My 2022 dramas
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1. Novoland: Pearl Eclipse
Chinese Drama - 2021, 48 episodes
- Equally interesting pairings
- Yang Mi
- OST
- Addicting
- Nice fight scenes
- Angst
- Interesting plot
- CGI was very bad in some parts
- The wigs were awful
- Everyone is supposed to believe that the main FL is a man...
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2. Shan Ye Yi Si
Chinese Drama - 2021, 13 episodes
- Pretty good production quality
- Some stories were pretty good some were mediocre
- Passable acting
- Based on tales from ancient China
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3. Melancholia
Korean Drama - 2021, 16 episodes
- Good directing and cinematography
- Great performance from Lee Do Hyun and Choi Dae Hoon
- Fantastic depiction of the love for math and how you find it in everyday life
- Decent OST
- Decent plot, but not addicting
- Slow paced
- The two themes, meaning the school corruption and the relationship between the main leads, felt like they belonged in two different dramas
- Overacting from Jin Kyung that portrays Noh Jung Ah
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4. Luo Yang
Chinese Drama - 2021, 39 episodes
- Huang Xuan's performance is just unforgettable
- Great OST
- Fantastic action scenes
- Great production quality
- Gets a bit draggy at some point
- Boring ending
- Annoying female character (Liu Ran)
- Visually pleasing
- Questionable clothing choices
- Uninteresting female lead
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5. Bad Buddy
Thai Drama - 2021, 12 episodes
- Great acting
- Fantastic chemistry between the main leads
- Healthy relationship
- Angst
- The rooftop scene!
- Nice storyline
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6. Tinted With You
Korean Drama - 2021, 8 episodes
- Awful production quality
- Badly written story
- Decent acting from one of the mains
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7. Light on Series: The Long Night
Chinese Drama - 2020, 12 episodes
- Great acting from all the cast
- Good directing and cinematography
- Dark atmosphere
- Slow paced series
- Interesting and complicated plot
- Could be a few episodes less
- I don't know how it passes censorship (that proves how good it actually is)
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8. Mio Dolce Caro
Korean Drama - 2021, 8 episodes
- The food looked good
- ''Passable'' acting from Jang Eui Soo
- Lee Chan Hyung was pretty good and visually pleasing...
- Bad plot full of cringy clichés
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9. Non siamo più vivi
Korean Drama - 2022, 12 episodes
- Some actors were just not it
- Great acting from Yoo In Soo and Lim Jae Hyeok
- Draggy -> too many and long eps
- Why cut the actually suspenseful scenes to show us another storyline?
- Some interesting characters
- Lots of blood
- Some unnecessary and completely unrealistic scenes (not talking about the zombies)
- I couldn't form any emotional connection with the characters
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10. Keigo Higashino Samayou Yaiba
Japanese Drama - 2021, 6 episodes
- Good acting
- Interesting and thought provoking plot
- Disturbing
- Dark atmosphere
- Not for the faint-hearted
- Great ending
- Heart wrenching
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11. Iribito: Kotokunibito
Japanese Drama - 2021, 5 episodes
- Phenomenal acting
- Unforgettable performance from Takahata Mitsuki
- Haunting
- Great production quality
- Amazing directing and cinematography
- Otherworldly feeling
- Evokes different feelings
- Surreal somehow
- Great plot
- Genius in its simplicity
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12. Poison Daughter, Holy Mother
Japanese Drama - 2019, 6 episodes
- Interesting anthology
- Uneasy feeling
- Good acting
- Plot twists
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13. Kingyo Tsuma
Japanese Drama - 2022, 8 episodes
- Interesting cinematography
- Boring main story
- Well-done and fun to watch side stories
- Good-enough acting
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14. La giudice
Korean Drama - 2022, 10 episodes
- Good acting from all the cast
- Dark atmosphere
- Nice storyline and cases
- Interesting approach
- Second half was weaker than the first
- Good production quality
- Great opening scene
- Some of the cases are based on real ones
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15. Semantic Error
Korean Drama - 2022, 8 episodes
- Great chemistry
- Enemies to lovers
- Nice cinematography
- Good acting
- Fun to watch
- Interesting plot
- Good production quality
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16. Inside Criminal Minds
Korean Drama - 2022, 12 episodes
- Dark atmosphere
- Slow paced
- Great acting
- Kim Nam Gil's performance was perfect
- The actors that portrayed the villains were phenomenal
- Amazing portrayal of the real life cases
- Greatly written main lead
- Disturbing
- Great OST
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17. Under the Skin
