Awww @tipsymocha you just brought back my feels from those two shows! Shimok and Yeojin's dynamic is so ♥ Can't wait for S2. (Also my favorite Weasel Seo Dong-jae!)

And I also want a S2 for Prison Life if only because I wanna know what happened to everyone T____T But I'll take any drama project from this team again that doesn't involve husband guessing game.

I’ve found myself to be in another drama slump. It’s been almost a year that it seems to be I’ve losing interest in kdrama or found myself watching only a drama or two when I’ve used to watch atleast four or five dramas a week.

Still watching Radio Romance and Waikiki this week, but can’t say that I’m fully invested in watching them. I found myself fast forwarding couple of scenes and binge watching the whole episode.

Also I stopped watching Return. It could have been the drama of year but such a shame that it’s taken such a bad turn.

Hwayugi - 4 more episodes... I’ll forgive any plot holes or lazy writing so long as I get a happy ending.

Radio Romance - I kinda wish I cared more about the romance, or the fact that they were childhood crushes. I just... don’t feel it. Maybe it’s the “oh, childhood crushes again” trope that’s tiring me out, or how Su-Ho didn’t endear himself to me. I’m behind on episodes, but I shall find some time to continue.

Misty - I’m currently just 5 minutes into it but HAD to try because of all the hype I’ve seen here. That’s a real gorgeous pair of heels and a nice umbrella (umbrellas just make me think of Goblin, and Sam-Jang now).

Black Knight - I dropped this at E13 and I’ve seen spoilers of the ending but darn I want to know what happens in between. I just can’t bring myself to waste more time.

Return - eek I wish we had a thread here to discuss this show too. The new development with Hye-ja, though not unexpected, is chilling.

Waikiki - it’s ok for me, my favourite character is Seo-Jin, which probably doesn’t bode well for the show for me.

I just need a new crack drama to tide me over once Hwayugi ends, dramaland!!

While I’m enjoying both Mother and Woohoo Waikiki, I’m waiting for a drama to get me REALLY excited again. My heart’s been a wee bit empty since JBL ended. I’m looking forward to Pretty Noona! Please be good! I want to love you! So much that I already made you my profile header! I hope I’m not setting myself up for disappointment.

But anyway, my thoughts on what’s actually airing:

Mother: Gosh, I love this show! The characters are so complex and fascinating. The acting is phenomenal. The directing is, quite frankly, magical. It might not be the type of show that has me thinking about it throughout the week, but Soo-jin and Yoon-bok have my heart tight in their grasp. I wish it was being recapped but I’m also not sure if I’d have the energy to dissect it each week with everyone. I feel like I’ve run a marathon at the end of every episode. Exhilarated, yes, but still tired.

Woohoo Waikiki: So much funny, and this week none of it was gross! Yay! Not much else to say about it. It’s a great show to destress to. Just in time for Mother to stress me out again! And that’s how my weekly cycle goes.

Also rewatching Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-joo, which is somehow even more of a gem the second time around. It’s truly among the best of the best pure youth dramas. It just makes me so happy while watching it!

Of all the shows airing, I'm only watching Laughter in Waikiki, that damn strip show to make Seo-jin forgive them is so funny and also I love how they are criticizing the cheesy lines in the book but all three of them ended up using it on her anyway.

I wanna watch Mother and Misty but maybe when they finish airing...

I might go back to watching Smart Prison Living too, as soon as I find the time in between job applications which I'm currently busy at right now. Damn real life, taking me away from my obsessions T_T I'm really, really behind the current drama line-up now

Misty please be good till the end. In these past months, nothing catch my attention. Even Hong Sister and Lee Seung-gi can't push me to watch Hwayugi till the end.

Is it since Secret of Forest? After that drama, I suddenly become really critical with the others. Man... If Misty become another God gift 14, I will be really pissed since its been so long I want to follow a drama eagerly

After bingeing Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Joo last weekend, I finally decided to catch up with Radio Romance. Of course that meant I ended up at episode 6, which was by far the best episode. Now I've seen 7 and 8, I have to admit the show isn't quite hitting all the right buttons for me. It's a bit variable but still watchable. I'll be here for the ride at least.

