i love legend of the blue sea, it's my addiction!!!

- Blue Sea: the last episode is good, the previous ones not so much

- My wife: It gets better each episode.

- Oh My Geum Bi: you smile in tears each episode but the little girl is so good, you want to keep supporting her

- goblin: the IT show after DOTS this year. (and they have the same writer)

This is my favorite thread, I love to read which drama people like to watch. Does anyone watch J or Cdrama? Please share your point of few. Thank you :)

@Laica
If you are able NOT to watch the 16 hours straight of Signal, you are a very strong person! (I started and just could not stop!!!). Enjoy it! In my opinion, it's the best drama for 2016.

I'm watching pretty much all of this with the exception of Night Light. I watched the first episode of Goblin and I really enjoyed that. So I'm pretty excited to have a new drama for my Friday and Saturday nights! And like tineybeanie, Weightlifting Fairy Kim Boo-boo is my feel good replacement for Shopping King Louie. I didn't think I would be so in love with this show but it's truly one of my favorites of the week.

Still having JI withdrawals but WF is doing good enough to keep me looking forward to Wed and Thu.

I think LOBS is a bit slow for my taste but JJH is the ace as usual and LMH finally has a better likeable character and I think he has improved too, so only the actors are keeping me hooked as of yet.

Wife is amazing but is sadly ending this week. I avoid secret affairs dramas but this had another take on the same subject which I thoroughly enjoyed and was somewhat realistic too.
Goblin episode 1 was great. Ah the cinematography!But I sincerely hope they don't go in the lovey dovey parts in the latter half and keep the conflict and mythology.
We married as a job is my shift from kdramas and I wish subs were faster because the show is good.

Yay! We're right that

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P.S.
I'm quite sad that Wife has ended. I can watch another show where BoA and Lee Sang Yeob are the main characters for 50+ episodes..They're such a delight to watch together.

After literally going crazy every week with anticipation over W and Moonlight, I have decided not to watch live shows- but binge watch everything so I don't have to live with that nervous worry every week. :P

However, I started Goblin, and I am enjoying the first 2 episodes! The cinematography is excellent, editing can be better, and all the characters (except the female lead) are cool.

Nigeru wa Haji da ga Yaku ni Tatsu (7/10): SO. FREAKING. CUTE. I can't handle this drama, it's just too sweet. I can't believe we only have a few episodes left. I don't want it to end!!! Gah.

This Week, My Wife Will Have an Affair (10/12): Still feeling the love with this one. I'm halfway through episode 11 and I'm really curious as to how they're going to go from here... they still have a lot of ground to cover in the next episode and a half.

Legend of the Blue Sea (5/10): Not quite caught up with this one but I decided to continue with it. JJH is just too good for me to ignore, and I find this show pleasant on a basic level. It doesn't frustrate me and I can just sit down and watch it happily. I haven't quite turned off my brain yet, but I'm thinking less about the specifics now.

Date - Koi to wa Donna Mono Kashira (8/10): Enjoying this one but I don't think it will go down as a favorite or anything. It's shaping up to be a solid 7 on my MDL ratings.

Master's Sun (6/10): I'm liking this much more now than when I tried to watch it before. Episode 5 turned it around for me and I'm finding it funnier and funnier with each episode. To be honest, I'm usually not a big fan of So Ji-sub because I find him wooden, but his slightly cold delivery here really works with the humor in this show.

I've heard good things about Goblin's first episode so I might pick it up once my break starts in a coupe of weeks.

From Shopping Kings to Weightlifting Fairies, thank you, Dramaland, for keeping my mid-weeks happy and bright. These two shows were/are filled with sweet moments, innocemt romance, and laugh out loud humor. I hope the trend continues because they have done so much to keep me smiling as each week rolls on.

I'm interested to see how the two fantasy giants shake out. I've enjoyed LOTBS - it is pretty and funny. The actor who plays LMH's brother - I LOVED him in MOTW, then in Go's Starry Night, and he is doing well here too.

So how will LOTBS compare with Goblin? The first episode was epic - I felt like I should've been watching it in a movie theater. Gong Yoo - oh how I've missed you! He looks so good here in every time period. I honestly can't decide which Gong Yoo I like better - sageuk GY? 1960's Parisian GY? Current day broody and bromantic GY? Gah!!! I love them all!! And LDW with the ridiculous hat? Oh my. I can't wait to see his chemistry with Yoo In Ah. I hope this show continues to be this good.

