Nay! No! Never! Ugh!

On a more composed note, the why:

They are always misleading, like using an unrelated sentence someone say in passing in a way that feels like something important will come out of it... and then nothing.

They show the surprises and plot twists, I am supposed to be shocked when someone dies or a new gorgeous ceo walks in or the ml has a twin, why are you killing the surprise element now??

They show the kisses, when you show me the kiss you ruin the whole 60 minutes of build-up you are going to build, why would you do that???

They show next episode's CLIFF HANGER!! The whole point of a cliff hanger is making you excited for the NEXT episode! Why are you showing me that NOW??

I think it is obvious that I HATE previews. 😌

I do watch previews. It prepares me for what to expect. But two movies burned me up with the previews - My Liberation Notes and the currently airing It's Beautiful Now. The previews are fraud since they save the juicy details/sequences shown in the preview for the very last scenes when it finally airs. What kind of torture is that?🤦😁. MLN was a worse culprit ^^ .

I'm probably in the minority here but I love previews! I hate the feeling of cliffhangers and having to wait a week to find out what happens. The previews help give a general sense of where the story is going and that helps tide me over in the long, long week 😅. For shows I'm really enjoying if the episode doesn't show a preview, I actively search for it on YouTube or Twitter 😬.

It depends on how much a series engages me and how much I get emotionally involved. If this is the case, I watch the previews to find the smallest hints of what might come in the next episodes. But I'm always aware that the previews might be misleading.
I can also discuss possible theories with others for hours.

I like previews and epilogues and feel something is missing if they are not there. I look forward to seeing how the episode will play out in relation to what is seen on the preview.

On shows that like shock and awe they can’t help themselves showing it and this means I can prep for the episode to reduce the impact of seeing it in context.

I am on the side of Yes for one simple reason that previews help me resolve my dilemma of continuing the series or dropping it! This is especially true when the premiere episodes are so-so and previews in this situation will help us assess the possible line of plot dramas will take. Yes, there is always a possibility of deception as mentioned by another beanie here, but most dramas wouldn't risk playing tricks in the initial episodes.

Except in the case of murders when we are searching the murderer (And if the story is well written, like in Agatha Christie), I don't really mind spoilers.

So I like to watch previews. It can me help with my impatience if I really like the drama, help me to choose to watch one drama before the others because the preview made me curious, or to drop a drama because the preview doesn't show hopes for the story.

Totally agree! No previews for me!

Or better, I never watch previews for shows I'm really invested into, but I might watch for the ones I'm watching more casually, because I don't mind the false expectations aspect!

But generally it's a big NO, and it's always an even bigger NOPE when people don't spoiler tag the content of previews!! Such a pet peeve!

I never watch previews, but have noticed on more than one occasion incl non k-drama shows that there can be extra scenes after credits that aren't shown anywhere else and really help fill in gaps. I tend to find those on rewatch! but it would be good to know which shows have them in advance so I can make sure to catcht them the first time around.

I never not watch previews and I actually actively go and look for them on twitter if they weren't shown at the end of the episode because they give me a sense of what to expect in the coming week. I just keep at the back of my mind that they can be misleading.

I always assumed everyone watches preview or doesn't actively avoid them until 2 or 3 weeks ago on dramabeans 😅

I like being spoiled, so I generally like watching previews. Its also interesting trying to piece information together with cdrama previews that are provided 4+ episodes at a time.
They're also a good indicator when to maybe drop a show if the preview leaves me feeling -meh- vs excited.

I even replay them in the middle of the week, while anticipating the next episodes.

NEVER!! i click away before they start the previews, and i stay away from comments until after i view the episode...

It depends.
If the show is a thriller/crime/mystery, watching the preview is a big NO.

For romcoms it's fine, most of the time they mean nothing. Sometimes I forget the preview two seconds after watching it 😂

I also watch the previews when I'm in love with the show and I just don't want the episode to end.

While a verbal spoiler builds anticipation for me, the misleading cuts of the episode previews make everything — when I finally see it play out — feel anticlimactic.

That happens to me with trailers. All I need to know about new dramas is their genre, nothing more. Otherwise the fun is ruined.
If I read a spoiler I can just block it, but images are so damn hard to forget. I couldn't enter dramabeans when 25-21 was airing because there were so much gifs/images of the show.

