Watch List 2020

This is a short series.  Only 12 episodes less than 40 min long each and I still found myself fast forwarding from time to time.  It felt slow or something...the plot is also a bit...meh.  

So much fun to watch TVXQ and 4 members of SUJU take a trip together.  Their friendship really is amazing!

I really enjoyed this show.  It's sweet, but it has an interesting mystery as well.  I really enjoyed the chemistry between the leads, but the side characters were great as well.  Especially the Second Male and Female Leads.  

I enjoyed this show a lot, but I had to drop the score a little because it has a very odd ending.  It's almost like it left out a scene.  The characters are all really good and the acting is well done.  I just wish they had finished their final thought (or whatever) in the last episode. It's not a cliffhanger or anything, but it just feels somewhat unfinished to me.  Maybe it's a set up for a 2nd season?  There is a comment about that within the dialog of the show, so I suppose it's possible.

The beginning of this drama is difficult to get through because of the bathroom humor, but fortunately that does not last beyond the first few episodes and then it really begins to hit it's stride. The main story line is cute and I liked the Male and Female leads, but it's the brothers that really make this story fun to watch.  They are all such compelling characters.  It hurts my heart that this actor playing the middle brother passed away shortly after filming.  

I enjoyed this show so much.  It was such fun to watch Jung Hae In and his friends enjoy all the sights in New York City and Niagara Falls.  

Interesting concept.  I wasn't a fan of all the stories (thus the lower score), but the concept was cool.  The stories stand alone and the main characters change each episode with the exception of the owner of the diner. Each episode follows the story of one of the patrons of the diner and focuses on one specific dish that is served.

I really liked this show.  There were parts I fast forwarded through (not uncommon for me), but this has maybe the best confession scene I've seen in any drama from any country.  Just too cute.  AND, it doesn't have noble idiocy which is a massive plus.  Downside, there is a side story that is in the FL's imagination that is a historical drama.  I didn't watch any of that. The last episode needed a few more minutes because there was a big build up and then a very short connection.  Then it went into the imaginary world, for the final couple minutes.  If they had stayed in the "real world" and let the characters have more time, it would have been better.  SPOILER: Its a happy ending so that's the most important thing for me.

This show has really good actors/actresses in it, but it's a bit disturbing to watch because of the stories that it tells.  I was not a fan of the way that it deals with many of the issues that it depicts.  There were few consequences for poor choices and only seemed to have a real consequence if the word got out about what had happened...and even I felt like the repercussions were not strong enough in some instances.  For example, one young man is literally sleeping with about any girl he comes across, but there are no real consequences for this in his life until he gets a teacher in trouble. IRL, that is not a choice you want people (teenagers especially) to make, but this show made it seem like no big deal. And don't even get me started on the man with two families...just...WHAT?

Very powerful, but extremely disturbing to watch.  Humans can be so cruel. :-(

Such a fun mini-drama.  The episodes are super short so you can get through the whole thing in about 2 hours.  I enjoyed it a lot.  The "mean" character isn't too awful so I could deal with that character better than other "baddies" I've seen.  All the actors/actresses do a great job and since I was unfamiliar with them it makes me look forward to more of their work in the future.  Very much recommend.

This is a very short drama so you can't expect LOTS of character development.
Positives: The leads are super cute together. They talk out issues and are super understanding of each others jobs and schedules.
Negative:  There is WAY too much focus on the ML trying to sleep with the FL.  It was super annoying to me and was the main reason I rated the drama lower.  Relationships are so much more than sex, but that seemed to be where he was focused in many ways.  

This show was a tough watch.  The ML Character has basically zero redeeming qualities.  They seem to try to give him good points, but then he just reverts back to being this incredibly lazy person. I mean, he loves his girlfriend, but not enough to even do the dishes or even hold down a part time job..and he seems like.  I kept hoping they would make him into a better person, but it didn't happen. 

A cute short drama. The episodes are only about 15 minutes long. The cast does a good job, but it's one of those dramas where even though the episodes are short you still wish the story would hurry...or maybe that's just me, since I really wanted the romance to start faster. Still though, it's cute.

