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Which is my favorite Kdrama network?

When I'm bored I like to list and categorize things. Today I've decided to discover, statistically, which Korean drama network is my favorite based on shows I've watched.

Including both shows I've completed and shows I've dropped bc in this case, the shows I don't like are relevant.

Using my ratings from MyDramaList :) which means however I felt the first time I finished watching a show, basically. Not including networks where I've only watched one show (e.g., Disney+, Wavve, Channel A).

JTBC:

Agency--Dropped

Beyond Evil--6

Itaewon Class--Dropped

My Country the New Age--10

Private Lives--Dropped

Reflection of You--Dropped

Sisyphus: The Myth--Dropped

I can't believe this network produced My Country the New Age when everything else I've watched by them has been a flop for me. Beyond Evil came the closest to breaking the curse but even then. Itaewon Class is one of my least favorite shows I've ever tried to watch; I've forgotten most of the details now but a bad taste lingers.

KBS:

White Christmas--10

Mad Dog--8

The King's Affection--10

River Where the Moon Rises--Dropped

Should I have given River Where the Moon Rises more of a chance? Bc apparently this network only makes bangers.

MBC:

Extraordinary You--7

Rookie Historian Goo Hae-ryung--9

The Veil--7

Idk what to say about this one. RHGH is pretty damn good but I think I would probs like it less watching it now than I did in 2019, newish to kdramas and ready to love anything. But it's a fave regardless, and Extraordinary You and The Veil are both fairly watchable. A serviceable network.

MBN:

Perfect Marriage Revenge--Dropped

Sponsor--Dropped

A network to watch a few episodes with the desire to see dogblood plots, and then leave.

Netflix:

Bloodhounds--8

My Holo Love--Dropped

Gyeongseong Creature--Dropped

Song of Bandits--8

The Silent Sea--7

It's Netflix. I don't know that they're ever going to make a real favorite for me but they're fairly competent.

OCN:

Save Me--8

Duel--Dropped

A Superior Day--Dropped

Apparently it takes Seo Ye-ji and Woo Do-hwan's powers combined to make me finish a show by this network. You'd think it would be easier bc they seem to enjoy angst and whump, but I think they pour it on a little too thick.

SBS:

Doctor Stranger--Dropped

Lovers of the Red Sky--8

Revenant--9

The King: Eternal Monarch--7

The Killing Vote--Dropped

Remember: War of the Son--Dropped

Honestly I might come back to at least one of these dropped shows. Their track record on plots is okay, but their actors are really good.

TVN:

100 Days My Prince--Dropped

Alchemy of Souls--9

Bad and Crazy--Dropped

Circle: Two Worlds Connected--9

Confession--6

Devil Judge--9

Eve--8

Flower of Evil--10

Hotel del Luna--Dropped

It's Okay to Not Be Okay--8

Mine--8

Mr. Sunshine--8

Our Blooming Youth--Dropped

Pandora: Beneath the Paradise--Dropped

Psychopath Diary--9

Tale of the Nine-Tailed--Dropped

Clearly I just start the most show by them. Do they make the most shows? I don't know. Good concepts and good cinematic quality on most of these shows, with just a few exceptions. Pretty solid network.

Viki:

Color Rush--8

I Picked Up a Star On the Road--6

Where Your Eyes Linger--8

You Make Me Dance--6

Mixed bag.

The takeaways:

I should probably watch more KBS. On my to-watch list, that translates to Youth of May, the Bridal Mask, Hwarang, the Bloody Heart, and Orange Marmalade. So mostly historical dramas, which is a pity bc apparently I also like their thrillers.

Really, though, my to-watch list at this point has a ton of SBS and MBC on it for some reason, at least with shows that have already come out. According to my stats so far, my odds are pretty mixed on liking them or not.

Somehow, one feels, I will actually end up watching more TVN instead... but that has yet to materialize. (except the one kdrama I'm currently watching is a TVN drama. so.)

Did I really learn anything? No. and on that note, good night.

