A few dramas failed to live up to my expectations this year, but I'm gonna have to go with Heartbeat. It would have been amazing if it weren't for that ending

Otherwise I'm gonna say A Good Day to be a Dog, which I looked forward to for YEARS and am at the point where I'd probably drop it if I weren't such a big fan of its source material. I shouldn't find it so "meh" and yet I do

See You in My 19th Life-
From loving the show early on, to a lackluster middle and wondering what was the point of it all ending, the show surely can be called the biggest disappointment. I tried hard to make sense of it because I loved it so much early on.
Somehow I seemed to remember only the good parts until I saw this post and now that enough time has passed, I can confidently say it was disappointing.

Other dramas like Castaway Diva, Destined with you were disappointing for me but I was able to drop them quickly so it was alright.

Cdrama : Take Us home.
With a cast like this, the show just faltered with bad story telling. The leads can only do so much.
The writers chose to add every nonsensical trope and poor character writing as the show crossed mid point. By the end of it I didn’t care for any of the siblings.

you already know who it is -> heartbeat

nothing to say that hasn't already been said SIGHS never have I been so gutted by an ending 🤡

My biggest disappointment was HEARTBEAT. I liked most of it and even without the heartbreak ending I felt it lost it’s magic in the last third. The vampire premise that made the series so much was mostly sidelined. Instead we got unnecessary conflict from Hae-won who couldn’t take the hint when it was blatantly pointed out to her multiple times and CatMan who kept adding and changing the rules for no goddamn reason. Do-shik too was stuck in second lead purgatory. All this culminated into THAT ending which *sigh* made no sense, especially given In-hae’s character arc. She’s been abandoned all her life and just as she opens up and trusts Woo-hyeol he dies…wtf?!

Dishonourable Mentions:
BAD MOTHER
CRASH COURSE IN ROMANCE

While it had elements I adored, the show that definitely disappointed me the most this year was My Dearest, in part because when it was at its best it was extraordinary. But then there was a whole lot of wheel spinning in the second half, followed by amnesia, than massive exposition dumps that should have happened many episodes earlier, followed by more amnesia, and yeah, by the end I felt like Ryang Eum endlessly pining for some sort of glorious closure that just wasn't going to happen.

I'll give an honorable mention to Alchemy of Souls which was often highly entertaining, but always circled back to safe and conventional (often with a side highly illogical) rather than letting its story go in directions that actually pushed boundaries or were uncomfortable or disturbing.

I agree with @alathe that this bean happened because I have high expectation, yet something just doesn't work with the drama. My bean of disappointment this year was My Perfect Stranger.

Everything was perfect on paper, I was even engaging in long and lively discussion about the message and twisty plot of the drama. Yet, something inside it made this drama felt flat despite the great acting and should-be interesting mystery. It was baffling how I cried while watching it (the mom and dad story was just that touching), yet I barely remembered what happened in the majority of the drama. How I wish this drama found its oomph factor halway in, but sigh... What could have been, indeed.

Yeah, it’s Heartbeat for me. I’ve never been so faked out by a drama (or maybe any other piece of media) in my life. I can forgive a tragic ending - when the show has done one single thing to prepare me for it. The cute promos and beginning gave me warm fuzzies and the lack of concrete rules comforted me that there would be some loophole to the tragic situation somewhere. I watched the credits rolling on the final episode still sure that I had missed something, still not quite accepting what they had done.

Now it’s easier to look back and remember what we loved about it and I still gave it a bean in the count, but I’m also giving it my bean of disappointment.

I have 2 Beans of Disappointment to give for 2 almost opposite reasons.

1. MY DEAREST: I had great expectations for it, it lived up to my expectations and exceeded them, and I fell hard for it—the acting, the cinematography, the story—and then Part 2 happened and the drama fell apart for me. The fall was long and hard, and the sloppiness of the Part 2 writing (was it because the writer ran out of good storylines after she stopped following Gone with the Wind, which she admitted to being “inspired by?”) felt like a betrayal of my affection for Part 1. Such great promise and execution in Part 1, such a huge letdown in Part 2.

