Recommendations

A healing romance with a total green-flag ML and a slow burn that's just so good to watch. I’m obsessed!

Looking for a ML who’s hiding a secret that somehow involves the FL too? We’ve got it right here!

I noticed a lot of similarities in how they use the seasons to show the characters at different stages of life. Plus, the life lessons in this one are for keeps!

Although both dramas have different premise, one being *uhm* transmigration while one entering a game, both Dream of Golden Years and Romance on the Farm feature female leads basically making a living out of a cheat sheet they have from their original, modern lives.

both are queer(ed) shows with the same central narrative of political intrigue (one in law and the other in finance) hinging on a hierarchical homo-social/erotic bond between a mentor and the mentee

- both involve a younger, rather naive male subject and an older, more powerful mentor
- in both, the relationship between the two is exclusive and emotionally charged with no other comparable dynamic
- in the devil judge, the mentor figure represents a critique of corruption within the system and his mentee slowly comes to understand his methods despite disagreeing before; whereas, in war of faith, the mentor figure represents reform within the system, which the mentee is initially aligned with yet later outgrows

war of faith is more grounded in historical materialism while the devil judge imagines change through powerful and exceptional individuals but both are well-written, worthwhile (queer) narratives that are more similar than they are not

Just like in Pursuit of Jade, characters hide their true identities and there's an arc where they live in a village.
Unfortunately, no birds (as of yet) in VoS

This drama just like The Double uses a lot of straight on camera close ups.
Also a character has a fan.

Both shows feature a young CEO who spends time in a farm in a rural town, trying to create a one-of-a-kind product (Cosmetics vs Beer), and a persuasive saleswoman who is excellent at her job. While both of them excel in their respective fields, they somehow have void spaces in their lives. The two of them meet and find healing in each other.

Both dramas include ghosts, demons & deities. Handsome ML's fight evil demons along with a FL. The Devil Punisher does have romance as a major story arc whereas Agent from Above does not.

Both explore the relationship between two people who met as teens, and how their relationship evolves over the years and is affected by life happenings. Once We Were Us is a remake of the Chinese movie “Us and Them” which I’ve heard is even better

Both Taiwanese reality shows. With contestants who fall in love and have to choose each other. It's more of a dating show, but you could argue that Love casting was one too :) Very nice and handsome boys!

Both involves the plot of reunited best friends from school with one of them avoiding the other due to a past crush.

The same male lead actor Ji Sung :) In both dramas he's a medical doctor in a hospital. Both hospitals have politics drama and moral discussions. Both are about patient's stories and doctor's lives and a love story too.

I never thought I would find a show on the same wavelength of TDJ, yet here we are! I could not stop thinking about how similar these two shows are while still retaining both their uniqueness. First of all, the story, the themes and the context are quite similar, they both aim at making you question the relationship between ethics, morality and the law, however, they will also denounce some of the cruelest and messed up aspects of our society, and it will sting. Then the characters: the protagonists are both considered unlawful/cruel/corrupted despite working as representatives of the law, yet through their questionable methods they are able to reach the fairest/rightful outcome, they also both have past secrets and family issues! The co-protagonists are both young guys who are initially suspicious of the main lead and interfere with his work, but they slowly understand each other and end up co-operating. I can’t say anything else about the development of the story because Sins of Kujo has not been completely adapted yet (and I haven’t read the original source), therefore I can’t say for sure whether it’s going to go a different route than TDJ. I would also say TDJ is set in a way more dystopian universe compared to SoK, which, on the other hand, seems to paint a more realistic image of modern Japan and what being a lawyer actually involves behind the scenes. That said, I loved both of them so much, truly among my top favorites.

Both dramas have the oozing chemistry between the leads. Not to add, the older female and younger male troupe will certainly caught everyone's attention, and feels. Also, these dramas don't particularly involved a lot of nonsensical scenes, and totally just lighthearted througout the episodes.