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It opens with typical inner-family conflict, women competing for a man, domestic scandals, and familiar tropes. Visually, the drama is quite pleasing and certainly lives up to the "splendor" in its title. However, as a survival story, it fails to generate real excitement.

While the characters face genuinely cruel circumstances, the lead characters' action against it feels surprisingly mediocre. Perhaps, though they accomplish impressive feats, the show's direction lacks the emotional payoff and spark needed to make those moments land, leaving the overall impact flat. Combined with overly cliché antagonists and predictable conflicts, the narrative ultimately gets dragged down, rendering the drama average at best.