2. THE REAL HAS COME: This show I had no expectations for and suddenly some interesting things were happening—a gutsy FL doing some interesting wacky things, e.g., wedding interruption, and some different storylines about what constitutes family—and I became invested. Then half way in, it all started to come off the rails. The FL got dumber and less of a spine, and the interesting secondary storylines disappeared. Why did you do that to me? You should have been dull to begin with if you were going to end that way.

Heartbeat - it started really promising until the last couple of episodes. I really wanted to like this.

See You In My 19th Life - I was looking forward to this show since I read the webtoon. I had high hopes until well it arrived. Expectations for the full potential of the story was not met.

I'm going with My Dearest for my Bean of Disappointment. First, if not for the month long break between part one and part two, I might have continued watching. But absence did not make my heart grow fonder. Perhaps, if I had not seen Gone with the Wind, I would not have felt this way and could have just enjoyed My Dearest for all its pretty scenes, actors and serious look at war and the particular harm that comes to women. But, I think My Dearest faltered in its reimagining of Scarlett, one of the greatest female characters in American cinema. Scarlett sizzled with desire. I just did not get that from the My Dearest characters, and that is what was missing for me. My Dearest captured the need to survive but not the desire to live. In contrast, I can still picture Scarlett wearing a mourning dress while dancing embracing the need to survive and that desire to live in one moment.

Although it is not a fun topic this is where DB renders a real service, alerting people to those shows which start well- sometimes extremely well- but then go South at the midpoint or somewhere beyond. These shows truly do disappoint, unlike a show which is a stinker to start with, because you can easily identify that and drop the show.

My clear 'winner' in this category was a really easy call: The weekender THE REAL HAS COME had such an excellent concept that it should have been one of the best. That it was almost as bad as REVOLUTIONARY SISTERS (which, thankfully, I was able to drop) cannot be blamed only upon the writer. It was apparent as we went along that many blades killed this show in the drama equivalent of the death of Julius Ceasar on The Ides Of March.

Oh dear me - so may disappointment beans. Bora, Crash Course, Feel Touch, Boxer, Dearest 2, 19th Life last third, King the Junho. Speaking of slogging through bad shows lets acknowledge ..... oh wait I don't want to dredge those dramas up.
Let us all light candles on whatever altar we choose that we will have 12 ep shows, tightly written with NEW tropes that make us laugh and feel and think.

The biggest sting would have to be Heartbeat because it wasn't until we got to the very end of the show and we were all blindsided by "that" ending which no one could have predicted.

The most disappointing overall for me would be split between My Dearest and See You In My 19th Life as they both started out so strongly, gorgeous cinematography, excellent production, amazing acting but then their respective characters were let down with the writing/storylines.
While I'm still glad I watched them they are both tinged with a bittersweet regret for what could've been.

I have a bean of disappointment that I know no one else has, but I don't know why, except that everyone thought the show had a happy ending because the main family ended up rich. That is Twinkling Watermelon, which in my opinion, up to the last episode was really great, without a false step,

But then in the last episode, let me list its flaws, and if anyone thinks they can counter these, please, answer me, because I am willing to be convinced but nothing I've read so far is convincing:

1. It left uncovered two stories, the stories of the deaf parents just prior to their marriage, and, more unforgivingly in my book, the story of the female lead. What happened to her and her Mom. WE DON"T KNOW AND NEVER WILL!

2. After making the point that the protagonist could NOT alter the main timeline (that is the father becoming deaf) it HAD the protagonist alter the main timeline (that is the main story of the family, because his actions made the family rich.)

3. It put the protagonist back in his present, IN A PRESENT HE DIDN'T RECOGNIZE. All the memories that he had, that were essential to his understanding of his parents and their hardships, WERE TOTALLY ERASED. Now, to me, that is kind of a nightmare scenario, far more nightmarish than being put back in the past. In fact, following through in the future, I could see the ML being locked up in an asylum as psychotic, because he kept remembering things that didn't happen-- he had changed the timeline. Being locked up would exactly mirror his Mom's circumstances as a child. A happy ending? I think not!

