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[Drama chat] Oops, I dropped a drama (or twelve)

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...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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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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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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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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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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Kang Ha-nuel 🤦🏽 Kim Ha-nuel 🤦🏽🤦🏽. Oh! not again 😅

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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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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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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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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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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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I was the same. I hated how it handled everything in it. Unreasonable. It was a nightmare.

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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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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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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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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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😞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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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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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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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.

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@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.

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I meant to go back to Today's Webtoon.

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I can only think of three dramas this year that had genuinely satisfying endings. Gaus was one of them.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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I bet you are just thrilled to learn that there will be a second season of POONG THE JOSEON PSYCHIATRIST.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Oh, I forgot Kang Ha-neul ‘s other drama, Insider, a mish mash collection of fight scenes /beatings

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‘ 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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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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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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Hoping this topic never has a mutant baby topic with those other recent ones
"You Can Only Drop One"

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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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@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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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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‘ 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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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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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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‘Start a drama. Finish a drama’.

Am I dumb to still follow this rule?😅😅

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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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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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I’m just here to say how much I love the acronym BINGs!🤣

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Thanks goes to @missvictrix. It is a great acronym!

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In my opinion, the acronym "BING" is too close to the word "BINGE," which means the complete opposite.

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I think it was intentional.

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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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I have thing about mixing dramas/comedies and religion. Just me.

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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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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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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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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‘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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Thanks, I shall take up your positive spin on it!

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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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Eve
Why Her
Tomorrow
Gaus
Forecasting Love and Weather
One Dollar Lawyer
Adamas

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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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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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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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@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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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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Oh! Law Cafe too.

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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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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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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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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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This is exactly what I did with Touch Your Heart. It was too treacly for me once they got together.

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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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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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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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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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