End of the Year Drama Challenge - 2021 Edition

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[New Day, New List] This is the list for Day 29: A 2022 Drama That You're Excited For

Remaining nominations have 1-5 vote(s) each | Click the hyperlink in the Quote for the full list

• All the top 5 dramas are helmed by popular actors/actresses and consist a mix of Thai, Korean and Chinese dramas.
• Thai dramas "10 Years Ticket" to be helmed by Ohm of "Bad Buddy" and BL drama "Vice Versa" are placed at the 1st and 3rd spots.
• Korean dramas "Glitch" to be helmed by Jeon Yeo Been and "The Youngest Son Of A Conglomerate" to be helmed by Song Joong Ki are placed at the 2nd and 5th spots.
• Period Chinese drama "Who Rules The World" to be helmed by Yang Yang and Zhao Lu Si is placed at the 4th spot.
• Are you excited for those dramas simply because they are the next blockbuster drama to be helmed by your favourite actors/actresses?

Oh wow

When you said you would do a recap I did not expect this.

You put in a lot of work and effort in these graphics and analyses. I commend you!

This is it - A wrap-up of the good and not so good in drama land for 2021. Do you generally agree with the poll results? Why and why not?

For me, being new to streaming (non-locally produced) dramas, i am still trying to catch up with the MDL Top Ranked dramas and have yet to watch many of 2021 released dramas. So my observations and comments are very limited for most of the polls. Thus please feel free to post your observations and comments at the forum here or at the respective polls. If any mistakes/typos are spotted, do feel free to correct as well. I might have inadvertently missed those with only a pair of eyes.

Notwithstanding, something that stands out for me is the lack of nomination for Korean actor Tang Jun Sang in neither the "Favourite Actor Discovered In 2021" nor "Best Actor of 2021". Tang Jun Sang plays lead roles in both top ranked "Move To Heaven" and the favourite "Racket Boys" that sweeps several positive polls in this End of Year Drama Challenge - 2021 Edition, including shoutout, best produced, surprise and favourite polls. I hope his characters is what viewers had in mind for nominating "Racket Boys" and "Move To Heaven" in "Favourite Character Of 2021". At the current age of 18, Tang Jun Sang with his outstanding acting aptitude and performance is poised for a phenomenal acting career. 

Two polls i think that could be added are "All-time Favourite Drama" and "An Older Drama That You Have Rewatched In 2021" for viewers to indicate any dramas aired in the year or in the past that they have enjoyed. Those would be good go-to reference list of gems that new viewers like me can use to guide us in our drama land journey. What do you say? Any new polls to add or current polls to replace?

Finally, doing this while time consuming, has opened my eyes to not only the much talked about dramas but also potential hidden gems in drama land. Hope that your participation in the polls and perusal of the poll results open up new dramas and drama viewing perspectives for you as well!

Last but not least, look forward to your comments, including both the good and not so good ones, so it doesn't appear as if i am doing a monologue and we can exchange pointers :)

 whatever:

Notwithstanding, something that stands out for me is the lack of nomination for Korean actor Tang Jun Sang in neither the "Favourite Actor Discovered In 2021" nor "Best Actor of 2021". Tang Jun Sang plays lead roles in both top ranked "Move To Heaven" and the favourite "Racket Boys" that sweeps several positive polls in this End of Year Drama Challenge - 2021 Edition, including shoutout, best produced, surprise and favourite polls. I hope his characters is what viewers had in mind for nominating "Racket Boys" and "Move To Heaven" in "Favourite Character Of 2021". At the current age of 18, Tang Jun Sang with his outstanding acting aptitude and performance is poised for a phenomenal acting career. 

Oh nooooo... Tang Jun Sang deserves to be nominated at least...

In my case, I voted for Lee Je Hoon as favorite actor discovered in 2021 because of his performance in Taxi Driver and Move to Heaven, and I already knew Tang Jun Sang in 2020 because of CLOY. As for Best Actor, I voted for Nanon Korapat. I love his performance as Pran in Bad Buddy and at the same time enjoying his character San in Never Too Late. Totally deserving for getting the Best Actor title.

 Though I never realized that Tang Jun Sang wasn't nominated in any of those categories. I would've voted for him if not for those reasons I've mentioned :(

For the category discussion... It’s an annual challenge, so an all-time favourite drama category would become repetitive after a while. Because if a person’s pick hasn’t changed, then they’re just rewriting the same tweet every year (as this is originally a Twitter challenge) or if their pick has indeed changed, that means that they would write the same tweet for that day and the favourite drama of the year day.

With the proposed rewatched drama category, the issue is simply that I try to make all categories as universal as possible, and many people just don’t rewatch dramas. But I always change a few categories every year, so maybe I’ll think about it for 2022. 

This was a really cool wrap up.  Thank you for doing this. It seems like a lot of the results were the same handful of popular dramas.  While a lot of the top results weren't what I voted for, I do see why they were on the list and many of them I would've voted for had I not been limited to one vote.