Bad-drama affectionados, what are the best/worst or worst/best dramas?

I will watch anything that's bad because it takes itself too seriously like I love my president though he is a psycho or Well intended love or Secret...  or if it's bad because the quality and/or actors are somehow abysmal, like Blood or The Rose or I love my president though he is a psycho.

I have terrible taste and love good/bad dramas! :P Sooo... (Very subjective, just my opinion, and no offense meant to anyone)

  • Bride's Revenge/Maid's Revenge (guilty pleasures)
  • Forever Love (I am here for the abs and the increasingly creative ways the writers find to show them off.)
  • Goodbye Mr. Shao (super toxic ML, not great acting, but somehow weirdly compelling? idk)
  • More and More Loves You/More and More Loves You Season 2 (bad acting, the most toxic ML and SFL I have ever seen in any drama, soap opera twists upon twists, and yet like a slow motion train wreck I could not stop watching!)
  • Skip a Beat (toxic characters, crazy twists, it's terrible and I loved it so much)
  • The Lady and the Lies (everyone is terrible, the plot is absurd and takes itself way too seriously, and it's a blast!)
  • The Miraculous Girl (objectively terrible in every way but I loved it)
  • Crash Landing on You (yes, I know I'm in the minority here, but it's an absurd plot that takes itself way too seriously instead of leaning into the fairytale aspects of it, and I don't care for FL's acting.)
  • Dramaworld/Dramaworld Season 2 (I have never had so much second hand embarrassment and FL can't act, but the premise is sooo much fun and I absolutely cackled at some of the tropes like the shower scene)
  • Kissable Lips (choppy scene cuts even compared to other short BLs, a bizarrely tragic ending, it's definitely not good but the leads have fantastic chemistry.)
  • Golden Blood (ML's acting...needs work, and the theme/intro song gives me hives, but the tropes are so exactly to my taste that I could forgive all weaknesses - there's something about a character raised as an object discovering he has worth and is loved that just..ugh, gets me.)
  • Self (brilliant idea, not great execution)
  • Ani ni Aisaresugite Komattemasu (terrible and morally questionable but very fun)
  • Koi to Dangan (DEFINITION of a good/bad drama. It's terrible in every way, everything is so dramatic, but it's a delightfully fun ride)

Emeraldarrows, this is such a great list, tysmmmm!!!

Lol thank you for this thread <3

marine, I'd recc you My Lethal Man.  It's packed with good kiss scenes and cheese.

Not sure if Blacklist would meet your criteria. It's a rollercoaster of plot holes on a serious but implausible premise, except some of the plot holes turn out to be misdirection or clues. It's not abysmal and much of the acting is solid, especially from the younger actors. (The adults are more likely to head into melodrama territory.) 

Maybe it takes itself seriously, but given the random nature of nearly all of the high school boys' nicknames (it's Thai, where everyone has a short nickname, often from a different language, in addition to their longer formal name), I'm not sure the writers did. The girls' names are thematic, and the theme is continued for some the later minor boy characters; my pet theory is that the munchies had kicked in by the time the screenwriters got to naming them so they were saddled with food-related monikers. It would explain a lot. Highlight in this regard (sorry, wrong character it was Title, aka Muscle) was one of the lads making a dramatic plea to a girl called Cupcake. 

Recurring product placements centered around drinks. Behold the wonders of Traffic's favourite chocolate drink and the mind-boosting powers of Jim Bae's mysterious small green bottles but stay away from that purple one in the science lab.

Eight of the young actors I respect from their later work so a big part of my enjoyment was watching them and the moments of recognition of the four I didn't realise were in it. This, along with being under the weather recovering from my Covid and flu boosters, meant I wasn't worrying much about the plot and it's safety hazard pot holes so I'm not sure if it's sufficiently bad enough to qualify for your list.

You might get a kick out of it anyway. One not to overthink but just enjoy the ride.

On GMMTV's official youtube channel

honestly very very broadly said....it depends what you want to watch when it comes to dramas. Visually they have improved immensely so in that regards newish dramas are always a good watch. But in terms of quality and story writing? I'd say you can't go wrong with dramas released before 2016/17. Anything after that is really tricky. There are gems but the huge majority is just utterly crap. And yes that's pretty extreme formulated but it truly feels like story quality is going faster downhill than a roller coaster as the years go by. 

Fashion King is not a good drama by any stretch of imagination but it was AWESOME

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Oooh, this looks very promising!  TYSM for the recc!!!

 monstersnroses:

marine, I'd recc you My Lethal Man.  It's packed with good kiss scenes and cheese.

I actually have watched (most) of this one! it's definitely more bad than good but in a delicious way lol

Shamelessly bumping my own thread to see if anyone else has any new recc's for this!