[Drama chat] Oops, I dropped a drama (or twelve)
by missvictrix
Our 2022 Year in Review festivities have begun, so we thought it would be fun if our Drama Chat space followed suit. And you know, with the Bean Count around the corner, it seemed like a good time to talk about BING: beans I’m not getting.
As per the Dramabeans tradition, you get an imaginary “bean” for every drama you watch in the year, which is the reasoning behind the often-employed explanation for sticking it out through a non-enjoyable drama – viz., I did it for the bean. But maybe even more interesting than the dramas you watched are the dramas you dropped, bean be damned. And that’s what this post is for.
For me, I think this was a record year from dropping beans dramas. That’s right, the days of suffering through shows I’m not loving are over. Whether I dropped a show because it just wasn’t my speed (Our Blues), because it was too poorly written (Cafe Minamdang), because it was too gory (All of Us Are Dead), or because I meant to finish it but ran out of hours in the day (Good Job, I’m sorry!) — I have a 2022 compost heap of unfinished dramas.
What dramas did you drop this year and why?
Let the chatting begin!
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1 Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️
December 4, 2022 at 5:54 AM
These are the ones I can remember but I am sure there were others but they may have been older dramas:
Law cafe
Behind every star
Eve
Jinxed at first
Kiss Sixth Sense
Woori the virgin
The sound of Magic
Our blues
My Liberation notes
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Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️
December 4, 2022 at 7:31 AM
Gosh looking at everyone else’s lists I noticed I had forgotten a couple because I didn’t last past the first episode or had no regrets. I dropped Doctor Lawyer in the first episode and Golden Spoon after a couple.
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Isa is always time travelling
December 5, 2022 at 12:46 AM
I have Golden Spoon on hold after the first two episodes too. I will retake it because many k-drama lovers I know tell me this is very good, but I couldn't empathize with any of the characters.
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2 erniwidia
December 4, 2022 at 6:17 AM
I end up fast forwarding Sound of Magic after 1 eps toward the end. And dropped Jinx at First after 5/6 eps.
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3 welh
December 4, 2022 at 6:26 AM
In 2021 I dropped 5 shows. I think I was more selective this year to avoid quick drops.
DR. PARK’S CLINIC: dropped after 1st episode.
YOUNG LADY & GENTLEMAN: did not finish, watched only partial episodes.
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4 Nefret
December 4, 2022 at 6:28 AM
Love in Contract
Once Upon a Small Town
Poong the Joseon Psychiatrist
Today's Webtoon
Café Minamdang
Jixed at First
Woori the Virgin
I had already forgotten many of them.
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5 jerrykuvira
December 4, 2022 at 6:33 AM
Ooooh! The count of dramas I dropped this year shocked me. The ones that shock me more are those which had all the ingredients I need but still fell short.
I'll list them by why I should not have dropped them.
A. The actors comebacks I have wanted to see.
1. Artificial City. I was really waiting for Soo Ae's comeback. The only think I've seen her in before AC was Glass Mask and I lurved her in it. Artificial City, however, fell short.
2. Sponsor. This one has a whole Han Chae-young in it so I was so excited to see her again after A Man Called God(the first female lead I came to not like after having a rethink about the drama). I know she is good. And I hoped Sponsor would make me see that. But, Alas!
Not to mention Lee Ji-hoon from RWTMR being a part of the cast.
3. Doctor Lawyer. Shin Sung-rok. I wasn't expecting to watch him in this collosal mess. Truthfully, he was the best thing to happen to Doctor Lawyer, but not enough to keep me watching. Jumped ship at ep 4.
B. Dramas that casted actors or actresses who accolades follow.
1. Show Window: the Queen's House. Song Yoon-ah praises was one of the reasons that made me watch this. At least I got to ep 10. That counts as something, right?
2. Doctor Lawyer. Really, So Ji-sub.
3. Eve. This one has Seo Yea-ji and I expected much.
4. One Dollar Lawyer. Ep 6. I'm yet to be drawn to the Nam Goong-min charm but I see it. Hiding the details about Lee Chung-ah's casting sealed it off.
C. Dramas that ruined my good memory
1. Kill Heel. Oh God. This one really makes me sad. I'm not happy Lee Bo-young picked this after Mine. Kill Heel is a disappointment.
2. Cafe Minamdang. Ep 2 was the end of it for me. What drew Seo In-guk in here, I do not understand.
3. Why Her? Ep 10. This one ruins everything. Infact, it is the first on my list grouped or not. Seo Hyun-Jin, Heo Jun-ho, Choi Young-joon and Ji Seunghyun couldn't make me make it past ep 10. Thanks to the recaps I know what happens at the end. I very much deeply regret this one but I don't think I'm visiting this in distant time before the end of the year.
This one left me not wanting ever to see a noona romance and a very sour first taste of Hwang In-yub's acting.
Other ungrouped reasons
1. Thirty Nine. Ep 9. I thought it was an ensemble cast and not a Son Ye Jin lead drama. No regrets.
2. Good Job. Ep 12 remains to be watched. I just didn't have the time to finish it. And the recaps showed I didn't miss much. It was nice but no regrets.
3. Unicorn. Ep 8. I just didn't have the time to finish it and it hurts. Good thing it was weecaped. Regrets.
4. Chimera. Ep 3. I missed a week and I didn't continue. No regrets.
5. Our Beloved Summer Ep 8. Same as 4's. I regret this though.
6. Snowdrop. I'm sorry Yoo Inna but no regrets.
7. Through the Darkness. Still at ep 4. Does it count if I still intend to watch it. It was too heavy to continue during the time it aired. So when I missed a week,...
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jerrykuvira
December 4, 2022 at 6:36 AM
...I missed it all. Big regrets. Huge ones. I'll definitely watch this later when my schedule clears.
8. Twenty Five Twenty One. Ep 4. I wanted a Nam Joo-hyuk redemption from Start Up and I got it to my satisfaction. I just couldn't keep on watching as it didn't hit the mark for me at all. No regrets.
9. Soundtrack 1. The very kind of silent movies I loved but it was just too boring. No regrets.
10. Eve. I expected more from a Park Byung-eun casted drama.
11. The Witch is Alive Ep 6. I just didn't have the time. So when I missed a week, that was it. No regrets.
12. The Empire. Ep 5. Just one week miss was it. I'm definitely going back but not this year. No regrets.
13. The Good Detective 2. Killing off Jung Moon-song in ep 8 drained me. I am used to characters being killed off but wasn't ready for the one TGD 2 offered to the slaughter. At least I stuck faithfully to the recaps. I also regret this big time.
Man. The list is long.
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jerrykuvira
December 4, 2022 at 6:40 AM
It's a good thing I didn't pick up some dramas cause the list would have been soo long 😂. I think I dropped more than I completed.
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jessi
December 4, 2022 at 3:07 PM
Lee Bo-young wasn't in Kill Heel. Luckily, we can still have hope that her follow-up drama to Mine will be good.
