➰️ Twisted Sister & the Other Royal PIA ➿️ °7° °over-the-top self-aware fluff°
There's adorable videos out there of kittens launching fearsome (overly theatrical) attacks ~> Kitten-drama in overdrive, the caption reads:
Attack: 💯
Damage: ⭕️
This describes RP, a show that hits us with everything: Mmp (missing / misplaced parents). Amnesia. Rooftop apartment. Running through the airport (because of a long string of “almosts”). Running with the stretcher. Transplant. Villains that will not stop. Going rogue with the rules (Rules? What rules?). An (arguably) cheap death…
But the net result was just snickers from me. I enjoyed the ride but didn't take it seriously for a second. Does RP take itself seriously? I don't think so. I think it puts on a kingly act of grave seriousness, but it's just an act. RTP seems to know exactly how silly it is.
It's been too long since I've time-jumped to old Joseon. There was a point where I thought I knew every cobblestone there. Ep1 is a montage of time-jumps. As it opens, we'll see that the princess is dead and his majesty is wailing. Then we get a vision of a 21st century man who is also face down underwater.
Next time we're back in Joseon, it's a few years before the death of the princess. A future queen will be chosen to marry the CP. We visit one family with 2 daughters. The eldest is beautiful, but dad informs that the youngest's name will be the one submitted. In the 21st century these two girls will be step sisters. They aren't getting along. The oldest (portrayed by a young Kim So Hyun from Love Alarm & Bring It On, Ghost-4.6) feels like the little brat is a burden. She can't contain her jealousy. As adults, the youngest, Park “Ha” is played by Han Ji Min (Familiar Wife-8.5, Our Blues-8.5) and the oldest (Hong Sena) by the ultra gorgeous JunYoo Mi (Partners for Justice, Five Star Hotel). Ms Jung is beautiful and excellent at playing a phony evil sister. But the real acting starts when her plastic exterior begins to crack.
RP, one of the popular older shows that hasn't been easily streamable until now, is another reason why the recent Netflix drop of old classics is a bonanza. It is a 2012 release that is rated 96 on AWiki. It is 1 season consisting of 20 65-minute episodes of our Joseon fish struggling to breathe modern-day Seoul air. At a particularly tense time for our male protags, the doorbell rings. They all freeze and look at one another with faces spiked by anxiety. Slow realization descends on Chisan's visage as he brightly says: “O, the PIZZA is here!” They are entirely too happy about it~> There's a taste of what to expect. It's in the simple, goofy, time filler category. We'll rate it as such. As I write this, I'm on episode 13, which feels like a last episode. I checked my notes to confirm the number of ep and I'm shocked. What will 7 more episodes contain? We'll see. TBF, RT could as easily stand for “Ridiculous Plot" as it could the title. The plot is entirely silly. But the show is a pleasant pause in time for the viewer, just the same. (“Pleasant,” like Chisan returns to Joseon clutching a ketchup packet while moaning for pizza, “pleasant” 😆.)
The plot of RP is alot to follow, while at the same time, it's largely besides the point. This is not a show one watches for the elevated writing. We have Tae Yong, the modern day version of the CP - his cousin killed him. But the CP has time slipped to modern day. We have the modern day sisters. In the past, the older sister drowned in the palace pond and the little sister has a burned face. In the future, they are step sisters. The cycle of abuse remains constant in modern day as the older one deliberately abandoned her younger sibling, Ha, who was adopted internationally. Oh, older sis, Sena, is seeing the traitorous cousin, Tae Mu, as well.
The CP didn't time slip alone. His entire crew came with him. Lee Tae Ri (Time Renegades, Extraordinary You) portrays the earnest one with the photographic memory, Song Man Bo. Choi Woo Shik (Parasite-9, Ho Goo's Love-7.4) is the bright and cuddly Do Chisan, and Jung Suk Won (Kingdom-8.3 & Sweet Home Series) is the meathead warrior, Woo Yong Sul. The cast is rounded out with Kang Byul (Seoul Searching, Ugly Alert) as Ha's adorable & supportive friend. Director Ahn Gil Ho is prolific with The Glory, Stranger, Memories of the Alhambra-7, and Record of Youth-5.8 on his resume. Shin Yoon Sub brought us Catch the Ghost & Ugly Alert. Screenwriter Lee Hee Myung penned Revenge of Others-8.1 & The Girl Who Sees Scents.
