Episode 23 – Drama of the Year 2015

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t’s time for our second annual “Drama of the Year” episode!

I’m so excited for this, I can’t even begin to tell you… Exactly a year ago we kicked off with our first ever episode, which was a “DotY” for 2014. And here we are with our 2015 edition.

Like last year – we pick winners in categories that are a little bit more personal and nutty than the categories all the big drama sites go for. We hope you enjoy it.

Please note:
When we recorded this we had only been able to watch Reply 1988 up until episode 16. Now that the show has ended we know that we were wrong. Really wrong. About… something. You’ll hear that, throughout the episode.
We hope you’ll laugh with us, about this, and tune in for our Reply 1988 “spoilercast” which is coming up soon! (Because we need some extra therapy to cope with this.)

Without further ado; 13 categories and our overall favorite dramas of the year;

Our drama of the year 2015

1. Drama that made us grin like idiots
   Sofia’s pick: Falling for Innocence
   Gab’s pick: Falling for Innocence
   Honorable mentions: Scholar who walks the night, Shine or go crazy, Twenty
   Bonus video to illustrate this category: Part 1 & Part 2
   
2. Drama that made us go through boxes of tissues (or made us depressed)
   Gab’s pick: School 2015
   Sofia’s pick: My Love Eun Dong
   Honorable mentions: Heart to heart, Reply 1988, Healer
   
3. Most rewinded kiss scene
   Sofia’s pick: Kiss in the snow in Healer
   Gab’s pick: Don’t let me go kiss in Healer
   Honorable mentions: Courthouse kiss in Mask, Hyun Bin owning it in Hyde, Jekyl & Me, feeverish kiss in Oh my ghost!, Bo Ra and Sun Woo’s kiss in Reply 1988, unexpected kisses in Valid Love
   Bonus video: Healer kiss scenes
   
4. Most rewinded scene (that’s not a kiss scene)
   Gab’s pick: Il Ri using carpenter Kim’s hand in Valid Love
   Sofia’s pick: Chuuurrr! – Yoochun practicing his comedy skit in the police station in Sensory Couple
   Honorable mentions: Anything Kang Min Ho in Falling for innocence, Healer skinship and snuggles
   
5. Biggest jaw-dropping surprise of the year
   Sofia’s pick: The point of view in Because it’s the first time
   Gab’s pick: The point of view in Because it’s the first time
   Honorable mentions: Pairings and reveals in Hyde, Jekyl & Me, Punch, Jung Kyung Ho being funny in Falling for innocence (Again… we hadn’t finished Reply yet when we recorded this. Wow. That would have been a strong contender too.)
   
6. Biggest wah-wah-waaah dissapointment of the year
   Gab’s pick: Warm and cozy
   Sofia’s pick: The time we were not in love
   (Dis)Honorable mentions: The Producers, Bubblegum, Sassy Go Go, Orange Marmalade
   
7. Best side character that nearly stole the show (or actually did)
   Sofia’s pick: Siwan as Reporter Kim in She was pretty
   Gab’s pick: Hee Soo, the sister, in Valid Love
   Honorable mentions: Taek and the entire cast of Reply 1988, hacker ahjumma in Healer, Kong Tae Gwang in School 2015, Tae Pung in Goo Hae Ra, the fabulous chief editor in She was pretty, Yoona in Kill me, heal me
   Bonus video: Funny Siwon scenes in She was pretty
   
8. Character we hoped would get cancer and die
   Gab’s pick: The bully in School 2015
   Sofia’s pick: The mother in law from Reply 1988
   (Dis)Honorable mentions: K-pop industry in Goo Hae Ra, the evil moms in Sassy Go Go, Uhm Tae Woong in Valid Love, politics in D-Day
   
9. Biggest WTF?!-moment of the year
   Sofia’s pick: The mid-season Orange Marmalade-rewrite
   Gab’s pick: Robin being the main lead in Hyde, Jekyl & Me
   (Dis)Honorable mentions: The Lover (Just… all of it), Let’s Eat 2 (A new romantic lead? Heol!), Hyde, Jekyl & Me (The villain reveal), the big fish in the sky scene in Valid love
   
10. Couple we shipped the hardest (that didn’t work out)
    Gab’s pick: Eun Bi and “blonde guy” in School 2015
    Sofia’s pick: The bromance in Sassy Go Go
    Honorable mentions: Taek in Reply 1988 (Yeah, we know. Now we know.), Carpenter Kim-couple in Valid Love
    
11. Couple we shipped the hardest (that became the OTP)
    Sofia’s pick: Healer
    Gab’s pick: Healer
    Honorable mentions: Because it’s the first time, My love Eun Dong, (Bromance, Taiwanese drama)
    
12. Up and coming actor to look for in 2016
    Gab’s pick: Cho Hye Jung
    Sofia’s pick: Lee Yu Bi
    Honorable mentions: Ji Soo, Park Bo Gum, Yook Sung Jae, Jo Soo Hyang
    
13. Best drama we didn’t watch
    Sofia’s pick: Six Flying Dragons
    Gab’s pick: Kill Me, Heal Me
    Honorable mentions: D-Day, School 2015, Punch, Angry Mom
    

And that brings is to….

• Best drama of the year according to our hearts
  Gab’s pick: Reply 1988
  Sofia’s pick: Reply 1988
  Honorable mentions: Goo Hae Ra, Because it’s the first time, Falling for innocence, Heart to heart, Oh my ghost!, Shine or go crazy, My love Eun Dong
  
• Best drama of the year according to our brains
  Sofia’s pick: Reply 1988
  Gab’s pick: Reply 1988
  Honorable mentions: Unkind women, Awl

The next episode

We are recording a spoilercast episode (an episode where we talk about a drama that has finished without worrying about spoilers) for Reply 1988 next. Scheduling conflicts may delay the release of this special episode… but we hope to get it out on Wednesday the 27th of January.

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Happy New Year and we hope you have a daaaeeebak drama watching year!

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