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[Drama chat] Your fastest drama binge


With such a fast-paced and non-stop airing schedule, it’s often hard to go back and watch dramas you missed — whether they’re from last month, last year, or a decade ago. Even so, there’s nothing quite like having an entire drama right at your fingertips. You can cancel your plans and watch it straight through, or you know, sleep two hours when you should be sleeping eight. All’s fair in dramaland.

My fastest binge to date is probably Happiness, which I finished in maybe 4 or 5 days? But, it’s only 12 episodes, and I was sick, so that’s my excuse. Definitely had nothing to do with the well-plotted story or the dreamiest hero I’ve seen in a while. Nope.
 

What’s your fastest drama binge to date? What did you watch, and how long (or, uh, not long) did it take?

 
Let the chatting begin!
 
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Kingdom 1st season, in 6-7 hours, Kingdom 2nd season too 👍🏻 it's THAT good

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I have three fastest, and they all star Kim Sun-a: 𝗠𝘆 𝗟𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗦𝗮𝗺 𝗦𝗼𝗼𝗻, 𝗦𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗮 𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜 𝗗𝗼, 𝗜 𝗗𝗼. I’m not a particularly huge KSA fan, it just turned out that way. Where I live, summers are miserably hot. Like now. Unless you’re somewhere near a body of water, most people stay inside in the heat of the day. That’s when I binge. I start on Saturday and usually finish on Tuesday.

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Just been drinking margaritas and listening to live music on the San Antonio Riverwalk, so no binge-watching right now. Back to Blighty and 60s F later this week.

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Ah, yes. Margaritas along the Riverwalk. I have fond memories. I'm in Austin, just up I-35 from SA. I hope you enjoy the rest of your trip.

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I used to be an adept k-drama-binger (at least some 4-5 years ago). I usually binge-watched a 16 eps drama in less than a week. Especially when it's easy-to-digest romcom, or hard-to-put-down suspenseful thriller. 4 days would be more than enough to finish those kind of dramas.

So, the official answer to that question is: most of old school romcoms and OCN's gritty crime-thrillers.

Nowadays, though, I found myself "binge-ing" drama in a much, much slower pace than I would spend watching it live. My current binge-watch, C-drama Sword Snow Stride, has been ongoing for 6 months with no quick finish line in sight. I'm almost resigned to it. 🤷‍♀️

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When I first started watching k-dramas, I finished dozens of 16-episode dramas in 1-2 days each. I'd watch one and if I liked it, I'd look up other dramas of the actors and watch those. Rinse, repeat 😬.

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Same! Rinse and repeat is the right way to describe that!! XD

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Yep! Everything I watched the first 6 months or so was a fast binge.

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My very first BOF. It took me 2 full days and 2 half days to complete it, making it roundabout 3 days for 25 episodes. The break came because I inevitably got sick. This was my first time watching a series, let alone binge watching it and I just could not stop because BOF was so addictive. But I vowed to never be that careless again, or so I thought lol. I have never binge watched anything that way again. I usually live watch and if the show is already complete I will maximum watch 2, 3 episodes in a day. I remember breaking that rule for Kill Me heal Me where I watched 8 episodes in a day. Recently I binge watched Legally Romance and it was quite addictive and fun, but never crossed 4 episodes of 40 minutes each in a day. I genuinely feel sick and bad whenever I binge watch, as if I'm wasting my time that should be spent on more productive things. But honestly I don't have anything other to do anyway. So I only binge watch a show when I was late to the party and if I really want to watch it, otherwise if I missed it live there is a hard chance I'll check it again. Also whenever binge watching I try to not watch beyond 2 episodes in a day, cdramas can go upto 4 or 5.

