My personal opinion is that the dramas we had this year seemed to try to be the next Squid Game or Parasit -they tried so hard to be complex at the expense of everything else including story coherence, chemistry between the OTP, and that overall “joy” of watching that drama.
There are no simple and fun stories this year like Weightlifting Fairy, Live Up to Your Name, Chicago Typewriter, Descendant of the Sun (I know, some of these are not everyone’s liking but I’ll use them to illustrate my point). Instead, we have had numerous lawyer shows, shows with questionable lead characters or premises, shows that we don’t know what the intention of the producers is, incoherent or inconsistent shows, and violent shows. I know Koreans are competitive and they perhaps want to outdo their previous global hits but too much is never the way to go. What makes Korean shows stand out from the rest is the Korean elements in them. Trying to appeal to the international audience too much and they lose their unique charms.
[Drama chat] One thing that dramas did in 2022 that you *didn’t* love
Source: Buzz Pinay Daily
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