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Which Korean drama pulled a Game of Thrones Season 8 on you? You know what we mean—the kind of K-Drama that had you completely hooked, bingeing episodes like there’s no tomorrow, thinking you’ve found your next all-time favourite...
only for the final episode (or two) to absolutely derail everything. We’re talking so bizarre, so out of left field, that it left you staring at your screen wondering what just happened—and maybe even questioning your own taste. Yes sigh, we’ve been there.
Here’s a list that still stings. When The Phone Rings This was an excruciating letdown. It had us at ‘marriage contract.
’ We were all in. Yoo Yeon-seok and Chae Soo-bin play a couple stuck in a cold, loveless marriage—he barely acknowledges her, she’s clearly suffering, and the tension is chef’s kiss. Enter a kidnapping twist, and boom: the show shifts gears into something gripping and emotional, with layers of romance, mystery, and suspense.
But then...
it starts to wobble. By the final episodes, things start spiraling—Soo-bin keeps getting kidnapped (again?), and suddenly Yeon-seok just disappears. Not emotionally, literally vanishes from the plot.
No explanation, just poof. It felt like the last episode belonged to another drama altogether. Fans were baffled, disappointed, and honestly, a little heartbroken, even though the lovers were reunited.
When The Phone Rings is streaming on Netflix. Big Mouth Lee Jong-suk is almost inseparable from revenge dramas. However, this one, which also starred Yoona, took a different turn altogether, leading to an uproar from fans.
In this story, Jong-suk plays a mediocre lawyer whose success rate is less than 10 percent. He’s in trouble with loan sharks and has a habit of easily getting scammed, much to his wife Mi-ho’s (a superb Yoona) chagrin. However, fate decides to play roulette with him and the mayor himself requests him to take on a highly-dubious case that involves the most derelict elements of society.
Obviously, things go terribly wrong, and he is sent to jail and Mi-ho has to bail him out. Unfortunately, in the entire chase of righting various evils, after a prolonged exhausting couple of episodes, which lead nowhere. Why did she have to die, at all? It made no sense for the storyline, and neither did it elicit much shock from the fans, except confuse them further.
Big Mouth is streaming on Disney Plus. Korean Odyssey A Korean Odyssey (Hwayugi) started off as a wildly entertaining blend of fantasy, romance, horror, and comedy—all wrapped in a modern retelling of the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West. With Lee Seung-gi playing the mischievous yet dangerously powerful Son Oh-gong and Oh Yeon-seo as Jin Seon-mi, a woman cursed with the ability to see spirits and destined to become the sacred Sam-jang, the drama gave us crackling chemistry, hilarious supernatural chaos, and some truly heart-wrenching moments.
The premise? Oh-gong is magically bound to love and protect Sam-jang through a cursed bracelet—raising the question: are his feelings real, or just a spell? The show hooked viewers with its high-stakes love story, quirky supporting characters (hello, Zombie girl), and jaw-dropping production. But then came that ending. Instead of delivering closure, it gave us a painfully vague finale where Sam-jang sacrifices herself, Oh-gong is left grieving, and we see him walking into a bleak underworld in search of her.
No real reunion, no emotional payoff—just heartbreak and unresolved threads. It felt like a cruel twist after such a rich build-up, leaving viewers angry, confused, and wondering why the show chose tragedy over catharsis. Alchemy of Souls Season 2 Alchemy of Souls: Season 2 – Light and Shadow had massive shoes to fill after the runaway success of Season 1, which blended fantasy, romance, and spellbinding world-building into something utterly addictive.
Season 2 picked up three years later, with Go Youn-jung taking over the female lead role as Jin Bu-yeon, now housing the soul of Naksu—a shift that left many fans conflicted from the start, especially those deeply attached to Jung So-min’s portrayal of Mu-deok/Naksu. While the chemistry between Go Youn-jung and Lee Jae-wook (Jang Uk) had its own charm, others felt the emotional depth built in Season 1 was never quite recaptured. The ending, though visually stunning, left fans with mixed emotions as Naksu had none of the old fire of Season 1.
She was far gentler reserved. Some viewers saw this as character development or emotional healing, while others felt it dulled her original sharpness. In other words, she was subdued, and we missed her assassin-like persona.
Moreover, the pacing felt rushed, major conflicts wrapped up too neatly, and the emotional payoff fell short—especially after such a long, layered build-up. Alchemy of Souls is streaming on Netflix Memories of the Alhambra You’d think a K-drama starring Hyun Bin and Park Shin-hye, backed by an ambitious premise that fuses augmented reality gaming with real-world stakes, would be an easy win. And for a while, it is.
The series kicks off with a gripping mystery and mind-bending action, as Hyun Bin’s character, Yoo Jin-woo—a tech CEO—finds himself caught in a deadly game where virtual enemies start killing people in real life. Park Shin-hye plays Jung Hee-joo, the sister of the game’s missing creator, who gets pulled into the chaos alongside him. The show masterfully builds tension, blending sci-fi with romance, and delivers some genuinely thrilling moments.
But around episode 14, the plot begins to spiral—introducing too many convoluted twists, sidelining key characters, and leaving emotional arcs half-baked. By the final episode, viewers are left scratching their heads as Jin-woo disappears into the game world with no clear resolution. Is he alive? Trapped forever? Was it all worth it? The ending offers no closure—just cryptic hints and unanswered questions.
For a series that promised so much, it left many fans frustrated, feeling like they’d been logged out of their own expectations. Memories of the Alhambra is streaming on Netflix, Viki..
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