Queen of Tears

JUST FINISHED IT AND MAN I LOVE IT!!???

I don't know why people are coming for the story and the cliche parts or coming for literally anything in that drama!! ...like are my standards low or was that just such a good drama!!!??!

I've read some review where they were like "the last scene did nothing for me " like brooo no hate but howww ???!?😭😭 you gotta work on your emotions because that scene was sad as fuck and I just realised that that ending scene was supposed to be "heaven"

I was really not going to watch it because of how much I've seen it everywhere and I felt like it was a cliché but I gave in and thank god I did ...maybe how you get affected by this drama depends on how you have lived your life or the things you might currently be dealing with...but this drama deeply resonated with me, because I've watched it during a depressive time and it just became my consolation even though it is just a drama, it was really comforting watching a whole life pan out in front of me from the beginning till the end ...through the pain and struggles till the love. It was comforting knowing that there is hope to live life like that and to experience all those emotions it felt great seeing them struggle and suffer for their loved ones, baek hyunwoo was really out there doing the most!😭

I loved when haein's family came to live with hyunwoo's family. They clearly all needed that and they bonded so well. They all put borders between eachother just because they are different class and thought they were so different from eachother that they wouldn't be able to understand one another but in the end through their shared tragedies they became one big family and that was so satisfying to see(especially the bond between haein's and hyunwoo's moms) Really loved those episodes!

It was beautifully executed, from the acting to the music everything just went well together.

I get the people who are frustrated that they didn't get enough screen time (the leads) and that most scenes were focused on the rivalry with eunsung and his mother but I feel like things were balanced...like if all they talked about were the main lead martial issues then that would truly be a cliché and it would get repetitive.

If you are one of the people who did not like this drama for whatever reason, I won't be able to change your mind of course, but you know what? If we don't focus too much on the details this drama fulfills everything. It's just human beings trying to survive, which is literally what we do everyday and it makes you think that time really does fly and we should really make decisions that we don't regret later because once it's done it will be too late to undo them and then it creates all sorts of after effects like people being hurt and misunderstandings. But it also lets you know that life is so fucking beautiful!

I am honestly satisfied, I've bawled my eyes so many times and I have to watch the behind the scenes to satisfy this fire that was left from watching this drama and to get over it lol😭😭

Thank you for reading! 🙏☺️

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"King of tears"

Overall Verdict

The drama had strong performances and emotional pull, but it collapsed under weak writing, repetitive conflicts, poor character logic, and unsatisfying resolutions. It survives on tropes and suffering, not storytelling.

Major Negative Points
1. Weak and Incoherent Storyline

At its core, the plot feels undercooked. Instead of building a solid narrative arc, the writers rely on repetitive drama and forced conflicts. There is no meaningful progression—only constant chaos without payoff.

2. Absurd Initial Setup

The male lead wanting the female lead dead at the start is not just extreme—it’s illogical. This immediately damages the credibility of their relationship and makes the emotional foundation unbelievable.

3. Excessive Negativity and Villain Dominance

From episode two onward, villains hijack the story. Scams, manipulation, and cruelty dominate almost every episode. Their excessive screen time overshadows the actual leads, making the viewing experience exhausting rather than engaging.

4. Short-Lived Happiness and a Poor Ending

Happy moments are rare and never allowed to breathe. Every peaceful scene is quickly destroyed by another conflict, creating constant anxiety for the viewer.
The ending is especially disappointing—the long final monologue feels pointless. A simple, earned conclusion (like showing the leads’ marriage) would have been far more satisfying.

5. Weak and Self-Centered Female Lead

The FL lacks agency and emotional maturity. She is driven by circumstances rather than strength.

She prioritizes her problems (business, illness, ex, family) while emotionally neglecting the ML.

Her repeated actions—trusting the villain, drinking with her ex, doubting the ML without proof—cause unnecessary pain.