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jerrykuvira
December 4, 2022 at 3:10 PM
Oooh!🤭 Kang Ha-nuel. And I was surely referring to 18 Again instead of Mine. What a mix-up 😅. And yes, I pray Agency is a good follow-up.
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jessi
December 4, 2022 at 3:37 PM
I also make the Kim Ha-neul / Kang Ha-neul mix-up, so it's all good!
18 Again was so enjoyable that it makes sense to be disappointed by a follow-up that falls flat. I felt the same when Lee Do-hyun followed Youth of May with Melancholia.
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jerrykuvira
December 4, 2022 at 4:35 PM
Kang Ha-nuel 🤦🏽 Kim Ha-nuel 🤦🏽🤦🏽. Oh! not again 😅
6 mmmmm
December 4, 2022 at 6:35 AM
I often know right away from some minutes in to the end of ep1 if the drama deserves watching or dropping. So my list is comprised of all the shows I didn’t continue after ep1, or at maximum, ep2.
Behind Every Star
Woori the Virgin
Once Upon a Small Town
I’m sure there are more of them but I just can’t remember for the life of me.
I should mention one show that I stuck through with it till the end. Do I regret it? No, because I could then proclaim that my hope and love for Wookie had come to an end and yes that is The Sound of Magic. Apart from this one pro, I’d rather erase my memory of it if I could.
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mmmmm
December 4, 2022 at 6:38 AM
Cafe Minamdang is another one that I dropped after the first ep.
I think I lasted 2 eps of Our Blues.
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darwi
December 5, 2022 at 9:40 AM
I stuck to The sound of Magic because I was not watching alone...
Neither this one nor If you wish upon me have killed my love for Wookie though... I juste recognise that he is charming in the pictures, and does not pick good dramas.
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mmmmm
December 5, 2022 at 10:47 AM
My problem about him for me is the way he acts. This might be a me problem, but I found his smirk creepy.
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KAddicted
December 8, 2022 at 3:17 PM
FFd through great chunks of it. Far too schmaltzy and Mary Poppins for me, although at least Mary could be tart and snappy at times. I cannot describe how much I hated TSOM, really really hated it. It was probably the first one I seriously thought about dropping but didn't because it was short and I could FF through the tedious songs and all the other bits that bored me (most of it! 😁).
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mmmmm
December 8, 2022 at 8:54 PM
I was the same. I hated how it handled everything in it. Unreasonable. It was a nightmare.
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7 Jingbee
December 4, 2022 at 6:35 AM
This is the year I dropped more dramas than completed. Some of them I dropped mid episode 1 : Love is for Suckers, Love in Contract, Golden Spoon, Good Job, Why her, Jinxed At First, Cafe Minamdang, Law Cafe, Becoming Witch, Eve, Kill Heel, One Dollar Lawyer, Once Upon A Small Town, Our Blues, Narco-Saints, Poong the Joseon Psychiatrist, Woori the Virgin.
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erniwidia
December 5, 2022 at 4:03 AM
Aha, I realized that I dropped a lot drama this year, not only Sound of Magic and Jinx at First then..
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LoveSojiSub51
December 5, 2022 at 4:22 PM
I'm glad I'm not the only one. Like the premises seem great, then the execution leaves me bored and uninterested.
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8 Toodlepip
December 4, 2022 at 6:56 AM
The sound of Magic
Why Her?
Gaus
25/21
Golden Spoon
Probably others, but these stand out. There are others I should have dropped, but they're for another day.
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Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️
December 4, 2022 at 7:33 AM
😞I am looking forward to that list of other’s I should have dropped as I have a list of those as well
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jerrykuvira
December 4, 2022 at 10:12 AM
Oh that'll be Today's Webtoon. I fear that if I scan through my watched-list I'll see more than Today's Webtoon.
I have a list of 'those I'm happy I never bothered watching' in addition to 'what I should have dropped'.
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Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️
December 4, 2022 at 10:32 AM
These are my ‘I needed the bean so don’t judge me watches’:
Thirty Nine
Now we are breaking up (ended in Jan 2022)
Forecasting Love and weather
Love in contract
Why her
Today’s webtoon
If you wish upon me
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jerrykuvira
December 4, 2022 at 11:19 AM
I would never judge you about Thirty Nine, ever.
FLAW and LiC☹️. Wow!
FLAW will be the one 'where I stopped focusing on the leads romance and enjoyed the drama'. I'm looking at you too, Alchemy of Souls. I wonder how I couldn't do same for Why Her? It was soo good except the romance but then the romance wasn't the only problem so life goes on.
Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️
December 4, 2022 at 11:58 AM
@jerrykuvira in FLAW it was the ex partners constant involvement with the leads that proper got on my nerves and I hated the male ex for what he had done to her so close to the wedding and then rushed to marry and then expected her to help him to do his job because they were all under the impression he wrote the pieces.
With Why her it was the constant body drop to give me PTSD symptoms, her lack of respect for the students by not turning up for lectures, the stupid female colleague messing up several times, the boys fighting over her, the driving alone at night to a random place to meet a man who tried to kill her….then to top it off the treatment of the child character, which did not add to the story in anyway.
Kathykat
December 6, 2022 at 2:56 PM
I meant to go back to Today's Webtoon.
MikeyD signed up
December 4, 2022 at 9:07 AM
I can only think of three dramas this year that had genuinely satisfying endings. Gaus was one of them.
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9 Midnight
December 4, 2022 at 7:27 AM
I can never participate in year-end posts because usually most of the shows I have watched have been from the previous year.
But interestingly nearly none of the shows mentioned here are on my watch list. Guess I have already dodged those bullets.
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Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️
December 4, 2022 at 7:34 AM
Yes I think I avoided a few too by looking at the first episode weecap or having read something in the promo that shouted walk away and I am grateful I did.
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gadis
December 4, 2022 at 3:02 PM
Exactly. My instinct is pretty good after several years of practice avoiding dramas that would only make me suffer. Reading first impression recap and beanies' fan wall helped too.
I only have a few titles I have to drop this year.
- May it please the court (I was halfway through for the sake of Lee Kyu-hyung, and realized the all-over-the-place plot made me too mightily frustrated to not drop it.)
- Dr. Park's Clinic (I missed the comfort of korean sitcom and this one has Lee Seo-jin in it. Sadly the first 2 eps were enough to show me that our humor taste didn't match.)
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gadis
December 4, 2022 at 3:07 PM
Oh, I almost forgot Good Job. It could be a fun and nonsense spy drama, but it both took itself too seriously and way too campy to make that believable. I managed to stay until eps 7 before I quitted.
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10 Kurama
December 4, 2022 at 7:42 AM
There are the dramas of which I have watched at least 4 episodes before dropping :
Crazy Love
Jinxed at First
If You Wish Upon Me
Again My Life
May I Help You
Poong the Joseon Psychiatrist
Love in Contract
Grid
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beffels
December 4, 2022 at 2:56 PM
I forgot about Crazy Love! I think I’m like one or two episodes short of finishing it. Maybe I should just bite the bullet and do it 😅
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OldLawyer
December 5, 2022 at 4:26 PM
I bet you are just thrilled to learn that there will be a second season of POONG THE JOSEON PSYCHIATRIST.
