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KOREAN DRAMAS

Drama	Grade	Comments
1% of Anything	A	Starts slow but becomes an entertaining and touching love story. Best of the sappy Kdramas.
18 vs. 29	B	Funny and cute though nothing particularly orginal.
9 End 2 Outs
Attic Cat	B+	Starts out original and entertaining but it ends super unsatisfying.
Bad Couple	A	Really funny situations with amusing characters and depth. One of the rare ones that made me lose sleep to watch.
Bad Family
Boys Before Flowers
Bright Girl's Success Story	C+	Starts entertaining, eventually drags w/happy but unsatisfying ending.
Coffee Prince	A	Funny and toughing with great female characters.
Country Princess	C+	Starts boring Ends boring but the Devil girl period was fairly entertaining. Also the love part was entertaining but that was only 5 episodes. Overall very typical.
Crazy for You	B+	Touching and Sweet but sometimes too much pain to watch and should have ended at 14 instead of 16.
Dal Ja’s Spring	A+	More friend and job oriented then romance oriented. Aside from the last 3 episodes this may be my fav Kdrama. Funny and Original I loved everyone in it.
Exhibition of Fireworks	X	Should have been called exhibition of typical kdrama love quandrangle with multiple crying bouts every episode.
Fantasy Couple	B+	Based on Overboard loosely and was quite entertaining. Rare Kdrama that starts and ends well.
Freeze	C	Starts slow and ends weird but overall a VERY unique romance with dramatic undertones. Sorta crazy though.
Friends 2002	D-	Goofy and predictable. A stereotypical drama spanning several years. I have every expectation this couple will break up soon.
Full House	B+	Drags out toward end and repetitive but entertaining and happy ending.
Get Karl, Oh Soo Jung!
Golden Bride	B	Draggy at times but over all a sweet and drama filled show with a nice ensemble cast.
Goodbye Solo
Goong/Princess Hours	A-	Starts light hearted and gets more and more serious, so the end drags. Happy though odd ending.
Goong S / Palace S
Great Inheritance
Happiness	B-	Once I decided to only follow the story lines I was interested in I enjoyed it a great deal more. Look at it as a soap opera with a lot of characters you don’t care about. Annoying people and odd cultural attitudes can be tough to watch so I just skipped it and watched the good stuff. Thats what my grade is based on. That said the good stuff wasnt all that good so as a whole I really would not recommend this drama to anyone who is not an old lady.
Hello My Teacher	B-	Typical and nothing special but Gong Yoo's smile makes it all worth while
In-Soon is Pretty	C-	Had high hopes because premise was so unique. Starts great and dissolves into typicalness, predictability, boringness and crazy coincidence. Big revelations in the end I guessed by Ep 3. I skimmed from Ep 8-12 and just wached end. Sooo disappointing because of high hopes but with low expectations mildly entertaining.
Last Scandal	B+	Cute and funny but near the end there are a lot of cliches and expected twists. Plus the end lacks something I can't explain. It was an A until ep 13.
Lawyers of The Great Republic Korea	A-	It was a bit out of the ordinary with some very well rounded characters. No evil bitch woman so a pleasant change. If I had liked the female lead more it would have been even better because the story was great.
Lets Go To The Beach	B-	Typical Kdrama nothing unique and only mildly funny. Lots of hot men though.
Love and Marriage	B	Light and fluffy romance. No villians which was a nice change but a little too light at times. The end was adorably cute. Breezy drama that was easy to watch but not something that will linger in the mind.
