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Every episode I have to remind myself that they are horrible people because they are amusing together.

I think the lead thing could happen outside of the romance genre maybe. I might be misremembering but wasn't Lee Je Hoon in Signal which was quite popular as well but not a romance. I'm not disagreeing, by the way, but I kinda see the writing on the wall with the romance centric dramas.

I liked this drama quite a bit (8.75) but, honestly, if you aren't liking it at episode 5, it probably isn't for you.

I would rate this one an 8.75. It is rare that I stick with a 16 episode drama anymore, at least without fast forwarding. This drama is a solid fusion historical with humor, sadness, drama and romance. I especially enjoyed the storytelling of the matchmaking for the spinsters. Also, the politics was not overwhelming. I think the lead couple were lovely.

The Viki comments were hilarious about this issue but stuff like this happened all the time back in the day. Old kings had teenage concubines etc. (I think the CP in this drama is 14 and she is 24 or 25...it gets mentioned eventually)

It's not the platforms, it is airing like this in Korea. They are still filming episodes.

I agree. It is a zippy, fun drama so far. The guy is absolutely good looking imo but I guess people can't look beyond the styling.

I am in the US and I finally l managed to find this yesterday and binged both episodes. I actually looked up Park Min Young's name and it was on the list of all her dramas.

K-drama writers basically made the standard waiting-in-the-wings 2ML the lead. I get they needed to switch up the tsundere "jerk CEO" but to me they just switched to the characteristics standard in the 2ML. Anyway, a huge number of these dramas are written by women and I guess maybe they think they are giving what the often majority female viewership wants to see. Maybe in Korea this is true. I do think some dramas have done better even in the romance and rom/com areas of having more fleshed out characters but I totally get what you are saying.

She is the adopted daughter and her younger sister is the biological daughter. It gets explained in more detail as the drama goes on so stick in there!

I was wondering the same thing and came here to see if anyone asked so it is not just you. I am thinking of checking to see if a youtuber or Dramabeans recapped it. The first season got mid reviews and I saw a lot of complaints about how it was filmed so I think I am gonna get a synopsis and watch the episode before this drama starts.

I think it would help if it was on Netflix but I think it is on Disney+.

Hulu (if you have it)

Thanks, I did jump in and I'm enjoying it with 3 episodes to go. Great bromance and honestly like that it is only 12 episodes.

Thank you, I started it after reading your comment and only have 3 episodes left.

I usually stay away from lawyer dramas. Can anyone tell me how much time is spent in the court room? I just can't suspend reality with ridiculous courtroom shenanigans.

"good actors can't save a bad writing" So true!

Not specific to this drama (which I haven't started...came here to see some reviews) but K-dramas that focus on relationships seem to be written more for women and often by female writers. I take this as a sign that women are the main viewers of these type dramas. I actually think that the way dudes are portrayed in dramas has actually improved since I first started watching them over 10 years ago. That was back when most were portrayed as tsundere or bullying jerks...or at least the dramas that got licensed by Viki or Dramafever.

Okay, yall, thanks for the comments to keep going through episode 2. I know it can take a few episodes but I had trouble getting through the first 15 minutes of ep 1. I'll stick with it.

Given the smoking rate in Korea, we would be seeing blue lips all the time!