Already November weee.... Rain season has already arrived here. Just less than 2 months before the year of 2020 ends. I guess probably many are wishing this year ends soon for all the bad things that have already happened in 2020. Covid 19 pandemic has not yet seen the light of the day. But nothing stop K drama machine God to bestow us with many K dramas to endure this time of the year. So thank you K drama God for staying with us and making quarantine time bearable. Gamsahamidaaaaa...... 🙇
18 Again
Country: South Korea
Released year: 2020
Episode: 16 episodes
Genre: Family, Romance, Fantasy
Rating: 4/5
Actors: Kim Ha-neul, Lee Do-hyun, Yoon Sang-hyun
sPlotlight:
I think 2020 is the year that breaks my stigma that K drama is bad in doing a remake. 18 Again and World of Married are remarkable. 18 Again is great in capturing the important of family without losing its foot on the value in Asian family and the problem faced by Asian society in general. And somehow the romance between Kim Ha-neul and Lee Do-hyun doesn't seem so squeaky. I like it when she treats him as a teenage who has a crush on her and she is the one who is responsible to shut it down because she is the adult one. It isn’t like that A*** that didn’t know how to handle good romance. Bleh. And… Lee Do-hyun should be got the rookie of the year award. He’s just amazing. I’m looking forwards for his future project.
Awaken
Country: South Korea
Released year: 2020
Episode: 16 episodes
Genre: Thriller, Mystery
Rating: 3/5
Actors: Namkoong Min, Seol Hyun, Lee Chung-Ah
sPlotlight:
This is somehow reminding me The Reminds of The Day from Kazuo Ishiguro. In the quest of inventing new kind of human species, that can live forever without getting old and can heal every time she/he gets injured, they do anything in their disposal. But the question is why they want so much to live forever, when they are looked so dissatisfied about their life? Why trying so hard to hold on something that you are not happy with? Is everything you do worth the effort? I don’t know if the writer just tries to brush it off to sell the end message of she/he just doesn’t get it? Dislike the hinted romance between Namgoong Min and Seol Hyun here, ruins the mood of the drama.
Graceful Friends
Country: South Korea
Released year: 2020
Episode: 17 episodes
Genre: Friendship, Mystery
Rating: 3.5/5
Actors: Yoo Jun-Sang, Song Yoon-A, Kim Sung-Oh, Bae Soo-Bin
sPlotlight:
I didn’t anticipate every new episode but I ended up enjoying the episodes. Watching Song Yoon-ah and Yoo Jun-sang’s character boasting about how perfect their life or up standing their characters are, makes me want more their life to crumble. Ha ha ha. I guess it is like looking at card pyramid that somehow making me feel the urge to kick it and watch it crumble wk wk wk. And the ending message doesn’t settle with me well, it is like saying it is okay to do the dirty things they did because the are MEN. Like huh?? Who are they to make them feel so privileged? Effect of growing up in male chauvinist country??
Country: South Korea
Released year: 2020
Episode: 12 episodes
Genre: Slice of Life, Medical
Rating: 4/5
Actors: Jeon Mi-do, Jo Jung-seok, Yoo Yeon-seok, Jung Kyung-ho
sPlotlight:
Medical drama is always the least in my favorite K drama list. So, seeing this drama here with good rating is an accomplishment in itself. LOL. Never like how drama romanticize doctor's life. If you think being a doctor is cool from watching drama and thinking to become one because of it. Think again: Being cool doesnt make anyone graduate from medical school and endure the long hardship of medical life. Watching these young doctors who are already at the top of hospital hierarchy while spend their times playing music, gossiping and dating me CAN’T RELATE. LOL
Into the Ring/Memorials
Country: South Korea
Released year: 2020
Episode: 16 episodes
Genre: Romance comedy, politic
Rating: 3.5/5
Actors: Park Sung-hoon, Nana
sPlotlight:
The OTP are both so weird and soo cute. Me Likely!! So, mesmerized with Park Sung-hoon’s big pretty eyes. Love how they dressed his character as civil servant.
Kingmaker: The change of the destiny
Country: South Korea
Released year: 2020
Episode: 17 episodes
Genre: Sageuk, history, romance
Rating: 3/5
Actors: Park Si-Hoo, Ko Sung-Hee
sPlotlight:
This is the reason why I hesitate to start investing my time watching sageuk drama. First, it tends to have more episodes. Second, although it can start with the potential to have tragic but good romance, it may end up like watching snooze fest of people drinking tea or having confrontational meeting, talking about palace politic that I don’t care about.
Mr. Queen
Country: South Korea
Released year: 2020
Episode: 20 episodes
Genre: Sageuk, Romance, Comedy
Source: Go Princess Go by Xian Chen
Rating: 3.5/5
Actors: Shin Hye-Sun, Kim Jung-Hyun
sPlotlight:
The highlight of this drama is its comedy though it is not my type of comedy, else is rather boring. Shin Hye-sun has a knack for comedy. Well she is great in everything ha ha ha. She is love, a wholesome actor. And I don’t get the romance, so is the king falling in love with the real queen or the man who comes from the future to occupy the queen’s body??
Once Again
Country: South Korea
Released year: 2020
Episode: 50 episodes
Genre: Family drama, Romance
Rating: 4/5
Actors: Lee Min-jung, Lee Sang-yeob,
sPlotlight:
I enjoy all through the drama episodes. Though the ending is too neat and with all the joining knots is not my cup of tea. I love the Yoon family, the two brothers and their mom, such a hoot!
