tvN to End Mon-Tues Drama A Piece of Your Mind Early at 12-episodes Due to Low Ratings

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• Dang that’s rare for tv networks to end dramas early in recent days. Most of the time they just sucked it up and let the drama air in it’s entirety because ratings nowadays aren’t excellent. It must be a huge bomb for them to do this.

  Good luck Jung Hae In in your next project.

  • probably don't think it's worth it with the COVID pandemic going on, govt is still trying to be cautious in South Korea to prevent another outbreak.

• damn. i feel bad for the cast and crew. i mean there were other dramas that got 1% ratings in recent years as well but weren't shortened. unfortunate.
  hope jung hae in picks up a different genre next time because he is becoming typecasted and needs to prove that he can carry a drama without popular noonas.

  • That's what I also feel with KYJ. She keeps on taking similar roles - the cute and playful female lead. Luckily, her CWPFN drama did not experience JHI's drama curse because the same also hit the record breaking 1% rating.

    • i don't know why you bring kyj here, but i think she is better at acting and not typecasted unlike jhi, especially if you look at her child actress days. though i think they're both not at the level to carry at drama just yet as seen by their recent flop ratings results.

• Sadly, Jung Hae In keeps taking on very similar roles. It's also one of the reasons why I couldn't get into him at all. Dude is gonna get typecasted if he keeps this up. I legit couldn't tell the difference between any of his roles because they all just blend together. I hope that for his future projects, he'll choose something more challenging and different so that I can finally understand his hype.

• Pds must be making loss. It sucks but it is business at the end of day

  • Hope the drama will not badly affect CSB and JHI in the future. Hope they will still be given a chance to be casted in big productions.

    I pity CSB because at her age, she should be a big star right now. And I hate those PDs keep on offering those roles appropriate to CSB to younger stars such as KSH and KYJ. It's enough. CSB should be given a chance to shine. KSH and KYJ should not be forced roles which are not fit to them.

    • I like jhi but he needs to prove himself worthy of big production like park seo joon did. Investors cast those who can sell the drama. Jhi needs to do some fun show which works in ratings and then he will get big drama.

    • How CSB? Any comments? I feel pity about her because young stars like KSH and KYJ keep on being offered with roles which CSB should be playing on.

    • I really haven't watched her work to pass judgement on her. So i will pass. If young girls prove themselves they earned it over her i guess

    • It's just so illogical that she is competing with girls younger than her for roles definitely fit for her. Her batchmates are BS, PSH, and KTR. So, she should be promoted by K-media as one with these girls. I don't understand why K-media is too focused on the 99 liner girls. They are offered with the best acting gigs and CFs. Where in fact, we have the mid 20s girls out there.

    • Agree with @ady. KSH and KYJ already proven themselves enough for PDs to give them the roles.
      CSB is pretty but I guess she lacks the x-factor that these two possess?
      Do you think if CWPFN and Radio Romance was given to CSB, the result would be different?

    • @Ma I don't know about ratings but one issue with both CWPFN and RR was that the leads looked mismatched in age, I saw knets complain that Yoon Kyun Sang looked like Yoojung's uncle and too old for her. At least if CSB was the lead, they might have looked better matched, after all YKS was her costar in Rebel and they were good together.

  • Chae Soo Bin only graduated to leading lady status in 2017 so around the same time or after KYJ/KSH, she's not in the same league as established 90er actresses like Park Shin Hye or Kim Go Eun etc, and doesn't get the kind of offers movie leading ladies like KTR do.

    She's a good actress, I was impressed by her in Sassy, Go Go (supporting role), Rebel and I'm Not A Robot.

    But this drama seemed dull from the beginning, I called it even in the trailer post that it seemed low-energy. It's not the fault of the actors, they're acting well but the drama was supposed to be soft and moody and instead it's just boring.

    • @onesimus

      You freaking serious? Chae soo bin is such a mediocre actress. She acts the same in every role. Yoojung worked hard since she was a little girl to get to where she is today. So jealous and bitter lolz
      There’s plenty of roles out there, don’t blame her but blame on her lack of skills. Sohyun I agree, I don’t get why she is offer so many roles. Just by watching ruler m, you can see she is a bad actress.

      What a delulu, just admit csb is a mediocre actress.

