Inspired by missvictrix’s 2020 Year In Review post, I decided to make my own letter grading of all the dramas I watched in 2020. For those of you familiar with RFWR (if you don’t recognise the acronym you aren’t familiar with it), this differentiates the dramas slightly more as opposed to the number grade.

A-grade dramas
– Birthcare Center: A
– Black Dog: A-
– Hospital Playlist: A-
– Nobody Knows: A-

B-grade dramas
– My Unfamiliar Family: B+
– Mystic Pop-up Bar: B+
– Memorials: B
– 365: Repeat the Year: B-
– United Effort to Accomplish One Thing: B-

C-grade dramas
– How to Buy a Friend: C+
– Old School Intern: C+
– 18 Again: C
– Diary of a Prosecutor: C
– Missing: The Other Side: C
– Train: C
– Zombie Detective: C
– Chocolate: C-
– Hi Bye, Mama: C-
– It’s Okay to Not Be Okay: C-

D-grade dramas
– Flower of Evil: D+
– Oh My Baby: D+
– The Spies Who Loved Me: D+ (tentative rating as of 12/16 episodes, could be C-grade on final rating)
– Do You Like Brahms: D
– Graceful Friends: D
– Psychopath Diary: D
– Start-Up: D (tentative rating as of 15/16 episodes, expected to remain unchanged after final episode)
– Alice: D-
– Backstreet Rookie: D-
– Crash Landing on You: D-
– Find Me in Your Memory: D-
– Itaewon Class: D-
– Men Are Men: D-
– More Than Friends: D-
– Private Lives: D-
– Record of Youth: D-
– Search: D-
– Sweet Munchies: D-
– Tale of the Nine Tailed: D-
– The King: Eternal Monarch: D-
– Was It Love: D-
– Welcome: D-
– When My Love Blooms: D-
– Will You Have Dinner With Me: D-

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    Wow. That’s a lot of Ds. I’m surprised by a few of them.

    Now I’m curious about the other 3 in your A-grade. I only saw Hospital Playlist, and it’s my favorite and memorable kdrama of the year.

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      Black Dog is wonderful. I totally agree with Radily.
      I gave up on Birthday Center on episode 3, and Nobody knows is my watchlist waiting to be available in a legal site in my corner of the world.
      HP is just perfect.

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    WOW how did you manage to watch all of these?

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      There’s this really useful button called the Fast-Forward button which helps to accelerate your watching pace.

      But more importantly, when you’ve watched so many k-dramas (I’ve live-watched about ~90 so far but I have started binge-watching from 2009), you start to get a feel of like when you should skip whether it be pointless dialogue or dreamy directing. This can sometimes occur with even the best dramas (for instance during PPL scenes) but it does help cut down the time you spend watching.

      For the worst dramas out there, I can be in and out of a ~1hour episode in like 15 mins. If I haven’t dropped the show yet then, it probably means there’s something in the show that’s keeping me there even if the rest of the show is terrible.

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