Lovers in Paris	B-	It was an A till episode 14. Started well with great characters, hot guys and it avioded the foolish misunderstandings that can crop up in these types of shows. Then it became full of kdrama clichés and typical machinations and corporate goobly gawk. Became so boring I actually skipped much of the last 4 episodes. The end was bad too.
Lovers in Prague	B	Very Melodramatic and I felt really bad for the side characters. Has some cute funny moments but too sad to be a keeper.
Miss Kim Makes 1 Million	B	Entertaining. Good but not great. I enjoyed it but not a memeroable show.
My Girl	B+	Fun but too much self sacrifice
My Love Patzzi	B	Cute and original for a K-drama. Quite liked it though nothing special.
My Lovely Sam-Soon	A+	Hilarious with totally original main character Sam-soon. Near perfect in every way.
One Fine Day
Only You	B	Dramatic & Romantic w/ perfect male lead. No comedy & somewhat original (Update: A billion shows later and I realize this show was not at all original)
Please Come Back, Soon-Ae
Prince's First Love	B-	Funny but lead female is an idiot and waayyyy to much angstyness.
Queen of The Game
Que Sera, Sera	B+	Very original and lead was super sexy but there was a lot of pain and suffering. It's hard to take watching people make such bad decisions. Overall excellent and entertaining but not one I'd want to see again.
Rude Women
Ruler of Your Own World	FFF	So boring I couldn’t even bother with the last five episodes. Everyone cried every episode
Rules of Love	B	This show has some very unique qualities and funny moments, but the characters suffer too much for it to be a keeper.
Save the Last Dance for Me	C+	For me the show ended at episode 12. After that I really didn’t care about anything else because there was a lot of convoluted melodrama and the main character cried every episode (sometimes twice) though to be fair she cried from episode 2 every episode. It was easily forgetable but mildly enjoyable through those first 12 episodes. After that skim till the end. If you spend 15 minutes per episode thats 5 minutes too many.
Secret Lovers
Shoot for the Star	F	So bad it's sometimes highy entertaining for it's sheer ridiculousness and horrible acting. Ultimately a stupid stupid show full of stupid stupid over the top caricatures without any redeeming qualities outside of a case study in what not to do in a kdrama.
Snow In August	C	Starts well but by episode 14 it had gone to light and funny to heavy and dreary. It was simply unwatchable. SOOOO Melodramtic. Skipped to end and show became god awful. Wish I had just stopped at the end of ep 14 and pretended it was over.
Snow White/ Taste Sweet Love	D	Completely typical w/love triangles, feuding siblings, country leaving and cooking careers. After Ep 4 skimmed and only watched about 10 minutes per ep but that was enough. It's very boring and the lead female is too pathetic to be interesting. Wouldn't have even skimmed but the lead male was kinda hot and pretty cool. However at the end of the day nothing can save it from it's essential boringness and similarity to 90% of all kdramas.
Super Rookie
Sweet 18	A-	Funny and sweet. I was worried but really a perfect ending.
Taereung National Village	B+	"The Voice" is wonderful in this highly unique, episodic drama. Typical kdrama love quadrangle but its all presented so well that I could help but enjoy it.
Thank You
War of Money	B	First half is funny. Second half is serious. I enjoyed it but I choose to imagine the last few minutes never happened.
What's up Fox?	A-	Unique premise and very funny. Has a lovable cast and good ending
Witch Amusement	C-	Mildly amusing sometimes but ultimately boring. I skipped 6 middle episodes and the end was ridiculous yet typical.
Wonderful Life	A	Funny and touching with real emotional depth and maturing characters

