While there aren’t as many K-dramas being produced as before and frankly most are just not that interesting to me, I am fully intending to watch SBS drama The Judge From Hell but just haven’t had the time to start yet. So it’s a relief to hear the drama with strong word of mouth and even better progressively increasing ratings. Starring Park Shin Hye as a demon inhabiting the body of a mortal judge to mete out punishment with Kim Jae Young as a cop that gets pulled into her orchestrations, the drama started with 6.8% rating and has risen to now double digits and doubling the premiere ratings to 13.1%. SBS has been making the Fri-Sat spot its tentpole after drama viewership changed over time from the formerly premier time slot of Wed-Thurs and it’s great seeing the network produce a drama with a cast and story that brings in more viewers again.
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