Show Rating SFF NFX Comments
| Strong Woman Bong Soon | 9 | x | o | Wonderful mashup of Wonder Woman, Bringing Up Baby, and the Three Stooges |
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Oh My Ghost |
9 | x | o | Park Bo Young at her best |
| Goblin | 10 | x | o | Wonderfully bittersweet |
| Coffee Prince | 10 | The ur K-drama | ||
| Descendants of the Sun | 6 | o | Nice romance, everything else crap | |
| Secret Garden | 7 | x | Wonderful idea goes on too long | |
| Weightlifting Fairy | 9 | Happy fun | ||
| My Girl | 7 | Best screwball of all till it decides to go angsty at the end. | ||
| I Am Not a Robot | 10 | x | Even happier fun with a better story | |
| Boys Over Flowers | 0 | Dropped. | ||
| My Love From Another Star | 8 | x | Korean movie star channels Lucille Ball. | |
| My Girlfriend is a Gumiho | 8 | x | Goofy fun with a boring male lead | |
| Arang and the Magistrate | 8 | x | Great costume screwball | |
| Pretty Noona Who Brings Me Food | 7 | o | Wonderful first half, miserable second | |
| Personal Taste | 6 | Should have been great, but got too angsty | ||
| The Princess’s Man | 5 | Too long, too emasculating | ||
| Big | 5 | x | Even Gong Yoo can’t save this one | |
| Go Go Waikiki | 8 | Cheers goes to Korea. Sweetly nuts | ||
| The Master’s Sun | 9 | x | Supernatural Rom-com with the best reason for forced skinship ever | |
| Jealousy Incarnate | 8 | Wonderful craziness, with an unsatisfying end | ||
| What’s Wrong With Secretary Kim? | 9 | Wonderfully without angst | ||
| Mr. Sunshine | 8 | o | Korean Dr. Zhivago, with no consummation of the fleeting happiness. | |
| Oh My Venus | 8 | Sweet and silly | ||
| Healer | 9 | Screwball heists! | ||
| SungKyunkwan Scandal | 7 | Fun, but unsatisfying in that particular sageuk way. | ||
| Misaeng | 8 | o | Heavy and sad until the goofy ending. Excellently done | |
| Thirty but Seventeen | 8 | More sweetness without a lot of angst. | ||
| It’s Okay, That’s Love | 8 | Go Go Waikiki, with mentally ill adults. And Gong Hyo-Jin | ||
| Hwayugi | 7 | x | Would have been an 8, but the last episode was awful. Two-bit Goblin remake. | |
| Mysteries of the Alhambra | 7 | x | o | Another great start and awful ending. And the female lead had nothing to do. |
| The Crowned Clown | 6 | Talk about your awful endings. Oy. | ||
| Biscuit Teacher | 6 | Best title, best leads, but terrible writing. | ||
| Touch Your Heart | 7 | Early wonderful sweetness trashed by lazy writing at the three quarter mark. | ||
| The Greatest Love | 9 | Master class in screenwriting, with great craziness from the leads | ||
| Moonlight Drawn By Clouds | 7 | Greatness ruined by implausible plotting at the end yet again. | ||
| Signal | 9 | x | Incredible writing till the pace lags at the end. Near perfect. | |
| Clean With Passion For Now | 6 | Badly written mess despite good female lead | ||
| While You Were Sleeping | 8 | x | Very sweet, but never came close to the transcendant beginning. | |
| Pinocchio | 8 | x | When show was good, it was very, very good, but when it was bad it was stupid. | |
| You’re Beautiful | 3 | Unfortunately not, and the show was even worse. | ||
| Romance Is a Bonus Book | 9 | o | Sweet and poignant, a beautiful show about a heroine getting a second chance at happiness in work and love. | |
| Because This Is Our First Life | 8 | Because the last two episodes went off the rails. Sweetest show ever until the end. | ||
| I Hear Your Voice | 6 | x | Bad Perry Mason masquerading as a Rom-Com. | |
| Her Private Life | 9 | Sweet and poignant, a fangirl gets her own fan. | ||
| W-Two Worlds | 9 | x | Such a tremendous first half, the end had to be disappointing even if it did work. | |
| Queen In-hyun’s Man | 8 | x | One of the few shows where the second half was better than the first. | |
| He Is Psychometric | 7 | x | Well done show that ultimately made no sense. | |
| The Producers | 8 | Another sweet show with sweet characters. And Gong Hyo-Jin. | ||
| Hotel Del Luna | 8 | x | The opposite of the usual Hong sisters show: ends better than it starts, and more sweet than funny. | |
| Oh Hae-Young Again | 10 | x | Three Stooges meet Brief Encounter. Poop jokes and emotional catharsis. With a great ending too. | |
| The Beauty Inside | 7 | x | Story never made any sense, but was otherwise well done and sweet | |
| Beating Again | 2 | x | o | Talk about bad writing. And it just got worse. |
| When the Camellia Blooms | 10 | o | Small town good and bad. Started out as Amelie, ended up as It’s a Wonderful Life. | |
