147. The Girl Who Sees Smells 냄새를 보는 소녀 (2015) Korean

Park Yoo Chun, Shin Se Kyung, Nam Goong Min, Yoon Jin Seo

Drama Rating: 5/10     Neck Score: A

Slow clap for the worst police ever.  They should get an award for how stupid ALL the police work was in the ENTIRE show.  They were outright incompetent.  So much so that they were unable to do anything without the main couple.  What.the.heck.  This was tolerable in the beginning, when the police work wasn't that necessary for the plot, but by the end, it had us screaming in rage.  It also dragged out the ending to be super lame and annoying.  All I wanted was for it to be over, and it was not.  But, as bad as the writing and police plot of this show was, the main couple almost made up for it.  Yoochun has to be the cutest man in the world.  He pulls off aegyo and is a namja at the same time.  How does he do that.  But Nam Goong Min... how in the heck were we supposed to deal with that?  He's creepy.  Let's talk about how creepy he is while showing him without a shirt and being all sexy.  They would literally send such mixed signals about him, forcing us to be attracted to him against our wills.  But he seriously was amazing in his role too.  Yoon Jin Seo had some amazing parts... if the rottenness of the police didn't ruin a lot of them, she was still cool.  So basically we have a bunch of cool characters trapped in a crappy cop show with horrible plot writing, not necessarily bad other type, just in the flow of the story and plot devices.  Romance wise it was good, natural, cute relationship development, but the rest was super bad.  So it's good and bad at the same time.  Super enjoyable and then ridiculous.  Just don't take it seriously and you'll be fine.  More details about it in this post.  It definitely has tons of laugh out loud moments.  Both intentional and not so intentional, so it's fun.

114. My Secret Hotel 마이 시크릿 호텔 (2014) Korean

Yoo In Ah, Jin Lee Han, Nam Goong Min, Lee Young Eun

Drama Rating: 5/10     Neck Score: A

Well, things went a little bit cray cray.  I admit it took a while for me to get into it... to the love story, not the murder mystery part.  I liked that part, but I felt like it didn't get enough screen time.  And it didn't.  Overall it was a likable drama, but just very sloppily put together.  Especially the love story, which they dragged out way too long, making us so frustrated and hating on the main girl because we thought it was all her fault, and then only finding things out until the last minute.  There was way not enough payoff at the end... sad day.  But one thing that this show had a good amount of was beautiful clothing.  Boy, was everyone dressed super well!  I wrote a whole post about it, I was so in love with everyone's fashion!  Especially the main dude's best friend, who wore the best suits and also happened to be the handsomest man in the show.  So really, it was just badly written, but the main writer died after only writing like 4 episodes... so it wasn't going to reach it's full potential anyways.  I still liked it, but it was frustrating as all get out with how much they withheld and made everyone so wishy washy and flip floppy, not giving us quite enough hints in some aspects.  I am proud to say that I called almost every one of the twists before it happened (even if it was only moments before with some of them... in the last episode which is way too late to reveal things... but anyways) so, ta da!  Pat myself on the back.  I did like the whole murder mystery theme.  I wish that it had been more prominent in the show.

66. Unemployed Romance 실업급여 로맨스 (2013) Korean

Lee Young Ah, Nam Goong Min, Suh Joon Young, Bae Seul Gi

Drama Rating: 5.5/10     Neck Score: B

This is just a cheesy little romcom, it's only 10 episodes long.  Watched it for Lee Young Ah, wasn't too disappointed either.  It's about a couple who met in college and then dated for forever, broke up without a great explanation, and then met each other years later when she went to the unemployement office where he worked.  The great thing about it is that the first half is completely from her perspective, and then it switches to his perspective so we can see both sides of the story.  It is also hilarious.  My favorite part is when he deals with the breakup with the rice cooker.  It is one of those fancy ones that talks, and he keeps talking to it, having it make rice and stuff.  It is nothing glamorous, but it is pretty funny, especially with the ridiculous things they do trying to keep from admitting that they still have feelings for each other.  In the romance department it's pretty realistic, with people over thinking things, things being messy, trying to chose the best despite what they heart says.  Both leads are pretty much the most awkward people ever, so that's cool.  It's just a cute little drama, with a bit of a weird ending.  They always do that in shows about writers though.  They have to write about what we just watched, turning life experience into a bestselling book or drama, whatever.