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kinda disagree with the OUS comment, I have watched his projects, he always serves his characters, Hosu is just that. there’s no “almost there” for me at all, especially saw him in Christmas Carol (juvenile & mentally disabled twin) and Hi.5 (villain) before OUS filming. thought this time the character is just not as reserved as Hosu

it’s 99% not. the daughter is dead to me

yea me personally would prefer all show and not tell everything just hidden between lines and eyes lol but you can tell the drama has “targeting mass audience” as their goal in mind, so people looking for more AND for less would both enjoy it, so I can understand it, and I think it is still a pretty good choice for the right pacing

I think director has to decide on what’s important to show with the amount of content and also adapting to the new generation of audience who would say any character building is “slow and boring” unfortunately. I think that part of her past isn’t the most important to her backstory so they fast tracked that part and save the most important scenes for the “show”. it is a tentpole 20th anniversary drama which means there’s a lot of pressure to do well against all kinds of watchers and sadly a majority of audiences nowadays require ep1 to be full on tension from minute 1 to 60, for commercial reasons directors have no choices but to pick and choose

it’s set in the same time period and the train in the drama that connects China to Seoul is also real in history, they have very similar “modern” style in both countries at that time period

undercover miss hong and beloved thief was good.

beloved thief was good tho

it’s already confirmed to be on Netflix since last year. Not sure why it’s not updated and listed on MDL

It has guns and action director, but not all dramas in this period is supposed to be action-packed. Competing with other actions packed dramas doesn’t mean this drama need to lose the main message they want to deliver. They can be themselves.

I have watched jdramas and kdramas since 2004, so I have watched a lot. You will always find similar tropes but used differently, doesn’t mean it’s not original. Historical dramas can have many angles, doesn’t have to all be Mr Sunshine. I wonder if you missed reading the project purpose that the script writer wrote. It is a story about love, and how these loves change the people of the time, and how it left with the people behind once they passed for the independence. It was receiving high praises even in hot posts and tweets on how good and deep it is. We won’t know how the execution is until the drama airs. But saying it’s cliched, boring, unoriginal, simply is quite jarring.

what’s so not original about the taglines lol?

Don’t know how you will look at the amount of efforts and hearts that put into this project and think this is going to be cheesy fandom serving drama lol romance doesn’t mean cheesy, a love story in a tragic time like such can be beautiful. The uses of multi-languages add in the stakes. If you watch the trailer and think it’s corny and cliched, that’s on you…? From the museum and the project meaning to the letters, minimizing a story about loves to cliche is a choice lol

it’s Netflix global

because it is not a female-centric drama… The story is from the FL’s perspective but it’s always listed officially a spy romance. Both leads are the focus storyline as early as in the project proposal.

This drama is always promoted as Spy Romance in all PR and official news. You don’t have romance with only one person. It’s always meant to have both leads as the main storyline and it’s not a contract issue so they show both leads in the poster. Both leads are the focus of the story.

it was a fast paced live stream with comments going very quickly and he was doing fan services by saying comments out loud and that comment was even in Korean. it was a quick reactive response when on the same day he donated millions to children including those in Gaza for his birthday. people projecting performative activism and taking things out of context is crazy

That is extremely rude when ML has showcased so many excellent acting

doctor X will be the biggest one and having 30 mins overlap on sat

but he definitely needed to learn and takes lessons still to prepare for this drama

not finished yet. filming can be well into Oct/Nov