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.

69. 12 Signs of Love 일년에 열두남자 (2012) Korean

Yoon Jin Seo, Koh Joon Hee, On Joo Wan, Bae Geu Rin

Drama Rating: 3/10     Neck Score: B

I watched this one because it was on Netflix and Julian Kang.  Rawr.  However it was really stupid and I think suffered from extremely bad writing and over influence of the public.  It's about a girl who is stupid and has a misunderstanding with her boyfriend because of her over thinking and they break up.  Then, to keep her job, she has to write a column pretending to be this famous author, about dating and having sex with a man from each of the astrological signs.  It starts because of writing about her ex-boyfriend to save her skin once, and it becomes so popular that she is forced to continue.  So it is a bit interesting to see her discover each man, but it's really quite silly.  I think that no one liked her so much that in the end they might have changed it so that she didn't end up with her ex again, but that might have been always planned.  I don't know.  I'm not sure what the point of keeping him around was if that wasn't always the case.  I mean, the way they wrapped up the ending was a stretch,  throwing in a new man, etc, made absolutely no sense, narrative speaking.  I've seen enough opinions of how everyone loved the other girl so much that I am sure most people liked her more than the main girl so that might have severely influenced the ending.  Also, they took so much time at first, that some of the signs got rushed through.  Like I said, really bad writing.  Also, Julian Kang's character was bad, so that just made it even less cool.  Yeah, absolutely silly show.  A little embarrassed I watched it.  Wouldn't recommend it.