2021 COMPLETED Watch List

My NEW all-time favorite drama!

The bromance is to die for, honestly. This is some of the best acting you'll find. The story kept me on my toes the entire time. Never a dull moment. Always fascinating.

A feel good, sentimental drama about chasing dreams, not taking life and everything in it for granted, and creating your own opportunities.

This was perfectly portrayed by Park in Hwan, who played a beautiful character, Shim Deok Chul who was the absolute STAR of this show. Everyone benefitted from his great acting, that made this drama a true gem to me.

The acting was stellar. Every character perfectly played their role, not just the leads.  The angst, tension, and depiction of mental health issues that aren't necessarily the overt or dramatic span the spectrum and made this drama real.

Historical with the old school vibe ~ comparable to Empress Ki in style & quality with stellar performances from veteran actors and the OTP.

All you'll ever want in a modern BL drama.

I enjoyed this one.

I seriously enjoyed this one that I've already watched it twice. =)

Had fun watching it. Secondhand embarrassment is real in this one. Sad ending....

A mental health healing drama. OTP was cute for the most part. A bit draggy at the end, but overall a fun and silly watch.

I really enjoyed this up until the last 15-20 minutes. The ending was perfunctory with an unwarranted time skip.

I really enjoyed this one and it was fun to watch.

For this kind of drama, this was pretty damn good, with a decent plot.

A really good & fluffy Youth Drama with a positive message.

The lead actors did such a great job depicting the times. Sad but poignantly told.

The Justice Dept group was so great. Their love, respect, trust, and loyalty to each other was what made this drama worth watching. Their antics were always funny and warm to watch.

The acting of all the characters were just really, really good. They sold this story, even during the times when it didn't make much sense.

This was one of the best body-swap dramas/movies I've seen. I actually really enjoyed it. I was pleasantly surprised by the chemistry between the leads. Their acting on this subject matter was well executed.

I until the last 3 episodes, I loved everything about this. The last 3 were a bit of a let down, but I understood why the drama went in that direction, so I cut it slack in my rating.

Just an all-around nice BL story.

Not as good as Season 1 but the music was really lit.

This is mainly about healing, not so much about the thriller. It's much easier to watch than you'd expect it will be since the OTP's relationship is truly the focal point of the story. 

This was a cute and fun drama that went by fast. I enjoyed watching it.

A drama couple that is heart wrenchingly perfect, but the palace politics I could have set aside. Knowing how the story is supposed to go didn't help. 

In the end, in total, this drama turned out better than I thought it would when I started it. The OTP was super cute. I enjoyed their banter and interactions. The bromance was amazing as well.

Another great invest in BL drama from South Korea.
Although I don’t particularly enjoy love triangles, this one was tastefully done, and the total of the drama was satisfying.

Although a bit confusing this drama ended up being better than expeced. Vin as someone lighthearted was great. I prefer this kind of character for him to those brooding types.

A good story about whether the grass is greener on the other side timeslip.

Overall, I did really enjoy this drama. It gave me old school Korean drama vibes.

Interesting story, and development. I was cool for the most part with the OTP but I still feel like she was better suited to be with the 2nd male Director.

I enjoyed this OTP, but the side characters and romances were sometimes distracting.

I really cute rom-com with a mental health twist.

This was a rom-com where Hyeri had the best of the script each scene, and Kiyong was relegated to looking unaffected while saying loads of cheesy comments, over and over again. All in all it's just silly fun.

Disappointing end to a villain who stayed in power far too long with True Gods existing. Topping that off is an ending that was unsatisfactory and rushed leaving us with little time to enjoy who things concluded for them all.

I enjoyed the core 3 and wished more screen time was given to them to allow us even closer to their characters and their relationships. In the end, it was an enjoyable watch, but disappointing in certain areas.

All 3 of the main couples process to relationship is quite cute and fun. They do touch on some hot topic issues as well. Would have preferred the main couple get more relationship process time, instead of dragging everything out to the very end and adding an eleventh hour love triangle out of no where for 4 episodes that didn't add anything positive to the couple.

That's one adorable OTP!! The rest was makjang from hell.

Fun watching revenge actually win out, time and time again. Maybe a little too overboard on the fight scenes though. I can’t imagine that recover could always be that quick.

Much like it's "love" and "ice skating" counterpart "Skate Into Love", instead of the better plot of **actually** watching the athletes skate, and train on the ice, not just mostly in the gym, it focused on conspiracies, lies, cheating, and gamesmanship.

Best part was the realistic love of the OTP.

