I think it's my sassy girl. Can't wAit for that one too !

Fight My Way, fighting!

I have a feeling youth romcom won't be able to get too high of a rating, best would prob pull a Shopping King Louie and get slightly above 10%. Which is a shame because FMW is a breeze to watch and I hope good words from mouth to mouth will help the ratings. I don't really care about ratings personally but I really like both leads as they are talented so hoping all the best for them! Really happy to see KJW finally gets to be the lead.

My Sassy Girl would be hard to beat though, especially if it goes the Moonlight way judging from the teasers (please don't be like Moon Lover).

Reporting from the future, it seems for the foreseeable future FMW will be on top in this slot unless a lot more people come back next week for My Sassy Girl. Lookout and Circle aren't contenders really since they didn't really see any substantial increase with Whisper gone like FMW did. And My Sassy Girl dropped noticeably from episodes 1 to 2.
I'm gonna assume now that FMW will stay around 10% like it did this week for most of it's run, which is respectable. I WANT it to hit 15-20% and fingers crossed maybe the increase will be even more next week! But even if it doesn't go up more it's enough to make the studio happy and enough that we might get more of these actors in lead roles in the future.

Yes! I am rooting for Circle and Ruler too. Circle is getting more intriguing with all the questions raised in the recent two episodes. And Ruler has finally effected the time skip, so we can expect a bit more maturity from the initially idealistic naive CP.

I think with the slots and current competition it will be hard for SP to break 10%. I'm rooting for Ji Chang Wook and SP but the storyline needs to advance past romcom and gets straight to murder mystery. It should learn from IHYV how to balance the genres (romcom, legal, mystery) better.

What is the replacement for Mystery Queen?

Actually FIS reached 30% on Sunday's slot last week. There is quite a huge gap between Sat - Sun slot for this epi. But yes crossing my fingers to see it gets above 30% soon.

Jun Young and his wife are super childish, they need to grow up. Yoo Joo is still lowkey bullying MinYoung and acts like an angel at home. I don't feel sorry for Jun Young because of they way he treated Joong Hee in the earlier episodes. He wanted to make him feel separated from the siblings (when they put their money together for parent's day) and acted nasty towards him. Now his siblings and his father are slowly getting closer to Joong Hee and he doesn't like it. He wants to be the only son who gets the attention from his father. He should sit down and think. He knocked up a woman, he doesn't have a job so his parents have to take care of his family and he is the one who criticizes everyone but himself.

31% today! Woohoo! Joonghee is so cute. This show moves pretty fast so the I'm Not Your Real Dad reveal should be coming soon, I hope.

"CIrcle" is already a success for debuting pass 2%. "Joseon X-files" first episode was around .8%.
The casts made a rating promise if the ratings surpass 3% so they are not expecting it to be a huge hit based on the genre.

I think they'll get their 3%. Go Circle!!!

I thought ep 14 was good enough with lesser parts of the past but the ending scene made everything worth it. I am still unable to understand the drop in ratings. Would you elaborate why you are not surprised over that?

I am anxious waiting for next epi and sadly the last week for this drama ?

It's not a drama that can entice the general public immediately even if it's on cable (compared to other TVN dramas that have a more mainstream appeal i.e. Answer Me series and Goblin). It can be watched whenever convenient for viewers, but not necessarily something that I would sit down and watch ON A FRIDAY NIGHT.

Its Saturday night slot....I mean I don't want sadness or near heart attacks on Saturday nights. I'd rather grab dinner out, come home a bit late and tune in for late night stuff. No idea what Koreans prefer on weekends though.

Lookout is the same slot with Fight My Way and upcoming My Sassy Girl, 10pm. Circle starts later, 11pm.

What were they saying about the CG? I think it's good enough for TV. We can't expect it to be like the movies since they might not have the budget for it.

I quite enjoyed the first two episodes of Circle, and hope it continues to be this tightly plotted drama.

I wasn't expecting any good CG. It would be a shame if they shun the show because of the poor CG. This kind of reaction isn't encouraging the industry to do genres which are not usually explored due to limited audience or resources.

I was gripped by the story and acting. Let's hope it continues to deliver.

That is a surprising criticism to me. There aren't a lot of korean dramas that require CG so I didn't realize that the audience expectation was that high, especially for a tv series.

