Drama Recs #6
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rodo1. Bad Guys: What if a disgraced cop, a mobster, an assassin and a genius psychopath team up to fight crime? You get this show. Of course half the characters aren’t as bad as they seem to be, and things work out for the characters in the end, mostly. The cases are solid, but the real highlight with this drama is watching the three convicts grow from rivals into friends over the course of the series. It is also extremely well acted. So if you like shady characters, redemption arcs and bromance, you might want to give this a try!
2. Come and Hug Me: Back in 2006, Do-jin fell in love with Nak-won. Then his father, a serial killer, killed her parents. For the next decade, both Do-chi and Nak-won (and the people around them) suffer from the fallout of Yoon Hee-jae’s actions. Do-jin gets blamed a lot for something he didn’t do and decides to become a police officer to make up for his father’s deeds. Nak-won changes her name and tries to follow in her mother’s footsteps, becoming an actress. But neither could ever forget about the other, and the past has a habit of coming back to haunt them… This series really surprised me by how good it was. Heo Joon-ho is an excellent serial killer, the main character has looking like a lonely puppy down to an art form and almost everybody in the series really needs a hug (or ten)! It also features very supportive adoptive families and a number of side characters that you’ll get just as invested in as the main characters.
3. Flower of Evil: This drama tells the story of Baek Hee-sung, a happily married man who loves his work, his police officer wife and his little daughter. On the surface, he is the perfect husband and father. But underneath, he hides a secret: his father was a serial killer, he is the suspect in a murder case and his name isn’t even Baek Hee-sung. When a former friend steps back into his life and someone else starts imitating his father’s MO, he has to try everything he can to keep his identity a secret, especially from his wife. Lee Jun-ki plays the main role in this series, and he really, really makes the main character work, from his apparent lack of emotion and his ability to manipulate to his inner darkness, but also the lost man who might understand others, but who doesn’t understand himself. I just love this series and it is near perfect, in my eyes!
4. Healer: All the summaries I’ve seen online didn’t do this drama justice, which was why I put it off so long even though it featured some of my favourite actors. Kim Mun-ho, Chae Young-shin and a thief/spy/detective for hire named Healer are still haunted by something that happened twenty years ago, which resulted in Young-shin and Healer growing up without parents and Mun-ho’s guilty conscience tormenting him whenever he sleeps. In order to finally move on, Mun-ho hires Healer to find a girl that was presumed dead for all these years, resulting in all three of their lives colliding as they get increasingly entangled with the powers that destroyed their lives in the first place. This drama has a lot going for it: a cute romance, an interesting backstory mystery, great character relationships (familial, friends, antagonists) and good action. It also features a subversion of the hero’s schlubby support hacker who sits at his desk in his pyjamas and eats junk food. All that is true in this case too, only the hacker is also a competent middle-aged woman who loves to knit.
5. Life: So, I don’t like series about office politics or doctors in a hospital, generally. This is a series about office politics in a hospital. I admit I only started watching it because I like looking at Lee Dong-wook (and it is worth doing so for that reason alone), but as it turns out, it’s actually really good. All the characters have understandable motivations that pit them against each other while still being relatable and not too over the top. This drama is also relatively light on romance – but the bits of romance we do get are adorable – with the main character’s most important relationship being the one with his brother.
2. Come and Hug Me: Back in 2006, Do-jin fell in love with Nak-won. Then his father, a serial killer, killed her parents. For the next decade, both Do-chi and Nak-won (and the people around them) suffer from the fallout of Yoon Hee-jae’s actions. Do-jin gets blamed a lot for something he didn’t do and decides to become a police officer to make up for his father’s deeds. Nak-won changes her name and tries to follow in her mother’s footsteps, becoming an actress. But neither could ever forget about the other, and the past has a habit of coming back to haunt them… This series really surprised me by how good it was. Heo Joon-ho is an excellent serial killer, the main character has looking like a lonely puppy down to an art form and almost everybody in the series really needs a hug (or ten)! It also features very supportive adoptive families and a number of side characters that you’ll get just as invested in as the main characters.
3. Flower of Evil: This drama tells the story of Baek Hee-sung, a happily married man who loves his work, his police officer wife and his little daughter. On the surface, he is the perfect husband and father. But underneath, he hides a secret: his father was a serial killer, he is the suspect in a murder case and his name isn’t even Baek Hee-sung. When a former friend steps back into his life and someone else starts imitating his father’s MO, he has to try everything he can to keep his identity a secret, especially from his wife. Lee Jun-ki plays the main role in this series, and he really, really makes the main character work, from his apparent lack of emotion and his ability to manipulate to his inner darkness, but also the lost man who might understand others, but who doesn’t understand himself. I just love this series and it is near perfect, in my eyes!
4. Healer: All the summaries I’ve seen online didn’t do this drama justice, which was why I put it off so long even though it featured some of my favourite actors. Kim Mun-ho, Chae Young-shin and a thief/spy/detective for hire named Healer are still haunted by something that happened twenty years ago, which resulted in Young-shin and Healer growing up without parents and Mun-ho’s guilty conscience tormenting him whenever he sleeps. In order to finally move on, Mun-ho hires Healer to find a girl that was presumed dead for all these years, resulting in all three of their lives colliding as they get increasingly entangled with the powers that destroyed their lives in the first place. This drama has a lot going for it: a cute romance, an interesting backstory mystery, great character relationships (familial, friends, antagonists) and good action. It also features a subversion of the hero’s schlubby support hacker who sits at his desk in his pyjamas and eats junk food. All that is true in this case too, only the hacker is also a competent middle-aged woman who loves to knit.
5. Life: So, I don’t like series about office politics or doctors in a hospital, generally. This is a series about office politics in a hospital. I admit I only started watching it because I like looking at Lee Dong-wook (and it is worth doing so for that reason alone), but as it turns out, it’s actually really good. All the characters have understandable motivations that pit them against each other while still being relatable and not too over the top. This drama is also relatively light on romance – but the bits of romance we do get are adorable – with the main character’s most important relationship being the one with his brother.
