Oh no, I'm excited for both of these! Days need more hours in them.

Bring on the jump scares, Hell Is Other People!

and school just started this week. Goodbye sleep. Goodbye sanity.

Hmm... I want my OCN/mystery fix, but Hell Is Other People looks too creepy for me. Dx

Hmmm.... these articles always have a "Reasons to watch" section, but will we ever see "Reasons to skip"?

10 episodes?
Actually, never mind, I wouldn't survive 1 episode.

Both interesting! If I only had time!!!!!

Does anyone know if The Great Show will be on Netflix or Viki?

First I thought: how old is Lee Sun-Bin's character supposed to be? The actress is 26 - so if the two go back 21 years, they met when she was 5 and SSH was 22. I was having a hard time figuring out what very odd encounter that must have been.

Then I realised that I misread it, and it was the SSH and Im Joo-hwan's character who have a 21-year history.

Never mind. I'll probably give this one a miss anyway.

Hell is Other People, on the other hand, looks very interesting. LDW could be so creepy. Isn't his character a dentist? Yup - I'm already scared.

I can't believe they managed to make the pretty and ethereal looking Lee Dong Wook look creepy

We are so spoiled. I remember when we used to have only 6 week day dramas from the big 3s. Fridays was all variety shows and the weekend belongs to the family dramas and sageuks with 50+ episodes.
Now we have so many we have no time to watch even half of what's being offered.

The Great Show: I wasn't really looking forward to yet another political drama but the first episode was good and it looks like it will be both fun and touching.

Hell Is Other People: I've missed Im Shi-wan but this may be too creepy for me.

I didn't realise both were premiering this week.
Watching K-drama is a full time commitment i tell ya. Maybe if someone asks if i'm dating i should say yes - a different oppa for everyday of the week! >.<

He manages to find a room in a cheap goshiwon and though he seems to have a nice landlady in Lee Jung-eun, the other residents are all a bit off-putting. We’re not talking stolen peanut butter and empty toilet paper rolls, more than sinister laughter while staring straight ahead, and random cursing and threats.

I don't know why this made me LOL. And I'm excited for both shows premiering this week! BUT TIME???

Thanks for the heads-up for THE GREAT SHOW's premiere, @stroopwafel! I get to swap Ji Jin-hee for Song Seung-heon in a National Assembly building that will (hopefully) remain intact. Having just finished Tdrama BEFORE WE GET MARRIED (at times excessively melodramatic, with two truly bonkers/obtuse main characters and a memorable BFF) and the excellent LOVE AFFAIRS IN THE AFTERNOON from Channel A (often bleakly realistic but deftly nuanced -- with a wonderful soundtrack) , I really need a shot of fun and games right about now. DESIGNATED SURVIVOR: 60 DAYS had some humor to offset the main story, but I'll be glad to see SSH pulling a more lighthearted scam than Assemblyman Oh and Tailor Kim, and using little kids as his secret weapons to boot. I finished marathoning SLINGSHOT / STORY OF A MAN yesterday, and it was all kinds of terrific. It had a pair of cute little sisters -- and Park Ki-woong as the immortal Mazinger Hunter -- who stole the show. I'm looking forward to more of the same from THE GREAT SHOW -- minus Kim Kang-woo's sociopathic mayhem.

I'm giving HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE a pass. Having seen the stage play NO EXIT many years ago (from which the Kdrama takes its title), I know I'm not up for existential despair. After reading earlier reports on it, I've already had flashbacks to the horrors of college dorm life, and I don't mean cafeteria food.

did anyone watch hell is other people? i want to be a sheep and go by recommendations i don't want to decide for myself if it's good or not lmao but i am super looking forward to it so im scared to start :O

I'd say 95% of the dramas I really, really want to watch are never on Viki, my only go-to for kdramas.