I'm about to start Misty and once I've caught up with that, I'll join everyone who's raving about Mother as well. I've heard such good things about both these shows that I hope they're as good as the reviews.

I decided to drop Cross and then ended up tuning in for this week's first episode. It's so bad!! I was right the first time. Dropped again.

I had been saving up Return and considered starting it but decided not to bother. Maybe if I hadn't heard about the cast changes? So this has gone into the 'not interested' pile instead.

I'm still trying to watch the Chinese drama 'The First Half of My Life', but it's slow going. I may not make it to episode 6, let alone episode 40.

Finally, I started the Taiwanese drama My Dear Boy and I can't believe how good it is!!! Now I've run out of episodes and Viki subs are sooo slooow. I have to know what happens to my gorgeous little puddle of goodness and his badass Noona/whatever the Taiwanese version of Noona is.

Watching Misty and Mother and loving both to bits - one thrills me, the other brings out very complex emotions in me as a mother that I find no words are able to convey deeply how I feel about this drama (or maybe I just need to brush up on my vocabulary)

Also watching Hwayugi but it fails to own my heart the way the other two shows have which is a shame coz hello, Lee Seung Gi is so freaking charismatic as the Monkey King.

Watched Waikiki until Ep3 but I couldn’t continue as I couldn’t stomach the gross humor anymore - I tried, I really did but I just can’t, after being warned about the gross scene in Ep4 which is a shame because the boys and girls are killing it and Baby Sol is so adorbs!

I'm still high on Lee Kyu-hyung fever and spent most of my drama-watching time enjoying his performance and Q&A session clips instead. I only have 1 drama on my plate at the moment, and thankfully it's an enjoyable one.

Woohoo Waikiki: Oooh... I like this week eps a lot. (The absence of gross humor highly help it) I spent 2 hours laughing so much till my stomach hurts. That unforgettable fake wedding will go down the history. 😂😂

For me it's Hwayugi, Mother, Radio Romance & Waikiki. RR is the weakest of the 4, but at least it has Kim So-hyun and so far no masks or water monopolies.

I finally admit I'm in a drama slump. It's not just a JBL withdrawal. I only watch Misty and haven't plan to watch anything else. At some point in the next few weeks maybe I will stop watching. I've been watching kdrama on and off for years (mostly off unless there's drama that everyone hyped like Full House, Coffee Prince or Boys before Flowers). It's just before streaming service era and drama beans I don't know there's a thing called drama slump 😄
Usually I only watched 1-2 dramas in a year. In 2017 I finished 31 drama, dropped 7 half way and more than a dozen after 1-4 episodes. I spent 570 hours or equal to 71 working days for drama. It comes as no surprise that I'm in a slump now.
I love kdrama, british drama comes second but it's been more than a year since the last time I watch it. I have checked dorama, cdrama but none of them look interesting. So the slump really frustrates me, I feel there's no subsitution for kdrama.
I think for now I should resume Poldark and back to kdrama later when Mr. Sunshine arrives.

Only two dramas on my plate. I'm finally caught up on Hwayugi! Great, talented cast of actors. I like watching them act and seeing how the whole fantasy story plays out. Gonna miss these quirky characters when the show's over.

Enjoying the old school, simple and sweet Radio Romance. Not analyzing it much. The childhood scenes were lovely. They give the present relationship between Su Ho and Geu Rim more depth. I'm already a fan of Yoon Doojoon so he's a big reason I'm sticking with this show. It's cool to see him take on a different role than before.

Hesitating on what I want to watch next. 😂 I gotta make room for Mystery Queen 2 (premiering next week)! Misty hype has me intrigued, but still have some old dramas on my watch list....... Finish BTLIOF? Start Prison Life? AOY2??? Gahhhh. 😅

Radio Romance: Su-Ho Eyes, how he looks at Geu-Rim 😍😍. I'm interest with jason, the story lure the audience to believe that Jason has something bad feeling with Su-ho. I hope there is twist when showing that Jason is purely care about Su-ho.
Hwayugi: waiting for the climax and anti-climax for the rest ep
A love so beautiful: this drama is light and I like the OTP. I'm curious about the main lead if this drama will be remake in korea.