JAPANESE DRAMAS

Drama	Grade	Comments
1 Pound no Fukuin	C	Disposable goofy comedy but at least it was short and mildly amusing. I was able to finish it all and now adays that says a lot
Akihabara@DEEP	C-	It's too goofy and ridiculous and over the top. I skipped 5 middle episodes.
Akimahende	B-	It's goofy and the womans whining voices irked me but it was fairly entertaining.
Bara no nai Hanaya
Be Nice to People	B	Amusing and Unique. Three men and a boy.
Beautiful Life	A+	Romantic Love Story but be warned the tears will flow.
Cheap Love	B-	Ending ruined it. Otherwise serious drama about a mismatched love.
Egao no Hosoku	C-	Watched the whole thing on fast forward and skipping chunks of minutes. The feminist in me was appalled but I was mildly entertained for the 3 or so hours it took me to watch the whole thing.
Fuma no Kojiro	C	Goofy and poorly acted but blessedly short and mildly entertaining in small chuncks.
GTO	A-	Hilarious antics and great characters
Haken no Hinkaku	A	Super funny with amazing lead actress. Classic.
Himitsu no Hanazono	C+	Starts off entertaining but eventually got boring dragged and I skimmed the end.
Hanayome wa Yakudoshi	B+	Funny and very entertaining. Has character depth and a complete ending.
Hana Yori Dango	A	Best version of Boys over flowers. Great Romantic Comedy
Hana Yori Dango 2	B	Not as good as the first and greatly deviates from the manga
Hotaru no Hikari	B+	It was laugh out loud funny.
IWGP	A-	Excellent acting about young hoodlums. Completely original seedy side of Japan.
Kazoku	C+	One of those shows were the cultural attitudes were so foreign it was hard not to think everyone was nuts. How do you divorce and never have a conversation about it. However it's an interesting show and blessedly short.
Kimi Wa Petto	B-	Very Strange and a bit frustrating but it was entertaining and certainly original. Plus dude was hot
Koi ni Ochitari	A	Greed will get you no matter what you think. It was different and entertaining.
Kurosagi	B+	Interesting and Unique but had an incomplete ending.
Last Christmas	C+	Good but nothing special and sort of standard romantic comedy
LIAR GAME	A-	Mind games, swindles and a hot guy. What more can you want? Tad cheesy ending but highly entertaining.
Long Vacation	B	Typical Kimura show but I enjoyed it
Love Generation
Love Revolution	A-	Great cast of characters. Realistic Funny Love story with great ending.
Love Story	B+	This was a couple made for each other and they showed it very well. Friendship that grew into love with a very adorable ending. Great Entertaining show.
Mada Koi Wa Hajimaranai	C-	Watched Beginning and End. Skimmed middle. Couple don't even meet til 2nd to last episode. Too much destiny not enough action.
Mahiru No Tsuki	A-	Couple faces seemingly insurmountable problems realistically. Quite fascinating and unique
Medaka	B	Unique school drama because of the night school angle. I was suitably entertained and Eita was hot as always.
My Boss My Hero	B-	It was funny. Ridiculous but also funny
My Husband (Mokudono)	C+	I got bored with it and skimmed the last episodes but it was funny
Nobuta Wo Produce	B+	Great Tale of friendship and personal growth. No romance just high school drama
Nodame Cantabile	A	Funny without being silly and cute with out being sappy. It was vastly entertaining and quite touching.
Nodame Cantabile SP	A	As cute as the first and provides a bit more closure. Plus the music is great as always.
Oishii Proposal	B-	Show starts and ends well but drags in the middle. Lots of skimming but cute.
Orange Days	A-	Young people Romantic Love Story. Warm and touching w/ great feisty female
Pride	B-	Episodic and entertaining. Starts as comedy romance and ends as drama romance. Unoriginal but enjoyable
Seigi no Mikata	C+	Starts entertaining but the younger sister character never grows so it’s a very unsatisfying show.
Shotgun Marriage	B-	I did not really understand the cultural attitudes so this was a confusing show for me, but I was fairly entertained
Star No Koi	C-	Poor chemistry and goofy people
Story of One Century	B+	Interesting premise. Short and entertaining
Tatta Hitotsu No Koi	A-	Young people Romantic Love Story. Cute and touching w/ great guy
Tokyo Friends	B	Drama's entertaining though it's a NANA clone. Movie provides drama with an ending but it takes 45 minutes of movie to get to same place drama ended. They even repeat scenes exactly from the drama and have a lot of flashbacks.
Yamato Nadeshiko	C-	Ridiculousness. Skimmed last 7 episodes cause all characters were annoying, weak and stupid.
Yamada Torou Monogatori	C-	Ridiculousness. Skimmed last 5 episodes cause all characters were crack smokers.

TAIWANESE DRAMAS

Drama	Grade	Comments
Devil Beside You	A+	Funny, Romantic and Cute. Great cast of characters
Hana Kimi
It Started With A Kiss	A	Super Funny. Lead female’s stalker habits are priceless. More comedy then romance but satisfying ending.
Love Contract	C-	Not that deep with a lot of deaths at the end. I don’t even understand what happened
Magicians of Love
Mars	A+	Faithful Manga Adaptation. Very serious drama with serious issues. Romance and no comedy
Meteor Garden	B+	Funny, Romantic and Frustrating. Female lead can make you want to commit murder. Very repetitive. Great cast of characters.
Prince turns to Frog	B+	Enjoyed it with cute funny characters, but sort of a typical Tdrama.
Smiling Pasta	C-	Starts well but quickly drags into improbable obstacles and silliness. I skimmed the last few episodes.
Tokyo Juliet
Why Why Love