I started writing this blog almost five years ago (Five years!!! Quick, someone give me awesome ideas on how to celebrate when our blogiversary hits!), and I have to say that 2017 was an off year in K-dramas.
Maybe it was just me being busy with real life and getting jaded with dramas, but based on the responses to my two K-drama slump posts, I tend to think this was an off K-drama year for quite a few people.
Like 2016, which I dubbed The Year of the Dropped K-drama, I dropped a whole bunch of shows without making it remotely close to the end. Even worse, I didn't even start a whole bunch of shows for several K-drama cycles.
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Unlike 2016, though, I also found myself at the opposite end of the spectrum this year, pleasantly surprised by a few gems I didn't expect to like nearly as much as I did.
To cover the year of mixed bags, I'm reviewing the best and worst things about every drama I watched (or attempted to watch) in 2017 as I rank them from best to worst (according to my own very subjective enjoyment, of course).
Highlights:Everything. Every. Single. Thing. This is one of those rare dramas where every time you brace yourself for disappointment, you end up pleasantly surprised by thoughtful writing and delightful characterization. This ranks as one of the top dramas of 2017 for sure. It wins for best writing, best feminism, best friendships, best cat, best everything.
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Disappointments:Okay, so maybe noteverything. Those last two episodes let me down with a separation and time jump for no apparent reason. And then she has the nerve tolaugh? No.
Highlights:I'm getting a little depressed seeing other year-end posts and realizing that apparently no one else loved this drama nearly as much as I did. LISTEN UP, HUMANS OF THE INTERNET:RADIANT OFFICEIS A MAGNIFICENT GEM, AND I WILL FIGHT ANYONE WHO SAYS OTHERWISE.
Highlights:The girls are back in top form! Everything I loved aboutseason 1—camaraderie, romance, slice-of-life scenarios—all returned in season 2. I could watch a zillion episodes of my Belle Epoque lovelies.
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Disappointments:Much of Eun Jae's arc irritated me this season. Couldn't have cared less about Heimdal. Couldn't have caredmoreabout squeezing in a few extra scenes with Ji Won and Sung Min. Don't get me started on that epilogue.
Disappointments:Some of the episodes feel repetitive from a plot perspective, which is why it's taken me a bit to finish. But unless everyone dies in the last episode and the husbands win, I feel pretty confident in this ranking.
Highlights:As someone whose mom died at a young age, I ugly cried overJin Joo finding herself and reuniting with her mom every single week. This was the 2017 drama that hit me in the feels and got me emotionally invested way more than the drama probably deserved.
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Disappointments:If you have only 12 episodes to tell this story, how about you don't spend more than half of them with the male lead being a total dirtbag? Also, literally no one cares about the cheerleading couple. NO ONE.
Highlights: Female friendship abounding. The best cameo of the year in the form of Kim So Yeon. Also, Kim Ji Suk as the sweetest, most supportive male lead in a long time. It's very rare that I say this with all the emotionally broken, extremelywealthy man-children running amok in K-dramas, but he is someone I would encourage my friends to date if he existed in real life.
Disappointments:Is there a cut of this show that's just the 1930s parts minus all the whiny modern-day parts? I want that, please.
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Highlights:Harabeoji and Mal Sook making me ugly cry. The OST, includingthis Yoon Mi Rae songthat got stuck in my head for like a month.
Disappointments:AfterChicago Typewriter, I thought for sure Go Kyung Pyo's first role as leading man would be amazing. Instead, I found his character self-righteous and boring.
Disappointments:Meh, I couldn't get into it. I think I finally have to give up on pretending I like Kim Nam Gil's slapstick acting.
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Highlights and disappointments:I have to collapse these categories because I genuinely can't remember a single scene from the series, aside from maybe Shin Min Ah wearing some horrifying socks with heels. It ranks so high in the list only because there weren't things I actively hated about it.
Disappointments:A wonderful romancewhere they never actually get together andinstead you have to watch a murderer wandering around for no discernible reason for a zillion episodes.What the hell, show?