I'm watching it on my tablet. I'm guessing watching it on a high def tv is different.

Really? I've only seen these comments so far and they were really positive: http://netizendrama.blogspot.com/2017/05/spoilers-circle-pilot-ep02-rating.html?m=1

I don't know about star power but I am guessing the cast aren't exactly ratings magnet. So I won't be surprised if SDQ starts low. Mystery Queen had its stable base of viewers. However if SDQ turns out to be really good, then it can definitely challenge the other two.

Amen to Circle hitting 3%. I really hope the show does well.

I am not watching FMW, but yes to whatever you said. I need rom com without thriller elements. Why are the recent rom com peppered with serial killers or kidnappers.. looking at you SWDBS and SP.

I agree! But I think it's difficult to create a good story with lots of heart to last 16 episodes without those fancy distractions - looking at MSR right now ?

If the story can focus to the four leads and not only for Dok Man-Ae Ra and the writer can manage to write all 4 leads' stories, it will be a good slice of life drama. So far from the promotions and first two epi, this drama mainly promoted the chemistry /relationship romance between the OTP solely. While the chemistry is great and I love it, I signed up to see the real struggles of common young ppl life in Korea and not the dragging plot such as " I love you more than a friend, but I don't want to lose you if anything happen" something like this, later. Hopefully this drama will be able to tell the real life story. As long as it doesn't turn to another The Time We're Not In Love, maybe it will be fine.

Take Radiant Office for eg. It could be boring for some, but this drama managed to tell us the life story of Eun Ho Won, the friendship between the trio, her working life and her relationship with her officemates and a little romance. For a rookie writer, his/her first drama is considered good and he/she can always improve. At least the idea & style were there.

I can't wait for the vigilante gang to get together. They are spending a lot of time on SJ's back story. Probably they think it is not very convincing for a diligent upright police officer to get on board vigilante justice.

I'd love to see Uhm Ki Joon from Defendant win it. He acting was phenomenal and the character he played was so complex. If not him then definitely Ji Sung!!

Ratings in SK do not reflect the feedback here in DB. Take TLAHL for example, it's the most recent that has had a warm reception here. But it didn't pass the 2% mark. Also, JCW's Healer didn't pass 10%, but just look at the comments of the last episode recap - that says a lot about how unreliable the ratings are vs. the reception of the Beanies.

It's a strangely ongoing thing where international fans love a show and Korean viewers don't. But I don't think there are much we can do.

people here adore JCW. even when his dramas don't do too well in korea, they still get a lot of buzz on dramabeans. that probably accounts for the disparity between ratings and comments here.

It is Duel. Start next week.

It's Duel, the one about human clones and child kidnapping.

Duel, a drama about clones. It's starting on June 3.

It was awesome. Can't believe I have to live through the week with the mental image of Han se ju falling from the building. Dayumn

It went down a lot. But 8pm on a Sat during a nice spring evening. I can't blame people for wanting to be out and about with friends instead.

At one point, I thought Ruler will hit 20% without much problem. Then it started to stagnate. Of course, it's still early days and the drama might suddenly pick up steam again and hit new highs.

Regardless of how the show turns out, I think it will not drop too much below its current ratings, if at all. This means SP or SDQ have to surpass it. That's no easy feat. I am not watching SP and I am guessing it isn't really the kind of show which would jump in ratings after the 3rd week. SDQ hasn't aired so it's anyone's guess.

I do think there's a chance Ruler will lose its lead if Seven Day Queen generates lots of positive buzz in k-media and SNS in its opening week. Ruler is the leader in its timeslot but it's not the runaway hit Chief Kim (this year's W/Th smash hit) was. It's already its third week and ratings still remain in the low teens. A strong competitor could eventually knock them out of the top spot.

That said, there's every chance that SDQ won't make much of an impact in the ratings since (as pointed out in the above comments) the leads aren't exactly ratings draws.

As for the M/T dramas, Sassy Girl does look like it will take the top spot at least in its opening week, but SBS has a terrible track record with pre-produced sageuks (Moon Lovers, Saimdang). The leads are good actors. I hope the people behind the camera are up to snuff.

There are still PPLs alright in SP XD.

I dun think I'll ever say the words "I miss Subway" jokes or PPL. There were too many of them.