#80% of recent faves were watched with my grandma and it made the experience much more incredibe

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Filli do you have a list of kdrama recs!

Oh, I do. I mostly watch slices I identify as joseis (with some exceptions), but anyway I'm in the mood to talk about them, so

Faves:

Reply 1988 - my fav kdrama josei, focused on friendships and family, filled with nostalgia. I think this show and Spitz share the blame for my love towards 80-90s songs, I rewatched it recently and now my playlist looks like korean radio in 1988

Hospital Playlist - same crew as Reply, watched it to feel a bit better about people, it served its purpose + I loved all the songs

Age of Youth - story of friendship of five very different college girls, I haven't watched season 2 but the first one was great

Be Melodramatic - slice of life with lots of bittersweetness and irony and personal tragedies which amazed me with its direction, focus and the way it dealt with key themes

Healer - one of the things that once made me consider kdramas as a way to pass time, I thought I'd find it naive and no so good with time passing, but no, it still works on me

Recent faves:

Stove League - best drama I watched this year. Who would have thought a story of baseball club management could be so interesting

Beyond Evil - a detective story of two psychos officers trying to catch a serial killer while suspecting each other and making problems for the town (I fell in love with the ost first of all)

Racket Boys - haven't finished it but it's wholesome and fun, about a small school badminton team trying to win a competition

Youth of May - something that looked like a light story of students in Gwandju in 1980 and turned out to be about tragic historical events and killed my heart (I had no idea)

The Red Sleeve Cuff - something that looks like a story of love between a king and a maid (and later concubine) that is in fact just a tragedy of people of different social status and merciless era

My Liberation Notes - a story of lonely people dealing with life that hit me on a very personal lvl

Human Disqualification - same as previous, I got a bit mad about this one bc it gave me the same feelings my beloved Takaya once did with her Hoshi wa utau

Honorable mentions: One Spring Night, It's Okay To Not Be Okay, Sungkyunkwan Scandal, I Hear Your Voice