The chaebol head, Tae’s grandmother, spots the CP out in public and believes the long missing Tae is alive. The CP refuses to move out of the rooftop apartment, however. Grandma doesn't know it, but that's where the time portal is. He wants to go back home.
In the meantime, evil step-sister Sena won't stop messing with Ha, so Ha has financial troubles. She tells the boys they MUST work. The next motifs are of them directing traffic, taking macchiato orders, powerwashing everything but what they're supposed to, and making general mayhem. It's cute. Ha's friend is training the men to dance in costumes (it pays cash!). She doesn't understand why CP won't lift a finger. He looks stubborn but we see him starting to soften as he practices the moves from a remote location. Soon, when they're trying to sell their strawberries, a wild panda will show up and dance his derriere off. They all think it's Becky. The viewer knows: It isn't Becky.
Now for places RP becomes more of a jester than royalty. Lee Tae Sung of Miss Hammurabi portrays Yong Tae Mu, one of our villains. His facial expressions are quite strong and he has to repeatedly show us a look of shocked and trepidacious consternation. It becomes cartoonish. Often, something dramatic will occur, the sharp orchestra THRUMM❗ will boom, and the camera zooms into his shocked bemusement. I can't say they didn't knowingly make it funny··· I can't tell. But it was cracking me up. It should be a drinking game, lol.
In ep10 they go rogue with the logic. All of a sudden, one of the crew somehow knows they came from Joseon to meet the princess and can return there after the prince marries her. Nothing in the show supports this conclusion. This is a bad Kdrama habit in which they create a fantastical world and then abandon all their rules (or make new ones up) as the show winds down. In the last episode they return to Joseon and get into some harsh palace schemes. They avoid CP getting a DNA test in dramatic fashion as if that would have busted him. His appearance is identical in both timelines. How can he be the same person without the same DNA? Don't think about it too much. In my experience, you'll get nothing for your efforts but a headache.
Reincarnation is one of those things that sounds beautiful on the surface, but the more I think about it, the more problems there seem to be. It seems that mal-treatment of the poor is more common where that belief is prevalent, due to the belief that they deserve such for prior life sins. Also, with no memory of prior lives, what good is it? People who have a sense of prior lives are probably experiencing a true sense of the divine, but perhaps, they are not interpreting everything they are feeling correctly. What we refer to as the supernatural may just be super-dimensional, and many mystical feelings we get could be a sense of dimensions beyond 3D and 4D. I've been mulling it over.
Overall, CP is pleasant. The art of the show is solid. Sena’s outfits are always gorgeous. {PSA -Don't trust the Senas in your life - ever. She's forgiven too easily.} In ep4 we see one of the most beautiful wedding dresses ever. It's a stunner. The leads end up on an impromptu date (amusement park, claw machine, chucking darts at balloons). It's cute - the romance is entirely cute:
Her: “I thought you were crazy when I met you.”
Him: “You were so loud, loose women despicable for such a tiny thing. I had to stop my guard from killing you numerous times.”
😅
These Joseon residents are transported to modern-day Seoul and their learning curve is a merry-go-round. The fish-out-of-water vignettes are for the laughs, and they milk them like farmer Brown's last living cow. She sends them into a building to change clothes in the bathroom. They don't know anything, so they think the elevator is where they're supposed to change. It's a funny scene that involves School girls, women's aerobics classes, and photographic evidence.
The secondary tension is that our FL's sister is the reincarnation of the CP's wife. He believes he's in love with her because he doesn't know her true character, both in the past and the current day. He has a growing attraction to our FL but he doesn't recognize it. She just thinks she hates him. He's /LAZY!/ ~~> Most of the tension, at least in the first half, is her expecting him to earn his keep and him, as bona fide royalty, expecting to be catered to.🤣
If you are looking for pleasant and unchallenging wind-down entertainment and are a fan of romcoms, RP will cater to your wishes. It you prefer things to make sense and don't have a well-developed goofy side, then seek sustenance elsewhere.
