Hooray! The New York Times finally included a Korean show (Sweet Home) among their recommendations of what to watch on Netflix. Not the one I would have chosen, but I’ll take it.
https://www.nytimes.com/article/best-tv-shows-netflix.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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    Nice! Good to see the love being spread. What would you have chosen?

    I think I’d have gone for
    Hospital Playlist
    Romance is a Bonus Book
    The Good Detective/Stranger

    Especially the first two appeal in format to shows already popular in the US (medical procedural and human drama). I didn’t see a real procedural cop show that I thought was similar to the western style (Bad and Crazy maybe?) but The Good Detective and Stranger are both just so well done with the overarching mystery that I think they’d appeal to the same audience. It did to me 🙂

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      I like your recommendations, except for Romance Is a Bonus Book, which I’ve tried twice to watch but couldn’t get through the first episode. I know a lot of people who loved Extraordinary Attorney Woo, but I usually recommend Crash Landing on You, Hyena, Because This Is My First Life, or Misaeng. With the possible exception of CLOY, these fall into genres that would be familiar to Western audiences. But the main reason I suggest them is because they’re such well-made dramas and rank among my favorites.

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        Nice! I also love Misaeng – it was probably when I discovered that depressing dramas can be really really good hahaha (not that it was all depressing, but you probably get what I mean)

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    On the one hand, great news (and definitely not the one I would have chosen, but I guess we’ll have to take it).

    But, on the other hand, the mini rebel in me wants to stand up on a rooftop and scream: The NYTimes can thoroughly go and fuck itself.

    The majority of the absolute best shows to watch on Netflix according to them are mostly US-focused, and when they are not US-focused, they are in English and preferably dubbed. There are so many, so so sooooo many great non-English-speaking and non-US-friendly-topic shows out there. There was no effort made to open and challenge the mind of the audience 🙁

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