Because This Life is My First poster🤔☺️. A coincidence?

It's hard for one to take his/her own advice. Or, to ever get tired of fighting so you just stop anyway even though the solution is right in front of you.
The course work is piling up so much it's burdensome to even pick up the pen to work. I just want to chug a drink down as Se-hee and Ji-ho are doing up there and forget I have deadlines breeding down my neck.
Nice part, a friend fixed an outing for today and I can only imagine how much strength I'll get at the end of it.

According to a Newsen report, the decision to cancel episodes of the popular K-Drama One Dollar Lawyer was due to a rift between the drama’s writer and the show’s production studio which led to audience malcontent and confusion regarding SBS‘s hit drama's decision to shorten the drama from sixteen episodes to twelve citing an effort to boost quality. Fans of the drama criticized the choice, stating that shortening a popular drama was unprecedented and that the decision was even more puzzling considering SBS’s recent struggle to attract viewers. SBS’s One Dollar Lawyer has become Korea’s most-watched primetime drama, with its most recent episode bringing in a viewership rating of 13.6%.

The production company, SBS’ StudioS, denied the allegations.
Newsen, reported the reason for the cancelation is due to an alleged conflict between the show’s writer and its production company. According to the article, an insider familiar with the situation stated that the conflict arose when the production studio started caring more about the company’s profits rather than the drama.

Although it is common for failed dramas to end early, canceling a drama that attracts so many sponsors can only mean there are production issues. An insider also stated that there was a power struggle that manifested itself in ways that affected the whole team. Ever since episodes 5-6, there was a bit of conflict that grew into a power struggle which divulged into late scripts, sending scripts back for revisions, and filming delays.

This is an in-house cost issue at SBS. The actors, director, staff, writer only get paid after a TV episode airs so cutting back the number of episodes saves the network money, in theory. The network rejection of scripts could also mean cost cutting if locations, props, extras hit the bottom line. However, there is usually a compromise between the parties to keep the series on track. In this case, it did not happen. It led to the drastic change to air one episode a week since the next TV was not ready to air early.

Just me?? I've been having issues logging into the site for the past few days...I log in and moments later I try to post something or like a comment and I'm asked to log in again! Very weird!

If a PD has several good shows in a row, it's because...
1: He's talented and can turn any script into a good show?
2: He's good at picking good scripts that others overlook?
3: He has the clout to grab the good scripts away from all the other PDs?
4: He's a secret chaebol heir?

Saw on Asianwiki that All of Us Are Dead season 2 is set for 2023, with the same writer and PD. I went back to reread the s1 series review and comments, and it's clear that my recollections are more favorable than most users' comments. There may be a rewatch in the cards, but for once, a sequel seems like good news?

I miss those times when everything was on Viki and/or dramafever. I knew where to find my dramas, I knew I wasn't missing on anything.
Now I'm constantly forgetting the premiers and I never know where are the shows streaming. 🥺

I feel like every week 10 hidden dramas appear, for real. 😆

Dear beanies, I hope you had a nice week! I didn't 😂 but wtv, there's only one month left.

I need Work Later, Drink Now 2 desperately now that Gaus is gone. Till then, Behind Every Start I guess. I really liked the first episode.

I’d like to (re)introduce myself to Dramabeans contributors. I was quite active on this site for the first half of the year, and was really enjoying it, but then I thought, I’m just not worthy, so it would be noble of me to sacrifice my enjoyment and leave the site for absolutely no reason.

After a time skip of several months, but what seemed like 2-3 years, when I was either studying how to run my home espresso machine in Europe, or handing out shoes to the poor in the country of Africa (my exact recollection of what I was doing fell prey to a bout of amnesia, from an unfortunate encounter with a white truck), I was wandering the streets of the Internet when I caught sight of the Dramabeans home page, all the memories came flooding back, and I realized how much I missed writing rambling kdrama commentaries that no one reads.

So here I am again and I apologize in advance for annoying anyone by taking up too much server space. I was pleased to see that many of my favorite DB commentators remain active, including the people who just posted above me: welh, @jerrykuvira, @reply1988, @lordcobol, @kurama, and @enriquequierecagar. Coincidence that this thread inspired me to come back?—I think not!

I also want to pay tribute to all the DB staff who will continue to guide me to Kdrama knowledge—it’s because of the chemistry between all of you I can’t stay away from this site.

Above all, I stan @missvictrix and am a member of the Pickt-VIct-rix Nation. The “Picts” as we call ourselves, will be sending her a coffee cart at her next public lecture. Or does Dramabeans already have an official coffee cart? They should!

Not having other friends that are kdrsma fans is hard. I have so many kdrama-related jokes and nowhere to use them.

What's the point of hearing a friend say something stupid if I can't reply "yeah, and Im Si Wan is always choosing bad projects".
Or what's the point of watching my friend get angry at someone if I can't tell them "careful, Park Il Do loves this". Well, I actually have one friend that watched The Guest last month... but that's the only joke she would understand! 🥺

I've often people talk about kdramas having disappointing finales or second halfs and I never quite experienced that but I have to say, these past few months of dramas have definitely made me go "what the...?!"

I know being creative is hard and I know everyone worked hard and tried their best so I'm not trying to insult them or belittle their efforts but seriously with some of these shows! What is going on?!

Lol so I'm just finishing watching Chimera. And gosh dang it I have a soapbox for this show now. I dropped it the first time around (shamefully I lasted like 8-10 episodes, oof). It was just... boring. Serial killers and cops and FIRE... that should be fun! That should be exciting! They should really try and delve into who it is and have a lot of close calls as they chase the killer! Right? Wrong. They just spent a lot of time talking with a bunch of old conglomerates scheming over drinks. Laaaame. So then later I'm like: ok, maybe I'll give it another shot as NOT a serial killer show and instead a political thriller vibe. And that was actually a bit more ok... I started watching from episode 8, skipped my way through episode 13... And then my jaw dropped in the last three episodes. WHERE HAD THIS BEEN THE ENTIRE SHOW?!

*Spoilers Ahead*

Picture this: instead of dragging out all the secrets and backstory the entire drama, they instead give that to us in the opening week, and we get the entire show to bite our nails as mom fights to retain her sense of self so the old serial killer doesn't come back to the surface. Like what?! I would have loved to get more flashbacks about what she did as Chimera, and even feel the danger as she almost kills people in the present but works to stay in control... That would have been a GREAT drama. And the other twist? Loved it! Keep it! Just... I dunno... make that one character a more interesting, integral part of the story before then. Not someone just annoyingly hanging around the sidelines. Make them a bit more captivating and quirky/likeable as a character a la K in Inspector Koo... and then watch the jaws drop! Gosh darn it this show could have been so much better. I love the idea of all these crimes done with fire and allll the different ways to make things explode. It just... wasn't an explosive show. Fare thee well, Chimera, I liked the last 2 and a half episodes.

hoping dramabeans covers Island - haven't seen any news about it here but the teasers dropped a few days ago and it looks so good! im also a fan of the original webtoon :)