QUOTE🗣
Being clueless is a burden to others.
IMHO〰🖍
RATINGS 🎬7.5 🖊6 🎭7.5 💓6 🦋6 🎨🎶7 🔚6 🤗4.5 ▪ LEVELS 🌞4.5 ⚡3.5 😅3 😭2 😱2 😬2 🤢2 🤔4 💤0
Age 11+ Language:
Re-📺? Once was fun
In order of ~lite&trite~ to ~heavy&serious~ you may also like:
Fateful Magic Brought Us Together
My Only Love Song 8.7 ~ excellent comedy,
Love Between Fairy and Devil 8.9,
Mad For Each Other-7.7 ~ silly fun,
The Romance of Tiger and Rose 9.8
My Secret Romance-7 (if you ff thru overdone flashbacks),
Playful kiss-7.3,
Rooftop Prince-7,
Mischievous Kiss Love in Tokyo 7.8,
The Beauty Inside-6,
Hotel del Luna 8.4,
The Legend of the Blue Sea-7.2 (But for eps 20 &21 it's an 8+)
Boys Over Flowers-8 ~ melodrama to the max,
My Roommate Is a Gumiho-7.9,
Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha-8.2,
Live Up To Your Name-7.6;
Crash Landing On You 9.1,
Why Raeliana Ended up at the Duke's Mansion-8.4,
Link: Eat, Love, Kill-6.7,
Love Struck in the City 7.3,
Because This Is My First Life-7.7,
7th Time Loop-7.9,
Kiss Sixth Sense-6.8,
It's Okay Not To Be Okay 9,
While you were sleeping-7.3,
Marry My Husband-7.5,
Hotel del Luna-8.4,
A Korean Odyssey-7.2,
Tomorrow with you-7,
My Liberation Diary-8.9,
The Bride of Habaek-7,
The King: Eternal Monarch-8.3
Love and Redemption 10
Attack: 💯
Damage: ⭕️
This describes RP, a show that hits us with everything: Mmp (missing / misplaced parents). Amnesia. Rooftop apartment. Running through the airport (because of a long string of “almosts”). Running with the stretcher. Transplant. Villains that will not stop. Going rogue with the rules (Rules? What rules?). An (arguably) cheap death…
But the net result was just snickers from me. I enjoyed the ride but didn't take it seriously for a second. Does RP take itself seriously? I don't think so. I think it puts on a kingly act of grave seriousness, but it's just an act. RTP seems to know exactly how silly it is.
It's been too long since I've time-jumped to old Joseon. There was a point where I thought I knew every cobblestone there. Ep1 is a montage of time-jumps. As it opens, we'll see that the princess is dead and his majesty is wailing. Then we get a vision of a 21st century man who is also face down underwater.
Next time we're back in Joseon, it's a few years before the death of the princess. A future queen will be chosen to marry the CP. We visit one family with 2 daughters. The eldest is beautiful, but dad informs that the youngest's name will be the one submitted. In the 21st century these two girls will be step sisters. They aren't getting along. The oldest (portrayed by a young Kim So Hyun from Love Alarm & Bring It On, Ghost-4.6) feels like the little brat is a burden. She can't contain her jealousy. As adults, the youngest, Park “Ha” is played by Han Ji Min (Familiar Wife-8.5, Our Blues-8.5) and the oldest (Hong Sena) by the ultra gorgeous JunYoo Mi (Partners for Justice, Five Star Hotel). Ms Jung is beautiful and excellent at playing a phony evil sister. But the real acting starts when her plastic exterior begins to crack.
