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Love Me, Love My Voice is a pretty fun watch(not much angst or high-stakes drama)... Road Home has amazing chemistry and cinematography but it is soooooo boooooooooooooooooooring and the plot moves slower than a snail

Loved loved LOVED Twinkling Watermelon, and Moving was a fun watch(though i need a S2 before decidig exactly how good it is lol). This year was jdrama year for me, though... i like their comedy, mystery and action(basically shonen) dramas but always found them lacking in the meaningful romance department. However, I was highly impressed by 2023's Hold My Hand at Twilight(MDL 8.2) and The Third Finger Offered to the King(MDL 8.0)... kudos the production and cast! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Thats very high up on my watchlist!! I love versatile actors!!!

Took me a few minutes to realize the ML was also in Silent... everything about him is so different here, but that gorgeous gorgeous voice remains 💙

Someone was inspired by The Good Detective? Lol

The ML was worth watching but the drama as a while went on a really unnecessarily slow, frustrating route. The topics they chose to explore were meaningful and interesting but the execution was definitely lacking. A jdrama I'd compare this vibe/setting/trope to would be Perfect World(paraplegic ML) but they handled the arcs and brought out everything much better, serious tone without dragging around.

Though i wont lie that im not apprehensive. It will be very hard for anyone else to match up to the beauty that was Go Ahead. Its character ensemble is literal perfection and though I live HIY, I really can't imagine anyone doing it the way the original did it

Hwang In Youp playing Song Weilong's character in the K-remake of what is one of the best-made cdramas EVER is the dramaland crossover I never knew I needed

I fail to understand all the people calling ML a cold jerk here but maybe its just that I'm so used to the King of Tsunderes in It Started With a Kiss/Itazura Na Kiss/Playful Kiss lol (so many parts of the storyline are similar) I'm always so surprised at how much this guy emotes XDD Zhi Shu could never in a million years

Are we ever going to get a solid, good Republican era happy ending romance(other than Fall in Love 2021)? This wave of minidramas with the same garbage train wreck plot is so annoying because Republican era dramas have so much potential

No announcement, but since ML has been blacklisted, it doesnt look like itll air

THE WAY I LET OUT A SCREAM

I give up. Dear drama, i guess i just have to let you rest in the back of some old shelf in China 💐💐

Bonus: THE OST OHMYGOODNESS its just so GOOOOD 😭😭

This. This was just so GOOD, delivering completely, meeting every single expectation I held. It felt like 18 Again's child, what with Ryeoun's presence and me bawling my eyes out in happy and sad tears over all the overflowing family and found family love.

Choi Hyun Wook's acting reminded me a lot of Park Seo Joon in Fight For My Way(lots of similar expressions and line delivery). This commoner underdog type characters are always soooo well played.

Well, 100DMP did let me down in some ways... i think i left k-historicals because of that one, too 😅 tried The Forbidden Marriage because i adore KYD but though it was enjoyable, it still didnt come close to Moonlight Drawn by Clouds. MDBC's Crown Prince is unserious but not stupid, up for pranks and escapades but also a good ruler, and active in both politics and action/fighting(he has a ninja bestie lol)

The Player(the one with Krystal). They brought me to tears with the way their bond developed, and i am so glad they didnt awkwardly stick in romance. The hyungs grew to love their adoptive little sister to death and that was it. And what can i say, im a sucker for conman/heist dramas.

Moonlight Drawn By Clouds/Love in the Moonlight managed to have a nice HE after all the blood, politics and violence... still haven't found a k-historical drama that's as good as that one in terms of balancing the romance, comedy, politics, angst, and action... combining seriousness and fun without being slapstick, and tying everything up so well. Park Bo Gum deserved that Best Actor award for that brilliant Crown Prince portrayal.

As i said, its not the plot progression but the character development and relationship progression that attracts me to this genre. I havent seen all of Se Young's works, but i enjoyed her chaotic physical comedy in The Law cafe and The Forbidden Marriage(though TFM suffered plotwise). Seen In Hyuk in My Roommate is a Gumiho and Kiss Goblin, and though his character was meh in MRIAG, Kiss Goblin showed real potential.

I have to admit i dont know how great their chemistry might be in this one(LSY's chemi with LSG>>>>>Kim Young Dae)... Lets see what happens with this drama.

It all depends on the way they execute it. The actors and writers give fuel to this trope, and it just comes down to how good they are.
Trouble expressing emotions = ML actor must be a genius at microexpressions, which are always fascinating to watch if the actor can pull it off well.
Narcissist = ML must have enough charisma to make us root for him, and writers must work to make us like him gradually. The role relies more on actions than words/flowery dialogues and also has to feature character growth, so I think that brings out good performances - again, it all depends on the actors and writers.

Bae In Hyuk did a wonderful job on Kiss Goblin with the emotions part, so I'm looking forward to this one. Honorable mentions to Yoo Seung Ho(I'm Not a Robot), Joe Cheng(It Started With a Kiss S1-S2), Marcus Chang(Lost Romance), Yamada Ryosuke(The Third Finger Offered to the King) and Park Seo Joon(What's Wrong With Secretary Kim) who pulled off the trope in all its glory.