YOU JUST NAILED IT, @javabeans. I wanted to spotlight #5 but as I went through the list, IT JUST KEPT ON GETTING MORE REAL.

19: You have time to write posts like this.

How did you know?!

Why is it that we keep feeling hope? Is it because just as we're ready to give up dramaland throws out something that it knows will reel us back in. This was what happened this summer for me with Suspicious Partner, Circle and Fight My Way. Granted the slump is back again, and I'm a little wary of the drama bonanza starting next week.

If the writers and many commentators of dramabeans are in the state of drama slump where am I suppose to go? 😢
I'm new here. I've been saved from hours of bad drama thanks to dramabeans 😊

#20 You start cooking a real meal instead of instant ramen.

hoping you get out of that drama slump - Drama Gods hear my plea!
Perhaps instead of books - howabout manga/manhwa they don't need that much attention span. or movies? English/korean/whatever floats - maybe it'll help spark somethin.

After 5-6 years of nonstop drama watching, I’m in the slump of slumps and here you are JB articulating my every thought in a manner more perfect than perfection.

This is exactly what I'm going through right now. It felt like reading my own thoughts. I've renewed a single book from the library a few times now I feel like I've had it for months. Still on page 8. New dramas don't interest me much and pressing the play button is a great challenge. I end up rewatching old dramas but then I felt like I'm wasting my time so yeah, I go to bed early (I'm supposed to anyway). Good thing I have my usernames and passwords remembered on my laptop so I didn't have to worry about my short-term memory gaps.

1. Moonlight Drawn by Clouds, the recap of Bride of the Water God
11. Pile of books I got for super cheap just gathering dust in the corner
14. Falsify, Temperature of Love
15. I keep adding, but not checking off my list
18. Girls' Generation 1979, While You Were Sleeping, This Life is Your First, 20th Century Boy and Girl, Revolutionary Love - maybe there's a light at the end of this tunnel (oh yeah, another one I never got around too)

Yep. Feelin' it for sure. Damn 2017 isn't my year for dramas. I do watch here and there but it's just not like before. I hope I'll be back to a kdrama addict in 2018.

For now I have WYWS to keep me in dramaland. Still not crack level but it's good. Jongsuk and Suzy are totes adorable.

The dramas from the first half of 2017 didn't get me excited, so I was just like this... then Age of Youth 2 came <3
I'm looking foward for the next dramas!!

LITERALLY ME

Lol, I do feel this. What's worse is that it wasn't only with K-Dramas. Chinese dramas were disappointing me. Taiwanese dramas were disappointing me. Some American shows were disappointing me. It was a lot. Things would start off well and then start to sputter in the half way mark. What's bad is that I just finished a drama I really, really enjoyed and was interested in and now I'm gonna be in the slump again, lol. D':

*looks around room for @javabeans' hidden cameras*

kdraama slump is worst when you start checking cdrama and jdrama even you are not that interested with that genre in the first place.
Dr.Qin Medical Examiner, i love you!!

Hahaha this was exactly me in June/July and now I'm like "how on earth did I fall so far behind on 2017 k-dramas?!"

21. Your room is clean

I would have laughing out loud if I was not sitting at my office but this list is sooo real, those things happened to me after Forest of Secrets ended. until just a few weeks ago. I couldn't even go to sleep early, just stared at the blank space like Cheon Song-yi did above. No 6 and 7 especially hit me so hard because I was considering to rerun a few favorites to help me get through the slump and once I was thinking, maybe it's better to rerun IHYV than to risk myself following While You Were Sleeping because of......Suzy. No offense to anyone, I would have watched that drama already if I wasn't in a drama slump.

Thank God I am starting to crawl out of it with the help of Age of Youth 2 and my recent discoveries: Girls Generation '79, Love Me If You Dare, and Live Up to Your Name (hopefully, I'm just watching ep 1 but it seems interesting, kind of reminds me of QIHM -my all time fav time travel drama). I am starting to see the light brought by the upcoming dramas: Witch's Courtroom, Mad Dog and Revolutionary Love. So for my fellow beanies that are still in drama slump, fighting! We all can get through this 💪💪💪

I congratulate myself for being able to keep my attention span to read all 18 bullet points. Thanks Javabeans for giving me the chance to feel redeemed as a person worth living again.

