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Lead cast: Lee Min-ho, Gong Hyo-jin
Latest Nielsen rating: 2.7 per cent
What happens when you mix K-drama, sci-fi and 50 billion won (US$34 million)? Cheating astronauts, zero-gravity sex and a coveted winning lottery ticket, apparently.
There was no question of When the Stars Gossip ever being serious sci-fi. This is a high-concept K-drama with Lee Min-ho (Pachinko) and Gong Hyo-jin (When the Camellia Blooms) from romcom specialist Shin Sook-hyang (Pasta, Don’t Dare to Dream) after all.
Perhaps this was why it was doomed to begin with. Science fiction is an elastic genre that can take on many forms, but the embryo from which it grows always needs to be an idea.