Romantic Dr Kim is also great. I'm watching it as I catch up on this fall's Grey's Anatomy episodes and can hardly tell the difference. And I love that!

It has been a really good year in kdramaland.

I'm currently watching 4 drama! For someone who has been out dramaland for years, it's quite surprising (even at the time i was more into k-drama, i don't remember watching so many at once). I'm loving the variety in my choices though it wasn't intentional...

Romantic Doctor Teacher Kim - I don't know how this show manages to be so addictive with its high level of silliness, but i'm hooked and regrets nothing.
Also not being able to binge watch is so relaxing: i keep my pretty sleep and can do other things with my life.

Heartless City - episode 14.
I don't remember why i'm watching this: i mean the plot has become so repetitive and the end seems so predictable at this point. I feel like the writer wrote himself in a corner and there's no way for the "good guys" to win since there are so many bad guys, all so powerful and of course all connected.
However i still admire the show for the attention given to the smallest characters: they have a name! And they're remembered even after their death! And they influence the plot!
The acting is also still strong, mostly because of the male characters and actors who are stealing the show, which is a pity: so much more could have been done with those badass ladies...

Three with Deep Roots - 2 episodes in.
So far i'm loving every bits of what seems to be a masterpiece. I started this one because of my recent passion for Han Seok Kyu and Jo Jin Woong and though i can not imagine how a drama which stars those two best actors ever could do wrong, i'm holding my breath in the fear to be disappointed.

This Week, My Wife Will Have an Affair - one episode
It was a tight competition between on the way to airport and this one and i chose my wife for practical reasons: because 12 episodes is perfect for me, because based on the reviews it's less a melo which fitted more my mood, and because everyone is raving about Lee Sang Yeob who i adored in Signal and Boa's relationship which got me very intrigued.
i'm really excited about the potentiel of the main characters: they are realistic with the right touch of quirkiness and the actors are really selling the feels. The chemistry is very strong between Boa and Lee Sang Yeob and i just hope the writing will do justice to their relationship. However, I don't see a happy ending for the main couple but as long as it's well done, i won't complain.
I'm less convinced by the narrative concept which made it like a docu-drama at times. A directing choice that i found annoyingly didactic. The story works very well on teh fictional level, why not let it just thrive?

GeumBi GeumBi GeumBi.

I've picked it up for recaps but I'll be late. I've only recapped ep 2 and 3 so far, but watched all the way to ep 6 already. Just what do you say to such display of young talent? The writing doesn't diaappoint either and the direction is not bad. The worst thing in this drama is Oh JiHo's acting, which I frankly couldn't care about until this week when he was shouting at her after she'd gone "missing". In that moment, to me, all he did was shout and for the first time, I was so annoyed at him because he's taken me out of the moment. Oh well.

But even though I recap GeumBi, I live-watch BokJu. That shows is so lowkey, but so warm. I'm not really attached to it, but it's just healing somehow.

On mondays and tuesdays it's Romantic Doctor Kim! Like Javabeans, I totally laughed when they played Hey Jude because it's the song that'll hypnotise and persuade a psycho to not kill. ~Hey pysch, don't make it bad. Take a sad soooong and make it better~ what kind of bullshit, lol. The writing is hilarious but the acting and the chemistry is awesomesauce.

Just finished the latest ep of Wife will Cheat and man, I can only say that JoinYoung is going to make one good but embarrassing dad.

Still trying to finish my old shows.

-Miss Korea: I love all the women here. Ji-young and her blunt, honest way of talking, her fighting spirit, and the way she just cut through all the BS while still being charming. Madame Ma and her instinct to be a protector and teacher for all those girls and also Madame Yang. Not even rivalry would stop her from doing it. Hwa-jung and her no-nonsense attitude, yet warm personality. Even Jae-hee and her fairness in all competition. It's refreshing to have so many capable and non-cookie-cutter women in one drama.

-Potato Star: Stuck at eps 55. It's a fun and hilarious show, but I do think it lacks the poignancy I so love in High Kick series. Though it does manage to poke fun at many ridiculuous drama tropes.

-Running Man: So much fun and cute this eps. And Jo Jung-seok's voice... I melted.

-King of Mask Singer: High Kick's Choi Min-young!! Where have you been?? Hopefully we can watch more of your projects from now on.

