u/Reading_55

Did you all like it and watch it all the way through or did you think it wasn't worth the watch and you abandoned it?

I have started these shows, but I don't seem compelled to watch them till the end, so I wanted to know why I feel this way, or are these shows mildly mediocre and I am just picking up on it. Thank you in advance!

1. Shinjuku Field Hospital: I didn't finish episode 2

2. Heaven and Hell Soul Exchange: I didn't watch more than 18 minutes of episode 1

3. The Science Club: I didn't finish episode 4 (I noticed that NHK dramas lul halfway through, but the lul for this hit me harder than Tokyo Salad Bowl, and before you ask, it's the ONLY other NHK show that I liked). I think this show is the MOST worth it out of the three to keep watching, but I am just trying to find a reason to continue it.

I’ve completely exhausted standard internet lists, social media templates, and typical icebreaker threads. Most starters online fall into predictable patterns ("What's your favorite X?", hypothetical travel questions, or generic deep-dives) that lead to flat, transactional answers.

I’m looking for unconventional conversation continuers or anchors that force authentic engagement, reveal internal logic, or highlight funny, hyper-specific daily behaviors.

Ground Rules for Responses:

• Minimum of 4 distinct questions/anchors per comment.
• NO generic icebreakers: Absolutely no "favorite movie/food/destination," "what would you do with a million dollars," or corporate team-building prompts.
• Bonus points if you briefly mention why it works or the dynamic it creates.

Examples of the bar I’m aiming for: (they are MY ideas, I am perfectly capable of coming up with my own ideas, but I just need to stimulate the engine a bit)

1. What is something that you hate for a perfectly justifiable reason but with a burning passion (this can be anything from Ketchup to Kdramas).
2. If a (legally) blind enemy of yours is likely to remember something about you or your character, what do you think it might be?

I’ve completely exhausted standard internet lists, social media templates, and typical icebreaker threads. Most starters online fall into predictable patterns ("What's your favorite X?", hypothetical travel questions, or generic deep-dives) that lead to flat, transactional answers.

I’m looking for unconventional conversation continuers or anchors that force authentic engagement, reveal internal logic, or highlight funny, hyper-specific daily behaviors.

Ground Rules for Responses:

• Minimum of 4 distinct questions/anchors per comment.
• NO generic icebreakers: Absolutely no "favorite movie/food/destination," "what would you do with a million dollars," or corporate team-building prompts.
• Must include a mechanism: Briefly mention why the question works or the dynamic it creates (e.g., targets low-stakes friction, forces a trade-off, creates an asymmetrical curiosity hook).
• Bonus points if you briefly mention why it works or the dynamic it creates.

Examples of the bar I’m aiming for:

1. What is something that you hate for a perfectly justifiable reason but with a burning passion (this can be anything from Ketchup to Kdramas).

2. If a (legally) blind enemy of yours is likely to remember something about you or your character, what do you think it might be?

The drama can be of any genre.

Explain your choice in 1-3 sentences and no spoilers.

I'd love to know and I want to challenge myself and suggest a show.

For me, I'd have to say I'm your housekeeper Mita. Why? The housekeeper is enigmatic and if you understand the Japanese that you are listening to, borderline creepy. Not only that, but you just somehow want to hug the entire cast and console them, yes, even Mita. But the events are quite intense.

I was nearly gonna say Light of my Lion though.

This show was my inspiration: https://www.reddit.com/r/Korean_Drama_Hangout/comments/1vkm0x3/you_can_recommend_one_kdrama_to_someone_whos/

These are the movies:

The Parent trap (the '90s version)

Mrs Doubtfire

Kindergarten Cop

Daddy Day Care

Matilda

Front of the Classroom

The Ron Clark Story

Tru Confessions

17 Again

Quints

Three men and a baby

Three men and a little lady

Phantom of the megaplex

Miracle Run

The Babysitter's Club

It Takes Two

I’m Fifi and I am 19. I’m looking for friends who are capable of holding a real conversation.

My age range is 18 to 31. If you are over 21, you have to bring actual substance. There are plenty of people my age and plenty of other hobbies I can spend my time on, so I need to actually feel the difference in maturity and engagement between you and my younger counterparts. No boring energy and zero creepiness.

Keep scrolling and know that I WILL ignore your message if:

• Your go-to opening is "hi," "hey," or "how are you."
• You are a perv.
• You are a boring one-liner texter.
• You won't ask me interesting questions back.