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songs to keep

on love

1000x - jtbc superband

annie's song - john denver

chasing cars - snow patrol (+ sat cover)

hush - lasse lindh

i fall - victor lundberg

i see the light - mandy moore

if - bread

la vie en rose - emily watts

leaving home - cody fry

only us - laura dreyfuss

poison & wine - the civil wars

rivers and roads - the head and the heart

somewhere only we know - keane

stories - paden

time after time - iron & wine

try to remember - the brothers four

walls - all time low

dark indie/alt

gasoline - halsey

migraine - twenty one pilots

paradise - coldplay

pumped up kicks - foster the people

spirits - the strumbellas

this is home - cavetown

IOTNBO soundtracks

minty mellow

middle of nowhere - vancouver sleep clinic

mystery of love - sufjan stevens

no sweeter taste - paper branches

saturn - sleeping at last

shimmer no waves - giants & pilgrims

mythos

i, carrion - hozier

icarus - bastille

pompeii - bastille

sisyphus - andrew bird

spaces between

fall - the belonging co.

grace upon grace - brooke + boggs

heaven knows - hillsong united

vanilla twilight - owl city

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von - pretty patterns

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playlists to keep

instrumentals

how rare and beautiful it is to even exist (2021 life proses)

the in-between moments when poetry arrives (2022 themed poems)

wu wei (2022 themed proses)

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2024 ~

*otherworldly instrumentals

above and beyond (movie scores | for battle) 2025 book

celestial (mellow otherworldly) 2025 proses

ether (nostalgic otherworldly) 2025 book / proses

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🪽(otherworldly for battle | childhood elements) editing

*dark indie (/childhood-themed)

AURORA

elaine | janet suhh (IOTNBO)

aeseaes

*minty mellow

Novo Amor

sød ven

sleeping at last

*mythos

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Kdrama Review: Sisyphus the myth

Do yourself a favour and skip the show. I'll tell you why.

Plot

So the entries premise of this dystopian show is this: A nuclear war is going to break between South and North Korea in 2020.

There is this brilliant (and dickish) CEO called Han Tae Sul of the company Quantum and Time who invents something called the "uploader" which is basically a time machine.

People who live in the post-war Korea use the uploader to come back to the past to pre-war Korea and live a normal life.

One of such people is our female lead Kang Seo-Hae. But she isn't really coming back to the past to enjoy fresh fruit and air. Her mission is to mind Han Tae Sul and stop him from building the uploader because the invention of that is directly connected to the nuclear war. So that means: no uploader = no war.

Sounds exciting, doesn't it?

After 15 episodes of trying to understand time loops and quantum physics and time paradox and sitting through a 100 action scenes where multiple groups of people are trying to kill the two leads who are trying their best to change the future which is next to impossible, we expect answers in the finale. But guess what we get instead?

Disappointment and a big ?

You can argue that's because I do not understand the technicalities of physics. But I really don't think that's just it.

The writing is so messy. It is full of loop holes and illogical events. I just cannot put the blame on my lack of understanding science. I think the creators too don't understand it all that well.

It's not your usual cliffhanger ending

Firstly, kdramas don't end their finale at a cliffhanger because they typically don't have a season 2 (unless they want to torture our hearts like Scarlet Heart Ryeo).

But fine, I'm a grown woman. I'm a writer. I can handle cliffhangers. But Sisyphus The Myth doesn't quite end with one. It ends with ridiculousness. I think the creators should issue either a letter of apology or explanation.

If you've read my other kdrama reviews, you know I'm never this harsh. But I just can't believe I wasted 16 hours and 8 weeks of my life on this nonsensical shit.

I think the title was the only thing that was on-point. I mean trying to make sense of this show was definitely a sisyphian task.

If you do really love Park Shin Hye and or action packed stuff then maybe you can watch it just for that element. But don't expect the ending to make sense or be gratifying at any level.

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Jo Seung Woo

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Even if there’s no future, come and find me..

- Sisyphus : The Myth

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Them 😭💜

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sisyphus the myth is what happens when the writer, director and producers all go "what if we made a show all about cool fight scenes. thats it. we'll just figure out the plot later! what could possibly go wrong"

everything ladies and gentlemen. everything.

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