160. My Beautiful Bride 아름다운 나의 신부 (2015) Korean

Kim Moo Yul, Lee Si Young, Go Sung Hee, Ryu Seung Soo, Park Hae Joon

Drama Rating: 8/10     Neck Score: A+++

I honestly can't call this show anything but My beautiful Banker, because that was what it was about.  That man is beautiful and bad-a.  Swoon.  The only bad part about this show was the fact that Go Sung Hee still can't act.  Dumb Do Ha ruined the ending scene with her bad acting, but whatever.  She wasn't in it that much.  I was also a bit upset with all the nothing that Lee Si Young's character did.  Detective Cha had the ability to be so bad-a cool, but after the awesome fight in the first fifteen minutes, she just sits there and does nothing, or just tries to convince the bank guy to not become a revenge vigilante but to work with the police.  So much wasted potential.  Also, I wanted somehow for the bride to die and bank guy to end up with police girl.  They could have consoled each other for their dead dumb significant others and been bad-a together, but of course that would never happen because stubborn loyalty and awesome faithfulness was at the very center of the back guy's being.  Really good action scenes, lots of interesting plot twists, nice snarky evil bad guys, realistic blood, a little rushed at the end (but after you kill off the only bad guy who really mattered, the rest was going to be lack luster) and some of the death scenes were just weird.  Slow mo car crash?  No, please.  Slow mo knife/metal pipe battles?  Acceptable, but does it have to be slow mo all the time?  So many hot necks in this.  Bank Guy = A+++  Scumbag Detective Boyfriend = A+++  That loan shark guy was an A even.  Rawr.  Lot of awesome fights, chase scenes, and gratuitous work out scenes.  My beautiful banker must be one of the most bestest men ever... except that his bride can't act, but no one is perfect.

109. Night Watchman's Journal 야경꾼일지 (2014) Korean

Jung Il Woo, Go Sung Hee, Yunho, Seo Ye Ji, Kim Sung Oh

Drama Rating: 4/10     Neck Score: A

What the heck.  That is about all I can say about this show.  What the heck!  What happened?  The first two episodes were so promising and got us hooked, and then it steadily got worse and worse.  Lamer and lamer, dumber and dumber.  It started so epic, but by the end was so lame and boring that we couldn't even bother to make fun of it anymore.  That was sad.  Making fun of it was the only think that got us through it.  My little brother is super funny, especially when imitating the prime minister, so after he went completely crazy it was really boring.  And the last episode was so preachy.  Not as bad as Fall in Love With Me, but it was all idealistic in the punishment of the bad guys, all like "this is what you get for being so obsessed and greedy."  Balony.  Bologna. What a load of crap.  I actually wrote a bunch about the wonderful things we did when we were enjoying making fun of it.  It was so sad when it got so lame that it wasn't even fun to do that any more.  It was just boring, and we suffered through to the end.  So, no one could act... at least most of the leads couldn't, besides Jung Il Woo and Kim Sung Oh.  Yunho and that girl were just awful.  I liked all the bad guys way better than the good guys, so it was lame and boring when they lost.  Sadam (aka David Bowie's) death scene was the lames load of crap ever.  Such a disappointment.  Boo hiss hiss.