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I surprisingly completed watching as many as 15 Kdramas in year 2019 (mostly thanks to Netflix and my status of being an SAHM). Some were glorious, while some made me want to flip tables. Similar to a popular site’s way of rating Kdramas, I shall allocate 15 hearts to those 15 dramas.
- Sky Castle ❤️
- Memories of Alhambra ❤️
- Romance is a Bonus Book
- The Light in Your Eyes ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
- That Psychometric Guy ❤️
- Kill it (fka Blue Eyes)
- My First First Love
- The Secret Life of My Secretary
- One Spring Night
- Search Query: WWW
- Watcher ❤️
- A Moment at Eighteen
- Love Alarm
- When the Camellia Blooms ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
- Vagabond
From this list, I seem to gravitate towards thriller, family and rom-com dramas this year. The family genre ones were outstandingly heart-warming, earning the most number of hearts. “The Light in Your Eyes” managed to blindside me in a good way i.e. I wouldn’t have guessed in a million years that the drama would change its course that way. It made me shed some serious tears. It comes second to my all-time-favourite Kdrama: “Reply 1988”.
“When the Camellia Blooms” also works wonders with its stellar casts. It was Kang Ha Neul’s first project after getting out of the army and he didn’t lose his touch. The drama hits all the right emotions.
On the other hand, “Vagabond” really left me feeling so upset at the end. You call that an ending? What ending? Nothing ended! Nothing got solved! They call it Season 1 but there is no plan for Season 2 to be filmed yet as of now! GRRRAAAAAH! Give me back my precious time!
You should be warned that many Kdramas which are recently produced by Netflix are in this 2-seasons format. But unlike western dramas, the ending of Season 1 doesn’t deserve to be called an ending. It’s actually just the usual 16 full episodes Kdramas split into 2 seasons. Some really have exactly 8 episodes for each season. Before starting to watch Vagabond, I have searched for info online and noted that it’s 16 episodes in total for Season 1. So I thought it’s the usual 16 episodes Kdramas. But alas, they tricked me.
Hopefully 2020 will bring even better Kdramas. But I don’t think I can complete as many dramas as 2019 now that I’m working full time. My Kdrama time is mostly limited to my morning commuting hours now. I shall just aim to post a summary like this yearly.
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