The Lover

Title: The Lover (더 러버)
Network: Mnet
Episodes: 12
Starring: Oh Jung-Se, Ryu Hyun-Kyung, Jung Joon-Young, Choi Yoe-jin, Park Jong-Hwan, Ha Eun-Seol, Takuya Terada, and Lee Jae-Joon
Aired: Started April 2, 2015

The Lover is a new series being broadcast by cable company MNET, which from what I can tell used to be a music television station that broadened their programing a few years ago, kinda like MTV.  The Lover is only the third drama broadcast by the company following Monstar and Persevere, Goo Hae-Ra, neither of which I have watched.  It being a cable company it seems, at least with this series, that MNET is willing to take more risks with what it is willing to broadcast.
The Lover is an omnibus series that takes place inside a rundown apartment building.  Here there live four couples none of which are married. Each of these couples are at different stages of their relationships, and for now it seems that the series is focused on how they each deal with living together outside of marriage.
The first couple have been dating for five years and living together for two.  They are the veterans of the series.  One of them is a voice actor while the other runs a blog. And, they are hilarious.

Oh Do-Si and Ryoo Doo-Ri have been together the longest.  They decided that living together was better than marriage.  They fight and make up on the daily.  Their fights are often over the most ridiculous of things like how much of the spice packet to use when making instant ramen. 
The second couple have beein living together for a year and their is a twelve year age difference between them.

Choi Jin-nyeo is twelve years older than her boyfriend, Jeong Yeong-joon.  They are very different because of this age difference.  Jin-nyeo operates her own side dish catering business out of their apartment while Yeong-joon pretends to be a rock start carrying around a guitar and composing badly written and misspelled songs.  The difference between the two can mostly clearly been seen when Yeong-joon's sister visits the couple and Jin-nyeo is completely lost when trying to follow and be part of the conversation. 
So far, two episodes in, little has been seen of the third couple who are trying out living together before they get married.

Ha Seol-un and Park Hwan-jong just recently moved in together after knowing each other for only a couple of months.  They are the only couple in the series that have their eyes set on marriage.  They seem very uncomfortable around each other.  Seol-un is trying to keep all her bad habits hidden wanting Hwan-jong to believe that she is the epitome of ladylike.  She goes so far as binging on food late at night so Hwan-jong doesn't realize how much she actually eats.  They don't communicate effectively making their relationship really awkward for both of them
The final couple is a burgeoning bromance, or is it?

Lee Joon-jae is a loner just scraping by that needs a roommate in order to be able to pay his rent.  Takuya is Japanese and traveling around the world.  He is the roommate that Joon-jae thinks would be perfect.  Short term and with the language barrier he might not have to really communicate with him, but Takuya has different ideas.  Their relationship is set to be the bromance of the series, but there is definitely tension between the two.  They have some of the best chemistry of all the couples.  One only hopes that MNet has the balls to let their relationship develop the way that the first two episodes are hinting at.

Heart to Heart

Title: Heart to Heart ( 하트 투 하트)
Network: TVN
Episodes: 16
Starring:  Choi Gang-Hee, Chun Jung-Myung, Lee Jae-Yoon
Aired: January 9 - February 28, 2015

I watched the first episode of Heart to Heart and absolutely hated it.  I hated the lead actor, I hated the second lead, I hated the lead actress and her awkwardness.  There was nothing I like about the first episode, but I watched the second one and then the third one and before I knew it I was staying up way past my bedtime to watch just one more episode.  The problem is that I can't pinpoint exactly when the transition from hating every aspect of this drama to being completely engrossed in it took place.
The thing with Heart to Heart is that fact that all the characters are so beautifully flawed and broken.  They got under my skin.  After the credits of the last episode, I wanted to start again.  Even wanted to watch that miserable first episode again.
The story revolves around Chang Hong-Do a social awkward woman with social anxiety that manifests itself with uncontrollable blushing.  It is so bad that she can only go out in public wearing a helmet or dressed as an old woman.  She was to be cured from her ailment so that she can talk to and confess to the guy she likes.

In order to do so she seeks the help of Ko Yi-Seok, a famous therapist who is barely keeping it together by a very frail string.  Together they help each other and in the process they fall in love.
When Hong-Do is with Yi-Seok she can communicate clearly and her social anxiety tends to disappear even without her helmet on.  And when Yi-Seok  is in the same room with Hong-Do, he can actually consult with his patients without resorting to alcohol.
Heart to Heart has become one of my favorite dramas just to the sheer fact that it is completely different than most dramas out there now.