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Drama Recs #7
1. Guardian: The Lonely and Great God: Nine hundred years ago, Kim Shin fell victim to a palace intrigue that cost his family their lives while he was cursed to become an immortal goblin. Ever since, he has been waiting for his bride – the only person who can grant him the death he longs for. But when he finally meets her, he starts wishing he could live a little longer. He also makes friends with a grim reaper who moves into his home and who has been searching for the goblin’s bride for all her life… I love this drama mostly because of the two male main characters and their delicious manpain, as well as their journey from friendly antagonists to prickly friends to sort-of antagonists to real friends. The actors are both really good and the love stories are solid – I especially like the grim reaper’s.
2. The Guest: Park Il-do is a ghost, who twenty years ago possessed Yoon Hwa-pyung, which led to the deaths of his mother and grandmother as well as Kang Kil-young’s mother’s and Choi Yoon’s parents’. Now, twenty years later, he is back, and people are dying. Hwa-pyung has been looking for him for years, and through coincidence or fate, Kil-young – now a police officer – and Choi Yoon – now a priest – join him in his quest to find the evil that destroyed all of their lines. This is a wonderful drama with a wonderful developing friendship at its core, and one key question: who is Park Il-do?
3. Stranger: Prosecuter Hwang Si-mok and Detective Han Yeo-jin get tangled up in a web of murder, intrigue and politics. I sometimes feel like everyone but me has already watched this drama, but if you haven’t either, do so. I don’t even know how to properly praise this drama, but it’s tightly plotted – even if crime dramas aren’t usually your thing, like in my case – and the friendship between the male and female main characters is a delight. The minor characters are all interesting in their own right, and both seasons are full to the brim with intrigue, politics and people plotting against each other.
4. Sweet Home: For reasons unknown, people start turning into monsters from one day to the next, and no one is safe, either from the monsters or from eventually turning themselves. The people in an apartment complex do their best to survive together under these circumstances… honestly, this type of thing isn’t usually for me, but I really liked this series, because it was relatively far from the “humans are dicks” end of the genre spectrum. There’s some of it, but I loved how the normal humans stuck up for Hyun-su, who has started to turn but for some reason never quite finished turning into a monster. Even if the people in this drama all have their weaknesses and dickish moments, they’re all really human, and apart from guest stars, all fundamentally decent people. (PS: the dog survives season 1.)
5. Touch Your Heart: In order to get a role, an actress has to work as a prickly lawyer’s secretary for three months, romantic shenanigans ensue. That’s the plot, more or less. I’m not going to tell you it’s more than that. What I am going to tell you that it’s this premise, but well executed. I’m picky when it comes to romantic comedies, but this one worked for me because both the main characters are adorably awkward, and because none of the conflict relies on things like either of them being stupid or a bad person/dating partner, and when there are miscommunications, they aren’t drawn out for long – the same can be said for other plot elements (so don’t be discouraged by the actress’s problems on her first day!) It’s just overall a cute romantic comedy to watch when you need something cute in your life.
2. The Guest: Park Il-do is a ghost, who twenty years ago possessed Yoon Hwa-pyung, which led to the deaths of his mother and grandmother as well as Kang Kil-young’s mother’s and Choi Yoon’s parents’. Now, twenty years later, he is back, and people are dying. Hwa-pyung has been looking for him for years, and through coincidence or fate, Kil-young – now a police officer – and Choi Yoon – now a priest – join him in his quest to find the evil that destroyed all of their lines. This is a wonderful drama with a wonderful developing friendship at its core, and one key question: who is Park Il-do?
3. Stranger: Prosecuter Hwang Si-mok and Detective Han Yeo-jin get tangled up in a web of murder, intrigue and politics. I sometimes feel like everyone but me has already watched this drama, but if you haven’t either, do so. I don’t even know how to properly praise this drama, but it’s tightly plotted – even if crime dramas aren’t usually your thing, like in my case – and the friendship between the male and female main characters is a delight. The minor characters are all interesting in their own right, and both seasons are full to the brim with intrigue, politics and people plotting against each other.
4. Sweet Home: For reasons unknown, people start turning into monsters from one day to the next, and no one is safe, either from the monsters or from eventually turning themselves. The people in an apartment complex do their best to survive together under these circumstances… honestly, this type of thing isn’t usually for me, but I really liked this series, because it was relatively far from the “humans are dicks” end of the genre spectrum. There’s some of it, but I loved how the normal humans stuck up for Hyun-su, who has started to turn but for some reason never quite finished turning into a monster. Even if the people in this drama all have their weaknesses and dickish moments, they’re all really human, and apart from guest stars, all fundamentally decent people. (PS: the dog survives season 1.)
5. Touch Your Heart: In order to get a role, an actress has to work as a prickly lawyer’s secretary for three months, romantic shenanigans ensue. That’s the plot, more or less. I’m not going to tell you it’s more than that. What I am going to tell you that it’s this premise, but well executed. I’m picky when it comes to romantic comedies, but this one worked for me because both the main characters are adorably awkward, and because none of the conflict relies on things like either of them being stupid or a bad person/dating partner, and when there are miscommunications, they aren’t drawn out for long – the same can be said for other plot elements (so don’t be discouraged by the actress’s problems on her first day!) It’s just overall a cute romantic comedy to watch when you need something cute in your life.