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Kurama
December 5, 2022 at 8:39 PM
I already knew, they announced it pretty soon. But I'm still wondering why they needed to season to tell this story.
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11 miss h
December 4, 2022 at 8:13 AM
I dropped a lot of dramas but still managed to finish 40 some. I need a life.
Jinxed at First
If You Wish Upon Me
Poong the Joseon Psychiatrist
Law Cafe
Kill Heel
Eve
Woori the Virgin
The Sound of Magic
Dr. Park's Clinic
Café Minamdang
Once Upon A Small Town
Why Her
Mental Coach Jegal
Military Prosecutor Doberman
The One and Only
Love All Play
The Golden Spoon
It's Beautiful Now
Three Bold Siblings
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12 LaurenSophie
December 4, 2022 at 8:31 AM
Café Minamdang: It hurt to drop a SIG drama so quickly, but I could not stay focused on it for longer than three minutes at a time, and even that was a struggle. This show was silly and often stupid, but I wonder if the real problem for me was simply that I did not find the female lead (actress or character) remotely believable, and she had zero chemistry with SIG (how is that even possible?!).
Love in Contract: The first PMY drama in which I didn't like the character she played. At all. ML was fantastic, but it just wasn't enough.
Our Blues: I watched it faithfully for a long time, and still think it was a great drama. But it started to feel too depressing to press play.
Law Cafe: I intend to go back to it one day because I loved the leads so much, but objectively speaking, it was a very mediocre drama.
Golden Spoon: It started so good! Got really convoluted, excessively dark, and boring so quickly.
Poong: I tried hard to hang in there because KMJ, but found it to be a very conventional, dull drama, even though the leads were cute together.
Today's Webtoon: This needed a more prominent love line to keep my interest.
If You Wish Upon Me: A solid drama that just never grabbed me despite my love for its leads.
I also avoided outright a lot of dramas that sounded interesting when I first heard they were coming out. But then, when they started airing, I couldn't summon the energy to watch. These include: All of Us Are Dead, Jinxed at First, Anna, Sound of Magic, and One Dollar Lawyer.
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beffels
December 4, 2022 at 3:00 PM
I feel like the Law Cafe is a real “what might have been” drama….it had all the ingredients but was just okay overall. It might be better watched all in one go with less opportunity to stop and think about it?
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LaurenSophie
December 4, 2022 at 3:18 PM
That's a good point and I think it's true of a lot of dramas. When I'm watching something currently airing I tend to be less patient with it whereas when I know I can skip sections that I don't like and just get to the good stuff I'm much more accepting of the drama overall.
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13 john
December 4, 2022 at 8:43 AM
Jinxed at First
Alchemy of Souls
My Liberation Notes
Cheer Up
There are others that I watched part or whole of Ep1 and did not continue that I don’t consider dropped. I have to at least see what the show is about . For me, a drop would be at Ep 3 or higher.
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mmmmm
December 4, 2022 at 8:52 AM
Thank you. I didn't think it was fair to think of dramas I only watched 1-2 eps of a drop either. So based on your definition, I didn't drop any drama. That feels kind of good.
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john
December 4, 2022 at 5:07 PM
Oh, I forgot Kang Ha-neul ‘s other drama, Insider, a mish mash collection of fight scenes /beatings
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Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️
December 4, 2022 at 6:56 PM
‘ There are others that I watched part or whole of Ep1 and did not continue that I don’t consider dropped.’ 👈 my reason for thinking it does count as dropped is it doesn’t matter how little we needed to watch before we made the decision is we made the decision to stop watching. If I went to a restaurant ordered a meal ate a couple of mouthfuls and said that I hadn’t eaten enough to pay for it I don't think I would be able to avoid being classed as a thief.
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john
December 5, 2022 at 6:33 AM
I was thinking of the live watch format, 2eps per week which used to be the norm. Now Netflix will drop the entire show.
Anyways back to the two Eps a week, if I tuned in the 2nd week, I had more invested in the show than a brief 5 minute look.
Don’t get me wrong, there are many shows that don’t last 5 minutes with me but I don’t consider them watched let alone dropped.
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14 amfalulawatching
December 4, 2022 at 8:46 AM
There are many dramas that I watched the first/second episode and got distracted by something else (the ever expanding content from so many countries and the backlog of classic k-dramas). I don't consider those truly dropped since they will remain on my ever expanding watch list (Gaus, Love in Contract.....). To actually drop a drama, I really have to come to a thought out decision since I am the kind of watcher that does stick with things. Some dramas do take a bit of time to find their rhythm and can be really rewarding so I find it kind of sad to let a show go early. Having said that, there are only two dramas I have dropped this year and have given myself the permission to not go back and watch them, ever!!!
The Sound of Magic: The music didn't work for me, nor the premise.
Attorney Woo: I know this is a well loved show. I got to episode 8 and that was enough for me.
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15 Lord Cobol (Kdramas, like water, flow downhill)
December 4, 2022 at 8:48 AM
Hoping this topic never has a mutant baby topic with those other recent ones
"You Can Only Drop One"
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16 Elinor, Team Glasses team co-captain
December 4, 2022 at 9:12 AM
I only dropped two 2022 dramas:
Woori the Virgin - ep. 6
Summer Strike - ep. 3
I also watched about 20 minutes of If You Wish Upon Me ep. 1, but I don't count that because I expected to dislike the gang element and did. It's possible I'll go back and watch with judicious FF-ing.
There are lots of others I considered but never started after seeing reactions to the first few episodes. (Big thanks to everyone who commented on Big Mouth for saving me from that one.) I've only been watching dramas for a year, so I had a lot of older ones to catch up on and dropped quite a few of those.
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bong-soo
December 4, 2022 at 9:45 AM
@elinor, When I first came into kdramaland in 2016 I had a self imposed rule, ‘Start a drama. Finish a drama’. Talk about dumb. How many hours did I waste plodding through a drama I probably should have pulled the plug. Then in March of 2018 OCN’s CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD came along and the English subs were so bad on an ‘alternate’ site that it became my first drop. Free at last! I am fairly picky about what dramas I start and I don’t consider myself a serial dropper but I certainly am not afraid to pull the plug on a drama.
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welh
December 4, 2022 at 4:40 PM
I had the mindset that if I invested 4 or 5 hours on a show, I should see if there is a pay-off. It was like panning for gold in a public restroom sink since it is very rare that a series starts badly to finish strong.
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Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️
December 4, 2022 at 6:45 PM
‘ It was like panning for gold in a public restroom sink since it is very rare that a series starts badly to finish strong.’ 👈That image 🤣
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bong-soo
December 5, 2022 at 4:11 AM
Regards to series starting badly and finishing strong (for me anyway) 2 dramas come to mind because I was thinking of them this week after watching last week’s episodes of SUMMER STRIKE which imo is starting off poorly: I AM NOT A ROBOT (2017/18) and A POEM A DAY (2018). Ratings wise both had poor ratings their entire run and I blame some of that on how negatively the main characters were introduced. A big turn off to many I am sure. I am glad I hung through the tough first 4 or 5 episodes and both dramas have become favorites. Another drama along those lines was CHICAGO TYPEWRITER (2017). I found the early episodes tough going with all that yelling. Once the yelling stopped it became another favorite.
