75. Jung Yi, Goddess of Fire 불의 여신 정이 (2013) Korean

Moon Geun Young, Le Sang Yoon, Kim Bum, Lee Kwang Soo

Drama Rating: 4/10     Neck Score: A

I watched this for you, Kwang Soo Oppa!!!!  I sat through all that boringness just to see you in Joseon attire (which admittedly was super hot) but this was so boring!  Also, I need to admit that although Kim Bum is super hot, I really don't like the dramas that he is typically in, so that needs to stop being a factor of choosing dramas.  This was just a really long drama that made me learn more about pottery than I wanted to.  One of those sageuk/dramas where they start off as kids so you don't even get to the peeps you want to see until like episode 6-8.  Then it's more about politics and birth secrets and less about romance and happiness.  In fact there is not one kiss in this since the leading couple are a woman artisan and a prince, so it's basically about a forbidden love, but it's more about the woman artisan and that sort of thing.  Really boring.  I seriously had to force myself to finish it, but oh well.  Even though Lee Sang Yoon is not at his best in Joseon clothing, he is at his best when eating, so the scene where she cooks for him and he eats so happily is awesome.  He's got some good dimples so happy eating is a plus.  Also, Kwang Soo's character was a jerkish idiot, but he is so good looking with facial hair and Joseon clothing.  Rawr.  That made it worth it again.  Also Kim Bum as a Joseon warrior = yes.  So the show was boring and the evilness/annoyingness of the villians was lame and stupid so the only things that made this show worth it was the eye candy.  Ok, probably not enough.  Just look at pictures of Kim Bum and Kwang Soo from this show and you'll be fine.  Nothing more is needed.

61. Mary Stayed Out All Night 매리는 외박중 (2010) Korean

Jang Geun Suk, Moon Geun Young, Kim Jae Wook, Kim Hyo Jin

Drama Rating: 4/10     Neck Score: A

This was another one I watched because of that list of 100 best dramas.  That list was probably crap, but whatever.  I don't regret expanding my viewing pool.  This one was just dumb.  The premise was dumb.  Jang Geun Suk's hair... hot.  But it's about this girl, Mae Ri, whose dad is in so much debt all the time that they are constantly running and getting their stuff taken away.  But he runs into his old friend, who was in love with the dad's wife, so he decides to pay all the debt if Mae Ri (who looks just like her mom) marries his son.  In the mean time Mae Ri meets Jang Geun Suk, who is this long haired musician in a band.  She hits him with her car, but is so worried about scams that she follows him to get his signature promise that he is fine and wont sue later.  He's been scammed by agents making him sign slave contracts that he wont sign and they end up getting drunk together and he takes her home and crashes at her house for a while since he no longer has a house.  Then when Mae Ri finds out that her dad wants her to get married she uses Jang Geun Suk to pretend to be already married.  Then there is a bunch of stupidness as her dad registers her marriage with the son so she's technically married to both men.  Then there is a bunch of sharing the wife crap and it's dumb.  There are some cool songs.  Jang Geun Suk's rock band is pretty sweet.  It was so cray cray and lame that the writer even quit half way through.  Just silliness, really.

33. Cheongdamdong Alice 청담동 앨리스 (2012-2013) Korean

Park Si Hoo, Moon Geun Young, So Yi Hyun, Kim Ji Suk

Drama Rating: 6/10      Neck Score: A

While this one has some really dumb drama in it, the main, very basic plot is super good.  I rewatched it and if it was always the main four peeps and the drama involving them, it would be ok, but then there is other peeps who are messed up into that, which make it more tricky and less nice.  Basically, we've got a poor girl from a poor family who works hard and is basically "Candy" (a manga character typifying the sweet hard working poor girl), until her boyfriend breaks up with her and suddenly has a ton of debt and a lawsuit.  She realizes that life sucks so matter how hard she works, and turns to her friend to teach her how to be a gold digger.  At the same time as this is happening a rich president of the fashion company shows up.  He is planning revenge on his father and the girl who left him when his father paid her off.  He also has some PTSD because of all the people in his life who left and betrayed him after he loved him (including his mom).  So there is a lot of crap in this drama, but a lot of hilarious parts.  You don't love the main girl, but you certainly sympathize with her as a more realistic character.  She isn't candy, she is a girl with a plan who wants to love, but also wants to be rich.  Then you have a way more likeable lead man, who has some serious mental issues that make it hard for him to accept reality over the dream he wants.  No one is perfect in the show and they all have to accept that life is crap.  But as a celebration of Park Si Hoo, how hot he his and how delightful his smile is, it's so worth it.  I have it constantly cued up on Netflix to the scene where he dances to Barbra Streisand.