@pakalanapikake I rewatched CHIEF KIM a few months ago and it was still quirky and fun. It’s a good antidote to all those dark dramas.... you could also try REACH OF SINCERITY to balance it with some pink fluff @marcusnyc20 I hope you enjoy MISAENG 😊 I’m also working through dramas I’ve missed. I’m currently in the middle of an OJAKGYO BROTHERS marathon (can you see my panda eyes?) Next up: SIX FLYING DRAGONS.
I’ve read good things about ROMANTIC DOCTOR CK but I don’t like medical dramas :(

@marcusnyc20 bong-soo,
It's one thing for me to try to figure out twisty plots a la Sherlock Holmes, but quite another thing to sit through needless psychological horror. With TRAP, I couldn't take the sadistic violence, especially when a child was involved. I found myself becoming depressed.

As for ITEM, I love Ju Ji-hoon to bits, but felt as if I were watching a retread of VOICE when the shrink-wrapped corpse and Biblical passages popped up. Mo Tae-goo should sue for plagiary of modus operandi. (I know, I know. "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery." But this was too blatant.) Violence against yet another child got to me in this show, too. The kiss of death was the female lead. I decided to take off my Kdrama hairshirt of finishing every show I start, and now feel much better. Sorry, JJH.

I took my own advice and listened to grandma: "It's supposed to be a treat, not a treatment."

I'm still watching and enjoying CROWNED CLOWN, but don't know what to expect of the finale. I've been watching HAECHI raw, and will play catch-up next week. It was just too confusing to deal with 2 Joseon sageuks simultaneously. (Not to mention my ROOM NO. 9 cross-talk issues, below.)

I had already started reading the translation of the Chinese web novel Nirvana in Fire. I realized it was time to drop both Kdramas when it dawned on me that I actually feel joyful while reading this story in preparation for watching the Cdrama. It's been on my list for nearly 3 years, but I was afraid to deal with another cast of thousands. Now that it's being translated, I'm trying something different and reading the source novel.

The nearest thing I can compare it to is the exhilarating experience of reading The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings at the rate of a book a week back when I was in college. The beauty of the language, the characters, the quests -- all remind me of my sojourn with Tolkien. Back then, I got sucked into an alternate universe populated with heroic characters I loved (and feared and hated) to bits. Getting to the end of the final book left me bereft of cherished companions. I have a feeling that's how it will be with NIF. Here's where I'm reading it. The thread is where a couple of us are discussing NIF, GUARDIAN, and a few other Cdramas. I mention them here because the roots of so many Kdramas lay in the Sinosphere. I'm just taking a little detour back to the Chinese source. It is making me immensely happy. ;-)

http://www.dramabeans.com/2019/02/team-dramabeans-what-were-watching-144/#comment-3414520

Re: your watch list. Excellent choices all of them. MISAENG, ROMANTIC DOCTOR TEACHER KIM, and CHIEF KIM are all among my faves. Namgoong Min is a particular fave, and such a chameleon. He and Lee Junho as the Gluttonous Psychopath have the wackiest bromance. I never dreamed I could fall for a forensic accountant. ;-)

@ndlessjoie mugyuljoie,
I may cave in and give DOCTOR PRISONER a look anyway because UNDATEABLES was a letdown. I don't think I've seen NGM in any really villainous roles so far: WILD CHIVES AND SOYBEAN SOUP: 12 YEARS PROMISE; CAN YOU HEAR MY HEART? with Kim Jae-won, and a dynamite performance by Jung Bo-suk; ONE FINE DAY with Gong Yoo (NGM plays an aquarium director who's a romantic rival, but he's not evil); GU AM HEO JOON (his only sageuk, methinks). He's in BUNGEE JUMPING OF THEIR OWN, but I really don't recall his character.

Have you seen Beautiful Gong Shim @ndlessjoie? The second half was a bit of a mess but I absolutely loved the first half and NGM’s lovable weird character.

@marcusnyc20 bong-soo,

Like THE KING'S DAUGHTER, SU BAEK HYANG which was originally slated for 120 episodes, GU AM HEO JOON was a daily drama, so the episodes were about half an hour long. I didn't watch it as it aired, but after it was finished, so I was able to marathon it. I would have gone nuts otherwise. ;-)

Truth to tell, I was shocked to note the number of episodes. I didn't recall that many. But that was before I had started keeping my Kdrama log. I found it interesting, so it seemed to fly by. I probably watched it on Hulu.