javabeans sounds like she's having a really really bad drama slump =(

Suspicious Partner and Shopping King Louie for me. Those two dramas sit at my desktop, screaming for me to play. I've heard how popular those are in DB community, but I just can't..
Instead, I wait relentlessly for AoY. And every single day without it is like a torture to me.

I have a lot of these! Signal, lookout, live up to your name, my love from another star, circle, partner, shopping king Louie and even goblin. I want to watch all of them so bad, but whenever I have free time, I ended up not watching.. and I watch produce and 101 and catching up with 2 days 1 night. I know a lot of these dramas are super well received and some are quite old but idk why I don’t feel like watching. The only drama I’m into right now is age of youth, and I’d say 40% is because the actor who took over onew’s character is one of the trainees who joined produce 101

Alas, I am an ordinary viewer with populist tendencies, and no longer care what people think about my taste. If I could upload this show directly into my brain, though, I’d do it in a flash.

Hahaha! My motto &wish in life! =)
*thinking of War & Peace by Tolstoy*

Ditto. My "I should probably watch these because they have some of my catnips" list is so long aand extensive, I cry a little inside just glancing at it but I dont have it in me to.

I want to go back to Signal so bad, but I'm never in the mood (stuck at episode 4). Still hoping that I will be one day, I'll grab that mood and run with it.

LOL ditto #3, #8 and #9. there's no way i can watch Let's Eat 1 and jump onboard a ship i know doesn't last LMFAO. also Awl, which i feel like i'd really have to work up towards. and Seven Day Queen, which i'd promised myself i'd give another try when i was in a different mood, but still haven't.

Besides FoS, I haven't seen any of those shows? Am I missing out? Are any of them worth it. I can't do slow paced, or tragedy but anything else I can handle.

Seems like everyone have this kind of dramas that we just couldn't watch for whatever reason. Mine would be Thank You, I'm Sorry I Love You, Joseon X-Files, Pasta, and Drinking Solo.

number 8 and 9 really hit dark spot. right now on my cable channel is airing Rooftop Prince and i just change the channel as quickly as i can. my favorite drama of his is 3 Days and he ruined it badly.

i tried the predecessor of Punch is Empire of Gold, but i guess i make a mistake of starting at last ep and seeing Go Soo at the beach/ocean the last scene, make me think that i can say these kind of drama is not my cup of tea.

with new batch of drama starting next week onwards, i really Javabeans wil be relieve from severe drama slump. in the meantime, another batch top 10 list,pretty please??

I don't know when I'll complete my to-watch-lists either. For unknown reasons, if I have more free time, I rather re-watching some old drama than choosing any drama from this list.

So yes time is just an excuse... in order to make ourselves less guilty lol. At the end, heart choose what it wants. 😆

I don't know about Punch but Forest of Secrets is seriously GOOD! But it's the source of my drama slump till Age of Youth 2 came into the scene so I honestly don't know how to help you @javabeans 😭 But virtual hugs 🤗🤗🤗

If this drama slump is bringing on all these entertaining articles... I'm all for it, heh. And interestingly, I haven't watched a single one of these dramas before, either.

"Alas, I am an ordinary viewer with populist tendencies, and no longer care what people think about my taste." -- I've never related to anything more before. I like my rom-coms, my cliches, and my chaebols, and those devastatingly handsome men, and I don't care what people think about my taste. :B

Aigoo aigoo @Javabeans , *there there* I have only seen Forest of secrets for the drama listed above. It's one of my favorite dramas but sometimes mood plays a bigger part in drama watching even if the drama is good and you know it is. I've put on hold again Rebel Thief for example, I appreciate it but I know I'm not in the right mood to enjoy it at its fullest. Take your time, maybe watch some variety shows or movies or do other activities you enjoy, let's hope drama slump will go on its own ;) or the baddie behind it will stop spreading drama slump around ^^' . Aja aja hwaiting \o/ !

Give Bride of the Century another go.....its an easy watch and the script was solid

I did so love Thank You though, that I practically wrote a whole Why You Should Watch entry for it. But yeah, when described like that, certainly it doesn't sound very appealing. LOL

@javabeans I hope you get out of your slump soon! I do feel that the inertia of starting is actually the hardest part of the slump to get over. Once you finally drag yourself to press play, hopefully you'd get sucked into the drama and remember why you had to stop yourself from sleepless nights and marathoning last time.

화이팅! ❤️

Watch The Sound Of Your Heart instead. It is short and will make you laugh 😁

Javabeans, one day you will find that one drama which gets you back!! Fighting!! 😘

Omo ditto @1,3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11,12!
So I have only seen 2 out of these 12 completely!
And dropped 3/10 2 episodes in! They were good shows. I just didn't care enough.

But 'Thank You' was a gem indeed.