| The Legend of the Blue Sea | 7 | x | Plot holes as big as the Blue Sea, but still fun. | |
| The Tale of Nokdu | 6 | Second rate Lear that makes no sense | ||
| Melo Is My Nature | 9 | Sweetly nuts, with romantic ballads about farting. | ||
| Cinderella and Four Knights | 0 | Dropped. The Return of Boys Over Flowers | ||
| Kingdom | 7 | x | o | Well done, but with only 6 episodes it’s just setup for the next season. |
| Extraordinary You | 5 | x | Great start, then the show decided to turn into what it was spoofing. Oy | |
| Witch’s Love | 5 | x | Felt like Bulgarians making a k-drama from a template. | |
| Search: WWW | 8 | Wonderful show about three strong women that lost track of the main romantic thread at the end | ||
| My ID is Gangnam Beauty | 4 | Bad writing, bad directing, bad acting. | ||
| Marriage Not Dating | 8 | Slow middle, but a lot was magical, especially the two leads. | ||
| Let’s Eat | 6 | o | Good food, odd show. Too meandering, with some really awful attempts at dark melodrama. | |
| My Ajusshi | 10 | Nearly Perfect. Heartbreaking, and heartwarming. | ||
| Let’s Eat 2 | 7 | o | Reboot, not sequel, with a better lead and story. Meh | |
| Pasta | 5 | Great leads, but everything else was wretched. No consequences for anything. | ||
| Crash Landing on You | 7 | o | I’m being generous. Leads were great, but the show jumped the shark too often. | |
| Reply 1988 | 9 | o | Wonderfully sweet, not much story. | |
| Kingdom 2 | 6 | x | o | Still meh. Needs a better story |
| Stranger (Forest of Secrets) | 7 | o | Good legal procedural that lost it at the end. | |
| Meow, the Secret Boy | 2 | x | Woman has romance with cat. Stupid and awkward | |
| My Fellow Citizens | 6 | Strong start, then they all but wrote the female lead out of the show. | ||
| Abyss | 2 | x | o | Serial killers in stupidland |
| I’ll See You When the Weather is Fine | 8 | Wonderful melo, as emotionally deep as a Victorian novel, with a slight letdown at the end. | ||
| She Was Pretty | 8 | Occasionally over the top, and nothing special, but still sweet and fun. | ||
| The King: Eternal Monarch | 4 | x | o | As stupid as Goblin was great, from the same writer. |
| Mystic Pop-Up Bar | 9 | x | o | Hotel Del Luna light, and better. |
| Hospital Playlist | 8 | o | Too much hospital melodrama, otherwise wonderful | |
| Twenty Again | 4 | o | Charmless rendering of what might have been a good story. | |
| Revolutionary Love | 8 | o | Goofy Chaebol heir saves company. | |
| Hyena | 7 | o | Dueling lawyers take down their evil law firm. Dragged in the middle | |
| It’s Okay to Not be Okay | 8 | o | Great show, great cast, wrecked at the end by introducing an unneeded villain. | |
| The Light in Your Eyes | 8 | Much that was wonderful, but the first ten episodes were a head fake that needed better setup. | ||
| Princess Hours | 4 | x | Case study of why shows shouldn’t be 24 episodes long | |
| The School Nurse Files | 5 | x | o | This time a show was too short. Mood over narrative. Though the mood was well done. |
| Oh My Baby | 7 | Oy. Yet another show that goes off the rails in the last third. | ||
| Rookie Historian | 7 | o | Some very good ideas combined with lazy writing. | |
| Hi Bye Mama | 3 | x | o | Great idea drowned by all crying all the time. And the plague of no one ever being honest with anyone else. |
| Tale of the Nine Tailed | 7 | x | Fun, but another inferior Goblin remake that makes no sense | |
| Itaewon Class | 7 | o | Wonderful, but the last three episodes were awful. | |
| Sky Castle | 9 | Over-the-top makjang with wonderful acting and production and plenty of satiric humor | ||
| Matrimonial Chaos | 6 | Another great start that dies in melodrama. Characters can only apologize to each other so much. | ||
| Record of Youth | 5 | o | Park Bo-Gum fanfic, bland as hell. | |
| Stranger 2 | 8 | o | Slower start than the first season, but better ending. | |
| Mr. Queen | 9 | x | Wonderful sageuk parody for 16 episodes, then it became a standard sageuk. I don’t like sageuks. | |
| Zombie Detective | 7 | x | Often very funny, and sometimes very bad. | |
| Kill Me, Heal Me | 4 | Mostly very bad melodrama, with occasional great humor. | ||
| The Uncanny Counter | 8 | x | o | A comic book that’s great fun, but still only a comic book. |
| My Holo Love | 2 | x | o | Idiocy. |
| The Slave Hunters | 4 | The first third was great fun, and the rest was misery. Horrible writing. | ||
