A total and complete mess

"The Empire" it's a rich's family story. Hye Ryul has the perfect life, she's a competent woman but like always happens in this kind of dramas, her husband is cheating on her, but here lies the problem, she already knows and doesn't care about it, because she wants to keep her perfect fake family.
The cheater is a woman named Nan Hee and what happens to her is the real conflict in the drama. Nan Hee dies and in the following episodes, you need to discover who's the killer!

I was really disappointed with this drama, the story is totally lost, it lacks direction and honestly, better characters. I love Kim Sun Ah, she's an amazing actress and basically every drama of hers is great, but Hye Ryul is a weak woman.
The only thing remotely interesting is Kang Baek, he's a complex character, it's a shame how he turns out to, committing suicide because couldn't stand the pressure of just being himself, not being accepted by his family, specially his grandfather and also thinking that his mother killed Nan Hee... all of that was too much for him to handle.

This drama tries to go the same path of other like "The Penthouse" and "The World of The Married", but it's just not remotely enough.

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A story with potential, that was wasted.

"Red Swan" is definitely one of my biggest disappointments, I was hopping for an amazing production with Rain and Kang Ha Neul, but it simply didn't work out, even when it had everything to be great.

The premise is good, there are a lot of dramas with the same style like "The K2", that follows the relationship of a woman and her bodyguard and how they fell in love, but the story lacks depth, the characters and the romance is really weak, the dialogues are horrible. I even laughed on episode 7 when Do Yoon asks Wan Soo to trust him... the way he say that, it was so bad, I couldn't keep a straight face. HAHAHAHA'

Their relationship is weird, there wasn't a moment when you see them falling in love, at a moment, with no explanation, Do Yoon and Wan Soo were madly in love and they not really know each other. That didn't make sense to me.

This was a drama that only made noise, but in reality it didn't have anything to show.

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Good action scenes, but the story is very rushed

"Tyrant" it's about people fighting because of a virus, everyone wants it and kills to get it. There's also Ja Gyeong, a gangster's daughter who got caught in between that.

I really don't like this format for dramas, 8 episodes were already too little, but now we have only 4? It's getting worse.
You can see the similarities with the movie "The Witch", but how there were only 4 episodes, the drama ends so fast, it barely gives you any time to process what happened.
The fight sequence on the last episode was really impressive, I couldn't take my eyes of the screen.

The cast is spectacular, to be able to see Cha Seung Won, Kim Kang Woo and Kim Seon Ho acting together, that was incredible <3

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A truly beautiful story

"Snowfall" tells the story of a blind girl named Mi Lan, who is abused by her mother and lives her life basically trapped all the time. She then saves Zhi Heng, making him indebted to her.

The relationship of Mi Lan and Zhi Heng is very intriguing, because we can't quite classify what they are to each other. It's beyond a romance, Zhi Heng gave Mi Lan a second chance to live, he saved from an abusive mother and from the darkness, gave her a purpose, a family... and that's so much more than the love between man and woman.
That was one of the reasons the drama really stuck with me, the development was really beautiful.

The drama is way better than I expected. The chemistry between Gao Wei Guang and Ouyang Nana is amazing.
There was several fun moments and I liked how the vampire creature was portrayed, it reminded of the movie "Interview With A Vampire", specially about the beauty, the seduction, the mystery around the vampire. I just didn't like the ending, I was hoping for a happy ending, they deserved that, but overall, I was a great drama.

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A drama that was mostly good, but the ending is terrible

"The Brave Yong Soo Jung" it's a drama about Soo Jung, who lost her parents and her home at the same time. Fortunately she meets Jang Won, who became her adopted father and helped her grow up to be a bright woman. Her life is also entangled with Eui Ju and his mother.
Time passes and Soo Jung becomes a sales announcer. There she meets Woo Jin, a cold man who doesn't let anyone come in to close. The two eventually fall in love. In between them, there's Eui Ju, who's reunited with Yoo Jung as an adult and finds out that Woo Jin is his brother. Both of the brothers like Soo Jung, but she likes Woo Jin and also wants to use him as a way to make Hye Ra suffer, since Hye Ra and her mother were the people that stole Soo Jung's money and made her mother died.

Soo Jung's adopted father unfortunately dies by the hands of Woo Jin, Hye Ra and Kyung Hwa, she swears to take her revenge and comes back a different woman. Now, Woo Jin is married to Hye Ra and Soo Jung does everything to break them apart. Eventually Soo Jung and Eui Ju become a couple and they join hands to make the evil people pay for their crimes.

