Ranking Dramas I Watched In 2025
Including all dramas I watched in 2025. Will include a drama I started in 2024 or before if I watch more than half of it in 2025.
I also put dramas I plan to watch soon in this list with the month I intend to start these shows in.
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1. Light Shop
Korean Drama - 2024, 8 episodes
Jan
Without spoiling anything, the best kdrama of all times. This made it to my list: The GOAT Dramas That Will Stay With Me Forever
I took a photo of the amount of tissues I used to show it to people and tell them that this is to be considered my no word review for the drama. I barely cry, but I love it when dramas are able to make me cry (or any piece of entertainment media).
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2. Winter Night
Chinese Drama - 2022, 24 episodes
Jan
Liking this more than the top rated romance kdramas I am watching. Like those kdramas are really good, but this is somehow even better.
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3. Goblin
Korean Drama - 2016, 16 episodes
CW January
So far I get this one's popularity and ratings. Such a great opening episode.
The real challenge however is for it to be great even till the last episode. May this drama avoid the very common kdrama curse of tanking 2nd half. If it stays as great as the first episode, it will be a 9-10 for me
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4. Crash Landing on You
Korean Drama - 2019, 16 episodes
CW January
The first episode was absolutely fantastic, the second was good enough. Heard that this is a live shot drama, and such dramas usually mess up after the first few episodes. Wishing that this doesn't occur here.
I am hoping to love this one since I liked LOTBS by Park Ji Eun despite its shortcomings. This one is said to be way better than LOTBS and since I was impressed enough by LOTBS, I can be sure that I'd love it.
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5. When the Phone Rings
Korean Drama - 2024, 12 episodes
CW January
People went into crazy defense mode for this sh*t? LMAO XD. TBH it deserves 7.5 or something. Those people actually for once did a great job at preventing this sh*t from staying 8.8 or something. Proves how the MDL audience for kdramas has changed recently. Horny teen fangirls and fanboys everywhere.
This is so much similar to those cheap idol modern Chinese dramas that were so popular internationally a few years back. China has started making wayy better idol dramas, but Korea seems to be going backwards with shows like these.
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6. Queenmaker
Korean Drama - 2023, 11 episodes
Dropped 1/11 January
Had started this with hopes of watching a feminist drama. What I was being served here instead was way over the top plot that makes 0 sense. This turned out to be a heavy makjang, even though people reviewed it to be not a makjang. All the screaming affected my hearing. I can't believe this was what people were praising. Absolute trash.
The FL is a total a**hole trashbag after what the she does in the 1st episode with her employ. Being a woman, she shamed her employ for working in bars and accused her of a lowly being that sold her body. She knew this woman was raped by her boss's husband, but she chose to victim blame and shame her AND kicked her out of her job even though she literally begged on her knees that she will never reveal this crime to the world. She also made sure that everyone in the corporate treats her as an invisible person. She left her with no choice other than to end her own life. Having to endure this scumbag of an FL for 11 long episodes and watch the woman get redeemed of her crimes will bring out the worst in me (yes I know how it ends if someone feels like explaining how it is not how it seems. Still unforgivable, she should be burned alive in the end imo when she is the most happiest in her life.)
I mean, do they want me to believe that this sh*tbag has never before killed people in a similar manner to clean the mess her owners created? Suddenly she grows sympathy? Talk about logic. I can't even leave my brain before I consume this. It's that horrible. This one cements my hatred for makjangs.
Also, what an irony that a feminist drama talking about the things women go through features an actor that has raped a minor. HAHAHAHA feminist drama my a**
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7. Bloody Romance
Chinese Drama - 2018, 36 episodes
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8. Twenty Your Life On
Chinese Drama - 2020, 40 episodes
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9. Miss Gu Who Is Silent
Chinese Drama - 2020, 20 episodes
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10. Legend of Fu Yao
Chinese Drama - 2018, 66 episodes
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11. Luoyang
Chinese Drama - 2021, 39 episodes
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12. Everyone Loves Me
Chinese Drama - 2024, 24 episodes