Of the lot, I love Flower of Evil and Happiness the most! Flower of Evil may have over-the-top melodramatic moments, but I was so invested in the characters' insane journeys and the ending was so satisfying. Happiness - if there's a genre that needs to be invented, it is "slice of life zombie drama". I want them to make more of these LOL.
@liztai uh, I have a hard argument against saying The K2 or Uncanny Counter are WOMEN CENTRIC. I haven't read the article yet, but the FL in K2 is the flattest and least interesting person. And Uncanny Counter is all about the ML. #kdrama
I just did this quiz/game that tells you how much basic Korean you know! Other #KDrama addicts might enjoy it. Click the link to start playing! It was made by students looking into learning of Korean through Korean content
@AnnaAnthro
Oh, watch it, for sure!! They're both doing a great job and the story and direction are great. Lots of info packed into each episode out of the first 2. @whoosh and I are joint-watching it. #kdrama
A very good thing in watching #Tagalog dubbed period #Kdrama from #Viu#Philippines is their translations are not exaggerated. Period #Pdrama by local networks are often exaggerated, or use ancient words (or they invent new ones).
Thee episodes into Flex X Cop and I’m really enjoying it: a surprisingly believable situation to get the chaebol into the police, interesting characters, fun action, and a healthy dose of the rediculous.
Kang Tae Oh is coming back from the military soon. His is the first Korean celebrity military service I loosely followed (example Generally aware he was leaving and generally aware he was due back soon). His service flew by! In contrast Jin’s has not flown by…and it feels like forever. #kdrama#bts
@ronsboy67 Oh yeah, the dailies are still long, and in the family genre usually.
Hmm… maybe it's more of the type of story or genre? Like in the family genre, it's mainly light and comedic, for the general audience. And they rarely need a big budget, they can even film it at the studio.
But, yes, it's better to have 12-episode today, especially with many of the recent 16s are starting to have fillers, not like in the early days when it was packed.
6-8 are still, I don't know, too short. Even those Western shows with 6-8 were just too short. I think 6-8 works if they wrote it like it was a “movie”, like the #Kdrama “Anna”.
@KDramaQn@youronlyone There are A LOT of recent shorter #KDrama series that are clearly built around at least the possibility of a 2nd season, and I tend to shun those as I INTENSELY dislike that element of "Westernisation".
But having drifted toward #JDrama (where 12 is LONG) in large part because of all the saggy bloated filler in >=16 ep KDramas, I love the nice tight feel of those #KDramas that are written short and complete. "One Day Off" is a beautiful example
None of those series appealed to me, and am surprised by your praise for the IRIS sequel. In the 11 years I've been watching #KDrama, that one has been universally lambasted as an absolute turkey. You're literally the first I've ever heard praise it.
I HATED the 1st Strong Woman for its brazen misogyny, so was never going to watch a 2nd season. The ONLY #KDrama I've wtached with more than 1 season was Forest of Secrets - which, to be fair I scored S2 higher than S1
@ronsboy67 Interesting. The IRIS franchise, especially the spin-off Athena, was well received here. In my case, it's actually the first time I've heard someone who did not like it. I guess that points to cultural differences and genre preferences. Was it perfect? Of course not.
As for Strong Woman, was it not the point of the writer to expose it without getting a negative reaction from their own culture? If one's culture (in this case, the writer's) still have prejudices against this and that, fiction is often the best way to express it and to expose it. Fiction has been used that way for centuries.
Many #Kdrama I've seen for the past 7 years touched on sensitive issues common in South Korea that either no one is talking about or you'll get cancelled for raising it up (for example, toxic feminism). So, fiction became a medium. It's there, and hopefully people in Korea noticed it at least (because foreign fans typically missed it and instead are drooling for their favourite actors).
This is what I like with K-drama, and #Jdrama for that matter, there are social issues embedded in their stories. This has been forgotten, in general, in Western entertainment. In the West, it's about how much money they'll earn; to the point that they'll pretend they agree with “movements” just so members of those “movements” will watch their shows. This is why I like “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds”, because of all the “nuTrek”, SNW is the only one that went back to its roots (but it does not mean I don't like the other ”nuTrek” series).
