@missvictrix

A lot of As! You are way nicer than me :p

In this list, I give A to My Unfamiliar Family and A Piece of Your Mind. I just loved them.

I'm surprised you didn't watch Into The Ring. I think you would like it. The cinematography is really nice and the PD stuck to it until the end.

I read this & realized how people can have different tastes but still come to the same conclusion. I also realized how little kdramas I watched. I didn't even know that 1-2 dramas from from this list existed.

APOYM really was such an underrated little gem. Criminally underrated even. I still grieve the loss of its beautiful missing four episodes.

How different everyone's test is :) A Piece of Your Mind was the creepiest Korean drama I haver watched!

I have to agree with Miss Victrix about DDSSLLS: It was really great through the first 12 episodes, fully justifying out expectations for the writer of SHOPPING KING LOUIE. I and many others are still mystified by the way the last four episodes were done.

We Brahmsies were put through the emotional ringer in the second half of DO YOU LIKE BRAHMS? But it still fully justified the high marks.

The writer of START UP is very successful for a reason, but I believe achieved an entirely new level of writing with this show.

BACKSTREET ROOKIE was one of my favorite shows this year- and actually had some fairly profound things to say about dating, love and family. I would have given it a higher mark- in part because it was fun to see a Manwha put on the screen in a way that captured its roots- which was both a strength and a weakness as that meant some unnecessary controversy.

Thanks for mentioning THE SCHOOL NURSE FILES. It was fabulous.

UNITED EFFORT TO ACCOMPLISH ONE THING proved that the Koreans appreciate the spirit of Agatha Christie.

A special thanks to you for mentioning one of my favorite shows of the year: MY UNFAMILIAR FAMILY.

But you gave FOREST too high a grade. I will say no more.

I know that HYENA was a good drama but I could not watch it past the second episode. A non-lawyer could probably not understand the wrongness in the beginning of this show which rendered it unwatchable to me. Which is too bad because I am sure that your assessment is quite accurate.

This was actually a good year for drama when you add shows like STOVE LEAGUE, INTO THE RING, I'LL FIND YOU ON A BEAUTIFUL DAY, HOSPITAL PLAYLIST and MYSTIC POP-UP BAR to the good shows that you have noted here.

Ok, @missvictrix -

“ Supremely unrewarding. Would take this one back if I could.
Grade: C “

So, I have to ask (as someone who live watched Forest without any FF or skip), what drama if any scored an F on your scale? I’m so curious I may go watch it just to see how bad a drama can get! By the way, I’m serious. I’ve gone and watched sci-fi movies from the worst ever made lists, just to see...

And thanks for all your work. Really appreciate it!

Ahhhhhhhh they’re here!!!!! The Year in Reviews are hereeeeeeeeee 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 And I can’t be more happy than to have yours as the first one, @missvictrix 😍😍😍😘😘😘😘

Off to read!!!

I am so glad you gave A piece of your Mind A+. It started off shaky , but was so wonderfully brilliant and fulfilling. I miss that drama. Come back drama.

Ah, I always try to rate my dramas from 1-10 but it's so difficult. A-F just made my ranking so much easier!! Every year I find myself shocked at how I watched almost every drama listed, but this year lmao I barely watched any of these!

My Unfamiliar Family, Into the Ring, and 18 Again are my A+ dramas!

These were the dramas that stood out for me this year.

A Couple's World ---- Raw, savage, brilliant, and rivetting. It left me gasping for breath and the gamut of emotions it put me through was something I had never experienced before. Every episode left me drained and shaky and furious.

My Dangerous Wife ---- I went into this, not expecting anything, but the show became so much than a dark comedy on cheating midway, and started delving into the backstories of each character, and that was when my heart started to break. The tenderness that shone through the bleakness and murkiness was so unexpected and so incredibly moving it brought tears to my eyes.

The King ----- the drama that proved that stone cold indifference is the way to a man's heart. @leetennant LT was the real FL of this drama, no doubt about it, but if you're still unsure about that, check out the two sizzling scenes of her draped shamelessly across LMH's muscled back.

Forest ---- The worst drama of the year. @missvictrix's pic up there of the good doctor smiling in a halo of sunlight brought back so many horrific memories and sent chills down my spine.

These were all the dramas you watched, @missvictrix? It felt like you were weecapping and reviewing a different drama every week.

