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Thankyou SO much for posting this!

I haven read the novel, but your viewing of the show tracks with mine so thankyou! The lead characters, and the supports, are all worth the time IMO.
The -ve reviews had me puzzled. Sure it's tropey but I think it's very aware that it is, and that makes it more enjoyable for me

This director and this cast are a lot to look forward to. But if I were Han So Hee, I'd be kicking up a stink about this Netflix poster. At first I was puzzled why she wasn't on it, then I read her name underneath and realised, the image is so photoshopped, she's been rendered unrecognisable - to me.
I hope others disagree with me and find the pic fine, but I find it troubling that a person who is so famously a 'beauty/face genius', needs to be altered this much for a publicity poster.

That seems like a fair assumption. 😁

Oh and what the heck is the problem an architectural designer has with creating a rainbow?!? faceted glass/prism/crystal. Shine a light through it. Bingo! RAINBOW! Kindergarten level science. Seriously, just instal a chandelier!

Many of the comments say ep7 and 8 are the best so far...

Can someone please tell me where this was filmed? is it Macau? I'm only up to ep4 and haven't been able to put it together yet, with the landscape shots. But curiosity is killing me 😬😳

Well said.
And the very best wishes to you and your family!

This show is just so charming.

Not casting any aspersions on Kim Go Eun at all. Just offering an alternative. Kim Ga Eun has been playing comedy roles almost exclusively of late.

It's supposedly a comedy. So. 🤔 I'm thinking Kim Ga Eun, instead of Kim Go Eun 😁

Finally watched ep 5 today and now totally relate to your point of view! What I don’t understand though, is why Kang San readily answers her questions! If it were me, the more she pushed, the more stubborn I'd get, and refuse to answer ("Who are you to ask me this?!? Get the eff outta my house!"), but he just rolls it out like it's nothing. It's like he has no sense of self-preservation! His innocence is alarming!

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Hmmm that is a very vague and generalist answer, but sure 😁
From your other posts I was starting to question whether the results of the research, might be used for marketing luxury goods.

Interesting topic! What/who was the research project for? A uni course?

I know. It's just one thing though. There are many other elements that are presenting Hong Jo in a particular light, that I see as making her appear unequal to the ML.

Thanks for "cleaning" that up 😁
But, I would still argue the styling of Bo Ah (white dress, cleansing before casting spells etc.) And the repeated admonitions that she has NEVER dated, are firmly implying that she is virginal/innocent/pure... That and the 'damsel in distress needing to be rescued', scenes. I think the subtitles might be, albeit accidentally, pretty accuate.

Regarding the secondary romance between the workplace couple: Gong Seo-Gu asked for Ma Eun Young's consent, before hugging her. THIS is a freaking miracle for K-dramaland! But her immediate response is to mock him for essentially being unmanly. This is WRONG! The sexiest thing a lover can do is show respect and care for you.

This was such a golden opportunity to show the audience how consent is done, in a really natural way. But they burned it. I actually yelled at the TV, it made me so furious!

If I'm honest I'm finding the entire show is slightly off when it comes to gender stereotypes. The repeatedly implied 'virginal' and 'pure' is just really irksome. The ML and FL do not come across as equal in the contemporary time setting. Hong Jo is endlessly, the virginal damsel in distress, in need of saving by the heroic ML 🤮. The ancient timeline shows glimmers of Aeng Cho as being stronger, more knowlegeable and less oppressed, than her modern counterpart, so I am holding on in hope that they somehow meld into one strong, assertive, contemporary FL

I have just caught up on ep 9 and 10. I am admittedly enjoying this. BoAh and Rowoon are finally starting to show the chemistry I always believed they were capable of. And they're just so beautiful I can't look away.
But I have a massive gripe that I have to get off my chest.

I would watch the heck out of an action/thriller drama, if this man were in it...and basically anything else.