Chinese Drama - 2022, 20 episodes
- Unique theme
- Great acting from Tan Jian Ci
- Great dynamics between characters
- Fast paced
- Character driven
- Thought provoking cases
- Bromance
- Visually pleasing
- Learned many fun facts
- Filled with paintings, sketches
- Fun to watch
- Nice opening
- Addicting watch
- Well written characters
- Genius, but not cold, main lead
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18. Not Me
Thai Drama - 2021, 14 episodes
- Great directing and cinematography
- Good acting
- Not wel-written plot
- The romance between the two mains felt too much sometimes
- They added all the ''accidental'' clichés even though the genre shouldn't have them
- Felt preachy
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19. Zettai BL ni Naru Sekai VS Zettai BL ni Naritakunai Otoko 2
Japanese Special - 2022, 1 episode
- Satire
- Fun to watch
- Not as good as the first one
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20. Reset
Chinese Drama - 2022, 15 episodes
- Great acting
- Good production quality
- Well written plot
- Suspenseful
- Well executed as it didn't get boring
- Fun watch
- Ideal amount of episodes
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21. You're My Sky
Thai Drama - 2022, 12 episodes
- Interesting plot
- Slice of life
- Equally interesting couples
- Actors don't look like gods, but like everyday people
- Angst
- Awful product placement
- Slow paced
- Interesting cinematography
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22. I Wanna Bite It
Korean Drama - 2022, 8 episodes
- Awful plot
- Awful ending
- Bad acting
- Waste of time and money
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23. Remember 15
Thai Drama - 2022, 12 episodes
- Good acting
- Great concept
- Awful execution
- Really bad directing and cinematography
- Lacked suspense
- Draggy
- The gore and bloody scenes were laughable
- Makes no sense at some points
- Great promotion (trailers, posters)
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24. Enchante
Thai Drama - 2022, 10 episodes
- Good enough watch
- Funny
- Good acting especially from Force
- Different than the trailer
- Interesting concept, not that well executed
- Bad CGI
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25. Boys Over Flowers
Thai Drama - 2021, 16 episodes
- Addicting at first
- Boring second part
- Bad acting from some of the leads
- Milk was fantastic
- Okay OST
- Fantastic directing and cinematography
- Old fashioned trope that worked, but only in the first half
- The side characters were more interesting than the mains
- Dew looked so ethereal that I barely noticed his bad acting
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26. King of Pigs
Korean Drama - 2022, 12 episodes
- Great acting from the child actors
- Great acting from the majority of the cast, excluding the police officers
- Great past and serial killer arc
- Badly written investigation part
- Good enough cinematography
- Graphic with no censorship
- Disturbing
- Dark Atmosphere
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27. Kentaro Hiyama no Ninshin
Japanese Drama - 2022, 8 episodes
- Fun watch
- Expected something more serious and thought provoking
- Good acting
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28. Monstrous
Korean Drama - 2022, 6 episodes
- Good for a binge-watch
- I love Koo Kyo Hwan's acting
- Park Ho San's acting was not it
- Too much blood without reasoning
- Dark atmosphere that didn't work that well
- Fun to watch
- Felt like your typical apocalyptic/ zombie series
- Decent CGI
- Underdeveloped characters
- No emotional connection with the characters
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29. Superior Day
Korean Drama - 2022, 8 episodes
- Pretty sure the script was written under one minute
- Bad in every aspect
- Acting was passable
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30. Dress Sleeved Red
Korean Drama - 2021, 17 episodes
- Great OST
- Really good acting from the two mains
- Too much fluff for my taste
- Some parts of the plot were just nonsensical
- Didn't need that many episodes
- Got to know about the actual historical figures
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31. KinnPorsche Side Story
Thai Special - 2022, 1 episode
- Cute side story
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32. Cupid's Last Wish
Thai Drama - 2022, 10 episodes
- Fun watch
- Loved the period scenes
- I liked the acting
- Nothing unique
- Got draggy and repetitive
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33. Cherry Blossoms After Winter
Korean Drama - 2022, 8 episodes
- Had its moments
- Passable acting
- Forgettable
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34. KinnPorsche
Thai Drama - 2022, 14 episodes
- Great production quality
- Nice direction and cinematography
- Good acting
- Great OST (especially Why don't you stay)
- Unnecessary comedic elements that weren't funny
- Plot made 0 sense
- Would be ground breaking 2 years ago
- Pretty bad fight scenes
- Product placement...