I enjoyed this mini drama so much.  The Female Lead does a wonderful job in a duel role. Both Male Leads are great as well.  The "bad guys" are annoying, but not intolerable...plus they are only in very minimal roles. I loved it!

The last episode is the best IMHO. It's a cute drama, but even with only 5 short episodes it felt like it took too long for the leads to get together...but I probably wouldn't have felt that way if there had been more episodes.  I just wanted more time with them dating.  It's too cute!

I like Joon Park and this idea was a good one in some respects.  Since he is from LA, it seems like the perfect idea to let him show off his hometown.  THAT part was awesome and I loved it.  What I didn't like was that the whole show seemed like they were taking him to audition for a part he absolutely wouldn't get and no one was even really acting like he could. It felt really wrong...like he was a "D-List" celebrity.  But he's not and that's proved over and over again on the show when all sorts of people recognize him or even seem to become his fan because of their interactions with him.  It really felt like he should have been shown more respect by the people who created the show IMHO.  The other thing that bugged me was that there was a lot of swearing.  I'm not a fan of that and the fact that you don't hear it most Korean shows (or at least not much of it) is one of the reasons I started watching Korean TV.  

I liked this show, but I fast forwarded A LOT.  Not because it was boring, but because I just wanted to focus on certain parts. The ML and FL were the best parts of the story for me, so I wish there had been more focus on them and less on the friends.  The friends were good characters I just was more interested in the others.  The three friends did represent the feelings of older unmarried women well though, so that was cool.

Oh Stars!  This is such a good show.  It shows all the pain and frustration of a person living with a terminal illness, but still manages to be sweet and very special at the same time.  

Don't ask me why I finished this drama.  I was hoping it would get better?  Anyway...I'm not a fan at all.  No part of this show is something that feels based in reality. 

Super short, but even so, I was fast forwarding  A LOT.  The whole show is about an hour...I think I finished it in about 20 min.  Not for me.

I enjoyed this show a lot.  I did fast forward through the two breakups that were annoying.  Overall though, I liked it quite a lot.  

I binged this one morning when I woke up at 3am for no reason.  It's cute, light and fluffy.  I found the FL character a bit annoying on occasion, but the other characters make up for that and it's not throughout.  I think it's because she portrays a very young and immature woman so well and her whining is a bit "too realistic" for me?  I'm not good with whining ever, so I think it's probably just me.  I enjoyed it overall. 

This drama is very lacking (IMHO).  The acting is good, but the story is very strange.  It wants to be a love story, but isn't really.  It seems to bounce between if it is or it isn't...at least for me. The 2nd ML is a WAY better fit for the FL and it's frustrating to see her pine after the ML.  Even the ending was a bit, MEH. 

I enjoyed this drama.  There was only one character that I really didn't like, but that person came around sort of eventually.  The only reason I didn't score it higher is that it really needs another 5 minutes to make the ending really satisfying...at least for me.  It's ok...just doesn't really feel "done."

I liked this drama.  It's super short and it's cute.  I wish it had been a bit longer though.  

Cute and short.  I liked the actors and actresses, but was unfamiliar with them.  Looking forward to seeing them in more dramas.

I enjoyed this web drama.  It's short, but it was good to see Cha In Ha in it as the Male Lead.  I wish we would have had more opportunities to see his work before he passed away.  

I liked this show.  I wasn't very familiar with the Male Lead, but I liked him a lot and hope to see him in more stuff.  The side characters were well done as well.  Must admit that I ff through some of the bad guy stuff, but that's just because I'm not a fan of watching the villains...it's no reflection on the show.  It's something I commonly do in dramas.

SPOILER ALERT!!!  This story follows basically the same plot as the first season but without the medical diagnosis hoax.  Because that was such a horrible thing to do in the first season you could easily see why the FL would be upset with the ML when she finds out about it.  However, since they didn't use that plot this time, and the ML really hadn't done anything bad, it was SUPER hard to be understand why the FL would feel betrayed when she finds out that he has known her longer than she realized.  It just didn't make any sense at all.  He never does anything mean or underhanded...there's really nothing to get upset about and any point.  So those scenes seem very forced and unnecessary and I just fast forwarded through them.  Also, there is a really unnecessary amnesia trope that is thrown in at one point and it's very annoying as well.  It's  easily FF through though so no big deal.  The second and third lead couples are great and I wish we had gotten to see more of them together.  They were as fun to watch as the main couple.  

