Time slot: Wednesday-Thursday
Broadcaster: ENA
Genre: Sports, coming-of-age, human
Episode count: 12
Reasons to watch: Dramaland knows how to deliver really wonderful sports dramas that make even a sports-avoider like myself dive in headfirst. With the poetically titled Like Flowers in Sand, we have a hero (Jang Dong-yoon) with crushed dreams of success in the ring as a ssireum athlete. Just when he’s about to give up, those dreams are given new wings. Lee Joo-myung — who was pure joy in Twenty Five Twenty One — is the girl from his past who’s poised to change everything. Has it been done before? Yes. Does that mean they can’t put a special twist on it and make it magical? No, it does not. And I’m ready for the flowers, sand, blood, sweat, and tears.