They are 😠not similar with Mr queen be for real.
Aside from the lack of soul-swapping between the chef and the queen in Mr. Queen, as Jiyoung just time-traveled back to Joseon and had to start from scratch as a nobody, and the fact that the kings in both dramas are polar opposites of each other, there are huge similarities if you look at it from a bigger picture. It also has similarities with a lot of other sageuk dramas such as people around the male and female lead plotting things behind their backs which Mr. Queen (as well as another time-travel/isekai sageuk drama "The First Night With the Duke") also had.
I really like the cast and I know they act very well, but it's wasted on a story that I think lacks originality where I could see the producers & writers banking on the hope that not too many people had watched similar dramas.
I really like the cast and I know they act very well, but it's wasted on a story that I think lacks originality where I could see the producers & writers banking on the hope that not too many people had watched similar dramas.