Ok, but it leaves you wondering what will happen next.   A bit unsatisfying.  Fun to see so many actors and actresses from across the globe though.

The first half is super cute.  I love how she is all confused because the book seems to be fortelling her future.  But about halfway through it gets really frustrating because the two leads (who obviously like each other) need to have an important talk but they don't.  Basically because the FL is totally stubborn, oblivious to many things, and too proud.  It get's old really fast.  (SPOILER) Even though it has a happy ending, it doesn't feel satisfying at all because none of the actual problems are worked through and you don't get to see the ML and FL confront any of them together.  I loved the cast, so I was disappointed that they decided to tell such a frustrating 2nd half of the story.  

Let me preface this that my low rating isn't because of the acting in this drama.  Every single character is extremely well done and truly impressive.  However, I am not even a little bit of a fan of revenge dramas and that is what this is.  So literally the main plot of the story was one I didn't particularly care about.  I'm all about justice...but revenge is something else.  So, I was frustrated that a lot of time was spent on stuff I didn't care about, but also couldn't easily ff like usual because it was often so intricate to the plot that I had to watch in order to understand the rest of the drama.  I was also not a fan of either of the FL characters.  Both characters were not people that I would root to end up with the ML.  They were both so awful at certain times that it was hard to see them positively at the other times...at least for me.  I loved the Found Family aspect of the show and I wish that had been the focus more, but it too took a back seat to the revenge aspect of the drama.  

Also, and this isn't about the drama, but the translation on Netflix.  They added so many F words to this script that were not there...in fact, I can't be sure, but I don't think I heard a single person utter that word in Korean anywhere in the drama, but Netflix translated it into the dialogue at least 20 times.  It was utterly ridiculous.    

Cute show.  Was unfamiliar with the leads, but look forward to seeing them in other stuff.

Cute, but I gave it a lower score because the ending is ambiguous.  So annoying.  Really enjoyed Moonbin in the main role.

To be honest, I was really only invested in one of the teams.  I loved their story for the web drama and they were fun to watch together.  The other team's story was not as interesting to me and they bickered more.  I'll watch both of the finished web dramas though.  My opinion could change when I see the stories they wrote in full.

I enjoy these types of travel shows.  A bit of it was kind of slow, but overall, it was fun to watch the three travelers become friends as they went on various adventures.  

I really enjoy these kinds of reality behind the scene documentary style shows.  My only complaint was that with each members interview they didn't tell the name of the member directly.  While I'm a fan of Seventeen, I'm still learning all the names and that made it a bit frustrating at times.

I really enjoyed this show.  It was really interesting and a lot of fun!

I liked this show and I really liked many of the side characters.  The FL's brother became a favorite character as the show went on.  He was supposed to be younger than the FL, but in every aspect he was more mature than her.  Her character was exceedingly childish at times and, for me, that was annoying.  However, she wasn't like that ALL the time and I really did enjoy a lot of the side characters as well, so I stuck out the drama.  The archery aspect was interesting, but the scenes at the competitions seemed a bit too long.  Overall though, I enjoyed the show and the characters were a fun mix of personalities.  

I really enjoyed all the actors/actresses in this show.  I liked that even the characters that were slightly annoying didn't stay that way for long and I enjoyed the friendships between the 4 main characters.  In fact, I would have enjoyed seeing even more of the 4 characters doing things together.  I truly liked this show, but not as much as I wanted to and here is why.  SPOILER ALERT!!!  The female lead character is...well...frustrating at times.  The best parts of the story are when the ML and FL are together, but they OFTEN have some sort of miscommunication that causes a stall or even a break in their relationship.  The ML tries quickly to fix things most of the time, but the FL tends to play games and it's so annoying to watch.  Even when the ML goes through a major surgery she still plays games and I just wanted her to stop.  It was obvious that she liked him and was simply trying to make him suffer because she didn't agree with a choice he made (a dumb choice and one I'd have been upset about too, but still...). She gets a bit childish when she is trying to be "cute" and I just wanted her to act like an adult. So literally...the lower score was mostly due to that aspect of the story. 