After this, the drama loses it's direction. Eui Ju learns that he has cancer and the couple's happiness is totally gone at this moment. Actually they didn't even had a moment to be a real couple, now that Eui Ju and Soo Jung are married, he's going to die? It's not fair. We only see Eui Ju suffering from the side affects of the tumor and trying to hide the truth from Soo Jung, who eventually finds out.
Yes, in the end Eui Ju is alive, but I think it's because the writers didn't have the courage to kill off his character and actually it would be better if they did that. This whole thing with him being missing and the amnesia, it was just lazy writing. It would made more sense if Eui Ju became health again or if he died.

Woo Jin was the best character, his transformation is one of the best things that happened in the drama. For him to realize that he was used and lied to his entire life, all because of his so called "mother". Woo Jin decided to become a new person, made Kyung Hwa pay and even used Hye Ra in the process.
Until the end I was hoping that Soo Jung's birth father would show up alive, because we actually didn't see him dying in the beginning, even Soo Jung's mother only said he was missing. I think the drama lost a really interesting plot twist with this.

The story is good and so are the characters, the development was going great, but the drama became confused basically at the middle and went downhill from there.

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Don't waste your time on this. It's not worth it

"Sponsor", like the title says, tells the story of a woman who gained her wealth and power from having a sponsor and now she's doing the same with a young man.

Chae Rin was used since a young age, she had to be with that old man to get something in life, she gave up her youth to have success and you think she grow up to be an interesting woman, with a lot of scars, but to me she looked like a teenager. Her romance with Seung Hoon made sense, he was just like her, someone who wanted be famous, to have money, so it reasonable for her to fell in love with him, but the drama ruins it by putting Seon Woo's character. He doesn't make sense in the storyline and Lee Ji Hoon can't act even for his life, it's was ridiculous to see.
The script was weird, so were the dialogues, Chae Rin asks a shocking question basically at the end of every episode: "Do you want to live with me?" in the first episode. "Do you want to sleep with me?" in the second episode and "Do you want to marry me"? in the fourth episode... that girl is too fast, she doesn't even know the guy. HAHAHA'

Besides all that, the drama also stole the soundtrack of "Angel's Last Mission - Love" and honestly, "Pray" didn't match here, it was a waste of an amazing song.
I already watched some bad dramas, but this one overcame all that was possible, it's really bad. Literally nothing works out, the acting is terrible, especially the main characters.

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An amazing surprise

"My Military Valentine" it's a romantic comedy about a singer named Lloyd and a North Korean soldier named Yeong Ok. Their lives become entangled with each other and they fell in love in the process.

The story is interesting and fun, the episodes are short, with only 30 minutes, so it's easy to watch and when you realized, it's already over. I really like when writers mix characters from North and South Korea, specially when involves the military, it reminds me of "The King 2Hearts".

The romance between Lloyd and Yeong Ok is cute, I didn't imagine I would like the two together so much, but they make a lovely couple. The scene where Lloyd is missing Yeong Ok, even crying thinking he won't see her again, it's so cute.

Nam Gyu Ri is really an amazing actress <3

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The story is too depressing

In "Bright Eyes In The Dark", Lu Xiao is a captain in the firehouse and Nan Chu is an actress that goes there to shoot a documentary, but the drama isn't about their romance, rather is about the lives of the firefighters, how much this profession is important and how they are committed to save lives, even risking their own in the process.

It's not a light romantic comedy and that's what I was expecting, 40 episodes it's too long, the story ends up becoming repetitive and draggy, if it had half the episodes, it would be better.
There are depressive moments, like when Zhen Gang lost his leg and his purpose in life, because he couldn't be a firefighter anymore and Qi Lei dying to save someone else or Da Gang, that even after being fired, died saving someone. I get the purpose of all this, to show how dangerous this profession is, that the firefighters risk their lives every day and don't get the right treatment, but it was just too much.

I also didn't like the open ending, I wanted something more concrete. In my opinion, Lu Xiao is dead, he must have sacrifice himself in some mission and Nan Chu's dance showed that. There are two distinct moments in the final sequence, we see Nan Chu dancing in a red background and Lu Xiao is not in audience, there's an empty place and there's the moment when Lu Xiao walks in alone, there's no one else besides him and Nan Chu, the scenery is different, lighter and with snow, like she's glowing. I saw that was a sign that Lu Xiao was seeing her from heaven.