It's been a very busy week for me. Still just watching Hwayugi and Waikiki. I'm already started to feel angsty about what I am going to do after Hwayugi ends and I won't have any more sexy monkey to look at.
I did start Healer this past weekend (while waiting for Hwayugi subs) But unfortunately I fell asleep just 20mins into the first episode. It has potential but I haven't been able to go back to it.
Waikiki is still my just watch-to-distress show. Unfortunately still don't like Yoon-ha. She can leave the show and we can keep Baby Sol. Then we can focus on Seo-jin and Joon-ki getting together. Hehe

Misty Am I the only one who counted the number of years Tae Wookie spent on the couch when I watch the scene of him kissing Hye Ran with such fiery passion?

Mother This show makes a very 'salty' watch. They keep getting into my mouth and my nose!!!(don't remind me of last week's Waikiki!) And that damn whistling from hell, no words.

Waikiki I'm glad I didn't give up this show after the first episode. It gets better and better. Dong Gu trying to corner the pervert and Joon Ki foiling him each time was gold. I also want a clip of Joon Ki saying "괜찮아,괜찮아!" to use for times when I need to tell myself - It's alright!

Now, all JTBC needs to do in the very least is to get AOY girls and even the boys to cameo!

••• Rewatching “Along with the Gods” and still cried bucket of tears.... I’m looking forward for the part 2 and the 49 days for the brother....

••• I couldn’t get enough for Jo Seung-woo post “Forest of Secrets”. Not only rewatching this serial, but I searched Jo past work. One of them is “Marathon.” I couldn’t believe he’s the same person who played Prosecutor Hwang 😁😁😁😁

••• Misty: this drama is my new addiction. With Eun-joo and Jail Oppa entering the game, the story becomes more interesting. I have the sama question with someone here in DB who’s questioning “has Hye-ran ever love her husband?” With the Jail Oppa released, I’m really curious with their past. OMG, really, Hye-ran is such complex character with Tae-wook knew only a little about his wife. First with Kevin, and now with Jail Oppa.

I want to say I've been watching dramas properly, but tbh... it's the Olympics. I've been watching the Olympics for 2 weeks straight. Every day. It's a sickness. I do this every two years so I don't even know why I'm surprised lmao

I’m enjoying Radio Romance, Hwayugi, and My Golden Life. But I am surprised at how much I love Woohoo Waikiki! It is like what happened with Shopping King Louie - I started it on a whim with no expectations of anything and was sucked into the story and wacky characters by the end of episode 1. As much as I like the other shows, WW is the one I look forward to the most each week. Crazy, right?

I recently binge watched Smart Prison Living, and can I say how much I loved this show? It was Just. So. Good. I miss not seeing the boys anymore, and thinking about them brings a smile to my face. Except for Looney. Every time I think of him, my cries “Just say no, Looney! Just say no!!” 😢😢 Totally broke my heart...

I am watching 3 shows this week. But unlike the previous weeks, I find myself being drawn to heavier (*cough* adult) dramas, though I still watch lighter ones so that I can catch my breath. Hahaha.

1. Misty
It is my first week watching and now I have reached ep 4. I am all for Hye Ran. She is the most logical being in the tv station, and perhaps in the whole drama.

Hye Ran and Tae Wook teaming up to actually win something together? Exhilirating. All these times, they have been aiming for different things, and that is why their marriage falls to pieces. Now it is different. I love that they both deeply loves justice, and passionately, fearlessly expressing it. There is hope! *heart eyes*

2. Mother
I didnt watch ep 10. I will wait for ep 11 to watch ep 10.

3. Hwayugi
WTF? Monkey has to stab Sam Jang? Geez. Heaven in this drama surely has no creativity. Can they do something else, other than torturing our OTP??

currently watching chinese drama.. aside from the latest kdramas that I have watched the past month/weeks (Hwayugi, Radio Romance, Misty) to name a few. my daugther and i been patiently waiting to catch and watch them every week..

