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The First Night with the Duke korean drama review
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The First Night with the Duke
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by David33
Oct 20, 2025
12 of 12 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 6.0
Story 6.0
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 5.0
Rewatch Value 5.0
This review may contain spoilers

The unfinished book!

This is the best way to describe this drama.

It's another show with great potential, a fantastic first half, but the second half was all over the place, especially the last 2 episodes. I think it's safe to say 12 episodes were not enough for the writer to handle these characters properly.

Not gonna lie, the whole time traveling, body swapping plot surprised me, because it was actually interesting, and that's why I think this was a missed opportunity, because they could've done with this so much more.

SPOILER from here!

Literally no one get what they deserve, pretty much everyone got their happy ending or something similar. I don't get how Do Hwa Seon never get punished for almost killing Seon Chaek, she became a monk or something and then later she married to Seon Chaek's brother? What the heck?

Cho Eun Ae was a surprisingly good side-villain, but what they did to her in the finale was insane. They basically erased her memory without any explanation so she can have a happy ending with Su Gyeom, another nonsense ending.

Our main leads were great, obviously, but as I already said, almost half the season was spent on the wedding nonsense. To be honest, the finale with a 4th wall breaking was totally unnecessary, yet again.

This is basically your average romcom without proper writing. You won't miss anything if you don't watch it, but if you do, it's not that bad if you don't use your brain.
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