- Great intimate scenes
- Generally liked the couples
- The main couple got boring after the first half
- Vegas, you may be a bastard, but I would sin for you
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35. To My Star 2
Korean Drama - 2022, 10 episodes
- Not as addicting as the first season, but comparing them is unfair
- Good acting
- Good cinematography and directing
- Slow paced
- Unnecessary scenes
- Interesting characters
- Escaped the ''season 2'' curse
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36. Eve's Scandal
Korean Drama - 2022, 16 episodes
- Seo Yea Ji would never pick this project if it wasn't for the scandal
- Awful make up and clothing
- Interesting first half
- Mediocre acting from most of the actors
- Ridiculous plot
- Bad directing and editing
- Another actor for the male lead would do the job
- Yoo Sun as Han So Ra was a pleasure to watch
- Full of plot holes
- Felt like they took this series seriously when they shouldn't have
- Nice OST
- Femme fatale missing
- Seo Eun Pyung's character didn't fit into this series
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37. Red Heart
Korean Drama - 2022, 16 episodes
- Perfect, and I mean perfect, directing and cinematography
- Needed half the episodes
- Nice OST
- Pretty good acting
- Park Gye Won is an immaculately written character
- Started with a bang
- Slow paced
- Could be a 2h movie
- No chemistry between the leads
- Interesting side characters that needed more screen time
- Great performances from Jang Hyuk, Kang Ha Na and Park Ji Yeon
- The romance between Park Gye Won and the queen dowager should have been the main love line -> THE CHEMISTRY!
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38. Star and Sky: Sky in Your Heart
Thai Drama - 2022, 8 episodes
- Good amount of eps
- Passable acting
- Nothing extraordinary
- Fun watch
- Takes place in the country side
- Clichés over clichés
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39. Old Fashion Cupcake
Japanese Drama - 2022, 5 episodes
- This was made for me
- Good acting
- Comforting/cozy vibe
- Jealousy
- Age gap relationship
- Melancholic vibe
- Perfect amount of episodes
- Obviously loved the romance
- Existential questions
- Realistic vibe
- Handsome male leads
- Food and sweet-porn
- The type of series you watch under your blankets
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40. Isu
Japanese Drama - 2022, 8 episodes
- Interesting and unique anthology
- Weird af
- Great acting
- Good cinematography and directing
- Heavy symbolism
- Chairs
- Some stories were a bit disappointing
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41. Triage
Thai Drama - 2022, 13 episodes
- Addicting and fun to watch
- Passable acting
- Pretty well written for the most part
- Unique scenario for a bl series
- Liked the romance
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42. Love Mechanics
Thai Drama - 2022, 10 episodes
- Passable acting
- The ''enemies'' phase should have lasted longer
- Angst
- Draggy
- Needed less episodes
- Great first half
- Overall okay watch
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43. Blueming
Korean Drama - 2022, 11 episodes
- Good acting
- Underrated ah
- Fantastic cinematography for a relatively low budget series
- Melancholic vibe
- Well written plot
- Well written character
- Unexpectedly made me emotional
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44. Alchemy of Souls
Korean Drama - 2022, 20 episodes
- Great acting
- Good CGI
- First 12 episodes were addictive
- Fast paced first half
- Draggy and nonsensical second half
- The scriptwriters started writing for the characters and not the audience
- Plot twists that weren't plot twists
- Fantastic OST
- Naksu's character got destroyed
- Great comedic elements
- Swoon worthy romance in the first half
- Crown prince MVP
- Well done sword fights
- Had it's epic moments
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45. Narcosantos
Korean Drama - 2022, 6 episodes
- Great acting from the two main leads,
- Great production
- Underwhelming
- Speaking in English was necessary, but it was a bit cringy at times
- Could have been a movie
- Well done cinematography and directing
- Plot felt boring and draggy at times
- Really liked the introduction of the main character
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46. Weak Hero
Korean Drama - 2022, 8 episodes
- Well choreographed fighting scenes
- Great acting
- First half was a bit underwhelming
- Good enough production
- Well written characters
- Felt repetitive at times
- Great violent scenes
- Nonsensical but fun to watch
- Teachers: missing
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47. Connect
Korean Drama - 2022, 6 episodes
- Great production quality
- Phenomenal opening credits
- Good amount and duration of episodes
- An unecessary and cartoonish character
- Good enough CGI
- Fun brainless watch
- Strong, morally grey female lead
- Lack of suspense
- Plot holes and many nonsensical scenes
- Unnecessary romance between the mains
- Not interesting ML
- Great concept
- Acting could have been better
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48. Imawa no Kuni no Alice 2
Japanese Drama - 2022, 8 episodes
- Much better than season 1
- More difficult and fun to watch games
- Interesting side characters
- Yamazaki Kento overacted badly (again)
- Fantastic production quality
- Nonsensical scenes here and there
- Ending was perfect, everything was explained
- Chishiya and Kuina were a pleasure to watch
- The romance between the mains was cringy
- An -> great character
- Aguni and Heiya for the win
- The mains were the most uninteresting characters of the show
- Great finale episode
- Easy and fun to watch
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49. The Eclipse
Thai Drama - 2022, 12 episodes
- Good acting
- Bad cinematography and directing
- Everything looked bland besides some visually pleasing scenes
- No plot
- Should have been a short film
- Cliché and cringy at times
- Obviously they needed a bl couple and they just got reminded that there needs to be some kind of nonsensical plot too