the second lead, but lots of people have commented on it. It was clear to me that almost the first minute the FL laid eyes on Junho it was all over....

Just one of the myriad of reasons why I never have the timed comments on...

And because of your article I'm going to watch Sense8 - I had forgotten she was in that. :-)

I love K-dramas, TW-dramas, and I've really gotten into J-dramas lately. I love that my favorite tv shows are in three different languages other than my own, and I'm often watching them simultaneously. :-)

LOVE LOVE LOVE HER. My absolute favorite drama is Stranger and she is a huge reason for that...I am over the moon that season 2 is just around the corner!

I just finished Put Your Head on My Shoulder and loved it. I also loved My Dear Lady and currently watching Somewhere Only We Know (I really recommend it, it's beautifully done.) I did not like Love 020, however, and quit that halfway through. Honestly it's the dubbing that throws me off most of the time and it's why I haven't been able to get into Well-Intended Love and some others. I managed to ignore the dubbing throughout My Dear Lady because I loved the acting and the writing and if there was dubbing in Put Your Head on My Shoulder it was mercifully muted. To be honest, I love Taiwanese dramas and movies so much more than mainland Chinese dramas because they don't dub at all (and I understand why C-dramas are dubbed but it's nice to hear an actor's real voice.) I do look forward to trying out You Are My Destiny , Count Your Lucky Stars and Consummation. If I make it through all of those C-dramas successfully, I'll have to come back and edit this comment. :-)

LOL - I'm having these two issues with Mr. Sunshine right now. The ending has been spoiled for me already and so I'm avoiding watching it, but also the drama is so good that I'm afraid of the feels that ending it will bring...so I'm avoiding ending it. :-)

I haven't seen this opinion on here yet: sometimes I have a hard time finishing dramas because 1) they've gotten spoiled and I know there's a sad ending and I'm not ready to see that, or 2) I love the drama so much that I don't want it to end so I just avoid finishing it....(both of these have happened to me...)

I loved Forest and think it's worth finishing. There is good character development, some very cute couple moments, and some other powerful scenes that make it worth it to the end.

I haven't been able to finish Love 020... and I'm currently watching Descendants of the Sun for the first time and agree with both the positive and negative things I've heard about it for years.

Of course, but it's human nature to feel protective of things we love, and fictional stories are no exception. :-)

I do agree with you, however, on Mr. Sunshine and The K2 - I loved both of them. I haven't seen Cruel City or Remember, but I loved the rest of the dramas here. Maybe I'm easy to please when it comes to dramas, but I don't think so - you all just picked some of my favorites. :-) Honestly though, it would have been all over if my absolute favorite dramas had been written about: Stranger, Just Between Lovers, and Tunnel - I actually feel angry when I read criticism about those three....humans are funny. LOL. I enjoy reading your articles - keep them coming.
As an aside, in my real life I research and write about trauma, and Thirty But Seventeen's characters react extremely appropriately to the trauma they've suffered, all of them in their own way. From memory loss in the FL (which is very, very real - not always to this extent, but definitely present and a serious issue) to the shame spiral and excessive avoidance behaviors (fleeing) of the ML to the secondary exposure to trauma for the nephew. While trauma is waaaaay overused in dramas and they often don't get it right, I have used scenes from four K-dramas in my lectures on trauma: Just Between Lovers, Thirty But Seventeen, Forest, and Life.

This is not a romantic comedy or a farce - it's an emotional punch to the gut. While there might have been a few plot holes here and there, Takahashi Issei is just brilliant here.

Yeah, your first sentence turned out to be true...I started reading and realized that some of my most favorite dramas are getting low ratings and I was like, "And...I'm done with this." LOL. I liked the concept of the article but I'm having a hard time reading anything negative about Thirty But Seventeen and Goblin...

I need to update this list now. I've finished Just Between Lovers and it will be number 1 on any melo list that I create from now on. There aren't enough words with enough emphases to explain how I feel about that story, the characters, the music, the themes, etc. Almost perfect.