This list is a misnomer: should have been dramas that do not get as much hate as they should! Acording to their ratings, the top 10 dramas are very much loved not hated....I hate all 10 of them but I seem to be an exception! 😕
Back to the future article?!? Will be published next week but already available?!? BTW: I love this actor who stole the show in every drama he was in! Great future awaits him! Beside being swoonworthy and charismatic his acting skills are top notch! WOW!
So the thai version is better the the korean one?!? I dropped the korean drama after two episodes: the FL was terrible and the promised romance unconvincing and unnecessary. I am dropping the thai drama after 15min: what kind of police barges into a crime scene and touches everything without gloves?!? I loved the synopsis but the execution is awful....maybe it gets better later if I suspend my belief enough and keep a blind eye on unbelievable stuff?
Jeana, I love you! I so agree with you! Overhyped dramas are so NO NO for me because I am usually so disappointed so whenever I see one I usually take a wide berth or if i end up giving it a chance, I drop it quickly. It happened with every single drama in your article. One is missing though, in my humble opinion: Vincenzo. And Hot Stove League, in spite of its uncomprehensible title, is definitely THE BEST drama I have ever seen! Thank You so much!!!!
Most of the Kdramas on this list are just overrated and overhyped (Vincenzo, Goblin) not overhated (like Something In The Rain is!). I guess people misunderstand the concept of overhated: not bad dramas but not hugely popular or understood therefore hated.
This is one of my favourite dramas and I agree with you wholeheartedly. Such a hidden gem, an underrated feel good drama....a must watch if you need something nice and uplifting!
Great article! I have been trying to find a Kdrama with a character the equivalent of Dexter (the US show). So far no luck. I thought Flower of Evil was going to be like that somehow after reading the intro to the drama but it was not the case (traumatized young man but who never really did anything extreme: is he really an antihero I wonder?) Why do we like antiheros? Mostly because they are more interesting and their story is more gripping than your usual goody two shoes, boring hero! I love seeing them reedeming themselves but still keeping that edge that made them fascinating to begin with. That was completely missing in Flower of Evil!
Amazing article. I enjoyed reading it though I have no desire to watch any of them(it took me two months to finish the first episode of Kleun Cheewit! That was the first and the last time I watched thai lakorn! Not my cup of tea:). Thank you so much for translating titles....
This is a very interesting article. Music plays a very important part within the drama, setting the mood or stressing the importance of the events. I find background music even more significant because it is not supposed to be noticed and that music sometimes is much better than the songs. I love the song from Heartless city (it is on my favourites list!) but the theme The Man, a guitar instrumental is entrancing. My playlist is full of such examples! What is your take on background score?
Thank you for the interesting article! I am familiar with K dramas having been binge watching them for the past 17months . I loved them because they were so different (one and done!!!! brilliant!) from western shows which I was really fed up with (the endless US shows...never again!). But recently I have been dropping more and more Kdramas, especially those on Netflix: multiple seasons and too much like western shows has become really offputting for me(CLOY was my first drama so it doesn't count but I tried and hated Vincenzo which I dropped after 40min) ! And though some of the drama tropes are annoying as hell, sometimes the writing/acting is bad , I am still not too much in a slump to completely drop them. I will do that if they loose what makes them korean and different (which is not only the language but the format and the originality of the themes: I have never seen so many time slip dramas anywhere else!) I still have to try Jdramas: I did see a number of movies that I liked and a couple of BLs but nothing else though I would love to try other types pf drama!
When I think of horrible endings I always think of Where Stars Land. I felt like throwing hands at how disappointing…
I finished watching it last week and have no memory of the ending. The whole drama was ruined by the awful FL. Wow, I just remembered: I guess the lead actor had had enough of that drama to even show up at the end!
I've been fast forwarding through first three episodes: aside from all the product placement long scenes, I felt uncomfortable watching effeminate characters' over the top behaviour. Do people behave like that in real life too? Or are they just being used as comic relief by exagerating their feminine side? I am a bit confused!!! All the comments say the good part starts later on! When?
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BTW: I love this actor who stole the show in every drama he was in! Great future awaits him! Beside being swoonworthy and charismatic his acting skills are top notch! WOW!
I have been trying to find a Kdrama with a character the equivalent of Dexter (the US show). So far no luck. I thought Flower of Evil was going to be like that somehow after reading the intro to the drama but it was not the case (traumatized young man but who never really did anything extreme: is he really an antihero I wonder?)
Why do we like antiheros? Mostly because they are more interesting and their story is more gripping than your usual goody two shoes, boring hero! I love seeing them reedeming themselves but still keeping that edge that made them fascinating to begin with. That was completely missing in Flower of Evil!