Historical Dramas Club

Hello everyone! I'm new to dramas so this club really comes in handy, thank you.

Can I join?

 Kodreyu:

Hello everyone! I'm new to dramas so this club really comes in handy, thank you.

Can I join?

Welcome. Let us know which dramas you've enjoyed so far and whether you need recommendations. 

 Italophilia:

Just completed 10 episodes and I'm still liking it. The romance is slow burn and the FL is now in the ML's territory, trying to figure out how things work and her role as Lady Wei. I love how smart she is and what's she has learned from her grandfather all those years by his side.

Oooooh I love smart FLs! Its definitely gonna be on my list now! 

 Kodreyu:

I would appreciate some suggestions regarding war or political related dramas if you have any.

Here are some recs (might or might not fit what you want):

• Destined (China) Enemies-to-lovers trope where the leads have an arranged marriage early in the series. They negotiate a truce and plan to divorce once they meet certain criteria, but found they were better partners than they could have imagined. I found the ML’s mother an endearing and perfect MIL, as she imparts pearls of business wisdom to her daughter-in-law. Political and business intrigue, as well as action scenes. Leads had great rapport.
•  Love Like the Galaxy: Part 1 (China) Mystery, Romance, Political, Revenge. Complex characters with convoluted family relationships. Epic action and fight scenes. Leads had great chemistry. This is one of my favorites, which I binge-watched in 5 days (all 56 episodes). There was no character that was all-good or all-evil, which made them so much more interesting to me. The FL could be annoying yet, knowing where she was coming from, I could see how she learned to manipulate to survive 2nd aunt's household. The ML could be charming, protective, yet there were times he scared the sh*t out of me. Highly recommended.
• The Double (China) Palace intrigue snares the innocent lives of the Xue family, and one fateful day intertwines the lives of Xue Fang Fei (aka Xue Li) and Jiang Li. From that day on, Ah Li would endure any hardship to fulfill the revenge requests made that day. And she had her own 报仇 bàochóu to mete out. Only then, can she truly feel at peace.
• The Long Ballad (China) I didn't think I would binge-watch a series I wasn't even interested in watching. Then, it was highly recommended to me and 4 days later, I had completed the 49 episodes. I laughed, I cried, I felt their angst. In certain scenes, the almost seamless action to animation transitions were quite interesting. It was a first for me to see that in a show. [I have seen it in a musical video before and loved it.] The ML and FL were both fairly even-keeled in their temperaments, and always thinking about strategy. Then, we have the SFL, perfectly acted by Zhao Lu Si, who was ruled by her emotions and the SML, who was ruled by his foster father. I loved the character growth of the main characters and some support characters. There were historical changes around them; it was realistic that they, too, changed.  War
• Under the Queen's Umbrella (S. Korea) I enjoyed every minute of this sageuk. For me, there was not a second that felt like it was dragging. Instead, it felt like watching two masters play chess where discarded pieces could very well be bodies dropping on the ground! But it was speed chess, no time to dilly dally lest your opponent gets the better of you. I esp. like the bromance between the Crown Prince and Grand Prince Sung Nam. Little romance. Political intrigue
• Who Rules the World (China) Epic political wuxia with hidden identities. 100% enjoyable where the FL and ML are well-matched in skill and smarts. Political intrigue

 Indie Art Girl:

It would be a strange drama if the FL wasn't the ML's priority, lol. That could be a very interesting story.

Well, it usually ends up with bad ending. Like FL died of suicide, loneliness, or killed by ML then ML regretted his decision. Or it could be FL decided to marry SML/ the new guy.

For example Chen Xing Xu and Peng Xiao Ran's Goodbye My Princess. Where he loved and wanted to protect her but his priority is always the power (well, he killed her grandfather and indirectly caused her mother's death and ruining her kingdom/similar) and yeah he pretended to love the other girl (at first he's indeed like that other girl the most) to avoid empress' attention towards Peng Xiao Ran's character. She ended up running away and suicide to prevent war and of course she also didn't want to return to ML's side.

There's also a Peter Ho's drama iirc where he trust the other ehm concubine more and causing her to lose her child on childbirth, almost causing her death. She ended up with SML.

 Kodreyu:

I would appreciate some suggestions regarding war or political related dramas if you have any.

Sanada Hiroyuki's Shogun. It's a fictional history based on the first Shogun in Japanese history, Tokugawa Ieyasu.

I'm currently watching Huang Xiao Ming's The Patriot Yue Fei. He's a very popular historical figure comparable to ehm Joseon(?)'s Yi Sun Shin maybe.

And Hu Ge's Nirvana in Fire. Super cool. It's also a fictional history.

 autumn iris:

Sanada Hiroyuki's Shogun.

Where are you watching this?