She accuses the ML of fraud and cheating multiple times, yet never offers a sincere apology even after depending on him post-surgery.

She also shows poor balance in family matters, largely ignoring her brother’s struggles.

6. Ineffective Side Characters

Most side characters exist only as fillers. They neither influence the plot nor add emotional depth.
In contrast, the ML’s family and especially his friend contribute meaningfully—often doing more to move the story forward than the main characters themselves.

7. Problematic Brother–Wife Subplot

This subplot is messy and poorly handled.

The wife cheats, questions paternity, runs away, and later returns regretful.

She faces no real consequences and is accepted back without accountability.

The ex-lover’s backstory is barely explained, leaving major gaps and weakening the entire arc.

This trivializes betrayal and undermines the emotional weight of loyalty and trust.

8. Unrealistic Business Portrayal

Despite being portrayed as powerful business figures, the characters behave like amateurs—falling for obvious scams, ignoring warnings, and making reckless legal decisions. This completely breaks the credibility of the business narrative.

9. Multiple Unsatisfying Endings

None of the major arcs conclude properly—neither the villains, nor the relationships, nor the subplots. Instead of closure, the audience gets frustration.

10. Unstable and Repetitive Romance

The ML–FL relationship follows a tiring cycle: love → misunderstanding → separation → patch-up → repeat. This constant instability makes the relationship feel shallow rather than deep.

11. Lack of Character Growth

Despite the story spanning several months, there is little visible development.

The FL barely evolves.

The ML only suffers.

Even the sibling bond lacks depth and believability.

Positive Points
1. Strong Acting Performances

The actors elevate weak writing. The leads convey pain, love, and frustration convincingly, making the drama watchable despite its flaws.

2. Excellent On-Screen Chemistry

The ML and FL share natural chemistry. Their caring moments in the middle portion of the show are genuinely engaging and among the best parts.

3. Warm Portrayal of Villagers

The villagers provide much-needed emotional relief. Their kindness adds heart and briefly balances the otherwise heavy negativity.

4. Valuable Supporting Characters

The detectives and the ML’s friends actually contribute to the story and often carry it when the leads falter.

5. FL’s Regret Scene

Although delayed, the FL’s regret scene is emotionally effective. It finally acknowledges the ML’s suffering and offers partial emotional closure.

6. Constant Interaction Between Leads

Unlike many dramas where leads are separated for long stretches, this show keeps them interacting—whether in conflict or care—which maintains engagement.

Why the Show Still Became Popular

Despite its flaws, the drama succeeds because it leans heavily on emotionally charged tropes:

Rich CEO FL × poor village boy ML

Workplace and class conflict

ML humiliated by in-laws but enduring for love

Interfering ex

Extreme sacrifices: accidents, shootings, near-death moments

Memory loss arc

ML’s unwavering loyalty despite constant pain

The core appeal is simple and powerful:
a man who suffers endlessly yet loves unconditionally.

That endurance, silent sacrifice, and emotional resilience resonate deeply with viewers—even when logic and writing fail.

Final Line

Honestly, the drama survives not because it’s well-written, but because pain sells.
If anything, it’s less a balanced love story and more a chronicle of suffering.

A more accurate title wouldn’t be “Queen of Tears”—
it would be “King of Endurance.”

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The bar is on the floor...

It takes a lot for me to say something is truly overhyped...but this is overhyped.

The BAD:

I THOUGHT it was going to be a moving story that deals with the ups and downs of marriage and divorce, but everytime it got close to a scene that could've been a deep insight into why the love between the ML and FL fell apart, it becomes a stupid, surface level, cheesy conversation. No depth, no real, believable development. Genuinely. If you truly want me to believe that that man was so miserable he was almost relieved to hear his wife was going to possibly die...you better show exactly why he suddenly starts loving his wife again, or show a gradual change as he learns to love his wife again, and have them have a real conversation and build their trust again, and their needs to be an actual reason for them to fall in love again...

