Not surprising.
I'm from Germany and all my mother watches these days are Korean dramas on Netflix.
She tells me that, in contrast to Western productions, they show more feelings and are less "cold" when interacting with each other.
I'm from Germany and all my mother watches these days are Korean dramas on Netflix.
She tells me that, in contrast to Western productions, they show more feelings and are less "cold" when interacting with each other.
Shes a gentle soul and there are some very genteel K-Drama that don't include sex, violence, rude jokes or dark themes. Which is quite hard to find in UK and American programmes these days.
They just want some feel-good stuff to watch and I fully support that. :-)
> She tells me that, in contrast to Western productions, they show more feelings and are less "cold" when interacting with each other.
This reads as pretty extreme over-acting, to me. Think, the very most over-the-top acting from '40s and '50s US film musicals. But, how much your actors should be acting and how much they should be ACTING! is a matter of taste, I suppose.
These days I prefer the Japanese indie rom coms when on a trans pacific flight with Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and American options available. They just feel less produced and more authentic than the Korean rom coms (but of course, they are produced to be like that).
Crash Landing on You was a heartwarming (and cheesy) story told in a very "PG" way. It not only appealed to me, my wife, and our friends, it appealed to my modest Indian in-laws.
Dark, Babylon, How to sell drugs online, and 1899 (RIP) are all fantastic series.
Korean dramas by default are 16-20 eps and end there, and if they're done well, stick the landing and provide a satisfying ending to a complete, pre-planned narrative arc, which Dark also managed to pull off.
No Lost syndrome there.
For me, it doesn't feel like it though. I got tired of k-dramas (and I usually watch the 16 episode ones, instead of 20), because it feels that around the 12~13 episode mark they throw in an unnecessary twist or something, just to get to the 16 episode mark. I do feel like they would be miles better if they usually aimed for 12~14
May I speculate that asian cultures are simply more prone to that due to their languages and possibly culture?
Anime content may look stereotyped in some sense, but I've interacted with enough Japanese citizens to know that they emphasize a lot the emotional aspect in their verbal (through tones) and non-verbal communication.