I was thinking Heartbeat would be higher. King the land: not much plot but I like the way it is truthful about workplace harrassment, sexism, lookism, it piles up every criticism and bulldoses every excuse for inequality, attempts to gossip, and it has the characters demand transparent motifs and truthfulness. Source
Drama viewership ratings for the week of June 26-July 2, 2023
Don’t dating rumors circulate with pretty much every romcom if both participants are publicly single? That said, in this case the chemistry is strong, but even as someone who enjoys the show and the leads together, I’m still somewhat surprised it has resonated like this so early on. The numbers are really impressive! And although […]
Drama viewership ratings for the week of June 19-25, 2023
Not just any old hotel dramas…hotel dramas in which younger men with distant/unknown/dead mothers are dissatisfied with the way that older, sharp-tongued, defensive women are running said hotels. These hotels also need to have some connection to the aforementioned mothers. These men’s fathers must be strident and overbearing, and must be playing some sort of […]
Drama viewership ratings for the week of June 5-11, 2023
I thought “Mother” would do well domestically, and I’m glad to see I was right about that. To me, it was a drama that delivered on a lot of fronts. It had flaws, but kept up the dramatic tension until the end, and featured a central romance and characters who I found (for the most […]
Drama viewership ratings for the week of May 8-14, 2023
3 May 15, 2023May 14, 2023 Drama viewership ratings for the week of May 8-14, 2023 by DB Staff It’s more of the same this week as our stragglers continue to straggle (or is that struggle) and the dramas winning the ratings game continue to do so. Doctor Cha knocks it out of the park […]
Drama viewership ratings for the week of May 1-7, 2023
Drama viewership ratings for the week of May 1-7, 2023 by DB Staff My Perfect Stranger wins the Monday-Tuesday battle, but when Queen of the Mask approaches the ratings level of the Jang Hyuk x Jang Nara drama? (Things that make you go hmmm). Mid-week, Stealer continues to dip, The Good Bad Mother continues to […]
Drama viewership ratings for the week of April 24-30, 2023
No huge surprises here. I did think while watching “The Good Bad Mother” that it’s the kind of drama likely to do well with domestic audiences. Curious to see if that prediction ends up being correct. I certainly am enjoying this drama, even though the ML’s adult life is way more problematic than I initially […]
Drama viewership ratings for the week of April 17-23, 2023
Jumping as well on the Doctor Cha congratulatory train. Also wondering if audiences will be able to handle two medical dramas? Tho DC isn’t really about the medical stuff. I also had a good feeling about DC after episode 4. Even tho it’s more than that, it’s actually checking more of my rom-com boxes than […]
Drama viewership ratings for the week of Mar. 20-26, 2023
Drama viewership ratings for the week of Mar. 20-26, 2023 by DB Staff Sometimes in ratings land there are clear winners and clear losers, and that’s what we have this week, as we say goodbye to The Heavenly Idol and Kokdu: Season of Deity, both of which struggled through their runs for reasons discussed elsewhere. […]
Drama viewership ratings for the week of Mar. 13-19, 2023
THREE BRAVE SIBLINGS ended with OK ratings for a weekender. A bit of fan service at the end with a cute group photo, the least convincing wedding of all time, a scene where Soorim is in a wedding dress, etc. Most satisfying scene: The arrest of Soorim’s ex. Bottom line: Not the worst weekender of […]