4. After the ML hard-learned lesson that he personally wasn't responsible, that his parents were extremely resilient and capable, it was his actions in the past that totally changed their lives. So it TOTALLY UNDERMINED this lesson. He WAS totally responsible. His actions made them rich, which was the key facet of the new reality.

5. It completely undermined the theme, that deaf people were capable and not handicapped, and replaced it with a new theme: you need someone who hears to go back in the past and make deaf people happier.

6. Finally, the happy ending was that if you are rich, you'll be happier than if you are poor. Yeah, sure, as if I needed a kdrama to tell me that.

I wouldn't be running on about this disappointment, if I hadn't liked the show so much until the last episode--so in that way, to me it was a model of a bean of disappointment.

But please, if you think differently, if you liked this show as I did and were satisfied with the ending, explain to me why, and maybe you can, at the very least, diminish my disappointment!

Yes. My Entire Year.

My "Beans" of disappointment go to
#1 Family Unbreakable Bond It was a long awaited one. The two Jangs are reunited and I can't get myself through 10 min of the show. I completed the first two episodes with lots of effort and then dropped it like a hot potato and never returned back. It is such a pity.
#2 Our Blooming Youth
The mystery was intriguing but what with repeating the same observation each single episode until the penultimate week. White hair White hair White hair I got sick of it. The drama was good as 12-16 episodes but making it into 20 episodes was a bad decision.
#3 See You In My 19th life
I got swimming pool trauma from this one. If we cut down on Seo-ha's brooding swimming pool scenes, we would get a lot of time that would have been better dedicated to character development. And Ji-eum being pushy even after learning about Seo-ha's trauma and her insistence on living as Jo-won got on my nerves. The visuals were one to remember but the writing was flat.
#4 Cast Away Diva
I am sorry to say that more than the writing, it is Eun-bin's voice in dialect that put me off. The writing had its flaws as well esp spending the major time with Woo-hak and then springing it on me that he isn't Ki-ho. Some might disagree but I felt like the show forced me to believe Mok-ha was interested in Bo-gyeol all along while I feel she only got attracted to him after learning he was Ki-ho. And there was too much abuse scenes and the dad remained unrecyclable trash till the end.
#5 Heartbeat
When you you everyone rooting for you and then give them lazy writing for the second half and then tie all of this in a disappointing ending bow.
The list can go on but I will cut it with these 5 shows

Probably Call It Love. I was missing Kim Young Kwang so much and that show was so boring.

And then he went on to play 2 villain roles which I'm never watching. Sigh.

Oh dear...

There were lots of shows that weren't great, but to truly earn this Bean a show should be something that I really really looked forward to -- BEFORE IT STARTED. Heartbeat for example started well and tanked but it doesn't qualify because I didn't have any really expectations in advance.

In fact very few shows qualify because I rarely expect anything except that I'll try it and see.

So...
Lovely Liar qualifies because I really look forward to KSH shows and it wasn't all that great (although she came thru).
I also had high hopes for Castaway and 19th Life and was slightly disappointed, but not enough for them to "win" this contest.
Samdal-ri & Maestra deserve mention for boring me into dropping within a hour, but my expectations weren't quite high enough.

But the "winner" is ------ Alchemy of Souls 2, because I really liked s1 but s2 seemed just so-so. I should have known better than to have such high expectations of any season 2, but...

Unfortunately I have several dramas fighting for this position.

My Dearest Part 2 ..Part 1 was fine, certainly I was waiting for the second half. Part 2 was a Joseon Era Dumpster Fire . A double shot of amnesia, please !

Heartbeat CatMan and Curses. Watch Out Cocoa ! @ GDTBAD

Heavenly Idol Not that I expected much of this show. I did expect some decent songs, (something that Castaway Diva managed)
Seaweed Sprite as the Ultimate Evil was MST3K level bad. .