My interests:

• Reading and Writing: I read slice-of-life and write fanfic.
• Art: Drawing faces and painting food or scenery.
• Media: I like comedies and dramas, but I have a low tolerance for weirdness or abstract strangeness (Friends, HIMYM, St. Denis Medical, Superstore). I watch shows from the US, UK, Australia, Japan, and Jordan, plus a couple of exceptions like Spain and the Italian middle schooler shows Di4ries and Ri4lries.
• Music: I only listen to instrumental synthwave, synthwave, classical music, and synthesizer music. Please don't send me karaoke or vocal tracks.
• Continued education: I am always watching videos that teach me new facts, and I chat with AI to fact-check, ponder deeper meanings, and see how niche concepts apply to me specifically.

If you’re interested in a real exchange, DM me with:

1. What we have in common.
2. One recent book or show you’ve seen and why.

If you can't be bothered to write more than a sentence, we aren't a match.

American stuff: 

 Quints  

Three men and a baby

Three men and a little lady

Jumanji (all the movies even Zathura)  

My Girl 

Spanglish (Adam Sandler)

Blended (Adam Sandler)

Matilda ( NOT the musical and kindly DON'T suggest it) 

3-4 Home Alone movies

 I have seen Taken 1 and a bit of Taken 2 and 3 ( Liam Neeson) 

I have watched a few rom coms of Julia Roberts like Notting Hill  

Unforgivable (Sandra Bullock)

Harry Potter (SUCH a Potterhead)

Red and Red 2 

Nanny Mc Phee two parts  

Old movie (2021)  

Charlie and the chocolate Factory 

Kissing Booth trilogy  

Passengers (2016)  

Ivy and Bean  

To all the boys I have loved before trilogy

The Parent trap (the '90s version)

Cheaper by the dozen

Mrs Doubtfire

Bridge to Terabithia

The Edge of Seventeen

Mean Girls

Mean Girls 2

Legally Blonde

Kindergarten Cop

Daddy Day Care

Enola Holmes

Indian stuff: Mrs Chatterjee vs Norway, Hichki, Black, Doctor G

Other countries: Johnny English  

I didn't like, please don't recommend it:

Twilight

Percy Jackson movies

Ramona and Beezus

Click (Adam Sandler)

the other Enola Holmes movies besides the first one

Thanks in advance and I am pretty sure that I have forgotten something, so forgive me for that

American stuff: 

I have seen: 

Stuck in the Middle, The Golden Girls, The Golden Palace, American Housewife,

The Upshaws, The Good Place, Stranger Things, The Big Bang Theory, Young Sheldon, Georgie and Mandy's First Marriage, Mr Iglesias, A little help with Carol Burnett, Vox Explained, The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window, The Good Doctor (ABC), Gilmore Girls ( both the OG series and the sequel), Atypical, Lost in oz (Prime video), Two of a Kind, Just add Magic (Prime Video, not THAT much of a fan of Mystery City FYI), Alexa and Katie, Merry happy whatever (Christmas series one season, got axed), No good nick, Never Have I ever, House M.D, Modern Family,The Baby-Sitters Club, The Worst Witch, Arthur (the animation)

I am currently in the middle of: Fresh off the boat, Malcolm in the middle, 30 Rock, The news adventures of old Christine, Vox Unexplainable, Xo, Kitty, 13 Reasons Why, Everwood

I want to try: ER, the PD shows, Chichago Med. 

Indian stuff: Single Papa.

Jdrama list I have finished: (note I am in the middle of Jin and GTO (2024 and have yet to see the 2026 one)

Divorce Lawyer (Rikkon Bengoshi)

The 19th medical chart

Tatsuki: Too Kind for School

Gokusen

After School Doctor

The Queen's Classroom

Stepmother and Daughter Blues

Kaseifu no Mita

Light of My Lion

Turn to me Mukai-kun

Yamato Nadeshiko

Nodame Cantabile

The Full-Time Wife Escapist

An encouragement of love

Unnatural

Loved One

Tokyo Salad Bowl

 

Other countries, I liked these: 

Go Live your way  

Al Rawabi School for Girls 

Anne with an E 

Man vs Baby 

Ask the Doctor

Mind Your Language  

End of the fucking world 

Topsy and Tim

The InBESTigators

Heidi 1974 anime

Princess Sarah anime

Di4ries

Ri4lries

H20: just add water

Mako Mermaids

Daughter from another mother (Madre solo hay dos)

The Surrogacy (Madre de alquier)

Little Lunch

The Bureau of Magical Things

Catalog (Egyptian drama)

 

I did NOT like (please DO NOT recommend KDramas)

Two Broke Girls 

Raising Hope 

Superstore 

St Denis Medical 

Man Vs Bee

Riverdale

Suits

Jinn (the Jordanian show)

Scrubs

Grey's Anatomy

Only Murders in the Building

MIU404 (J-drama)

The Middle

Kim’s Convenience

Raising Hope

Abbott Elementary

The Mysterious Benedict Society

Sweet Tooth

Hana Yori Dango (J-drama)

The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House (J-drama)

Extraordinary Attorney Woo (K-drama)

A Series of Unfortunate Events

Kim's Convenience

Black-ish

Lockwood & Co.