I really enjoyed this drama.  I would have rated it higher if the ending had been slightly different. SPOILER ALERT:  There is a happy ending and that is extremely important to me, however, I found the female lead's thinking a bit frustrating at the end.  I mean, I understood her, but I also didn't at the same time.  At any rate, the ending I wanted was more a personal preference I suppose.  It does indeed have a happy ending,  but it somehow feels slightly unfinished...maybe they are opening a door for a 2nd season?  I mean it's good, but IMHO, it could have felt more complete. 

I like this show and it's concept, but the PD just rushed Jasper and Seung Gi way too much.  It was frustrating that they were always on a super tight schedule.  Some of the missions were a bit much as well.  SPOILER:  I was especially bothered when "guards" took one of them away without explanation and left him to be confused in what could  have been a frightening situation.  I mean it turned out fine, but still.  Also, the directors or PD's (not sure who was the one doing it) were cruel to the fans by not giving them information they needed.  One was even in tears simply because they didn't share info with her and she was extremely hurt.  NOT COOL at all.  

So, really enjoyed Seung Gi and Jasper travelling together, but was really annoyed with the director/pd's choices throughout the show.  It was just not ok.

The story line for this show had interesting possibilities, but it often got WAY WAY too cheesy.  There is also a supernatural piece of the story that really doesn't fit at all.  But even more that that, the fact that you can hear clothes or whatnot rubbing against the microphones a lot of the time and it's super annoying.  I liked the actors and actresses.  The ML and FL worked well together and I hope to see them in other things, but in the last episode the FL does something pretty annoying (In my opinion), but it seems to work out ok in the end.  

Such a cute film and I love that there are several characters with disabilities.  They are all an important part of the story and they are not treated any different than any other characters and I LOVE THAT SO MUCH!!!  Too often it's the focus of the character and in this movie, it just is a part of who the people are, but not the main focus.  

This show is cute.  It's a short web series and at first I wasn't sure about it, but about halfway through it grabbed me.  It's not perfect, but it's a good short show and I enjoyed it.  I'd be curious to see the 2nd season if they make one.

All the actors/actresses are great in this show.  But for me, overall...the show was "meh".  It felt a bit draggy to me, but that could be because I didn't care about parts of the story (like pretty much anything in the "other realm" or the revenge aspect of one character).  I wanted to spend more time with the three leads...and the Cinnebar too.  Would have been fun to see the four of them together more.  

Honestly, I think I'm in a bit of a slump lately because I am easily annoyed by dramas and though there were aspects and characters I liked about this one, after I really started watching it, if I had paused between episodes, I'm not sure I ever would have cared enough to finish it.  Yook Seung Jae's character was my favorite in this show and that was pretty much the character that kept me watching.  

I wrote a review on the page for this, but in a nutshell...I simply had major issues with the Female Lead character and had difficulty rooting for her character. 

Has to be a craziest plot for a drama I've seen...and that is saying something.  I really can not recommend this show.  Though I liked the ML, FL, and 2nd FL, and I'd like to see more of their work, this particular show is just too strange.  

I like the concept of Handsome Tigers, but I'm not a basketball fan.  So while I didn't finish the series, I enjoyed this episode that focused more on the people than the game.

Love this concept...Such a refreshing show.

I liked this drama the best of the new ones I've seen recently.  The main cast was great and the story was interesting.  Couple quibbles...it took entirely too long for the main mystery to be revealed.  It seemed almost too unbelievable for it to take that long considering what so many characters knew, so that was a bit frustrating.  Also there is a bit of an annoyance with a version of noble idiocy that doesn't really make sense, but thankfully only lasts a very short time (part of one episode).  The villains are horrible and mean and I didn't like them at all, but that's no reflection on the drama at all.  I rarely see a villain that I don't want to ff through. If they had skipped the noble idiocy it could have been wrapped up in a much more satisfying way.  As it was, it felt very rushed and you also felt a bit like you's missed some great moments that COULD have been shown, but for some reason were just skipped entirely. Overall though, I enjoyed it.

I love cooking shows and this one was really fun to watch.  I wasn't familiar with all the idols, but I still really enjoyed it.

