tvN Sat-Sun Dystopian Legal Drama The Devil Judge Wraps Up Run Averaging 6% in Ratings with Mediocre Buzz

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• Nevertheless has an otp yet it flops?

  • Poor acting (main couple) and disjointed story-telling.

• This drama should say a big fat thank you to MLDM S2 for ending when it did else the ratings would have most likely stayed in the 5-6% range for the remaining episodes. Man, tvN dramas aren't killing it in ratings at all these days except for HP2 and even that has been fluctuating a bit. Maybe Yumi's Cells will save the day.

• Ha! So much for 20% like some soothsayer here predicted this drama will get. Lol. It couldn't even scratch 8-9%, much less hit double digits like its just-as-meh predecessor.

• Mostly underwhelming acting and a nonsensical plot jam-packed with caricature villains. Min-jung's at-first intriguing character became just another lovesick psycho. And there's the predictable fridging of Park Kyu-Young's character who didn't have much of a worthy storyline. Hopefully, her gamjatang drama will be kinder to her.

• I dropped it after the first 2 episodes. I wasn't in the mood for this. I don't understand what the point to be an ex-judge and writing this kind of drama...

• I quite like the drama for the court proceedings with surprise punishment.

  Basically the morale of the story is : Judges do you job well with integrity - turn stones upside down examine the evidence to get the truth don't just look at the surface so that people cannot tweet the system to get away.

• I really liked it. It had its problems but it was the rare drama that entertained me for 16 straight episodes. Shrugs. I thought Ji Sung's acting in particular was great. Really restrained and powerful. Everybody did a good job though.

  It and the actors actually got decent buzz in South Korea. I know it's ratings weren't as high as it's predecessors but averaging 6% on cable is nothing to sneeze at these days. This wasn't a bomb,at least. I'm actually disappointed it had to compete against the Olympics for three weeks as that halted it's momentum.

  • @Mimi , totally agree with you . It entertained me . And 6% is good enough . Perhaps it would have made more buzz if the ratings were about 1% !

    • I don't get the dragging of the ratings. Averaging 6% is no small feat considering the ratings landscape these days. If tvN expected it to be a big hit, I think they would have sold it to Netflix.

    • These days? Its predecessors Vincenzo and Mine are recent yet they still hit double digits. So it's possible. No business expects their product not to do well. And people need to stop using Netflix as an excuse all the time. Commenting on ratings isn't a drag. It's simply stating facts.

    • I don't know about other countries but in mine, Netflix is losing to Disney +.

    • The shade. Btw, that some sad reality. Either you becoming the number 1 of whole school or really bad student, just being good, like being in the rank is seems never good enough. That how I get from reading this article. People will never care about some good student that trying to improve little by little. Someone who only score 80 in final test didn't deserve a praise even tho they scored 40 in the test before that. It is better if you score 10 so at least you will get attention :(

  • The Olympics are not the problem. It just happened to be pitted against Marriage Lyrics, Divorce Music. Hard to rate much higher when your rival cable show is consistently doing double digits.

    • That's true about Marriage Lyrics, Divorce Lyrics but the drama had hit the 6% range before the Olympics started and then backslid during the Olympics. Marriage was pre-empted on a couple of those nights, like the one ratings for TDJ slid to the 4% range because S. Korea had soccer and baseball games that night. So I do think the Olympics halted momentum.

• Kudos to all the actors.
  I really love this drama,from the start till the end.
  I always support al kdrama
  Watching from Philippines ?? Montalban Rizal

• Devil Judge rating is much better vs koala’s recent favorite - My Roommate is a Gumiho.

  Both started at 5%+.
  Devil Judge ended at 8% while Roommate at 4%. (To be exact, 3.9%)

  Yet koala branded the 3.9% rating as “good”. Hmmm… talk of double standards. Both are cable so I guess you can’t use that as excuse.

  • Get over it. It's not that deep.

  • Gumiho aired at 10:30 on Wednesday and Thursday. Devil Judge aired at 9:00 on weekends. Of course, expectations are higher for the latter.

    • Huh? Why it's higher? Isn't Wednesday-Thursday is should be higher because they like the Golden Time of Drama? Most important, expected to be hit drama, usually placed in that time slot, no?

  • I’m just calling out the writer’s extreme bias.

    In one show, 3.9% is “good” while in another, 8% is “mediocre”.

    You can talk about how much you love or hate a drama. This is perfectly ok. But don’t drag ratings to justifying your likes and dislikes, particularly when it doesn’t jive.

    • I don't care much re ratings so long as i like the drama n yes this drama is entertaining one which i look forward to watching it n the other one is on the verge of instanity. I fully agree with your reasoning.

• The rating is OK and the acting was good but it felt empty, nothing memorable, not a rewatchable material and I will forget about it in the upcoming months. I surely prefer a 1% rating drama with a better story that leaves me with a feel of attachment to at least one character.