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Personally, I'm sick and tired if this "weak, powerless king/prince" trope in saeguks. It's been in every single one of them that I've watched. And the shady minister is almost always the villain. Their political squabbles is the least interesting part of this drama. We all know how it's gonna end.
What's dumb here though, is that the king's family strangely enough has zero political allies/clans/factions supporting them. And the minister has so much power, he basically walks and talks about treason in the open. Then just fkn invent some sh*t again and kill all the royal family in a coup, and then sit on the throne yourself, ffs. You're all relatives anyway through clans' inbreeding. The commoners won't care any way who's ass is on the throne.

I swear, there was only one great saeguk with all-round great plot and even that one required throwing zombies in the mix to make it interesting. You know which one I'm talking about.

I dunno, it's been several years already, and he only got his half-brother as an ally. This is getting nowhere. And you can train all you want, but if you're so dumb to roam around only with a few guards, you're just asking for trouble. He should have been doing counter scheming and gathering political allies, instead of playing the court jester and wallowing in grief.
It's more likely that the arrogant minister's gonna make a big mistake somewhere down the line by himself. Or, now that his daughter is in the picture, she'll be his downfall. She doesn't seem to care about him or his scheming at all.

Well, that SFL is ambitious and smart, I give her that. Papa likely never spanked her in her life, so she grew up headstrong and ruined his plans for the sake of getting her own man on the throne. This is the type that would actually make a good queen, who won't let anybody walk all over her or get herself killed like a dumb cow. I'm actually kinda rooting for her and SML.
ML is a useless slob anyway, who couldn't even concoct a plan of revenge, or get some allies to kill the bully minister. Let him have his peaceful fairy tale with FL somewhere outside the palace. Doesn't look like they're cut out for politics anyway.

I think she's dead, actually, and he's a widower.

Not ML's sister, it's gonna be the clingy girl to whom ML's father wants to marry him off to. The one who has an art gallery.
ML's sister looks like a total bish who's not gonna get any.

That's why the drama's title is so appropriate. They had to start it with a bang.

Business Proposal had very good acting. Two bestie FLs basically carried that drama, they were very fun to watch.

Casting managers did a good job for once 🙄

I hope none of these two, I hate childhood connection and reincarnation destiny tropes with a vengeance. Amnesia is just plain dumb usually, unless it's pretend on purpose, but I've seen only one drama with such clever use of it.

Likely in many. Recent dramas often have these. Dunno who started it, but it's become very popular.

Yea, good rom-coms need good chemistry to be successful. If it's lacking, even a good plot won't save it.

Yea, this year's been lacking good rom-coms. And it's not like you gotta reinvent the wheel with them, just write a decent plot with classic tropes and hire actors who have good chemistry with each other. But seems like it's been hard to grasp lately.

It's 14 episodes, could take a while. Looks like they're prepping a whole "moms with kids" division at that company, with 3 other mom characters besides FL.

Man, you need to watch some safe dramas without exes looks like, I recommend Touch Your Heart - no exes, everything is nice and cozy.
But I think while nobody likes exes' toxic antics, sometimes they serve a purpose of testing the leads' feelings. If done right, without dumbassery, it usually ends up being ok. It's rather rare though, usually it's lots of drama, unreasonable behavior and clingy mess, like irl.

Well, there's that SFL character to whom hers and ML's father want to marry ML off to. She's likely gonna meet that FL's neighbour for her art gallery project, as he's the photographer whose works she liked. This is kinda looking like a budding annoying love square, but let's hope it won't come to that. The widower with a kid is a neighbour, but hasn't made any moves with plenty of opportunities. SFL doesn't look like she actually loves ML, she looks more like an obedient daughter.

Crazy Love from the top of my head.

Lol, wdym? The main audience for these dramas are women. And these classic plots allow them to vicariously live a fantasy of having a loving, rich, handsome Prince Charming, instead of broke, toxic, petty, crypto scam addicted goblins they they meet irl dime a dozen.
And toxic exes are usually put in dramas for another purpose as well - to show how good ML or FL are compared to them. And also, for the sake of drama.
Comments here seem to be very positive, so the tropes work. Also, actors have good chemistry.

You don't have to reinvent the wheel all the time, you know. If it works, don't break it.

It's a very tropey Cinderella style rom-com, but actors are doing ok and the plot is not too bad.

Ugh, this one has a teaser for season 2 at the end. Unfinished.