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wonhwa
December 4, 2022 at 5:19 PM
I also tended stick things out when I first started watching, largely because I picked shows based on what folks who seemed to know their stuff were highly recommending and I assumed that eventually they'd have to get good, right? After dragging myself through a few hate watches I decided that this was a really bad idea (looking at you, City Hunter).
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emsel
December 5, 2022 at 3:26 AM
‘Start a drama. Finish a drama’.
Am I dumb to still follow this rule?😅😅
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hmwtx
December 7, 2022 at 8:38 AM
No, I generally persevere through each one I decide to start - I rarely drop them even if I am fast forwarding most of the last several episodes.
I only dropped one "live" one this year - Little Women.
I have finished most of everyone else's drop list - is there a "bean salvation" prize for picking up dropped beans? lol
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17 bong-soo
December 4, 2022 at 9:34 AM
My 2022 BINGS (Beans I Am Not Getting):
1. CAFE MINAMDANG. (Sorry SIG.)
2. DEAR. M. (2 episodes were enough.)
3. POONG, THE JOSEON PSYCHIATRIST. (After episode 4 interrupted for travel and never caught up.)
4. GOOD JOB. (After episode 2 interrupted for travel and never caught up. I am a big JIW fan so I may return to GJ.)
5. MAY I HELP YOU? (After 1 episode. I have thing about mixing dramas/comedies and religion. Just me. That is why I never started the fan favorite THE FIERY PRIEST (2019).
6. Not a 2022 drama but a fan favorite I started and unfortunately gave up after 12 episodes: TALE OF ARANG (2012).
MY 2022 BOS (BEAN OF SHAME):
1. A SUPERIOR DAY. (Fortunately only 8 episodes.) (Jin Goo you owe me one. Big time!)
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dramadillo
December 4, 2022 at 10:03 AM
I’m just here to say how much I love the acronym BINGs!🤣
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bong-soo
December 4, 2022 at 10:08 AM
Thanks goes to @missvictrix. It is a great acronym!
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panshel
December 4, 2022 at 10:25 AM
In my opinion, the acronym "BING" is too close to the word "BINGE," which means the complete opposite.
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mmmmm
December 5, 2022 at 1:22 AM
I think it was intentional.
dramadillo
December 4, 2022 at 12:27 PM
I must bow my head in shame and admit that I was reading the comments from the Beanies page before reading the full brief from @missvictrix!🤭 Credit where it’s due!!🙌
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Elinor, Team Glasses team co-captain
December 4, 2022 at 10:23 AM
Not just you. I do, too. Despite not being Christian and having no issue with commentary on or even satire of religious *institutions*, I find a lot of kdrama schtik around Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular really cringey and sometimes gross. (I'm glad the Korean entertainment world appears to be unaware of the existence of many other religions - may it stay that way.) That said, the treatment of the priest character and the church setting in MIHY? is relatively innocuous. He does offer the FL beers in the confessional, but once I knew why, it seemed funny instead of mocking.
My Bean of Shame is Love in Contract, although dropping that one would just have left me more time to be even more disappointed in Love Is for Suckers. 😒
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welh
December 4, 2022 at 4:48 PM
Korea has an uneven history with religion. It had no one state faith but commoners had a Chinese/Buddhist hybrid while shamanism held sway in rural areas. There was a serious anti-foreigner bias which led to the slaughter of about 1000 Catholics at the end of the end of Joseon period. Today, education and social status is more important than organized religion, except there has been a rise in mega churches in the big cities.
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LaurenSophie
December 4, 2022 at 1:33 PM
I feel the same way as you about the incorporation of religious elements or flat-out proselytizing in dramas. But I really like "May I Help You." For a drama about a woman who talks to dead people at their funerals, and who chats and drinks with her priest uncle in the confession booth, there's very little substantive spirituality in it. You might consider giving it another chance.
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18 bbstl 🧹
December 4, 2022 at 10:03 AM
This challenge made me actually buckle down w the list of 2022 dramas. Horrors! 8 watched, 2 pending and 20 dropped. A worse year even than I thought ☹️
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Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️
December 4, 2022 at 10:23 AM
‘8 watched, 2 pending and 20 dropped.’👈 Gosh, but think of the hours saved and reduced stress levels by not enduring unnecessary disappointment or annoyance.
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bbstl 🧹
December 4, 2022 at 12:18 PM
Thanks, I shall take up your positive spin on it!
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19 Unaspirated
December 4, 2022 at 10:37 AM
The only drama from this year that I started and am not sure if/when I'll get back to is Little Women. I didn't really like any of the characters, which tends to be important for me when I watch something drama-length (unlikable leads work much better in movies, for me at least), and while it was beautiful to look at, I found myself not really caring about the mystery after the premiere week. Dropped.
I also dropped Strangers from Hell/Hell is Other People after one episode because I found it sort of boring. I know that's a weird complaint about a horror drama, and I was expecting to have to drop it because I was scared, but instead I just found my attention wandering. Also see above about having at least one character to cheer for (and the cop was not a major enough character to meet that requirement).
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20 peiyeelai
December 4, 2022 at 10:41 AM
Eve
Why Her
Tomorrow
Gaus
Forecasting Love and Weather
One Dollar Lawyer
Adamas
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21 lillamy
December 4, 2022 at 12:38 PM
I actually dropped Extraordinary Attorney Woo. It wasn't bad, on the contrary. But I got real tired of the lengthy episodes I never seemed to have time to finish and a super awkward love line on the rise.
Sound of Magic: I absolutely love the music of the show and Wookie as sketchy magician, but I have a hard time with bullying and the social injustice being shoved down my throat. It makes me so grateful for the society in which I'm living.
Café Minamdang: I love SIG but couldn't stand the FL.
There are countless others but these are the ones I remember on the Kdrama side. 2022 was a great year for dropping dramas, it seems.
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22 am1993
December 4, 2022 at 12:52 PM
I rarely drop dramas, probably because I don't watch many airing dramas; I prefer to wait until they finish airing before deciding if I want to add them to my watch-list or not. However, I did start 2 dramas this year that I eventually didn't finish.
I watched the first two episodes of Tomorrow before deciding it wasn't for me. I didn't like how the whole suicide theme was handled and the show failed to hook me in any way.
I have yet to watch the last 3 episodes of Tracer because I lost interest along the way. I keep telling myself I'll watch them before the end of the year but we'll see soon enough if I actually get around to doing it.
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LaurenSophie
December 4, 2022 at 1:31 PM
I forgot about "Tomorrow!" I made it through about five episodes before I dropped that one. The way the writers wasted Lee Soo-hyuk still ticks me off.
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hacja
December 5, 2022 at 10:15 AM
@laurensophie
I hope you at least made it through to the episode where the dog tries to commit suicide The dog was brilliant, and gave the pet performance of the year!
