Kdrams: to begin in misery or hit you with at episode 5ish

[lesbiassparrow]

I divide many kdrams into two sorts: the ones that lure you in with a few episodes of happiness (often involving first love and gorgeous scenery that is just there to lull you into a false sense of security) and the ones that think that is for weaklings and decide to start off with the misery in the first five minutes and keep ramping it up from

Comments

[alexandral]

I want angst NOW. I think there be terminal illness and all, but everyone will survive.

[lesbiassparrow]

It will only be true angst if someone has to sell themselves into slavery to pay for the operation for the illness. And then falls into a river and gets amnesia only to reappear as a nun.

[calixa]

Yeah, I think that'd be hard to top.

[lesbiassparrow]

It should be in our ultimate kdrama.