A crazy and fun story

"Chicken Nugget" is a crazy drama, literally.
The story is about two men who work in a place that makes machines and one day, a strange machine shows up, they don't know what it is and it works by itself, turning Min Ah into a chicken nugget, because that was along with her in the machine. The rest is the men's journey to reverse what happened, trying to turn Min Ah in human form again.

This drama is totally different from everything I have ever seen, it's so fun. It's light, easy to watch and when you least realize, it's already over and I liked the dramatic way the drama ended.
Baek Joon had to choose between save Min Ah's life or stay with his current life as a famous singer, which is what he always wanted, but of course he was going to choose her.

The aliens are freaking funny, no comments to the scene that they are showing theirs "powers", the whole BTS and Big Bang thing was hilarious. I really thought the restaurant people were chickens that turned into humans. HAHAHA'

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A total and complete mess

"The Empire" it's a rich's family story. Hye Ryul has the perfect life, she's a competent woman but like always happens in this kind of dramas, her husband is cheating on her, but here lies the problem, she already knows and doesn't care about it, because she wants to keep her perfect fake family.
The cheater is a woman named Nan Hee and what happens to her is the real conflict in the drama. Nan Hee dies and in the following episodes, you need to discover who's the killer!

I was really disappointed with this drama, the story is totally lost, it lacks direction and honestly, better characters. I love Kim Sun Ah, she's an amazing actress and basically every drama of hers is great, but Hye Ryul is a weak woman.
The only thing remotely interesting is Kang Baek, he's a complex character, it's a shame how he turns out to, committing suicide because couldn't stand the pressure of just being himself, not being accepted by his family, specially his grandfather and also thinking that his mother killed Nan Hee... all of that was too much for him to handle.

This drama tries to go the same path of other like "The Penthouse" and "The World of The Married", but it's just not remotely enough.

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A story with potential, that was wasted.

"Red Swan" is definitely one of my biggest disappointments, I was hopping for an amazing production with Rain and Kang Ha Neul, but it simply didn't work out, even when it had everything to be great.

The premise is good, there are a lot of dramas with the same style like "The K2", that follows the relationship of a woman and her bodyguard and how they fell in love, but the story lacks depth, the characters and the romance is really weak, the dialogues are horrible. I even laughed on episode 7 when Do Yoon asks Wan Soo to trust him... the way he say that, it was so bad, I couldn't keep a straight face. HAHAHAHA'

Their relationship is weird, there wasn't a moment when you see them falling in love, at a moment, with no explanation, Do Yoon and Wan Soo were madly in love and they not really know each other. That didn't make sense to me.

This was a drama that only made noise, but in reality it didn't have anything to show.

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Basically a copy of "I Hear Your Voice", that just didn't work.

"Why Her" follows Soo Jae, a ruthless and competent lawyer who doesn't care about anything except winning and destroys everyone that gets in her way. She did all that to survive in a men's world that don't accept her, that didn't think she was good enough and even so, Soo Jae is betrayed by her mentor and got demoted to being a teacher in a college.
There, she meets Gong Chan, a young man who tries to help in any way possible, what she doesn't know it's that they are connected by the past, when Soo Jae was Gong Chan's lawyer when he was framed for killing his sister. He hides that fact, to keep staying by her side.

The drama's premise reminded me of "I Hear Your Voice", specially because of the relation of the main characters and how they're connected with a death. Actually there's a scene that to me it's almost the same: when Gong Chan say that he's waiting to find someone and that person is Soo Jae.
The problem is that Hwang In Youp just didn't work as a main lead. Maybe it was because of his inexperience, but he couldn't get in the same level as Seo Hyun Jin and this weakened the story and also there was no chemistry at all between them.

One good thing about the drama is Seo Hyun Jin's character Soo Jae, she's a badass woman and if the writers had chosen a better actor to be her pair, the drama would definitely be different.

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Good action scenes, but the story is very rushed

"Tyrant" it's about people fighting because of a virus, everyone wants it and kills to get it. There's also Ja Gyeong, a gangster's daughter who got caught in between that.

I really don't like this format for dramas, 8 episodes were already too little, but now we have only 4? It's getting worse.
You can see the similarities with the movie "The Witch", but how there were only 4 episodes, the drama ends so fast, it barely gives you any time to process what happened.
The fight sequence on the last episode was really impressive, I couldn't take my eyes of the screen.

The cast is spectacular, to be able to see Cha Seung Won, Kim Kang Woo and Kim Seon Ho acting together, that was incredible <3

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A truly beautiful story

"Snowfall" tells the story of a blind girl named Mi Lan, who is abused by her mother and lives her life basically trapped all the time. She then saves Zhi Heng, making him indebted to her.

