#save me kdrama

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[muttonthings]

Kdrama Challenge

Day 5: Best Male Villain

Jin Mu- Alchemy of Souls

Seo Moon-zo- Strangers from Hell

Jang Han-seok- Vincenzo

Baek Hee-sung- Flower of Evil

Baek Jung-ki- Save Me

[lacewovenoleander]

𝓈𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝓂𝑒, 2017

[lastofthe20thcenturygirls]

this kinda line is why i watch any romcom

[trendingdrama]

Hey! Are you Jung Gi Cheol ? Why is it so fucking hard to meet you?

Episode 1 : The Worst of Evil  최악의 악 (2023) dir. Park Geun Beom, Han Dong Wook

[acaffieneaddictt]

begins ≠ youth feels so personal as an army and i'll tell you why. i started watching the drama without any expectations - expectations in the sense of correlating the seven boys with bangtan. i repeatedly told myself that the tannies and the seven boys on the show are 14 different entities, and i should not be correlating their existence, and that this drama was just inspired by the hyyh webtoon. however, 15 minutes into the first episodes, my plan went awry. the resemblance was too uncanny to ignore - dogeun's butterfingers and intelligence, cein's poker face and language of existential crisis, hosu's cheerful face inspite of being hurt, jeha's immaturity and fun nature, haru's attachment with hosu and annoyance towards jeha treating him as if they were the same age, jooan's tendency to lurk around dogeun and team up with jeha to annoy haru and lastly hwan's maturity, and ability to take care of all six of them as the eldest. and i think if you've read till here you understood which character is correlated with which bangtan member. doesn't it feels personal? it does indeed, the fact that at a glance i could understand the dynamic, just through the actions. yes, it did make me miss them much much more than i already do, but it made me miss them a little less as well, and i really hope this drama receives the recognition it deserves, as a reward for the continuous controversy it had been facing since it's announcement.

[frances-and-the-moon]

So! I am compiling a list of all K-dramas/K-movies with Bromance (+ BLs w/ ratings), divided by genre/trope. If you want to help me out in this long-ass task feel free to add them/categorize them in the replies! :)

(Ratings are personal)

Merciless Evil Devil From Hell group (aka Morally Dubious Men):

The Merciless (K-Movie); - 9/10

Beyond Evil; - 10/10

The Devil Judge; - 9/10

Strangers From Hell; - 9/10

Evilive. - 8/10

Homoerotic Antagonism that develops into the I Would Die For You Trope:

The Guest (OCN); - 8/10

The Worst of Evil; - 10/10

Alchemy of Souls (Go Wong/Jang Uk); - ?/10

Friendship/Bromance that develops into the I Would Die For You Trope:

Bloodhounds; - 8/10

Weak Hero Class 1; - 10/10

D.P. - 9/10

To add & categorize bc I haven't watched them yet:

Bad And Crazy;

Stand By Me;

Through the Darkness;

Tunnel;

Save Me;

Goblin;

My Country: The New Age

Actual BLs I've watched:

Kinnporsche; - 8/10 (so far the most "grown-up")

To My Star; - 8/10

The Eighth Sense; - 8/10

You make me Dance; - 7/10

My Personal Weatherman; - 8/10

Night Flight (movie); - 7/10

White Night (movie, 2012); - 8/10

Method (movie); - 8/10

Only Friends; - 7/10

BLs I haven't watched yet:

Bump-Up Business;

[michyeosseo]

I am always indebted to you.   – It will cost quite a lot.

Honey Lee and Yoon Sa Bong as JO YEO-HWA & JANG SO-WOON

KNIGHT FLOWER (2024)

[theinfinitedivides]

never thought i would see with my own two eyes daddy cop Heon holding Ji Yong by the hood of his black sweatshirt like a rabid dog after the two of them almost died together in that tank. never thought i would see that glorious vision of Heon having his boyfriend on a leash when they're both drenched and covered in blood we are never getting over the comparisons!!!!!! never ever gays this is our year!!!!!!

[cometrose]

Queen of Tears is so interesting cause i've never dealt with two really complex leads like this in romcom (i mean it is funny)

i've said it before but Haein and Hyunwoo know each other very well but don't know each other at all (i don't know if i've ever seen communication issues this bad).