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23 tabong is ironing the crosswalk
December 4, 2022 at 12:52 PM
I'm more of an "on hold forever" person, so I've dropped only a few:
Our Blues
Little Women
Golden Spoon
Unicorn
Remarriage & Desires
Woori and The Virgin
Tomorrow
39
A Business Proposal
The Sound of Magic
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tabong is ironing the crosswalk
December 4, 2022 at 12:53 PM
Oh! Law Cafe too.
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panshel
December 4, 2022 at 1:44 PM
I, too, am an "on hold forever" person, so by the time I go back to watch it, I've forgotten what happened, then have to make the decision whether to rewatch from the beginning.
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tabong is ironing the crosswalk
December 4, 2022 at 1:58 PM
I know! 🥺
If the show is from 3 or 4 years ago maybe I won't watch it since the beginning, but 5 years or more definitely need a complete rewatch. Except for a few of them. I don't know why, but I feel like I can finish Mr Temporary even after 20 years of having it on hold (I remember everything), but I don't remember well Ghost Doctor and the show is from this year.
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24 darwi
December 4, 2022 at 12:59 PM
Now we are breaking up : Jang Ki-Yong is not pretty enough to lure me further in this absence of plot or any ressemblance to reality. (And I lived in Paris... it is not possible to see the Eiffel tower from the Place du tertre in Montmartre. I understand that it's convenient to place the city but Korean do not seem to care about landmarks, they are fewer than scarce in dramas so try to get a reasonnable panorama when you do.)
Touch your heart: I found the beginning very nice, cute and fluffy. And when I reached ep 12-13 I lost interest. They are together, so this is the end of the drama no ?
Familiar wife : I love Ji Sung but this drama is too realistic. I do not want to see the bleak and hard life of exhausted parents. I did not endure the introduction, and thus missed the part where he is not detestable. (I am aware that I ask for some credibility... but a fantaisy can be plausible. I certainly watch murders and vilains with more pleasure than the gross mediocrity of regular humain life.)
The law café : My first Lee Seung Gi drama. I want to believe he is a good actor. However I found him expressionless in the romantic scenes. Other scenes were good, but his face was just a jello bowl when facing Lee Se Young . So I decided to wait for the reviews. Or never pick it up again.
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hacja
December 4, 2022 at 1:20 PM
I think you make an excellent point about Touch Your Heart. In fact, adopting that philosophy would fruitfully cut many dramas in half. Boy meets Girl, Boy and girl fall in love, viewer drops drama.
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Elinor, Team Glasses team co-captain
December 4, 2022 at 1:45 PM
This is exactly what I did with Touch Your Heart. It was too treacly for me once they got together.
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hacja
December 4, 2022 at 1:57 PM
But if you skipped episode 14, you missed one of the most annoying bouts of noble idiocy I've ever seen in all my many decades of watching kdramas. It rankles me to this day, and I can't even remember anything else about the plot!
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beffels
December 4, 2022 at 3:07 PM
The Law Cafe was a real waste of Lee Seung Gi. I would recommend basically any other drama of his instead (my favourite is My Girlfriend is A Gumiho but your mileage may vary as it is a fairly old drama these days).
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Unaspirated
December 5, 2022 at 5:34 AM
I really like that dramas don't always end right when the OTP gets together. Often there is still a lot to work out even after they both acknowledge their mutual feelings, and I like that most dramas explore them getting over at least one more major hurdle.
I find the endless will-they-won't-they of American shows so tiresome, so I like that Kdramas don't usually feel the need to end just as the relationship is starting. I do think that some dramas are unnecessarily long however, and I definitely do not support inventing obstacles late in the show just to fill 16 episodes.
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25 nigirisushi
December 4, 2022 at 1:16 PM
This year, not only that I watched more c-dramas than k-dramas, I dropped all the k-dramas I watched and ended up with zero bean. I did, however, finish the two reality TV shows: Inferno Island and Young Actor's Retreat.
Cafe Minamdang (ep. 10)
Love is for Sucker (ep.10)
Yumi's Cell 2 (ep. 3)
Business Proposal (ep. 8)
Love in Contract (ep. 1)
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26 ladybug22
December 4, 2022 at 3:17 PM
Wow im shocked and relieved im not the only one that dropped alot of drama’s
Curtain call
The golden spoon
Love in contract
Big mouth
Adamas
Money heist Korea
Alchemy of souls
Shooting stars
Juvenile justice
Thirty nine
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27 cozybooks
December 4, 2022 at 3:21 PM
Oooh all my dropped dramas? Hum. There are quite a few I just never even started, but let's see if I can get all my dropped dramas (I don't always record them on MDL, especially if it was only an episode or two.
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cozybooks
December 4, 2022 at 3:30 PM
Dropped that I recorded (probably means I like them at least a bit at first):
Poong, Joseon Psychiatrist
Adamas
Military Prosecutor Doberman
Hunted
Alchemy of Souls 1
Superior Day
From Now on, Showtime!
Hunted
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cozybooks
December 4, 2022 at 4:04 PM
Ones I realize I dropped from reading through this post:
Jinxed at First
Law Cafe
Again My Life
Dear M.
...and if I don't remember it, I probably dropped it for good reason and won't list it. There are a few dramas that just... on hold, though. I'm qatching Love in Contract with my husband and matching schedules is eh. I put Big Mouth on hold because finding a way to watch it is a struggle haha
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28 jessi
December 4, 2022 at 3:26 PM
I dropped exactly eight 2022 dramas this year:
Again My Life: Surprisingly, upsettingly, not good.
Cafe Minamdang: See above.
From Now On, Showtime: I just felt like I'd seen enough around episode 12 or 13.
Grid: I was too invested in it being good to risk watching it and seeing it be bad. lol The fact that I can't see Seo Kang-joon in any new dramas for a while was a huge contributing factor.
Love All Play: Eh. I just wanted this one to be lighter than it wanted to be.
Our Blues: ...............................
Twenty Five/Tweny One: Not bad, but not the story I wanted to see either of our three leads in.
Woori the Virgin: SIGH
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29 FormAnOrderlyQueue
December 4, 2022 at 5:04 PM
It takes a huge amount for me to drop a drama. My completer-finisher gene is on steroids so I will keep going with liberal ff in almost all cases. So if I drop, it would register on the Richter scale. If anyone felt tremors in February, that was me dropping Thirty-Nine.
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Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️
December 4, 2022 at 6:41 PM
‘ So if I drop, it would register on the Richter scale. If anyone felt tremors in February, that was me dropping Thirty-Nine.’ 👈🤣 I wished I had dropped it too.
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vienibenmio
December 7, 2022 at 7:04 AM
I WISH I'd dropped Thirty-Nine. By the time I realized I wanted to drop it, there was only 1-2 eps left. Instead I just skipped through a ton of scenes, pretty much any scene that didn't include the third friend and her chef love interest (huh, I guess there are two dramas this year that I kept watching only because of a side romance involving a chef, lol). Then they didn't even get together onscreen. I was SO MAD.