I love previews but am also a person whose favorite part of seeing a movie in a theater is usually the trailers 😂
I like kdrama previews because I get a few more minutes of the show I’m watching, which I’m usually sorry is over. Honestly I get a kick out of being misled about what’s going to happen and laugh the next week when I see how they misled me.

Yea, only and only if they are going to prepare me for next week's heartbreak.......................

No, no no! I skip them.

I hate spoilers too, but previews are not spoilers. A spoiler is only a spoiler after the episode has aired. Until then, it's only a theory because nobody knows what will happen.

So I always watch previews where "They're finally going to kiss in this episode!" tides me over until next week or tomorrow.

I can do without the previews. C drama opening credits sometimes have spoiler scenes , don’t look too close !

No. It's not so much that they contain spoilers - indeed, they usually try to mess with your head without actually showing anything important - it's more that the writers and PD have designed the show to be enjoyed in a certain way and previews mess that up. Like eating a bit of the dessert in the middle of the main course.

It does mean that I sometimes miss epilogues, indeed never know that they are there. (Months after watching it I found that Netflix cut most of the epilogues from My Love From the Star, I don't know why.)

I'm someone who is live-watching a drama (actually two) for the first time, and it definitely gives me a different perspective on them! Before, when all the episodes were available to me, they felt like a low-stakes optional thing to watch before I either went on to the next episode right away or the next day, and didn't really thrill me or bother me too much either way. With live-watching though, I can't seem to decide what I want to do! Maybe more drama watching will help me figure this out? (Obviously the answer is to watch more dramas!) So far, I haven't been able to resist watching the previews, and am equally happy when the scene plays out as I was lead to believe, or in the totally opposite way. So for now, I'll keep watching them, but I know that I'll likely get burned at some point.

I love episode previews when I watched dramas live, it's a good way to sustain me through a week waiting for the next eps. Sometimes, I also enjoyed previews when I slow-binged dramas, because it's quite effective for keeping my interest firmly on the show despite not having a fixed schedule to finish it.

But I ran away from it screaming whenever I binged dramas properly. The misleading cuts are way too distracting, otherwise.

I think when previews are done well, they do work to an advantage to get audiences excited about the next episode. So I don't mind it and I am always wary that can be misleading. The only preview that I hate is that when they end the episode with a cliffhanger (e.g. is he or she going to die?) and the previews are showing the character is alive and well. That is a major spoiler for me.

Yes, but never trust them, lol.

I like previews in those episodes where the cliffhanger is a Truck of Doom or the Knife of Doom. Specifically Strong Woman Do Bong Soon(2017) comes to mind. Those who have watched the drama will know 😛
We all waited for the preview

I avoid previews and trailers because it's so easy to work out what's going to happen, no matter how manipulated they happen to be. I might as well have watched the whole thing already. They work like spoilers for me, not teasers. To enjoy a drama, I need to go in blind.

I’m generally ok with previews especially with shows i enjoy, they sort of build up the anticipation. But the downside is like what everyone else says, when they turn out to be anticlimactic or not up to expectations. One time a preview absolutely ruined a show for me was when i watched Find me in Your Memory - dropped the last few episodes cause i did not like what i saw. I did eventually watched them like months later but drama ended in a mehh..

I am definitely on team previews! Especially when debating with other fans! I never seen such detailed analysis over one second of screen time before, the investigative process of screenshot-ting (is that even a word?) the reflection of an actor’s eye and coming up with theories that honestly put drama writers to shame…..

Don’t underestimate kdrama fans y’all (or any media enthusiast tbh) . Previews are what tide us over till next week but more importantly start the inevitable fan wars, I for one stayed FAR I mean FAAAAAAAAR away from the Answer Me franchise previews and subsequent comment sections lol

If I'm live-watching, previews help tide me over until the next airing. And especially if I think someone is in danger, I like seeing them alive in the preview. I'm the type of person to skip to the end of the book to see if a fave character survives.

If I'm binging, I skip previews, since many previews have scenes out of order or try to mislead the audience - those tricks get more noticeable and annoying if I'm seeing the actual thing right away.

I treat the preview the same as spoilers: i try to avoid them.

But I like to see some extracts of a drama, so it is a reason for me to watch some current airing drama (because avoiding spoilers is too difficult).

Like ar said, in the first episodes I don't know who/what I see in the preview it's only later that they become spoilery.

Prefer them. Especially for dramas where I am sitting on fence for watching every next episode!