BaekRisa

This show's greatest strength for me are the side characters, from the maids to the concubines to the sisters, everyone is important and it really shows how women are important, what role women had in history, and their difficulties, it's such a well written part of the show that this by itself for me would be a 10, my one critique is the Male Lead, though he sort of redeems himself later on, I feel still that we started off on the wrong foot and they try really hard to fix it but its sort of meh, he's a great character by himself and a great everything else, but I don't really see the chemistry and the love between the two, it feels very forced even though it seems they are trying their best to love each other, it feels like they're settling, he had a fantasy about her and he pursued it against her will, he incurred her anger but most importantly I feel like she never trusted and respected him the same afterwards and us viewers too, even though he did his best later on , it's not really the same, it's sort of just working with the cards you were dealt.
Some commenters said the FL mostly has no expression on her face unless it's another female character on the screen, I agree and that's what I really love about her, this show is actually mostly focused on the women of the period, if they were not united all of our characters would've been dead in most of these conflicts