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30 wonhwa
December 4, 2022 at 5:28 PM
I watched one episode of Our Beloved Summer and decided that it just wasn't going to be my thing. The only show I dropped after multiple episodes was the Taiwanese drama Yong Jiu Grocery Story after it committed the cardinal sin of creating multiple helpless, stupid female characters that it tried to pass off as endearing. I also got really tired of its simplistic "small towns good/big cities evil" shtick.
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31 sakuradaydream
December 4, 2022 at 5:34 PM
dramas I WISHED i had dropped:
-LIC (eps 1-10 were good, after that was just pure crap)
-Cheer Up (im still hanging on but my patience wears thin)
-Sh**ting Stars (the staff in the PR team really pissed me off)
-Business proposal (it was so bad and they did the second couple SO dirty by giving them a roadside proposal)
-Big Mouth (i wasted my time with that)
-Link (it was bad, down to the two leads and the bad guy reveal)
dramas I dropped:
-Soundtrack #1 (got bored)
-May I help you (the way theyre acting just pisses me off idk why)
-FLAW (whoever thought it was a good idea to cast those two as leads needs to be fired)
-Jinxed at first (cmon who on earth greenlit that)
-Thirty Nine (the way it was marketed made me think it was about the 3 of them but it was just 90% son yejin like wtf)
-Crazy love (i wished I dropped it much earlier, it was so boring and for some reason they made Jae-wook look 10x older)
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32 rainbowdash
December 4, 2022 at 5:54 PM
Adamas
Becoming Witch
Big Mouth
Café Minamdang
Cleaning Up
Dr. Park’s Clinic
Eve
Grid
I Have Not Done My Best Yet
Jinxed At First
Mental Coach Jegal
Never Give Up
Sh**ting Stars
The Law Cafe
Thirty-Nine
Today's Webtoon
Tomorrow
Unicorn
Welcome to Wedding Hell
Woo Ri the Virgin
I might someday try watching _Unicorn_ again. The others I'm happy to leave behind in the dustbin of 2022.
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33 Olivedreams
December 4, 2022 at 6:10 PM
At first I felt a bit guilty about dropping k dramas especially the ones that were universally praised but life is too short so here we go with part of my dropped list:
1. Goblin - seriously overhyped and the romance does not work on any level
2. Find Me in Your Memory - interesting concept poorly executed and found the lead FL’s character to be annoying
3. My Love From The Star - Kim Soo-hyun’s character was beyond wooden and one dimensional
4. Romance is a Bonus Book - FL’s character was annoying and the romance did not work for me
5. Mine - visually stunning but the story and characters just did not work on any level
6. A Korean Odyssey - beyond wooden FL
7. Strong Woman - overhyped and some scenes were just plain gross
8. Something in the Rain - recurring theme of annoying FL and did not like how the sexual harassment topic was portrayed
9. Forecasting Love and Weather - found FL’s character to be thoroughly unlikable and I like Park Min-young but this was a strong no
10. The World of The Married - found all the characters to be unlikeable
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Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️
December 4, 2022 at 6:37 PM
‘ 1. Goblin - seriously overhyped and the romance does not work on any level
2. Find Me in Your Memory - interesting concept poorly executed and found the lead FL’s character to be annoying
8. Something in the Rain - recurring theme of annoying FL and did not like how the sexual harassment topic was portrayed‘
👆thank you I feel like I have been validated😊
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34 ssandulak
December 4, 2022 at 7:28 PM
This year I definitely took the opportunity to drop shows I otherwise would have finished for the bean, and I mentioned as such in the 'Tell Us About Your Year' thread.
I've grown past needing to finish a show for the bean (though I definitely finished some shows that I should have dropped...oh optimism, the inevitable betrayal you present me with).
Shows that I dropped, after browsing a list quickly:
Adamas - Just felt like some of the actors were in different shows, from crazy overacting to having problematic actors in your show...didn't hesitate when it lost my interest.
Jinxed at First - OOF. Went in with low expectations, and they were still underwhelmed upon watching nearly half this show.
Doctor Lawyer - Strong cast, bad show (with that problematic actor again).
The Golden Spoon - Got pretty far into this one, but just wasn't very good. Mystical Pop Up Bar had a bunch of these actors and was FAR superior. Watch that instead.
Green Mothers' Club - Just got bored. There was a chance to take this in an interesting direction, and it just went the other way (imo of course).
It's Beautiful Now - Weekender with a pretty solid cast. Just devolved into standard tropes and nonsensical mess. I also dropped the currently airing weekender that I'm not even going to bother to look up, but I'll mention here.
The Killer's Shopping List - Think this was my fastest drop at like 3 or 4 episodes? Just not very good, can't think of anything good to say about it.
Our Blues - What a cast, but the stories were hit or miss. Some great moments, but just got emotionally exhausting and I never went back. Probably made it a few episodes from the end.
Somebody - Got 3/4 through and just gave up. I can handle dark, it just never gripped me in any particular way.
39 - Another one where the cast drew me in, and everything else drew me out.
Why Her? - Why bother?
Welcome to Wedding Hell - Cast yes, drama no!
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35 Because This
December 4, 2022 at 7:29 PM
Another list might be 'dramas I began and checked out on even though technically I hit play until the end', because of the many dramas I watched this year, few kept my attention beyond half way.
LOTS of ff in 2022.
There were many shows I just didn't pick up as well, even though they featured favorite actors or themes. This may also be due to shifting more toward Chinese dramas, which are much longer than the Korean dramas I've usually eaten up like potato chips.
What I dropped:
Alchemy of Souls - I just couldn't make the transition to a new FL. Already I wasn't strongly immersed and when that news came the balloon popped completely.
Doctor Lawyer - Which hurts, because I really looked forward to a So Ji Sub drama.
Sound of Magic - At least I think I did, because I can't remember anything except the first episode.
Insider - I so wanted to love this but attention wandered and never came back.
Watched Eve, but all I remember are Lee Sang-Yeob's eyes.
Dropped Our Blues for a while but then came back to it. Glad I did.
Crazy Love - One episode, so not sure it counts as dropped. Hardly picked up.
Snow Sword Stride (maybe will finish sometime)
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Cloy
December 5, 2022 at 5:57 AM
Ah, Lee Sang Yeob's eyes are a thing of beauty!
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36 💜🍍☠ Sicarius The Queen of Melonia ☠🍍💜
December 4, 2022 at 8:39 PM
Uh...
Currently on 21 dropped shows out of 60 started... 🙃🙃🙃
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However, I was planning just one full end of year post for this, because I have always counted Dropped shows in my Bean Count,
because well, mainly because I don't care about Bean Count rules and do my own thing lol.
But also, to indulge more seriously for a moment, what is "Watched" anyway? We define it here by "finished", but without putting any parameters around what "finished" itself means.
Skim watching, ffwding, speed watching, are generally allowable under the term finished. But why not a percentage based watch then instead? 12/16 episodes is 75% watched and easily comparable to an entire show watched on plus speeds or with liberal ffwding...
How does one even measure media consumption?
