The two popular dramas I missed were Through the Darkness & Little Women

The two hidden gems I missed were
Glitch & Unicorn

One that want to watch personally
The Fabulous

Recipe For Farewell technically ended this year so it would count as 2023 drama but I’m seeing some really positive reviews and want to check it out

Adamas. Because of one of the cast member. (Please don't take his name in the comments, I like to ignore his existence because dramaland can clearly not).
It looked like a show that I would certainly enjoy. And there were TWO Ji Sung!!!
Under the Queen's Umbrella is a close second but in the category of "I dropped it early on when it wasn't that appealing and then everyone started raving about it".
When you're live watching shows it's really hard to catch up. Once a certain number of episodes are done, I will probably never catch up to a show.

I couldn’t make it last year to finishing Tracer, The Good detective 2, Adamas and Never give up, but I hope I can finish them in January. Good intentions for the New Year.

I also left behind some dramas that I hope I will watch this year like Kiss sixth sense ot Anna.

Maybe I am being a bit too ambitious?

Everything I wanted to watch I started and dropped if it turned into something I did not like or I delayed starting it and read the recaps and chose not to start it.
Recipe for Farewell is my one regret due to availability angst. I am hopeful that like all the others I could not access initially they either turned up later or I decided to let it go as they were not showing up.

I completely missed Extraordinary Attorney Woo. I am not sure what I was doing or what I was watching at that time. There was so much hype but I just didn’t get to it.
Also, Through the Darkness seemed like a drama I would enjoy. But never got the time to start.

2023 is already giving me FOMO with Trolley . I was supposed to catch up this weekend but I haven’t. Hope I don’t miss this one.

I just restarted Bravo My Life from mid-2022 and will likely restart Secret House after. They're both long ones with crazy plot lines and evil characters, but unless a show is really a snoozer, I'm a finisher. I tried to see what the reviews would be like on here, but neither are reviewed (not that I'm complaining, since they're not exactly quality with a capital Q)! Still, sometimes these angsty ones are good for cathartic purposes.

2022? Awww hell, I still haven’t seen Squid Game 🤷‍♀️

Gauss Electronics. I started live watching the first week, and then I don't know what happened. Suddenly, everyone was raving about it and it was over.

Definitely got sucked into some sort of "real life" wormhole that pulled me out of the kdrama world!

I did not watch Gauss, I fear the humour is not mine.
Reborn rich and Amadas are scheduled for later.

Under the Queen's Umbrella and Little Women were both available to me, and just didn't peak my interest, but ended up being decently popular, so I guess I missed them? But I'm probably not going to go back and watch them anytime soon, because I still can't quite work up the desire to do it.

Since I didn't have Viki until late in the year though, two dramas I do really want to watch that I missed at the time are Sh**ting Stars and Showtime Begins! I don't really remember if they were huge or popular or anything, but those are the ones that stand out to me as being something that I would thoroughly enjoy that I didn't get to watch as they aired and am excited to get to soon.

I'd also really like to watch Adamas, but have no idea if I'll be able to find it anywhere.

"Under the Queen's Umbrella." I watched the first 15 minutes when it premiered and it just didn't grab me. But I love sageuks, everyone praises it, and it's on Netflix (which makes it easily accessible). So I keep meaning to hit play again. Maybe I'll give it another try once AoS is over.

I've watched all that seemed promising, dropped lots of older dramas too. Is it just me, or the gender dynamics in Kdramas actually getting a lot better and near-realistic lately? What I really wanted to say @missvictrix is thay I'm afraid Extraordinary Attorney Woo isn't a drama to binge. Sorry if I'm dampening your anticipated joy, but it is so episodic that the various cases barely have some connection apart from them being optimistic portrayal of different social issues - some quite relatable, others a bit too rosy. However if you watch the characters with empathy, you'll find the overarching theme of universal social inclusion to be quite heartwarming.

Missed in a sense "didn't watch but planning to" or "didn't watch and not planning to"? Because if it's former then I have none, and if it's the latter, then it's definitely AoS - avoiding Hong sisters dramas is a self-care)))

Dr. Park's Clinic(I'll never be able to press play to this one), Tracer and Big Bet(It began airing in December so😁). I was so enthusiastic for Big Bet but it's proving to not be my thing.

My proper 2022 gift will the The Good Detective 2. The desire to or not to press play on this one is on equal footing.

Hmm there are a lot of dramas that aired last year that were super hyped but I’m not interested in beginning them. These include Attorney Woo, UTQU, Alchemy, Squid Game, etc. Real life has been somewhat difficult, so no more angst and stress for me from Kdrama world.

What I’d come around to watch it at a later date: Our Beloved Summer. Dunno why I still haven’t begun it. Was sucked into Cdramaworld lately and right now I’m rewatching Romance is a Bonus Book. In dire need of more rainbow and sunshine and happy romcom. I have to admit I rewatched it partly because of LJS’s letter to fans informing them that he thought of IU as his Kang Dan-I (FL of RIBB).