The relationship of Mi Lan and Zhi Heng is very intriguing, because we can't quite classify what they are to each other. It's beyond a romance, Zhi Heng gave Mi Lan a second chance to live, he saved from an abusive mother and from the darkness, gave her a purpose, a family... and that's so much more than the love between man and woman.
That was one of the reasons the drama really stuck with me, the development was really beautiful.

The drama is way better than I expected. The chemistry between Gao Wei Guang and Ouyang Nana is amazing.
There was several fun moments and I liked how the vampire creature was portrayed, it reminded of the movie "Interview With A Vampire", specially about the beauty, the seduction, the mystery around the vampire. I just didn't like the ending, I was hoping for a happy ending, they deserved that, but overall, I was a great drama.

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A drama that was mostly good, but the ending is terrible

"The Brave Yong Soo Jung" it's a drama about Soo Jung, who lost her parents and her home at the same time. Fortunately she meets Jang Won, who became her adopted father and helped her grow up to be a bright woman. Her life is also entangled with Eui Ju and his mother.
Time passes and Soo Jung becomes a sales announcer. There she meets Woo Jin, a cold man who doesn't let anyone come in to close. The two eventually fall in love. In between them, there's Eui Ju, who's reunited with Yoo Jung as an adult and finds out that Woo Jin is his brother. Both of the brothers like Soo Jung, but she likes Woo Jin and also wants to use him as a way to make Hye Ra suffer, since Hye Ra and her mother were the people that stole Soo Jung's money and made her mother died.

Soo Jung's adopted father unfortunately dies by the hands of Woo Jin, Hye Ra and Kyung Hwa, she swears to take her revenge and comes back a different woman. Now, Woo Jin is married to Hye Ra and Soo Jung does everything to break them apart. Eventually Soo Jung and Eui Ju become a couple and they join hands to make the evil people pay for their crimes.

After this, the drama loses it's direction. Eui Ju learns that he has cancer and the couple's happiness is totally gone at this moment. Actually they didn't even had a moment to be a real couple, now that Eui Ju and Soo Jung are married, he's going to die? It's not fair. We only see Eui Ju suffering from the side affects of the tumor and trying to hide the truth from Soo Jung, who eventually finds out.
Yes, in the end Eui Ju is alive, but I think it's because the writers didn't have the courage to kill off his character and actually it would be better if they did that. This whole thing with him being missing and the amnesia, it was just lazy writing. It would made more sense if Eui Ju became health again or if he died.

Woo Jin was the best character, his transformation is one of the best things that happened in the drama. For him to realize that he was used and lied to his entire life, all because of his so called "mother". Woo Jin decided to become a new person, made Kyung Hwa pay and even used Hye Ra in the process.
Until the end I was hoping that Soo Jung's birth father would show up alive, because we actually didn't see him dying in the beginning, even Soo Jung's mother only said he was missing. I think the drama lost a really interesting plot twist with this.

The story is good and so are the characters, the development was going great, but the drama became confused basically at the middle and went downhill from there.

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A beautiful friendship

"The Legendary Witch" is a drama about Soo In, an innocent woman who is framed and sent to prison for a crime she didn't commit.

Soo In was married to Do Hyun, but her family never liked her from the beginning since she is poor and an orphan, so when Do Hyun dies, they use it as an opportunity to get rid of her. She goes to prison and there she meets Woo Seok, he is a baker who is teaching a class in prison and also meets the three women who become her closest friends and basically family.

The characters are captivating, I missed seeing Soo In's revenge, especially after she was wrongfully sent to prison, but I understand that she chose to move on with her life instead of focusing on revenge. The friendship of the women is one of the reasons why I liked this drama, how they formed a bond in prison and helped each other after that. The real problem is with the romance, Soo In and Woo Seok have no chemistry on screen.

I also think it was a bad idea to bring Do Hyun back alive, since it didn't do anything for the story, it was just a hindrance to the romance, but Do Hyun dies again right after he comes back, so for me it was a weird and unnecessary decision.

Despite all that, even though it's a 40 episode drama, the story is good and easy to watch.

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A boring love story

"Abyss" basically tells the love story between Cha Min and Goo Se Yeon.

They have known each other since they were little and their friendship lasted until adulthood. Cha Min has a crush on Se Yeon, but she only likes him as a friend. He works for her mother's company and Se Yeon is a prosecutor. One day, Cha Min is on the edge of a building and a strange thing happens, some "aliens" accidentally let him fall and he dies, so they bring him back using a glowing ball called "Abyss". The problem is that he comes back with a completely different appearance, becoming a handsome man.

