Martelli

I have recently finished this drama again due to Netflix always making sure I am watching something else from what I planned at that moment because they keep expiring stuff :D I kind of expected to be bored (I do not have anything against Yoo Ji Tae's or Lee Bo Young's acting, they are just not always my go-to-actors when picking dramas). Surprisingly for me, I have enjoyed the drama, the plot and the acting, although it was a bit slow at times (especially the moments with the FL), but I am glad they did not tone down the revenge part completely at the end (I am not a fan of people suddenly being all moralistic and not punishing bad people because then "they are the same like them", argh...). Of course the characters made a lot of stupid decisions along the way, but overall the "good" characters were likeable, and I actually really liked the younger versions of leads too. This was my first time seeing Jin Young act, but he made a good impression on me. And his pairing with Jeon So Nee, they were super cute together :)

I really enjoyed this drama, I especially liked the first two episodes because they were really funny (sometimes I miss this typical Japanese-drama humor :) ). It tackled some serious topics, but the comical element was always present, and I have really liked it. I am a fan of Nishikido Ryo back from when I started watching Jdramas (around 2009-2010), so this was like a throwback memory for me :D I liked how the characters were caring for each other, but could not stop with the teasing.

Nope :D I have probably written more than I should have anyway :D

Ha, I was not a fan of him either, at first being all over FL (in the most annoying ways) to make Soo Ho angry and jealous, and then when he started to have feelings for her, he was pushing himself where he was not wanted just to split Soo Ho from FL...what a caring person.

I liked the first part of the drama more. I could feel sorry for the FL because of how she was bullied, it got tear-jerking, but also funny scenes. But then when it changed to the strange situations with Seo Joon (I did not have any second-lead syndrome here at all), I got quite annoyed, like how do you constantly get too close to a guy and act all innocent, no doubt Soo Ho did not like it. Plus I did not like the way she treated Soo Ho even later, when they were dating. While he opened up to her, she did these stupid hitting and pushing away stuff, and no wonder he did not feel like having a girlfriend at all. Ok, they were supposed to be teens, but still it felt stupid, like they had some issues going on so they were mature in some aspects already. I was not a fan of FL later either when I got the feeling she got carried away too much by her "beauty" and popularity. It is fine to want to feel pretty, especially when you were bullied before, but acting like you do not want to be considered goddess, but then posing for all the pictures and posting them everywhere and stuff....I felt like she wanted the attention, but then could not handle the consequences. She also kept too many secrets in front of everyone to the point of not being honest at all to no one. The length of the episodes also felt too much for me towards the ending, they could have fit everything into 50-60 mins per episode (I did not need to watch the "oh-so-great" singing of Seo Joon so many times etc.).

Ah, if that's it, this would be the case for several Kpop idols too :D

I am sorry, but I would not be able to help here, I have dropped it in the middle of the second episode....

I have not watched other dramas of her, but watching Producers (before I dropped it), she had this pissed and annoyed expression most of the time, and here she also has the same expression for whole episodes, so I am not sure if these are the dull characters she always plays, or whether those are her only expressions anyway....

The main FL was so annoying for me (more over-the-top than other over-the-top characters), so I have decided to rather drop it....Maybe it got funny later, but I just could not be bothered watching her scream and throwing hands around her body, and those dramatic faces she did, ahh...

I dropped this after I started to watch the second episode. It started as some kind of action drama (tho I was laughing at the "Slovenian name" they have randomly chosen for this super agent). After that, I could not understand which direction this would have, but I was already super annoyed by Kim Min Jung's character. I just do not like her style of acting and even if I finish dramas where she is, it is just painful to watch for me...

Although I could have liked some of the characters (e.g. the chef Seo Poong), the amount of ridiculous (not in the way of "funny") situations and dialogues they managed to fit into the first two episodes were just too much for me, I do not like overly dramatic scenes and characters where ppl act like it is a normal thing to do. So I have dropped it, seems like another drama with good reviews that is just not for me.

Yes, I disliked the second ML for that as well, he seemed always jealous about his brother, but c'mon, the girl picked someone else....

I usually do not really watch historical dramas because there is a lot of people slicing each other (and I do not enjoy that part at all), however with this one, I have made one of the very few exceptions and I am glad I have watched it. The story was beautiful, sad (I cried many times), the love story was so touching and the actors were basically all fitting their characters. I was kind of annoyed by the way Yang Myung got jealous of his brother (so they loved one girl, but it was her choice, the king did not push her into anything), because he should have been aware of the things the king needed to face all the time. I loved how the young king knew from the start who he is dealing with, so he made a lot of sarcastic remarks to the villains to let them know he is not naive, he was also trying to be just and not swayed by power. And I do not think there was any king as handsome as Kim Soo Hyun in the history of any nation, but this is not a complaint :D He was great for the role, the way he portrayed a wide range of emotions (which was a lot wider than those of Han Ga In, but that's probably given her character, so I guess she did a good job as well). My favorite characters were also the guard Woon, and the eunuch Hyung Sun (he and the king had a great chemistry, and a lot of funny interactions - e.g. the one with the musical instrument). The child actors of the leads and other characters were also great. The weakest link for me was probably the adult Sul, played by Yoon Seung Ah, I felt like she had one wide-eyed expression for the most part (but I did not enjoy her acting in Panda and Hedgehog either). As for Yang Myung, I enjoyed the acting of Lee Tae Ri more than when he was portrayed by Jung Il Woo as an adult, the way he behaved was not enjoyable for me that much.

but it's also funny how he became courageous, because at first he hoped he would get fired for his antics and would not have to do the dirty and dangerous job :D

The ending was a kind of uncertain - was Seo Yul going out with Ha Kyung or not? I believe there was attraction between them, so one of the ending scenes when they were going to eat showed how their relationship kind of shifted...but I don't know :)

This drama had many layers - a serious layer with topics such as suicide, corporate corruption, criminal tactics to hide the crimes etc., and then you have the ML who starts off as a criminal himself, but slowly turns into a "good man", and helps the others fight for justice, while he does the most stupidest faces :D Sometimes they were funny, but sometimes the way he grimaced started to feel annoying, also when he was overly dramatic. I liked the character of Seo Yul - while he would be basically a villain for the most part, he had his boundaries which he did not want to cross, unlike the other corporate bastards. What I did not enjoy that much about his persona was the way they put importance to film his gestures like punching the table, throwing his hands and fingers in different forms, like what was the point, I can see he uses his hands a lot, but that's enough for me :D The story was interesting, but as with other dramas that are 20 episodes long, 16 episodes would be always enough.

This was a mixture of crazy, funny and strange :D The main character was sometimes annoying, sometimes kind, sometimes funny, but that is probably the way she should have been, the story contained some interesting info from the functioning of a TV station, and it had some funny situations (e.g. for me how the weatherman tried to "redeem" himself) :)

Good to know, then at least I made a good decision to drop :D I started the second episode, but could not even get to the middle and just stopped...

Based on the superpowers being tied to alcohol etc., I would expect this to be a comedy as well, but it does not have this tag or genre...

Hmm, I am not sure how to feel about this. I mean with this kind of plot, I know I could expect a lot of bloody scenes, my bad for not enjoying them as that's just me :D But I kind of got bored in the middle, how it went back and forth, and the character of In Gu was not really realistic for me, like in some situations I expected for him to have more fear or not to be such a smart a** all the time. Watching it till the end, probably Byun Ki Tae was the one doing his job the best :D And I liked the last episode, maybe the last 30 mins of it, which were really suspenseful.