A shout-out for Hyena. A truly fabulous acting from this couple.

Was surprised APOYM has an A+, as the general review for this drama is negative. For slow burn romance drama, i really enjoyed this drama, in fact i like it much better than Chocolate or Weather is Fine. But the best for me is Brahms !

Oooh, this is good. I liked that rather than find a unifying theme you went with the disjointedness of this year @missvictrix. I have the same feeling. Nothing turned out as I expected it to in 2020, including kdramas.

Out of all these I've only watched 2, but I have MY UNFAMILIAR FAMILY on my list for whenever I'm in the mood. I agree on Hyun Bin playing one of the best male leads this year. Who can forget our dimpled hero and his toothpick-bearing fans? 😇

Nice to see Start-Up getting a high rating. I love the drama for the same reasons. PHR really has a gift in telling stories that tug at your heart strings and make you want to root for the characters. My only issues though were with the long drawn out love triangle and the relatively few scenes of the second female lead, Kang Hanna, who, bless her, still managed to shine in the moments that she is given.

I’m not sure what’s wrong with me because that review actually makes me want to watch Forest 😅

This list of reviews is gonna be so helpful when I come back to kdramaland once I get tired of my BL novels. *Idk when will it happen but I got a feeling it may be soon...*

Thanks! Really appreciate the mini reviews! ^^

Great review. I still want to watch A piece of your mind, lies of lies, and start up. I have to finish romantic doctor 2.
Was mystic pop up bar aired this year??
It was not in the list.
Mystic pop up bar is an A+

I loved that you gave A grades to my favorite dramas of the year: A Piece of Your Mind and Do You Like Brahms. <3

Going into the start of the year with the pandemic drastically slowing the pace of my life, these were really healing dramas for me.

I agree with you about all the dramas I've watched (CLOY, Brahms, My Unfamiliar family, A Piece of your mind, RDTK2 and When my love blooms), but not on Start Up, as I'm only surviving through it... I can see the potential but have never really have felt attached to it.

Thanks for the mini 2020 drama ratings missvictrix.
From your list, I've watched CLOY, The World of the Married, Hyena, Graceful Friends, The School Nurse Files, Chip In & Rugal. Your ratings for these dramas are quite spot on for me except for Rugal hahaha (you're too nice to give it a C :P)

Ooof If you put an A to My Unfamiliar Family (and for the fact that you watched it💜) then I'll have to check out A+ A piece of your mind wow

IS IT THAT TIME ALREADY?!! 😱

Ah start up appreciation lovely.

Glad to see you found a few favourites Missvictrix because some of the dramas you weecapped this year sound terrible! I agree with you on the few dramas mentioned that you've watched. Also this year's jab- it was not the drama I anticipated is right!

Edit request: The lead actress in “When I was the Most Beautiful” is Im Soo Hyang, not Im Soo Jung. Please correct this.

Ah, @missvictrix, thank you for the year’s review. You remind me to look for the good, in kdramas and in general 👍🏼

thank you for the mini-reviews! hospital playlist is my A+ this year hehe

Thank you for a lovely review missvictrix!

Thank you so much for appreciating Chocolate. I remember you and some other Beanies who were into the story as much as I did. I found my solace in the story and the cooking scenes of the lovely Ha Ji-won. Still remember the lyrics of the song 'You and I' which were played in some very heart-warming scenes.

And thank you for mentioning how Start-Up has skyrocketed KSH's career. He really deserves this. I love the overall story, but it'd be a lie to say that my bias isn't HJP.

And your review makes me want to give A Piece of Your Mind a chance. I have never been interested in this one since my default feeling is always that the actor who plays ML is almost always type-casted.

Thanks for this @missvictrix, now I know what to look out for next in order to round off my 2020 viewing experience. Like you, I totally loved APOYM, it was a healing drama that everyone needs. Equally My Unfamiliar Family was unique in what I have seen of k-dramas so far. There was a level of maturity in the relationships. The characterization was fine grained. It made me think of how little we know about those closest to us. Who could imagine that these dramas would so consistently and entertainingly get into the important stuff of life in the way they do?

What about 18 Again?? :) I do agree with most of your ratings for the ones I have seen. Grade A for When my Love Blooms and World of the Married.

Agree. A Piece of Your Mind is top notch. Thd only A+ here. Also my favourite 2020 drama.

This was awesome! Thank you!