Only on dramabeans that drama site admins care about their members's drama slump and write a description note like this.
Next step, dramabeans will give a recommendation on how to cure it, like Top 10 rewatch to cure drama slump, for Top 10 six-pack actors in Kdrama to get you back on "drama" track, etc.

Dang, this post is too real. All the screencaps are so fitting lol. Don't even remember the last time I touched a book.

I'm not really in a drama slump. My attention span is kinda bad though. I have a few good shows I look forward to each week, but I also have some lingering, unfinished ones that are nagging me in the back of my mind. I'm distracted with other activities, trying to exercise more, etc. I want to binge-watch a bunch of episodes at a time to try to catch up, but haven't had time to. Sad that I haven't started AOY2 yet. >.<

This. Is. Me...mostly...😂

Yes, I am trying to find the next K-drama to get excited about, I begin to watch the new ones but then I lose interest. So I find myself catching up on my reading list.😀

“No matter how many bad shows we encounter, we always hope and know that there’s going to be another good one that comes along.”

That's a quote by Javabeans herself in an article a few years ago.

That's the good news. The bad news is that I swear I saw another article or post a few years ago where she said that if she ever stopped loving kdramas and Dramabeans she would stop doing it. Wording might be off a bit, because I can't find that article now.

So please find a drama you like. Please!

:'(

... ... I just go back to real life... ...

Meh, if dramas don't do it I go for variety. If variety doesn't do it, I go for books. If books don't so it, I go for math. Or worse comes to worst, I just work more... or learn more. Or exercise more. Hey, kicking the shit out of a sandbag is awesome. I am Healer for once instead of watching Healer!

We are all sacks of flesh heading towards expiration dates, but I will be the best sack of flesh and fat until I get picked out of the freezer!!

Am cracking up so much on this, and on the "existentialism" tag ^^
Thanks @javabeans for letting us now that even the best drama fan has her moment of slump, and totally have faith you will recover soon!
Am currently bingeing on variety (have finished one and a half season of Knowing Bros) after watching just the final week of dramas I care a bit about...

I'm wondering if all of Korea is feeling like this. The ratings are so low all the time now. Me, I'm surviving on variety, both Korean and HGTV. Singing shows, Yoon Kyunsang's cats, and Chip and Joanna are keeping me from dying of boredom.

Waiting for the next big drama to snap us out of it! Hopefully soon!

Our lives seem to be defined by drama cycles - boom and slump. We need to strike Drama Life Balance.

Whichever stage we are in, we are never going to get out, are we?

Is it the dramas?
Is it the cliche plots?
Is it the army who taketh my oppas?
Is it me?

Why can't the dramas be more addictive?
Why can't the plots have more hearts?
Why can't the actors be more swoony?
Why can't I get more invested?
Why am I doing this to myself?

I question myself
and I question my life.

#theslumpisreal

OMG - this is me....and has been for the past year or so. I keep hoping each new season of dramas will appeal to me - something will bring back the love/addiction/excitement of waiting for new episodes and alternately spazzing/squeeing about every OTP milestone. Ugh.... now it's all I can do to read the (awesomely well-written) recaps. Ok, confession time: my drama slump has been so bad, I haven't even commented in months..... This post drew me out of my self-imposed comment moratorium. THANK YOU Javabeans!! The good news is dramas are not dead.....my attention span is not dead....... I'm cautiously optimistic about 1 or 2 new offerings and 1 or 2 things coming soon(-ish). The bear is starting to stir....I'm waking up from my hibernation. Here's hoping I'll stay out of my cave for a while.....

Oh dear oh dear. Never in a million years have I thought that I'd actually would not want to watch any drama at all. Dunno if it's a good thing, but Mum and Dad certainly noticed my newfound commitment to our garden—as in the full on weeding, buying compost and fertilisers, preparing seed beds, sowing seeds, trimming plants, etc. complete with the requisite ajuhmma clothes—not that they are complaining. It's just that after the first round of dramas this year ended (i.e. Seven-Day Queen), I just lost that urge to watch anything.