It's a good drama, but like I said, it was too long, it lost my attention way before the ending.

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A light, fun and easy drama to watch

In "The Great Shaman Ga Doo Shim" there is a young girl named Doo Shim who's the daughter of a shaman and has the ability to see the dead, but she hates this power and ignores everyone who asks for her help.
Doo Shim transfer schools and meets Woo Soo, they become closer and Woo Soo starts to see the dead too. They discover there's an evil spirit at school that kills the student that gets the last place in the tests. The two join forces to destroy the spirit and free the school.

After Kim Sae Ron's scandal, I think this will probably be her last drama, I don't think she'll have a space in the showiness again, which it's a shame, I really like her, she's a good actress, but in South Korea your personal life is just as important as your work life, so you have to be careful with your actions.

The drama is light and easy to watch, it reminded me of "Sell Your Haunted House", specially because of the partnership between the main characters. The episodes are small, only 20 minutes each, so when you least realize, it's already over.

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Don't mess with the help

"Master of The House" it's a story of a rich family and their secrets. Kaimook works as a maid in the house and suddenly, her life changes when Rungroj asks her to marry him and Kaimook became a Cinderella story, but the reality is quite different, since Rungroj dies in the same day they get married. The drama shows the suspects and want you to find the killer's identity, but that's not the real twist.

The whole family is insane, the ending was so satisfactory, I never thought Kaimook was planning her revenge this whole time, that she was been abused by that old man and then she made this plan to get back what is rightfully hers. A total badass.

It's a great production, but to be honest, it should had more episodes, I felt like the story was rushed, I wanted to see a better development, with more details, because there was a lot of content to be explored in this crazy family, specially with the cousins hooking up.

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It's a good law drama, but it doesn't have anything different

"May It Please The Court" is a drama about a lawyer named Chak Hee, like her name, she's a good person and tries to help others, but doing so she's got demoted to work in a rural area with Shi Baek, a lawyer that doesn't win any of his cases for a long time.
They work together and get closer with time, that's when Chak Hee learns that Shi Baek is hiding a dark secret from her and that could be that he's the serial killer that's killing people lately, but the truth is more complicated than that.

The drama style reminded of "Lawless Lawyer", specially the relationship between the main characters, exactly because of that, the drama's flaw is that there is not romance scenes with Chak Hee and Shi Baek, they should have shown that.
At the beginning, there was that classic hate that turns into love, but the problem is that the love never came. HAHAHA'
The focus on the cases, in the investigation and trying to find the killer was really important, but I felt like the drama failed in not having the couple, it could have improved the drama's quality.

Jung Ryeo Won is really amazing, a great actress <3

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This season was a big disappointment. It had potential, but it was totally wasted.

"Hellbound 2" continues the story where it was left off. Four years has passed since the events of last season, The New Truth and Arrowhead control the world and people can't do anything but accept how everything is falling apart. Hye Jin is working with a group named Sodo, she has the baby girl who survived, but she's locked up in a secret place to be studied.
Jung Jin Soo has come back from hell, along with Park Jung Ja. Every one of the groups tries to find them for different reasons, but basically to use them in their favor.

I have to be honest, this season was not what I was expecting. Season 1 is simply amazing in every sense, but it basically lacked everything here. The story is draggy and when I finished, it felt like I didn't watch anything, almost like nothing new was added in the story.

Yoo Ah In was really an important part of the show, changing the actor drastically affected the quality of the character. Kim Sung Cheol just didn't work, he made the character too arrogant, Jung Jin Soo was never like that... he was just a crazy bastard. One thing I did liked, how Jin Soo became one of the monsters. I think this has to do with the sins the person has, if after coming back from hell it changed them or not. Jung Ja came back with the power to see people's deaths, but Jin Soo instead of trying to change the world, wanted to ruin everything more. Those things like tentacles that the monster is made, it's almost like a metaphor for the evil inside the person.

Bringing back the detective and his daughter, it didn't made any sense, because at least not seeing them, we could think that everything was okay. Seeing Hui Jeong like that, did what to the story? Absolutely nothing. We only saw a young girl tragically die.
The best character of the season was Oh Ji Won aka Miss Sunshine. How stupid it was to kill her off in the first episode? She was really interesting, what a shame. Her husband is totally the opposite, I still can't believe how foolish of him to think Jin Soo wanted to change things... he was the one that started everything.

