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[2024 Year in Review] Bean of Disappointment

by DB Employees

Following up the Bean of Greatness, the following bean we’re awarding is the Bean of Disappointment. It’s a tragic bean to bestow, as a result of regardless that disappointing dramas occur typically (i.e., we’re used to it), there’s typically one which simply stings with what may have been, ought to have been, and might need been… if solely they’d consulted us.

To not be confused with the well-known Editors’ Picks, this bean sequence is very like our different DB staff posts — every author sharing their feels. Add your individual private Bean of Disappointment within the feedback and be part of the crushed hopes enjoyable!

missvictrix: I used to be disenchanted by a variety of dramas this 12 months (granted, I’m a troublesome crowd), however The Unattainable Inheritor takes the cake bean. With Lee Jae-wook and Lee Jun-young — two positively electrical younger actors — collectively in a single present, how mistaken can it go? Because the melo got here into focus and the opening credit rang out, I used to be anticipating an excellent and disastrous little bit of melodrama. As an alternative, they hit me with the worst slap there may be: utter boredom. Seems I forgot that every one the nice actors within the dramaverse can’t counter a useless script that includes dry characters, no motivations, and no logic.

mistyisles: On paper, Love Subsequent Door had so much going for it — the forged, lots of the characters’ inside journeys, the primary likeable Yoon Ji-on character I’ve discovered — however in follow, it simply didn’t measure as much as its guarantees. I nonetheless don’t fairly know why I completed it, as a result of I needed to multitask whereas watching to get via many of the episodes (although I’ll admit they often reached a degree the place I needed to again up a tiny bit to catch the lead-in to the elements that grabbed my consideration again). General, although, I believe my expertise with this present is finest summed up by that one facet couple’s first kiss scene: simply after I was getting all caught up within the candy honesty of the second, the present decides to undercut all that pretty buildup with a headbutt to the face for no good motive.

DaebakGrits: It was onerous for me to select my Bean of Disappointment as a result of 2024 was the 12 months that I deliberately set my expectations low in order that there wouldn’t be any disappointments. Because of this, there have been fairly a couple of blissful surprises, however not so many dramas that permit me down and crushed my spirits. So, I’m giving my Bean of Disappointment to the drama that step by step turned a favourite after which hit me with probably the most irritating plot twist: Flex x Cop. General, I beloved this drama and wouldn’t think about it a disappointment, however I do have a small beef with the writers for making Yi-soo’s brother the killer. I imply, c’mon! I had what I believed was one of many healthiest chaebol brother relationships within the historical past of Okay-dramas in my arms, after which the writers snatched it away. It’s a big, puss-filled pimple on an in any other case blemish-free drama, and the closest I got here to feeling disenchanted all 12 months. (Rage is sort of a distant cousin to disappointment, proper?)

solstices: All I’ve for No Method Out: The Roulette is one easy query — how do you even squander such a formidable forged and attention-grabbing premise this badly? An excessive amount of time is wasted on bland filler, alongside unnecessarily drawn-out and graphic motion, whereas too little is afforded to sustaining a constant pacing and refining character motivations past well-worn backstories. Every function looks like a cog spinning to serve the plot, hitting acquainted archetypes with out sufficient subversion or good execution to be sufficiently compelling. It does have its inventive moments, however too few and much between; the plot is far too predictable. Not solely does the star-studded casting give away the twist, however the appearing additionally winds up muddied between the free script and lackluster directing. Maybe I merely had my expectations too excessive, however I believe the onus falls on productions to raise their high quality, not for viewers to regulate their hopes to drained tropes.

Unit: Love Subsequent Door had all of the makings of an excellent present. However quite than match its puzzle items to kind the large image, it determined to fall sufferer to an identification disaster. After taking an ancestry DNA check in a bid to seek out its origins, the outcomes are as follows:
• Physician Droop – 21%
• Pretty Runner – 15%
• Welcome to Samdal-ri – 25%
• Queen of Tears – 9%
• Some anonymous makjang drama – 20%
• Precise love subsequent door – 10%
The outcomes can all the time be challenged. However let’s be sincere, the true love subsequent door was with the second leads.

Dramaddictally: Boy did I’ve excessive hopes for The Midnight Romance in Hagwon. Jung Ryeo-won, Wie Ha-joon, and the stylings of PD Ahn Pan-seok all crammed collectively in a — effectively — cram faculty, and I believed I’d be over the moon with glee in each episode. As an alternative, I discovered myself attempting to maintain monitor of the chessboard forms as I squinted via the darkened pictures on my display screen, simply ready and ready for the true romance to select up. Alas, it by no means actually occurred. Candy as this OTP was, the romantic moments had been very subdued. And whereas I really like practical portrayals of {couples}’ dynamics (and 2024 had an excellent many), this one was just a bit too quiet and buried in subtext for me. We acquired a delicate story a couple of couple that stands up for one another, however I wouldn’t say it lived as much as its title on the romance.

starrygazer: For me The Midnight Romance in Hagwon was a bit of disappointing this 12 months. With the whole lot I had I wished to love it, and I really like each Jung Ryeo-won and Wie Ha-joon. However it felt lengthy, drawn out, and the academy politics had been an excessive amount of on the forefront for me. The Midnight Romance in Hagwon possibly may have benefitted from fewer episodes and tightening up the storylines a bit, as among the latter episodes felt like filler. You can have actually skipped Episodes 11-15 and never missed a lot.

 
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