Me, i am sticking to both drama and comedy: Mother and Waikiki. And what can I tell about them?? Mother had me in tears and I only watched episode 9... I haven't had the chance to watch the number 10, but I will.
Waikiki is fun as usual. I am also to watch episode 6... at now is the weekend!!!
Apart from these shows I am watching slowly "a love so beautiful", and I keep rewatching Just between lovers, even more slowly.
I want to watch the Answer me serie (no time yet), prison playbook, misty and of course I am waiting for the pretty noona buying food, feeling like the world will stop the premiere day!! 😂😂😂😂

just want to post here to spike interest in Should We Kiss First...

in the opening few minutes, it appears like a very heavy melo... but then as the story unfolds in the past, it is very light and funny - tho i'm still confused about how it will connect with the opening scenes, i think that's the bait here.

i love the seasoned actors featured in this drama, and the mature relationship scenarios presented. this one is for those of us who don't watch the high school dramas, right?

Misty is another one that is mature and features other seasoned actors, i love it!

**Dramas
*Waikiki ep5-6 : different week , different Jun Ki’ lies, same laughs = training for my cheeks and stomach, stupid things I need it, I love it 🤗🤩😎 😍🤣💃, by the way Oppa in tuxedo 😍
*Mother ep1-10 : I’ve binge watched it this week, amazing drama 💖, can’t describe how much I love it….well maybe welcome to the exclusive club of shows/dramas who made me cry, here’s your ticket no.5 💙
*Age of youth S2 E1-4 : it’s good to see them back, esp. my fav’ Yoon Sunbae 😎 waiting for Chef-nim to come back, I want to see my fav’ couple together 🤗

**K-shows
*Night Goblin E26 : JiWon nice guest, HongKi flirts too much 😆
*I live alone E233 : three idiots Jjang 🤣
*Hyori Homestay S2E3 : I just love this show 🤗, aju manhi 😘
*1n2d : no ep this week, yep looking at you Olympics 😒 but it’s in South Korea so I’ll let it go 😆

Just Between Lovers: Complete. Every one who loved it already said every thing I wanted. I will just thank the staff and the cast for making this wonderful drama.

Hi My Sweetheart: Complete. It was hard to watch the last episodes and even before the whole angst I felt less interested. Characters became annoying as over the top tropes happened. Seriously, how many did each lead go to the hospital and one crawled twice on the hospital floor to add dramatic effects and had a memory lost. WTH ? Now thinking about this I can't help but laugh. Also I didn't like both of the main lead's "personalities". In particular the rich one since he kept some of his former traits with new annoying ones. Anyway, I will remember it for the humor and the anime-like effects.

Short: Complete. I quite enjoyed this 4-episodes-long sport youth drama. It was nice to see Kang Tae Oh acting outside of weekend dramas for once. Keep going puppy ! I'm always excited to watch Solomon's Perjury cast in new projects. So no wonder I feel proud to see Yeo Hoe Hyun appearing here and there in short youth dramas and webdramas and I hope he will keep building experience through them. It was my first time watching No Jong Hyun and his role was compelling (or I just love children caring for their parents). Our ladies Park So Eun and Kim Do Yeon did less than the boys but they were likable and I want to see more of them.

Hwayugi: ep 16. Ma Wang no ! We know he's not good natured like other demons but I don't want to see him hurt JSM and SOG.

Misty: ep 6. Can I scream my love for Go Hye Ran and Kang Tae Wook ? Just when you think their marriage will end with this scandal, it actually helped them to get close. That's one ally for her because she's attacked from every front : at work with HJM's return threatening her News Nine place, the police with a determined detective, Eun Joo who seems to seek revenge and even if I don't think the guy in jail wants to harm her, his presence itself can be dangerous.

