Dear Enemy - As Good as it Gets
In my personal database of East Asian drama viewing, I've scored several dramas at higher than 10 out of 10. All of them have something a little special that makes them better than merely perfect. Four of them I have scored at 12/10. All of them left me feeling really, really good – profoundly satisfying drama viewing experiences of a very special kind. Apart from When Life Gives You Tangerines , which I wrote about here , three of the four share important similarities. All three dramas are all about the women, from beginning to end. The first, in 2017, was the Korean drama Avengers Social Club – about a group of women of different ages and social strata who come together and become firm friends while seeking revenge on those who wronged them. The men in that drama are either antagonists or secondary support characters. In 2018, the Korean drama Goodbye to Goodbye was all about the unlikely and incredible friendship between a pregnant woman and her hikikomor...