Buried Hearts Ep 8 earns BEST ratings yet – even as international viewers criticize writing

Buried Hearts, Episode 8 doubles ratings it earned for Episode 1

Heading into its second half, ongoing revenge drama Buried Hearts, Episode 8 aired on Saturday night to its best ratings yet, as it continues to grab higher and higher viewership with each new episode.

So well has the Korean drama being performing, last night Buried Hearts, Episode 8 earned double the nationwide rating of its first episode — 12.3 percent versus the 6.1 percent for Episode 1.


It also performed as well with viewers in Seoul, where the K-drama earned 12.3 percent versus Episode 1’s rating of 6.0 percent.

The SBS drama was the second most-watched TV show of the day on Saturday, behind the weekend drama For Eagle Brothers, as well as the most-watched mini series of the entire week.

International viewers rating My Drama List

Meanwhile, Buried Hearts is also still grabbing a solid rating of 8.3 out of 10 from My Drama List viewers, although some are still not particularly positive about the K-drama’s writing, or about the relationship between the Male Lead (Park Hyung Sik) and Female Lead (Hong Hwa Yeon).

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Those comments range from:

Does it really matters whether FL sleeps with her husband or not. Does it really matter to ML?.

Writers didn’t have much liberty to justify FL behavior without villanizing her husband character. So their entire arc is not interesting. From the get-go it’s predictable.

to:

I will say this again and the only thing that’s not clicking here is the addition of romance! I can’t seem to enjoy the revenge because of the shitty relationship of FL and ML.

and:

That’s what I’ve been feeling too, It’s like we can’t get the action/ revenge because of this romance and it’s taking forever to get to the revenge part.

In other words, whether you enjoy Buried Hearts or not may depend on your ability to deal with messed up romantic relationships.

Buried Hearts stars Park Hyung Sik, Huh Joon Ho, Lee Hae Young, and Hong Hwa Yeon.

Its next episode airs tonight, Sunday, March 16th, on SBS in South Korea, and via Disney+ internationally.

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