Travel shows are generally fun and this one was cute.  I'm glad it was short though because I'm not sure it could have held my attention for much longer.  The main issue was that rather than the two guys chatting together, there was a LOT of voiceover commentary.  It was fine, and they did talk to each other of course, but the voiceovers told most of the story.  I think regular conversations would have been better.

This was my first experience with Three Meals A Day and now I want to watch all the other seasons.  It's just such a good show.  Very calming, excellent food (with good explanations if you want to try to make the meals) and just celebrities hanging out and chatting.  I've not found another season that is all subbed, but I really want to.  

I loved this show and I adore #SuperFive.  I really want them to perform more.  It was so fun to see Trot and K-Pop meshed like this.  

I really enjoyed this show.  I was pretty uninterested in the part that focused on the fashion shows they were taking pictures at, but I really liked the other missions they had to do.  It was fun to watch the group working together and photographing each other.  In my opinion, when other models were brought in, it was less interesting to watch.  But it was really fun when they would run into other Korean celebrities that they knew. Those interactions were a lot of fun to watch too.

I liked this show, and it had some really cool recipes.  Some of the mc's were a bit too harsh though IMHO.  

I wasn't really a fan of "Coffee Prince" because one of my biggest pet peeves in dramas is when a misunderstanding is prolonged for dramatic effect and causes friction.  And literally the whole "Coffee Prince" drama is basically that.  When I watched it I wanted to throw stuff at the screen at times.  BUT I enjoy shows that look back on projects, so I really liked this special.  The actors/actresses in the drama were all really good so it was nice to see them again. 

The acting is fine, but the story is just silly.  

This is SUCH A GOOD DRAMA.  The acting and storylines are fabulous and the humor is spot on.  The only reason I didn't give it a ten was that it ends with several storylines unresolved and I hate that.  There is a 2nd season coming so that saved the ending in my opinion, but if I didn't know more episodes were coming I would have been extremely angry at the ending leaving so many things undone.

I loved learning about all the different types of camping vehicles.  I am not a fan of camping AT ALL, but it made even me want to try car camping.  :-)

I must admit that since I've seen the newer Japanese version as well as the Korean version of this show, I fast forwarded quite a lot of this drama.  I was most curious as to who they would portray "Momo" and "Sumire". I skipped all the office and most of the side story parts. I think I liked this portrayal of the main couple best of all the versions.  

A sad but very sweet movie.  I liked it.

So much fun!  Watching SuperM together is always a happy thing.

Such a cute mini drama.  I really enjoyed it.

Cute.  The episodes are only around 6 min long so it goes quickly. 

This drama absolutely should not work and the premise should be off putting, but it's actually so adorable.

Short and sweet webdrama.  They do a good job disguising exactly who the actual ML is so you are truly unsure who the FL will end up with.  Both ML's are great people and you can easily like them both, so it's impressive how it ends and you feel like it's just the right ending. 

Slow slow slow slow story.  Like the actors/actresses, but the pace like to drove me nuts.  

Cute, but it has a very unfinished ending.  I think there will be another season.  If not, my score would drop quite a bit because it feels like the story just began when it ended.

It's so fun to cheer on this team. It's awesome to follow them from being chosen on I-Land (which I watched the 2nd half of) to their debut.  I hope they continue to have great success.  They are a talented team indeed!

I enjoyed watching the group prepare for their debut.  These kids feel like I'm watching young cousins.  It's so fun.

I'm super sorry to see this show end.  I hope it comes back for a second season.  It's such a fun way to learn new Korean words. 

This was a fun show and showed some neat places that I'd not seen before.  Definitely added one or two to my list to see when I go to SEOUL.  

I really enjoyed this drama.  It's super cute.  A little cringey at times, but not horribly so.  I liked the set up and the characters.  I definitely recommend this show..

I love this kind of reality/variety show.  This was a great way to see what the Korean Coast Guard does on a regular basis.  It was very interesting and fun to watch.  

The subbing is quite lacking.  I hate when swear words are added when no one said them.  However, it's a cute drama otherwise.  The ML is  a youtuber I follow and it was fun to see him in his first drama (At least I think it's his first.).