Soo Cheol and Da Hye were really interesting at first...I THOUGHT, once again, that they were going to work through their issues and they would discuss why Da Hye kept running away, the abusive ex, yada yada, but what actually happened was, Soo Cheol becomes the manly man not a boy anymore man protector, Da Hye's problems disappear, and it's happily ever after? Ok...

Now don't get me started on Hyein's relationship with her mom. I don't wanna talk about it...or the cheesy predictable villain and his predictable evil plan I've seen only one billion times before.

Ok now.

The good...

The acting is very good. Everyone was really truly good.

Soo-Hyun, Jiwon, Kwak Dong Yeon, Kim Sunghoon.

They all did an amazing job with the cheesy, tropey, predictable, seen before writing they were given.

❤️

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Brilliant in its own right, but..

Queen of Tears is a brilliant drama in its own right. While it may not be as original as I would have liked, it more than makes up for it with stellar performances by the main leads. Kim Soo Hyun and Kim Ji Won are exceptional as Beak Hyun Woo and Hong Hae In, respectively, bringing depth and emotion to their characters that kept me thoroughly engaged.

The storyline, though familiar, is well-executed, blending emotion, intrigue, and suspense. The character development, particularly within Hae In's family, adds richness and diversity to the narrative. The soundtrack is amazing, perfectly complementing the mood and enhancing the overall experience.

Despite its many strengths, the drama felt like it was missing a little something to make it truly outstanding and to add, episodes felt longer than they actually were which made drama feel slow at times. Nonetheless, Queen of Tears is enjoyable, with breathtaking cinematography and a good plot that will keep you hooked if you're patient.

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And they cried, and they cried and they cried some more.

So I just finished it.
I watched this because of Kim Soo Hyun from It's Ok Not to Be OK, Kim Ji Won in My Liberation Notes and Park sung Hoon Into The Ring. All fantastic actors in these three excellent series.

I don't know what to say about Queen of Tears.

It was tearfully sentimental, lots and lots of flashbacks, the acting was so-so and the music was depressing.
Lots of "white truck" instances, and I think the main actors lost their acting charm toward the end.
It must have been so tiresome to do that acting - not because it was good but because it was all over the place.

The best actor of the Tears was the 2ML - he held his evil all together - was consistently evil and his facial expressions reflected that evil the more evil he got.

What the ML found attractive about the FL, I have no idea.
She was disrespectful toward him long after she woke up from her cancer cure - although the 2ML made sure that the ML went to prison and so was out of the way when she woke up. It took a miracle from the part of the ML to wake her up to reality.

Mostly throughout, FL was drippy and certainly not lovable.

The writer did all it could to try to make the viewers cry - and I'm sure it worked for most of the viewers.
The OST was even more miserable - especially toward the end. Also there were many holes in the story.

Ok, I can now check that off and NEVER WATCHED IT AGAIN.!!!!

I guess an 8.0/10 is my grade.

Thanks for reading this.

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It's all over the place kinda mess

When my guts told me this drama trying to put too many on their plate, i should've trust it. I was so invested till i realized i just wasted it all. My emotion, time, mostly emotion.
When SML started to disgust me with his delulu mind and action (bless PSH), it was a sign a big big sign that yes, i can and allowed to drop this drama.

But here i am, after finishing ep 16. Honestly, it's not news when you fully invested at the beginning and hate a drama after certain episodes. It happens a lot. However, this drama is "expensive", from quality, actor, marketing, budget, etc... Even the writer. Yup. Everything feels like wasted potential, they have it all why can they just make it right? Just a decent plot from famous kdrama screenwriter, is that a lot to ask?
The acting save this drama, for real. The fact that most of us hate the villain and love the leads and their family is the biggest proof.

At last, they shouldn't be greedy and put so many tropes and you can watch it for the actors and the actors only. You also need enough patience, like A LOT of its.