1) Legend of the blue Sea : I'm only watching this drama for the leads .. I'm pretty disappointed in the story.. I wasn't excited for it in the first place ( I never understood how My love from another star got its huge fame :/ ) .. the funny moments are fun to watch, but I can see the story dragging from now on .. besides, the family problem Jun Jae has is so drama-typical that it bores me
2) Goblin : One word .. WOW !
3 ) Night light : This drama has a new and unique flavor .. I quite like it, though I'm not usually fond of such plots .. the cast intiated me to start watching me, but the story is keeping me stuck to my screen .. Uee is so excellent in this .. Jin Go is great but his character is not .. LYW is quite good too .. I watched her in other few dramas, but I'm not her fan
4) Romantic Doctor : this drama is really amasing .. as a medical student, I like how almost everything is accurate medically speaking .. I love the main trio's interactions .. I love the side stories we see every episode
5) Weightlifting fairy : As everyone who watched this said, this drama makes me so happy .. it's the drama I'm always waiting for .. such a breath of fresh air amidst all the intense dramas airing right now <3

Awwww, I just love WFBJ's otp bickering especially now that it's getting mushy around the edges. Let's hope Dr Hunk can be enlisted to help in proper weight gain strategies for our girl, the misguided overeating is so uncomfortable to see right now. And if we have to keep watching that droopy stalker ex and the Mean Girls team, can we please at least see some good rhythmic gymnastics? Hoping for that is what brought me to the show in the first place, darn it. It's not a sport done in the US so it's barely shown in our Olympics coverage ☹️

Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-joo is still my first go-to drama to watch. It's everything I prayed to have for the last few months, and thankfully it finally happened! Episode 5 this week might very well be my most favorite ep of the show thus far if I remember correctly; it made me smile from ear to ear. And the making-your-crush-to-be-your-human-shield-against-splashing-water in ep 6 was hilariously adorable! Love love love it.

I watched Goblin ep 1 and surpringly I actually liked it! After Heirs and Descendants of the Sun I thought that was it I couldn't anymore, then wow. I think the beautiful cinematography and fitting music have contributed a lot to the show, it reminds me of how these two factors boosted up my viewing experience in Uncontrollably Fond. Enthusiastically looking forward to watching episode 2 tomorrow when I wake up.

Legend of the Blue Sea is currently the last in my list right now. It's serviceable but not enough to pull me in totally. The music still stood out to me the most. Hopefully I will get into it soon.

I think I also watched One Million Yen Girl starring Yu Aoi (not really sure whether it was this week or last week...). I quite like its first part, not much so for the second part. I understood why it ended up like that though, which in the end helped with my overall watching experience.

Also watched When A Snail Falls In Love ep 5.

Considering watching Miracle on 34th Street (1947) since it's Christmas season!

watching Goblin and though I dont love everything, ep 2 is less tacky in design, and I am getting jaw cramps from the reaper-goblin duo. they are both cuckoo. how can the actors keep a serious face doing this

Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-joo: finally caught up with it and totally fell under its spell! it's adorable, it's fun, it's like a hot cup of chocolate you love to slowly sip on a cold winter evening.

Goblin: I was excited for gong yoo and le dong wook and at he same time a bit scared. and then I forgot about it - until yesterday night that is. I haven't even realized it was a pretty long episode cause it sucked me in. please, please, don't disappoint me later on!

I'm just really excited for the year end reviews! Seriously can't wait.. heh

I love Nam Joo-hyuk in this drama so much, I'm half convinced hanging out with Ji Soo on the sets of Scarlet Heart somehow bought out his inner puppy!
How adorable is he with his crush on Bok Jo?! I could just watch him flail after her for days! ?

Definitely 'shiny new dramas' have caught my attention:
Princess Wei Young: Episode 30 and had to restrain myself from watching 10 more without subs. My favourite character so far is Tuoba Yu, even though he is not even good looking. Just when I thought he was a cold and calculating prince, he went and showed a human side... and Li Min De is giving me third-lead syndrome.
Sassy Go Go: Marathoned it last Sunday and it was every bit as fun and heartwarming as I had expected (I think it was pogo's comments last week that made me want to watch it). Spent the whole of the week whistling the tune. And I was reminded of 'Ji Soo puppy'.
Legend of the Blue Sea (Lobster): Episode 6. So yes, I broke my policy of not watching shows until they've finished airing - again. This is the year where my policy is meant to be broken. I love the whimsy, and there are lots of questions about how the Joseon and modern stories are connected. I'm hooked.
Night Light: Tried watching episode 1. It's not my kind of story so probably won't continue, but LYW has the best steel gaze ever. UEE is too skinny, I can hardly bear to look at her.
Goblin : Episode 1 gets all my votes for best cinematography of the year. I'm not completely sold on the love story, but that epic beginning was just wow. I am now convinced that Gong Yoo should do a Goryeo-era drama. He's got the voice and mane of glory.