Going back to Korea, it was actually amazing that productions like “Extraordinary Attorney Woo” and “Innocent Witness” were green lit, as well as, “The Devil Judge” and “The Killing Vote”. These shows directly addressed social (and political) issues. If I take a guess, they got green lit because those issues (prejudice against #Autistics; and corrupt politicians) apply not just in South Korea, but everywhere else; otherwise, they more likely have to do embed it, or just mention in passing.
In any case, maybe it is just me. When I watch, I try to unlock the mind and goal of the writer, and understand the story from their perspective. What made prompted them to write it this way? What drove the director to express an act in a particular way?
For example, the K-drama “Please Don't Date Him”, and another one I can't recall right now, got so much negative reaction from foreign audiences. Some even had the audacity to make statements like “it doesn't happen in real life” or “the writer should quit, they don't know how to write a good story”. But, when I explained it to them, they changed their mind.
It's the same with “Grid”, “Alice”, and “Sisyphus: The Myth”. The writers got reactions like “the writer is dumb”; “that's now how time travel works”; “they should stop writing, they suck”. Likewise, after explaining it to them, they understood the story and what the writer had in mind.
So, I guess, it is just me seeing things differently in these stories. Maybe because I see these as a form of #Art. If it is an art, then we have to view it and understand it from the creator's perspective.
@ronsboy67@youronlyone@KDramaQn@kdrama@kdrama@kdrama interesting that you point out mysogyny in k-dramas. I drop most j-dramas because of it 😁
Female characters in Japanese dramas are shallow, submissive and the male characters typically have more screen time.
There are exceptions, like Unnatural, that I liked a lot, or two j-dramas I'm not sure I remember the title because I watched them years ago (one should be Tokyo Girl).
Animals is a good one too.
I know nothing impressive happens right now, but I still love it!
Nevertheless I hope they find a new plot line because there's not enough material to get to episode 16.
@s1m0n4 Agreed. And #ItsOkayToNotBeOkay and #ADailyDoseOfSunshine both did FAR better with #MentalHeal storylines. Like I said, I'm enjoying watching cute people be cute together but it's an extremely bland story, similar to #WelcomeToSamdalRi.
They may both be Netflix productions, which tend to be geared more towards western tastes, without all of the weird loveliness that makes #kdrama so much fun.
@EllenInEdmonton@s1m0n4 Yes, I have been a bit disappointed with several of the Nexflix #kdrama offerings recently (Welcome to Samdal Ri, Doctor Slump, King of the Land, etc). I think you hit the nail on the head observing that they seem more geared to western tastes. I hope this is not a trend that continues. I understand wanting to appeal to a larger audience- but if broadening that appeal causes it to loose its uniqueness (or “weird loveliness” as you called it😀)…that will be sad indeed.
Finished #MyLiberationNotes, an extremely satisfying #kdrama. The main characters are all so loveable in their frailty and humanity, their longings all worn for us all to see. Nobody has it easy and there are tears to be shed but the endings are satisfying for them all. Top-10 drama for sure.
Not interested in: het romance stories, stories abt/centering cops, BL or GL romance plots that feature cheating.
PLEASE REC ME: BL and GL stories, nothing super long (maybe max. 20 eps?), and ideally nothing set in a high school setting. I do love mystery plots. Historical settings are A-OK as are contemporary ones too.
FAVE Dramas I've watched: Imperial Coroner, Bad Buddy, and Semantic Error. (Yes, pretty old stuff, but there we are, LOL.)
In k-dramas they always store super important and confidential documents in USB sticks without making a copy or protecting the contents with encryption.
It all comes down to stealing that USB stick 😂😂😂!
just want to say that i appreciate the Mastodon #Kdrama#Cdrama folks so much for being such a mature, pleasant and non-fandom-gatekeeper lot.
I am a mod of the CDrama subreddit and let me tell ya, I feel a spike of anxiety each time i am there. I have to wade through sinophobic things and worse, those fan worshippers who will harass u for even saying anything less than glowy about their idols.
I kinda understand why God banned idol worship now 😆🤣
Jokingplsdontkillme #Cdramas#Kdramas
@AnnaAnthro Well Heartbeat isn't that great TBH. And Death's Game IS very violent, the only #kdrama I dropped because of the violence (and on Netflix I've seen The Glory, D.P, Bloodhounds, etc, so I'm not hyper-sensitive).