Ladies of the Palace (2001)

HOW WOMEN PULL THE STRINGS

For a historical drama I really loved it and following the success with later adaptations of QUEEN SEONDEOK, EMPRESS KI and DONG YI I didn't think that it would be bad to try a series the predated them

I am a fan of inner Court Fights between female politicians and while this series aimed at showing how women pulled strings behind the throne of the Joseon Dynasty my search didn't disappoint me.

The episodes the awfully long I didn't seem to have a problem with them anyway because I had all the time in the world to watch them and the schemes orchestrated as just as wonderful and hard to predict abd while the female protagonists made it loveable, to me I loved and preferred the villain character played by Jeong Nam Jeong because she isn't the type of person to feel so sorry and she is wise and intelligent and more ambitious she knows exactly how to hold on and cling onto her country in a way she isn't a traitor but loves it too much

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