RP, one of the popular older shows that hasn't been easily streamable until now, is another reason why the recent Netflix drop of old classics is a bonanza. It is a 2012 release that is rated 96 on AWiki. It is 1 season consisting of 20 65-minute episodes of our Joseon fish struggling to breathe modern-day Seoul air. At a particularly tense time for our male protags, the doorbell rings. They all freeze and look at one another with faces spiked by anxiety. Slow realization descends on Chisan's visage as he brightly says: “O, the PIZZA is here!” They are entirely too happy about it~> There's a taste of what to expect. It's in the simple, goofy, time filler category. We'll rate it as such. As I write this, I'm on episode 13, which feels like a last episode. I checked my notes to confirm the number of ep and I'm shocked. What will 7 more episodes contain? We'll see. TBF, RT could as easily stand for “Ridiculous Plot" as it could the title. The plot is entirely silly. But the show is a pleasant pause in time for the viewer, just the same. (“Pleasant,” like Chisan returns to Joseon clutching a ketchup packet while moaning for pizza, “pleasant” 😆.)
The plot of RP is alot to follow, while at the same time, it's largely besides the point. This is not a show one watches for the elevated writing. We have Tae Yong, the modern day version of the CP - his cousin killed him. But the CP has time slipped to modern day. We have the modern day sisters. In the past, the older sister drowned in the palace pond and the little sister has a burned face. In the future, they are step sisters. The cycle of abuse remains constant in modern day as the older one deliberately abandoned her younger sibling, Ha, who was adopted internationally. Oh, older sis, Sena, is seeing the traitorous cousin, Tae Mu, as well.
The CP didn't time slip alone. His entire crew came with him. Lee Tae Ri (Time Renegades, Extraordinary You) portrays the earnest one with the photographic memory, Song Man Bo. Choi Woo Shik (Parasite-9, Ho Goo's Love-7.4) is the bright and cuddly Do Chisan, and Jung Suk Won (Kingdom-8.3 & Sweet Home Series) is the meathead warrior, Woo Yong Sul. The cast is rounded out with Kang Byul (Seoul Searching, Ugly Alert) as Ha's adorable & supportive friend. Director Ahn Gil Ho is prolific with The Glory, Stranger, Memories of the Alhambra-7, and Record of Youth-5.8 on his resume. Shin Yoon Sub brought us Catch the Ghost & Ugly Alert. Screenwriter Lee Hee Myung penned Revenge of Others-8.1 & The Girl Who Sees Scents.
The chaebol head, Tae’s grandmother, spots the CP out in public and believes the long missing Tae is alive. The CP refuses to move out of the rooftop apartment, however. Grandma doesn't know it, but that's where the time portal is. He wants to go back home.
In the meantime, evil step-sister Sena won't stop messing with Ha, so Ha has financial troubles. She tells the boys they MUST work. The next motifs are of them directing traffic, taking macchiato orders, powerwashing everything but what they're supposed to, and making general mayhem. It's cute. Ha's friend is training the men to dance in costumes (it pays cash!). She doesn't understand why CP won't lift a finger. He looks stubborn but we see him starting to soften as he practices the moves from a remote location. Soon, when they're trying to sell their strawberries, a wild panda will show up and dance his derriere off. They all think it's Becky. The viewer knows: It isn't Becky.
Now for places RP becomes more of a jester than royalty. Lee Tae Sung of Miss Hammurabi portrays Yong Tae Mu, one of our villains. His facial expressions are quite strong and he has to repeatedly show us a look of shocked and trepidacious consternation. It becomes cartoonish. Often, something dramatic will occur, the sharp orchestra THRUMM❗ will boom, and the camera zooms into his shocked bemusement. I can't say they didn't knowingly make it funny··· I can't tell. But it was cracking me up. It should be a drinking game, lol.
In ep10 they go rogue with the logic. All of a sudden, one of the crew somehow knows they came from Joseon to meet the princess and can return there after the prince marries her. Nothing in the show supports this conclusion. This is a bad Kdrama habit in which they create a fantastical world and then abandon all their rules (or make new ones up) as the show winds down. In the last episode they return to Joseon and get into some harsh palace schemes. They avoid CP getting a DNA test in dramatic fashion as if that would have busted him. His appearance is identical in both timelines. How can he be the same person without the same DNA? Don't think about it too much. In my experience, you'll get nothing for your efforts but a headache.