    • CSB is a good actress but lack charisma, this is not the first time she got flop drama. JHI actually need different genre, different role. SYJ and HJM help him alot in his previous drama and people already bored with this side of him.
      This kind of drama always depend to actor power, their charisma, their chemistry if both didnt work then it will flop. Taking mello drama is never be easy, the actors need to carry it, because there's not enough plot. So if the drama doing well we can prize the actors to the moon but if its didnt work its become responsibilty of the actors. So for me the actors in fault too.

    • @Moonlight

      Here we go again. You really love badmouthing So Hyunnie. Well, in fact, you should focus more on your idol who is being typecastes in the same role over and over again. I guess she is still dreaming that the cutsy and playful character type will bring in high ratings. No, it is her male lead that carried the drama. She is just lucky because she is one of the Nation's LS

    • @ p

      You’re just jealous that yoojung has a big hit in love in moonlight so that you have to fabricate lies. Both Yoojung and bogummy carried the drama together.

      Yoojung “cutesy and playful” acting is better than sohyun weepy acting in ruler. If you look at Yoojung other works when she was younger like angry mom, you can see that she is diverse. Stay jealous that Yoojung is prettier and a better actress. And she gets to work with hallyu king jcw. Sohyun never got to work with big male actors as her love interest. She always get cast with idols or newbie actors. Stay salty

    • Lol. You just proved that YJ heavily relied on popular male actors. So Hyunnie does not need to work with popular male actors for her dramas to sell. Just take a look at LA. The drama is a commercial success eventhough SH is the only popular one amongst the cast. It only says that SH can carry a drama by her name alone.

      As to JCW, please stop making lies. He's not hallyu king like LMH and KSH.

      Lastly, as to who is prettier and more acting talent, there are a lot of K-media sources proving your point wrong. I don't want to discuss this further because you have a problem dealing with reality.

• The problem is the writer. I remember how boring "On the Way to the Airport" was. It was to the level that I need break from watching K-Dramas. And now she makes another boring drama. Poor Chae Soo Bin. I used to like all her dramas before this. I like Jung Hae In too, but only in WYWS. His previous two dramas with Son Ye Jin and Han Ji Min also boring, but not as boring as Piece of Your Mind.

  • not blaming Chae soo bin. but i think this girl lacks charisma. Her drama I am not a robot, though a good one, also had low domestic viewership ratings.

    • Well, you're so right. In fact, it is not just her but most of her contemporaries lack the top actress charisma save the likes of PSH, BS, KTR, KGE, PBY and IU. That's why I'm not surprise anymore why PDs go to the likes of KSH and KYJ and they were overhyped by K-media. These girls definitely have said top actress and goddess aura.

    • INAR came after a big hiatus in that time slot thanks to some MBC strike, hence the low ratings. But I remember a lot of praise for it back then.

      She's a good actress, and definitely worthy of leading lady status but this drama just isn't it. Based on the writer's last drama they definitely have an issue with dull dramas anyway.

      (And who's BS? Bong Soon? But that's Park Bo Young character in Strong Woman Do Bong Soon, not any actress I can think of, let alone top ones)

• The drama was really boring and confusing so i had to drop it after watching the first two episodes. I was perplexed than intrigued... No wonder the ratings keep on decreasing week after week.

  is TVN doing this to prevent futher loss or to increase the rating?

• This drama deserves to be axed as soon as possible because they tainting TVN's reputation as the top cable channel. Currently, JTBC is the "IT" cable channel because their dramas keep on winning rating-wise. The winning streak of IC and World of Marriage is a proof that JTBC will eventually become the no. 1 cable channel.

• So what their follow up drama? Jang Nara drama? tvN better prepared a good one. If they get another 1% again then it will be hard for them to rise. Just look at MBC

  • My Unfamiliar Family with Han Yeri and Kim Jisuk.

    • Ok thank you

• in the past, there were also TVN drama that had an average of 1% something (about time starring Lee sung kyung and A poem a day (lee joon hyuk) but they didnt cut it short.. so im wondering why the production team has decided to end it at 12 eps. why not speed up the pacing and stick with the original 16 episodes (wishful thinking).

  • Probably coronavirus causing ad budgets to be slashed left and right (including sponsorship money for a flop drama).

    • yes this makes sense. No money to continue filming especially cable TV relies on sponsorship money. TvN better cleans its act to get better scripts. Look at JTBC. Stop casting leeches (JHI cough cough who has been leeching on famous noonas, and CSB on YSH).

  • Civets not allowed here

• Better.. it's really is such a boring drama.i couldn't keep straining my eyes watching