Actually, this wasn’t a disappointment, it was betrayal. While other disappointing dramas went downhill — or at least showed the signs — earlier on, See You in My 19th Life Trolley was consistent. Until it wasn’t.
Thanks Unit for finding the right worlds so I do not go on and on about this.
This is exactly how I felt about Trolley. No less, there's more.
I have no issues with them unmasking a supposedly cool character that I came to love and had used to set a pedestal for romances for the year. This one set the bar so high and stooped so low. To descend to the extent they did, it was very much intentionally shady and clearly not what I could be cool with anymore, the message they were trying to pass across be damned. At least Pandora had the same male lead characterization(irredeemable) and not in any way did it feel or appear like Trolley did. Trolley was intentionally shady to the point where I felt betrayed.

Coming close first is Crash Course In Romance. As if what they did with Royal Consort Ji was not enough, the writer-pd team caved into the clamor and cries and tantrums and whines of the domestic viewers to make Chi-yeol address Nam Haeng-soon as Noona. It was a huge disappointment to see them cave, in the finale week.

Throwing in another Heartbeat post. I go into most dramas cautiously, but I went into heartbeat with lower than usual expectations. Thing looked sort of cheap. Then it won me over with nailing the slapstick while being capable of carrying emotional weight. OTP had a wonderful slow burn. Then in the last 6 episodes, it decided all characters should be a shadow of their former selves and made sure to hit all the worst kdrama cliches from over a decade ago along while throwing in random life-or-death rules. Stuck around for a happy ending. Surely, my dedication would not be in vain, right? Then they killed off the male lead. And he stayed dead.

Disappointment because it convinced me to love it and the stabbed me in the back.

Oof lot's of disappointments this year but my bean's going to UNCANNY COUNTER 2. I had so much love for the first season... The 2-year wait was definitely not worth it. Sigh.

It's really hard to narrow this one down to a single disappointment.

Our Blooming Youth wasted the talents of its fantastic cast with a subpar script and production.

I was excited about the premise of Bora Deborah but was appalled at the actual presentation.

I wasn't even planning to watch Heartbeat, got sucked in by the early episodes, and was dumbfounded at the genre bait-and-switch.

See You in My 19th Life almost kicked Shin Hye-Sun off my list of fave actresses.

Don't even get me started on The Real Has Come. They should be paying viewers for the time they wasted on it.

Castaway Diva had many issues, already handily discussed above.

So who gets the bean?

If I go by @LordCobol's criteria (and it's a fine one), the drama that I was most looking forward to - and that let me down wholly and completely - was King the Land. Rather than ranting about it though, I will simply award it my Bean of Disappointment for 2023.

Heartbeat no contest. I grew up in the era where vampire romances were huge so I was really excited to dive back into some cheesy old-school nostalgia. Plus, there was Taecyeon as the lead and a heroine that was billed as no-nonsense and competent. These are all my favorite things! And the first half did keep to most of its initial promises, even if the FL seemed to be reading all her lines through ventriloquy, and even if I found both the supporting leads to be irritating, and the “curse” made no sense, and all the magic felt made up as it went along, I was STILL having fun with it…

But then it’s like all the writers threw up their hands in the second half, along with every plotline and character development and bit of sense they’d struggled to maintain, and just let it all rain down where it may. I had a laundry list of gripes by the end, and that’s not to mention THAT ENDING. I’m not a fan of open-ended dramas, but this one wasn’t even TRYING to at least make the ambiguity intriguing. It was lazy, it was bad, and everyone who spent 16 hours watching this drama deserved better.

My Bean of Disappointment goes to Our Blooming Youth for reasons that are as much to do with me as with the show. As many others have pointed out, expectations are the root of disappointment. It’s the first and only time I’ve seen Park Hyung-shik as a lead in a full-length drama and I had high hopes of seeing why so many viewers praise him (his looks, I can see for myself). I also have extremely limited tolerance for the trappings of sageuks, especially gats, so I had to overcome that personal aversion and make the effort not to be fatally distracted. And I have a particularly hard time buying into a woman pretending to be a eunuch both for practical reasons and because dramas can’t NOT let them be too pretty, well-groomed, and feminine to be believed - but the show promised that disguise as a vehicle for romance as well as suspense. Alas, the show wasted PHS’s romantic potential and my patience with Joseon headgear and politics. I didn’t actively dislike OBY until near the end, when it became clear it was going to stay focused on its trivial mystery, keep the FL in eunuch drag far beyond any reasonable limit, and underperform on the romance. The gorgeous scenery and costumes and some fabulous action sequences just rubbed salt in the wound – I expected so much more return for my effort and it fell flat.