More importantly, 2 articles later and I am finally starting to worry! What can we do to help @javabeans?
Suggest a variety show? It helped me! Still helping actually!
or something completely away from K-related things?
Maybe a trip? A month long much deserved holiday? Spa? Mani-pedi?

Whenever I'm in drama slump or have no desire to finish my to-watch-drama list, which I ended up not gonna watch it anyways (with whatever excuses I have) I just rewatch back my old favourites. It can be one drama, or two, or ended up spending a whole week finishing all collections I have in my 1 Terabyte HD and then feeling super content. Somehow it works for me, because later I realize I am interested to watch new dramas again...

This plan might not work for some. But I hope you can pull yourself out from this hollow @javabeans

#3 is actually what I went through! I'd watched Season 2 first, and then watched the first episode of Season 1. It was a whole new experience where I actively strongly disliked the thought of our main couple getting together, as I knew they were going to split up anyway. I managed to last 15 minutes of ep 1 before I switched to something else - which might have been the final episode of season 2.

Our hero and Seo Hyun-jin were so great together that even the thought of a series 3 where maybe they've split up as well, makes me want to cry. Don't do that to me dramagods.

I hope you get out of your slump soon, Javabeans, but in the neantime your existential Buzzfeed articles are giving me life.

I have been meaning to watch Sungkyunkwan Scandal for ages because Park Min-young and Song Joong-ki, but... Yoochun...

For me, My Love from The Stars and I Hear Your Voice. Despite their popularity I really can't get trough post episode 2/3.

Finally, someone validated every thought I ever had about King 2 Hearts. I made it through about 4 episodes and that's 4 hours I'll never get back.

Drama-watching should be fun, not an obligation!

Okay. Now, I'm getting really worried.

Can't watch Let's Eat 2 for obvious reasons. I keep pretending Season 2 never happened as I liked Let's Eat 1 so much.

@javabeans that sounds exactly like me. To be honest, there are times when I question my choice of dramas since the ones I like tend to be less on the intellectual side. Life at work is pretty exhausting mentally that I tend to look forward to pure entertainment. 😓
But it makes me feel inferior when I'm unable to appreciate or see what other Beanies see in many of the dramas you mentioned in the list.
Never thought kdrama watching can be this difficult

For me, Punch is the kind of show that would make me feel like a smart viewer with superior taste, the kind who likes only underrated things and sees genius where normies miss it, damn ’em.

lol it's true tho. not just punch but many many dramas that sounds smart and interesting but maybe simply isn't my cup of tea that I can't get myself to watch them. But If I could upload this show directly into my brain, though, I’d do it in a flash as javabeans say, I would lol xD

I think that if javabeans is so bored and has so much extra time, she should make the Father is Strange post she always talked about!

I am also in a drama slump. After FOS, the only drama i completed was school 2017. That show was refreshing, sweet, and lovable. Except that, I think i have dropped around 8 dramas after FOS, which are currently airing. The only 2 dramas i am watching are Age of Youth 2 and While you were sleeping. Age of youth 2 takes million of years to get subbed, and it is so frustrating. So the only drama which make me kind of bring back to the dramaland, would be while you were sleeping. I am praying to dramagods, please dont ruin this.

From the list, similar to javebeans i have dropped majority of them.

1. Kill me heal me.: This show was literally a headache. I watched upto ep 6 or something. It just didnt fit my bill.
2. Punch : Depressing episodes in the beginning. So decided to quit. Maybe if this aired around this time,i would have watched it. Who knows?
3. Hyde , jekyll and me : Also dropped from ep 4. I just could not beyond this ep.
4. King 2 hearts : I skipped tons of episodes to go to the ending. Does this count as a quitting or merely hanging on?
5. let's eat : watched the first 4 ep , and i got done with it. Food did appeal me, the story and direction didnt.
6. Flower boy next door : dropped. No comments
7. Descendants of the Sun (DOTS) : Ugh, way too cheesy for my taste. Dropped it around ep 3.
8. Bell Ami : I sincerely am proud of MYSELF for dropping this.

And the list continues... just cant seem to remember all.

For me mostly I can't finish the dramas for multiple reasons.. So I might watch first few episodes or even watch until the penultimate ep, but can't bring myself to finish the whole thing. I think I have whole collection of unfinished dramas by now.

So here it is.. 12 dramas I thought I'd watch:
1. Misaeng (only up until 8 eps I think)
2. Signal (ditto)
3. Romantic Doctor Teacher Kim (medical genre isn't my favorite)
4. Six Flying Dragons (too long)
5. Awl (too serious)
6. Nine (dislike the female lead)
7. Night Light (wish the story is more interesting)
8. Yawang/Queen of Ambition (too makjang + Yunho in it)
9. Marry Me, Mary (even my love for MGY can't convince me to watch this mess)
10. Bad Guy (never really interested in the premise)
11. Princess Man (or any drama with Park Si Hoo in it)
12. Sungkyunkwan Scandal (or any drama with Park Yoochun in it)

It kind of sounds as if Forest of Secrets has come across as a bit worthy rather than enjoyable? Honestly not the case.