Losing the baby clearly drove them apart. She blamed herself and put up high walls. He wears his heart on his sleeve and cried over it. We can argue that he should've comforted her in that moment but at the same time she clearly knew he was upset so why didn't she go to him? Haein thought she had no right to grieve and consequently Hyunwoo thought she didn't grieve at all. The moment where they needed each other more than ever- the moment they should've been together they both fucked up.

The core of the issue is that they can't read each other's mind, this is literally said at the beginning of 6- they love each other dearly but also tripping over each in the process.

Outside of Hyunwoo jumping up and down at her diagnosis and faking his way into her will (which was painfully cruel and soooo funny) It's very clear that this is a two person game. Although I always interpreted Hyunwoo's joy as the same as the mistress of a wealthy man who is just waiting for him to die so she can get the money, (it's mean but most times the master either sucks or he's naive as hell and she has no reason to mourn) and at that point Hyunwoo's in the same situation.

Why didn't Haein defend him in front of her relatives? Why scold him publicly in front of the employees? She does a lot of things behind the scenes but good intentions can only go so far if object of those affections is ignorant of the full story. The same thing happens in episode 6, she is trying to protect Hyunwoo from her family but without telling him so he is ignorant of the big picture. Why wasn't Hyunwoo honest with his feelings? Why is he always assuming the worst when she never explicitly says something? We see he tries to talk to her (it fails) but his fear of upsetting her leads him to do otherwise cruel things to keep her happy.

Which is also why the divorce paper is so interesting. That paper was one of the best things he’s done. He was completely justified in writing that. It breaks Haein's heart but severing ties like that was way healthier than him forcing himself to stay in this marriage and pamper her with fake love.

One thing I will admire this piece for is the role reversal, like i'm seeing so many typical fl tropes on Hyunwoo and ml tropes on Haein. You ever read one those isekai or time reverse manwha's were the fl goes back in time to get a divorce but falls in love with her partner again? yeah this is the same exact thing.

[squidthoughts]

e4 of celebrity and sihyeon intervening in this fight…the twenty-five twenty-one of it all…please… also the convo right before- “she’s a good person” “oh you like her too?” yoon sihyeon i know what you are

edit: i spoke too soon she made an insta just to follow a-ri??? si-hyeon, bastion of sns-free reality?? the last grounding force being swept up in the maelstrom?? “i admit i did like her” i cannot take it here

[muttonthings]

Kdrama Challenge

Day 29: Show you dropped

Life (dropped after 2 episodes)

Jirisan (dropped after 2 episodes)

Welcome to Waikiki (dropped after S1)

Save Me (dropped after S1)

Mouse(dropped after 10 episodes)

[survivalistghost]

it’s 2014 again and everyone is going crazy over zayn malik’s single strand.

except it’s 2024 and zayn malik is ahn bo hyun in flex x cop and im everyone.

[m0netsberm]

I've been thinking about this for a while, and I'm now certain... Eun-seong was the cause of Hae-in's brothers' death! Either he was already on the boat for some reason (who cares at this point?) or he tried to save Hae-in but instead ended up in danger, and her brother saved him and died in the process... 😱💀

[trendingdrama]

[E07] MY DEAREST / 연인(2023) dir.kim sung yong

[lastofthe20thcenturygirls]

who rang the doorbell not being shown is so suspicious to me so as much as i hate it i believe kim tae-sung killed sun-jae.

in the OG timeline sun-jae was pushed off from the balcony. the balcony and the door were on opposite sides of the room. would sun-jae let the guy who kidnapped sol and then attacked them both later inside his room? i don't think he would forget that face or even if he did forget he still wouldn't just let any stranger into his room being an idol dealing with sasaengs everyday. his death was easily ruled as a suicide because there mustn't have been any signs of struggle. sun-jae was a former athlete and an idol and an actor (he must be trained in some fighting technique at least) no way it would be so easy to push him off. UNLESS it was someone he knew they cross the room to the balcony while talking and then out of nowhere he's pushed from the balcony.

