My K Drama Year in Review 2016 PART 2 OF 2
Okay, let me say this up front, because you know I have to: This is based solely on the Dramas I have WATCHED.
Best Drama- My Dear Friends-Drama of the Year, hands down
Most Enjoyable Drama-Let’s Fight Ghost
Best Female Lead Character- Cheong, Legend of the Blue Sea. Smart, kind, funny, crazy sexy, cool. She knew what was important and what she wanted.
Best Male Lead Character- Go Nan-gil, The Man Living In Our House. Nan-gil, really, grew up well and was nothing but love. He just needed to use his words, lol. When he did, pay attention.
Knock Out Performance-Lee Joong Gi as Wang So. Cruel, kind, loving, loyal, crazy, evil, broken, strong. A hot lovely obsessive mess of a man.
Best Bromance-The Ghost Facers of Let’s Fight Ghost
Best Sisters Friends-The friends in My Dear Friends. Oh Choong nam was a queen.
Most Unique Lead-Gong Shim and Ahn Dan Tae-these two darlings, with their own ways of looking at life.
Funniest Lead-Cheong, Ahn Dan Tae and Louis
Dumbest Lead-both leads in K2 were pretty moronic.
Most Sassy Lead of The Year: Note: this exists this year because of one person:
Special mention from C-Drama-Best tertiary characters that we wanted to be leads- KO and Beauty in Love 020.
Characters that need a spin off– See above, KO and Beauty
Memorable Supporting Characters-
Park Soo Kyung in Another Oh Hae Young-Soo Kyung was outrageous, and while comic relief, she’s also a cautionary tale, the future for Hae Young if she doesn’t stop being outrageous herself and stop living in the past, at the same time she shows a smart capable woman that can get her act together if she tried, and it is never too late. I am not fond of the pregnancy plot as a wake up call for her and Roof Top Party Jin Sang however.
Yeon Ha in My Dear Friends-God almighty this man. THIS MAN, such a beautiful soul.
Biggest Waste of Talent-
The cast of Mirror of the Witch
The cast of Entertainer
Lee Jong Suk in THOSE jeans, and Lee Tae Hwan, in W, my stars the lost potential for bromance was tragic.
Lee Joon in Vampire Detective. VAMPIRE. TEETH. BITING. LEE JOON. What in the blue hell, drama gods?
Freshest Face/Notable Presence-
Lee Se-young in Vampire Detective until they totally sidelined the character
Seo Ye-ji in Moorim School
Breakout-
Do Ji Han as Ban Ryu-maybe not completely fresh, but a stand out in Hwarang
Nam Joo Hyuk- he was in Cheese in the Trap as a tertiary character at the beginning of the year, then a almost secondary character in Scarlet Heart, and then the lead male character in Bok Joo, where his energy was just lovely.
Minah in Gong Shim-what a super job being a quirky woman
Best Sound Effect-
Catchphrase of the year- SWAG!
Fun Fashion-Lucky Romance-Between the cholo shirts and shorts, and the funky denim and the great earrings, such fun visually. And Lee Soo Hyuk in that one scene in those jeans. Dude.
Iconic Scenes-
Scarlet Heart- I can pick only 2?
Bath Scene-
Rain Scene-
REALITY of Lee Joon Gi….
Descendants of the Sun-
Most Visually Beautiful Drama- too many, they all get it?
Moonlight Drawn By Clouds
Goblin
Scarlet Heart
Descendants of the Sun
And the Gaksital Award Goes to:
Scarlet Heart- Wang Geon tormenting his family with rigid court laws and marriage and baby making as diplomacy, allowing the crazy wife to be crazy and evil for DECADES, HANGING the love of his life, and torturing Hae Soo and then later relying on her and telling her to live for the happiness moment and the future because life is too short. Fuck you Wang, you set up and enable ALL of that misery.
Goblin-WHY was Shin being punished SO much? WAE!? WAE!?
Biggest Surprise-
Lee Tae Hwan being the bright kid in Thumping Spike
How much I loved goofy Onew in Descendants of the Sun
How much I liked DotS
How much I liked Oh Hae Young
That I watched Oh Hae Young and Romantic Dr. Kim because I dislike Seo Hyun Jin as an actress.
Kim So Hyun as an action/fighting scene character
Mane of Glory–
Wang So-early days, the more messy, the better. Not gonna lie. It might have been the blood, mask, scar, and/or the crazy all over his face.
Soo-ho-Not gonna lie, it might have been the earrings.
Byeon-hun
Best Kisses-
Oh Hae Young
Runner up-Romantic Doctor Kim
Best Use of Guest Stars-Kwang soo, Jo In Sung, and Daniel Henney in My Dear Friends
Person that was in everything-Sung Dong-il
My Dear Friends-cameo
K2-cameo
Legend of the Blue Sea
Scarlet Heart
Hwarang
Biggest Feels– Scarlet Heart Ryeo-all those poor tragic babies
Goblin-Shin suffered.
Both he and and Wang So ended up alone. Bothers me so much, just like in Rooftop Prince, even more so that in Rooftop Prince.
This year definitely proved the favorite drama is not always the best, and best and favorites are not always what you might recommend to others.
That’s it folks, see ya next year, hopefully in January instead of March!