The three dramas that received rave reviews that I missed were Weak Hero Class 1, The King of Pigs, and Anna, with Weak Hero Class 1 being my priority for January (unless I cave and binge The Glory Part 1, which is also receiving rave reviews).

I was able to binged quite a lot during the holidays that weren't also included in my bean count and also very unhealthy (sleep pattern was definitely destroyed).

But I do not think I will watch AoS, I remember watching the 1st season's 4eps but that's about it and will probably not continue.

I stumbled upon and quickly fell down the K-drama rabbit hole only about 2½ years ago. I'm still playing catch-up with older shows while at the same time trying to keep up with the new ones that I can get on Netflix and Viki. I feel a bit like Sisyphus—no matter how much I watch, I seem to fall more and more behind! At least I can't complain that there's nothing I want to watch.

In terms of the 2022 shows, I just started Through the Darkness. Next up in the queue is Under the Queen's Umbrella. There are more than a half-dozen others on the list—and that doesn't count the ones on Disney+, to which I don't subscribe (yet), as well as the ones that I can't seem to find on any platform. I foresee a VPN in my near future...

I really must thank the Dramabeans community for giving me an entertaining and insightful education about K-dramas, as well as a place to commune with like-minded folks!

Through the Darkness
The Queen's Umbrella
King of Pigs
Red Heart
Wild Boar Hunting
Never Give Up
Tracer

I feel bad because I watched more than seven bad shows last year, that means I really had the time to watch this other shows beanies seem to love so much.
I could've enjoyed the year more.

At the moment, I would pick Little Women and Gaus Electronics as two dramas I missed out on. These two got a lot of comments and some raves so that made me kinda curious.

I don't know if I'll circle back (lol) to them because 2023 dramas are out to get me. x)

Little Women. It moved from 'Remind Me' to 'My List' to completely off my list without me ever starting it 😅. I was excited before it came out but somehow once it started I just didn't want to press play.

Through the Darkness and Recipe for Farewell. I want to see Beyond Evil still, but that is from 2021.

Alchemy of Souls used to be my regret. I’m like a lot of you, I miss a few episodes and don’t make the time to catch up. However, I didn’t get into it and then when I heard the FL wasn’t returning it seemed to be a good reason to give it up. Everyone says it works out just fine with the new lead but at this point? I’m honestly meh about it.
For those who missed Extraordinary Attorney Woo, I cannot recommend it enough! Park Eun-Bin was amazing and Kang Tae-Oh was perfection. It’s one of those shows where everyone played their roles so well you couldn’t imagine anyone else as the characters. Absolutely the best kdrama of 2022, bar none!

I watched Bad and Crazy in December 2022. I think it came out in January 2022? I thought it was fantastic, which makes me want to go back and watch some of the others I missed in 2022. My dad has been watching Kiss Sixth Sense, so I want to try that. (My dad lives in another city and I don't get to watch TV with him. I hear there is a way to watch things together but I think he's using my Netflix account, so I probably can't do that! 🤣) It's really a mystery why some shows grab me and some don't. I came to terms with the idea that books are only good if you read them at the right time in your life. Maybe TV is like that too?

The one I missed was Little Women. I love young adult literature especially the classics (Anne of Green Gables, etc.). So, it was hard for me to pass this one by, but I felt uncomfortable with the tenuous and negative connection to source material. This was a particularly hard decision because of how visually beautiful viewers said the show was. So, as time passes, I might give it a try. As for Attorney Woo, I was one of those viewers that felt it was a kind of ordinary drama, so I got half way through and stopped. I just read in article in the NYtimes this morning that talked about the popularity of lawyer/police shows that had an episodic structure with a team that worked together like Attorney Woo. I thought it said well why we will be seeing more lawyers and episodic, multi season shows in the future. It turns out those kinds of stories get lots of watchers and remained watched year over year so lots of money to be made. Here is a link, hope it works. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/08/business/media/police-crime-tv-shows-streaming.html

The ones that I missed that I'm likely to check out thanks to the 2022 recap
- Through the Darkness
- Little Women

Now I just need to find the time . . .

These days my typical response to hearing about a new drama is "Where's it streaming? ...Oh. :-( "

Alchemy of Souls--just can't make it through the 1st episode, and Gauss Electronics--humor didn't work for me.

Also gave up on Tracer, Love is for Suckers and put Reborn Rich on hold.

Love Between Fairy and Devil.
Despite it getting rave reviews I'm really apprehensive going in as I love the source material. It is a very dark and sad story and it doesn't connect to the bright fluffy drama trailers I've watched. I'll probably get around to it someday, when my memory is hazier and I can appreciate it as something of an alternate reality. And though I hear Dylan Wang has improved, he has not impressed me in earlier projects. His hair impressed me a lot in Meteor Garden, it's the only fond memory I have left of it.

I missed a lot (even Extraordinary Attorney), but the one I really want to watch is Through the Darkness.