Popcxqueen

Love your article and time travel/time loops in dramas! One glaring omission, however - where is Todome No Kiss??! It's maybe the best time loop drama I've seen yet...

I loved The Ghost Bride and I am a huge fan of Chris Wu as well! Also if you want quirky dramas, you need to fill your queue with Japanese shows - they do quirky like no one else, in my opinion.
(Maybe that will be my next custom list on my profile - "best quirky J-dramas")
Thanks for the article!

It often is. :-)

Same!!

I agree with everything you said here!! I've been so confused by the malice toward this show (and even the actor in real life, which is just all kinds of wrong!)

This is being released as The Journalist on Netflix in a few weeks!

Why are you like this?! You know what, never mind, I don't care - I'll just block you. Problem solved.

Best comment yet!

So much good stuff coming up - thank you for this article and letting me know what to look forward to! I'm THRILLED to see one of my faves, Yokohama Ryusei, in Shinbun Kisha, and "Netflix" better mean Netflix everywhere! I'm also interested in Yasashii Ongaku and Dakara Korosenakatta and literally counting the days until Alice in Borderland 2. :-)

You are the literal definition of a troll who is spamming every comment here. WE GET IT, you hate this drama - you've repeated yourself ten times now, and we don't need to hear it anymore. You're not changing anyone's mind and just pissing off the rest of us, so go do something more productive.

I really hope so too! :-)

I guess so :-)

This is true! My list is one Taiwanese drama and all the rest are Japanese. It seems they like to tell stories about truly dysfunctional schools..LOL. It must be how many folks make sense of their school systems.

I haven't seen this drama yet, but I saw this article today! D.P. is listed under "Best International Shows of 2021" by the New York Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/03/arts/television/best-tv-shows.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab

What the article says:
"The popular Korean-drama star Jung Hae-in goes decidedly unromantic as a soldier assigned to a unit that tracks down and brings back deserters, a task for which the recruit’s unflagging sense of duty makes him perfect and his compassion makes him perfectly unsuited. The show veers between slapstick action and overflowing sentiment, like many South Korea dramas, and the pursuit and apprehension of the deserters involves a lot of punching, slapping, tackling, tasing and hitting with baseball bats. But the show is also a sensitive and forthright examination of how violent, sadistic bullying and rigid hierarchies drive young South Korean men to go to almost any length to escape their compulsory military service."

Thanks for your reply - I'll put it in the queue :-)

Once again you've written a great article - thanks!

Some additional schools to be thankful we didn't attend:
The Age of Rebellion (TW-drama - this school seemed truly bad)
Never Let Me Go (awful for different reasons)
Kamen Rider Fourze (too many monsters showing up)
Inakunare Gunjo
Yamada kun to 7 nin no Majo
The Disastrous Life of Saiki K (again with the monsters)
Another
Hyouka: Forbidden Secrets

Honorable Mention:
HiGH&LOW THE WORST (Even if we never see the school itself, it can't be good with these characters in it -hahaha)
Hajimete Koi wo Shita Hi ni Yomu Hanashi (it's portrayed as the school for people who could only manage to spell their names correctly on their papers) :-)

I had this question as well. I don't mind folks drinking in dramas, of course, (they're adults!) but I know how dangerous and damaging alcoholism can be. I drink some too, so I'm not a teetotaler by any means, but every once in awhile I get a wee bit worried about how much - and how often - Koreans seem to love to drink....
But you've made a compelling case why we should watch this drama, so thanks.

The film was named #3 (out of 25) in this article:
https://www.indiewire.com/gallery/best-movies-of-the-year-2021/drive-my-car-2/

I loved your article! I've seen many of these dramas and fondly remember the Ummies in each one. I also loved the Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head sequence in The Divorce Lawyer in Love where the FL danced through the rain with her orange umbrella to meet the ML, who had a blue one. (It was a very cute scene.)

She's phenomenal - looking forward to seeing her again.