#chinguchallenge #cDrama #kDrama #jDrama #twDrama

Day 4: Drama friendship

When I thought about Dramas that were really all ABOUT friendship, these two came to mind first, and both are easily the highest scoring Dramas that I've listed as having "friendship" as their primary theme

#cDrama #DearEnemy
#kDrama #DivorceAttorneyShin

Friendship is absolutely at the core of both these very different Dramas and what elevated them both.

#chinguchallenge #cDrama #kDrama #jDrama #twDrama

Day 5: Villain
S1 of #ForestOfSecrets WAS my fave but I learned years later the actor was ALREADY a convicted sex offender then.

SO, onto happier stuff
Day 6: Family

The first #kDrama I ever felt moved to blog about, in a post longer than any of my current Drama blog posts.
#YeahThatsHowItIs

Everything about this family Drama was near-perfect Good luck finding it though: When I watched it, Kocowa had it, last I looked, no one did

#chinguchallenge #cDrama #kDrama #jDrama #twDrama

Day 7: Revenge Drama

#MarryMyHusbandJPN
I didn't even CONSIDER this one until someone selected it for this day on bsky, but of course it is a revenge Drama. But so much MORE than a revenge Drama.

NOT strictly a remake of the #kDrama version - because both were in varying stages of production at the same time, this one ended up a co-production. And a VERY different beast by all accounts. A journey from revenge to personal growth.

#chinguchallenge #cDrama #kDrama #jDrama #twDrama

Day 8: Enemies to lovers

The Song Joong Ki #kDrama #InnocentMan qualifies, as does the #twDrama #BehindYourSmile but since this is about favourites, the 9.9/10 I gave to #LoveToHateYou makes it a clear winner:

A FUN romcom with just about everything right - including lots of on point social commentary, and the complete absence of serial killers

#chinguchallenge #cDrama #kDrama #jDrama #twDrama

Day 12: Comedy

Possibly the MOST subjective genre. The first Drama that comes to mind whenever I see this even after 12 years, is the 2014 #jDrama #Date - whoever wrote it shared MY sense of humour almost perfectly.

BUT, hooray for the extra characters here, because #kDrama #TheDivorceInsurance surprised me by how FUNNY it was. I already knew Giraffe as a great comic actor but the whole core cast made me laugh, a lot.

#chinguchallenge #cDrama #kDrama #jDrama

Day 13: Found family
Glad of the extra characters here as #cDrama #jDrama & #kDrama have all produced great examples. the first 3 that came to mind for me are #jDrama

In 1 'found family' is a BIG spoiler. So it's #KotaroLivesAlone for a stunning performance from the then 7yo lead, who had to really ACT.

AND #GiboToMusumeNoBlues - a #JDrama I dropped after 2-3 eps then went back to MANY years later and scored 9.5/10

#chinguchallenge #cDrama #kDrama #jDrama

Day 14: Favourite trope

This one was really tough. I have several tropes that really push my buttons, but thinking of a trope I really like was tough.

I love it when tropes are flipped/inverted, but the closest I could come to a trope happens so seldom I'm not even sure it counts as a trope. That said, I love it every time I see it and perhaps because it's not that common, the scene is often really well done

Asking consent for a first kiss

#chinguchallenge #cDrama #kDrama #jDrama

Day 15: Favourite time travel Drama

time-travel #cDrama are literally not allowed HEAs, so they're a nope

My fave is the 2017 #twDrama #LoveTimeless I've watched 5 times, 4 times focused ONLY on the arc of the 2nd pair.
Elements of the OTP relationship remained problematic to the end for me, but the Groundhog Day time travel gave real growth to the STP.

Good luck finding it though, so a good runner-up is
#kDrama #QueenInHyunsMan