The GOAT Dramas That Will Stay With Me Forever

When I was planning to watch this during my vacations, I already knew about it's greatness through comments. I thought "Just how good this might be? Should I rather watch something else? What if it did not impress me that much?" In the end, this turned out a rare binge watch occasion. And immediately afterwards, I rewatched it and dragged my sister to watch it with me too. I binged it again. I still keep rewatching this over and over and over. I feel like this is THE best drama I have seen that has mixed the genres so well. It made me laugh, it made me cry, and it made me feel all the complicated emotions that I have never felt while watching a show. I don't think this show will ever be replaced with another in my heart. I have a very special place for this show. It respects the intelligence of the audience. Not just in logical aspects, it makes you think on emotional & psychological aspects as well.

The acting is top notch, rarely seen. This show has destroyed time-travel, body swap/dual role and romantic shows for me forever. Whenever I see another drama with dual role, I start pointing out mistakes and overacting/underacting. All thanks to KJY & XGH. 

Also the first time I fell for the entirety of an OST of a show. It is usually me liking 1 or 2 osts a lot and not the rest of them. But here, I listen to all the songs used in this show over and over again. This show is just perfect and I love it

This is what therapy feels like. Nothing can exceed this for me. The most wholesome slice of life drama. It makes you feel a lot of emotions, wholesomeness the most. 

We will never see such a beautiful depiction of female friendship ever again. I laughed and then I cried. The eternal friendship.

One of the best Korean show out there. I never knew this was going to be this good, but douban 9.0 rating had me keep faith in this. It's MDL rating is too low. I was told that it was a sad drama and I'll cry at the end. I did not believe at first, but once I reached there I cried my eyes out. Also, the comedic parts are really funny in this too. The romance has that sad melancholic vibe that touched my heart. I loved each cast so much, especially Kim Hye Ja ma'am. This show touched on subjects that only few Korean shows dare to. These kinds of kdramas are rare, but I feel very happy when I encounter them. I am usually seen ranting about how kdramas are overrated due to a lot of average and bad shows getting such high viewership and ratings internationally, but kdramas like these always restore my faith that Koreans still make such great and unique shows once in a while. Also, I rewatched this with my sister immediately after watching it myself and she cried too. It's her favorite too. This show deserves more internationally, but at least it was popular in Korea. 

The best xianxia I have watched till now, and it will always be a favorite. This one is so satisfying to watch because after FL suffers so much in the mortal trial as a weak lady, she comes back as the strongest and unparalleled goddess who takes her revenge. One of the strongest FL ever. 

The lead chemistry is fantastic. They give you tingles even when he is a golden flower spirit that FL can't see and knows nothing about the ML since he hasn't been born yet, and ML does not know much about FL and thinks that she is a man. When their eyes first met, she has not even seen him; yet I could feel the explosive chemistry between them. This is one of those dramas that keeps getting better and better as episodes progress. 

Also, I love the music in this so much, the ost as well as the bgm. Especially, 'Liang Liang' is an all time favorite track.  The production quality was superb for 2017. Although the CGI is not the best ever, but for it's time they did well. Cinematography is perfect. 

I know that when looked at logically, there are a few not so well done aspects and plotholes, but what really made this drama so good for me was the lead pairing. I love them both to death. I rarely get dramas with this kind of pairing, I think this is the only drama with this kind of ML & FL. I can't explain in words how much I love XX & GYZ, and I wish so badly to see another drama with leads similar to them. 

Also amazing was how their romance played out. The drama is less romance focused, and many romantic scenes were edited out due to censorship, but they still managed to capture my heart. Romance not being the main focus helped a lot here since there was no stupid angst and misunderstandings which I hate. 

If anyone has the same taste as me for their lead romance story, where they prefer a playful, mischievous, and eccentric yet loving and devoted ML chasing the calm, smart, & strong yet uncaring towards ML's attention type of a FL, this is a must must must watch.