Same here - watching Stranger on Netflix - very good who-done-it about crooked prosecutors and some dirty cops.
English captions hard to keep up with as they talk really fast.
No gratuitous sex, good acting. I like the SK setting and find them interesting people.
Ooo! I’ll look that one up.
Ones we love (which is all of them that we have watched at this point)
Tv:
Kingdom- Period drama from the Joeson era. Also includes zombies.
Signal - Also a crooked prosecutors and dirty cops but with a twist involving time travel in a sense.
Firey Priest - As a Catholic I love it even more. Special Forces becomes priest. Also dirty prosecutors and cops (must be typical) priest goes vigilante and solves problems. Great characters.
Scarlet Heart Reyo: Moon Lovers (sounds goofy, but it will rip your heart out) Girl falls into water during a total eclipse and is transported back into time - the 900s - loosely based on their history. Heart wrenching and captivating. This one scarred us emotionally lol.
Hotel de Luna: Hotel for ghosts who have yet to work out their problems on earth. Hotel owner has her own baggage. Great story.
The King - Eternal Monarch: Parallel worlds.Love story. Intrigue. Bad guys and good guys. Fantastic. We did a marathon of these on NYE where we finished the series in 6 hours it was that good.
Goblin: Our latest obsession. Warrior for the emperor executed out of the emperor’s jealousy. He is cursed by becoming a goblin. There is also a sweet girl and a grim reaper. Sounds weird but trust me, if you have any interest in Kdrama genre this one is a must watch.
Movies:
Train to Busan and sequel Peninsula: ZOMBIES! and the Koreans do the best zombies ever.
Zombie for Sale: Hysterical comedy. Also. More Zombies.
Parasite: Award winning. Great story. Poor people wheedle into a rich family with a twist.
Masquerade: Think Moon Over Parador but with Koreans set in the Joeson era.
The Detective K: these are a series and we can’t find all of them. It’s a comedy- kind of Pink Pantherish in a way but set in the Joeson period. Great fun.
The things we find charming about them:
-no and I mean NO sex
-the men are men
-love is very pure
- there are actual good people and bad people. Not this moral relativism that you see in the states.
-the women aren’t trying to be men. They don’t have the need to be male. They get to be women. The men are not portrayed as complete useless idiots to let the women shine. The women are allowed to be strong characters while being feminine in their own right- strong without being masculine about it. I think this is a huge difference in what we see elsewhere and it is fantastic.
As you can see, I (and by extension my husband) are now HUGE fans. It is literally a breath of fresh air and so wholesome compared to everything else out there without being boring.