Ashley Garcia: Genius in Love

Chesapeake Shores

Virgin River

Nobuta wo Produce

Friends

Jane the Virgin

According to Jim

ANY of the Attenborough docus

Secrets of Sulphur Springs

Swiss Family Robinson

Radiation House

Legal High

Ishikeo and Haneo

Galileo

Orange Days

Raising Dion (I watched season 1 but I hated season 2)

Sweet Magnolias (I watched season 1 but I hated season 2)

Even Stevens (I watched a bit but I got bored)

Brooklyn 99

Life in Pieces

Ginny and Georgia

There has GOT to be more. Forgive me for leaving out something. Thanks alot!

American stuff: 

I have seen: 

Stuck in the Middle, The Golden Girls, The Golden Palace, American Housewife,

The Upshaws, The Good Place, Stranger Things, The Big Bang Theory, Young Sheldon, Georgie and Mandy's First Marriage, Mr Iglesias, A little help with Carol Burnett, Vox Explained, The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window, The Good Doctor (ABC), Gilmore Girls ( both the OG series and the sequel), Atypical, Lost in oz (Prime video), Two of a Kind, Just add Magic (Prime Video, not THAT much of a fan of Mystery City FYI), Alexa and Katie, Merry happy whatever (Christmas series one season, got axed), No good nick, Never Have I ever, House M.D, Modern Family,The Baby-Sitters Club, The Worst Witch, Arthur (the animation)

I am currently in the middle of: Fresh off the boat, Malcolm in the middle, 30 Rock, The news adventures of old Christine, Vox Unexplainable, Xo, Kitty, 13 Reasons Why, Everwood

I want to try: ER, the PD shows, Chichago Med. 

Indian stuff: Single Papa.

Jdrama list I have finished: (note I am in the middle of Jin and GTO (2024 and have yet to see the 2026 one)

Divorce Lawyer (Rikkon Bengoshi)

The 19th medical chart

Tatsuki: Too Kind for School

Gokusen

After School Doctor

The Queen's Classroom

Stepmother and Daughter Blues

Kaseifu no Mita

Light of My Lion

Turn to me Mukai-kun

Yamato Nadeshiko

Nodame Cantabile

The Full-Time Wife Escapist

An encouragement of love

Unnatural

Loved One

Tokyo Salad Bowl

 

Other countries, I liked these: 

Go Live your way  

Al Rawabi School for Girls 

Anne with an E 

Man vs Baby 

Ask the Doctor

Mind Your Language  

End of the fucking world 

Topsy and Tim

The InBESTigators

Heidi 1974 anime

Princess Sarah anime

Di4ries

Ri4lries

H20: just add water

Mako Mermaids

Daughter from another mother (Madre solo hay dos)

The Surrogacy (Madre de alquier)

Little Lunch

The Bureau of Magical Things

Catalog (Egyptian drama)

 

I did NOT like: 

Two Broke Girls 

Raising Hope 

Superstore 

St Denis Medical 

Man Vs Bee

Riverdale

Suits

Jinn (the Jordanian show)

Scrubs

Grey's Anatomy

Only Murders in the Building

MIU404 (J-drama)

The Middle

Kim’s Convenience

Raising Hope

Abbott Elementary

The Mysterious Benedict Society

Sweet Tooth

Hana Yori Dango (J-drama)

The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House (J-drama)

Extraordinary Attorney Woo (K-drama)

A Series of Unfortunate Events

Kim's Convenience

Black-ish

Lockwood & Co.

Ashley Garcia: Genius in Love

Chesapeake Shores

Virgin River

Nobuta wo Produce

Friends

Jane the Virgin

According to Jim

ANY of the Attenborough docus

Secrets of Sulphur Springs

Swiss Family Robinson

Radiation House

Legal High

Ishikeo and Haneo

Galileo

Orange Days

Raising Dion (I watched season 1 but I hated season 2)

Sweet Magnolias (I watched season 1 but I hated season 2)

Even Stevens (I watched a bit but I got bored)

There has GOT to be more. Forgive me for leaving out something. Thanks alot!

Hi, I am a 19 year old girl and on the readyourcolour test, I am a yellow reader, so I am looking for fellow yellow readers that are 18-21 years old. If you aren't any of these, please don't message me, there are plenty of other people out there for you.

This is what I mean for your reference:

https://preview.redd.it/7cnkq4ktfmfh1.png?width=688&format=png&auto=webp&s=acd9d28425af0b9c9d50518c0ccbfe0b0ae39df2

Hi, I am a 19 year old girl and I love The Golden Girls (I LIKE The Golden Palace too) and I want to talk these shows.

