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Three Best K-Dramas to Binge When You Have Anxiety (by Lia)

Added 2021-09-27 01:46:56 +0000 UTC

It’s 2021. If you don’t have a measure of anxiety—msg me ASAP so I can learn your secrets.

In no particular order, here are the three dramas that have most helped me cope with looming existential dread during in the last year.

Hospital Playlist 1 & 2: Yes, I’m counting them together because my list, my rules lol. These five friends from university promise their patients that they will do their best, even if that results in long hours, rushing back to the hospital in the middle of the night, or doing surgery with a Darth Vader helmet glued to their scalp. The life or death situations are dealt with respectfully and with deft writing, showing how doctors might be heroes, but the are also very human. The cast feel like friends and I’ll be rewatching for years to come—better than chicken soup for the soul.
Reply 1998: Set in an alley in a Seoul neighborhood called Ssangmundong. Reply 1988 follows five families over the years through highs and lows—and is probably the best intergenerational drama that I’ve seen to date. This is a story of friendship and family that will make you feel like you’re right there with the gang eating ramen and doing dance off’s in Taek’s bedroom.
Coffee Prince: The world disappears in the face of Gong Yoo’s yearning. Another strong ensemble that is bound to scoop you up and make you feel connected and hopeful—this drama is fundamentally about loving who a person is at their core—all other aspects be damned and there is something so healing and calming about that aspect.
Runner Up: Hometown Cha Cha Cha but it’s not over so I don’t want to speak too soon.

How about you? What’s a drama that you’d rec someone looking to calm the anxiety monster?