yeah, there was a slight dip after the pre-emption, but considering even the lowered numbers are safely over 5 percent, it's still a hit.

(the clue to tvN's ratings expectations of this drama lies in the ratings promise - the cast had sworn they'd do free hugs if they crossed 5 percent before the end, which tells you what they thought they could get)

I can't believe SFD's ratings still hasn't rebounded since the Lunar New Year dip. It's the final 10 episodes and I expected it to do much better than this. I'm enjoying it so much and I wish more people would watch it.

Ok now hold on. This one got under the radar but the cast includes SUNG HOON from Oh My Venus as well as Shim Hyun Tak, who played the abtastic chaebol lawyer on both Divorce Lawyer in Love and Let's Eat 1 (It was essentially the same character on both shows.) I know neither of these guys is the main dude but they seem to have prominent roles so I'm definitely checking it out.

I used to think that impressive, then I realized that just about any weekend drama, no matter how bad, will hit in the 20% range. I highly suspect it is one of those shows that people turn on while doing other things, and not so much watched as occasionally looked at.

Or start making some that people actually want to watch. They are stuck in the formula trap, where most characters worry more about who is talking down to who than in having real jobs and stuff.

Yay to Signal!

can't wait for ep 11!!!!!! what will happen next??? im curious.

So showing emotions about her dead daughter killer getting away with her murder, means Koreans are backwards and uneducated? Who says this shit how ignorant can you be. So disgusted by people like you who don't know how to separate reality from tv and use fault logical like this to judge a whole culture.

I have to say, I might partly understand you here. I too was bothered a lot by the victim's mother because she was such an uninspired plot device all along, culminating in that -- to me -- very unconvincing outburst.

Though to me the issue wasn't that she appeared uneducated or something, it was more of a story-telling mistake. She was there to symbolise the "cold case", but she was never treated as a character. Not by the camera, not by the characters in the show.
And suddenly she comes up with a perfectly moralising philosophical and otherwise pointless argument and this is suddenly supposed to be an actual personal concern of her (as a character), rendered as a fit of justly rage.

WTF!?!? I am sorry but what is this comment?

"I got turned off by the scene when the mother of the murder victim threw a fit"

So let me ask you, how is a mother supposed to react to her daughter getting murdered and not getting the justice she deserves?
I actually though her acting was spot on. If somebody had murdered my daughter and was getting away with it I would throw a "fit" to.
Also how is a mother acting to her daughter's murder "uneducated and backward"?? sheesh.

Honestly, I thought both were pretty bad, and never made it past ep2 on either one.

Maybe it will spur the other channels to get out of their rut and triangle/formula shows and actually try something different and some new writers.

"Secret" happened the same way. First episode was in the 3-4% range, by the time it ended it was soundly beating Heirs.

I think OMHE is cute. It has turned into more of an ensemble show with the multiple storylines. I'm actually ok with this, there's not too much meat in the main love triangle so if they didn't have supporting storylines they would have to make some over the top junk up.