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BoF was my second drama ever and I watched it in...I want to say 2 days and 2 hours. With a 10 hour break to go to work, work, and go home again. That Tuesday delightful gal A introduced me to coffee prince and I watched 3 eps that night, 4 the next and 4 the next and finished the rest that night at work. And that night I watched the first ep and a half of BoF. Even though I got off work at 4, made it home around 4:45 and had to be at work at 8:30 I finished the ep. Came home from work, took a power nap and didn't move from my chair until I had to go to work where I watched the last episode. I still remember all of my student workers laughing at me. The final episode is SO DRAMATIC! At one point I threw a computer and straight snatched a checklist from a student worker and said I was doing their job. Came back. Sat down and BURST into tears. At that point I was the evenings entertainment as everyone turned around in the chairs to watch me watch the last bit of the last episode as I kept yelling at everyone that the lunch box TASTES DIFFERENT.
It was then I knew I had a kdrama problem.

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My fastest ever drama binge was "Nirvana in Fire".

I was going to pace myself but once you start, Mei Changsu's schemes just draw you in and never let go, Finished the whole drama in 3 days.

I regret nothing.

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It is a great show- my wife is currently re-watching it.

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Impressive. I was pretty close to that too.

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I am not a binger. It can take me over a month to watch a drama, even a drama I really like, especially when I’m also jugging currently-airing shows.

But I have a very specific instance where the weekend before an organic chemistry exam, my least favorite class in the history of the world that made me feel like an idiot and gave me ridiculous amounts of stress, I started watching Shut Up: Flower Boy Band. I finished all 16 episodes within 24 hours, only stopping to sleep, basically.

A large part of that anomaly was definitely me wishing to completely ignore reality and the fact that I really should be studying for my exam or else I will definitely fail, but I’m sure another part of it was just that teenage rocker angst. It’s addictive.

To date it is the only drama I’ve finished in a day.

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Hi Mindy! I just wanted to say my hate for org chem is only second to physics, both of which i had to repeat, to my eternal dismay and probably the lecturers too 😆

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See, I LOVED physics!

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A friend came over to visit and found me on my knees scraping away at the grime under the fridge, which I'd shoved into the middle of the room. It took only a second or two for him to ask, "Oh, when's your chemistry exam?".
A Kdrama binge would have been so much more fun!

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😂😂

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The only time I finished a standard 16-episode K-drama within a day was when I binged-watched Forest of Secrets Season 1. At 11pm on a Friday, I decided I'd take a look at ep1 of a show that I'd heard so much about. At 6am I was still glued to my laptop.

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ahhh...I found my kdrama soul mate! hahaha!

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I think it was Yumi’s cells and it was finished over a weekend but as I binge watch most of my dramas it’s hard to remember if there was one I did before that quicker. Some like Hospital playlist I wanted to eek out so only watched a couple of episodes at a time. I wake up at stupid o’clock most days so I can easily watch 2-3 episodes and still have plenty of time before work especially if I am working from home.

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I finished "Someday or One Day" is three days, which is a record for me. I try to limit my episode consumption to just two per day because I find that if I go over that, I'm not truly enjoying everything the drama has to offer even if I really love it. But with "Someday or One Day," before I knew it I had watched five episodes over the course of one day, and had to keep going at that pace because I simply needed to know how everything would turn out. I also had successfully avoided spoilers but was afraid my willpower to do so would wane, so that fueled the binge as well.

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I binge watched Someday or One Day on weekend (2 day).

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Too many to list.
I was a serial binge watcher until I started live-watching last year. I would watch 16 episodes drama in 1 day (average 1- 2 days) because what's sleep when you have a Kdrama 😂😂😂.

Now that I watch upto 7 live dramas it can take me 1-2 weeks to binge a drama except on weekends where I can still binge in a day or 2

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Ten Miles of Peach Blossom 58 eps in 3 days. I rarely rewarch dramas but I just Love this drama, this is my second time. The 1st time watching it, I watched while it was still aired. Though binge watch half of it in 2 days.

Binge watch Giant 60 eps in 4 days. Hah

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Ten miles of peach blossom is a beautiful love story you did well to finish it in 3 days!

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I always try to live-watch so I can make up-to-date comments, so...

My fastest (and only recent) binges are whatever whole series lands on Friday and I want to be able to rate it on Saturday's What We're Watching.