| Black | 3 | x | o | A long march through a Bizarro world of implausibility, with a few good scenes. |
| Run On | 9 | o | Sweetness triumphs! And the OTP defeats the evil chaebol parents by ignoring them! | |
| Strongest Deliveryman | 6 | o | Lots of great stuff, but the writing failed utterly by the end. | |
| Sell Your Haunted House | 7 | x | Wonderful ghost story erratically written and directed. | |
| My Unfamiliar Family | 8 | Very sweet tale of dysfunctional family, a bit unevenly done. | ||
| Doom At Your Service | 5 | x | Boring and random, even with Park Bo-Young. | |
| Mad For Each Other | 9 | o | Wonderful until the end was wrecked by yet another psychopath plot. | |
| Reply 1994 | 7 | o | Might have been great at 12 episodes. Second half was a slumber party | |
| Racket Boys | 8 | o | Wonderfully sweet, but ran out of plot by the end. | |
| So I Married the Anti-Fan | 5 | If only. Show went for bad drama rather than broad comedy. Sigh | ||
| You Are My Spring | 4 | o | So dull. | |
| Hospital Playlist 2 | 7 | o | Hospital melodrama with interesting characters, as opposed to interesting characters in a hospital last time. | |
| Squid Game | 9 | o | Much better than expected. Hunger Games meets The Prisoner meets My Ajusshi. | |
| Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha | 8 | o | Sweet, but not much happens. Camellia light. | |
| Vincenzo | 7 | o | More dark than comedy. Didn’t really work by the end. | |
| My Roommate is a Gumiho | 3 | Another rom-com where nothing happens, this one starring a block of wood. | ||
| 100 Days My Prince | 0 | Dropped | ||
| The King’s Affection | 5 | o | No hijinks, just high drama. | |
| D.P. | 7 | o | Straight up cop drama, only with MPs chasing deserters. | |
| The Silent Sea | 8 | x | o | Nothing special except for Gong You and Bae Doona |
| Yumi’s Cells | 7 | x | Wonderful start, lovely idea, with an unearned sad ending. | |
| Navillera | 5 | o | Started well, turned into a disease of the week melo. | |
| Happiness | 8 | x | Zombies with a dash of sweetness. | |
| Our Beloved Summer | 9 | o | Sweetness that only slows slightly at the end. | |
| Oh My Twenties! | 0 | o | Dropped | |
| Move to Heaven | 8 | o | Trauma cleaners seasoned with street fighting. Occasionally too maudlin | |
| Bulgasal | 4 | x | o | Another great idea done badly. Lots of running around. |
| Fight For My Way | 9 | Wonderful screwball nuttiness. | ||
| All of Us Are Dead | 7 | x | o | High School zombies, two episodes too long. |
| Twenty-five, Twenty-one | 10 | o | Wonderful. Honest and sweet. Only flaw was lack of context for the present. | |
| The Red Sleeve | 7 | Schizo sageuk that was half-wonderful and half ridiculous. | ||
| A Business Proposal | 9 | o | Sweet, crazy, and funny. If only the male leads had been better. | |
| Forecasting Love and Weather | 2 | Impossible to care about any of these characters | ||
| Tomorrow | 6 | x | o | More reapers, less suicide |
| Sh**ting Stars | 8 | Sweet fun with a little too much forced melo. | ||
| Inspector Koo | 4 | o | Idiocy about a serial killer who only kills people who deserve it. | |
| The Witch’s Diner | 5 | x | Wish of the week wrecked by bad writing. | |
| 1% of Something | 6 | Very sweet, but the conflict was absurdly forced. | ||
| Great Shaman Ga Doo Shim | 8 | x | Too short, but utterly perfect Korean high school nightmare. | |
| My Liberation Notes | 9 | o | Wonderful show about damaged characters not helped by show’s time jump issues. | |
| The Sound of Music | 3 | x | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Korean High School Style. | |
| Sweet Home | 3 | x | Horrifying waste of time. | |
| Alchemy of Souls | 9 | x | o | Wonderful except for the last episode, which was a reboot for the second season. |
| Beauty Inside | 8 | o | Alternately dopey and fun and dopey and dumb, but the fun wins out. | |
| Jinxed At First | 2 | x | Awful, random makjang. Started okay, turned unwatchable by the end. | |
| Youth of May | 8 | Sweet historical drama that tries too many narrative tricks at the end. | ||
| Extraordinary Attorney Woo | 6 | o | Simplistic courtroom drama with simplistic mental illness and an easy ending. | |
| Our Blues | 7 | o | Some wonderful moments, but Show takes the easy way out too often | |
| Dali and Cocky Prince | 8 | Terrific OTP and lack of Noble Idiocy overwhelm dopey villains. | ||
| Love Is For Suckers | 6 | Too much bad Reality Show, too little OTP. | ||
| Love In Contract | 8 | Great OTP, goes a little too Dallas at the end. |