Crash Course in Romance.

Honorable mentions: every single weekender of the year. From 3 dumb siblings to When the f are you going to start living your own life.

If it wasn't because the "theme" of this year is family, and my Unpredictable Family is on fire, I wouldn't have been able to get my "family-drama dosis" of the 2023. I couldn't finish one single weekender this year. Not one. Yikes.

2023 was the year of trailers that advertised dramas I wanted to see then provided the exact opposite. Honourable mentions, Family: unbreakable bonds, The good bad mother, Strangers again and Bora Deborah, two of which I could watch and enjoy despite the gap between expectations and the reality and two I dropped because it was a Grand Canyon that could not be crossed.

The one that wins the Bean though is Crash course in romance the murder and toxic mothers were so extreme it was like watching three different dramas and these two elements are on my don’t watch list as part of my self care non negotiables.

I think the disappointing thing is the wasted potential so that's how I chose my choice. I don't think I went into any drama this year with expectations (and if I did, I don't remember) but when I was watching this drama, I was thinking "this is a cool take in showing this world" and then it just went weird. It didn't even go sideways, just totally weird. Any guesses about the drama I'm referring to?

Answer: The Heavenly Idol.
When I saw it on a list of biggest flops and/or disappointments of the year, it saddened me cause I didn't think it was *that* bad (like people were saying it's embarrassing/sad that this was the lead actor's last project before his enlistment) but when I remember the wasted potential, that's what makes me sigh and think "what ifs". What if the season was longer? What if they focused more on the satire (or whatever that was) about idol life? What if they didn't include weird cults? What if the reaper character was used differently? What if they didn't add a seaweed queen?

I get that it was fantasy and they had to give hows and whys but oh the execution!

I did find it funny when the two Rembarys met and everyone's reaction to it. Oh, what could have been.

I'm going to have to go with Castaway Diva. I wanted to know more of how our castaway diva spent her years on that island, all alone while dreaming of stardom (or something along those lines). But no. Instead, the majority of the time was spent on an abusive dangerous parent, a has-been singer, and her agency's jerk ceo. This was the year's show that was an absolute chore to get through. So unfortunate this was the case.

I agree with See You in My 19th Life but more than the drama, for me, it was Shin Hye-Sun who was disapointing in this drama. I think she was miscasted. First, her character needed to look younger to make the difference between the age of her body and the age of her soul and the ML's age more obvious. Otherwise, I think I prefer her in sad/dark roles than comedy. I like the direction and the ML. The second couple was cute at the beginning but too childish-ed portrayed at the end...

King The Land was disapointing too. It was the perfect rom-com on paper but at the end, it was just a big PPL with pretty actors, everything was too superficial. Surprisly, I prefered Yoona in this role than Junho.

I was disapointed by the big productions like Vigilante, Worst than Evil, Moving that focused on violence and direction instead of character's development and background story.

Wait, just one? You must be joking, I need a whole human-sized sack of these to be fair! Or just give 1 giant bean to 2023 as a kdrama year, that'll work too. But a sack is better. Dishonorable bean-owners:

ISLAND: What a waste of a gorgeous cast and fun premise.
KKOKDU SEASON OF DEITY: Couldn't KJH have a decent comeback show? I'm not asking for much, it could've just suck a little less!
OUR BLOOMING YOUTH: Again, waste of cast (mainly PHS) and premise. Can't believe it took A YEAR to film - and for what exactly?
THE HEAVENLY IDOL: KMK and first 4 episodes deserved better than what followed.
HEARTBEAT: I was wise enough to drop it before things went really downhill, but still, what the hell, show?!
SEE YOU IN MY 19TH LIFE: Can't say I've had very high hopes for this one, but surely it didn't look as a big disaster it ended up being at the first glance.
MY DEAREST: Now here I truly expected better from this writer. Disappointment is too much of a nice word to describe my feelings about the show. You've had all the ingredients to make a cult classic, why did you have to kill it with hellfire midway?
Does this count if I was so put off by ARTHDAL CHRONICLES: THE SWORD OF ARAMUN cheap ass promo materials that I've yet to watch it? LJG, I'll love you twice as hard in some other show, OK?