I have dropped several of shows at around 10 episode mark and still written essays on them, but they're not officially watched by definition of finished. And no, I didn't need to finish them to write those essays.
Sometimes a show is so painful that any amount of it consumed might be emotionally considered watched.
And then we have the new fun idea of "relay" watching, sharing the load as it were. All participants in a relay race receive a medal, even though they didn't run the whole thing... *shrugs*
Anyway. That's why I count my drops. Or most of them anyway. Anything from ep 2 on-wards is probably fair game. 😂😂😂
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37 DancingEmma
December 4, 2022 at 9:55 PM
I should have dropped that stinker ‘Love is for Suckers’. Now I have 16 fewer hours to see loved ones and learn Korean which I could have used to pick up some choice words/swearwords to describe that disaster (excluding the bits about Jiwan and Joon).
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hacja
December 4, 2022 at 10:39 PM
You know, @dncingemma, its just so harsh to say I should have "dropped" a show. Can't you just say "I let it go"? Its so much nicer, and it leaves the impression that the show is just drifting along like a floating balloon, rather than splattered on the sidewalk like a smashed tomato. I'm just saying that, as a voice of civility here on Dramabeans, someone who is always so generous in giving shows like Love for Suckers every benefit of the doubt. For example, I bet someone worked really hard on the instant coffee mixed on the set, and maybe it was even warmed above room temperature!
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Elinor, Team Glasses team co-captain
December 5, 2022 at 7:53 AM
Uh oh, The Red Balloon is a self-fulfilling prophecy, isn't it?
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hacja
December 5, 2022 at 10:08 AM
@elinor Wasn't there a kdrama remake of the red balloon, where the loss of the red balloon caused a lifelong trauma for the male lead (he blamed his mother) and then when he discovered that his love interest had been the one to whom it descended, it was cause for a major breakup, only for them to rediscover each other flying kites? (Wow, that joke wasn't worth the typing.)
BUT you might be the only other person on this site who will remember the quote from that 1970s inspirational classic, Jonathan Livingston Seagull--"If you hate a show, let it go, and if it comes back to you, its the fault of that D**N Netflix 'recommended for you' algorithm!"
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hmwtx
December 7, 2022 at 8:47 AM
If I followed Netflix recommendations, I would be a semipro cake baker who is an expert on serial killers.... for some unfathomable reason.
DancingEmma
December 5, 2022 at 8:22 AM
@hacja: A voice of civility and funny too. You pulled double duty yesterday!:)
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38 ♡Peach_Mochi♡
December 5, 2022 at 12:23 AM
I feel like my drop rate has increased of late. My determination to power through must be wearing thin.
Bulgasal: Immortal Souls
Love Is for Suckers (I cheated and watched the Chef John/Ji-wan scenes though)
The Law Cafe
Jinxed at First (yes, it was)
Why Her?
The One and Only
Young Lady and Gentleman (the second bout of amnesia did me in)
25 21 (I fell behind in watching and then the ending got spoiled)
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39 Isa is always time travelling
December 5, 2022 at 12:41 AM
It's difficult for me to say that I have dropped a drama. I prefer telling myself that I have them "on hold", but sincerely I know that I will probably never retake some of them.
Some of the dramas I have "on hold" are The Beauty Inside (5 episodes watched), My ID is Gangnam Beauty (5 episodes watched), Hwarang (6 episodes watched), Reply 1988 (2 episodes watched. This one I will retake for sure).
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Isa is always time travelling
December 5, 2022 at 12:58 AM
I have just noticed that everybody is taking about dramas released in 2022.
Ok... I have watched these dramas: Business Proposal, Soundtrack #1, Yumi's cells 2, Once upon a small town, Love Between Fairy and Devil, Seasons of Blossom and Weak Hero Class 1.
The only one I was about to drop was Once upon a small town, after episode 3. But fortunately I kept on watching it, because it got better.
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40 Blue (@mayhemf)
December 5, 2022 at 12:57 AM
I was scared to look at my dropped list!! Here is my long list
Kdrama's
1. Why Her - Was an easy drop at ep 3
2. Tomorrow - At some point I realised I was just FF-ing to see Lee Soo Hyuk and he hardly had much screen time initially.
3. Today's Webtoon - I didn't particularly hate it, but I just didn't click play after Ep 5
4. Thirty nine - I lost it when the show made this about SJY's character. I think there was a scene when she goes to the dying person and declares how they are going to live the rest of her life. I quit right away.
5. The sound of Magic - I almost got a bean. Dropped at Ep 5
6. The law Cafe - I tried.. for the leads. But.
7. Our Blues -Episodes were tooooo long
8. Love Contract - PMY's jawline was super distracting and it bothered me.
9. Insider - It was great when it started but lost patience somewhere around 6
10. Cafe Minamdang - Arhhh.. Ep 10 drop.
11. Behind Every Star - Ep 6 drop
12. Alchemy of Souls - Ep 12 drop
13. Again my Life.
14. Cheer up - Pending decision. Might end up being a drop at ep 11.
CDRAMA's
1. A dream of Splendour: It was a good drama. I lost interest once the leads got together.
2. Are you Safe: It wasn't bad but it wasn't great either.
3. Let's Meet Now
4. Love between Fairy and Devil: So close! 31/36. Dang, I could have finished this one.
5. Shining for One thing: I might pick it up again. I quite liked it but didnt have time.
6. Thank you, Doctor: Even Bai Yu couldn't save it.
7. The Wind blows from LongXi: Watched it for Bai Yu.. but too much costume and too much politics.
8. Why women Love: Leads were good. But dropped mid way.
Thai dramas
1. Astrophile - Even Bright coudn't save this one
2. KinnPorche - Easily, the most disappointing drama this year.
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41 Hanamana
December 5, 2022 at 3:54 AM
Generally I give a try to each drama that I have a slightest chance that I'd like it. So my dropped ones are little TOO MUCH!
Under the queen's umbrella
Golden spoon
Bad prosecutor
If you wish upon me
Big mouth
Becoming witch
Alchemy of souls
Jinx lovers
Insider
Link
Why her
Woori the virgin
Shooting stars
Green mothers club
Tomorrow
King of pigs
High heels
A business proposal
Today's webtoon
Poong the Joseon psychiatrist
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42 Cloy
December 5, 2022 at 5:19 AM
After two and a half years of watching kdramas I've become more selective and more protective of my drama watching hours. I used to watch all the dramas all the way through because I kept hoping they'd get better but gave that attitude up this year. Here's my list of dropped dramas:
Sell Your Haunted House -- didn't care for the lead characters or what happened to them.
Why Her? -- convoluted plot took to much energy to follow.
The Golden Spoon -- I love Yook Sung Jae and thought this would be a fun, light look at what it's like to go from poor to rich, but quickly became dark. I just didn't care about the characters.
Bad Prosecutor -- I tuned in for D.O. but had watched too many legal dramas this year to keep going with this one.
Somebody -- wow, this was way to disturbing for me!
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43 OldLawyer
December 5, 2022 at 6:34 AM
EVE- because it was just too absurd. Same story for WHY HER?