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shame about the ending

A rich girl and a lawyer has married and after 3 years he wants to divorce but his wife tell him she has 3 month to live so he decided to resist next to her untill her death.

Kim Soo Hyun's role reminds me of "It's okay not to be okay", such a man who is always calm and super kind, submissive to a strong and crazy woman, who is in love with him.
There is a palpable chemistry between the couple. They act very well.
I personally liked her aunt and also his lawyer friend.
My least favorite episode was episode 11th. When the bad guy blackmailed her, I hated these moments. A trash man who takes advantage of her weaknesses even though he knows she isn't interested in him.

The last episode disappointed me a lot.
She who still keeps him on edge with marriage (after what happened, hasn't she learned that life is short? She should have been the one to propose to him), the sight of his tombstone could have been spared, the brief glimpse of their daughter without seeing the joys of this event is a sin as is the hasty summary of all the stories, including the aunt's relationship.
Then, when he runs away from the hospital in his condition (absolutely not), when he is shot with all the special forces present and no one moves to see his condition (not real).

This series is compared in terms of share to the series "Crash landing on you" which still remains my favorite.
Certain scenes seem copied, for example the field of flowers at the end, but the sensations they convey are not the same.

NB: Is Mercedes a sponsor of this series by any chance? It wasn't clear enough.

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Good Enough

Korean Drama '' Queen of Tears '' is a dark comedy melodrama.

The story is pretty unexpected, especially at the start of the drama, which was more on the comedy side. Slowly, they introduced the dramatic scheme involving the villain and the family, as they go through unexpected changes. Then, the series turns towards the romantic side, with many moments between the couple. The plot gets darker towards the end, with the final episode being quite dramatic. However, it must be noted that the last episodes, especially the fourteenth, were rather boring and felt more or less like fillers.

Another perk for this drama was the excellent side characters that were interesting and helped the story a lot.

Also, the performances were excellent.

So, overall, seven out of ten.

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The Best Watch of 2024 So Far

A fabulous journey of lost love, redemption and reconciliation.

Words cannot express my feelings, as I look back at this journey of eight weeks. What happens when you are a stay in son-in-law and dying to divorce both your wife and her family. Before you sympathize with Baek Hyun Woo’s situation, you might need to hear about the said wife’s tragic life. Despite her ruthless demeanor, Hong Hae In is a lone camper who trusts no one. In times of utter despair, she desperately wants to lean on her husband, only he wants nothing to do with her and is seeking a divorce. Both are depressed at different levels; with familial pressure tearing them apart. When I first watched the pilot episodes, it seemed the show was more about their reconciliation. But “Queens of Tears” managed to deliver a beautiful script with a stellar casting that literally embodied the struggles faced by the variant characters. A couple cannot, will not be together until their families get along well. Marriages are made in heaven, aren’t they? Let’s talk about each & every character in this show, as we pay homage to this phenomenal melodrama!

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Too much time spent on side characters (felt like filler)

I absolutely loved this drama, it's so good in so many ways. I think the casting was perfect as well as the OST. However, in my opinion, the side characters are given wayyyy too much screen time.


Prior to everyone moving to Hyun-woo's hometown after they initially lost everything, there was too much screen time given to the three ladies and Hyun-woo's sister in the salon. These scenes just made no sense to me to be honest. Some of the episodes would go from a really deep and important scene with the main characters and randomly pan over to the salon shop or Hyun-woo's family home for a non-important scene that would last 3-5 minutes. I've only watched a few kdramas so I'm not too sure if this is common practice, but these scenes would have 0 impact on the story and to be honest it felt like it was filler to make the episodes longer. Instead of running the episodes from 75-90 minutes, I think that it would have been better to just cut out some of these random pointless scenes and trim the episodes down by a few minutes at least. I didn't really mind it too much in the beginning, but once it kept happening into the second half of the show it was too much.


Overall, I loved this drama in so many ways, but, the side character filler in some episodes just made it feel like a bit of a chore to watch.

: )

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