1
the silliest of stories but with the funnest leads
This drama feels like it is held together with old glue someone found hidden in a garage that is barely sticky anymore. Relying on short bursts of comedy and likeable, attractive leads this drama is a bit of a disaster. I'm not sure what hex this show put on me though because I sat through the entire thing and I'm not completely sure why. It's like watching one of those bad sitcoms on TV where its a trainwreck but somehow you find yourself invested in at least one character so you come back again and again just to see what happens.
Manman is hired by Princess Aliya to end her unwanted engagement to the first Prince but Manman instead finds herself entangled with him instead. While originally intending to get away as quickly as possible, Manman accidentally discovers a link to her mother from inside the palace and while chasing that lead she ends up falling for the Prince entangling herself not only with him but also the second Prince. When jealousy and greed start to take center stage, ManMan and Prince Jin must work together.
The positive is that most the lead protagonists do a good job and I enjoy the chemistry and silliness of the three pairs of couples. The scene direction and camera angles are fairly pleasing. The drama is clearly low budget but the costumes and sets felt fitting for the story they were trying to tell. The music is fine and the acting is mostly okay.
Let me first address the male wigs, because come on, they were downright awful and so noticeable and I'm not sure if that was a wig problem, a makeup problem, or a lighting problem. But it was a problem and so distracting. The editing was also very abrupt most the time with scene endings and jumps. The Noble Consort was also miscast. She looked younger than the person that plays her son and was portrayed so cartoonishly greedy and cruel that she never passes as a believable character.
But, in all honesty, the plot and writing is really what just does this story in. The execution is so poor and completely reliant on the viewer having to believe the most ridiculous things just to make the story work. Unless you want to pick this up as a pretty drama to turn your brain off to then spend your well earned free time watching a better drama. Which can literally be anything but this.
Manman is hired by Princess Aliya to end her unwanted engagement to the first Prince but Manman instead finds herself entangled with him instead. While originally intending to get away as quickly as possible, Manman accidentally discovers a link to her mother from inside the palace and while chasing that lead she ends up falling for the Prince entangling herself not only with him but also the second Prince. When jealousy and greed start to take center stage, ManMan and Prince Jin must work together.
The positive is that most the lead protagonists do a good job and I enjoy the chemistry and silliness of the three pairs of couples. The scene direction and camera angles are fairly pleasing. The drama is clearly low budget but the costumes and sets felt fitting for the story they were trying to tell. The music is fine and the acting is mostly okay.
Let me first address the male wigs, because come on, they were downright awful and so noticeable and I'm not sure if that was a wig problem, a makeup problem, or a lighting problem. But it was a problem and so distracting. The editing was also very abrupt most the time with scene endings and jumps. The Noble Consort was also miscast. She looked younger than the person that plays her son and was portrayed so cartoonishly greedy and cruel that she never passes as a believable character.
But, in all honesty, the plot and writing is really what just does this story in. The execution is so poor and completely reliant on the viewer having to believe the most ridiculous things just to make the story work. Unless you want to pick this up as a pretty drama to turn your brain off to then spend your well earned free time watching a better drama. Which can literally be anything but this.
Was this review helpful to you?
