I suppose for me it would be Memories of Alhambra coz of Hyun Bin. I enjoyed the initial episodes until I lost patience with the poor characterisation of the female lead and the plot. Like you, I also wanted to smash something real bad but I still watched it to the bitter end. All for oppa and a bean.

None really, I tried but dropped faster then hot potato.

I never seem to know if they’re trainwrecks beforehand, but I have plodded on through disappointing dramas to the bitter end for favourite actors: HWARANG.

I do that much less nowadays, as I’ve learned to drop dramas more ruthlessly. And lately I choose dramas more because of plot then actors.

Heirs!

I know the last two eps were great but Uncontrollably Fond was very hard to watch. I plodded along mainly because of KWB.

Definitely Jekyll, Hide which I stuck with for Hyun Bin. Ugh, it was awful!

None. I'm useless at forcing myself to watch stuff i don't like. Which is of course different from hate-watching because hate-watching is at least fun.

I thought I sacrificed a lot for the love of oppa but after trying to recall all dramas, I have none. Guess oppa love isn't as strong as I thought it is.

I think Lee Min Ho is the only I can blame for making me complete crazy shows. I'm not even a fan but there is something that makes me not drop him. If I lasted through BOF I think he can choose anything.

I never see this one mentioned but Lucky Romance for Ryu Jun-yeol. I would watch it all over again if it meant his return to the small screen. Even though the female lead was completely unwatchable.

For 2018 dramas.

1. PRETTY NOONA - love and hate. The writing didn't do it for me. I'm still not a fan of the writer even after ONE SPRING NIGHT. Love PD Ahn Pan-seok and Son Ye-jin.
2.RETURN - Too bad for Go Hyun-jung.
3. MAMA FAIRY -finished it for Moon Chae-won.

2019
1. ARTHDAL - Dear Song Joong-ki. I admire the loyalty but pick something better next please.
2. ABYSS - Park Bo-young please get a better agent?

The Time We Were Not In Love for Ha Ji Won. I learned my lesson and dropped Hospital Ship really fast. I hope the same won't happen with Chocolate.

I watched Beauty Inside and finished that for Seo Hyun-jin though I sensed that it wouldn't be going anywhere from the start until the end. I mean, that was an exhausting journey, and I dearly hope she chooses better projects next time.

(Still haven't begun the Black Dog because I am too afraid of her previously chosen projects. I couldn't finish Temperature of Love because I wasn't convinced by the acting of the male lead.)

I guess the closest I am of that description would be when I watched D-Day because I love Jung So min, and I hated the second half of the show because it was all about hospital politics and I even hated the final episode the most because more than the half of it was scenes with the bad doctor who of course was the director of the hospital and he even got to have a redemption arc, kind of, which you could never believe anyway.... 😒 just because he got sick, if I am not mistaken.
I hate it.
The drama could have been sooo good, but they ruined it. Plus, it was like 20 episodes...

Heirs for me. Those sweaters!

None 😝 I have too many Oppas in my fave collection now. So is one Oppa happened to done badly (CJW, I'm looking at you), I'd rather just drop it so i can forgive and forget faster. I'd rather spend my time and energy for my other Oppas.

Stuck till the bitter end of K2 for Ji Chang Wook (was so enamoured by Healer back then, like many beanies).
Never again! Life is too short! That is why I did not bother with Melting Me Softly.

I don’t have one yet. I still haven’t watched BIG even though Gong Yoo is in it. My love for actors hasn’t gotten me through a bad drama yet.

I was willing to watch W because of Lee Jong Suk but couldn't get past Ep 8

For me it would have to be, Sorry I Love You. I absolutely love So Ji Sub, but it was a real struggle to get through that depressing drama. Even, Something Happened in Bali, wasn't as depressing as SILY! SILY was so bad for me that I try to wipe the memory that I watched it from my mind.

Silly me thought VVIP was just a kdrama thing. I didn’t know it exists in real life. 🙈

Sattoo to you too! Can’t wait for the final episode! 😊

Congratulations on your day6 ticket!! Ill be going to the Brussels and Amsterdam concerts~

Congrats!!! You will have so much fun! I saw them in Dallas! No hitouch or anything, but it was still phenomenal!

You are inspiring me to start taking walks!
Have a great time at the concert!

*fingers heart* sattoo !

Congrats for your ticket! I'm going to the Paris concert too :D

I got a tribune ticket since it was the cheapest haha If you read some French fans tweets, lots of them complain about the price and fear the concert's organisation won't go well.

Still, I hope you will make better memories in Paris through the concert.

AMA is a crackfest and so is Gu Yanzhen. I actually realised I wasn't a Yanzhen fan untill he lessened some of his silly actions in the latter episodes. That's where I realized that he carries a good part of the show despite there being many other storylines. I'd also like to say that this is the first show where I hardly found any difference between the male and female characters. All of them were sarcastic, funny, witty, strong also emotional when required all while being real. I have noticed that Asian dramas do tend to put that this is a female this is a male label on characters through their actions, AMA didn't mostly. I didn't see those very obvious differences and all characters seemed equally human.

