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One episode is almost always enough to judge whether to stream or drop, and when a drama is as messy as this, half an hour is enough to see whether its watchable. I tend to make decisions based on first 20 mins so 30 mins means giving a drama a good chance. My decisions to drop have always been right for me, since I tend to check the reviews afterwards to see whether they are in line with my first impressions. Sometimes first episodes in k-dramas are just introductions to characters and can be boring, but it is already clear to the viewer that when the drama starts from childhood that the first episodes are introductory. Goodbye Earth's first episode felt like I was starting to watch a drama from episode 6 and had no clue what had been going on in the first 5 episodes.

There's no rule that you have to watch a drama in its entirely before rating. A crappy drama does not merit watching but you'd want to leave a sign that it was in your judgment a crappy drama, no?

People review bombed King of Tears bc of cruelty towards animals. We review bomb this bc of cruelty towards the actors. Pls tell me how are we supposed to protest, otherwise. And another thing, the drama doesn't really work as you can see in most of the reviews. If it had been a really good drama then I'd rate it accordingly. 1/10 is my honest judgment of the drama in itself also.

of course. People review bombed King of Tears bc of cruelty towards animals. We review bomb this bc of cruelty towards the actors. Pls tell how are we supposed to protest, otherwise.

Dropped after 30 mins. There was no story, no characters, to keep me interested. Also the timeline was messy. When veteran actors make a too obvious big effort to come across fully fleshed out characters when they aren't, I can already see the whole thing is a failure. The editing is terrible but I doubt that this would have been watchable for me even in its original form. And yes I do punishment ratings bc I don't support SK's merciless cancel culture, hence 1/10.

Catch the Ghost. It's funny, similar to Flex X Cop.

completely agree, not enough. But I fear that there won't a second season, bc it hasn't been announced.

ep 12. Not boring as much as stressful. My rating was 9/10 until ep 13, now 8.5.

I really liked this drama much more when it was separate cases in each episode. I could barely finish ep 13, it was too stressful. I can't get used to Ahn Chang Hwan as a villain, it just does not sit right with me. He's such a brilliant comedian - I guess his role in the Fiery Priest left a strong impression lol.

I feel that this drama was just beginning to find its direction in ep 6 and we're getting to know the characters... and noticed that there are only 4 episodes left!

fr, we were only just getting to know and enjoy his character. would be a such loss of a well written character if he's gone

That was excellent. This got much deeper. But only 4 episodes left...

Do You Like Brahms

He does in Not Others. That was less than 6 months ago.

Not typecast. A softie romantic guy in Not Others and good cop in Day of Kidnapping.

MDL writers are really on a different mental universe with their celebrity obsession which readers do not share. What a sad situation. When do we get the news about Baeksang nominees, for instance. Celebrity obsessions are for no-lifers.

Catch the Ghost is similar to this.

As much as as I love this, the problem with 2 directors persists. The other one, handling the 3rd couple for instance, is happy with rather elementary humour and over the top acting. The differences in what they want to do have been bringing this down from the start. Otherwise it would be a 10/10 but now it's a 9/10 for me. Ep 13 was a bit too stressful.

He's a darling in Not Others and the good cop in Day of Kidnapping so there's no stereotyping fortunately.

it's very mid