Probably my favorite regular segment on Dramabeans. It's always so cool hearing what everyone's been watching the past week and their thoughts on dramas. It's interested to see opinions change over time. :)

+Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Joo. My new and current crack. Absolutely adorable. I run to watch each new episode. It seems the international audience loves it, but I wish people in Korea were more aware of it. It's definitely the underdog show on Wed-Thu!

+Legend of the Blue Sea. Love the leads, like the story. It's fun and pretty to look at, and I can see it picking up steam now that LMH's character is falling for our funny mermaid.

+Goblin. Well damn that first episode, that was like a movie! And Gong Yoo is baaaaack on mah screen!!! Also love Lee Dong Wook -- and the crazy bromance that's going to ensue among the goblin, reaper, and chaebol boy. The taste we got at the dinner table was effing hilarious!

+Romantic Doctor Teacher Kim. Watched the first two episodes, haven't yet caught up, but I want to, just don't have the time. I like what I saw, though, and I'm happy that everyone's still enthralled by the wackiness.

+Entourage. Debating dropping it or catching up. Maybe if the episodes were shorter the show would work better. I don't know. I like all the actors in it, especially Jo Jin Woong, but I'm not sure I'm up for sitting through hours and hours of young men acting like babies more than half the time.

Watching Princess Wei Young now! Somehow caught up with 41 episodes in 1.5 days haha, and eagerly waiting for episodes to be released daily!

So far, the story is quite well-paced, although I thought that the second half slowed down a bit. The show is beautiful to look at, and does quite a decent job in fleshing out their human motivations (it has a bit more than the whole jealousy-love-fighting-for-throne things)

Looking forward to more of this drama!!!

I like that almost everyone seems to be loving Weightlifting Fairy. It's my current happy place since JI and 1% ended. I find myself bereft of dramas on Mon-Tue. and weekends and am hoping Goblin replaces that.

Currently enjoying 1. LotBS especially this week with the humor and kickstart to the romance. I don't think the plot is as engaging as I wanted it to be and feels mostly as a background filler but I'm hoping it'll come into play once we settle further with the romance. I do love the pretty and I adore JJH's comedic timing. I appreciate a woman that can do physical comedy with no regards to appearance (we already know they're all gorgeous, acting a fool won't take away from that). I feel like very few actresses will go all in like that. Plus her timing is perfection. I'm happy to see LMH in a good drama again. I did adore him in Faith but outside of the romance that drama had a lot of ??? going on.

2. WF: Absolutely adorable. I love every character. Even Shi-ho despite her pettiness. I'm annoyed with her but I'm hopeful she'll come around to maturity again. Reminds me a little of the ex-gf in Kim Sam Soon where she was petty and had no real love for our beloved lead but I couldn't really hate her either.

3. Goblin Haven't watched episode 2 yet but I did enjoy episode 1. It was definitely way long but I didn't notice it because I'd paused it to do other things. So not entirely engaging enough to forget everything just yet. The age difference always annoys me but I'm hoping it's handled well. I get that it's a fantasy drama but she's still young...

I've been sort of skipping through weekend dramas when I'm bored. Might pop in to check if Entourage is still as annoying.

What I'm watching (and trying desperately to finish):

Shopping King: Okay, so I like the OTP, but I'm stuck at episode 14. I'm .. just….bored? All the cutesy puppy love is actually getting on my nerves and I just want the story to be done and resolved. I love Seo In Guk as much as the next person but a dead story…is well…a dead story. Tell me something to get me to finish the next 2 episode - I have only 2 left!!!

LOTBS: Meh. I like it, but don't love it. I watch it because of all the pretty and the funny - but the story could use a pick up on pace and actual motive.

Goblin YAS. My favorite genre done RIGHT. First episode DID NOT disappoint. I just hope the story keeps moving well.

Weightlifting QueenIt's so fluffy I'm gonna dieeeeeee.

I need to find time to watch Goblin- first 2 episodes are 90 min each and I now need to find 90 min x2 pockets of free time!

RDTK has improved this week- haven't had this much to say about a show in along time, and I'm not even on board with the OTP. Which is quite fun in a refreshing way.

Watching Jdrama Cold Case as well but slowly. The female lead is still awesome.