when sol was forced back to the present the first time it happened when kim tae-sung asked her to be his girlfriend and then in 2023 sun-jae was still dead. what exactly was the trigger there that she leaped back to the present??? it did seem out of nowhere. as much as sun-jae liked her i don't think the butterfly effect of his crush being asked out by just some guy leads to his death once again especially knowing that he didn't even kill himself. i mean sun-jae would still try to save sol whether she's somebody else's girlfriend or not but why exactly did sun-jae seeing tae-sung ask sol to be his girlfriend brought her back to 2023? unless it had to do with tae-sung himself.

when the second time sol went back to 2023 it was after getting saved from the taxi driver. sun-jae and the detective both prevented the taxi driver from hitting her which changed the present where she could walk and sun-jae did not live in any guilt. this was a huge change it makes sense why she ended up in the present right after that. now comparing this to tae-sung asking her out in front of sun-jae later falls short of being a trigger enough to send her back to 2023.

sun-jae used to wear that watch everyday and was ofc wearing it during the original kidnapping. sol bought it later as a fan so emotionally they're both tied to it. the watch has been a witness to it all. when tae-sung asked sol to be his gf there was a focus on the watch and she was back in '23 but not after the accident prevention scene. tho she still went back. why did she go back ending the first jump bothers me a lot. the watch knows something we don't...

in the current timeline sun-jae was stabbed in the hotel by the taxi driver there was struggle and he's not dead yet. it was very easy for everyone to guess the taxi driver killed sun-jae originally too then why not show who rang the doorbell? there is a significance to that doorbell from the original time that even IF this time it was rung by the taxi driver it wasn't shown.

the drama is only halfway through it just can't be so easy that the only mystery left is not knowing what exactly happened during "the incident" 14 years ago. sun-jae is in surgery after getting stabbed and isn't dead yet. streets have been saying since last 2-3 weeks that sun-jae will jump to the past too this time to their uni days. sun-jae wouldn't remember the past that sol changed so he wouldn't know who killed him originally. he himself would think of the taxi driver as the real danger. there was mystery to sol's accident because she forgot about getting kidnapped. for sun-jae (and sol too) it should be not knowing who is the real killer.

tae-sung's motive: he was outside sol's building only because he's tracking the taxi driver (who has enough motive to want to kill sol and sun-jae) that's what i want to believe but brain once again says it can't be so easy. it's a 16-episoder after all!

i don't believe tae-sung is just in the story to only be the second lead love interest and a jealousy device (also not forgetting the trend lately is of the second lead guys being killers). in episode 1 sol asks her friend what happened to "him" and she tells sol he left school (bc of some incident i forgot what exactly she said). idk why but his mention in episode 1 seemed of importance. next episode he's introduced and he's a fun guy who's lonely his detective father is too busy to even remember his birthday. he's also a member of the band with baek in-hyuk and eventually this is the band sun-jae becomes a part of. he originally didn't have feelings for sol she and him did not date. but however it happened sun-jae becoming a part of eclipse remains the same throughout the timelines as of now. did something happen between them for tae-sung to hate sun-jae or did he just leave the school for personal reasons only? in the changed past he started having feelings for sol but she actually likes sun-jae (trying to kill someone because of your crush 15 years later is quite petty and not a good enough reason for a cool guy like tae-sung)

for something that hasn't been revealed yet i am way too sure that his detective father dies but going along this thought process... in both the timelines tae-sung's father must have been murdered trying to catch the creepy taxi driver. in both the timelines sun-jae was with sol (saved her from him near the reservoir and on the road where tae-sung's father's car intervened) and during 'the incident' (which as of ep8 hasn't been revealed yet) there too sun-jae was with her. sol, sun-jae, taxi driver and the detective all are important to why sun-jae was murdered in 2023.

as much as we love to call it a romcom it never really was just a romcom with time travel. sol being in the wheelchair because of the accident was never just an accident and sun-jae's 15 years of guilt towards her were all tied to the taxi driver which is tied to the detective possibly investigating him and by extension to his son as it does affect tae-sung if his father dies making him as important as these four in all of this.

ik i am giving too much importance to tae-sung's father but he seemed important to the story even with the 3 scenes he appeared in and i am so sure he dies (gonna be so funny when it's revealed he didn't die) BUT if this happens then some eclipse related matter, sun-jae having all the fame & money (which to anyone would look like he's living da life), his father's death (add sol to the equation now because of the changes) there's enough for tae-sung to hold a deadly grudge against sun-jae...

(lag gaya to teer, nahi to tukka)