Kill Me Heal Me I didn't think was that good but, dreadful extension aside, I really enjoyed Protect the Boss. Forget heroines etc - watch it for the dad, the elevator scenes and, for me, an unusually good 2nd lead female really more interested in getting some female friends at the end of the day.

For me, it's Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Joo. I didn't watch it when it aired because in the teasers, Nam Joo Hyuk made be believe his character was a wooden plank. My friends told me he was better in the actual show, and he was really cute with Bok Joo... but.. eh. I wish this show could have been downloaded directly into my brain too.

Hope you're ok, Javabeans, maybe you need to make a list of things that you wish would happen to get you out of a drama slump? :D

Aw, poor JB! Hang in there!

Perhaps because I came to your site again when I was lost and unsure what I should be watching in 2011, I've just gotten used to taking a chance on a past show and knowing what it's like to be rewarded when I did. I would have missed Joseon X-Files, The Princess's Man, and several other gems if it weren't for you.

Still, it's funny to note how I've had a problem with several shows on your list as well. Now that I've been live-watching for a while, there are so many shows that I'm so sure I'll be catching later (perhaps because I so successfully marathoned in the past?), but end up never having enough drive to click play.

This has happened with so many Lee Jun-ki dramas lately (pretty much since Two Weeks) that it breaks my heart. I've had a plan to watch Time Between Dog and Wolf, to make up for the lack of good dramas for him, for forevvvvverrrr....but even that doesn't ever happen.

I wonder, though, have you ever been rewarded by going and checking out a show you missed or didn't think you'd like at first? I feel like the only time I remember this happening was Sweet 18? I feel like when you're really in a slump, no suggestions really work. But I will shamelessly recommend Girl's Generation 1979, as it is short, sweet, and completely worth it.

Sorry to hear about your Bride of the Century experience. That's horrible. It really is a cute show, but I could see that turning you off easily especially if you saw the first episode and was just eh.

Ditto on Let's Eat. Why invest in a love story that's going to end like that?

I would want Let's Eat season 1 then just the students in season 2.

Heyyy waitaminute!!! Omg i see how the lists are going down by 3. Yay that means more lists are coming and the next one will be 9 things? 18 slump, 15 chusoek, 12 unwatched.... I wonder what's next 😁 why does this have me more excited than actual dramas? Lol

Watch 2,3, and 6 JB, like seriously. You won't regret it. Also let's eat season 1 is so good, I get what you mean, sometimes we skip the good shows to watch it for later. But you will eat your own words I am sure. I hated the female lead when Let's eat season 1 started, but then in the process came to love her and the romance. Also I am a sucker for noona romances so. :/

There is alot. Everyone seems to like it but i don't care. I think i have many of those.

JB, *hugs* the drama slump seems in the extreme end.

I can't believe it,but I have not seen 11/12 of the dramas listed above.Only seen Forest of Secrets,which I love.Made its way into my top 20 dramas

Forest of Secrets. I just can't find the time to finish that drama and I think it's just an excuse on my part. 😞

...They actually sent you angry emails about Bride of the Century? Speechless. Once a friend of mine got angry at me because I didn't want to see the The Godfather​ trilogy, she even asked me not in the best of ways if I wanted to continue being uncultured or sth like that. Well, yes, with pleasure! She is my friend and still I was annoyed, so receiving a bunch of emails from perfect strangers...

On another note, it's perfectly fine to go through a slump. I'm going through several at the moment due to fatigue, but it's ok, it's not the first time and sometimes it's good to have a period without "that" until one day the body will be ready again and I'll just wake up and be eager to study/go out/live again. Like when I woke up one day and discovered I didn't want to play with barbies any more, event if even the day before the idea sounded crazy (the fashion barbies I purchased recently look amazing in my shelves and I pictured myself washing all our hairs together, but that's not the point).

So yep, and when slumps give birth to this type of articles and other enjoyable activities, it's not too bad ^^

"the more I realize that while there are some shows that make you wish you were the type of person who enjoyed watching certain kinds of shows, there are other shows that you actually enjoy watching. Embrace this honesty, life’s too short. "

Buahahahaha 😂🤣😂! And AMEN.

YAS!!! I’m not the only one that still has yet to watch “Forest of Secrets” 😂
For goodness sake, but, really, for the sake of your sanity, @javabeans , JUST PICK SOMETHING AND WATCH IT 😂