Blood: Is that good bad or just bad bad?

So I started watching Blood last week, and couldn't contain my laughter all the way through episode 1.  There were so many moments of utter hilarious delight, although I don't think they intended for that to be the reaction.  But there it is.

I know they are trying to be funny at times, but those aren't really the times that are funny.  But there is a lot of compelling points to the premise and plot... and then there is the bad special effects and overkill efforts to look cool and bad-a... well... do they equal out?  Is this an entertaining "good" bad show, or is it just bad bad, the kind you only watch when you're in "that mood?"

Angel Eyes and Heavenly Bodies

This show was designed to make us cry.  I didn't use to be a crier, but Bollywood and old age has changed that.  Now shows like Angel Eyes are sending me off every episode.  Seriously, stop messing with the moms.  They aren't allowed to die and stuff, man!  If there ever was a plot so highly based on the bad fate between a group of people, then this is it.  It was handled as well as a fateful plot can be, but the drama was very extreme.

However, at least this gave us other things as well.  Lots of mens with heavenly, heavenly bodies.

Kim Ji Suk.  Rawr.

139. Blood 블러드 (2015) Korean

Ahn Jae Hyun, Ku Hye Sun, Ji Jin Hee

Drama Rating: 1/10     Neck Score: A

This show in a nutshell: 18 episodes of nothing really happening but lame stupidness and bad acting, and then everything you absolutely didn't want to happen being crammed into the last two episodes for a finale that is so epically and ridiculously bad that you are extra angry that you just wasted 20 hours of your life only to see everything you actually liked okay destroyed and ruined for forever.  This show took itself way too seriously, and was not only badly written, but also very, very badly acted. Well, maybe it was just Fish Face (Ku Hye Sun) who was actually bad at acting.  Everyone else just wasn't as good as they typically are because the script was so bad.  I think that Ahn Jae Hyun was just not ready for a lead role quite yet, especially one so demanding as a badly written vampire surgeon.  I used to play this game while watching where I imagined how different a scene would be if Jung Il Woo were actually playing the role.  It was different, but not any better, because even he couldn't save Night Watchman, so... but it was still a fun game.  But really, this show doesn't even make sense.  No one behaves in a remotely logical way, and they literally break every ethical code ever.  And not just the evil vampires, like the people who should know better too.  And where the heck did all the normal doctors go to?  They literally disappeared from view in the second half of the show.  Did they fire everyone who wasn't absolutely necessary to the plot to save money when they still were having crappy ratings and hence no extra sponsorship funds or something?  I'd believe it, because that is really how bad this show was.  I wouldn't have been sad either, if I were one of the fired secondary characters.  They had sense to jump ship and get cast in something better, I hope.  Whew, this was just so bad.  It might have started as good bad, but it was definitely just bad bad bad by the end.  The one thing that could have saved it was maybe killing everyone (as in the lead dude), but they didn't even do that.  They had to mess it up with an ambiguously (hopeful?) open ended mess.  Basically, this show is What.the.heck/crap/lame.

90. Angel Eyes 엔젤 아이즈 (2014) Korean

Ku Hye Sun, Lee Sang Yoon, Kim Ji Suk, Seungri

Drama Rating: 6/10     Neck Score: A

A drama designed just to make you cry.  The fate between this group of people in this town is crazy.  That aside, I think the drama itself was well written and that the people themselves at least acted like most people would... except Soo Wan (Ku Hye Sun).  She went a little annoying and cray cray.  I loved the mens in the show.  Lee Sang Yoon and Kim Ji Suk are both hot men.  I wished their bromance hadn't been tainted by the woman... and that fate thing.  They could have been better closer friends (as seen from that what could have been episode part).  Sad day.  The sound track gets an A+ as does the amount of brooding shower scenes.  Also, Seungri steals the show as soon as the drama gets intense... well, he steals the show from the start.  He is so adorable, in face and character.