No Tail to Tell’s premiere ratings on SBS are in, landing in the low 3.7% range before falling to 2.7% for its Friday-Saturday slot. The drama marks Kim Hye Yoon’s comeback following Lovely Runner, pairing her opposite Lomon as the male lead. The story follows Eun Ho, a gumiho who refuses to become human. Things begin to change when she meets struggling soccer player Kang Si Yeol whose poverty contrasts with his big dreams. With so many dramas about the nine-tailed fox, it’s nothing new, but the series gets off to a fairly decent start so it’s disappointing that ratings had fallen even more.
The Judge Returns Poised to Dominate in Ratings
Then again, the drama is facing very stiff competition. Over on MBC, Ji Sung is once again playing to his strengths in The Judge Returns, which has rose sharply from a 4.3% premiere to double-digit highs of 10% and 11% this week. With its rebirth premise giving a murdered judge a second chance to redo his life, the series looks firmly positioned to dominate the time slot. Meanwhile, the Netflix exclusive Can This Love Be Translated? starring Kim Seon Ho and Go Youn Jung had dropped all episodes. The story of a global top star and her polyglot interpreter may not sound groundbreaking on paper, but the stars and this being a Hong Sisters drama brings its own buzz.
Adding to the crowded landscape are the weekend dramas. Nam Ji Hyun and Moon Sang Min’s To My Beloved Thief follows a female Hong Gil Dong falling for a prince, alongside a familiar soul-swapping trope that delivers your historical romance fix. The show has also steadily climbed from its premiere of 4.3 to 7% on KBS. Park Shin Hye joins the lineup with her drama comeback in Undercover Miss Hong, bringing in 3.5% for its premiere on tvN. She plays a woman in her 30s who pretends to be a 20-year-old rookie in a securities company to investigate a case from the inside.
