DramaAjumma

Huh... did the episodes go from 45 minutes to half an hour each?

It isn't just this show. Sure, Ji Chang-wook has got a really strong fanbase willing to sub his material but what of the other actors?
It's still a Disney problem particularly if they're trying to break into the K drama market.

I don't think she's evil incarnate either but I don't particularly like her because not only is she trying to replay the past, she doesn't understand her own son. She is fixated with winning over the other woman even now. In a real enough way she's paying for her own misery. But misery loves company. She's against Yunshen being together with Zhu Jiu and thinks he should marry someone who can help him shore up his power base in the company eg. Zhizhi. It's one thing when a man marries a woman he doesn't love. It's another when a man marries one woman when he's in love with another woman. She should know better because she's still living the nightmare of not only not being loved by her husband but resented by him. She is dooming not only her son to a repeat of history but Zhizhi who shouldn't be embroiled in this family dysfunction.

Regardless of whether her family saved Lingtian, the company still belongs to grandpa and the board. It is up to them who should run it. Moreover Yunshen isn't the least bit interested in running the show. He just wants to do pharmacological research. A fact that has been stressed over and over by more than one person. What era does she think she's living in? This isn't the imperial court. The board will do what they think will profit the company.

Every single bad thing that occurs in this family in recent days can be attributed to some action of hers in one form or another. I'm not saying that Xizhou isn't responsible for what he's scheming has led to but Mdm Jiang has been behind the scenes playing divide and conquer for some time now. She been making snide comments to Xizhou from the moment he started living with the Fu family.

It's a great show and yes, it is for mature audiences. There's also no romance which in part explains the rating. There's some politics but I don't mind politics in corruption dramas.

Disney Plus is just woeful in promoting their dramas. Aside from the trailers none of the promo materials for this show have got English subs so far. It's hard to believe that this is getting a concurrent worldwide release.

Some but not like K2 or Healer. It's more of a rom com murder mystery.

The motivations are indeed quite clearly laid out. And then there's the medical side of things too -- to develop the Perdo plant into a pharmacological product.
But there is dysfunction because of decisions made by the previous generation which has ramifications for the brothers. Sadly the mother hasn't learnt the right lessons from what happened.

Not really. They initially released 5 episodes but after that it's a inexplicable drip feed of one or two episodes per day. This week there were only episodes released from Monday to Thursday.

I wouldn't go so far as to say "a lot". The first 6 or 7 episodes was really about how the leads met in an overseas location. It's a fairly generic soap opera where rich people are fighting for supremacy over the family business. Meddling mother, half-brothers, a grandfather who wants everyone to hold hands and sing kumbaya. Older brother enters a marriage to shore up his powerbase in the company not because he's devoted to his new wife.

The usual sort of thing. I don't think it's more toxic than your average C melodrama.

That big eyeball thing was pretty darn cool.

The chemistry between the leads is really the oxygen of this show. So far so good. It's hitting all the right feels. The set-up and payoffs are pretty good.

It's not bad but too long. The K drama 365: Repeat the Year kept it short and sweet.

Edit: Pretty much fingered the culprit 22 episodes ago.

Interesting.

Reminds me of the Tomb Notes series. This show also has a "Fatty".

It's cool that Ni Ni's character hustles to pay her way though life. A Jack-of-all-trades.

It still happened. :P

Well it's not much of a spoiler to say that Cheng Yi spits blood in any drama.

This show is turning out to be better than I expected. Yes, the plot is generic but the characters are well-fleshed out and their motivations make sense.
I was a bit worried at first that they were turning Big Pharma into a nice cuddly enterprise that helps poor people but thankfully they are living up to their reputation as money grubbing evil corporate entities.

It is rather loud. But a lot of C dramas especially contemporary ones tend that way.

But Wi Ha-joon was in Squid Game.
And his last few dramas are in the high 8s.