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Netflix Originals (Sweet Home, Move to Heaven, D.P., Squid Game, My Name, Hellbound, The Silent Sea), which are made to be binged. They premiere on Fridays, are 10 episodes or less, I finish in one weekend, and they end on cliffhangers.

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Netflix originals indeed are made for bingeing. Just binged Stranger Things 4 Vol 1 yesterday, for example (7 episodes straight!). For Kdramas - my fastest watch would be the first 4 from your list too - Sweet Home, Move to Heaven, D.P, and Squid Game. The rest though , it took me sometime to finish (and I never went beyond Ep 1 of The Silent Sea).

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Not necessarily my fastest, but certainly my most memorable binge: You Who Came from the Stars.

I binged the entire the weekend before I was supposed to take the national ethics exam to practice law. I had already taken ethics, so I really just needed to review what was being tested, but I literally had forgotten I signed up to take the exam until two weeks before it was administered. I had not touched the materials for the exam and planned to study them over the weekend since the exam was eight days away.

Enter Kim Soo-hyun. I didn't touch the books until Sunday night, and that was mostly to print out the outlines. I ended up watching the lectures on double speed (a blessing in disguise because the lecturer was incredibly obnoxious). I remember sitting in my car after the exam and thinking that even if I needed to retake it, I did not regret my actions. Somehow, I passed with flying colors.

I'm not saying to follow my example, but sometimes I think our brains need that kind of rest before something big. There are worse things you could do than watch an alien fall in love with the absolutely fabulous Cheon Song-yi, who remains one of my favorite drama characters to this day. I like to think I walked into that exam channeling a little bit of her attitude.

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Not sure it was the fastest, but I've watched Yumi's Cells (14 episodes) recently and got surprised when I finished it in just 2 days..pretty fast for me tbh

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For me that would be either GOBLIN, THE GREAT AND LONELY GOD or perhaps MARRIAGE NOT DATING. Of course, whether or not I can binge watching anything is in part a function of my work and whether or not my wife is also interested in the same show (she binges with me then). And I watch many currently airing shows so obviously that would be the opposite of binge-watching.

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Marriage not dating I enjoyed binge watching that one too.

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My husband and I binge watched Weightlifting Kim Bok Joo over 3 days. I forgot about that. I drank soju every time he called her “fatty” or was mean to her. That’s probably why I keep forgetting about it!

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That would be a good explanation for a gap in your memory. It sounds like you had fun.

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This one wasn't the fastest binge as it had so many eps (a weekend drama), but I remembered it very fondly as Joo Won and UEE were everything. The drama's name is Ojakgyo Brothers. Love it to pieces.

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I loved that one! I think that was about the time I came across Dramabeans too - I was watching before the subs came out, and desperately looking for explanations of exactly what was happening! (I don't remember where I found those, but found Dramabeans as well).

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I feel like I have many.... Dramas that I dropped after watching the premiere or trying more than the premiere and didnt like but still wanted to know how it would end...
One example that i remember... High society. Interesting that it also has Park Hyun sik in it...
I may have watched a tiny bit because of him, but really, the rest of the cast were awful and the characters were awful and I fast forwarded almost everything!!!!! LOL

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W:two worlds in one weekend

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I finished my very first drama, Boys Over Flowers, in around 2.5 days. That's the fastest I've ever binged anything and probably the fastest I ever will binge anything.

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I don’t know for sure my fastest, but one more memorable was when I went to visit my sister for a long weekend (my first time away by myself after having my third child) and we spent basically the entire time just binging My Girlfriend Is A Gumiho (again). I regret nothing.

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Healer in three days, one of which was a workday. My employer may not have gotten their money's worth from me that day. 😆 No regrets.

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Coffee Prince was mine. I think I saw it in 4 overnights. So 10-11pm-2/3 am and then work at 7 am. The power of Gong Yoo. 😂

Moonlight drawn by Clouds was about a week. And I’ve done others like that too. Fated to Love You, My Ahjussi, Cinderella and the 4 Knights.

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