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I made this for Instagram people, but I thought I'd put it here. I don't know if anyone's interested in getting into kdramas right now, but just in case, these are my faves.

If any of y'all want to check out any of these and can't find them, let me know and I can probably hunt one down for you. (Finding illegal TV is my superpower, and I have no moral compunctions about it if they won't make it available legally. If they want to make money off of me, they should make it available legally on one of the major streaming platforms, and that is all I have to say about that.)

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Nice list! White Christmas is currently available on Viki, at least in the US/Canada!

Those top three are also among my all-time favorites! And I've been meaning to check out White Christmas ...

It's not here in the UK, but I'm so glad to know that! I can use my VPN next time I want to watch it!

I'm really out of the drama loop. Is there anything from the past few years that you think is particularly good?

WATCH IT. I really love it so very much, though of course because it's dark, you need to be in the right mood for it. It's different than any other kdrama I've ever seen, and I'm always searching for one that will scratch that particular itch. No luck so far, but at least I can revisit WC whenever I want!

If this helps: it's written by the same writer who wrote Age of Youth!

Yess please watch White Christmas! Come meet my messy murder babies! The directing/cinematography is amazing, it's only 8 eps, and it's written by Park Yeon Sun, the same woman who wrote Age of Youth--it's really interesting to see the idiosyncrasies and preoccupations that this writer has that show up in two very different shows.

To be honest I've been kinda out of the kdrama loop recently too? The last two I finished and enjoyed were:

1. Kingdom on Netflix, which is a really interesting take on the zombie genre but given its main theme (class differences completely screw up the response to a disease outbreak because the rich are too busy trying to take/maintain their power and status than help the people they're supposed to protect) might feel a bit too relevant to current times. Also it gets really gory at times.

2. I also really liked Hotel del Luna and think it's now my favourite Hong Sister drama--the ending lost a bit of steam, but the writing made sense overall and I loved all the gender reversals (IU as a morally ambiguous, powerful immortal cursed due to her past as a vengeful bandit queen! Yeo Jin-gu as the soft hearted, kind ingenue love interest!). And of course you already know about the amazing wardrobe.

I've been out of it for like five years! I'm sure I missed some really good stuff but I have no idea what it was!

Joseon-era zombie show? With Bae Doona and Ju Jihoon? SIGN ME UP!

I don't entirely trust the Hong sisters to write something I'll like (their comedy is a little broad for me, among other things), but if you say it's good, maybe I'll give it a chance! I'm super into that role reversal!

I really wish more writers would do such staggeringly different kinds of stories and do them well. It'll probably be a few more years before we get anything new from her, but I can't wait!

Crash Landing on You was good! The lead couple sorta reminded me of Gallya.

It was good! I can see that a little!

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