January 2018 New Wed-Thurs K-dramas Return and Mother Off to Strong Ratings Start

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• Black Knight has become a joke, and a boring, repetitive one at that. KRW has made a bad choice with this writer, and his performance is fast slipping from endearing to cheesy and now, almost sleazy. Making unabashed advances on your girlfriend is endearing at first, but to do that almost every episode and every scene while not backed up by decent plot or character development is like an overfeeding of soft porn. A turn-off actually. He should have been warned about this writer's track record. When a Man Falls in Love was a hot mess, with the second male lead jumping into bed with SSK, only to be run into by the male lead SSH. If it was not for SSH's objection, the script originally called for SSH killing SSK with his own hands. What a mess. With its impossibly silly twists and turns, at least that one had the advantage of fast pace and mind-boggling plot development, this current one is instead so slow and running in circles around what threatens to be a very underwhelming and hollow story. And it is going to be 20 episodes long.

  • Agree with what u said n this writer makes a worse script abt love triangle frm ruler master of the mask at least that drama only make kim so hyun the second lead..but black knight should be retitled as the Sharon's tale in 200 years of her life..everything is abt her and kim rae won only hv 1 expression throughout the drama which is the one on the poster..can't force myself to watch aftr ep 8..
    At least robot cast n crew were really gud with great chemistry even though the story doesn't make sense but i think i got the healing drama feel frm watching it..it doesn't strayto far frm its plot..while black knight is now all abs sharon doesn't understand she's bein rejected for over 200 years..its a shame that it was good at the beginning..

  • I agree with almost everything but soft porn???? What a weird way to go considering they barely make out. They just hug each other and sometime kiss on the cheek. That was turned into a weird road. It’s fluffy mushy in a too cheesy it’s disgusting way. I disagreed with their first unconsented and Unwelcomed kiss and I also disagree with how he manipulated they way she ended up living with him. However he seems to respect her space and decisions. There is barely an sexual activity. Just affection through lots of skinship. I’m curious how you could compare it to soft porn?

    • Considering how @eva said that SSK’s character ''jumped into bed'' with the second male lead in When A Man Loves, it seems this eva thinks that anything beyond wide eyes ’innocent’ kiss is soft porn. Seo Mi Do didn’t jump in bed lol, she kissed the second male lead only lol. I do, however, agree that BK has too many pointless skinship scenes without any effect in them. They look forced and sleazy tbh. And I feel like SSK is showing more emotions than KRW which is a surprise since I expected KRW to be the one with more expressions

    • INAR is more soft porn than black knight

• I stopped Black Night and INAR. The writting was too bad. In Black Night, the romanticism is too much cringy and the story not very interesting. In INAR, the story is so stupid in the first place and I don't like drama using cuteness hoping we will just forget that the plot is meh. For Hwayugi, I would like to know more about the fantasy part, because the " You love me but only because of the bracelet" becomes a little bit boring... Return is interesting, there are many characters, no love story for now.

  • Aw, why?? INAR has the cutest ending ever!

    • 16 epsiodes to see a cute ending ? No, thank you. I read review of this drama hoping it will better, I mean there is YSH in and love him. But the military part was not necessary for the story, he already felt lonely during all the drama...

    • The show redeems itself in the last two weeks. That’s what I think anyway.

    • The military was necessary if you've watched the drama. In the first ep, he was being detained on assumption that he's dodging his military service because of some nonexistent human allergy thing. So it was cute for him to do his service after being cured, cuter because someone like YSH have already finished his in real life.

  • I tried to watch both Black Night, INAR, and Jugglers at the end of the year. Out of the three, the only one I kept following was Jugglers - even though it was way predictable. I think Kdramas need to move on from this fantasy theme - they either don't make sense or they are unbelievable. I started to watch Return, but was disappointed that GHJ doesn't have as much screen time, it's more of an assemble casting drama. Also, the storyline is starting to get unbelievable too and you question the intelligence of some of the characters.

    I really miss the good old days of Korean historical dramas about characters overcoming hardships. There are so many modern dramas these days - are historicals too expensive to produce or something???

• I will give Return a try, maybe like another Wise Prison Life...

• I heard Return is very similar to the film ‘The Loft’, may watch after Prison Playbook. Black Knight is awful, KRW - why did you pick this drama?

  • Based on the current ep, it is different than the loft.
    The premise sound similar but it just that

• Go Hyun Jung's star power is no joke and she is always captivating. Black Knight is one hell of a crappy drama. I dont understand why KRW wanted to do this drama in the first place. It's tainting his impeccable resume. Thank god I dropped it early because everything about this drama just not making sense.

  • He said the director convinced him into it.. lol he should have not trusted the director because the writer is hopeless

• Black Knight is so bad. The man was supposed to be the black knight but he can’t even save his own a*s lol. I have no idea why KRW took this drama, he only said that he trusted the director. It was supposed to be Goblin-like but it’s even worse than Goblin, at least Goblin had good ratings and hype. This has none of that. I just finally have to drop this drama after when those thugs threw a stone at Moon Soo Ho’s head and like bunch of middle schooler bullies. Such a pointless and a waste of time drama. Better luck next time, KRW. Choose dramas like Punch. You’re too old for childish dramas like BK.

  • same here... I could not even get pass the first episode of BK... never understand the hype about this drama and now the ratings show. Nothing to watch these days except Hwayugi... K-dramaland has been very boring... Return & Mother are too heavy for my entertainment... I prolly have to wait for the two Kim's dramas for a breathe of fresh air... sigh...

    • BK was so bad since the first episode, tried to be the copy of Goblin but it was so bad. I think kdrama writers are running out of ideas. Lets hope the Kim’s dramas will be more exciting, although I have a bad feeling about Kim Yoo Jung’s cleaning drama because of the male lead

• Go hyun Jung is the queen!!!!I am beginning to think Kim Rae Won is better off being paired with actresses around his own age for romance dramas.They are plenty of them.The writer of this Black Knight needs to reflect.How can she be consistently bad.

• Black Knight started off soo good. It gave me the feels I haven't felt for a long time but then it went down the hill, like what the heck happened??? i stopped watching at ep 13 might continue when it finishes airing. I am just ashamed for the cast and myself too for feeling giddy and also recommending it to people and even posting it on IG.....Why writer nim? why?? why???

• BK can be parody or comedy and it quiete entertaining that way.

  Return is a suspense and fun so far.

• I thought ms. Koala won't ever mention Return lol

  Go hyun jung is no joke (she's trending for 2 days on naver after return's press conference)

  and all the other actors are doing great, the story is interesting, funny in some part, and crazy in most part