Se Yeon is investigating a series of murders and unfortunately, she becomes the last victim. Cha Min is devastated by her death and brings her back to life using the abyss, she is then alive again, looking exactly like her least favorite person in the world: Lee Mi Do. The two join forces to find Se Yeon's killer and stop him from claiming more victims.

The romance between Cha Min and Se Yeon is too childish for me, I didn't really care about them and honestly, I never believed that Se Yeon liked Cha Min before his change, if she really liked him in these 20 years, wouldn't she have confessed already? Her excuse just didn't get me.

This is one of the things I really don't understand about this drama, the changes in appearance after being brought back to life. Cha Min makes some sense, thinking he was a good person and his soul looked beautiful, but how does it make sense that Se Yeon looks like a real person and even someone from her life? What would happen if Mi Do didn't have plastic surgery? Would two people with the same face exist at the same time, not being twins? And in the end, how is it that Se Yeon is living with Mi Do's face but using his real name? Ji Wook was arrested for his murder, how is that possible?

And the whole thing about abyss, we finished watching without really understanding what that thing is. How are so many people who died still alive? Cha Min and Se Yeon were brought back twice and there's also Hee Jin, Ji Wook, Oh Yeong Cheol and others... aren't there consequences to using this? It's almost become a normal thing to die and come back, it's so weird. You can say that Cha Min paid the price for disappearing for 3 years, but the right thing to do would be for him to come back to the way he was before the abyss, it would make more sense and what was that about the abyss disappearing because Se Yeon is pregnant?

The drama isn't bad, but the story is weak, as is the couple. There are some funny moments, which make it worth watching, but it's not something I would recommend.

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A story about enjoying life

"Live Your Own Life" it's the story of Hyo Sim, she's a fitness instructor who basically doesn't have a life outside of work, because she has to take care of everyone in her family. Her mother is always losing money in some scheme as is her youngest brother, Hyo Do. Her oldest brother Hyo Sung is a good person, but his family are troublemakers and Hyo Sim's middle brother Hyo Joon is studying for the bar exam for years and doesn't work, making Hyo Sim work and give him money.
Tae Ho appears in her life and makes her want something for herself, he shows her that life is to be lived.

It's been a while since I watched a 50 episode drama and liked it, but this has the drama's queen Uee, it couldn't go wrong <3
The story is light and easy to watch, the romance between Hyo Sim and Tae Ho is sweet and you ship them since the beginning. The biggest problem is that the rest of the characters are really boring, I just couldn't like any of them, specially because of how much they wronged Hyo Sim and seem to not care about it.

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Third time's not the charm

"The Third Marriage" is a story about a woman named Da Jung. She's happily married and even pregnant, what she doesn't know is that her husband is cheating on her with Se Ran, her best friend. Se Ran is doing that for revenge, she thinks Da Jung's father is responsible for her father's death and wants to take the happiness that Da Jung has, saying that she didn't deserved. The two women ended up pregnant and Se Ran switches the babies, making Da Jung raise her child. That's still just the beginning of the drama, since it's called the third marriage.

Da Jung ends up getting divorced, her father dies and in a horrible twist of fate, Da Jung's daughter Song Yi dies in accident. Da Jung learns that all of this is because of Se Ran, who also tries to kill her. Then Da Jung comes with a plan for revenge and shows up as Se Ran's mother-in-law.
This is exactly what I didn't like. I think the writers should have put Da Jung with Ji Hoon, since he liked her. This whole thing with his father was just weird, since Da Jung has feelings for Yo Han, who's Je Guk's nephew and Je Guk's ex-wife is Da Jung's mother. To complicate things even more, Yo Han's daughter is actually the lost daughter of Da Jung's, who everyone thought was dead.

It was Oh Seung Ah's first time playing the main lead and not the villain, so it took me a while to get used to it.
The fight scenes are amazing, both Da Jung and Se Ran are awesome at that, those moments are so fun. Se Ran really did a lot of bad things: she stole Da Jung's husband, swap the babies, took Da Jung's place as that rich lady's granddaughter, killed Da Jung's father, tried to kill Da Jung, pretended to be pregnant twice, among other things. HAHAHAHA'

The drama's biggest mistake is the lack of romance, there's absolutely none of that between the couple, zero chemistry and I also didn't like what they did with Ji Hoon's character, the poor man only suffered. He had an one-sided love on Da Jung since the beginning, had to see her married his father. Ji Hoon was forced to marry Se Ran and was fooled by her thinking she's pregnant. Then we learn that Ji Hoon was the person that killed Song Yi and he ends up in a wheelchair... it's too much for one person and he wasn't even the bad guy.