Mother: ep 10. This week episodes made me wonder if Hye Na's mother could have been a good mother if she didn't go through motherhood alone. That creepy boyfriend is in no case a good support.

Radio Romance: ep 4. I'm more interested in Soo Ho's "mother" than in the romance or in the radio part. How did she end up that cruel and calculative ?

Return: ep 14. I'm still watching to see who the crazy duo will kill each week.

Love Returns: ep 68. Kim Haengja is recovering her memory ! Can't wait for Monday's episode.

Small Town Cinema - Overgrown Bromance: I love hearing stories of villagers about how they never or rarely went to the cinema because they had to work. Their stories are touching and it is good to see them have a great time.

Woohoo Waikiki ep 6. It's always the quiet ones causing trouble haha. Since Doo Shik is good at writing erotic scenes, does that...

I just finished watching Should We Kiss First. I always love a good Melo and after the heart-wrenching Just Between Lovers, I am still in the melo mood. I just love it and sad I don't have more episodes.

I also (weirdly) have been partial to Kim Sun Ah, however she is the star in this. I want to know more of her story and hugs her.

I have to say that the gray hair didn't fit Kam Woo Sung, why can't the PD/writer let him be his age and his real hair. It doesn't make him look old, it just looks weird.

Watching 3 currently airing shows:

Mother- Soo-jin and Yoon-bok make me cry every single episode. Can someone please murder the boyfriend already? He makes my blood boil every time he appears on my screen.
Misty- ❤️❤️❤️
Hwayugi- Watching this show for the sake of watching.
Nirvana In Fire 2- On episode 4, not hooked yet but I love Ping-Zhing? already and Xi Yin?
School 2017- I love Kim Junghyun! ^^
Memories of the Swords- I watched this movie for JunHo but (stupid me) I’ve already seen it two years ago. Didn’t know who he was back then.
Twenty- This had me on stiches almost the entire time I watching. It made me miss Kim Woo-bin though.

Also finished rewatching JBL. ❤️

I must be the only one who isn't grossed out by Waikiki at all (maybe a little at the snot falling scene).

I’m watching Mother which is amazing. It reminds me of JBL in a lot of ways: it looks stunning, the characters as so well-drawn (even the ones I hate), the acting is excellent across the board, there is a supportive love interest (but I am a few episodes behind) and the story drags you in and just…won’t…let…go

Then I’m also watching Shall We Kiss First. The tone is much lighter and humorous than I expected from the melodrama tag it came with. It probably just softens me up with laughs and will then kill me with the melo. But so far it’s fun and I really want those boots

Then I’m continuing with my older drama watching. I finished Thank You which stayed great right through to ep 16 and I loved it.

I’ve started Kimchi Family which is good so far (am on ep6). I like the kimchi making scenes as I’ve started making my own.

Misty and Mother = Good stuff . Mother is heart tugging. Misty is so juicy.

Prison life: No eps for me this week.
J drama: Soredemo, ikite yuku: couple of eps left, Mitsushima Hikari = ❤️
Anone: Checked out first ep, looks good, and it looks like the subs are being handled promptly. Will watch after Soredemo.

Red Teacher: KBS drama special. Actually a rewatch. Jung So Min !
Monkey show: Hope things work out okay for Sam Jang & Monkey

1. Misty - awesome Go Hye Ran and her team. Love the pantsuits and the eye make up. Perfect!
2. Eulachacha waikiki - awesome comedy! I was laughing all the way through all the episodes. Made my day.
Other than these two..sadly, no dramas.😢
Need more time😢😢

Should we kiss first?: I'm not so sure about this one. I like Kim Sun A here even though I'm not a big fan of her. But something feels too odd. I can't put my finger on what it is, but sadly it didn't hook me as I thought it would.

Misty: I had zero expectations before starting this. I didn't knew the cast and it was more like: I don't know what to watch, let's hope this is good. And wow, was I pleasantly surprised! The heroine is so complex, tough and full of flaws, but still relatable. I can't help but root for her!

