I don't usually put too much expectation on dramas. But yes, there are a few cases where the writing was seriously unbelievable.

1. God's Gift 14 Days; after a rollercoster of emotions throughout the series, suddenly the writer felt it was cool to crush our hope in the worst way possible.

2. CCIR; I was so psyhed watching the queen of Korean Movie industry on my screen just to find the writing was such a mess. I had no idea where the writer got the idea that happy ending means all characters getting love line. And don't get me started with the way they ended the culprit.

3. I think Taxi Driver was my only hate watching drama so far. The writer needs to get the fact straight; did they write fantasy or action thriller? I wouldn't care AT ALL even when the ML raised from the dead if it's fantasy. But if not, they need to research better; it's outrageous!

I have many more in store for other dramas like Shadow Detective, The First Responder, Jinxed at First, Moon Lovers, but let's just say that dropping the shows reflected their bad writing.

That said, yes it's impossible for any writer to always write amazing script. I've yet to watch Grid from LSY but I'll still follow her even if it turns out to be a dissapoint.

Han Jung-hoon wrote one my favourite dramas of all time! SQUAD 38. I love fun heist capers. And this drama delivered and then some!

So do you know how personally attacked I felt when I watched the ending of MISSING NINE??! Which also just happens to star one my favourite actors Jung Kyung-ho??!

I know and agree that the ending of HEARTBEAT was WTF

But nothing I mean NOTHING has topped the ending of MISSING NINE. We literally have our protagonists playing with paint and laughing merrily with a SERIAL KILLER who KILLED THIER LOVED ONES. WTF WTF WTF 🤬🤬🤬

So when I saw praise for MY FELLOW CITIZENS and looked up the screenwriter, instant flashbacks flooded my brain. I was traumatised y’all and I don’t I’ve forgiven Han Jung-hoon to watch SONG OF BANDITS, it looks good but can’t help but be suspicious…

I have no screenwriter in particular to point out. I do want to give a special shout out to all the screenwriters who try to force the destiny trope down our throats by having the leads bound together somehow in childhood. Please stop. It is beyond tired as a plot device.

I have one that most people will not agree with. But Kwon Do Eun, who as far as I can tell has only written two dramas, is in my opinion enormously skilled in writing not just storylines but also characters and dialogue. But after Search WWW, which I thought was excellent (although I wasn't thrilled at the FL noona's qualms about the guy who loved her) then wrote 25-21, which was also excellent IN PARTS. But its big flaw was a writing one, not directing or acting: the retrospective framework of the narrative, which in the end meant that the ending was just an enormous letdown. If the show had ended with the bittersweet goodbye between the FL and the ML then I would have said another classic. As it is, I felt really let down. Still I really want to see another drama from her.

The drama love of my life is City Hall. So, I do keep track of the writer, the now super famous Kim Eun Sook. I don’t know how to say this, nothing has lived up to City Hall… I love a little bit of every of her drama, but not as whole heartedly for the wit and chemistry in City Hall.

I want to say, if Heartbeat writer decided to borrow an idea of a vampire mansion and an independent girl trying to make it in a rough world, it should have copied more thoroughly, concentrating on the weirdness of guests who stay at the guesthouse, threats of redevelopment and the attachment we grow to people and places.
in my version they really had to fight for both their identity and their nature, and their rights as individuals. Their ideas and goals in a world that constantly tries to make you give up.
It dragged, I´d say. the setting and visuals were perfect, but you can have more tension and less filler.

The screenwriter behind W and Memories of the Alhambra has burned me for the last time.

I watched W early in my Kdrama addiction, and didn't know anything about it or the crew going in. I loved it at first, but despite its overall potential the ending was a confusing letdown.

Then I watched Memories of the Alhambra before the final ep had aired (another mistake I will never repeat) and, once again, loved it at first. Lots of potential, beautiful Spanish scenery, Hyun Bin was fantastic, etc etc, and then... that ending. Yes, I'm still pissed off about that ending four years later. No, I'm probably never going to get over it, lol.

I didn't even realize until well after the fact that both of these shows were written by the same writer. And now I know not to bother wasting my time with any of their future dramas, no matter how great the premise or cast might be, because the endings will inevitably leave me feeling 🤨 at best, or 🤬 at worst.