The cast seemed to believe in the plot so did a good job selling it to the viewer despite some of the plot's lacking. The cast is excellent, and, as usual, their acting was superb and entertaining. For that alone, it was worth the watch.

A decent end to this romance drama series but not as poignant as the prequel.

Boss was cool. I liked this OTP coupling maybe more than her with Takeru, but I not as much as the plot to the other drama.

Short and sweet and to the point with a satisfying ending. Good for a J-Drama.

 I preferred the more slice of life of the kids, and not much else. 

Not as good as the 1st.

A little draggy but overall entertaining.

Repetitive amnesia to force an excuse for rejection then making up over and over again. Best part was pure fanservice.

One of Gabrielle Guan's better dramas. I loved how empowered female she was in this.

Fun 'whodunit' story, but not interesting as a legal drama if you're expecting a realistic approach. 

Kamio Fuju as a makeup artist is all sorts of fun. I appreciated this spin.

It was fairly entertaining until around Ep. 12-13, when you realize that this is all bubbles that are easily popped with nothing inside.

So sad that a Youth drama that started off really good, with a core of 6 friends that were all essentially decent and good, and turn the 2nd half away from their story and into std C-drama melodrama tropes.

Started off cute, went black, then twisted at the end. ML deserved everything he got.

Girl Power.

Overall, the OTP is worth watching for their great chemistry together... but everything else was a real bore.

Well, if you're going with some random supernatural event, this concept pretty much stuck to the premise.

This Era is just ultimately sad all the way around. The ending of this drama followed the script. It just leaves a bitter taste in your mouth. 

Drama was fairly predictable for 75% of it.
This was a short and sweet romance drama that got straight to the point.

20 episodes was a drag & it should have been 16. This ended up being not what I signed up for since, she never ended up being the kind of hero I wanted from this kind of FL in a gender-bender drama.

Yeah, the twins and misunderstandings only went so far. The redemption arc was contrived.

A forgettable nuna romance.

Could have been written better.

Your standard school drama.

This was one of this nonsensical, slapstick, silly puff historicals that you cannot take seriously from start to finish. Some are sweeter than others, but, for the most part, this one was kinda boring.

The only really good and consistent characters were Li He and his band of merry athletes. All the rest was just a drag. =/

The round about direction this took to drag it out was silly.

1/2 of this drama was the frosting without the cake.
The other half was broccoli,  kale, & brussels sprouts.

At the end, the conclusion made me feel like... what was it all for anyway? This is seriously a depressing story.

I wasn't a fan of this pairing. Didn't like the ML treating FL like a child or degrading her as a means of flirting. Didn't like the slapstick comedy of the extended cast. 2nd ML/FL were the best.

I can't remember what was cute, and I can't be bothered to remember what was annoying. Basic, pointless misunderstandings and a FL too stubborn to listen.

The kid was the best part about this drama. The OTP alone isn’t all that sweet. The female’s are a bit too aggressive and angry. The noble idiocy and corporate melodrama in the last 4-6 episodes dragged this drama down.

A passable watch. Nothing special and not overly cute with a boring ending.

Not worth the wait

Whatever good rating I give to this drama, it is 100% due to the ensemble of actors and nothing to do with the writer of this trash. May they find another occupation. This was just completely one depressing melancholy sorrow fest of a drama. 

This timeslip didn't win me over. 

I'm not into this kind of humor, and the OTP rn has zero true chemistry that isn't overtly comical.
The time slip thing doesn't really work for me.

Dropped at Ep. 16 

Didn't leave up to the hype. The final episodes destroyed it for me.

Pretty disappointing, not well written nor well acted.

This was one of my least enjoyed Thai BL drama, I think.

Once again, we get the standard C-Drama template, where a drama billed as a ‘sweet youth romance’ drama turns into a full-fledged makjang melodrama of the worst kind.

They hook you in the first half dozen episodes by mainly focusing on cute, playful interactions, only to spin it 180 degrees after the OTP hook up, into something completely foreign to the original plot, turning it disgusting, abusive, and nothing like what you thought you were signup for to watch.

The rating was purely for the fact that the leads acting was great.
This was a messy Sci-Fi plot that I wasn't ready to sift through, throw away my brain and common sense in order to make it fit some idea that I could fully understand. =/

DROPPED AT EPISODE 6. 

What can I say? It bothers me when these kinds of BL tropes are used. I'd like to believe that boys can have normal, caring, understanding, committed, non-toxic, supportive, and pure true love stories just like everyone else.

Utterly forgettable.

I seriously wished I'd just skipped this one. Confirmed my reasons for waiting until dramas are fully complete and binge watching them.