I am looking for someone that's 18-21 years old and has seen these shows. If you write fanfic about these shows, then it's just a bonus.

If you haven't seen them, please don't message me, there are plenty of other people out there for you.

A reference from the show that I like:

Sophia: Stand up and say it: My name is Rose, and I am an idiot.

Hi, I am a 19 year old girl and I love The Golden Girls (I LIKE The Golden Palace too) and I want to talk these shows.

I am looking for someone that's 18-21 years old and has seen these shows. If you write fanfic about these shows, then it's just a bonus.

If you haven't seen them, please don't message me, there are plenty of other people out there for you.

A reference from the show that I like:

Sophia: Stand up and say it: My name is Rose, and I am an idiot.

Hi, I am a 19 year old girl and I love Jdramas and I want to talk about them.

I am looking for someone that's 18-21 years old and has seen the dramas that I have seen.

If you haven't seen the dramas I have seen or don't watch them, please don't message me, there are plenty of other people out there for you.

My list:

Divorce Lawyer (Rikkon Bengoshi)

The 19th medical chart

Tatsuki: Too Kind for School

The Queen's Classroom

 After School Doctor

Stepmother and Daughter Blues

Kaseifu no Mita

Light of My Lion

Turn to me Mukai-kun

Yamato Nadeshiko

Nodame Cantabile

The Full-Time Wife Escapist

An encouragement of love

Unnatural

Loved One

Tokyo Salad Bowl

 

 

Hi, I am a 19 year old girl and I love Jdramas and I want to talk about them.

I am looking for someone that's 18-21 years old and has seen the dramas that I have seen.

If you haven't seen the dramas I have seen or don't watch them, please don't message me, there are plenty of other people out there for you.

My list:

Divorce Lawyer (Rikkon Bengoshi)

The 19th medical chart

Tatsuki: Too Kind for School

The Queen's Classroom

 After School Doctor

Stepmother and Daughter Blues

Kaseifu no Mita

Light of My Lion

Turn to me Mukai-kun

Yamato Nadeshiko

Nodame Cantabile

The Full-Time Wife Escapist

An encouragement of love

Unnatural

Loved One

Tokyo Salad Bowl

 

Hi, I am a 19 year old girl and I love Jdramas and I want to talk about them.

I am looking for someone that's 18-21 years old and has seen the dramas that I have seen.

If you haven't seen the dramas I have seen or don't watch them, please don't message me, there are plenty of other people out there for you.

My list:

Divorce Lawyer (Rikkon Bengoshi)

The 19th medical chart

Tatsuki: Too Kind for School

The Queen's Classroom

 After School Doctor

Stepmother and Daughter Blues

Kaseifu no Mita

Light of My Lion

Turn to me Mukai-kun

Yamato Nadeshiko

Nodame Cantabile

The Full-Time Wife Escapist

An encouragement of love

Unnatural

Loved One

Tokyo Salad Bowl

 

Soar High

Tokyo Dogs

You can't expense this

The Science Club

RikuOh

The Pending Train

Quartet

Like are they worth watching or not?

Beisdes waiting for GTO the live action and it's reboot.

What else are waiting on?

Like are we going to get more Yuki Amami stuff on Netflix? Any other Nanako Matsushima hits?

I am just trying to see what you all read and heard about.

I am a bit bored with the dramas these days, I have a few that I am trying to watch, Until the t-shirt dries (I WILL watch next week's episode), the others are idk, I will figure it out, Tokyo Dogs, You can't expense this, Soar High. I have also liked RikuOh, it's at least better than the other three, but not better than yk, Until the T-shirt dries.

So this is the stuff I watched and loved and I was hoping for recs. I don't want smth that the algo keeps pushing. I am DONE with hearing about and I didn't like watching Ishikeo and Haneo, Ichikei's Crow, Sins of Kujo, Alice in Borderland, Grande Maison Tokyo. I hated Gimbap and Onigiri also. I am ONLY on Netflix

I watched these:

Divorce Lawyer (Rikkon Bengoshi)

The 19th medical chart

Tatsuki:

Gokusen

The Queen's Classroom

Stepmother and Daughter Blues

Kaseifu no Mita

Light of My Lion

Turn to me Mukai-kun

Yamato Nadeshiko

Nodame Cantabile

An encouragement of love

Unnatural

Loved One

Tokyo Salad Bowl

The Full Time Wife Eacapist

I like the writing of the shows, I like the high competence characters. I like having a smaller cast of characters whom we understand exactly who's who in 5-10 minutes.

I dislike the Netflix Japan productions because idk, they spend too long in moments like soft lighting with these little blurred circles or the really dark lighting.