Radily’s Five Word Ratings (RFWR) – Sixth Year statistics (Dramas #213 – #260, Mid 2023 – Mid 2024)
(Previous statistics thread found here)

Subjective ratings (average: 1.58)
5/5:
4/5: 1 (Netflix’s Daily Dose of Sunshine)
3/5: 6 (ENA’s Lies Hidden in My Garden, Netflix’s D.P. 2, tvN’s Twinkling Watermelon, TVING’s Death’s Game, ENA’s Like Flowers in Sand, tvN’s Lovely Runner)
2/5: 13
1/5: 28

Objective ratings (average: 1.25)
5/5:
4/5: 1 (Netflix’s Daily Dose of Sunshine)
3/5: 1 (ENA’s Lies Hidden in My Garden)
2/5: 7 (Netflix’s D.P. 2, ENA’s Not Others, Netflix’s A Time Called You, Disney+’s Moving, ENA’s The Kidnapping Day, tvN’s Twinkling Watermelon, ENA’s Like Flowers in Sand)
1/5: 39

Breakdown by television/OTT
Cable (tvN, JTBC, ENA, MBN): 25 (Subjective average: 1.52 / Objective average: 1.24)
Terrestrial (KBS, MBC, SBS): 7 (Subjective average: 1.42 / Objective average: 1)
Others: 16 (Subjective average: 1.75 / Objective average: 1.375)

General remarks
2024 was a really bad year of drama watching for me as ENA’s Like Flowers in Sand becomes the only show to get anything but 1/5 on the objective mark. Maybe it’ll get better in the 2nd half, but still, I find that shows these days often find themselves manufacturing tension through poorly developed villains or antagonists. I don’t even need original stories, I just want interestingly complex characters. And yeah the shows that don’t bother with characterisation are a goner, but among those that at least attempt, we often get either predictably complex or interestingly one-note characters. It’s so frustrating.