Disappointments:Every once in a while, you watch a show and think you're on crazy pills because your feelings do not line up AT ALL with how everyone else in the universe seems to feel about it. That's this show for me.¯_(ツ)_/¯
Best Korean Drama Of 2017
With weird licensing, waiting for subtitles, and having to scrounge up illegal streams in some cases, here are the dramas I still have on my watchlist from the year:
So I'm sorry if I left them off the list! I have been shamed for my lazy drama-watching ways and may someday catch up!
How did you rank your favorite dramas this year? Where did I get it right? Where did I get it horribly wrong? What dramas did I totally miss out on? Let me know!It’s been a stellar year for South Korean TV this year. Much like American TV’s move to invest in higher productions, even in the cable market, 2017 saw many K-dramas breaking all-time viewership records. This year, Korean dramas delved deep into the darker side of the psyche with some fantastic thrillers, lots of time travel, and comedies and romance shows highlighting some serious social issues. So, get your binge-watching slippers ready, because these are the 15 best K-dramas of 2017.
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, Save Me follows Im Sang-mi and her family who get sucked into a weird religious cult. Completely out of options and cut off from the outside world, Sang-mi finds an opportunity to mouth the words “save me” to a group of boys she knew from high school, and they attempt to rescue her.
‘s creepy tone isn’t what you usually expect from a K-drama, which is why it deserves a spot on the list of 2017’s best K-dramas.
Strong Woman Do Bong-soon stars Park Bo-young as the adorable titular woman who was born with superhuman strength. Bong-soon dreams of being an elegant woman and the star of her own video game. So, she gets a job as a bodyguard for a rich CEO of a video game company who helps her control her super strength and use it for good.
Go Back Couple (2017)
Despite its occasionally messy storyline, the great rapport of the cast and the well-developed characters made the romantic yet action-packed K-drama one of the highest-rated shows on Korean cable TV.
, My Shy Boss starts out weak but quickly develops into a show with compelling characters and a particularly good supporting cast who each get to grow in realistic ways.
Chae Ro-woon is an outgoing singer of a local opera company. But after her sister’s apparent suicide at work, Ro-woon decides to get revenge on the PR company who she feels is responsible for her death. When she starts working as an assistant for the misunderstood CEO that people call the “Silent Monster, ” she discovers there’s more to her sister’s death than meets the eye.
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Direct from his military service, Super Junior hottie Choi Si-won stars as Byun Hyuk, an obnoxiously rich third generation heir to a chaebol food manufacturing company. When he’s thrown out of the family, he has to learn to fend for himself, prompting him to see the world from the perspective of regular, hard-working people.
As a mere vehicle for Si-won’s TV comeback. But the K-drama does a great job of highlighting social issues, economic concerns, and the stranglehold that chaebol companies have on South Korea’s current employment market. The show is silly and a little obvious, but it’s a lot of fun, and Choi Si-won really sells the troublemaking rich kid who wears his heart on his sleeve.
Another show highlighting larger social concerns in South Korea, Because This Is My First Life is about two people in their 30s who have both given up on dating. Nam Se-hee owns his own home but has problems keeping up with his mortgage. So, Yoon Ji-ho, a woman also in her 30s who needs a place to live and is envious of people who own property moves in.
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A must-see K-drama. The show has quickly become a favorite among fans and is easily one of the best K-dramas of 2017.
, marked the directorial debut of 2 Days & 1 Night cast member, Cha Tae-hyun. When the lead singer of a massively popular K-pop group in the ’90s, Yoo Hyun-jae, is caught in a monsoon, he’s transported to present-day Seoul. Living in the future, Hyun-jae needs to find out what happened to his life, bandmate, former manager, and girlfriend.
The K-drama didn’t quite stick the landing, but it showed some interesting insight into what goes into creating K-pop idols. It also highlighted the huge changes South Korea has gone through over the last 20 years.
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Sympathy for Lady Vengeance star Lee Young-ae made her acting comeback after a long hiatus in the historical drama Saimdang, Light’s Diary. Young-ae plays Joseon-era artist, calligrapher, and poet, Shin Saimdang
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