Get well soon and hope things go your way. Fighting! 💪🏻💪🏻

Ah! I so enjoyed that drama! The gender bender trope is one of my favorites and I could spot shades of my favorite Kdrama Sungkyunkwan Scandal in it. Finished it in three days haha! I dedicated a whole weekend's worth of insomnia to it and enjoyed every minute of it. Been a long time since my last obsession with Nirvana 2.

A little bit of honey drink, Gu Yangzhen ogling, and some rest, and I hope you'll feel better!

Happy to spazz AMA with you too Purpleink!

Eat some apples (without candle) and some porridge and also some Gu Yanzhen (?) to help with the dizziness or will it? Anyways, get well soon~~~

VB final recap is out and I didn't have a meltdown which is a good thing. I don't know if I can award a bean to VB since I didn't really watch ep 15-16 and ffwd so much 😅.

But (there's always a but 😂)....I'm thankful to VB, I was entertained to some extent, did loads of spinoffs which was fun and it had KTW 🌻. I also upgraded to loan shark during it's run while commenting about sunflower rock on @msrabbit's errand boy post, on Sungrok Day to boot~ ahahaha. I have fond memories of VB despite the absence of character development, plot and lack of KTW airtime. VB thank you for the memories, now I'll try to avoid any new dramas from the writer(s).

I LOVE the Tana French series. It starts with In The Woods, and they need to be read sequentially. They are like the best kdramas, so much bigger than what they appear....they haunt me for months

Donna Andrews Meg Langslow series is my happy pill https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/60646.Donna_Andrews

I’m intrigued! I shall give the series a try this holiday. Thanks!

Your welcome. I need to get back to books. I miss being a reader. I do like romance books though.
One really good series with one of my favorite heroines, and side characters Bran, is the Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs. There is a loveline that runs through the series but is not the main focus. She has a spin off series to it too that runs parallel to it but on a slightly different timeline. I haven't kept up with it but I know many love it. It is the Alpha and Omega series, but I should because more Bran. They are Urban Fantasy.

A book that I really loved a couple years ago was To Tell The Truth, Shame the Devil by Melina Marchetta. She is a YA author (Jellico Road is great) but this is her first adult book. This is a cast of characters led by a disgraced police detective. I loved Bish and hope that she revisits him.

If you want another mystery series the Kate Shugak series by Dana Stabenow is one of my favorites. Oh, and Nevada Barr has a series with a park ranger, who has a knack for falling across dead bodies in various national parks all around the US. I would also recommend The Plotters by Kim Un-su. I wrote a review of it here http://www.dramabeans.com/members/egads/activity/839587/

Sherry Thomas writes amazing romance stories. They hurt my heart so much. If you are into pyschological thrillers, may I recommend The Woman in the Window by A. J. Finn. Heartbreaking, and phenomenal book. I was haunted for ages after reading it. Ruth Ware's books are terrific, too. And the book that broke my heart, that I keep reading over and over is Swimming Lessons by Claire Fuller. It is not a thriller, but a heartwrenching story about a woman and her love for a much older man, whom she fell in love with, married, and who betrayed her. Painful, but so beautifully written.

Glad to hear you are improving and back to baking, too! 😁

I used to be an avid Sherlockian. I loved the original books when I was a teenager and I later discovered BBC Sherlock which I was obsessed with. I majored in New Media and my master thesis was actually a detailed analysis of BBC Sherlock and why it became so successful.

When I was a teen, I loved the cases and how genius they were. In my mid twenties I was more intrigued with the ambiguity of Holmes and Watson relationship that inspired numerous pastiches through the years.

The pastiche I loved the most was “My Dearest Holmes” by Rohase Piercy. The writing is brilliant - the author managed to sound like Doyle while wrapping his own story around canon. I can’t praise enough how much I loved the book. It’s not LGBT explicit, there’s nothing explicit in the book but it still made my heart ache because of how beautifully it described the relationship between them. And now I made myself want to read the novel again 😊

They're too adorable. The scene where they were eating "seperatly" was cute too. He asked for it haha

Do people even have hobbies these days? That's one question that scares me in interviews because I have none except for watching dramas. I remember having hobbies when I was young (the ones like playing sports, reading, writing, collecting stickers) but now I see even younger kids are always on the internet. The internet and social media itself have become hobbies for many now because I see little motivation in people to do other activities we once enjoyed.

I don’t know if it’s a hobby. But I do enjoy birdwatching. I go birding few times a year. I enjoy photography. So I do bird photography (basic stuff)
I also travel and enjoy travel photography.
I try to write a blog about my travels but am terrible at it.

I recently bought a sketch book and decided to draw birds. So far I drew 2 birds in a month. Lol.

Watching kdramas/cdramas and writing on DB wall is also a hobby I guess :))

I had a watercolouring phase during the time when I was not into dramaland. It's been a long time since I wetted my brushes and actually painted something. I'm not watching any dramas at the moment and it looks like SSR will not return anytime soon. I should get back to watercolouring since I have loads of watercolouring/art supplies ahaha 🎨🖼.