Reincarnation is one of those things that sounds beautiful on the surface, but the more I think about it, the more problems there seem to be. It seems that mal-treatment of the poor is more common where that belief is prevalent, due to the belief that they deserve such for prior life sins. Also, with no memory of prior lives, what good is it? People who have a sense of prior lives are probably experiencing a true sense of the divine, but perhaps, they are not interpreting everything they are feeling correctly. What we refer to as the supernatural may just be super-dimensional, and many mystical feelings we get could be a sense of dimensions beyond 3D and 4D. I've been mulling it over.
Overall, CP is pleasant. The art of the show is solid. Sena’s outfits are always gorgeous. {PSA -Don't trust the Senas in your life - ever. She's forgiven too easily.} In ep4 we see one of the most beautiful wedding dresses ever. It's a stunner. The leads end up on an impromptu date (amusement park, claw machine, chucking darts at balloons). It's cute - the romance is entirely cute:
Her: “I thought you were crazy when I met you.”
Him: “You were so loud, loose women despicable for such a tiny thing. I had to stop my guard from killing you numerous times.”
😅
These Joseon residents are transported to modern-day Seoul and their learning curve is a merry-go-round. The fish-out-of-water vignettes are for the laughs, and they milk them like farmer Brown's last living cow. She sends them into a building to change clothes in the bathroom. They don't know anything, so they think the elevator is where they're supposed to change. It's a funny scene that involves School girls, women's aerobics classes, and photographic evidence.
The secondary tension is that our FL's sister is the reincarnation of the CP's wife. He believes he's in love with her because he doesn't know her true character, both in the past and the current day. He has a growing attraction to our FL but he doesn't recognize it. She just thinks she hates him. He's /LAZY!/ ~~> Most of the tension, at least in the first half, is her expecting him to earn his keep and him, as bona fide royalty, expecting to be catered to.🤣
If you are looking for pleasant and unchallenging wind-down entertainment and are a fan of romcoms, RP will cater to your wishes. It you prefer things to make sense and don't have a well-developed goofy side, then seek sustenance elsewhere.
QUOTE🗣
Being clueless is a burden to others.
IMHO〰🖍
RATINGS 🎬7.5 🖊6 🎭7.5 💓6 🦋6 🎨🎶7 🔚6 🤗4.5 ▪ LEVELS 🌞4.5 ⚡3.5 😅3 😭2 😱2 😬2 🤢2 🤔4 💤0
Age 11+ Language:
Re-📺? Once was fun
In order of ~lite&trite~ to ~heavy&serious~ you may also like:
Fateful Magic Brought Us Together
My Only Love Song 8.7 ~ excellent comedy,
Love Between Fairy and Devil 8.9,
Mad For Each Other-7.7 ~ silly fun,
The Romance of Tiger and Rose 9.8
My Secret Romance-7 (if you ff thru overdone flashbacks),
Playful kiss-7.3,
Rooftop Prince-7,
Mischievous Kiss Love in Tokyo 7.8,
The Beauty Inside-6,
Hotel del Luna 8.4,
The Legend of the Blue Sea-7.2 (But for eps 20 &21 it's an 8+)
Boys Over Flowers-8 ~ melodrama to the max,
My Roommate Is a Gumiho-7.9,
Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha-8.2,
Live Up To Your Name-7.6;
Crash Landing On You 9.1,
Why Raeliana Ended up at the Duke's Mansion-8.4,
Link: Eat, Love, Kill-6.7,
Love Struck in the City 7.3,
Because This Is My First Life-7.7,
7th Time Loop-7.9,
Kiss Sixth Sense-6.8,
It's Okay Not To Be Okay 9,
While you were sleeping-7.3,
Marry My Husband-7.5,
Hotel del Luna-8.4,
A Korean Odyssey-7.2,
Tomorrow with you-7,
My Liberation Diary-8.9,
The Bride of Habaek-7,
The King: Eternal Monarch-8.3
Love and Redemption 10
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