It's just ironic and frustrating since at the beginning of the semester, full of anticipation for the next round of dramas, I even shaped my whole schedule around drama-watching. And just as I have managed to make my semester schedule to be free on Fridays (no classes whatsoever), it would be the time that I don't really have any dramas to look forward to. GAAARRRRR.

But methinks I've found my gateway back to dramaland—after reading the recaps on Age of Youth 2, I would first like to watch the first season then move on the the current season, and then there's The King's Case Note (which isn't a drama but a film, but hey), and A Taxi Driver (which though was screened in our country, was not available at our local cinema!!! The Inhumanity!!!). And then there's Rescue Me, which methinks will be best watched in conjunction with Seasons 3-7 marathon/binge-watching of The Walking Dead. HEHE. So there.

HAHAHA! This is ME, ME, ME!!

P.S dunno whether to laugh at the uncanny similarity in our situation or curl into a ball and cry my eyes out!

Yassss... When can we get out from this slump? I can't remember when was my last drama marathon or the drama that had me refreshing for subs - lurking in forums.. maybe Goblin? that was ages ago it felt >_< 2017 been a slump most of the time. i think i only managed to watch Fight My Way and Forest of Secrets (this one is fantastic though - it wasn't addictive or hype like Goblin, but the story, acting, production was so on Point! saving grace of kdrama 2017) ... Here is to hoping While You Were Sleeping has potential - even if I wished they picked a different actress (no offense suzy fans) - but first 4 episodes show got potential! So here's to hoping Kdrama 2017 Second half of Year gets better.

This is so frigging real!
Also, #19 You watch more variety shows than you have ever done in your life.

#20 You discover that kpop is a thing too.

#21 You realize that you just don't have the energy to read the 'theme of the month' posts that you were so excited to read (and which are actually amazingly written)

(P.S. I feel that this post came mainly because JB is questioning her loyalty to Lee Jong Suk and how/why she can't pick up While You Were Sleeping... It literally could read as a love letter to LJS and kdramas in general- "it's not you, it's me")

I could read @javabeans writing about (8) “nothing” all night long. Do you even want advice at this point? Or just solidarity? It looks like a lot of solidarity here. I’m not in a slump; everything is still so new and shiney, as in a certain shining Goblin. Will that ever lose it’s shine? I don’t think so. And I think I will always go to that drama and keep rewatching it even when in a slump. Does anyone else have that one drama that is their go-to— the one that made you fall in love with all this nonsensical, trope-filled, beautiful actors/actresses, with their contrived, but sweet stories, the one that you can count on to pull you out of a slump? Anyone?

Wow!
Should this post be worrisome to DB followers?

This was me in 2015 when Healer ended. I was in kdrama slump for months. It only healed when She Was Pretty aired.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.... I'm having slump in anything lately: drama, reading books, studying new things, etc.

All I need is vacation, and it's just around the corner! Yay!

atm, I guess I only relate to no. 1..

I'm feeling very attacked by this post rn

ME. ME. ME.

Since July. This never happened before. I usually get a slump from my other hobbies but never with my dramas. Help.

When you commented here and said "Can't wait!" The drama already ended and you didn't watch it.

#1
Proof: Hwarang, Oh Hae Young, Goblin, Secret Garden, K2, MDBC... and the list goes on.

I think I have commitment issues, not just in life, but in drama-watching too. Take me a week from the drama that I'm currently following and that drama will end up unfinished, even of there's only 2 episodes left like Hwarang. These days I banned myself from starting a new series until I finish the currently pending/unfinished drama (which will never be finished due to my procrastination and lack of commitment). Now I'm stuck in this loop.

#11
Proof: The 3 big boxes of unread books in my room, and the other 1 big box in my parent's house. I used to finish up a book in less than 2 weeks from purchase date. Nowadays, I can't even finish up a volume of manga

This is it. That's all my drama related feelings summed up and then some. Drama slump for two weeks now where I don't feel like watching anything. All that seems to be working right now is Supernatural re-runs. Its a tedious path but I'm determined to forge on!