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Adding to this, these dramas with actors who have done KBLs (would like to add Choo Young-Woo from You Make Me Dance to your list) stream on OTT platforms like TVING and Netflix. It's usually young people who watch on OTT and they are, like you said, more open-minded, hence the lack of outright outrage and mind-losing.

This comment took me out 😭

I need your eyesight

Kim Taesung's (Lovely Runner) friend in particular always catches my attention. He is in the Study Group school too. This needs to be explained. I need a drama which reveals he was undercover in these schools on some secret mission. (The actor I'm referring to is Kim Hwi-Gyu, Insta: https://www.instagram.com/gnlrbfm )

I remember during the filming of “My Lovely Liar” Hwang Minhyun said he would love and prefer to do action dramas/scenes. The “My Lovely Liar” team even put a little action scene in for him near the beginning of the drama. I’m glad he could flip and kick to his heart’s content in Study Group!

He was in My Lovely Liar after AoS. Average drama and acting but it wasn’t exactly unknown, it was a tvN romcom.

Blood Free and Jirisan are his weaker works IMO but still not a bad watch if you’re into that genre + just watching for him and Jun Jihyun/Han Hyojoo.

I don’t think OTT dramas have ratings like network dramas do, I could be wrong though.

Disciplinary Committee Captain in particular… that’s a G R O W N M A N 🤨 Sir, step away from the underage students.

“Agma saekki” 😂

Love how they juxtaposed Yoon Gamin’s study struggle story and Lee Jun’s fighting struggle story! Ep 4 punch to intro transition was 🔥🔥🔥 That whole sequence was GOLD!!

snake cat, pants wetter, nepo hire, gossip girl

Don’t trust ratings for ongoing thrillers, they usually increase once the show finishes airing.

Someone finally updated Seo Kangjoon's picture on here THANK YOU the old one was NOT doing him justice!

If a writer isn’t able to write women well and knows it, I’d rather they have fewer female characters in the drama than badly written caricatures whose only purpose is to gaze longingly at one of the male characters and act stupid (looks at Uee’s character in Ghost Doctor).

I have this habit of coming back and reading a lot of comments. I saw a high number of “just finished it and this doesn’t deserve such a high rating” comments, as if other users who rated it high don’t have “standards as high as they do” (they should go watch only Scorsese then, why are they on a Kdrama site?? I’m a fan too but it’s common sense to adjust rating scales and have different expectations from Kdramas). Also some people don’t believe shows with comedy should get high ratings, only fully sad and melo ones (the comment - “I expected a serious medical drama like American ones like Greys Anatomy, why do they ruin these with comedy, it’s not needed” when the comedy is what made it special, also trailers and tags clearly showed this will have comedy). Just feels like hate comments to me, like they were watching with the intent to say it’s not that good. I’ve seen them under a lot of other good and/or popular (with reason) dramas and not just this one.

I tend to block some users who are there just to troll and get on people’s nerves. Makes the comment section much nicer to read. Blocked that last legend too, I’ve seen them repeatedly sh*t on good dramas with childish comments (they also commented “Could’ve been a great drama” about Trauma Code not having any romance, and maybe they were trolling but it’s just annoying to read unhinged comments like that all the time on every drama page).

I don’t believe you can enjoy a drama if the technical aspects are completely overlooked by the creators and production team. The brain picks up on bad pacing, inconsistent loudness adjustment, poorly written dialogue, etc. So most of the first batch is already accounting for all of that from habit. The second batch intends to pick the drama apart and find flaws that may not even matter, which is (in my opinion) as unfair as someone rating a drama 10 without watching it just because their favourite K-pop idol was in it.

Commenters/reviewers come in two batches. The first batch watches ongoing or at launch to have fun and enjoy the drama. The second batch sees a high rating and watches with the eyes of a "critic" solely to pick it apart. In doing so they miss the entire experience which led to so many people enjoying it and rating it high.

Park Seojun and Ju Jihoon too. Sometimes I see thumbnails on Insta while half asleep and think it's one and it turns out to be the other.