And yes, like JB I'm still reeling from the fact that it's December already. But it's the first year I'm active here and looking forward to all the year end posts and voting!

Legend of the Blue Sea: This week, I feel that the show is really moving along and it was finally LMH's turn to shine against JJH. I really enjoy watching the comedic moments between JJ and Chung and her interactions with others. I think it was necessary for JJ to get that extra push to stop denying Chung's importance in his life. The epilogue is something that I always look forward to and the one in ep. 6 had me in stitches. XD

Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Joo: Still need to catch up on this week's eps. But overall, I really like this show, which is uplifting and makes me happy.

Love Through A Millennium II (aka Shuttle Love Millennium) C-drama: Really enjoying this show so far cuz the lead actor Wei Da Xun is so good at crafting two completely different characters in the two time periods. His personality, demeanour, voice tone, and everything... Just perfect. Janice Man and Puff Guo are fine so far; not spectacular, but OK. I like the mysteries surrounding the time-travelling devices and what the characters will do with the knowledge as well as figuring out what the bad guys are up to. The little girl playing Fei Fei is amazing at such a young age.

Goblin
such a visual FEAST... so much PRETTY...

this is the IT drama for 2016...

*swoons when Gong Yoo & Lee Dong Wook banter/bicker*

Currently watching

1) Night Light - it is an OK show, fortunately someone subbed the first two episodes and now I'm waiting for epi 3&4. The dynamic between two female leads are great and their clothes are gorgeous. These two Lee Yo Won and Uee fit their character. My only problem is with Jin Gu's character. I hope some improvement on his character because JG can offer more but so far his character is too boring.

2) Romantic Doctor - a great show to start every week!

3) Weightlifting Fairy - can this drama be any cuter?

4) Goblin - for first episode honestly I yawned few times, maybe because I watched it when I was super sleepy. The story is interesting, and I cannot wait when Wookie and Yoo Inna will meet.? I like the bromance , and their bickering is so fun to watch. Kim Go Eun is doing great in far, and I have no problem at all with her acting / role. I like Yoo Inna and she is so cool and sexy.?

4) My Wife's Affair - It's time to say goodbye to favourite drama and characters. I hope after this drama, Lee Sang Yub will be graduated from secondary roles. He is a talented actor.

5) Our Gabsoon - good drama overall. This drama is so giving you family melodrama vibe. Too many problems in the family, but it's reality. Everyone is acting great in their role.

6) Father I'll Take Care of You - still watching. Park Eun Bin seems a bit awkward in her role, but she is cute especially when she is standing beside Lee Tae Hwan. I miss Song ? Maybe need to rewatch AOY.

7) Princess Weiyoung - this drama is not flawless, but the plot is good and not dragging. Tiffany is gorgeous, and I love her eyes. I've been waiting some good Korean sageuk which is female centric but so far none for this year and next year.

Just dropping by to say I don't know if I've ever enjoyed the first week of a drama as much as I enjoyed Goblin's first two eps. Probably the Kim Eun-sook effect, but fingers crossed for something more in the coming weeks. Either way:

GONG YOO IS LOVE. GONG YOO IS LIFE.

watching goblin and it just about the bromance, the main girl with the cut editing is not fit

Legend of the Blue Sea- this show might have the right amount of production value, but the writing leaves much to be desired. It's not the little conversations I'm scratching my head at, it's the major plot points. Which is awkward, but the show is still super cute and easy to watch, which is good.

Romantic Doctor- I feel like I'm always on the verge of dropping this show before and after I watch, but then I get sucked into the episodes as I'm watching. I do have one comment to make about the hospital politics: I like that Master Kim doesn't want any part of it. Every time someone tries to draw him into the fight, he's like "shove off".

Goblin- I love the tone here. It feels like a fairy tale. Like the tone every epic historical Chinese drama I've seen wants to have, but never quite achieves... Goblin has it (maybe that's too harsh on Chinese dramas, sorry).

Shopping King Louis- I'm not nearly as enamored with this show as a lot of people were, but it's still fun. And SIG kissing someone can never not be sexy. It's just not possible. Now if only he could stop being slightly annoying the rest of the time...

When a Snail Falls in Love- Someone please tell me there's more than 21 half an hour episodes in this series! That the real 21 episodes are 1.5 hours each and the site just broke them up. I'm not ready to be doooone.

Okay, it's December already! I'm just excited for your year in review 2016 edition.

Bring it on, Dramabeans! My heart is ready.