BAD PROSECUTOR would probably never have appealed to most members of the legal profession.
LOVE IN CONTRACT- the first PMY show which I have not finished. We just lost interest.
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44 wandering spot
December 5, 2022 at 8:33 AM
I have not watched half of the dramas listed here by the beanies. I am listing the dramas I remember.
Dramas I dropped:
Our blues
Behind every star
Jinxed at first
Cafe minamdang
Once upon a small town
Snow drop
25/21
Dramas I wish I had dropped:
1. 39
2. Green mother's club
3. Eve
4. Crazy love
5. Forecasting love and weather
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45 thimble
December 5, 2022 at 8:42 AM
Extra-ordinary Attorney What's-Her-Name. At midpoint, the novelty (whale surging from the sea, hair blowing back) wore off and I was finding that particular characterization of an autistic person pretty off the wall. And even, in some ways, cruel to autistic people.
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amfalulawatching
December 5, 2022 at 10:07 AM
The representation of someone with a disability as only acceptable because their difference comes with a "genius" quality is a common trope that I personally find uncomfortable. Other examples would be The Good Doctor and It's OK to not be OK. Yet, all three of these dramas were extremely successful. I think you are asking a really important question that I haven't seen enough people bring up regarding Attorney Woo. The characterization of Attorney Woo did not sit well with me.
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hacja
December 5, 2022 at 12:45 PM
I liked it fine for the cases it presented, which were a lot more run of the mill but actually for that reason more interesting than the usual murder/high corruption presented in courtroom dramas. I also found Park Eu Bin charming, but I find her charming in every role she plays. I just wish they hadn't made such a big deal of her "extraordinariness" as being autism.
Of course, I know that would have removed the main point of the show, but it would have been so much better if they had just showed how someone defined as "disabled" because of odd quirks could achieve success and acceptance, it would have been inspiring rather than disquieting. Instead there was a continual debate outside the show of whether autistic people would do this or that, or whether Park Eu Bin's performance was "authentic." It didn't help that one of the stereotypes about autistic people is that they are "idiot savants" and the show played into that. (Again, why not show this odd, on the surface anti-social, obsessive compulsive person, who had a photographic memory trying to make it in a law firm--the personal growth and fulfillment theme would have been there, it just would not have been discussed as being representative of whole class of people, which is the real problem of these kind of shows.
I was off Dramabeans when this show was airing, so I don't know what was being said about it and I'm too busy right now to look it up. However, given the thoughtfulness of commentary here, I'm sure this was discussed. Also, there was an interesting article in the New York Times when the show was airing about its popularity and the problematic issues it was raising in the Korean autistic community.
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amfalulawatching
December 5, 2022 at 5:04 PM
I read that too. Here is a link to the article. (hope it works!). https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/04/world/asia/south-korea-autism-extraordinary-attorney-woo.html
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hacja
December 5, 2022 at 6:04 PM
Thanks for posting this! I was too lazy to look it up.
hmwtx
December 7, 2022 at 12:09 PM
" her "extraordinariness" as being autism"
I liked this show, and I did not see them as asking viewers to feel like she was extraordinary for having "survived" or "overcome" or "conquered" autism - quite the opposite, actually. She adapted to things that happened to her in a way that made it work for her.
The Korean word 이상한 in the title is isanghan, meaning "extraordinary" but also "unexpected," "unusual," "strange," "curious," "peculiar," and even "wonderful" depending on context. For me, I didn't take it to mean she was somehow superhuman... but rather that she was to be admired for having learned to cope with her condition and carve out her own unique place in the world. I would argue that her extraordinariness is specifically not her autism, but rather her outlook and attitude on life.
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hacja
December 7, 2022 at 1:17 PM
Yes, I completely agree with this, but I feel by stressing from the outset that she was "the first autistic person to graduate from law school" and then having Attorney Woo continually refer to her autism, it added an unnecessary "representativeness" to it, that risked offending some people in the community who are autistic, but also raised questions about whether the autistic people we know in our daily lives would do these kind of things. That then tends to reinforce the kind of "branding" of autism that, when it occurs in real life, can lead to discrimination.
One of the interesting things I find about autism as a defined disorder is this idea of being "on the spectrum." While I'm happy if that helps those who identify this way, I've also seen it used to label unfairly and dismissively- "she's on the spectrum" is something I've even heard said about colleagues who exhibit certain traits that are actually pretty common in academia: self-absorption, difficulty expressing emotion, insensitivity to people's reactions. Is it helpful to label these as "autistic?" Not in these cases.
I think if they had just said she was "extraordinary" then her qualities and her end of the show success would have been seen exactly as you describe, an inspirational character who overcomes difference and perception of "oddness" through her resilience and strength of character.
46 sirena
December 5, 2022 at 11:38 AM
Under the Queen's Umbrella (I might try and watch at a later date)
All of Us are Dead (I watched this (very) sporadically)
My Roommate is a Gumiho
The Uncanny Counter (Started watching when it was airing but then stopped. I am however currently watching)
Golden Spoon (Was interested but never watched)
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47 Babylilo
December 5, 2022 at 2:00 PM
Looking back over my viewing history, I was surprised at how many shows I’d dropped. Some were just plain awful, some not to my taste. A few appear to be widely popular in the “Beaniverse,” so I will probably give them another try at some point. (I’ve revisited several shows this way and on second viewing wondered how I could possibly have dropped them the first time around!) Not all are from this season, but I assume they still count…?
In no particular order:
- Café Minamdang
- Once Upon a Small Town
- Forecasting Love and Weather
- Gaus Electronics
- Money Heist
- The Law Café
- Insider
- From Now on, Showtime
- Inspector Koo
- Man to Man
- Dr. Brain
- Doctor Prisoner
- Miss Hammurabi
- Chimera
- Awaken
- Mrs. Cop
- Nevertheless
- Jackpot (The Royal Gambler)
- Diary of a Prosecutor
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48 Kathykat
December 5, 2022 at 8:12 PM
Thirty-Nine
Our Beloved Summer
Woori the Virgin
Today's Webtoon
Behind Every Star
Love in Contract
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49 Britney
December 5, 2022 at 10:00 PM
Does it still count as dropped if you meant to go back to a drama but forgot about it? Because that was the case for me with Again My Life. I liked when he used his future knowledge to save people and I laughed out loud when he realized he had to enlist again but after that, the show became kinda forgettable to me even as I was watching it; I mean like I would forget what had happened 5/10 minutes prior.
The last thing I remember is the big bad tried to create a honey trap situation because he wanted to have leverage over the male lead. I thought that was so random haha
And after that, I just forgot to watch the final 2 weeks.
Then I saw that it had really good ratings so I came on here to read the weecap and it made me glad I didn't watch those episodes because I might've just been like "what the..."
Even after all that, I still thought I would finish it some day but I just keep forgetting haha
Maybe next year? Haha
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50 The Kdrama Enthusiast
December 6, 2022 at 3:02 AM
I don't think I have a list of dramas I dropped so much as it's a list of dramas I never even started watching. In which case it's a lot of dramas.
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