Cdramas have a clear winner tho - LOVE YOU SEVEN TIMES. Thank heavens I didn't read the source material or I'll probably be even more unhappy with the show. For a show that high key advertised itself as a sillier but no less cute/pretty little sister of LBFAD it was terrible in terms of pretty much everything. Trailers were miles better than the real thing, just stick to them *sigh*

Special "Pls rot in hell for your sins against art" award goes to Chinese censorship that effed up the last arc and ending of TTEOTM. The latter also partially a responsibility of writers whom I'll make sure to avoid in the future out of spite. 10K years of grudge is a piece of cake for me too!

To be disappointed, one needs to have expectations... I have learned that having expectations is the fastest way to not appreciate a drama. So I try to limit my expectations.

I was expecting to enjoy Choi Jin Hyuk in Numbers. But I could not withstand this drama. All that should have worked for me was obliterated by unsufferable L.

I had no plan to watch See you in my 19th life. But the rare review of the beginning and general beanies enthousiams made me revise my position and go on this boat. That sunk in the pool. I'm not sure what went wrong. It was ok and then everything deviated a little bit and it finished off tracks.

I have a special bean of disappointment for My lovely liar male lead. I am not part of the crew that he impressed in Alchemy of souls, but I went in to try to see what others saw in him. I have stopped searching in vain. At least this drama made me notice Seo Ji Hoon, so not a total failure ?

Disappointment.. hmm.. this is quite difficult.

To be disappointed in something you first need to have some expectations of it. So I’d say I’d give BoD to The Real Has Come. Because it seemed to start off so well (I.e., Beans gushing), I started it after the others. Now because Netflix released its eps slower than the rest of the globe in my region, I got warnings that I should just wait and see how the show would turn out because there were signs that things would derail soon. And voila! Things did and I stopped and never went back.

This is a disappointment because I thought the first few eps were kinda fun and addictive regardless of how soapy it all was.

Queenmaker.

This year has been a year of disappointing endings. The list of dramas to earn this bean is rather long, but if there is one drama that really disappointed me was KING THE LAND.

A lame script, non existent plot, in-your-face PPL, humour that fell flat, and all of this with Jun-ho! The frequent recommendations that the drama can be very enjoyable by watching with 'the brain turned off' makes it an uncontested winner of this bean. Any drama that requires me to watch brain-dead deserves that.

There were so many disappointing dramas, some I just stopped watching and some I finished. A bunch have been listed, some I even forgot about.

Bora!Deborah
King the Land
See you in my 19th life
Kokkdu(I should have known when they removed a k)
All the sequels and season 2s
Destined with you
The matchmakers
There are a bunch more I simply cannot recall right now, but man was there a lot this year.

Hands down Destined With you

I think my Bean of Disappointment is going to be carefully crushed and sprinkled on pretty much every S2 that underwhelmed. The Uncanny Counter, Poong, DP, Taxi Driver, TOT9T. There were things that were good, or even very good, about most of them (except you, Poong...), but not one of them lived up to the magic of the original. Please stop this trend, writers - alas, that's me howling into a hurricane...

We often lament that k-drama series short-change character development by having too many tangental story lines and not enough run time to tell them all. But there is one type of show format that has the ability to shine with an ensemble cast and many story lines: the weekender.

My Bean of Disappointment goes to KBS. Its 2023 Weekend series (THREE BOLD SIBLINGS, THE REAL HAS COME and LIVE YOUR OWN LIFE) have been terrible; too long and dumb to hate watch. But in the past there have been several great shows. That is why that entire time slot is so disappointing.