\Private Lives
Country: South Korea
Released year: 2020
Episode: 16 episodes
Genre: Action, Crime, Romance
Rating: 3/5
Actors: Go Kyung-pyo, Seohyun,
sPlotlight:
I was expecting kind of conflicted romance like in Cruel City, but…. It just didn’t meet the expectation. It was kind of awkward to watch a husband and wife calling each other with -ssi in this. I mean I watched a lot of K dramas for years, I don’t why the -ssi in this drama makes the characters seem distant while they are supposed to be a husband and wife who love each other. Is it the actors? I should watch more K drama then to understand the meaning behind -ssi suffix 😂. And WHY they have to dress Seohyun’s like a K pop girl group’s member, I know she is one, but not in the drama. Bleh. Bad fashion hurts my eyes. LOL
Search
Country: South Korea
Released year: 2020
Episode: 10 episodes
Genre: Thriller, Mystery
Rating: 3/5
Actors: Jang Dong-yoon, Krystal Jung, Yoon Park, Yeon Woo-jin
sPlotlight:
If you can handle the cuteness of Jang Dong-yoon who plays with Dog, weee…. 🐕🐕 Krystal’s resting bitch face is perfect for stoic and practical female soldier role. No matter how small the role is, Yeon Woo-jin always makes his role memorable, waiting for his come back as a male lead. And not to forget Yoon Park is in due time for a lead role, K drama Gods! Make it happen.
Secret Forest/Stranger season 2
Country: South Korea
Released year: 2020
Episode: 16 episodes
Genre: Police procedural, Law
Rating: 3.5/5
Actors: Jo Seung-Woo, Bae Doo-Na, Lee Joon-Hyuk
sPlotlight:
Too procedural for my liking. In season 1, I was so invested into the characters especially Hwang Shi-mok, not just the plot. The season 2 is so plot driven, I don’t care what happen to the characters. Just because the audience have already known the characters then the drama can stop investing in their development. They can lose their job, got killed, kidnapped, who the hell I care? What is good in K drama is when there’s character development. When it is trying to be what it is not… Well goodbye, I'll watch Hollywood instead. Thanks for 2nd season, now I am ready to let this drama go.
Start-Up
Country: South Korea
Released year: 2020
Episode: 16 episodes
Genre: Romance, Family
Rating: 4/5
Actors: Nam Joo-hyuk, Bae Suzy, Kim Seon-ho
sPlotlight:
This is more than just about love triangle; it is about sailing without a map. I’m with Do san (Nam Ji-hyuk). The regret of not doing is worse than the regret of doing then failing. Regradless, I LOVE Han Ji-pyeong (Kim Seon-ho). Despite all the hardship he faced during his childhood somehow, he’s still growing up to be a great person. He’s not trying to get revenge to the world, nor he wants anybody else experience the way he did. He wants things be better. He is not being bitter about everything, instead he learns what is worth in life and what is not. And thanks to Han Ji-pyeong I find new crush Kim Seon-ho oppa! Oppa lets say many thanks Park Hye-ryun writer nim for giving you such wholesome character and let us meet in this life time. 🙇
Sweet Home
Country: South Korea
Released year: 2020
Episode: 10 episodes
Genre: Psychological, Monster, Thriller
Rating: 4/5
Actors: Lee Jin-wook, Lee Do-hyun, Kim Gab-soo, Song Kang, Lee Si‑young
sPlotlight:
I like it when the monster is not just monster but represent the psychological side of the human from whom it comes from. Monster that is just being a monster is not that scary, what scarier is monster in the shape of human! Ha, ha, ha. And how they made we are rooting for every character. Wah. Can’t wait for season 2!
The Cursed
Country: South Korea
Released year: 2020
Episode: 12 episodes
Genre: Thriller
Rating: 3/5
Actors: Uhm Ji-Won, Sung Dong-Il
sPlotlight:
The idea is making an app that can make your curse to your opponent happen. (Interserting idea). To make it so the app developer siding with the devil, making offering etc. At the end you just want to stop cursing people freely because your guilty feeling when you know your curse might come true.
Traces of Love
Country: South Korea
Released year: 2020
Episode: 1 episodes KBS drama special
Genre: Romance
Rating: 4/5
Actors: Lee Sang-yeob, Lee Yoo-young
sPlotlight
Why Lee Yoo-young is so cute doing drunk scenes?? Now I see the charm of Lee Sang-yeob after Once Again, I’m expecting his future projects. I love couple reunion trope PERIOD. Hah!
Train
Country: South Korea
Released year: 2020
Episode: 12 episodes
Genre: Police, Parallel Universe, Mystery
Rating: 4/5
Actors: Yoon Si-Yoon, Kyung Soo-Jin
sPlotlight:
Maybe the good rating comes from because it was aired around the same time with The king: Eternal Monarch which is disaster. I love The Consistency and how he chooses to keep parallel universe travel only to meet the love of his life. I would if I could hah!
Country: South Korea
Released year: 2020
Episode: 16 episodes
Genre: Melodrama
Rating: 3/5
Actors: Lim Soo-Hyang, Ji Soo, Ha Seok-Jin
sPlotlight:
It is one of the dramas that mark 2020 as the year of awkward romance. Does too long quarantine time give people weird idea? I mean pinning over your brother’s wife for years just…………….. Or maybe me is the type of one in comfortable relationship LOL
You Drive Me Crazy
Country: South Korea
Released year: 2018
Episode: 4 episodes (@30 minutes)
Genre: Friend-to-lover, Romance
Rating: 4/5
Actors: Kim Seon-ho, Lee Yoo-young
sPlotlight:
This is a friend-to-lover drama done right! What is not to love?? Lee Yoo-young is so cutee… Kim Seon-ho is… I just can’t get enough of him after Start Up. This should be 16-episode drama with 1 hour length. Go for it MBC! Bring the rating back to your station! Ha, ha, ha.
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