In the end, people for all around the country start to get the decrees, basically giving the impression that we're going into the end of the world, which in my opinion is something needed, since everyone is too crazy. I'm hoping for a third season, at least for the story to end in a better way.

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A beautiful family story!

"Golden Rainbow" it's a drama about family, how it's not about blood ties, but rather the love and the bond that makes a family.

Young Hae has a daughter named Ha Bin, who one day gets kidnapped and loses her memory. She's found in the beach by Man Won, who takes her in as his little sister. Then, they meet Ha Joon, a wonderful man who gives her a new name: Baek Won and becomes their father, along with other orphan children, making a huge and happy family.
Baek Won meets a young boy named Do Young at school, he's sweet and the two become closer with time. Everything is fine, until her father is framed and goes to prison. The children with fear of going to an orphanage run away, losing Young Won in the process. Years go by, everyone grows up, Baek Won became a police office in order to find Young Won and then she's reunited with Do Young, who became a prosecutor.

The romance between Baek Won and Do Young is sweet, the two have great chemistry in scene, but they have a few repetitive moments, their young version was truly better. Do Young is hurt three times because of Baek Won, basically he was always on the ground bleeding and she was screaming for him.
And the whole ending with Do Young shooting himself in the head? A little too much, too dramatic.. it really wasn't necessary, specially because Jung Il Woo it's not very good in dramatic scenes, his specialty is the comedy.

I know it's not right, but I have to say that I liked Man Won better than Do Young. I know it's weird for her since they were raised as brother and sister since a young age, but if the writers showed the truth a little sooner and Do Young's character didn't exist, Man Won would be the better choice, his one-sided love hurt a lot to see.
What really stuck with me was the family's story, Ha Joon's love for his children and how they will do anything for each other.

The soundtrack is really perfection, joining Ali with Ulala Session, it couldn't go wrong <3

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The power of money

"Payback" it's a drama about a corrupted reality, where money and power surpass truth and justice, the main characters join in a quest for revenge and to exposed the crimes to the world.

Eun Yong and Joon Gyeong are two people who met unexpectedly when they were young and formed a bond, they reunite when Joon Gyeong's mother is wrongfully framed and killed, they make up a plan to avenge her and make the people who did that to her pay.

Eun Yong's character is funny, clever and really interesting. I loved how he played with the stock market, using that to his favor, making people like chess pieces, since they move around money. The drama is also a critic of that, how money can corrupt people and that you shouldn't live your life seeking only money, you can lose sight of what's really important.
The only thing wrong about the drama is Tae Chun, he's really a boring character. I get his purpose in the story, but they should have put a better actor to do this part.

It's not a drama I would usually watch, but since it's the last drama of Lee Sun Kyun, I had a duty to see, since he was a actor I truly respected and loved and the drama really surprised me, it's really good, much better than what I expected.

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A surprising and impressive story

"The Frog" it's a drama that follows two different timelines, which sometimes got a little confusing, but when you understands the development, it's really impressive.
Yeong Ha runs a guest house and Seong Ah comes one day to stay with her "son". The twist in here it's that Yeong Ha understands that Seong Ah killed the boy in the house, but doesn't say anything because he's afraid of the rumors and not being to rent the house again.
This is connected with Sang Jun's story. He had a motel and a serial killer killed someone in there and it became famous, but not in a good way, changing Sang Jun's life forever.

The story is intriguing, smart and the development is amazing, you stay stuck from the beginning to the end. The acting is spectacular, specially Kim Yoon Seok and Go Min Si <3
Chan Yeol really surprised me as an actor, I have seen him in "Missing 9", but I couldn't really see him as an actor, only as an idol, but after this role, it's impossible not to.

Seong Ah is awesome, I still can't forget her crazy eyes and even that I know that she's a psychopath, my dark side just fell in love with her. HAHAHA'
She's a very interesting character, the way that she doesn't feel guilty for what she's done. It was very unfortunate for Yeong Ha to have her in his guest house.

The drama's ending is very satisfying, because the bad guys got they deserved and the people involved finally had peace.
"If a tree falls in a forest, and no one is around to hear it... does it make a sound? or is there nothing but silence?" <3

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