Television series

Doom at Your Service

Name: Doom at Your Service
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Released: 2021
Cast: Park Bo Young, Lee Soo Hyuk, Kang Tae Oh, Shin Do Hyun, Seo In Gook

Urban fantasy

A Korean fantasy romance where a hapless web novel editor accidentally summons catastrophe itself—and then falls for it. Doom at Your Service is heightened melodrama with genuine stakes: watching two people navigate impossibly weighted circumstances, find unexpected tenderness, and grapple with whether love can rewrite fate. It's earnest, gorgeously shot, and unafraid of its own big feelings.

TVMaze rating

3.9

Should you watch it?

Watch it if you love a romance built on a bargain with a mischievous supernatural figure, where the bantering chemistry carries a story that keeps turning toward something heavier.

Skip it if you want a brisk, tightly plotted fantasy, since this one lingers on feelings and moves at an unhurried pace rather than on rules and mechanics.

What it asks of you: Sixteen episodes of roughly an hour each, shifting between light banter and melancholy, so it rewards settling in for a long, unhurried run.

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