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It feels like a fairy tale and not in a good way

"Love Is Sweet" is a romantic comedy drama about two childhood friends: Jiang Jun and Yuan Shuai, they lost contact with each other because of a misunderstanding and reunite when Jiang Jun comes to Yuan Shuai's work for a job interview. In the beginning they fight like kids all the time, but you could see the love is still there.

As the title says, the drama is very sweet and has everything that we didn't see in "Till The End of The Moon". Jiang Jun and Yuan Shuai are really cute together, the story is light, fun and easy to watch, but at the same time, it's a little superficial, it lacks complexity. I think what was missing was seeing more of the character's past, the drama should have built a better foundation for their relationship, to grow from there.
Du Lei is the second protagonist, but he is a character you can't really root for, you can see that he didn't care about Jiang Jun, he just wanted to gain something from Yuan Shuai.

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Cha Eun Woo's best role so far

In "Wonderful World", Soo Hyun is a famous writer that suddenly loses her son in a car accident. The killer didn't show any remorse and didn't even pay for his crime, Soo Hyun lost her mind and in a moment of rage, kill her son's killer and goes to prison.
When she gets out, Soo Hyun finds out that the person she killed wasn't the real culprit and the truth involves a conspiracy. There's also Seon Yul, who's connected to all of that.

I don't think what Soo Hyun did was wrong. Her son was dead and the culprit wasn't even sorry, all she wanted was an apology and in return, she was humiliated. I think I would do the same thing, it's a human reaction, that man needed to die.
We learn in the following episodes that the man is Seon Yul's father and that he approached Soo Hyun to get his revenge, but let's be honest, there was nothing to but avenged, his father was the wrong one. Even that he was following orders, Seon Yul's father was the person that eventually killed Soo Hyun's son, he was still alive when the car hit him. I understand Seon Yul's motives, when he lost his father, he basically lost everything and he needed someone to blame and that was Soo Hyun.

The drama's message is really beautiful, that we need to learn to forgive and move on, instead of holding on to the pain, because that way, we only hurt ourselves.
The acting is flawless, specially Cha Eun Woo's, he is glowing in a totally different role, something he never did before, since he was focused on romantic comedies.

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The story is confusing and draggy and the romance is weak.

"Unpredictable Family" is a family drama, with four characters as the main leads: Sun Woo, Eun Sung, Eun Hyuk and Ha Young.
Eun Sung and Eun Hyuk are half siblings. Sun Woo likes Eun Sung and Eun Hyuk likes Ha Young, but Ha Young likes Sun Woo and this mess is only the beginning. HAHAHA'
Sun Woo's mother is also Eun Hyuk's mother, she was married to Eun Hyuk's father but got divorced. Eun Sung is the daughter of Dong Goo and Choon Young, they were falsely accused of having an affair.
Eun Sung and Eun Hyuk have a sister named Eun Ah, she likes Min Guk, who's Ha Young's uncle... it's a crazy complicated family tree.

At some point, I really thought Sun Woo and Eun Sung were siblings, they should have cleared that way before, it started to get really weird. That was a more reasonable reason for the break up than the whole thing about the affair. To be honest, I couldn't take it anymore, Jung Ae was really being annoying, making herself look like a victim, even when everyone is telling her that the affair didn't happen, that it was a misunderstanding.

Besides everything else, the drama has 131 episodes, so it's not easy to watch, specially because the story is really confusing. Sun Woo and Eun Sung are cute together, but not enough to make the drama interesting. Eun Hyuk and Ha Young are a little better, but not much.
The best couple would be Eun Ah and Min Guk, but they are supporting characters and their romance is not really a priority, even at they only end up together literally at the end.

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It's something you watch, but forgets very easily.

"In Blossom" is a body swap story. Cai Wei is a woman who has always been humiliated by people because of the scar on her face and for working with dead bodies. Pan Yue has searched for her almost his whole life, when they finally reunite, a twist of fate happens and Cai Wei ends up in Shangguan Zhi's body.

The drama reminded me a lot of "A Familiar Stranger", specially because of the story being very similar. The couple is cute and their relationship catches your attention, but the investigations didn't stuck with me.
Ju Jing Yi is a very good actress, but I liked Cai Wei before her transformation, the character was much more interesting being played by Zheng He Hui Zi, but since the whole point of the story was the body swap, I know the actress couldn't keep playing the part.

Overall, it's a good drama. The story is light and easy to watch, but on the other hand, there's nothing really new or interesting.

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