📺 Finished a Korean drama in one weekend and I can't stop thinking about it

On Friday night I started a Korean drama because my sister kept going on about them. I said I'd watch 2 episodes before bed. I finished all 16 by Sunday evening. I barely left the couch except to eat. My daughter asked if I was ill and I said no. I've heard about K-dramas for years and always thought they'd be too slow for me. I was wrong. The slowness is the whole thing. Characters stand in a doorway and say nothing. A small gesture, a hand on a sleeve, carries more than a whole page of dialogue in other shows. I usually watch faster Western stuff, and this was like switching from a highway to a lane. I didn't expect to like a lane this much. By episode 5 I'd stopped checking my phone, which almost never happens. The ending is the part I can't shake. I won't spoil anything. One character makes a choice in the final episode, and it wasn't shocking. It was just quiet. No big music swell, no speech. They just did it, and I sat there for a full minute. Days later I'm still turning it over while I stir the tea. I told my sister, and it turns out she's been watching them for years. She sent me a list of 5 more shows that she thinks I'd like. I'd like something with real feeling but not the loud, over the top kind some people mention. So if you have a quiet one, send it. My sister's list starts tonight.

My sister has been trying to get me into this genre for years now and I always assumed it would feel too slow for my taste based purely on the runtime per episode alone. Glad you mentioned the pacing point, might finally give one a proper try this coming weekend instead of continuing to put it off indefinitely like always.

Went through almost the exact same weekend myself, told myself one episode before bed and looked up four whole hours later completely wrecked but unable to stop watching any of it. The way that show let silences sit without rushing to fill them with score or dialogue is something most shows I watch regularly could stand to learn from.