The Real has Come. I expected makjang. I expected OTT acting. It started well. I liked most all the characters, except one in particular who wasn’t as evil as she should have been, but she was evil enough to be super annoying. But it promised to be something it ended up not being. It was supposed to show us modern paths to parenthood and what it means to be a family. Instead, we got the same paternalistic approach and a shoehorned lost daughter with grandchildren and a birth secret that no one cared about. It was a dumpster fire by the end. The original couple whose chemistry started well, fizzled by the end with all the nonsense around them.

See You In My 19th Life, King The Land, and My Dearest Part 2.

I feel like *See you in my 19th life* is going to win as the worst this year LOL I don't even believe in reincarnation but I was going along fro the ride because: Shin Hye Sun + Ahn Bo Hyun. BUT! I couldn't stand Hye Sun's character in the present, she's too aggressive. Like, you can't force someone to like/love you, you gotta worm your way into their heart LOL

*The Good Bad Mother* was awful! Just awful! The twins were adorable. The Canadian (?) guy trying to speak Korean was cute. I liked the mysterious possibly-yakuza wife who always had a skincare mask on to hide her face. But everything else was just terrible!

Was looking forward to watching *Heartbeat* but seems like nobody liked it, so I dunno.

I can't express enough, Beanies, how much I appreciate what everyone has written. I thought I was the only one disappointed with some of the more popular shows. It's helped me move from disappointment to fulfillment! The only show that I think hasn't been mentioned yet is OH! YOUNGSIM, otherwise you've got me covered.

One show that failed me big time was Not Others. I poured out my dissapointment with Moving on my wall, but it actually meant one thing; I at least cared about the show despite its flaws and my reservation on certain aspects of it.
The same thing can't be said about Not Others. I didn't even care to rant. It was too much of a let down for me story wise.

It's almost the end of the year and i don't remember why I dropped some of the dramas that people enjoyed very much like King The Land, Behind Your Touch, The Worst of Evil, A Good Day To Be A Dog and The Matchmaker.

I had so many disappointments all through the year but my current disappointment is Moon in the Day which I just completed today. 14 episodes with too many repetitive stories and the same flashbacks, BUT despite of the boring storylines, I patiently waited till the end.. and kind of rolling my eyes furiously when it ended with a tragic ending (them meet again in another cycle of life as students don't count as a happy ending, okay )

Mine is "Bora! Deborah." This show intrigued me in the first couple of episodes because the writing wasn't shying away from the ugly reality of a bad breakup. Sure, I cringed at Bora's drunken antics, and maybe even possibility had some bad flashbacks to my own youthful behavior upon being dumped, but I admired the way the writers allowed their FL to be hopelessly human. It even seemed like for once, a kdrama was going to acknowledge that excessive drinking isn't cute or a normal coping mechanism.

But in the end, this show was a colossal disappointment. Despite Yoo-inna's excellent performance, the drama dropped the ball at about the halfway point and never recovered. All the interesting groundwork it laid down was swept away and replaced with predictable and unsatisfying scenes whose dramatic lure was again all about the potential humiliation of a character. Plus, those side stories about the married best friend (whose husband didn't seem to even really like her as a person) and the boss and his young employee--I still don't understand what was up with that prairie dress--were terrible.

I think the source of my disappointment with this show is ultimately that it masqueraded convincingly for a while as an adult show talking about adult relationship problems in an adult way, but in the end, it was as juvenile and immature as its characters.

Castaway Diva.
As @alathe says, it promised so much, and sadly failed to deliver.
What sealed the deal was where they went with the music, which was basically nowhere, after a surprisingly good start. The last song was utterly forgettable.

King the Land. All sugar, no substance. Terrible waste of their leading man.

I have to agree with @dramaddictally. I guess I read the title of the drama wrong cause it sure wasn't what I thought it would be going into it. I ended up persevering to the end for Park Eun Bin and her beautiful voice but boy did it deflate as it went chugging to the end. I was all ready to see how a girl goes from island girl to back to the city and have her singing career blossom without all the baggage that went with the drama but alas, it bombed for me.