Hwayugi: I'm still mad at the deities for toying with humans as the wish! What right do they have to choose one of the humans as sacrifice for the others? If you (the deities) want to save the world, choose one of your own as sacrifice but not an innocent bystander!

1N2D Season 1: Just started this because of Lee Seung Gi, but now I'm in love with the whole team. They really work great together!

And I can't wait for the next episode of All the Butlers. I'm so looking forward to see Lee Seung Gi reuniting with Youn Yuh Jung. I loved the two of them in Noona over Flowers.

ONGOING

Hwayugi
What I love most about this drama is that even though many of these characters are based on fantasy, there is a human aspect behind all of them. The fantasy if anything adds character. While it can be frustrating, I appreciate how mercurial Mawang is, especially when compared to Oh-gong. I really hope we get at least an entire episode with Oh-gong free of the bracelet. I really want to see if his character would change at all.

P.S. Heaven really wants to stick it to Oh-gong.

Radio Roamnce
Sometimes I like this drama, and at other times I could care less. I can't seem to develop any affection for the female lead to even root for her. I need more than the male lead to keep me interested in this drama and for once I think a love triangle might be worth it. The only problem is the female lead is so freaking apathetic to both that I don't see how this is going to work.

Woohoo Waikiki
I wished I love this drama more than I do. Behind two eps.

Negotiator
I knew that this drama is bad but I still kept watching. It's one of those, you know it bad for you but you still indulge. It's definitely a guilty pleasure. The biggest problem I'm having now though is that I'm thinking the drama is actually smarter than it is--that's a big no no when it comes to bad dramas. There was one scene that gave me hope for the outcome of ep 20, but it seems like the writers completely forgot that they mentioned the plan that Xiao Fei came up with. That made the watch all the more frustrating. Another big problem is that Xiao Fei could be very toxic for Tong Wei. He always does something pigheaded, apologizes, but then continues to be an idiot, and then rinse repeat. But, I need this couple to stay strong now and not split up. I need them to work together and get the job done. If they can do that without and stupid drama between them, then I can enjoy the next 22 eps. They laid the foundation for it, so I don't see why it can't happen.

What I'm watching? Not a whole lot right now, apparently. I'm massively behind with Waikiki, so I'm only really watching four ongoing shows.

Princess Jellyfish: Well, that kiss was out of the blue! Not that I didn;t love it. The fact Kuranosuke actually managed to convince Tsukimi it was just a greeting made me laugh, though. I expected her to still be all jittery. The fact that she calmed down immediately shows how comfortable she is with him now.

Unnatural: Ooh, THAT CLIMAX! I still get chills when I think about it. In a situation like that, the assailant usually calms down, but he actually tried to kill her! He did! Poor hing, she was everything to him.

Anone: This drama throws the nuclear family out of the window. I love how spontaneously the four of them just became a weird little family, since I really didn't expect the drama to take this direction at all.

Hwayugi: This drama lacks something without Buja. She was more of a heroine that Seon-mi, who I frequently get pissed off with for never telling people when weird things happen, never knowing anything, and basically being the dullest heroine the Hong Sisters have ever written. I still like her, but gah.

It's Okay, That's Love: Okay, so I rewatched this. And huh, all of the relationships in this show are dysfunctional. I kind of feel like Noh Hee-kyung went so far into trying to make these characters feel real that she winded up making them animated and incomprehensibly difficult to understand. They give me whiplash with how quickly they go from pissed off to happy. It was worth it for the cuteness that I finally started to feel with episode 11, and the emotional climax of episode 15.

I finished Six Flying Dragons two weeks ago. It was such a quality show in all ways that I wasn't sure what to pick next from my waiting list. I went with Remember-Son's War and Answer Me 1994 with a side helping of the new live action version of Japanese manga Princess Jellyfish.
I'm also keeping up with Radio Romance (I'll be interested to see if "mother" has her own scarf-related trauma), Waikiki (ep 5 was the best so far for me) and Hwayugi.