I haven’t…… but is it worth it…? I tried watching the first episode but failed to finish….. I felt (only based on comments on MDL) it was lacking in the romance part…? Without romance at all doesn’t make sense though I don’t think it should be the centrepiece of these kinda dramas…
Will I ever get over this series….. it’s been 3 yrs but I still find this perfect even after numerous rewatches. Nothing is truly a competitor….. well Snow Sword Stride maybe….. at least comparable…. But nah… JoL still trumps… at least for the first season…
Ah… Story of Ming Lan for me but it’s a different genre..
Apparently Nirvana in Fire is also a classic…. Never watched it though…
I have no idea what makes Song Hye Kyo commit suicide due to Opinion in international form like mydramalist? I…
🙌🏻 I thought Song Hye Kyo was amazing in those two dramas as well! Yea she does kinda pick only certain type of roles. I only realised recently that she doesn’t do any action genres.. This one already sounds kinda different than the usual roles she picks… it’s a thriller…. 🤔
Think Jun Ji-Hyun has done well in terms of picking dramas/movies/roles, well it’s definitely more diversified.
Doesn’t work….. 😭 do you have any other sources/links? I used to have the DVDs agesssss ago but they have gone missing over the years. No idea if I’ve given them away….
Was excited to watch this thinking the martial arts lady in white was the FL but dropped it in the 2nd episode…
Martial arts lady in white…… is really captivating on-screen. That’s for sure. Lol. I agree wrt the FL but I don’t think she’s bad in acting per se…. Just regardless of how well she can act it will be superb difficult for her to pull off this role.
To begin with she is really too petite, which would have been fine if she had different facial features…. Her face is really very angelic though… not cute but like her features are so clean…. So to me she doesn’t resemble a servant neither does she resemble a fallen princess….. she reminds me of a high school student here 🤣 I can’t quite relate to her relationship with the ML. It would have been fine if she purely just had a weird relationship with the ML which is never explored until the end…. But she’s the FL…
So more than anything I think it’s the on-screen visuals which is something K-dramas shine at, they focus on the most minute details….. Maybe if the FL here had a different wardrobe, make-up etc… I don’t know…
Give this drama a chance, it’s really very good. I personally think it still isn’t as good as Joy of Life but it totally deserved the 8.7 score.
Exactly my thoughts. Should have casted someone else. She just does not fit in the drama.
Yea. It’s nothing to do with her acting skills or anything like that. She isn’t exactly annoying either (luckily her voice isn’t like superbly girly or high-pitched)…… just she neither suits the role nor does she have amazing chemistry with the ML.
I don’t know if you’ve watched Ever Night…. the FL there has the same issue, but I felt the FL there was way worse…. Like just on-screen she looked superb wrong paired with the ML unless she was purely just a servant. Here it’s still a pass…. Just not great, which is kinda a waste coz nearly the entire cast was amazing.
There are so many significant female roles in this series and they played it perfectly, even Qing Niao… and the annoying girl with the cat (I can totally imagine her like that in real-life 🤣)
This series should be closer to scoring 8… I’m surprised that it scored so high, 8.4 is relatively high for a C-drama… I think the cases are defo logical and interesting but I found the chemistry of the trio so-so for me….. think it’s partially contributed by the fact that they naturally look a bit odd on screen due to their physical traits.
I found it difficult to focus on the Cambridge guy because he didn’t say any of his English lines in English and there were quite a bit of them…. Lol…. Only Leon Zhang really got the vibe, the gaze and the demeanour of his role accurately. The girl also didn’t portray the role of growing up in a gangster fam…. 😔 I can believe that she is rebellious but that was about it….
I’m defo struggling to finish the series although I really want to….
Can’t wait for this mostly due to Viann Zhang. Hoping trio would have better chemistry… I had a hard time working through the entire MRIAD… cases were interesting but…. Somehow something was off… I didn’t find the bond between the trio enjoyable…
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it’s been 3 yrs but I still find this perfect even after numerous rewatches. Nothing is truly a competitor….. well Snow Sword Stride maybe….. at least comparable…. But nah… JoL still trumps… at least for the first season…
Ah… Story of Ming Lan for me but it’s a different genre..
Apparently Nirvana in Fire is also a classic…. Never watched it though…
Think Jun Ji-Hyun has done well in terms of picking dramas/movies/roles, well it’s definitely more diversified.
I think both of them are gorgeous!
To begin with she is really too petite, which would have been fine if she had different facial features…. Her face is really very angelic though… not cute but like her features are so clean…. So to me she doesn’t resemble a servant neither does she resemble a fallen princess….. she reminds me of a high school student here 🤣 I can’t quite relate to her relationship with the ML. It would have been fine if she purely just had a weird relationship with the ML which is never explored until the end…. But she’s the FL…
So more than anything I think it’s the on-screen visuals which is something K-dramas shine at, they focus on the most minute details….. Maybe if the FL here had a different wardrobe, make-up etc… I don’t know…
Give this drama a chance, it’s really very good. I personally think it still isn’t as good as Joy of Life but it totally deserved the 8.7 score.
I don’t know if you’ve watched Ever Night…. the FL there has the same issue, but I felt the FL there was way worse…. Like just on-screen she looked superb wrong paired with the ML unless she was purely just a servant. Here it’s still a pass…. Just not great, which is kinda a waste coz nearly the entire cast was amazing.
There are so many significant female roles in this series and they played it perfectly, even Qing Niao… and the annoying girl with the cat (I can totally imagine her like that in real-life 🤣)
I found it difficult to focus on the Cambridge guy because he didn’t say any of his English lines in English and there were quite a bit of them…. Lol…. Only Leon Zhang really got the vibe, the gaze and the demeanour of his role accurately. The girl also didn’t portray the role of growing up in a gangster fam…. 😔 I can believe that she is rebellious but that was about it….
I’m defo struggling to finish the series although I really want to….